Steven Schick conducts

Classical music and jazz intersect in this exciting collaboration between LJS&C and the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. Hear a free performance reading of five new works written for symphony orchestra by jazz composers Miya Masaoka, Michael Dessen, Daniel Francis Marschak, Alan Chan, and Tobin Chodos.

GRAD WELCOME CONCERT

UCSD Graduate students will present a plethora of music from the last century including pieces by Nicholas Deyoe, Philippe Manoury, Bob Pierzak, Viktor Ullmann, Iannis Xenakis, and a demonstration of Andrew Allen's latest software, Ruratae!

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros, and Jamie Pawloski curate an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theatre at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theatre is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

1: ELEMENTAL
Curated by: Zachary Seldess

Diana Salazar: Capsicum Fever (10:58) (2ch)
Elizabeth Hoffman: WhirlingNothingness (4:56) (18ch)
Jane Rigler: The Calling (7:39) (2ch)
Dave Gedosh: Train Song (8:58) (4ch)
Erik Deluca: [In] (ca. 15:05) (5.1ch)

Tiffany Du Mouchelle and Steve Solook prepare for an upcoming competition with this non-traditional concert.  Colleagues and outside guests are invited to come listen and give feedback as they prepare their material.  The first part will feature Tiffany and Steve as their voice/percussion duo, Aurora Borealis, followed by a short open forum for comments from the audience.  The second part features Tiffany as soloist performing unaccompanied works for voice and accompanied works with pianist Kyle Adam Blair, also followed by a short forum for comments.  This event will run approximately 90 minutes.

 

Percussionist Dustin Donahue presents a noontime solo concert. Music by John Cage, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Gordon, Martin Hiendl, and Alvin Lucier.

A concert of music for cello including the West Coast premieres of three recent pieces composed for Charles Curtis: Christian Wolff's One Cellist (2013), Éliane Radigue's Occam V (2012-13) and Tashi Wada's Landslide (2013). Also on the program are two earlier works composed for Curtis: Alvin Lucier's Slices for Cello and Pre-Recorded Orchestra (2007-11) and Alison Knowles' Rice and Beans for Charles Curtis (2008). The program will intersperse short pieces from the Middle Ages and Renaissance amongst these new and recent works.

GRAD FORUM #1

"Non-quantized music"
Adam Tinkle and Bonnie Lander

"Fingers slide to find the notes between the notes, vocal cavities arch to find the vowels between the vowels; the just-noticeable difference harnessed to an attempt to harmonize out of the blooming, buzzing desert of meaning."

DAVID MEDINE

No Fancy
Joe Cantrell, Meghann Welsh, and guest
Experimental-Electro-Acoustic Improv

Minderbinder
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Krzysztof Golinski, drums

Grad Forums provide an outlet for Music Department graduate students to present individual and collaborative works on their own terms.

UC San Diego's renowned chamber music series opens the 2013-2014 season with a program of Beethoven (String Trio opus 9 no. 1 G major), Szymanowski (Three Myths for Violin and Piano) and Saint Saëns (Piano Quartet in B-flat). Camera Lucida is a collaboration between leading San Diego Symphony soloists and prominent UC San Diego faculty performers led by cellist Charles Curtis, who serves as the series' artistic director. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of the Sam Ersan Chamber Music Fund. Ticket information: (619) 235-0804.

The Fall Composition Jury breaks from the traditional format and is presented as an evening concert!  World premiere compositions by Edward Hamel, Kevin Flowers, Jon Forshee, Marcelo Flores-Lazcano, Elisabet Curbelo-González, Caroline Miller, and Kevin Zhang, highlight the evening.

The public is welcome to observe discussion and jury observations by UC San Diego's distinguished composition faculty in response to Friday evening's Fall Composition concert of premieres.

Ryan Nestor performs Richard Barrett's Abglanzbeladen / Auseinandergeschrieben, Gerald Eckert's Nor and Schwebe, Verlöschend (with Michael Matsuno, flute) and Marcelo Lazcano's Taca-Taca, a new work for solo percussion.

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros and Jamie Pawloski host an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theatre at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theatre is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

2: LANDSCAPES - Curated by Tom Erbe

Melody Eötvös: Patoises I: Blue (8:24)

Paul Riker and Anthony Angelicola: Cubicle Revisted (8:54)

Jon Weinel: Mezcal Animations #1-3 (4:00)

Damon Lee: Stumm (7:27)

Luca De Siena: Concrezione (4:19)

Teresa Connors: Terroir (6:46)

Alexander Sigman: Future Creatures (9:24)

Now Hear Ensemble presents the "Made in California" project with music by Eoin Callery, Carolyn Chen, Todd Lerew, Mateo Lugo, Daniel Miller, Jon Myers, Iván Naranjo, Nick Norton, Dan VanHassel, David Werfelmann and Kevin Zhang-composers with ties to CalArts, Mills College, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and USC.

Soirée for Music Lovers returns as a birthday celebration in honor of János Négyesy's 75th year! 

Violin virtuoso János Négyesy's and friends will perform the works of Corelli, Ravel, Hindemith, and Fauré.

Please join the artists for a post performance gathering, outside the Concert Hall.

15 h. | Concierto Estelar

SERGIO BUCHELI (México)
Recital Hall del Conrad Prebys Music Center
Entrada Libre

Steven Schick conducts

A concert for young eyes and ears that’s fun for adults too! Hear a revolutionary work for solo flute performed by Claire Chase and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, with commentary by Steven Schick.

Steven Schick conducts

Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b    W.A. Mozart
Density 21.5                               Edgar Varèse
Mina                                           Dai Fujikura
Symphonie Fantastique             Hector Berlioz
 
Special Guests: Claire Chase, flute; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Music from four different centuries, chosen to reflect this spooky time of the year. The contemporary music group ICE joins us for a program that ranges from Mozart’s poised Sinfonia Concertante for Winds through Varèse’s revolutionary Density 21.5 for solo flute and on to Dai Fujikura’s Mina, inspired by the birth of his first child. We conclude with Berlioz’s haunted masterpiece, Symphonie Fantastique.

Steven Schick conducts

Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b    W.A. Mozart
Density 21.5                               Edgar Varèse
Mina                                           Dai Fujikura
Symphonie Fantastique             Hector Berlioz
 
Special Guests: Claire Chase, flute; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Music from four different centuries, chosen to reflect this spooky time of the year. The contemporary music group ICE joins us for a program that ranges from Mozart’s poised Sinfonia Concertante for Winds through Varèse’s revolutionary Density 21.5 for solo flute and on to Dai Fujikura’s Mina, inspired by the birth of his first child. We conclude with Berlioz’s haunted masterpiece, Symphonie Fantastique.

