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San Diego's premiere chamber series opens the 2011-2012 season with Schubert's Rondo in A Major, D. 438, Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, and Chausson's Concerto for Violin, Piano & String Quartet in D Major, Op. 21. Performers are violinists Jeff Thayer, Jasmine Lin, and Pei-Chun Tsai; violist Che-Yen Chen; cellist Charles Curtis; and pianist Reiko Uchida.
Icelandic composer and cellist Anna Thorvaldsdottir celebrates the Oct. 25 release of her CD RhízÅma (Innova Recordings) with a concert of electronic collage pieces constructed from the orchestra recordings for the CD. Also on the program are other acoustic and electronic pieces by Anna. The acoustic pieces will be performed by Ashley Walters (cello), Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin), Berglind María Tómasdóttir (flute), David Medine (viola), Eric Derr (percussion), Steven Solook (percussion), and Anna Thorvaldsdottir (cello). Also featured is experimental DJ/electronic wizard Mike Gao who will perform his own electronic manipulations of materials from RhízÅma. The album will be available for purchase after the concert at which point the gathering will move to a more party-friendly location to continue the celebration!
The CD includes three larger works by Anna for orchestra and chamber orchestra, separated by five smaller movements from a solo percussed piano work. The pieces are performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Bjarnason, the Icelandic CAPUT Ensemble, conducted by Snorri Sigfus Birgisson, and by percussionist Justin DeHart. "Hrím," the opening piece on RhízÅma, was awarded Composition of the Year (2010) at the Icelandic Music Awards 2011.
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Violinist János Négyesy and Friends, performing Locatelli's Trio sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 1 (1/46), Mozart's Il core vi dono, Moszkowski's Suite in G minor, Op. 71, and Brahms' String sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18. Joining Mr. Négyesy are Isabelle Fanchiu - piano, Cecilia Kim - cello, Philip Larson - baritone, Steven Lewis - piano and harpsichord, Eric Moore - cello, Päivikki Nykter - violin and viola, Allison Roush - viola, Sarah Schwartz - violin, and Jennifer Wu - soprano.
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San Diego's premiere chamber series, Camera Lucida features principals from San Diego Symphony with renowned UCSD music faculty players. The program features Debussy: his Sonata for Cello and Piano, L 135; Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, L 137; and Sonata for Violin and Piano, L 140. Also on the program are Debussy's Syrinx for Solo Flute, L 129, Richard Rodney Bennett's Sonata after Syrinx (inspired by Debussy's original),Respighi's Trittico Botticelliano, arranged for flute, viola and harp by Dan Reiter, and various Arie e danze tedesche. Performers are the Myriad Trio (Che-Yen Chen, viola; Demarre McGill, flute; Julie Ann Smith, harp), plus violinist Jeff Thayer, cellist Charles Curtis and pianist Reiko Uchida. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of Sam Ersan. Camera Lucida concerts are broadcast at 8 p.m. on KPBS-FM public radio on the second Saturday following each concert.
Percussionist Dustin Donahue premieres new solo works by Andrew Allen, Carolyn Chen, and Paul Hembree alongside compositions by Peter Ablinger and Thomas Meadowcroft.
Superb grad-level cellist Ashley Walters performs Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV, Morton Feldman's Projection I and Intersection IV, Tobias Hume's Captaine Hume's Galliard and A Humorous Pavin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in g minor.
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's season-long survey of Stravinsky begins with a program of music from Paris. Stravinsky’s moving memorial for Debussy (Symphonies of Wind Instruments) is followed by the music of Debussy himself: our Young Artists Competition winner, Charissa Barger, plays his Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane. We conclude with the sharpest of contrasts: Ravel’s charming tales of childhood innocence (Mother Goose Suite) are followed by Stravinsky’s savage (and world-changing) Rite of Spring. Conducted by Steven Schick.
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's season-long survey of Stravinsky begins with a program of music from Paris. Stravinsky’s moving memorial for Debussy (Symphonies of Wind Instruments) is followed by the music of Debussy himself: our Young Artists Competition winner, Charissa Barger, plays his Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane. We conclude with the sharpest of contrasts: Ravel’s charming tales of childhood innocence (Mother Goose Suite) are followed by Stravinsky’s savage (and world-changing) Rite of Spring. Conducted by Steven Schick.
General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations 2011. A concert of new music and integrated video conceived for the telematic medium featuring renowned improvisers performing at UC San Diego and New York University. Composers are UCSD's Mark Dresser along with Michael Dessen and Sarah Weaver. Performers in San Diego are Dresser (bass and conductor), Nicole Mitchell (flute), Michael Dessen (trombone), and Joshua White (piano). The New York ensemble includes Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Amir ElSaffar (trumpet), Oliver Lake (alto saxophone), Tomas Ulrich (cello), Ikue Mori (laptop), and Sarah Weaver (conductor). Collaborators also include video artists John Crawford and Sarah Jane Lapp, as well as set designer Victoria Petrovich. Thanks to our promotional partner KPBS-FM public radio in San Diego.
Glen N. Bekc and AQUAPUKE All Night Long! showcases stunningly visceral performances, by classically trained musicians, that take inspiration from the cave paintings at Chauvet, palynology, and the life/afterlife of Gerald Mór FitzGerald, the 8th Earl of Kildare. Roger Ailes will be here in person, along with a very special guest appearance by percussionist Dustin Donahue. Reception to follow at the Night Owl.
Graduate students in the Department of Music present the monthly First Mondays concert series on November 7th at 12 noon. The program features solos and duos for flute and percussion. Works by living composers of the U.S. and Germany: Stuart Saunders Smith, Thomas Meadowcroft, Walter Zimmermann, and Werner Heider. Performers include Dustin Donahue, Rachel Beetz, Jonathan Hepfer, Leah Bowden, and Steve Solook.
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San Diego's premiere chamber series, Camera Lucida features principals from San Diego Symphony with renowned UCSD music faculty players performing Jan Dismas Zelenka's Trio Sonata, Dmitri Shostakovich's Viola Sonata, Op. 147, and Ernst Von Dohnanyi's Sextet for Piano, Strings and Winds in C, Op. 37. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of Sam Ersan. Camera Lucida concerts are broadcast on KPBS-FM public radio at 8 p.m. on the second Saturday following each concert.
