Department of Music Concert and Event Listing

“Sublime Integration of Hindustani and Carnatic traditions” with World renowned maestros of Indian Classical Music. 

Pandit Kartik Seshadri, sitar with Shashank Subramanyam, bamboo flute
Accompanied by:
Hindole Majumdar, tabla
Parupalli Phalgun, mridangam

Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall

Pandit Kartik Seshadri is a world-renowned force in the field of Indian Classical Music. As a sitarist, he attracted widespread attention when he began performing full-length solos at the age of 6 in India. The sitar maestro is now hailed as an “amazingly accomplished” musical powerhouse noted for his music’s “expressive beauty, rich tonal sensibility, and rhythmic intricacy,” praised the Washington Post while the Times of India (2011) noted that Seshadri’s concert was “a show stopper that transported the audience to soak soul deep in his mesmerizing performance.” The prestigious Songlines Magazine (U.K.) has in its March 2012 issue declared his latest album “Sublime Ragas” as one of the “Top Ten of the World’s ” CD’s (as with his 2004 Raga:Rasa album) further citing him as one of the “world’s greatest sitar players.”

VOICES A pop-up festival of 20th/21st Music for the singing voice

VOICES: GORGEOUS NOTHINGS
Susan Narucki, soprano, and Donald Berman, piano

with guest instrumentalists Alexander Ishov, flutist and Robert Zelickman, clarinet.

gorgeous nothings/las preciosas insignificancias

Longtime collaborators soprano Susan Narucki, soprano and pianist Donald Berman present the second concert in the VOICES series on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3 p.m. 

The program features one of Mexico's most distinctive composers, Georgina Derbez who has written a remarkable group of songs to late poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson's "Envelope Poems") which have been translated into Spanish by the eminent Dickinson scholar Juan Carlos Calvillo. In Derbez' hands, the transcendent poetry is transformed into music that is by turns, ecstatic and intimate.  

In addition, a beautifully crafted work for solo piano by post-minimalist Eve Beglarian and three songs of 20th century Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans complete the program.   

PROGRAM:

Georgina Derbez     L'alphabet  (2023)   Poem by Albert Giraud

Henriette Bosmans 

                  Dit Island

                  In den Regen

                  Teken den hemel in het zand der zee

Eve Beglarian            as syllable from sound  (2023)

Georgina Derbez      Dickinson Songs  (2023-24)               

                 Las ruedas de las aves (A821)

                 Hay mucha quietude (A822)*

                 Cuando su razón  (A 108)*

                                 Un dolor es mas claro  (A 109)* 

*world premiere

Grace Talaski will present a program of mostly brand new works for clarinet and other instruments focusing on multiphonics, vocal effects, and improvisation. Works performed will include:

• Invisible Chisel for clarinet in A and fixed media by Marguerite Brown, world premiere
• What Confronts Us for solo B-flat clarinet by Janet Sit, world premiere
• Hullabaloo! a game for improvisers by Mitchell Carlstrom and Grace Talaski, world premiere. Featuring guest performances by Mitchell Carlstrom, Anita Chandavarkar, and Camilo Zamudio
• Partial Truths for solo B-flat bass clarinet by Evan Ziporyn

Grace's recital will take place on May 2nd at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. Admission is free!

VOICES A pop-up festival of 20th/21st Music for the singing voice

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A Tribute to Kaija Saariaho

Miguel Zazueta, Mariana Flores, Natalia Merlano Gomez, Andrew Crappito, Kyle Adam Blair and more.

A concert dedicated to the music of the late Kaija Saariaho, one of contemporary music's most original voices. The concert will include Quatre Instants for voice and piano, Changing Light for soprano and violin, and the rarely heard Tag des Jahrs, for vocal ensemble and others.

Join La Jolla Symphony and Chorus on May 4-5, 2024, for an ethereal voyage 'To the Stars,' guided by the artistry of our Music Director and Orchestra Conductor, Sameer Patel.

Experience the lushness and angst of Webern's Passacaglia, op. 1, Osvaldo Golijov's mesmerizing Azul, a spellbinding tapestry of sound that takes you on a celestial journey of emotions and colors.

The program concludes with  Brahms's Symphony no. 3, op. 90, a musical experience that traverses the realms of human sentiment, from introspection to exultation.

Join La Jolla Symphony and Chorus on May 4-5, 2024, for an ethereal voyage 'To the Stars,' guided by the artistry of our Music Director and Orchestra Conductor, Sameer Patel.

Experience the lushness and angst of Webern's Passacaglia, op. 1, Osvaldo Golijov's mesmerizing Azul, a spellbinding tapestry of sound that takes you on a celestial journey of emotions and colors.

The program concludes with  Brahms's Symphony no. 3, op. 90, a musical experience that traverses the realms of human sentiment, from introspection to exultation.

St. Lawrence String Quartet perfoms new works by undergraduate composers including: Kaira Hagan, Gabriel Nelson, Farhad Taraporevala, and Guantong Zhang.

Hailed by the New Yorker “not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection,” the acclaimed St. Lawrence continues its fabled partnership with Stanford, remaining a cultural cornerstone of the University, directing the music department’s Chamber Music Program, concertizing at Stanford Live, hosting a popular summer seminar, and running the Emerging String Quartet Program.”

Program

Mozart: Quartet for Oboe (arranged for saxophone) and strings in F Major, K 370
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe (arranged for saxophone) and Strings, Op. 2
Steven Banks: Cries, Sighs and Dreams for alto sax and string quartet (2021)
An additional work TBD.

Sarah Saviet is a violinist based in Berlin and dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and is a member of the Saviet/Houston Duo and Ensemble Mosaik.

Sarah’s debut solo album SPUN (Coviello Contemporary) was recently nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for new music.  She has also released on all that dust and another timbre, and her recording of Liza Lim’s violin concerto ‘Speak, Be Silent,’ with the Riot Ensemble on HCR/NMC records was selected as one of New Yorker Magazine’s ‘Best recordings of 2019.’

Recent performances include duo concerts at Ultraschall and AFEKT festivals, soloist with Klangforum Wien as part of Märzmusik in the Berliner Philharmonie, and the premiere of Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe’s duo Taste at Witten Festival 2022. Sarah has held visiting artist positions in the composition departments of the University of the Arts Berlin, Huddersfield University, at Goldsmith University London with the Riot Ensemble, and at Harvard University with ELISION Ensemble. She has given workshops on contemporary violin technique at the Manhattan School of Music University of the Arts Berlin, Manhattan School of Music, and Darmstadt Akademie für Tonkunst, and held artist residencies at Aldeburgh Music with composers Lawrence Dunn, Jack Sheen, and artist Rowland Hill.