Giacinto Scelsi
Ko-Tha (Three Dances of Shiva)
Jonathan Hepfer, guitar

Alban Berg
Piano Sonata
Steve Lewis, piano

TBD
Dustin Donahue, percussion

Softclip
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
Kyle Motl, bass

Antwerp-based guitarist Nico Couck will guest with the composition area, then present a concert of his work.  In "Reciprocity" Nico Couck explores the possibilities of the back-and-forth motion. Be it in physical Reciprocityenergy, sounding textures (between harmony and chaos), or even in the performer’s approach to the instrument. How can constantly interpolating gestures become relevant and substantial in musical practice?

Simon Steen-Andersen’s work transforms musical information to visuals in the opposite way of Mark Applebaum’s work. Johannes Kreidler creates a multi-dimensional space of sounding and ‘außermusikalischer’ motion - while Clemens Gadenstätter’s music balances on the verge of instrumental sonorities and spoken word. And finally, new compositions by Lorenzo Pagliei and Stefan Beyer in which the semantics of sound production are compromised.

PALIMPSEST

Palimpsest, UCSD's resident new music ensemble, presents a concert featuring the Second Viennese School, conducted by Aleck Karis.    This is an opportunity to hear two rarely performed masterpieces by Arnold Schoenberg: the ground-breaking Five Pieces for Orchestra Opus 16 (in the Chamber Version) and the brilliant Suite, Opus 29 for three strings, three clarinets and piano.  The program also includes Webern's Concerto Opus 24 and the world premiere of Shetakh by Ori Talmon.  

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

Come ring in a technological centennial, the 100th year of our beloved standard, MIDI. Featuring new instruments and interfaces by Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney, new compositions by Robert Pierzak and performances by Andrew Allen, Joe Mariglio and Drew Ceccato.

...on a par with grass & twigs...

Conducted by Nicholas Deyoe, featuring flutists Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Michael Matsuno, and Rachel Beetz, percussionists Craig Shields and Stephen Solook and pianist Stephen Lewis.

Chikako Morishita - Lizard (shadow) (clarinet solo)
Jo Kondo - Orient Orientation (clarinet duo)
Pierre Boulez - Domains
Jo Kondo - Theatre
IMPROV - Sam Dunscombe, Chris Golinski, Kyle Adam Blair

Grad Forums provide an outlet for Music Department graduate students to present individual and collaborative works on their own terms.

A symposium focused on the life and work of Distinguished Professor Chinary Ung will feature distinguished guest speakers Adam Greene, Topher Levin, and Yayoi Uno Everett.  Curated and coordinated by Lei Liang.

Chinary Ung - Celebration 70

A celebratory concert honoring Distinguished Professor Chinary Ung on his 70th year.  Featuring renowned international artists as well as UCSD faculty and graduate students, a special event is planned to honor the life of Chinary Ung.

CINNABAR HEART (2009)
Stephen Solook, marimba

SPIRAL I (1987)
Felix Fan, cello
Matthew Gold, percussion
Aleck Karis, piano

SPIRAL XI: “Mother & Child” (2007)
Susan Ung, viola

AURA (2005)
Elissa Johnston, high soprano
Kathleen Roland, low soprano
John Fonville, flute
Paul Sherman, oboe
Anthony Burr, clarinet
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Peter Clarke violin
Linda Piatt, viola
Susan Ung, viola
Jennifer Bewerse, cello
Mark Dresser, double bass
Nicholas Perry, percussion
GRANT GERSHON, conductor

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

Music by Brahms (C-minor Piano Quartet) and DvoÅ™ák (E-flat Piano Quartet) is featured in this chamber music concert collaboration between virtuoso UC San Diego faculty musicians such as cellist Charles Curtis and leading San Diego Symphony soloists such as violinist Jeff Thayer. The series is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund. Ticket information: (619) 235-0804.

A Thin Line (A New Radio Opera)

This evening will premiere sketches from A Thin Line and new other works.  Tape meets live performance featuring Jessica Aszodi, Josh Charney, and Amy Cimini.

Composing for Improvisors

Advanced grad performers under the direction of Anthony Davis, perform.

Violin and Viola students of János Négyesy, perform the works of Vivaldi-Respigh, Kallivoda, Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, and Kurtág.

3: NEGATIVE SPACE / Curated by Elliot Patros

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros host an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theatre at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theatre is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

JOHN NICHOLS III: Gates (Kadesh-Naphtali) (8:46)

C.R. KASPRZYK: veiled (5:09)

JEF CHIPPEWA: DUO (2:46)

NICOLAS VÉRIN: Trois études d'espace (14:40)

HANS TUTSCHKU: Rojo (15:16)

CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI: Thrill (4:44)

JOHN OLIVER: Just Inference (5:03)

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Chamber Ensembles, under the direction of János Négyesy, perform in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall.

Under the direction of Kamau Kenyatta, the popular 95JC returns!  Featuring an ensemble performing a variety of diverse compositions, including pieces written and arranged by student musicians, instrumentation includes voice, violin, saxophones, rhythm section and afro-latin percussion.

Computer music graduate students perform new original works featuring live electronics and custom software, in the first installment of this year's computer music concert series.  Performances will include hand built circuitry, signal bending, electroacoustic music playback, and real-time digital signal processing.

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.

Curated and featuring graduate students from the Department of Music, First Monday Concerts are free events held on selected Mondays in the academic year.

UC San Diego's renowned chamber music series heads for the holidays with a program including Bach's Brandenburg Concert No. 6, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 10, and Brahms' String Quartet in F major. Camera Lucida is made possible through the generous support of the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund. Ticket information: (619) 235-0804.

Graduate piano performance students of Aleck Karis present an informal concert.

UCSD WIND ENSEMBLE

Under the direction of Robert Zelickman, the 95L Wind Ensemble performs at Mandeville Auditorium.

The program will feature euphonium soloist, Eric Starr, for Herbert L. Clark's The Bride of the Waves.  The Wind Ensemble will also perform selections by: Jenkins, Schuman, Copland, Mennin, Cailliet, Bennett, and George Gershwin.