Disco Soirée: Concert Report Music for Party Animals features five bands: Memorial Cervix, Neon Mental Melatonin Slam, RockRiver Mary and the Smooth Sandstones, Smooth Badger, MOLTEN LAVA EYEBALL FIEND.
Trio Kobayashi specializes in the emerging field of just intonation music for brass. This goal is frequently achieved by using a valve tuning system developed by Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Marc Sabat. Founded to perform the music of Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Kobayashi has gone on to perform a wide repertoire stretching from vocal music of the Renaissance to collaborations with living composers such as Larry Polansky, Ulrich Krieger, Nicholas Deyoe, Marc Sabat, and Jürg Frey. For this concert, the program includes Peter Ablinger's Weiss/Weisslich 21 (version for UCSD's 60-inch tam-tam), J.S. Bach's Trio Sonata BWV 1039, Marc Sabat's Hairy, Hippy, Happy, and Heinrich Isaac's Four Pieces. The trio has performed at RedCat's New Music After Grisey and Los Angeles' Microfest. Kobayashi has recently completed recordings of the music of Marc Sabat (Plainsound editions), as well as Mark Trayle and John Cage (Mode Records). Trio Kobayashi is Zara Teicher (french horn), Matt Barbier (trombones) and Luke Storm (tuba). They are in San Diego for a residency organized by composition grad student Brian Griffeath-Loeb in association with New Music at UCSD, with support from the UCSD Graduate Student Association, Associated Students, Triton Community Fund, and Department of Music.
Percussionist Eric Derr's program includes Great Hymn of Thanksgiving by UCSD alum composer Rick Burkhardt (Derr is joined by percussionists Jon Hepfer and Dustin Donahue) and Make 'em go AH! by QQ. Burkhardt's Great Hymn of Thanksgiving (2003) takes place at a dinner table, where the sounds of conversation have been replaced by fragments of news reports from Iraq, scraps from the Army prayer manual, invented Arab folk tales, and a recurring State of Emergency pointing everywhere and leading nowhere. The sounds of the table itself struggle to bring this “conversation” into a confrontation with material reality. The piece is a trio between the functions of music, noise, and semantic meaning, wherein each function can mingle with the others, lose itself in reveries (under fields of motive force that assert themselves with varying degrees of insistence), or, when necessary, take a solo.
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Music from New York brings together spiky, visceral compositions for large ensemble by five modernist masters, performed by UCSD's new music ensemble Palimpsest under the direction of Aleck Karis. Included are Elliott Carter's Luimen, Mario Davidovsky's Cantione Sine Textu, Milton Babbitt's Arie da Capo, Morton Feldman's Between Categories, and Stefan Wolpe's Chamber Piece #2 for 13 players. These large ensemble works are rarely heard in San Diego. Karis, a pianist and music faculty member, has worked extensively with Davidovsky, Babbitt, and Carter, who turns 103 on Dec. 11. The concert also includes the world premiere of a new piece by graduate composition student Paul Hembree. Featured soloists are grad students Pablo Gomez (guitar) and Tiffany DuMouchelle (soprano).
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red fish blue fish performs John Cage's percussion works and, following intermission, British composer James Dillon's East 11th Street (referencing Cage and his NYC neighborhood, although the address is fictitious). Cage's compositions include Inlets, Six, Five, Dance Music for Elfrid Ide, First Construction, and Double Music. Dillon and rfbf have an ongoing symbiosis: over three nights in September, the percussionists premiered Dillon's massive Nine Rivers at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
During the week of their Cage concert at UCSD, red fish blue fish and Steve Schick are recording an album of Cage's percussion music in the Department of Music's studio that will be released by Mode Records. The project is part of an extensive collaboration with Third Coast Percussion and Percussion Group Cincinnati. The result will be a collection of CDs and DVDs covering much of the percussion music written by Cage. The November 17 concert includes all of Cage's music for the UCSD sessions.
Mezzo-soprano and music major Mariya Kaganskaya is artistic director of the new student organization Undergrads for Opera at UCSD. Their opening concert features undergrad vocalists Amy Calderon, Sharon Chang, Brian Hand, Shannon Johnson, Mariya Kaganskaya, Jennifer Wu, and Michael Wu. The program includes works by Barber, Bellini, Donizetti, Faure, Gounod, Handel, Mozart, Rorem, Satie, Strauss and more.
The Advanced Improvisation Ensemble, directed by David Borgo, performs music ranging from Latin Jazz classics by Tito Puente and Paquito D'Rivera to South African jazz by Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) and American jazz standards by Charles Mingus, culminating in an all-out fusion frenzy celebrating the Music of Miles Davis from the 1970s.
Jeff Kaiser conducts his Ockodektet through his own compositions for this sweeping cast of 20. "This is certainly not a traditional big band," Kaiser says, "but grows out of my experience playing in traditional big bands and avant garde big bands like Vinny Golia's Large Ensemble (Vinny is on this gig). The music varies widely, but mostly we play modular scores I design with these players in mind, that we improvise our way through with me conducting. Modules can be strictly notated, graphically notated, or more verbal ideas. Modules are frequently revisited to create thematic coherence, but mostly, the modules act as springboards into improvisation, from solos to full band and everything in between." The Ockodektet includes saxophonists Vinny Golia, David Borgo, Andrew Pask, and Tracy McMullen; flutist Emily Hay; trumpeters Dan Clucas, John Fumo, Brad Henkel, and Kris Tiner; trombonists Michael Dessen and Michael Vlatkovich; tubists Jonathan Piper and William Roper; keyboardist/thereminist Wayne Peet; acoustic guitarist Tom McNalley; electric contrabass guitarist Steuart Liebig; contrabassists Jim Connolly (also on musical saw) and Mark Dresser; and percussionists Rich West and Brad Dutz.
