There is important
information—particularly for first-year music students—to
read through regarding Music 6 (Theory) and Music 16
(Musicianship), including placement.
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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.
Graduating music major Benjamin Saetern, flute, is this
year’s winner of the UC Davis Concert Band Soloist Competition.
He performs Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino with the Concert
Band, directed by Pete Nowlen, at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi
Center for the Performing Arts on May 21 at 7 p.m.
Hrabba Atladottir, violin and UC Davis lecturer in music
Susan Freier, viola and Artistic Director of the Ives
Collective
Stephen Harrison, cello and Artistic Director of the Ives
Collective
Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Jean Cras’s luminous String Trio (1926) offers an
intimate and evocative sound world. Also included
is Brahms’s towering opus 25 Piano Quartet in G Minor
(1861), a cornerstone of the chamber music repertoire known for
its sweeping passion and the irresistible “Gypsy Rondo” finale.
Program
Jean Cras: Selections from Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello
(1926)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25 (1861)
This program focuses on modern works for solo harpsichord
or harpsichord and violin, including the world premiere of
“Sustainable Mindfulness” by Slovakian composer Peter
Machajdik.
Program
Peter Machajdik: Sustainable Mindfulness (2024)
PREMIERE
Agnese Pavanello studied musicology at the
Universities of Pavia, Regensburg, Freiburg im Br., and Basel,
and at the University of Fribourg, where she was awarded a Ph.D.
in musicology. After working as a musicological assistant at the
Universities of Salzburg and Vienna (Universität für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst) and publishing articles, editions of
instrumental music (Corelli, Tartini, Locatelli, Bonporti) and a
book about Roman “concerti grossi,” she has been a member of
staff for the Gaspar van Weerbeke Edition and editor of
Gaspar van Weerbeke’s masses and motets. Since 2012, she has been
working in the Research Department of the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis in Basel (Musik-Akademie Basel / Fachhochschule
Nordwestschweiz) with teaching and research assignments.