Josh Charney presents an evening of music by composer Netty Simons. Pieces will include Night Sounds for piano (1953), Windfall (1965), and Too Late, the Bridge is Closed (1976). Charney will be joined by Adam Tinkle on the saxophone.

Steven Schick conducts

Musica Celestis       Aaron Jay Kernis
Ikarus-Azur              Paul Hembree NEE COMMISSION
Daphnis et Chloe     Maurice Ravel

Our second subscription program takes us to the sublime. We open with Aaron Jay Kernis’ ethereal Musica Celestis (“Music of the Heavens”) for string orchestra and conclude with a complete performance of Ravel’s opulent ballet Daphnis et Chloe, scored for huge orchestra, chorus, wind machine, and vast percussion battery. Between them, we present the world premiere of a work for orchestra and chorus by this year’s Thomas Nee Commission recipient.

The Four Seasons/Four Elements project, initiated by renowned UCSD violinist János Négyesy, is in its final phase: a transformation into a musical theater production. Tonight's concert premieres one part of music for the new production: Cercles de Feu by Fulbright visiting composer Nicolas Vérin, in residence in the Department of Music during Fall quarter. Vérin's piece brings together electric and acoustic violin, live electronics, the Sphere, and video projection. The program also includes Parmegiani's Violostries, Saariaho's de la Terre, and Vérin's Solo Violin Piece I, all performed by Négyesy.

Steven Schick conducts

Musica Celestis       Aaron Jay Kernis
Ikarus-Azur              Paul Hembree NEE COMMISSION
Daphnis et Chloe     Maurice Ravel

Our second subscription program takes us to the sublime. We open with Aaron Jay Kernis’ ethereal Musica Celestis (“Music of the Heavens”) for string orchestra and conclude with a complete performance of Ravel’s opulent ballet Daphnis et Chloe, scored for huge orchestra, chorus, wind machine, and vast percussion battery. Between them, we present the world premiere of a work for orchestra and chorus by this year’s Thomas Nee Commission recipient.

Music 33A, Introduction to Composition, presents their first term concert of new works for voice and chamber ensemble, as directed by PhD candidate Stephen Lewis. Each piece is three to five minutes, followed by discussion by a juried panel from the composition graduate area.

Aleck Karis presents works by Feldman, Wolpe, and Webern

The first half features music from Karis' recent CD on Bridge Records: Morton Feldman's Piano and Palais de Mari juxtaposed with Wolpe's Form and Form IV and Webern's Piano Variations.  For the second half he will be joined by Curt Macomber, Danielle Farina and Chris Finckel in a performance of Feldman's last work: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello.

MYRIAD TRIO I
Monday, January 6, 7:30pm
The Myriad Trio
Program TBA

ArtPower! presents:

The Emerson String Quartet has achieved its exalted place in the hierarchy of American quartets for good reason. The ensemble has an impeccable track record, dozens of admired recordings, and a consistent history of serious dedication to chamber music literature. This season, in what will be the first change in the quartet’s membership since 1979, Paul Watkins—a distinguished soloist, award-winning conductor, and dedicated chamber musician—will join the ensemble for its return concert with ArtPower!. Marking a major milestone in the history of American chamber music, the evolution of the Emerson String Quartet will undoubtedly open up a whole new chapter of excellence. Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; Paul Watkins, cello.

Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428 (K.421b); Dmitry Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122; Ludwig van Beethoven:String Quartet No. 8 in E minor (“Rasumosky No. 2”), Op. 59/2

Sponsors: Amnon and Lee Ben-Yehuda, Joan Jordon Bernstein, Alexa Kirkwood Hirsch

Daniel Tacke: ABEND (US Premiere)
Walter Zimmermann: GLOCKENSPIEL (US Premiere)
Lewis Nielson: HERZPLATTEN (World Premiere)

With Alice Teyssier, Flute / Voice

The Radnofsky Sax Quartet concludes a residency with UC San Diego's composition area with a performance in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.  The performance will also feature works by UCSD faculty: Rand Steiger and Lei Liang.

An evening of premieres featuring seven new works by first year graduate composition students: James Bean, Annie Hsieh, Hunjoo Jung, Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Bradley Scott Rosen, Felipe Rossi, and Tina Tallon.  A collaboration with the first year performance graduate students, featured performers will be: Matt Kline and Kyle Motl on bass, Michael Matsuno and Ine Vanoeveren, flutes, and soprano Kirsten Wiest.

Discussion for this performance will be on Tuesday, January 28th in CPMC 367, beginning at 5:00 p.m.

As musical access evolves alongside technology and ever-shifting culture, the performing artist is confronted with a question:  is live performance essential? Tonight’s concert offers five pieces and their various answers to this question.

Burn Again with a Low Blue Flame - Annie Gosfield
Vessel - Caroline Miller
Durations 2 - Morton Feldman
The New Right of Spring - Pauline Oliveros
Charles Curtis - Alvin Lucier

Focusing on the very physical nature of sound and its expression in space, the full realizations of these works are only available in the moments they are exchanged between the performer and audience.  A case for live performance is made not with the risk of failure or presentation of the performer as hero, but with compositional ideas that live fully only within the moment of performance.

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD | THE GOOD LIFE

Eleanor Roosevelt College presents The Making of the Modern World Lecture Series, "The Good Life", at the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall.

ROGER REYNOLDS, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
"Musings on 'Good Lives': Relationships, Sustenance,
Aspirations, Truth, Secrets, Boundaries, purpose, Flight"

Please note that this program will begin at 6:00 p.m.

Stuart Saunders Smith Portrait Concert

Culminating New England composer Stuart Saunders Smith's visit to UCSD, performances will be given by graduate students, as well as voice and percussion duo Aurora Borealis. Included in the program are early works such as “Flight,” which was originally written for UCSD faculty, John Fonville, in addition to several recent works written for UCSD Alum, Lisa Cella. Also included is the premiere of “Palm Sunday” written for and performed by pianist Kyle Adam Blair. This concert was co-curated by Rachel Beetz and Kyle Adam Blair.