Penta Locus connects performers at five universities around the world by internet for a live concert. Collaborating with UCSD are New York University, Concordia University in Montreal, Queens University in Belfast, and the Hamburg Hochschule of Music. Faculty and students have composed new works for the concert. The UCSD contingent consists of students in Mark Dresser's Telematics classes. Telematics is Dresser's ongoing project exploring ways to incorporate technology as a vital part of the production and performance process. Audiences at each location experience musicians who are standing in front of them and musicians whose images and audio are piped in by internet and blended into the concert. Under Dresser's direction at UCSD, the performers are Kyle Blair (piano), Steven Solook (percussion), Yeung-ping Chen (clarinet), Yvette Jackson (trumpet), Tiffany Du Mouchelle and Bonnie Lander (voice), Adam Goodwin (bass), Kjell Nordeson (drums), Joe Cantrell (electronics/guitar), and Drew Ceccato (reeds). On the computer/technology side are Jason Ponce (director), Sami Nacach, Alex Segal, Luke Oskam, Torrance Carroll, Kyle Tice, and Michael Cheng.
Focus on Performance, directed by János Négyesy, features music by Bartók, Berio, Burkhardt, Cage, Crumb, Ferneyhough, Gervasoni, Heider, Kurtág, Saariaho, and Webern.
Directed by János Négyesy, students perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, Cui, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Previn, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Spohr and Vivaldi.
The winds blow through Mexico as Robert Zelickman directs a program ranging from Paul Creston's Night in Mexico and Frank Ticheli's Concert for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble, to John Morrissey's Viva Mexico!, Albert Ginastera's Impetuosamente from Pampeana No. 3 and Danza Final from Estancia, Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez' Batuque, and G.H. Matos Rodriguez' La Cumparsita.
It's an evening of compositions for strings by Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Händel, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, under the direction of János Négyesy.
An evening of fantastic experimental sounds featuring new works by computer music grad students Andrew Allen, Joe Mariglio, Issac Garcia-Muñoz, Joachim Gossmann, and The New Brutalists.
Stefani Walens' students wrap up their Fall Quarter performing Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Debussy. The pianists are Dorothy Li, Andrea Kim, Janet Lee, and Isaac Lu.
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky continues with two brilliant folk-tales from the early twentieth century: Stravinsky’s portrait of a folk wedding in pagan Russia (Les Noces), featuring four pianists, chamber chorus, and Lux Boreal dancers choreographed by UCSD’s Allyson Green; and Bartok’s magical story of nine young hunters transformed into wild stags (Cantata Profana) scored for orchestra and chorus. Plus two much more recent pieces: György Ligeti’s daring work for 100 metronomes (Poème Symphonique), each at a different tempo, and David Lang’s rambunctious Grind to a Halt. Conducted by Steven Schick and David Chase.
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky continues with two brilliant folk-tales from the early twentieth century: Stravinsky’s portrait of a folk wedding in pagan Russia (Les Noces), featuring four pianists, chamber chorus, and Lux Boreal dancers choreographed by UCSD’s Allyson Green; and Bartok’s magical story of nine young hunters transformed into wild stags (Cantata Profana) scored for orchestra and chorus. Plus two much more recent pieces: György Ligeti’s daring work for 100 metronomes (Poème Symphonique), each at a different tempo, and David Lang’s rambunctious Grind to a Halt. Conducted by Steven Schick and David Chase.
Superb composers and performers from the grad program present their monthly noon-hour showcase concert featuring two contrasting piano solos from the early twentieth century, (Conlon Nancarrow’s Sonatina and George Enescu’s Piano Sonata in f# minor) and two chamber pieces that explore time in opposing ways, through fragmentation (Stills; edges by UCSD grad Yvonne Wu) and the extension of one a single note (La Monte Young’s Composition 1960 No. 10). Featured musicians include Todd Moellenberg and Steve Lewis (pianos), Nicolee Kuester (horn), Curt Miller (clarinet), Nicholas Deyoe (conductor) and more.
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A group portrait of Viennese musical life at the end of the nineteenth century: opulence, fervor, and the dazzling lightness of the waltz. Youthful works of Gustav Mahler and Alexander von Zemlinsky are followed by Wagner in the original chamber setting of the Siegfried Idyll, and Arnold Schoenberg's loving chamber transcription of the Emperor Waltz of Johann Strauss. Concert made possible through the generous support of Sam Ersan. Camera Lucida concerts are broadcast on KPBS-FM public radio on the second Saturday following each concert.
UCSD's newest new music ensemble performs works by Scelsi, Boulez, Aplinger, Kurtag, and Feldman. Knell is: Allison Roush, violin; Eric Moore, cello; Scott Worthington, double bass; Ran Duan, piano; Dustin Donahue, percussion; Rachel Beetz, flute; Curt Miller, clarinet; and Nicolee Kuester, horn.
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Pianist Catherine Kautsky performs Bach's French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, Beethoven's Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101, and Rzewski's De Profundis. The latter is a dramatic setting of Oscar Wilde’s letter De Profundis, written in 1895 to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas when Wilde was in prison for "gross indecency". In the letter, Wilde describes how he is spiritually transformed by his prison experience. Ms. Kautsky's performance will include excerpts from Wilde's letter. Kautsky has appeared at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, among other prestigious venues, and as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony, Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. She recently recorded a CD of Debussy's Preludes to accompany an eventual book on the genesis of that music and Debussy's role in early 20th century Paris. Kautsky is on the faculty at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Reviewing her New York debut, the New York Times said that she is "a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers... She gave these pieces nuances that made them meaningful on a human everyday level. The music spoke directly to the listener."
Leslie Ann Leytham presents as her second DMA recital Two Monodramas: world premiere of Robert Pierzak's Endangered Banana #4: Waywards (revised) and the American premiere of Martin Hiendl's Erwartung und Traumverlust. Pierzak's opera is a tale of societal belonging and destruction, with a woman slowly coming to realize her relationship to time and space, and ultimately, the annihilation of both. Martin Hiendl's monodrama is based on the short story, Kesa and Morito, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, written in 1918. To quote Hiendl, "The novel is a ruthless psychological story about the fatalistic relationship between Kesa and Morito, [who] cannot live out their love, leading them to perversity and extreme violation and humiliation." Scenic design and staging co-created by Micki Davis and Meghann Welsh. Lighting design and costumes by Leslie Ann Leytham. Sound design and electronics by Jason Ponce. Ensemble featuring members of the UCSD Music graduate community and conducted by Nicholas Deyoe.
