One of UC Davis’s highest priorities is the safety of its
students and all members of its community. UC Davis
prohibits all forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence,
including sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and
stalking. Such conduct violates University policy and may
violate California law.
UC Davis Department of Music Professor Juan Diego Díaz has been
awarded the Helen Roberts Prize by the Society of Ethnomusicology
for the most significant article in the field
of ethnomusicology published in the previous year. Diaz
received his prize for his article “From Claves Ethnotheory to
Clave Theories: A Path Toward Decolonizing Music Analysis,” which
was published in the journal Ethnomusicology, the
flagship journal in Ethnomusicology.
UC Davis Department of Music undergraduate student Zoe
Plateau and music alumni Annamarie Bosco,
Andrew Hudson, Larry Lozares, Avery Snyder, Ben
Saetern, Natalie Laurie, Katie Gorden, Asa Stern, Laura
Zhang and Oscar Santamaria were participants in this year’s
CALCAP Chamber Music
Workshop held at California State University,
Sacramento.
UC Davis alum Fawzi Haimor (B.A. music ’05, M.A. music ’07) has
been named the fourth music director of the Marin Symphony
Orchestra. In the upcoming season he will conduct the orchestra
in works that include, among others, classics such as Dmitri
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto, Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony,
and works by living composers, such as the American composer
Valerie Coleman’s Umoja and New Zealand-Greek
composer John Psathas’s Tarantismo.
Brightwork NewMusic
Sara Andon, flute
Brian Walsh, clarinet
Shalini Vijayan, violin
Maggie Parkins, cello
Aron Kallay, piano
A survey of contemporary Latinx composers, to include works by
Jose Luis Molina, Paquito D’Rivera, Nicolás Lell Benavides,
inti figgis-vizueta, and Angélica Negrón
Adam Moezinia Folk Element Trio
Adam Moezinia, guitar
Emiliano Lasansky, bass
Marcello Carelli, drums
Moezinia’s trio is rooted in the jazz tradition but is
influenced by folk music from all over the world including West
Africa, South Africa, the Caribbean, the UK and Appalachia,
and explore the unique relationship between jazz and folk
music — sharing those discoveries with audiences across the
globe.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist
born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the
span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on
national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed,
or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis
Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New
York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer
mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project
(NACAP).