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros, and Jamie Pawloski curate an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts take place in the Experimental Theater at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theater is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

Last Friday Listening Room 4: Full of Thought

Curated by Zachary Seldess

Scott Barton: Opus Palladianum (7:02)
Christopher Bailey: Harvest Kitchen IIA (10:16)
Nick Del’Nero: Tools To Technocracy (11:44)
Rose Dodd: Island Music (7:40)
Emanuele Battisti: Electrode (Study on Pink Noise No.1) (6:58)
Christopher Haworth: Vertizontal Hearing (up & down, l then ll) (13:58)

ArtPower! presents:

The Danish String Quartet holds a unique position among the many young and dynamic ensembles performing on the international scene today. The musicians, all under the age of 30, have been performing as a quartet since its debut in 2002 at the Copenhagen Festival. With their passion for Scandinavian composers juxtaposed with the classics, the group brings a level of freshness, energy, and sheer accomplishment to their lively performances. Since winning the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition in 2004, the four young musicians have been frequent guests at international festivals and at chamber music venues throughout the world. Come see this explosion of talent for yourself. Frederik Øland, violin; Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello.

Program: Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13; Claude Debussy: String Quartet, L. 85 (Op. 10); Hans Abrahamsen: String Quartet No. 1, “Ten Preludes”

Sponsor: Sam B. Ersan

Lytle Benefit Concert: Eastbound Home Featuring
Nathan East, '78

Get ready to rock out at the 18th Annual Lytle Benefit Concert. This year's musical benefit features a campus homecoming with world-renowned bass guitarist and Grammy-nominated alumnus Nathan East, '78, performing in UC San Diego's award-winning Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

East has played with rock music's greatest artists for the past 35 years -- from Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, to Madonna, Beyonce and Daft Punk. At this special benefit concert, he'll return to his San Diego roots to play with UC San Diego Music faculty and alumni, while raising funds for the endowed Lytle Scholarship, which benefits Preuss School students attending UC San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College.

For questions or more information, please email ecwiggins@ucsd.edu.

Curated and featuring graduate students from the Department of Music, First Monday Concerts are free events held on selected Mondays in the academic year.

MOZART AND BRAHMS
Monday, February 3, 7:30pm
MOZART: Piano Trio in E Major
REBECCA CLARKE: Viola Sonata
BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio

Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the acoustically perfect Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UCSD. Principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony and distinguished performance faculty from UCSD join with guests from the international chamber music world in performances that blend the precision and cohesiveness of a permanent ensemble with widely ranging instrumentation.

SCRIPT – RESCRIPT

A script is something written, a text. It is also writing and behavior.
Rescript is a response, a statement. It could be imitative, repetitive, or even contrary.
Interpretation of a written score is a rescript; Inspiration is too.
In bringing the script and rescript together, another entity appears.
This entity is only an idea, a brief presence, unable to occur without the original duo.
As beings, we continue to rescript not only with documents, but also with each other.
Without interaction and collaboration, we can never begin to experience the wondrous space between.

Rachel Beetz, flute
Nichole Speciale, artist
Also featuring flutists Christine Tavolacci and Michael Matsuno.
Works by Ablinger, Donatoni, Feldman, Ferneyhough, Johnson, and the world premiere of Alvin Lucier's 13 Degrees of Darkness

Pianist Sarah Cahill plays the Piano Concerto of Lou Harrison, a great California composer much too little-known by California audiences. We frame that with music by two classical masters: Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, which concludes in an explosion of fireworks, and Brahms’ autumnal final symphony.

Pianist Sarah Cahill plays the Piano Concerto of Lou Harrison, a great California composer much too little-known by California audiences. We frame that with music by two classical masters: Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, which concludes in an explosion of fireworks, and Brahms’ autumnal final symphony.

Flutist and soprano Alice Teyssier presents an evening of second performances of two large-scale works written for her. Lewis Nielson's Herzplatten explores the complexities of the heart, both physiologically and emotively. Rolf Riehm's Pasolini in Ostia is a modern-day passion on the gruesome and controversial death of film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Alice is joined by percussionist Jonathan Hepfer, cellist Judith Hamann and pianist Brendan Nguyen.

János Négyesy died on Dec. 20. In lieu of what would have been his 80th Soirée for Music Lovers, we pay tribute to Mr. Negyesy on Valentine's Day with To János With Love, a concert featuring performances by faculty members Mark Dresser (contrabass), Aleck Karis (piano), Philip Larson (bass baritone), Kartik Seshadri (sitar), Robert Zelickman (clarinet), along with various peers, alumni and students who performed with or were mentored by János. A detailed article about János is here.

Piccola Musica Notturna /A Little Night Music
Susan Narucki, co-curator
Jonathan Hepfer, Guest Conductor and co-curator
kallisti: Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez, Alice Teyssier and Kirsten Wiest, sopranos
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Co-curated by Susan Narucki and Jonathan Hepfer, the second Palimpsest program of the season is an exploration of evocative works by the Italian modernists Luigi Dallapiccola, Niccolò Castiglioni and Aldo Clementi.  All composers with one foot firmly planted in the 20th century and one in the Renaissance, the pieces presented seamlessly combine rigor and lyricism, chaos and elegance, complexity and simplicity, the current and the eternal.  Featuring the dynamic soloists of the vocal ensemble kallisti the program will also include a new work by Kyle Rowan, commissioned as a companion piece to Dallapiccola's masterwork 'Piccola Musica Notturna' ('A Little Night Music').      
 

Grad Forums provide an outlet for Music Department graduate students to present individual and collaborative works on their own terms.A concert featuring the sounds of the sea, including unique recordings collected in oceanographic research, as well as classics of American experimental music inspired by whalesong.

Litany for the Whale - John Cage

Vox Balanae - George Crumb

Caroline Miller and Adam Tinkle - Whaleworks
(World Premiere)

Featuring sounds collected in cooperation with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Research Vessel Roger Revelle, and Josh Jones of the SIO Whale Acoustic Lab)

With performers: Bonnie Lander (voice), Meghann Welsh (voice and musical saw), Kyle Adam Blair (piano), Rachel Beetz (flute), and Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Adam Tinkle (saxophone), Caroline Miller (electronics)

Harpsichordist Takae Ohnishi teams up with violist Brian Che-Yen Chen in a performance of J.S.Bach’s Complete Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-1029.

In Schick Machine, UC San Diego faculty member and percussionist Steve Schick explores a magical stage filled with huge, invented instruments made by composer/instrument builder Paul Dresher—including the Hurdy Grande, the Tumbler, the Peacock, the Field of Flowers, and a deconstructed pipe organ. Weaving whimsical stories about his childhood in Iowa together with unexpected encounters with noise-making objects, Steve draws audiences into a whimsical evening of instrumental exploration.