In this pre-concert talk, composer and performer Steve Reich discusses his music. We expect a full house. Seating is first come, first served, and we suggest that you arrive by 5:00 pm to get in line for admission. The line will form by the Recital Hall entrance on Russell Lane.
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THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT! Famed modernist composer Steve Reich will be here in person for a rare San Diego performance of his Music for 18 Musicians (1974-1976), conducted by Steven Schick. Reich will be joined by the Bang on a Can All-Stars as well as red fish blue fish, UCSD's resident percussion ensemble. The program also includes Reich's hand-powered 1972 Clapping Music and his Electric Counterpoint, structured in three movements: Fast, Slow, Fast.
A Concert of Premieres: Seven world premiere performances of pieces written by 1st year graduate students in composition: Xavier Beteta, Ran Duan, Owen Ferro, Jon Forshee, Hunjoo Jung, Stephen Lewis, and Ori Talmon. Performances will feature: Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Kyle Blair (piano), Samuel Dunscombe (clarinet), Jonathan Hepfer (percussion), Bonnie Lander (soprano), Todd Moellenberg (piano), Allison Roush (violin), and Alice Teyssier (flute). All pieces will be juried by distinguished members of the Composition and Performance faculty for discussion on the following day. Jury response and discussion session with faculty, composers and performers is open to the public and will begin Saturday, January 21st at 10:00am in CPMC 231.
Nicolee Kuester, horn, with Curt Miller, clarinets, and Louise Devenish, Dustin Donahue, Stephen Solook, and Bonnie Whiting Smith, percussion, and Kelly Dancer, puppeteer, present the world premiere of Kaspar, a spoken opera based on historical events, by Kurt Isaacson, as well as works by George Crumb and an original text piece. The libretto for Kaspar is a collage of Kaspar-the-puppet's short autobiography, as well as first-hand descriptions of him written by various people who came into contact with him after he emerged from captivity.
Pianist Stephen Lewis performs George Enesco's Piano Sonata #1 in F sharp minor, Op. 24, No. 1. Lewis is joined by Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin), Allison Roush (viola), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Nicholas Deyoe (electric guitar), Kyle Adam Blair (piano), and Siu Hei Lee (piano).
Undergrads for Opera at UCSD presents… Members of the brand new student organization Undergrads for Opera at UCSD showcase their talents and hard work in an evening of song.
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Pianist Cecil Lytle's "Jazz Gone Global" concert includes music from Paris (April in Paris and others), The American South (Beale Street Blues and others), Africa (Naima), and New York City (Harlem Rhapsody). Lytle, an emeritus music faculty member and former provost of Thurgood Marshall College, is joined by nine musicians including San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos. The concert benefits the Lytle Scholarships at UCSD's Thurgood Marshall College. Scholarships go to outstanding first year students from The Preuss School at UCSD. More information on the concert is here.
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West Coast premiere of UCSD composer Lei Liang's Verge, conducted by Steven Schick. Also on the program: Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet, Bártok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and UCSD composer and music grad student Chen-Hui Jen's through drifting moons.
Liang explains the genesis of Verge: "This piece was composed on the verge of an exciting moment in my life: the birth of our son Albert Shin Liang. Albert’s musical name – A, B (Bb), E, D (re) – asserts itself in different configurations and disguises as basic harmonic and melodic material. His heartbeat also makes an appearance in the form of changing tempi and pulsations. In a sense, I composed the piece in order to make a musical amulet for Albert. On a technical level, I was fascinated by the dialectical relationship between the convergence and divergence of musical voices found in the traditional heterophonic music of Mongolia. There, the functionality of a principal line and its accompaniment can interchange, and often not synchronously. The 18 strings are divided into antiphonal groups: left versus right, front versus rear. They diverge into various sub-ensembles, quartets, and also appear as 18 virtuosic soloists. Near the end, they converge into a singular voice."
Verge was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and its Music Director, Alan Gilbert. It premiered on December 17, 2009 in Symphony Space at the inaugural concert of the Philharmonic’s new music series CONTACT!, conducted by Magnus Lindberg.
Diagenesis Duo gives its California debut. The duo, dedicated to performing new music, is made up of UCSD cellist Jennifer Bewerse and Montana-based soprano Heather Barnes. This concert will feature the world premiere of two pieces from the Diagenesis American Folksong Project: Just Lonesome by Aaron Jay Myers and Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair by Scott Ordway. They will also perform Hands and Lips of Wind, by Mischa Salkind-Pearl and excerpts from James Kallembach's 11 Songs to the Poems of Anne Bradstreet, both of which they commissioned and premiered in 2011.
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Principal soloists from San Diego Symphony join renowned UCSD music faculty players and special guests for a concert including Beethoven's Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1: Ghost; Martinu's Duo for Violin and Cello, H. 157; and Schumann's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63. If you can't catch the concert, tune in to KPBS-FM public radio (89.5; or streaming at www.kpbs.org) on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. to hear the live recording.
Third installment in La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong Stravinsky survey is a program of stark - and very beautiful - drama. The program opens with Verdi's searing overture to bloody revenge (Overture to La Forza del Destino) and concludes with Brahms' mighty First Symphony. Between them comes John Adams' setting of Walt Whitman's poem about tending the wounded of the Civil War (The Wound Dresser) and this season's Thomas Nee Commission winner: Nicholas Deyoe's still getting rid of. Conducted by Steven Schick. Nee was a founding faculty member in UCSD's Department of Music who conducted LJS&C for 31 years.
