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Songs from Taiwan
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall

General Admission: $10 
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
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Songs from Taiwan Concert.  Dr. Cheng Chi-Jen with Edgar Macapili, Pei-Ying Wang and TACC senior Choir.


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redfishbluefish
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
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UCSD's resident percussion ensemble performs music by early UCSD music faculty member Kenneth Gaburo (Maladetto), as well as Aldo Clementi (L'Orologio di Arcevia) and Guo Wenjing (Drama). The fish are Leah Bowden, Eric Derr, Louise Devenish, Dustin Donahue, Jonathan Hepfer, Kjell Nordeson, Steven Schick, Stephen Solook, and Bonnie Whiting Smith. They are joined by guest artists Aleck Karis, Leslie Leytham, Brendan Nguyen, Alice Teyssier, and Jeffrey Treviño.


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Wed @ 7 Art of Improv Nicole Mitchell
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
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Rare San Diego performance by renowned flutist and composer Nicole Mitchell, the first female president of Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Like others associated with AACM, Mitchell focusses on new and experimental works. She has collaborated with Lori Freedman, Muhal Richard Abrams, California flutist James Newton, and former UCSD music faculty member George Lewis (now on the faculty at Columbia University), among many others.


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Matteo Cesari and Lucy Shelton
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self Support
Contact: Brian Griffeath-Loeb
Free

Internationally acclaimed contemporary music performers Matteo Cesari (flute) and Lucy Shelton (soprano) are in residence at UCSD from May 9 to May 16 to premiere and record a collection of new works written for them by emerging and established composers. The residency is produced by UCSD graduate composer Brian Griffeath-Loeb in association with New Music at UCSD, and is made possible through the generous support of the UCSD Graduate Student Association, Associated Students, Triton Community Fund, and Department of Music. Events include two concerts--May 11 and May 16, both at 8 pm, both free and open to the public. The May 16 concert includes new works written for the duo by Brian Griffeath-Loeb, Paul Hembree, Sam Pluta, Bruno Ruviaro, Alex Sigman, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Erik Ulman, and Charlie Wilmoth.


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Jennifer Wu & Jasmine Yu Honors Recital
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
6:30 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
HONORS Recital
Free

Undergraduate violist Jasmine Yu (6:30 pm) and soprano Jennifer Wu (8 pm) give their Honors Recitals. Yu's program includes Bach's Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009, Brahms' Sonata in f minor, Op. 120, and Vieuxtemps' Elegie Op. 30. Her accompanists are undergraduate pianists Danny Kim and Claude Fan. Meanwhile, in her 8 pm concert, Wu will sing the parts of Thaïs (Massenet), Juliette (Gounod), Musetta (Puccini's La Boheme), Pamina (Mozart's The Magic Flute), Cleopatra (Handel's Giulio Cesare), and Anne Trulove (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress). Wu's program also includes art songs by Wolf, Webern, Debussy, and Hageman. Pianist Todd Moellenberg will accompany her.


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Dorothy Li Piano Recital
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Contact: Stefani Walens
Free


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MUS 201B Improv
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Percussion and Celli Recital, Mus 32
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self Support
Free


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Indian Music Concert
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Andrea Kim Piano Recital
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Contact: Stefani Walens
Free


Janet Lee Piano Recital
Friday, May 25th, 2012
6:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Contact: Stefani Walens
Free


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Gospel Choir
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $5.50
Students w/ID: Free
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Ken Anderson, San Diego's leading proponent of gospel, directs UCSD's gospel choir in a concert of African-American spirituals, blues, and traditional songs.


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Trio Kobayashi
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Contact: Brian Griffeath-Loeb
Free


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Louise Devenish in Concert
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
5:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

Visiting Australian percussionist Louise Devenish presents a concert of percussion works composed between 1975 and 1989. Guests Kjell Nordeson, Bonnie Whiting Smith, Steve Solook and Dustin Donohue will join Louise in performing a program featuring Xenakis’s Rebonds a and b and Okho, Reich’s Electric Counterpoint (a guitar piece re-arranged by Devenish for vibraphone and marimba), Cage’s Child of Tree, Alvarez’s Temazcal and Takemitsu’s Rain Tree


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Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
CPMC Theatre

General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
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Note: Three performances: May 30, June 1-2

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned; it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family. Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike; all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking.
 
