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The Myriad Trio features an all-star San Diego lineup of Brian Chen (viola), Demarre McGill (flute) and Julie Smith (harp). The program includes works by Natra (commentaires sentimentaux), Lajitha (trio), Debussy/Druckman (four preludes), and Bizet (Prelude and EntrÕacte). This concert is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
ChristineTavolacci presents her first DMA recital featuring works by Catherine Lamb, Michael Winter, Larry Polansky, John Cage, Clarence Barlow and Stephen L. Mosko. She will be joined by Danny Holt (piano), Catherine Lamb (viola), and Michael Winter (guitar). Additional Description: View Google Map | Add to Google Calendar
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Violinist Janos NegyesyÕs popular Soiree for Music Lovers opens its new season with the World Premiere of a Sitar Concerto composed and performed by sitar master Kartik Seshadri, with strings, flute, piano, and percussion. The program also includes Telemann, Mozart, and Brahms.
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Camera Lucida opens its seven-concert season with music by Beethoven (String Quartet in F major, opus 135), Janacek (Mladi for Wind Sextet),and Schubert (Octet for Strings and Winds). This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony.The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
Soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle gives her first performance of the new season. Last spring, she played a lead role in the Department of Music's production of Pascal Dusapin's experimental chamber opera To Be Sung.
A program resplendent with many colors! Scriabin scored Prometheus for piano, chorus, orchestra, and what he called a ”color organ.” Inspired by the interactive light-show artists of the late ’60s rock scene, acclaimed young video artist Ross Karre reshapes Scriabin’s original color organ part into a concerto grosso of light, color, image and shadow. Our multi-media presentation will be framed by two works full of color on their own: Bernstein’s sassy Candide Overture and Mahler’s mighty First Symphony.
A program resplendent with many colors! Scriabin scoredPrometheus for piano, chorus, orchestra, and what he called a ”color organ.” Inspired by the interactive light-show artists of the late ’60s rock scene, acclaimed young video artist Ross Karre reshapes Scriabin’s original color organ part into a concerto grosso of light, color, image and shadow. Our multi-media presentation will be framed by two works full of color on their own: Bernstein’s sassy Candide Overture and Mahler’s mighty First Symphony.
First Monday concert series showcases leading grad composers and performers. The season opener features Matt Barber’s six-movement Interface Chapel, performed by bassist Scott Worthington; Christopher Gollmar’s Mu, performed by clarinetist Curt Miller and french horn player Nicolee Kuester; and Mario Garuti’s Sei Pezzi Anestetici, with flutist Rachel Beetz and percussionist Dustin Donahue.
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Percussionist Steven Schick premieres British composer James Dillon’s La Coupure, with sound by William Brent and Jaime Oliver, and video by Ross Karre.
DiskavIER ExtravaganzIER showcases music by composers ranging from Conlon Nancarrow to Paul Feyertag, Adam Tinkle & Joe Mariglio, Paul Hembree, Jacob Sudol, Werd Nella, and Kyle Gann. Instruments range from Disklavier to saxophone, toy piano, and power drill.
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Camera Lucida's second concert of the new season includes works by Bach (Art of Fugue 1), Martinu (Madrigals for Violin and Viola), Wagner (Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III), and Fauré (Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, opus 120). This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony.The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
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The Palimpsest concert features one of the great works of the late Twentieth Century, Gyorgy Ligeti's Kammerkonzert for 13 Instrumentalists. This colorful and virtuosic piece will fill the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall with glorious sounds and captivating energy. Alongside this masterwork will be the premieres of two inspired new works for the same ensemble written by UCSD PhD candidates Aaron Helgeson, currently acting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College; and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, the leading Icelandic composer of her generation. The program also includes the exciting A Fuoco by contemporary Italian composer Luca Francesconi, featuring the accomplished Mexican guitarist Pablo Gomez.
Kallisti Ensemble/Instant Operas presents original works of music theater/opera with a duration of 15 minutes or less. All were written for, and will be performed by, class members.
Lincoln High School students, directed by Charles Curtis’s UCSD students, perform a mix of spoken word, rap, dance, instrumental, and interdisciplinary works. Many of the high schoolers’ works portray personal stories. This concert is the first in a new project in which UCSD music students bring the arts to San Diego students at their schools.
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Camera Lucida's final 2010 concert includes compositions by Schubert (String trio in B-flat, D. 581), Janacek (Violin Sonata), and Brahms (Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60). This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
New pieces by Yeung-ping Chen, Kyle Johnson, Tania Lanfer, Kyle Rowan and Ryan Welsh, performed by Rachel Beetz, Sean Leah Bowden, Eric Derr, Adam Goodwin, Nicolee Kuester, Sarah Schwartz, and Jennifer Torrence Additional Description: View Google Map | Add to Google Calendar
Percussionist's masters recital centers on music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, along with works by Globokar, Lockwood, and the world premiere of UCSD composer Carolyn Chen's VIN DIESEL = I END LIVES.