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Third installment in La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong Stravinsky survey is a program of stark - and very beautiful - drama. The program opens with Verdi's searing overture to bloody revenge (Overture to La Forza del Destino) and concludes with Brahms' mighty First Symphony. Between them comes John Adams' setting of Walt Whitman's poem about tending the wounded of the Civil War (The Wound Dresser) and this season's Thomas Nee Commission winner: Nicholas Deyoe's still getting rid of. Conducted by Steven Schick. Nee was a founding faculty member in UCSD's Department of Music who conducted LJS&C for 31 years.
General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
A special Valentine's Day edition of the popular Soirée for Music Lovers with János Négyesy and Friends. The program includes Händel's Violin Sonata in D Major; Mozart'sFlute Quartet in D Major, KV 285; Camille Saint-Saëns' Aria Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix (from the opera Samson et Delila); and Schumann's Piano Quintet in Eflat Major, Op. 44. Performers are Rachel Beetz (flute), Leslie Leytham (mezzo-soprano), Todd Moellenberg (harpsichord and piano), Eric Moore (cello), János Négyesy (violin), Allison Roush (viola), Sarah Schwartz (violin).
UCSD's Department of Music presents a special concert featuring the music of Chaya Czernowin, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University, and an alumnus of the department. The concert will feature her recent compositions performed by Department of Music graduate students, and Ms. Czernowin will speak about her music from the stage. The program includes Ina (recorded with UCSD faculty flutist John Fonville), Drift, and Manoalchadia. Ms. Czernowin earned her PhD ('93) in composition at UCSD where she was mentored by composers including Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. She has said that she considers herself to be part of a new generation composers who have lived in many locations (in her case, Israel, Germany, Austria, Japan, and now the U.S.) and who create a new "hybrid" music that brings together a range of influences. She spoke to NewMusicBox.com about her work last year. The interview combines insightful conversation with video accompanied by provocative excerpts of her music.
For the complete concert program including compositions, performers, and Ms. Czernowin's bio, click here.
Violinist Andrew McIntosh and bassist Scott Worthington perform Wolfgang von Schweinitz's concert-length duo in just intonation, Plainsound Glissando Modulation.
Undergrads for Opera at UCSD presents… Members of the brand new student organization Undergrads for Opera at UCSD showcase their talents and hard work in an evening of song.
Clarinetist Ariana Lamon-Anderson performs her second DMA (grad degree) recital, featuring works by Giacinto Scelsi, Helmut Lachenmann, and Odd and Even.
Morton Feldman's iconic and rarely heard work Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara) will be performed by graduate student Jessica Aszodi. In this 90-minute work, the singer performs live alongside two prerecorded versions of herself. The text comes from a setting of the Frank O'Hara poem Wind. This performance is Jessica's Master's Recital.
Concert featuring undergrad pianists An Nguyen, Andrea Kim, Dorothy Li, Janet Lee, Isaac Lu, Claude Fan, Danny Kim, Lawrence Lee and Andrew Nettesheim.
Flutist Berglind Maria Tómasdóttir's concert begins with premieres of works she commissioned from UCSD grad-level composers Carolyn Chen, Nicholas Deyoe, and Clint McCallum (featuring vocalist Leslie Leytham). The second half is Berglind's new 'performative installation' I Am an Island, which includes a brand new video piece by visual artist Frankie Martin.
Kyle Adam Blair performs two pieces for solo piano: John Adams' American Berserk and Stuart Saunders Smith's Pinetop. Rachel Beetz plays compositions for solo flute by UCSD's Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Reynolds: Mosaic, Ambages and Transfigured Wind IV for solo flute plus a quadraphonic computer music part
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Reger's Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola, DvoÅ™ák's Quintet for Strings in G, Op. 77, and Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, performed at Camera Lucida, San Diego's premiere chamber series. The concerts bring together principal soloists from San Diego Symphony with renowned UC San Diego faculty musicians and special guests. The series is made possible through the general support of Sam Ersan. Concerts are broadcast on KPBS-FM public radio on the second Saturday following each concert.
Ride the wave of creativity in this concert of structured group improvisations designed by the ensemble's members and developed over the course of a quarter spent making music-in-the-moment together. Saxophonist/composer/improviser David Borgo of the music faculty directs the ensemble.
Directed by Kamau Kenyatta, talented undergrad musicians perform works by Jackie McLean, Sonny Clark, Baden Powell, Kurt Weill, Ryan Brown, Herbie Hancock, Paul Buchanan & Robert Bell, Kenn Cox, Andrew d'Almeida, Tom Jobim, Cole Porter-Paul Weller, and Michael & Randy Brecker.
Dustin Donahue performs realizations of some of the earliest solo percussion repertoire: Earle Brown's Four Systems (1954), Sylvano Bussotti's Coeur (1959), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zyklus (1959), Morton Feldman's King of Denmark (1964), and Herbert Brun's Plot (1967).
Percussionist Stephen Solook presents a concert of music by esteemed Department of Music faculty composers featuring percussion works by Chinary Ung, Cinnabar Heart, and the world premiere of Miniatures after poems by E.E. Cummings by Katharina Rosenberger for percussion and female voice. The centerpiece of the program is Roger Reynolds' theatrical work Justice. Justice, commissioned for the celebration of the Library of Congress's Bicentennial in 2000, is a fully staged dramatic work for percussionist, soprano, actress, and computer musician. Together the individual performers combine to form the inner psychic world of Clytemnestra, tragic heroine from the Greek plays of Euripides and Aeschylus. The performers explore Clytemnestra's inner vision of events that lead to her husband's murder through a dramatic reading extending from spoken to sung declamations and eventually into a wordless world of percussion.
Joining Solook for this performance are: Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano; Alice Teyssier, actress; Paul Hembree, computer musician. Auditory Illusion, a sound installation developed by Michael Ricca and Aldrin Payopay, will accompany this performance of Justice. The musical content of Auditory Illusion comes from Reynolds Illusion, a companion piece to Justice. The same events occur in Illusion as within Justice, however they are presented from five different perspectives instead of one. This installation focuses upon the concept of "received knowledge" a form of subconscious insight that through its possession develops awareness, which is the foundation of Justice. The installation will run from Tuesday March 6 through Sunday March 11, 2012 in the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD.