 
The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeierand, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death. Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.
 
Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.


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Singers
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Friday, June 1st, 2012
7:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
Box Office: 858-534-3448
Purchase Online

Note: Three performances: May 30, June 1-2

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned; it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family. Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike; all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking.
 

The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeier, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death. Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.
 
Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.


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Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
7:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID
Box Office: 858-534-3448
Purchase Online

Note: Three performances: May 30, June 1-2.

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned; it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family.  Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike; all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking.
 

The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeier, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death.  Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.
 
Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.


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Nono Project
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50
Students w/ID: Free
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Luigi Nono's "Hay que caminar” Soñando and La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: a staging for a theater. Walking in Toledo in 1985, Luigi Nono stumbled upon a wall spray painted with the words, “No hay caminantes, hay que caminar”—There is no path, there is only walking. The phrase profoundly moved Nono, influencing his final compositions. “Hay que caminar” Sonando and La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura were Nono’s last works.  Both instruct the performers to physically move themselves between musical sections, “as if searching.”  For this performance, both pieces are given fully theatrical stagings by director Tom Dugdale in UCSD's cavernous Mandeville Auditorium. Performed by János Négyesy, violin and Päivikki Nykter, violin and sound projection.

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Jazz Concert
Monday, June 4th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
Free

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Chamber Ensembles
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Computer Music Concert + CEMEC
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
Self-Support Concert
Free


Mus 173 Final
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
3:30 pm
CPMC Theatre
Self Support Concert
Free


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Wind Ensemble
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $15.50
UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $5.50
Students w/ID: Free
Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448
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Undergraduate Jazz
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Free


Piano Students of Bess Wang
Friday, June 8th, 2012
6:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Self-Support Concert
Contact: Bess Wang
Free


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Violins & Violas
Friday, June 8th, 2012
8:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Free

Undergrad Juries
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
10:00 am
CPMC Concert Hall
Free

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Stravinsky Circus The Russian Composer
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
For ticket information call 858-534-4637 or go to http://www.lajollasymphony.com

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky closes the 2011-2012 season with his most popular work, The Firebird. The concert opens with the premiere of Tintinnabulation by Igor Korneitchouk, professor of music at Mesa College, UCSD music alumnus, and longtime La Jolla Symphony violinist. UCSD faculty pianist Aleck Karis is the featured soloist in Barber's magnificent Piano Concerto, which won the Pulitzer Prize exactly fifty years ago.


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Stravinsky Circus The Russian Composer
Sunday, June 10th, 2012
2:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
For ticket information call 858-534-4637 or go to http://www.lajollasymphony.com

 

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky closes the 2011-2012 season with his most popular work, The Firebird. The concert opens with the premiere of Tintinnabulation by Igor Korneitchouk, professor of music at Mesa College, UCSD music alumnus, and longtime La Jolla Symphony violinist. UCSD faculty pianist Aleck Karis is the featured soloist in Barber's magnificent Piano Concerto, which won the Pulitzer Prize exactly fifty years ago.


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Voice Students
Sunday, June 10th, 2012
5:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Free

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Camera Lucida
Monday, June 11th, 2012
7:30 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Tickets handled by San Diego Symphony
Single tickets: $25
UCSD Faculty/Staff: $20
(UCSD students with ID may attend for FREE, but must arrive by 7pm!)
Cash-only sales night of concert!

San Diego's unique chamber series closes the 2011-2012 season with an edgy program including Richard Rodney Bennett's Sonata after Syrinx, Sofia Gubaidulina's The Garden of Joys and Sorrows, Jacques Ibert's Trio, plus former UCSD faculty member Bernard Rands' Trio "sans voix parmi les voix...". Concerts are broadcast on KPBS-FM public radio at 8 p.m. on the second Saturday following each concert. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of Sam Ersan.


Mus 33 Final Recording
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
3:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
Free



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