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New York's Wet Ink Ensemble makes its West Coast debut with a program of works by Peter Ablinger, Alex Mincek, Katharina Rosenberger, and Mathias Spahlinger.
Rosenberger's TEXTUREN makes its West Coast premiere. She and Wet Ink will be guests on KPBS-FM's "These Days" program on January 12 at 10:20 a.m. Listen at 89.5 FM, or streaming online at kpbs.org.
Pie is Jeff Kaiser (trumpet/fluegelhorn/electronics) and Phil Skaller (prepared piano). The duo has performed at the Vision Festival in New York with film by Bill Brand and at various other gigs in Germany and the United States.
Sonic Diaporas alum festival's first concert includes Aaron Gervais' Hockey Story, Chris Mercer's The Audible Phylogeny of Lemurs, Part I, Koji Nakano's Ancient Songs for solo soprano, Nancy Briggs' Improvisaria, Dana Reason's Myth Absence, and an improv directed by Eric Dries.
Concert showcases Duo Runedako (pianists Ruth Neville and Daniel Koppelman) performing Paul Davies' Cathedral 1947 and Koppelman's rorodondo. Also on the program: UCSD composer Shahrokh Yadegari's Tower Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics with live electronics, Ian Power's Make Way for Ducklings, Richard Carrick's New Work from the Cycle of the Absurd, Adam Greene's Accord for piano and percussion, and Mark Applebaum's Pre-Composition for 8-channel tape.
Opening night event of Sonic Diaporas features keynote speakers Paul Dresher and Diamanda Galas. Also on the program: Erik Griswold on prepared piano in the lobby, and, preceding the speakers, Bass Encounters featuring Mark Dresser and Bert Turetzky. Dresher/Davel Duo also performs.
First day of Sonic Diasporas concludes with a late night concert featuring Guy Obrecht's One More Hit for the Go Duo; along with Pat O'Keefe's Generations: An Improvisation Event combining instrumental ensemble with laptop.
Concert program includes James Phelan's Two Pieces for Unaccompanied Violin, Ben Carson's A is for Azimuth and Arnica, Steven Kazuo Takasugi's Die Klavierubung (gekurzte, revidierte Fassung), Yumiko Morita's Element Metal for solo piano, Marion Garver Fredrikson's New Music for Contrabass and Flute, Eric Lyon's Clusters, and the world premiere of Mark Applebaum's 40 Cryptograms. Also on the program: Music of Anthony Braxton with bassist James Ilgenfritz, an Improvisation Session with flutist Jane Rigler, and Lukas Schulze's Exit I.D. for contrabass flute.
The concert's first half features UCSD violinists János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter on five compositions: new works from Mark Osborn and Steed Cowart, along with Igor Korneitchouk's Short Circuits, Book III, Drake Mabry's Négyesy's Gallery, and Lukas Schulze's Hermitage. The second half consists of the Calliope 10th Anniversary Project (Calliope Duo is flutist Elizabeth McNutt and pianist Shannon Wettstein). Their program is Andrew May's Calli for flute and piano, Josh Levine's Danse d'été (Inflorescence III), Derek Keller's 7 Collections, Francois Rose's Haiku #1, Erik Ulman's Styx, Juan Campoverde's offerings, Allison Johnson's This is Me in Transition, plus new works from Ulman, Eric Simonson, Linda Kernohan, and Richard Carrick.
In the black box experimental theatre, the program includes Momilani Ramstrum's Divergence and Running Ahead with digital processing, John Celona's Meu rosto mudou, David Bithell's YesNo, Jaroslaw Kapuscinki's Oli's Dream for piano and computer projection, Derek Lee-Keller's Events and Mixtures, Ross Karre's The Five Lives of Helios for solo bass drum, ceramic tile, and percussionist, and Tom Dambly's La Trompette Concrète for trumpet and live electronics.
Special Sonic Diasporas alum fest concert at The Loft night club in the Price Center on campus: Performances by Psychoangelo (Glen Whitehead and Michael Theodore), Tom Nunn and David Michalak, Donkey (Damon Holzborn and Hans Fjellestad), and O'Keefe/Stanyek/Walton/Whitehead with Jane Rigler. The concert includes live electronics and plenty of improv.
Scott Makeig's JUST: Suite for flute, violin, cello & brain, Joseph Klein's Der Leichenschleicher ("The Corpse-skulker"), Eric Simonson's Tambo and Bones Revisited, Stephen Blumberg's Jacob's Ladder, Drake Mabry's Street Cries, and Judith Weir's Scotch Minstrelsy for soprano and piano.