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros, and Jamie Pawloski curate an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theater at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theater is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

Scott Worthington will present a recital of music for solo bass with electronics including Peter Ablinger's Weiss/Weisslich 17h, a realization of John Cage's Solo for Bass with WBAI, Kaija Saariaho's Folia, Julia Wolfe's Stronghold, and his own Reflections.

Curated and featuring graduate students from the Department of Music, First Monday Concerts are free events held on selected Mondays in the academic year.

Featuring:

Fragments
by Matt Kline
Matt Kline, solo bass

Walk
by Jo Kondo
Todd Moellenberg, piano
Michael Matsuno, flute

Improvisation
Bonnie Lander, solo voice

Under the direction of Kamau Kenyatta, the popular 95JC returns!  Featuring an ensemble performing a variety of diverse compositions, including pieces written and arranged by student musicians, instrumentation includes voice, violin, saxophones, rhythm section and afro-latin percussion.

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.

Described by the eminent Sergio Assad as “the most inventive and exciting young guitar ensemble today”, Mobius Trio has made it its mission to fully integrate the classical guitar into the 21st century’s nascent musical lexicon. The Trio exclusively performs music that they have commissioned; they seek to expand the guitar ensemble’s repertoire to encompass all of the myriad currents passing through contemporary art music. San Francisco-based, this young ensemble's recent performance engagements include Washington DC's Kennedy Center. They are currently on a southern California tour, culminating in a residency at UC Riverside.
 

11 at 8

The UCSD Bass Ensemble will perform 11 at 8, a program of eleven short new works composed for the ensemble by graduate composers and members of the bass ensemble comprised of undergraduate and graduate contrabassists.

The students of Music 133 will present a concert of American experimental music, featuring works by Christian Wolff and James Klopfleisch. 

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Flutist Rachel Beetz and percussionist Dustin Donahue present music by Ann Cleare, Daniel Corral, Mario Garuti, Jo Kondo, and Stuart Saunders Smith. The duo will also premiere a new work by UCSD composer Yvonne Wu.
 

ArtPower! presents Kronos Quartet at Mandeville Auditorium

For 40 years, the San Francisco-based quartet has combined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually reimagining the string quartet experience. Working with artists as diverse as they are revered, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble has collaborated with a host of intrepid thinkers for live performances, multimedia experiences, and film scores. David Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; Sunny Jungin Yang, cello.

Piano students of Aleck Karis perform music by Bach, Debussy, Martino, and Hirs.

UCSD WIND ENSEMBLE

Under the direction of Robert Zelickman, the 95L Wind Ensemble performs at Mandeville Auditorium.

Computer music graduate students perform new original works featuring live electronics and custom software in the second installment of this year's computer music concert series.  Performances will include audio-visual music, hand built circuitry, and real-time digital signal processing.

Piano students of Bess Wang will perform music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, and Prokofiev.

UCSD CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

Under the direction of Takae Ohnishi.  USCD students will perform the works by A. Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, J. Brahms, G. Lekeu, and A.Copland.

Famed Venezuelan choral conductor Maria Guinand joins LJS&C choral director David Chase in a program of Latin American music. The concert opens with David Chase conducting the swaggering Malambo by Alberto Ginestera followed by the West Coast premiere of Intrada 1631, an expanded processional by composer Stephen Montague based on a 17th-century Peruvian chant and scored for symphonic brass choir with field drums. Maria Guinand conducts the second half of the program in two works for chorus, orchestra and soloists: Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Chôros No. 10. Ticket prices: $29 adult, $27 senior, $15 student.

Famed Venezuelan choral conductor Maria Guinand joins LJS&C choral director David Chase in a program of Latin American music. The concert opens with David Chase conducting the swaggering Malambo by Alberto Ginestera followed by the West Coast premiere of Intrada 1631, an expanded processional by composer Stephen Montague based on a 17th-century Peruvian chant and scored for symphonic brass choir with field drums. Maria Guinand conducts the second half of the program in two works for chorus, orchestra and soloists: Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Chôros No. 10. Ticket prices: $29 adult, $27 senior, $15 student.

MENDELSSOHN AND FAURÉ
Monday, March 17, 7:30pm
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Quartet
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata, Op. 102 No. 2
FAURÉ: Piano Quartet in G minor

Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the acoustically perfect Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UCSD. Principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony and distinguished performance faculty from UCSD join with guests from the international chamber music world in performances that blend the precision and cohesiveness of a permanent ensemble with widely ranging instrumentation.

ArtPower! presents:

The Escher String Quartet’s concert with ArtPower! will be an evening of formidable artistry. The ensemble, now in its eighth year, has garnered praise from luminaries such as Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman as they continue to display “ripe tonal balances with the kind of heedless intensity that comes with youth” (San Francisco Chronicle). Balancing interweaving solo parts and group harmony, their performances are evocative of graphic artist M.C. Escher, from whom they take their name. The group brings this twisting and turning musicianship to a triptych of string quartets by classical and post-war composers. Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Aaron Boyd, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Dane Johansen, cello.

Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major (“Spring”), K. 387; Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit, for String Quartet; Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major

Sponsors: Sam B. Ersan, Eric Lasley and Judith Bachner

GUEST ARTIST:  ELLEN FULLMAN

In 1981, Ellen Fullman began developing the “Long String Instrument,” an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and ‘bowed’ with rosin coated fingers. Fullman has developed a unique notation system to choreograph the performer’s movements, exploring sonic events that occur at specific nodal point locations along the string-length of the instrument. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Keiji Haino. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and residencies including: DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program residency, Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for Japan, Meet the Composer, Reader's Digest Consortium Commission, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, and artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Her music was represented in The American Century; Art and Culture, 1950-2000 at The Whitney Museum, and she has performed in venues and festivals in Europe, Japan, and the Americas including: Instal, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Other Minds, the Walker Art Center and Donaueschinger Musiktage. Her release “Ort”, with Berlin-based collaborator Jörg Hiller, was selected in the top 50 recordings of 2004 by The Wire (London) and “Fluctuations” with trombonist Monique Buzzarté on Deep Listening was included in the Wire top 50 of 2008.

SOFT HAMMERS

"Of Challenge and of Love" by Elliott Carter
Trio in B major, Op. 8 (revised version) by Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók

Stephen Lewis performs with Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Batya MacAdam-Somer, Jennifer Bewerse, Kyle Adam Blair, Stephen Solook, and Dustin Donahue.

Please note Sunday's start time will be: 4:30 p.m.