Graduate computer music students perform original works in a concert featuring experimental music, performance art, and visual music. Highlights include custom software for live performance, hand built electronics, sculptural sound objects, and a brainwave interface that controls sound by reading the performer's mood.
Directed by Robert Zelickman, UCSD's Wind Ensemble performs music by Alex Tsiatas (Overture), Joan Brown Goldberg (The Coronado Song), Aaron Copland (Danzon Cubano), Henry Fillmore (The Klaxon March), Charles Ives (Finale from the Second Symphony), Richard Rodgers (Slaughter on Tenth Avenue), and George Gershwin (Oh, Lady Be Good, Liza, Fascinating Rhythm, Swanee, plus five songs from Porgy and Bess).
14 Short Fluxus Plays from the innovative performance art group Fluxus give a sharp edge to this concert by the New Music Performance class under the direction of János Négyesy. The program also includes works by Elinor Armer, John Cage, Robert Pierzak (composition grad student), Robert Erickson (founding UCSD music faculty), László Vidovszky, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.
Undergraduate vocalist Mariya Kaganskaya invites one and all to celebrate her 21st Birthday, with her favorite activity – a recital! Mariya performs pieces of various styles, revolving around the relevant themes of spring, libations, and old age. The program includes works by Offenbach, Rorem, recent UCSD graduate Frank S. Li, and more! This once-in-a-lifetime (literally!) event features illustrious colleagues, and a very special guest!
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus continues its yearlong survey of Stravinsky with a concert that explores the composer's classical roots. Mozart's famous Overture to the Marriage of Figaro leads to Stravinsky's most classical work, his Symphony in C, which he modeled on Beethoven's First Symphony, and the concert closes with that piece. Along the way comes a very different Stravinsky: his Ebony Concerto, written for clarinet soloist and Woody Herman's jazz orchestra. Conducted by Steven Schick.
For ticket information call 858-534-4637 or go to http://www.lajollasymphony.com
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus continues its yearlong survey of Stravinsky with a concert that explores the composer's classical roots. Mozart's famous Overture to the Marriage of Figaro leads to Stravinsky's most classical work, his Symphony in C, which he modeled on Beethoven's First Symphony, and the concert closes with that piece. Along the way comes a very different Stravinsky: his Ebony Concerto, written for clarinet soloist and Woody Herman's jazz orchestra. Conducted by Steven Schick.
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 premier chamber series presents Bach's Preludes and Fugues for String Trio (arr. Mozart), Strauss' Sextet for Strings from Capriccio, Op. 85, and Brahms' Sextet for Strings in B-flat, Op. 18. There is inspiring synergy among top soloists from San Diego Symphony with renowned UCSD faculty musicians and special guests, in the superb acoustics of UCSD's new concert hall. 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.
Klang Park, an exhibition of sound installations featuring new work by Berglind Tómasdóttir, Jessica Aszodi, Frankie Martin, Eric Derr, Brian Griffith-Loeb, Joe Mariglio, Tania Lanfer-Marquez, Louise Devenish, and Yvonne Wu.
Klang Park, an exhibition of sound installations featuring new work by Berglind Tómasdóttir, Jessica Aszodi, Frankie Martin, Eric Derr, Brian Griffith-Loeb, Joe Mariglio, Tania Lanfer-Marquez, Louise Devenish, and Yvonne Wu.
Adam Goodwin's High Art Recital will feature works for solo contrabass by Giacinto Scelsi, Fernando Grillo, Luciano Berio/Stefano Scodanibbio, Andrew Jordan Miller, and Jacob Druckman.
Seven Violin Duos Dedicated to János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter features the two musicians performing compositions by Victor Bloom, Steven Hoey, Igor Korneitchouk, Andrew May, Lukas Schulze, Will Ogdon (founding chair of the music department), and Mark Osborn.
General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Ticket Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
Sitar master Kartik Seshadri performs classical Indian ragas in the tradition of his mentor, legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar. Seshadri's CD Sublime Ragas was recently among Songlines magazine's Top 10 "Top of the World" albums. His music has been praised byThe Washington Post for its "espressive beauty, rich tonal sensibility, and rhythmic intricacy." This is Kartik's final concert in the Department of Music's 2011-2012 season.
On a Spring Tour, the U.S. Army Woodwind Ambassadors stop in at UC San Diego. The concert includes Carl Nielsen's Quintet, Op. 43, Paquito D'Rivera's Aires Tropicales (a Latin jazz tune re-arranged for strings), Jan Pieters Sweelinck's Variations on a Folksong, and Jean Francaix's Quintette. The group includes Sergeant First Class Sarah Eckman McIver (flute), Staff Sergeant Sarah Schram-Borg (oboe), Staff Sergeant John Blair (clarinet), Staff Sergeant Patricia Dusold (bassoon), and Staff Sergeant Christy Klenke (French horn).
The Seven Tragedies of Space Travel is a unique concert experience that mixes traditional western classical music with modern music and audio-visual settings inspired by science fiction, cosmology, and the tattered remains of false memories of the Vietnam War. Featuring Brendan Nguyen, piano and harpsichord, performing works by UCSD composers Aaron Helgeson, Nicholas Deyoe, and Clint McCallum, along with Jean-Philippe Rameau and Franz Schubert. Video stimuli by Jason Ponce, sound design by Joe Mariglio, movement design and costumes by Leslie Leytham, voiceover by Thao Nguyen.
A celebration of the centenary of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, a work that altered the course of modern music. The concert features the world premieres of companion pieces by composers Andrew Allen, Yeung-Ping Chen, Aaron Helgeson, and Paul Hembree as well as a performance of Schoenberg's seminal work. The project features singers Jessica Aszodi, Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, with instrumentalists Rachel Beetz (flute), Jennifer Bewerse (cello) Sam Dunscombe (clarinet), and Steven Lewis (piano). The Pierrot Project is led by UCSD faculty members Philippe Manoury and Susan Narucki.