Josh Levine's Transparency (Part I) for percussion, David Ryther's Etude No. 6 for violin, Michael Pelz-Sherman's Now is the Time, Erik Ulman's days and days for bass clarinet, Susan Moore's Dogwood for piano, percussion works by Cesar Potes, Pamela Madsen and Brett Reed, plus a new composition by Pat O'Keefe.
Works featuring guitarist Colin McAllister, woodwind player Alan Lechusza, violinist Mark Menzies, percussionist Morris Palter, and composer Juan Campoverde.
Special Sonic Diasporas alum fest concert at The Loft night club in the Price Center on campus: Past and present members of UCSD's percussion ensemble RED FISH BLUE FISH unite for a performance of Steve Reich's Drumming, led by Steven Schick. Along with the thunder of more than a dozen percussionists, the performance will be augmented by Lisa Cella on piccolo plus sopranos Anne-Marie Dicce and Tiffany DuMouchelle. The expansive school of FISH includes S. Leah Bowden, Eric Derr, Dustin Donahue, Stephen Solook, Jennifer Torrence, Bonnie Whiting Smith, Terry Longshore, Brett Reed, Lisa Tolentino, Rob Esler, Vanessa Tomlinson, Morris Palter, Patti Cudd, Ross Karre, Justin Dehart, Aiyun Huang, and David Shively.
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Renowned faculty pianist Aleck Karis plays Messiaen's L'Aloette Calandrelle (book V, Catalogue of Birds) (1956-58), La Bouscarle (book V), and Le Traquet Stapazin (book II), plus Elliott Carter's Intermittences (2006) and Caténaires (2006), and Chopin's Études, Opus 25.
Grad guitarist performs works by Schubert, Bruguire, Webern, Rotaru, UCSD faculty composers Roger Reynolds and Lei Liang, and UCSD music alumnus Ignacio Baca-Lobera. The guitarist will be joined by Tiffany Du Mouchelle (soprano), Berglind Tomasdottir (flute), Ariana Lamon-Anderson (clarinet), and Jaime Oliver (computer musician).
What Where presents What the Anvil: recast works for piano, percussion, and electronics. Music by Heinz Holliger (Ma'mounia), Luigi Nono (...sofferte onde serene...), and DeMaison/Ponce (Three Years of Light). What Where is Jennifer Torrence, Jason Ponce, Julia Denboer, and Nicholas DeMaison.
Pianist Cecil Lytle performs The Naked Liszt, with narration by Arthur Wagner and Eva Barnes. The concert is a fundraiser for scholarships that go to students at UCSD who are graduates of the Preuss School, a charter high school at UCSD.
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Subscriptions available at a 30% discount of full price. Music Department Ticket Office: 858-822-2166
Camera Lucida chamber series greets the new year with works by Bruckner (Quintet for Strings in F major) and Brahms (Quintet for Strings in G major, opus 111). This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
Contrabassist Mark Dresser's Trio includes "hyperpianist" Denman Maroney, who often reaches inside the piano to strum the strings with copper bars, rubber blocks, and other objects; and flutist Matthias Ziegler, whose arsenal includes amplified and quartertone flutes. Dresser is a UCSD faculty member known as a composer, performer, improviser, interdisciplinary collaborator, and innovator in the area of telematic music, in which performers in multiple locations are connected by high-speed internet.
A study in very sharp contrasts, works by Debussy frame much more recent music. The concert opens with Debussy's final orchestral work, his wry ballet Jeux, about love and tennis, and closes with his nocturnes Nuages and Fetes, each a study in orchestral color. In between are the premiere of Phil Kline's A Dream and Its Opposite, featuring Real Quiet (Felix Fan, Andrew Russo, David Cossin), and the U.S. premiere of Iannis Xenakis' Metastasis (Alpha version), a work shaped by Einstein's concept of time and Le Corbusier's theories of architecture. Steven Schick conducts. His program note is here.
A study in very sharp contrasts, works by Debussy frame much more recent music. The concert opens with Debussy's final orchestral work, his wry ballet Jeux, about love and tennis, and closes with his nocturnes Nuages and Fetes, each a study in orchestral color. In between are the premiere of Phil Kline's A Dream and Its Opposite, featuring Real Quiet (Felix Fan, Andrew Russo, David Cossin), and the U.S. premiere of Iannis Xenakis' Metastasis (Alpha version), a work shaped by Einstein's concept of time and Le Corbusier's theories of architecture. Steven Schick conducts. His program note is here.
Samhara by Adam Goodwin (for clarinet, two basses, and percussion), performed by Kyle Rowan, Scott Worthington, Leah Bowden, and Adam Goodwin; and Remnants of Ouroboros by Adam Goodwin (for solo contrabass).