Live Jazz and Improvisation

Morton Feldman's monumental trio

Live Jazz and Improvisation

Messiaen's crystalline song cycle

Sara Perez presents her MA recital: 

Nymphs and Shepherds - Henry Purcell 
Sweeter than Roses, Opus 27 - Richard Strauss
Being Beauteous - Hans Werner Henze
2 songs - Kevin Flowers (world premiere)
Recitations 8, 10, 11, 13 - Georges Aperghis

Sara will perform with: Kevin Flowers, Nicolee Kuester, Marcelo Lazcano, Stephen Lewis, Ryan Nestor, Neil Ruby and Meghann Welsh

Interact with hand-built instruments

Experimental electronic musicians from across California perform new original works involving live electronics and custom software.  The UCSD installment of the California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts features students from UCSB, CalArts, UCSD, and Mills.  Performances will include hand built circuitry, live computer graphics, re-purposed electronics, pre-recorded electroacoustic music, and real-time signal processing.

Sound Artists visit from LA

• Students from A Reason to Survive - Headphone soundscapes
• Michael Matsuno - Electroacoustic flute and voice
• Tiffany DuMouchelle - Electroacoustic flute and voice
• Yeung-ping Chen - Electroacoustic flute and voice
• Caroline Miller - Electroacoustic flute and voice
• Odeya Nini  - Electroacoustic flute and voice
• Chris Golinski - Atmospheric percussion
• Sean Conway - American and Lithuanian folk music
• Paul Hembree - A synaesthetic virtual instrument
• Meghann Welsh - Free improvisation
• Joe Cantrell - Free improvisation
• Jon Forshee - Mesostic poetry
• Carolyn Chen - Tai Chi
• The Kernels - Indie hip hop noise rock

BEETHOVEN AND HAYDN
Monday, April 14, 7:30pm
HAYDN: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2
BEETHOVEN: Grosse Fuge
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130

Jeff Thayer, violin
Tereza Stanislav, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Charles Curtis, cello

Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the acoustically perfect Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UCSD. Principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony and distinguished performance faculty from UCSD join with guests from the international chamber music world in performances that blend the precision and cohesiveness of a permanent ensemble with widely ranging instrumentation.

"none of us want to be in calm waters all our lives" 

Shackle: flutist-composer Anne La Berge with laptop-instrumentalist Deckard

Shackle is Anne La Berge on flute and electronics and Deckard on laptop-instrument. Their aim is to explicity and subtly exploit shackling in both concept and material. This extraordinarily inventive duo has a way of making music all their own. At the heart of their duo is a self-designed, cutting-edge digital cueing system which operates as a sometimes visible third member. Both prodding and reactive, the Shackle system suggests musical directions and textures to these two highly gifted performers, opening up a fascinating array of sonic choices for La Berge and Deckard to play with and against.

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

Ariana Warren, clarinet+, presents her final DMA recital:

Preludes Book 1, Eric Mandat
Press Release, David Lang
The Shape Distance, Marc Yeats
The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, Osvaldo Golijov

Guest performers will include: Kim Kilmer, flute, Tiffany Lynne Sieker, violin, Batya MacAdam-Sommer, violin, Nico Hueso, viola and Jennifer Bewerse, cello

Aleck Karis plays piano music by Francis Poulenc, master of Gallic charm and sophistication.  The program spans the years 1918-1959 and includes popular works like “Toccata” and “ Mélancolie”, along with less familiar ones like “Intermède” and “Thème Varié”

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

NOW DON'T BE A STRANGER OKAY

Nicolee Kuester's second doctoral recital juxtaposes views of intimacy and solitude among chamber and solo works for horn by Josef Haydn, Henri Pousseur, Giacinto Scelsi, and Robert Schumann, and in performance texts for multiple speakers by Georges Aperghis and Nicolee Kuester. With performers Peter Clarke, Todd Moellenberg, Eric Moore, and Sara Perez.

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros, and Jamie Pawloski curate an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theater at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theater is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

Kyle Adam Blair presents: EVOCATIONS/FANTASIES

In his first DMA recital, pianist Kyle Adam Blair continues to explore the American solo piano repertoire. On this occasion, Blair performs music of Aaron Copland, Carl Ruggles, Donald Martino, and Elliott Carter.

This program features two pairs, each pair consists of an outward, declamatory piece from the early-to-mid 20th century succeeded by a moody, imaginative piece from the late 20th century.

Aaron Copland’s Piano Variations reduces the familiar “Theme and Variations” form into a lean, stark, essential statement. A harsh, pointed theme of sharply struck single notes is run through a developing world of dissonant counterpoint in which every step is sure-footed; every intention—clear and directed.

The blunt, coarse rhetoric of Copland is followed by character, wit, and whimsy in Martino’s Fantasies and Impromptus, a nine-movement work mimicking at once a suite and a loose fast-slow-fast sonata-esque form. Although Martino employed twelve-tone techniques in some of the movements, Fantasies and Impromptus owes a tremendous amount to the German Romantic tradition; one could swear at times that the textures were borrowed directly from Brahms, Chopin, or Liszt (especially in the two Impromptus each bearing the subtitle “Omaggio”).

Carl Ruggles’ only work for solo piano, Evocations: Four Chants for Piano, bears the same boldness as Copland’s Variations, utilizing, in its loud moments, brashly melodic octaves and large, crashing chords to craft a mountainous landscape. The piece is not without subtleties, however. In its soft moments one can hear carefully crafted harmonic colors shift, disintegrate and coalesce.

Finally, Elliott Carter’s Night Fantasies signifies the evening’s final retreat from the evocative back into the subconscious. Depicting a restless sleep, periods of floating, open harmonies reminiscent of the calmness of slumber are interrupted by fluttering, nervous gestures, which dart about like fleeting thoughts in the night.

Join us as we honor the life of Founding Chair of the Music Department, Will Ogdon. He and Robert Erickson, the Department of Music's first two professors along with Tom Nee, wanted to build a department that embraced and promoted aesthetic diversity, and has since grown into a fortress of experimental music, thriving on its students' thirst to explore the depths of music. As a teacher of both theory and composition, Ogdon also composed music for his students, such as his “Tonal Songs,” not typical for their tonality, but utterly recognizable for their distinctive expressiveness and among his most beautiful music. Since retiring in 1991, Will Ogdon continued to write music every day. His music composed between 1995-1999 filled an entire CD, produced in 2001. We remain ever grateful for all that Will has given us and inspired in us.

