Grace Talaski will present a program of mostly brand new works for clarinet and other instruments focusing on multiphonics, vocal effects, and improvisation. Works performed will include:
- Invisible Chisel for clarinet in A and fixed media by Marguerite Brown, world premiere
- What Confronts Us for solo B-flat clarinet by Janet Sit, world premiere
- Hullabaloo! a game for improvisers by Mitchell Carlstrom and Grace Talaski, world premiere. Featuring guest performances by Mitchell Carlstrom, Anita Chandavarkar, and Camilo Zamudio
- Partial Truths for solo B-flat bass clarinet by Evan Ziporyn
Grace's recital will take place on May 2nd at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. Admission is free!
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A Tribute to Kaija Saariaho
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
General Admission: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $15 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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VOICES A pop-up festival of 20th/21st Music for the singing voice
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A Tribute to Kaija Saariaho
Our final concert of the Voices Festival is dedicated to the music of the late Kaija Saariaho, one of contemporary music's most extraordinary and original voices, with works rarely heard in Southern California, including Quatre Instantes and Leino Songs for voice and piano, instrumental works Folia and Ciel Etoile and more.
It is a rare opportunity to delve into the composer's unique world, with its underlying lyricism, powerful range of emotional expression and superlative command of color, timbre and texture of sound.
Program to include:
Ballade (for solo piano)
Changing Light (voice and violin)
Ciel Etoile (double bass and percussion
Folia (double bass)
Quatre Instantes (soprano and piano)
Leino Songs (voice and piano)
Featuring:
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Andrew Crapitto, double bass
Mariana Flores Bucio, soprano
Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano
Amir Norouz Nasseri, violin
Yongyun Zhang, percussion
with special guest Kirsten Ashley Wiest, soprano
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus To the Stars
Saturday, May 4th, 2024
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
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Join La Jolla Symphony and Chorus on May 4-5, 2024, for an ethereal voyage 'To the Stars,' guided by the artistry of our Music Director and Orchestra Conductor, Sameer Patel.
Experience the lushness and angst of Webern's Passacaglia, op. 1, Osvaldo Golijov's mesmerizing Azul, a spellbinding tapestry of sound that takes you on a celestial journey of emotions and colors.
The program concludes with Brahms's Symphony no. 3, op. 90, a musical experience that traverses the realms of human sentiment, from introspection to exultation.
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus To the Stars
Sunday, May 5th, 2024
2:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
For ticket information: lajollasymphony.com
Join La Jolla Symphony and Chorus on May 4-5, 2024, for an ethereal voyage 'To the Stars,' guided by the artistry of our Music Director and Orchestra Conductor, Sameer Patel.
Experience the lushness and angst of Webern's Passacaglia, op. 1, Osvaldo Golijov's mesmerizing Azul, a spellbinding tapestry of sound that takes you on a celestial journey of emotions and colors.
The program concludes with Brahms's Symphony no. 3, op. 90, a musical experience that traverses the realms of human sentiment, from introspection to exultation.
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St. Lawrence String Quartet perfoms new works by undergraduate composers including: Kaira Hagan, Gabriel Nelson, Farhad Taraporevala, and Guantong Zhang.
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ArtPower presents St. Lawrence String Quartet
Friday, May 10th, 2024
7:30 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
An ArtPower presentation.
Tickets handled by the Triton Box Office
Hailed by the New Yorker “not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection,” the acclaimed St. Lawrence continues its fabled partnership with Stanford, remaining a cultural cornerstone of the University, directing the music department’s Chamber Music Program, concertizing at Stanford Live, hosting a popular summer seminar, and running the Emerging String Quartet Program.”
Program
Mozart: Quartet for Oboe (arranged for saxophone) and strings in F Major, K 370
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe (arranged for saxophone) and Strings, Op. 2
Steven Banks: Cries, Sighs and Dreams for alto sax and string quartet (2021)
An additional work TBD.
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Sarah Saviet is a violinist based in Berlin and dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and is a member of the Saviet/Houston Duo and Ensemble Mosaik.
Sarah’s debut solo album SPUN (Coviello Contemporary) was recently nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for new music. She has also released on all that dust and another timbre, and her recording of Liza Lim’s violin concerto ‘Speak, Be Silent,’ with the Riot Ensemble on HCR/NMC records was selected as one of New Yorker Magazine’s ‘Best recordings of 2019.’
Recent performances include duo concerts at Ultraschall and AFEKT festivals, soloist with Klangforum Wien as part of Märzmusik in the Berliner Philharmonie, and the premiere of Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe’s duo Taste at Witten Festival 2022. Sarah has held visiting artist positions in the composition departments of the University of the Arts Berlin, Huddersfield University, at Goldsmith University London with the Riot Ensemble, and at Harvard University with ELISION Ensemble. She has given workshops on contemporary violin technique at the Manhattan School of Music University of the Arts Berlin, Manhattan School of Music, and Darmstadt Akademie für Tonkunst, and held artist residencies at Aldeburgh Music with composers Lawrence Dunn, Jack Sheen, and artist Rowland Hill.
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UC San Diego Gospel Choir
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS
Friday, May 31st, 2024
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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Saturday Night Jazz - 95JC Jazz Ensemble
Saturday, June 1st, 2024
7:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
8:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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UC San Diego Wind Ensemble
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
General: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 | All Students : Free with ID Purchase Online
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus Time Present and Time Past
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
7:30 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus Time Present and Time Past
Sunday, June 9th, 2024
2:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium
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