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(NOTE: Even though this series is titled Wednesdays@7, this one concert takes place on a Tuesday night). UCSD Department of Music's chamber ensemble performs Boulez' improvisation sur mallarmé-(le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui), Ravel's Trois Poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé, Messiaen's Couleurs de la Cité Celeste, plus new works by UCSD grad-program composers Tania Marquez and Daniel Tacke (a companion piece for the Messaien).
COMPOSER NICHOLAS DEYOE’S music for brass concert features his What I can remember from last night (2010) alongside works by Xenakis (Linaia-Agon), Wolfgang von Schweinitz (Plainsound Brass Trio, op. 50: 18 microtonal variations exploring the trombone’s trigger valve action at various tuned slide positions), and Larry Polansky (freeHorn). The performance is by Trio Kobayashi (Anna Robinson, horn; Matt Barbier, trombones; Luke Storm, tuba), which specializes in the emerging field of just intonation music for brass.
Music by Chen-Hui Jen, Nicholas Deyoe, Yuji Takahashi, and Cornelius Cardew, performed by Chen-Hui Jen, Jacob Sudol, Dustin Donahue, Adam Goodwin, Nicolee Kuester, Eric Derr, Curt Miller, and Jennifer Torrence.
A Biggidelicious Production featuring quartertone flutist and Rarescale artistic director Carla Rees, who is in residence in the Department of Music from Feb. 10 through Feb. 12, during which she will perform and record nine new works by UCSD graduate composers Paul Hembree, Chen-Hui Jen, Josh Spitzbergen, Jacob Sudol, Adam Tinkle, Ryan Welsh, Charlie Wilmoth, Scott Worthington, and Yvonne Wu. Featured guest artists include British composer and RCM electro-acoustic area director Michael Oliva, German composer Claes Biehl, and UCSD pianist William Fried.
On Valentine's Eve, violinist János Négyesy and Friends perform a concert of romantic music by Tartini, Bartók, Danzi, Turina, and Brahms, with Cecilia Kim (cello), Päivikki Nykter (violin and viola), William Powell (clarinet), Sarah Schwartz (violin), Janice Shin (flute), and Jennifer Wu (soprano).
Students of Aleck Karis, Stefani Walens, and Brendan Nguyen, featuring Christopher Chan, Isaac Lu, Janet Lee, Binh-An Nguyen, Pearl Choi and Andrea Kim.
Flutist performs music by Toru Takemitsu, Daniel Tacke, Doina Rotaru, Chaya Czernowin, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and George Crumb, joined by guitarist Pablo Gómez Cano, soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle, and percussionists Steve Solook, Dustin Donahue and Jennifer Torrence.
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Subscriptions available at a 30% discount of full price. Music Department Ticket Office: 858-822-2166
Myriad Trio performs Bach's Trio Sonata, Bax' Elegiac Trio, Bruce's Eye of Night, and Debussy's Sonata. The trio features an all-star San Diego lineup of Brian Chen (viola), Demarre McGill (flute), and Julie Smith (harp). This concert is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
Directed by Kamau Kenyatta, UCSD's Jazz Ensemble performs music by Elvin Jones, Stefano De Battista, A.C. Jobim, Ernest G. Schweikert and Frank Reardon, Chachao, Jaco Pastorius, Ed Jackson, Ned Washington and Victor Young, Ray La Montagne, Richard Thompson, and Ryan Brown.
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $5.00 Students w/ID: Free Music Department Ticket Office: 858-822-2166
Directed by Ken Anderson, the choir combines hundreds of voices to fill the auditorium with the uplifting sound of African American spirituals, blues, traditional songs, and gospel.
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID For Tickets Call Music Department Box Office: 858-822-2166
He was the "show stopper" in India in early January. The Los Angeles Times calls his music "breathtaking," the Oberlin Review proclaims that "If the power of Indian music seems almost supernatural, then sitar player Kartik Seshadri must be a sorcerer." At UC San Diego, Seshadri is joined by longtime collaborator Arup Chattopadhyay on tabla for an evening of ragas selected to suit the season and mood of the evening.
Directed by János Négyesy, the ensembles perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, DvoÅ™ák, Haydn, Hándel, Locatelli, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, and Tartini.
Robert Zelickman directs an all-English program including H.M.S. Pinafore highlights, Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, Ralph Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale, William Walton's Crown Imperial, Holst's Second Suite in F, Eric Coates' The Dam Busters March, and Davies & Dyson's Royal Air Force March Past.