Post show reception will follow in the North Courtyard.

ABLETON UNIVERSITY TOUR

Public Event: 6:30 p.m. Recital Hall, 127

Ableton is proud to partner with UC San Diego for the Ableton University Tour, a day and evening of student workshops and public presentations held at the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, CA. Students are invited to join Ableton representatives and Certified Trainers for an afternoon of break-out sessions exploring composition, sound design, production techniques and performance utilizing Ableton Live, Max for Live and Push. Day time activities will be followed by a free evening presentation open to the public, featuring performances, tips and tricks and unique approaches for music-making from artists and Ableton experts. Special guests for the UC San Diego event include Yeuda Ben-Atar (SideBrain/Ableton Certified Trainer), Paul Dateh (Artist) and Dave Hillel (Ableton).

Pablo Gomez-Cano and friends perform the music of J. S. Bach, Adam Greene, Tristan Murail, George Crumb, Lou Harrison, and Hebert Vazquez

Rosenberg's choral composition, L.O.S.T., was written as a companion piece to Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah, a masterpiece of the late Renaissance.  Stephen Sturk conducts a choral a cappella performance of these two compositions in an arrangement that interweaves the old and the new.

The concert will also feature Kirsten Ashley Wiest and Anne-Marie Dicce in performances of Rosenberg's solo vocal music.

Concert length: 80 minutes

Three twentieth-century classics. Chika Inoue performs Villa-Lobos’ saucy Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra, and then we offer two works about war and peace: Prokofiev’s mighty Fifth Symphony, written on the verge of victory in World War II, and Bernstein’sChichester Psalms, a moving prayer for peace written for chorus and orchestra.

KARTIK SESHADRI, SITAR MASTER

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 by The Washington Post for its "espressive beauty, rich tonal sensibility, and rhythmic intricacy."

Three twentieth-century classics. Chika Inoue performs Villa-Lobos’ saucy Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra, and then we offer two works about war and peace: Prokofiev’s mighty Fifth Symphony, written on the verge of victory in World War II, and Bernstein’sChichester Psalms, a moving prayer for peace written for chorus and orchestra.

Curated and featuring graduate students from the Department of Music, First Monday Concerts are free events held on selected Mondays in the academic year.

Improvisation
Kyle Motl, bass & Tobin Chodos, piano

AxBxC
Josh Groffman & Michael Matsuno, flute

Braxton Ensemble
Anthony Braxton

Sino alla morte, kallisti's fifth chamber opera, pairs music by two Italian composers,  Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) and Salvatore Sciarrino (1947- ) inspired by Sophocles' The Women of Trachis. Susan Narucki leads the production, with guest music director Stephen Lewis.

Sino alla morte, kallisti's fifth chamber opera, pairs music by two Italian composers,  Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) and Salvatore Sciarrino (1947- ) inspired by Sophocles' The Women of Trachis. Susan Narucki leads the production, with guest music director Stephen Lewis.

Sino alla morte, kallisti's fifth chamber opera, pairs music by two Italian composers,  Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) and Salvatore Sciarrino (1947- ) inspired by Sophocles' The Women of Trachis. Susan Narucki leads the production, with guest music director Stephen Lewis.

Presented by UC San Diego's Division of Arts & Humanities at Mandeville Auditorium:

redfishbluefish

Directed by Steven Schick, UC San Diego's crack percussion ensemble, redfishbluefish, presents Stockhauen's Mikrophonie and Lucier's Kettles.  The program will also feature Steven Schick performing John Cage's 27'10.554" for a percussionist.

Red Fish Blue Fish has played the Bang on a Can Festival in New York City, the Agora Festival in Paris, the Centro des Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and has often been featured in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series.

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

For his DMA I recital, Todd Moellenberg will play solo piano works by Pierre Boulez, Rozalie Hirs, Olivier Messiaen, Katharina Rosenberger, and a premiere by Ori Talmon.

More information here.

Walking with Mirabeau is a solo percussion concert oscillating between composed music and various degrees of improvisation. At certain points during an hour of music, Nordeson will arrive at Rebonds b by Xenakis, Omar II by Donatoni, and Prelude in Eb minor by Bach. These pieces will be surrounded by improvisations and recorded material, like islands in an improvisatory stream.

Tom Erbe, Zachary Seldess, Elliot Patros, and Jamie Pawloski curate an exciting new series of tape music concerts from noon to 1PM on the last Friday of each month.

The Last Friday Listening Room concerts will take place in the Experimental Theater at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. The Experimental Theater is equipped with a 51-speaker Meyer Audio Constellation system, and can accommodate pieces in nearly any channel format.

Vanity Run Amok isn’t a dissertation recital performed by a mezzo-soprano, it’s a TV variety show that features the best in contemporary conceptual performance art and music. Through multi-media works, live performance, and character study, Ms. Leytham hopes to reconcile the differences between her varied areas of expertise (pop music and television culture, classical singing, and contemporary score preparation), drawing inspiration from and offering a critical response to the performance practices inherent in each genre. Through this work, Leslie will give a bloated portrait of herself as an artist whose identity was immeasurably shaped by a very bizarre youth and early adulthood spent living in Las Vegas, NV, the place she can’t seem to stop calling home.

This performance piece will be shiny and obnoxious (that’s a good thing), featuring design by Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli and Ms. Leytham, and starring the inimitable Brendan Nguyen as the charismatic, yet aloof host. Vanity Run Amok will also feature music by Clinton McCallum, Nicholas Deyoe, Lenny Bruce, Bonnie Lander, Ambroise Thomas, Beat Furrer, Robert Pierzak, and Leslie Ann Leytham.

NOTE: This performance will be broadcast live on television and the internet, and seats in the studio audience are first-come, first served. 

Tiffany Du Mouchelle performs “Pierrot Lunaire”, a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg. Born from the Italian pantomime of the Renaissance, Pierrot is a symbol of humanity, and especially the artist. Sensitive and romantic, he lives in a world of his own creation. He is the brother of the moon, and lives in the shadows of his own mind. Pierrot, becomes drunk on the moonlight, his source of artistic inspiration. He rejects reality for a fairytale devised by his intoxication. As his creative mind abuses the “sacred beverage” of moonlight and creative inspiration, his overly decadent pursuits sicken his mind and lead to a nightmarish world where the sun, a symbol for reason and reality, is blocked out by delusion. Here, void of reason, Pierrot’s imagination takes a dark turn. Forgetting his traditional comic role, laughter has disappeared. He envisions the sacrifice of his own heart, and numero us possibilities of death. Fortunately Pierrot is reminded of his past, and returns home much wiser than he left. He reclaims his role as entertainer, using his creative inspiration to affect others. He becomes an agent of the moon and returns home, no longer rejecting his past, but growing from it.
Featuring: Rachel Beetz, flutes; Jennifer Bewerse, cello; Stephen Lewis, piano; Päivikki Nykter, violin and viola; Ariana Warren, clarinets.