Honors Recital showcases cellist Denaly Chen and soprano Amy Calderon. Chen's program includes Bach's Suites for Cello, Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007; Schumann's Fantasiestücke op. 73 for cello and piano; and Fauré's Elégie, Op. 24 (Chen's piano accompanist is Jacqueline Yu).
Wed @ 7 Susan Narucki, Philip Larson and Aleck Karis
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
7:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
Soprano Susan Narucki and bass-baritone Philip Larson are featured, joined by pianist Aleck Karis. Larson opens the concert with works by Brahms, Mahler, and Hugo Wolf. Following intermission, Narucki's focuses on "three composers who interrelate in a very interesting way: Alexander Zemlinsky, Anton Webern and György Kurtág. Zemlinsky was a fascinating composer. He influenced Schoenberg and the composers of the Second Viennese School, yet had his own distinct compositional path - which was no doubt influenced by his emigration to the United States before the beginning of the Second World War. We are doing a set of pieces that includes some of his earliest songs, full of lush harmonies and sweeping lyricism, as well as some of his poignant later works. I'm also doing Webern, Op.4; a set of five early Webern songs which are set to elusive and beautiful texts by Stefan Georg. And to close, Three Old Inscriptions by the great Hungarian composer, György Kurtág."
Bonnie Whiting Smith plays new music for percussion and voice by composers Jerome Kitzke, Jeffrey Treviño, and Nicholas Deyoe. Featuring Jerome Kitzke, piano and voice.
Flutist Rachel Beetz and pianist Ran Duan perform Morton Feldman's (1926-1987) For Christian Wolff for flute, piano and celeste. Feldman composed the piece late in his career and it stands alongside For John Cage and For Philip Guston as one of his most highly regarded works. For Christian Wolff lasts roughly three hours, carrying the listener on a subtly nuanced journey that explores various meditative states. Wolff is a composer and pianist born in France who relocated to the United States in 1941. Shortly after Feldman met Cage, Wolff began studying composition with Cage at the age of 16. Wolff is also known for his performances of experimental music with Rzewski and Cardew, often with sociopolitical themes.
Violinist Sarah Schwartz performs an evening of solo violin music, followed by contemporary tangos for a small ensemble. Including three living composers, she will perform works by Attila Bozay, Victor Bloom, Joshua Weinsten, J.S. Bach, and William Hill. While pursuing a DMA, Ms. Schwartz has a full performance career in San Diego and Los Angeles. She spent 15 years in New York City as a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, two contemporary music ensembles, and as a frequent recitalist. She plays in the Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra in the summers.
Electronic musicians from four California campuses perform together in a diverse concert showcasing the state-of-the-art in experimental electronic music. Graduate students from CalArts, Mills, UCSB, and UCSD present new works mixing live instruments with custom software, re-purposed technology, and home made electronics.
General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
Virtuoso UCSD pianist Aleck Karis's concert ranges from traditional to modern to today. The program features Stravinsky's Serenade in A (1925), Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 21, No. 2 (1802), Yekovich's Four Hands+ (2012), Mozart's Fantasy, K. 465 (1785), and Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 110 (1821).
Knell Ensemble performs Elliott Carter's Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux and Esprit Dude/Esprit Doux II; Sofia Gubaidulina's Pantomime; and Pierre Boulez' Derive and Talea. Knell Ensemble is Rachel Beetz (flute), Dustin Donahue (percussion), Ran Duan (piano), Nicolee Kuester (horn), Curt Miller (clarinet), Eric Moore (cello), Allison Roush (violin), and Scott Worthington (contrabass).
Curt Miller (clarinet), Dustin Donahue (percussion), and Scott Worthington (double bass) give the first performance of Worthington's eighty-minute work, Even the Light Itself Falls.
Flutist Kimberly Turney performs Hara by Harvey Sollberger (for Alto Flute), Petit Aleph by Philippe Manoury (for Bass Flute), Suite for Flute and Clarinet by Giacinto Scelsi (with clarinetist Ariana Lamon-Anderson), Ambages by Roger Reynolds, and Books for Flutes by Stuart Saunders Smith. Sollberger is an emeritus music faculty member, Manoury is a current faculty member.
Flog the husband to feed the children, the Hûngbo Manura's Song
Friday, May 4th, 2012
4:00 pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall
Free
Flog the husband to feed the children, the Hûngbo Manura’s Song: A Transnational Interpretive P’ansori adapted from P’ansori Song of Hûngbo. Pansori, the UNESCO-designated Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humankind, is a genre of musical storytelling performed by a vocalist and a drummer. This popular tradition, characterized by expressive singing, stylized speech, a repertory of narratives and gesture, embraces both elite and folk culture. Professor Chan E. Park (Ohio State University) is a transnational artist who delivers to the English-speaking audience the text and art of p’ansori, the Korean tradition of story-singing, by weaving her bilingual interpretation in performance. She will present from the Song of Hûngbo, one of the five classical repertoires that reminds us of the cardinal virtues of sibling bond not rivalry. In her adaptation, Flog the husband to feed the children, the Hûngbo Manura’s Song, it is less the character Hûngbo but more his wife, the invisible gender, who compellingly portrays the ironic socioeconomic challenges of the less privileged against the dictates of the state in ancient Korea.
Phillip Wulfridge is a composition student at UCSD; moreover, he continues to be active in music performance as a pianist and violinist. In this unique recital, Phillip and fellow musicians perform new compositions by Wu and guest composers.
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La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky continues with a program inspired by the many faces of spring. Grieg's beautiful lament for string orchestra (The Last Spring) is a perfect introduction to Schumann's robust 'Spring' symphony (Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major). Chorus and soloists join the orchestra for quite a different Spring Symphony, Benjamin Britten's setting of fourteen poems about the coming of spring, a preview of the chorus's upcoming Carnegie Hall debut. Guest artist: tenor Jon Lee Keenan. Conducted by David Chase.