A concert that stretches the conception of the concerto. Young Artist Competition (YAC) winner Hannah Cho is soloist in Prokofiev's poised Second Violin Concerto, and we conclude with the greatest orchestral concerto of them all, Bartok's noble Concerto for Orchestra. In between, a complete surprise: we present the world premiere of Mark Applebaum's Concerto for Florist and Orchestra, a Thomas Nee Commission (honoring the founding music faculty member), with ornamental horticulturist James DelPrince as soloist!
A concert that stretches the conception of the concerto. Young Artist Competition (YAC) winner Hannah Cho is soloist in Prokofiev's poised Second Violin Concerto, and we conclude with the greatest orchestral concerto of them all, Bartok's noble Concerto for Orchestra. In between, a complete surprise: we present the world premiere of Mark Applebaum's Concerto for Florist and Orchestra, a Thomas Nee Commission (honoring the founding music faculty member), with ornamental horticulturist James DelPrince as soloist!
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Subscriptions available at a 30% discount of full price. Music Department Ticket Office: 858-822-2166
Critically acclaimed Camera Lucida chamber series presents works by Bach (Sonata for Viola da gamba and Continuo in G minor) and Stravinsky (The Soldier's Tale). With special guests Eleanor Antin as narrator, Norman Bryson as The Devil, and UCSD Arts & Humanities Dean Seth Lerer as The Soldier. This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
Soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle and violinist David McCarroll perform György Kurtág's 70-minute Kafka Fragments for soprano and violin. Through excerpts from Kafka's personal letters and diary entries, Kurtag explores the inner world of one of the most influential German writers of the 20th century.
"A Mess of Things": the world premiere of a fully staged work of hybrid music theater and experimental documentary sound art conceived, composed and performed by Adam Tinkle. The piece brings together recorded voices and video with live performance of text, song and instrumental soundscapes in an evening that explores the objects we keep, the things they remind us of, the way they fill our lives and often weigh us down. In particular, it focuses on the story of one man, an inventor with an improbably sized collection, and what happened to him when he was forced to leave the house where he kept it all for fifty years.
SEPTATION: A real-time sonic exploration/recollection of the sounds and events of September 11, 2001, written for the 10th anniversary of the attacks by a composer who went through them. Multimedia/multimodal, with elements of found-sound, electronics, live improvisation, and interpretive narrative, video, and audio expressions based on Weinstein's own experience of the event. Performed by Joe Bigham (guitar), Mark Dresser (contrabass), Stephen Solook (percussion), and Josh Weinstein (prepared piano/electronics).
Ace UCSD violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer performs Berio's Sequenza VIII for solo violin, Bártók's solo violin Sonata, and works by UCSD's Carolyn Chen and Robert Pierzak.
Celebrating Department of Music Founding Chairman Will Ogdon's 90th birthday, János Négyesy and Friends perform works by Ogdon, as well as Telemann, Chausson, Debussy, and Mozart. Performers are Cathy Blickenstaff (flute), Isabelle Fanchiu (harpsichord and piano), Cecilia Kim (cello), Julie Matsuda (violin), János Négyesy (violin), Päivikki Nykter (violin and viola), Laura Vaughan (harp), and Jennifer Wu (soprano).
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
Camera Lucida concert spotlights Beethoven (Piano Trio in E-flat, opus 1 nr. 1), Janacek (String Quartet-Intimate Letters), and Dvorak (Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major). This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from the UCSD music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
What do Karaoke Mozart, an opera about Shamu's bathroom, mascots tap dancing, a screaming vocal quartet and a remix of a 5 second online movie have in common? Come find out on a fun night of experimental music with an eclectic variety of odd musical spectacles, performance art and re-enactments featuring UCSD musicians.
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
The adventurous Los Angeles based string quartet performs works by graduate composers Nicholas Deyoe and Daniel Tacke, as well as a string quartet by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith. The Formalist Quartet is Andrew McIntosh, Mark Menzies, Andrew Tholl, and Ashley Walters.
The Best 15 Minutes of Your Life and Other Pieces!
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
8:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre
Free
Fayetteville, AK band David's Pegasus is writing a musical with San Diego playwright Krista Knight. Composer Carolyn Chen (who just had an orchestra piece debuted in Carnegie Hall!) is writing a virtuoso percussion piece peppered with jokes about hyper-masculine Vin Diesel and video by artist Monica Duncan. And everyone is making strange, beautiful performance art, blending sound, image, movement and text. An unforgettable evening that will leave you questioning why we draw these lines between the arts to begin with.
An evening of dramatic, hilarious and just plain insane contemporary experimental music. From pieces for timpani and dancing banana to noisy explosions of an amplified bass viol (a baroque cello), along with some Freudian father killing in the form of parodic fantasies on two of the aging dinosaurs of contemporary music, Steve Reich and John Adams.
