Music

Undergraduate music major Tiara Abraham has earned two regional scholarships and been accepted to three summer programs at Oberlin, NYU, and Eastman.

UC Davis Professor of Music Kurt Rohde will have his It Wasn’t a Dream performed by the Brooklyn Art Song Society as part of their final concert series, “New Voices,” on June 12, 2021, at 7:30 pm. It Wasn’t a Dream was recorded by the Brooklyn Art Song Society and released by Albany Records in 2020.

Emily Joy Sullivan’s piano trio, Dangerous Curves Ahead, was accepted into the Society for Composers (SCI) National Call for Scores 2021. (A prior recording of) the piece will be livestreamed on the first concert of the 2021 SCI National Conference Thursday, May 6 at 7:00 MM PST.

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Graduate student composer Sarah Wald will have her 2017 Percussion Trio performed at 5:00 pm Pacific on April 12 via YouTube. The trio will be performed by Northern Illinois University’s Percussion Ensemble, which is directed by Greg Beyer. Greg is also the leader of Arcomusical and gave several first performances of UC Davis graduate student works earlier this year with Arcomusical.

Professor Pablo Ortiz’s le vrai tango argentin for solo viola, performed by Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and UC Davis lecturer in music, has been released as part of Earplay’s First Monday Pandemic Series.

UC Davis graduate student Josiah Tayaq Catalan will have his new composition, unravel, composed for solo piano, premiered on the SFCMP program available April 10 through May 10, 2021. The concert is part of the Contemporary Music Players CROSSROADS series and is accessed via an on-demand webcast for $8–12 beginning April 10 at 8 pm Pacific time.

Undergraduate music major Tiara Abraham performed “Quia Respexit” from J.S.

Delayed from fall of 2020, this year’s festival features eight women, including co-director Jane Lenoir, in celebration of 100 years since ratification of women’s right to vote in the United States. Concerts will be livestreamed via the Berkeley Choro Ensemble’s YouTube channel. Pioneering women composers of Brazil, notably including Chiquinha Gonzaga and Carolina Cardoso de Menezes, will be featured in this year’s festival.

Kurt Rohde, UC Davis professor of music, will for the second year running be the composer-in-residence at the summer festival produced by New York’s Weekend of Chamber Music in the Catskill Mountains. The festival is titled “Into the Light,” and will feature chamber music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Elliott Carter, Füsun Köksal, Huijuan Ling, Kurt Rohde, Franz Schubert, Andrew Waggoner, and Shelley Washington.

Alumna Emma Gavenda (B.A., music, ‘10) recently appeared in New Zealand Opera’s world premiere of Ihitai ‘Avei’a – Star Navigator.