For ticket information call 858-534-4637 or go to http://www.lajollasymphony.com
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's yearlong survey of Stravinsky continues with a program inspired by the many faces of spring. Grieg's beautiful lament for string orchestra (The Last Spring) is a perfect introduction to Schumann's robust 'Spring' symphony (Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major). Chorus and soloists join the orchestra for quite a different Spring Symphony, Benjamin Britten's setting of fourteen poems about the coming of spring, a preview of the chorus's upcoming Carnegie Hall debut. Guest artist: tenor Jon Lee Keenan. Conducted by David Chase.
Join us for the final installment for 2011-2012 of our First Monday noon concert series, presented by graduate program composers and performers. The 70-minute program includes Donatoni's Omar (Eric Derr, vibraphone), Schoenberg's Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (Leslie Leytham, mezzo-soprano, and Todd Moellenberg, piano), Josh Levine's Reprise (Curt Miller, bass clarinet), Xenakis’s Rebonds A (Louise Devenish, percussion) and alumnus Benjamin Sabey's Espejismo (Pablo Gomez-cano, guitar with electronics).
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!
Inspiring synergy among top San Diego Symphony soloists, renowned UCSD faculty players and special guests makes Camera Lucida a rare chamber experience enhanced by the superb acoustics of UCSD's new concert hall. The all-Beethoven program includes the Sonata for Cello and Piano in C, Op. 102, No. 1;Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, Op. 16; and String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131. Concerts are broadcast on KPBS-FM public radio at 8 p.m. on the Saturday following each concert. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of Sam Ersan.
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 11 program includes Marco Momi's Almost Vanishing for E.P. (2011), Milton Babbitt's Philomel (1964), and Salvatore Sciarrino's La perfezione di uno spirito sottile (1985).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Performances of new music, directed by Anthony Davis and featuring Yvette Jackson (trumpet), Nicolee Kuester (horn), David Morales Boroff (violin), Tyler Eaton (bass), Leah Bowden (drums & percussion), Ryoko Goguen (piano), and Anthony Davis (piano).
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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.
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.
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.

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.

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.

General: $15.50 UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50 Students w/ID: Free For Tickets Call Music Department Box Office: 858-534-3448 Purchase Online
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.
Directed by Robert Zelickman, UCSD's Wind Ensemble performs Emmanuel Chabrier's Espana Rhapsodie, Joaquin Rodrigo's Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez (arranged by John Wyman), Jeff Pekarek's The Shipyard, L.C. Desormes' Divertissement Espagnole, Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance, Enrique Granados' Intermezzo from Goyescas, Bobby Rose's Flight of the Firebird, and Jose Franco's Aguero (paso-doble).
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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.
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.
UCSD's undergraduate voice students will perform a program of opera scenes directed by Tiffany Du Mouchelle and Todd Moellenberg. Included in the program are scenes from: Die Fledermaus, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Pasquale, and Sweeney Todd. Featuring: Amy Calderon, Sharon Chang, Emilie Doan Van, Roshini Hegde, Shannon Johnson, Mariya Kaganskaya, Krit Kranratanasuit, Alexandria Pulido, Jennifer Wu, and Michael Wu.
San Diego's unique chamber series closes the 2011-2012 season with an edgy program featuring the Myriad Trio performing 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.
The 2011-2012 season wraps with this concert of new works for voice and chamber ensemble, composed by PhD candidate Aaron Helgeson's Music 33C composition course. Each piece is three to five minutes, followed by discussion. Composers are Chris Perry, Brad Rosen, Kyle Fanene, Newton Chan, and Ryan Morgan. Performers are Rachel Beetz (flute), Kyle Adam Blair (piano), Eric Derr (percussion), Samuel Dunscombe (bass clarinet), Krit Kranratanasuit (tenor), Curt Miller (bass clarinet), Brendan Nguyen (piano), Alice Teyssier (soprano), Ashley Walters (cello), Scott Worthington (bass), and Jennifer Wu (soprano).
Narratives on Narratives, from Utterance to Stories: Finding a Context for the Speaking Percussionist
Program: (interspersed with personal stories after John Cage's Indeterminacy)
Bonnie Whiting Smith: . . . perishable structures that would be social events (2008/11)
Jeffrey Treviño: Being Pollen (2011)
John Cage: Music for Two (by One) (1984/realized BWS 2011)
Vinko Globokar: Toucher (1973)
*10:50: Short reception with coffee and breakfast foods (CPMC concert hall courtyard)
*11:10: Dissertation defense (CPMC conference room 231)
Most Department of Music events are general admission, FREE and open to the public. Ticketed performances are listed above and available for sale online or via the Music Box Office: (858) 534-3448.
ACCESSIBILITY:
1. If you require special assistance or adaptive services, I.e. audio description, captioning/sign language interpreting, listening devices, and or locating the accessible entrances/exits, please notify Jessica Flores (j3flores@cloud.ucsd.edu) immediately so we can arrange for the services to be in place.
2. The UC San Diego campus is an Aira Access Location. To read more about the Aira service, please visit osd.ucsd.edu/resources/aira.html.
PLEASE NOTE: NO LATE SEATING. Guests arriving late may be turned away or will be asked to enter between pieces.
In an effort to conserve resources and reduce paper waste, we post our event programs as electronic documents on this page (see listings). If you are not at a computer, you can easily access this page by scanning the QR code at right (for iPhones we recommend using the built-in camera app). Programs for past events dating back to October 2008 are available in our events archive with links below.
PLEASE NOTE: As an experimental and new music department, much of our music is very intimate and quiet, for this reason, we request that students preparing concert reports refrain from writing or rustling papers during events. We also respect the artistry of our musicians and adhere to a strict policy of NO LATE SEATING. Guests arriving late may be turned away or will be asked to enter between pieces.
Please Note: The Department of Music does not take responsibility for the content of external websites, Facebook pages, and other outside UC San Diego sites.
Copies of events performed by the faculty and students of UC San Diego Department of Music are available for educational use only by the performers, composers and faculty involved in the event pursuit to all applicable copyright laws. View our Dubbing Policy for more information.
We hope that you will join us in upholding and promoting our Principles of Community in all UC San Diego events and keeping our community free from any and all forms of discrimination and harassment.