Open scores, real-time decisions and alternative modes of collaboration, in scores by UCSD composers Nick Deyoe and Martin Hiendl, inspired by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Earle Brown "So, in order to keep collaboration/decision-making/interpretation as a crucial element of the process to create these pieces of music, we have left important details to the discretion of the directors/performers"
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
Featuring virtuoso ensemble playing by prominent artists in jazz and improvised/experimental music, Net Works brings Myra Melford, Mark Dresser and Michael Dessen together via the web for an exciting evening of co-located performance from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley. Real time musical interaction over the internet is a growing phenomenon, and this experienced group has been pushing the boundaries of the art to explore performances of intricate, tightly integrated music from distant locations. Their collaboration is enabled by CNMAT’s advanced research in live, net-based audio and video transmission. This concert is supported by the UCSD Department of Music, UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), in collaboration with Cal Performances and Meyer Sound.
Vocal concert features Berg’s "Lied der Lulu"from Lulu and Altenberg Lieder; Berio’s Sequenza III; Messiaen's Songs 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9 from Poèmes pour Mi; and Nicholas Deyoe’s McCallum’s Songs.
We observe the Easter season with one of the great monuments of music, Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, which calls for two orchestras, vocal and instrumental soloists, and a radiant role for the Evangelist. Almost operatic in its spectacle and impact, this music was crucially important to Bach, who took special care to preserve his manuscript–-he wanted this music to survive. And it has, magnificently. Additional performance at Village Church, Rancho Santa Fe, on April 29. Call 858-534-4637 for details.
We observe the Easter season with one of the great monuments of music, Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, which calls for two orchestras, vocal and instrumental soloists, and a radiant role for the Evangelist. Almost operatic in its spectacle and impact, this music was crucially important to Bach, who took special care to preserve his manuscript–-he wanted this music to survive. And it has, magnificently. Additional performance at Village Church, Rancho Santa Fe, on April 29. Call 858-534-4637 for details.
Last in a series of concerts staged this year to be performed on the first Monday of every month at noon. The six pieces on this concert capture a diverse approach to chamber music, from junk metal to pedal steel to more traditional chamber ensembles. Five of them are premieres from UCSD composers (all but Lotófagos by Austrian Beat Furrer). The idea was to have noontime music played at noon, for noon, and through noon. Noon is when the sun is highest. Noon is also when noon is immanent. At noon, noon whispers noontime music into your ears, it's saying: "How sweet that noon is here. Listen." In fact, it's noon right now.
James Gordon Williams performs a solo piano program of Improvisations from the Ontological Hinterlands (acoustic piano) and Your Ass Is In What You Sing (feedback piano). Gordon writes: "Feedback is insurgency through sound. It is the disruption/irruption of time and space. It is the sound altercation between creative practice and the musically, politically and spiritually hegemonic. I stand for anti-formalism because my ontology has given me no choice. When hegemonic structures are subverted space for imagination and creativity is maximized. Feedback is the feedback that comes from what objects live through/ have lived through… and so feedback is the sound histories and sound epistemologies that stretch out from the genealogy of those that strive from a location of an unacknowledged and caricatured subjectivity, to create new forms.
Stanford Connection Concert features works by Juan Cristobal Cerrillo, Bruno Ruviaro, Alex Sigman, and Erik Ulman, performed by Ariana Lamon-Anderson (clarinets), Ashley Walters (cello), Jessica Aszodi (voice), Bonnie Whiting Smith (percussion: hardcore), plus special guest Andrew McIntosh (viola). A Notorious BGL production.
Chan E. Park presents bilingually and in the style of Korean p'ansori storysinging Song of the Underwater Palace, the classic allegory of the human politics of hegemony and survival. The Dragon King of the Underwater Palace is gravely ill and needs the liver of a hare for cure, and it is Turtle who volunteers to journey to the land to fetch one. On land, Turtle finds a hare and lures him to the Underwater Palace. Upon arrival, realizing he is about to be cut open, Hare fools the Dragon King that he left his liver in his home in the mountain. Dragon King orders Turtle to take Hare back for his liver. Back on land, Hare celebrates his survival, for now.
Albus/Ater II is the second incarnation of a concept program for solo classical guitar (Albus Ater I appeared in May 2006). The pieces are loosely grouped around not just the simple definition of these words (Latin: white/black), but the myriad of other concepts to which they may refer. Two newly composed pieces are featured on the program: Matthew Burtner’s Citlatepetl Vertex (based on Colin’s December 2010 ascent of the highest volcano in Mexico, the Pico de Orizaba); and Christopher Adler’s Aeneas in the Underworld, Act I: The Caves of Cumae, a setting of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid for guitar and narrator. Other works include Carmina obscura : A garland of 14th & 15th century polyphony (arrangements by McAllister, Adler and Bryan Christian), Miguel Ordóñez’s 21 Grupos, and the Decameron Negro of Leo Brouwer.