Renga, a new collaboration between UCSD percussionist and conductor Steven Schick and San Diego Symphony violinist Kat Hatmaker, is featured at this special KPBS Night, with FREE admission for KPBS members. The evening celebrates a vital mission shared by the Department of Music and by KPBS-FM: to present innovative high-quality arts and to engage new audiences. Dean of Arts & Humanities Seth Lerer will be on hand to welcome everyone, and Schick will introduce the music.

Admission to the concert is also FREE to UCSD faculty, staff, students and alumni, as a special Dean's Night event.

The evening's program include's UCSD composer Lei Liang's Trans for solo percussion (performed by Schick), along with Haydn's Symphony #80 and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett.

Renga's roots reach back to when Schick attended the University of Iowa with Hatmaker's father, who earned a PhD in music theory. Hatmaker grew up in Chicago, earned an undergrad and when she came to San Diego in 2006 to join the San Diego Symphony she soon introduced herself to Schick. As they gradually got to know each other and it became apparent that they shared common musical ground, they founded Renga as co-artistic directors.

"Renga," according to Hatmaker, is Japanese for a poetry collaboration where each poet invents a single line, followed by lines by a succession of poets in a sort of chain reaction. Renga's first project was recording Liang's Verge in 2012 (the piece had been commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic). The May 28 concert at UCSD is Renga's second, and the ensemble--which Hatmaker calls "a flexible group of co-conspirators"--will also perform at the Ojai Festival in 2015, when Schick serves as the festival's artistic director.

LAST WORDS

Versatile pianist Kyle Adam Blair accompanies the talented voice students from the Undergraduate Vocal Masterclass.  On Thursday night the singers will be showcasing a wide variety of incredible vocal music from their repertoire; ranging from traditional German lieder, classical art song, romantic operatic arias, to avant garde improvisation and unusual performance pieces. A guaranteed fun night of vocal styles for all!

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.

***Please note that this event time has changed to 5:00 p.m.***

Under the direction of Kamau Kenyatta, the students of 95JC present jazz in concert.

The 95JC concert will feature a small ensemble performing a variety of exciting compositions, including some written and arranged by student musicians. Our instrumentation includes voice, violin, saxophones, rhythm section and afro-latin percussion.

***Please note that this performance will be on SUNDAY, JUNE 1st.***

DVOŘÁK AND SIBELIUS 
Monday, June 2, 7:30pm
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3
DVOŘÁK: Trio in F minor
SIBELIUS: String Quartet: Voces Intimae

Jeff Thayer, violin
Tereza Stanislav, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Charles Curtis, cello
Ozgur Aydin, piano

Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the acoustically perfect Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UCSD. Principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony and distinguished performance faculty from UCSD join with guests from the international chamber music world in performances that blend the precision and cohesiveness of a permanent ensemble with widely ranging instrumentation.

Sponsored by the Sam B. Ersan Fund at the San Diego Foundation 

Under the direction of David Medine, the 95E Chamber Orchestra performs in the Concert Hall.

Under the direction of Kartik Seshadri, the students of 95W, World Music perform in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall.

SINGERS and CHOIRS

Under the direction of Phil Larson, Singers and Choirs of from UCSD's 95D and 95K ensembles perform.

UCSD WIND ENSEMBLE

Under the direction of Robert Zelickman, the 95L Wind Ensemble performs at Mandeville Auditorium.

Computer music graduate students perform new original works featuring live electronics and custom software, in the final installment of this year's computer music concert series.  Performances will include hand built circuitry, custom instruments, real-time digital signal processing, live video, and experimental software.

CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

Under the direction of Takae Ohnishi, undergraduate chamber ensembles perform.

Bridge: A Journey Through the Seasons of Life

Bass-baritone Vincent Fung invites you to traverse upon the journey of life in transition. Walk one step at a time with selections from Franz Schubert's hauntingly beautiful and deeply emotional song cycle, Winterreise, the operatic work of W.A. Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wager, art songs by Samuel Barber and Gabriel Fauré, and music from the hit Broadway musical, My Fair Lady.

Gabriel Arregui and 2012 UCSD Music alumna Jennifer Wu accompany on the piano. Jennifer Wu and UCSD Music students Sharon Chang, Ratnaganadi Paramita, and Kirstin Rower sing in collaboration on this recital.

This event is made possible with faculty support from Professor of Voice Phil Larson, in whose studio Vincent is currently studying.

Samples of previous UCSD performances may be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/vfung921.

Steven Schick and David Chase lead our final program of the season. We open with Janacek’s impassioned Zarlivost (“Jealousy”), originally the overture to his opera Jenufa, and close with the classical proportions and high spirits of Haydn’s final symphony, his “London Symphony.” David Chase concludes his fortieth-anniversary season by leading Cary Ratcliff’s expansive setting of Pablo Neruda poems, scored for three vocal soloists, a virtuoso guitarist, chorus, and orchestra.

Piano students of Aleck Karis, Yung-Hsing Wang and Takae Ohnishi perform.

Steven Schick and David Chase lead our final program of the season. We open with Janacek’s impassioned Zarlivost (“Jealousy”), originally the overture to his opera Jenufa, and close with the classical proportions and high spirits of Haydn’s final symphony, his “London Symphony.” David Chase concludes his fortieth-anniversary season by leading Cary Ratcliff’s expansive setting of Pablo Neruda poems, scored for three vocal soloists, a virtuoso guitarist, chorus, and orchestra.

Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the acoustically perfect Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UCSD. Principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony and distinguished performance faculty from UCSD join with guests from the international chamber music world in performances that blend the precision and cohesiveness of a permanent ensemble with widely ranging instrumentation.

Undergraduate composition students present their end of year premiere pieces, followed by juried discussion regarding each new work.

ICAM students present their end-of-year projects for THE BEST OF ICAM.