Body of Leaves is an Honors Jazz Recital featuring pianist Danny Sanchez and guitarist Scooter Oyama, joined by performers Ben Stillerman (drums), Tyler Eaton (bass), Matthew Litrus (bass), Evan Adams (saxophones), Kelly Styger (soprano sax and clarinet), and Russell White (vibes).
Once Upon an Island: Matthew Lien with Chou Yi-chien, Huang Yin-zhong and Siki Safi. A resident of Canada's Yukon Territory, Lien has been composing, recording and producing music for most of his life. Singing traditional German and American folk songs as a child with his family, he graduated to the guitar and piano by the age of 10. With formal music lessons leaving him uninspired, he abandoned them after a few weeks and proceeded to teach himself piano and music theory, drawing inspiration and knowledge from friends and family. He has achieved phenomenal success in Southeast Asia, primarily in Taiwan and mainland China.
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
Bach's Art of Fugue 2, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, KV 452, and Schumann's Piano Quintet are in the spotlight. This critically acclaimed chamber series features renowned players from UCSD's music faculty with principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. Musicians are Charles Curtis (cello), Jeff Thayer (violin), Brian Chen (viola), and Reiko Uchida (piano). The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
Wed @ 7 :"A sound, vast and summerlike..." kallisti ensemble
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
'A sound, vast and summerlike...' juxtaposes the music of two seminal figures of modern music: Eric Satie and Morton Feldman, presenting works for concert performance in an original music-theater production conceived by Susan Narucki and Aleck Karis.
The cornerstone of the production is Eric Satie's masterwork, Socrate. Written in 1918, Socrate is considered to be one of the precursors of minimalism and a turning point toward modernity. Surrounding this is chamber music of Morton Feldman; a composer in whom we see the influence of Satie in its full mid-century flower. His delicate, pulsing works can be compared to the painting of Mark Rothko; multi-layered, with exquisite instrumental and vocal color. Satie and Feldman's songs, at times humorous and ironic, at times serenely beautiful, complete the program.
"A sound, vast and summerlike.." presents the work of two visionaries, who yearned to create music that was spacious, open and timeless. The cast includes members of kallisti, (UCSD's vocal ensemble dedicated to modern vocal music directed by Susan Narucki), UCSD faculty members baritone Philip Larson and conductor Aleck Karis, and the musicians of Palimpsest.
The fully staged production takes place in the intimate setting of the Black Box Theater of the magnificent Conrad Prebys Music Center on the UC San Diego campus.
"A sound, vast and summerlike..." kallisti ensemble
Friday, May 20th, 2011
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
'A sound, vast and summerlike...' juxtaposes the music of two seminal figures of modern music: Eric Satie and Morton Feldman, presenting works for concert performance in an original music-theater production conceived by Susan Narucki and Aleck Karis.
The cornerstone of the production is Eric Satie's masterwork, Socrate. Written in 1918, Socrate is considered to be one of the precursors of minimalism and a turning point toward modernity. Surrounding this is chamber music of Morton Feldman; a composer in whom we see the influence of Satie in its full mid-century flower. His delicate, pulsing works can be compared to the painting of Mark Rothko; multi-layered, with exquisite instrumental and vocal color. Satie and Feldman's songs, at times humorous and ironic, at times serenely beautiful, complete the program.
"A sound, vast and summerlike.." presents the work of two visionaries, who yearned to create music that was spacious, open and timeless. The cast includes members of kallisti, (UCSD's vocal ensemble dedicated to modern vocal music directed by Susan Narucki), UCSD faculty members baritone Philip Larson and conductor Aleck Karis, and the musicians of Palimpsest.
The fully staged production takes place in the intimate setting of the Black Box Theater of the magnificent Conrad Prebys Music Center on the UC San Diego campus.
"A sound, vast and summerlike..." kallisti ensemble
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre
General: $15.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
'A sound, vast and summerlike...' juxtaposes the music of two seminal figures of modern music: Eric Satie and Morton Feldman, presenting works for concert performance in an original music-theater production conceived by Susan Narucki and Aleck Karis.
The cornerstone of the production is Eric Satie's masterwork, Socrate. Written in 1918, Socrate is considered to be one of the precursors of minimalism and a turning point toward modernity. Surrounding this is chamber music of Morton Feldman; a composer in whom we see the influence of Satie in its full mid-century flower. His delicate, pulsing works can be compared to the painting of Mark Rothko; multi-layered, with exquisite instrumental and vocal color. Satie and Feldman's songs, at times humorous and ironic, at times serenely beautiful, complete the program.
"A sound, vast and summerlike.." presents the work of two visionaries, who yearned to create music that was spacious, open and timeless. The cast includes members of kallisti, (UCSD's vocal ensemble dedicated to modern vocal music directed by Susan Narucki), UCSD faculty members baritone Philip Larson and conductor Aleck Karis, and the musicians of Palimpsest.
The fully staged production takes place in the intimate setting of the Black Box Theater of the magnificent Conrad Prebys Music Center on the UC San Diego campus.
Undergrad pianist Christopher Chan performs music by Bach, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Chopin. Chan is double majoring in music performance and cognitive science.
Tubist Jonathan Piper presents a program of riffs, drones, nature sounds, blast beats, and the sounds of failure. Featuring five new pieces for tuba by UCSD composers Carolyn Chen, Nicholas Deyoe, Brian Griffeath-Loeb, Clint McCallum, and Francis Roberts.
Directed by Anthony Davis, featuring works by graduate students Adam Tinkle (Sketches), Josh Weinstein (Septation), Meghann Welsh (The MWE), and Justin Zullo (Escape the Cipher).
Directed by Anthony Davis, featuring works by graduate students Phil Skaller/ Leah Bowden (Temple of Music, Nature Musics of the West), Clint Davis/Ian Carroll (Memorial Cervix), and Skaller (Webcam Chat).
Roger Reynolds Ping includes the composer's Transfigured Wind IV for solo flute, PING (Reynolds' documentary about analog and digital migration, recently restored), and PING for piano, percussion, flute, electronics, and projected images. Performers: Roger Reynolds, piano; Rachel Beetz, flute; Ross Karre, percussion and video; Paul Hembree, electronics.
Music by Sciarrino (Vanitas: a still life in one act, All'aure in una lontananza), Saariaho (Die Aussicht), Alessandrini (Wie bin ich froh), and Anderson (That is; that not is), performed by Jessica Aszodi (voice), Rachel Beetz (flutes), Pablo Gomez (guitar), Judith Hamann (cello), Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin), Curt Miller (clarinet), and Brendan Nguyen (piano).
UCSD's Wind Ensemble is joined by the Mt. San Antonio College Wind Ensemble (from Walnut, CA) for a double-barreled concert. Each ensemble performs several selections on its own, then the two groups team up for Jaime Texidor's Amparito Roca and Edvard Grieg's Triumphal March from Sigurd Jorsalfar. Robert Zelickman conducts the UCSD ensemble through Beethoven's King Stephen Overture, Gomez' IL Guarany Overture, and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Dustin Barr steers Mt. San Antonio through Clifton Williams' The Sinfonians, Frank Ticheli's Shenandoah, William Schuman's Chester, Jacques Press' Wedding Dance, and James Barnes' Finale from his Third Symphony.
Composition grad student Martin Hiendl conducts Romitelli's An Index of Metals (1963-2004), an hour-long opera for voice, ensemble, and electronics. Romitelli completed the piece a few months before his death, with lyrics by Kenka Lèkovich. Performed by Leslie Leytham (voice), Rachel Beetz (flutes), Meghann Welsh (oboe), Ariana Lamon-Anderson (clarinets), Paul Hembree (trumpet), Ian Carroll (trombone), Katalin Lukacs (piano), Nicholas Deyoe (electric guitar), Clint McCallum (bass guitar), Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin), David Medine (viola), Ashley Walters (violoncello), and Jason Ponce (electronics).
An evening of Song and Opera, exploring various art song composers, and several (mostly Mozart) staged scenes performed by UCSD's undergrad vocalists, directed by Stephanie Aston, and featuring guest pianist Katalin Lukacs.
A program that explores the music of Haydn and the meaning of classicism. David Chase leads Brahms’ salute to Haydn and an earlier era, and the orchestra’s assistant conductor Nicholas Deyoe conducts Shostakovich’s neoclassical First Symphony. The concert concludes with Haydn’s final mass, the resounding Harmonie-Messe for soloists, chorus, and orchestra.
A program that explores the music of Haydn and the meaning of classicism. David Chase leads Brahms’ salute to Haydn and an earlier era, and the orchestra’s assistant conductor Nicholas Deyoe conducts Shostakovich’s neoclassical First Symphony. The concert concludes with Haydn’s final mass, the resounding Harmonie-Messe for soloists, chorus, and orchestra.
General: $25.00 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $20.00 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448
Myriad Trio plays the third and final of its three 2010-2011 concerts at UCSD. The performance includes compositions by Mendelssohn (Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano, opus 58), Respighi (Trittico Boticelliano for Flute, Viola and Harp), and Weber (Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano). The Myriad Trio features an all-star San Diego lineup of Brian Chen (viola), Demarre McGill (flute) and Julie Smith (harp). This concert is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
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