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Berlin Piano Percussion: Graduate Student Compositions

November 12, 2021 - 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Emily Joy Sullivan Jacob Lane Sarah Wald Adam Strawbridge Trey Makler

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Ya-ou Xie, piano
Sawami Kiyoshi, piano
Adam Weisman, percussion
Simone Beneventi, percussion

New compositions by UC Davis graduate student composers—

Emily Joy Sullivan: Escape Velocity WORLD PREMIERE

Jacob Lane: New Work WORLD PREMIERE

Sarah Wald: Asynchronies WORLD PREMIERE

Adam Strawbridge: infinity bells WORLD PREMIERE

Trey Makler: drift… WORLD PREMIERE

Founded in autumn 2008 by internationally renowned soloists who for many years have championed the interpretation and promotion of contemporary music, Berlin PianoPercussion is an ensemble characterized by the individual and complementary personalities of its members. During the Festival of Centre Acanthes 2008 in Metz, pianists Prodromos Symeonidis and Ya-ou Xie gave a series of concerts with works for two pianists and two percussionists under the direction of Sylvio Gualda, the reception of which led them to launch a new piano-percussion ensemble.

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See also Berlin PianoPercussion’s program on Saturday, November 13, at 3:00 pm.

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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November 12, 2021 - 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Emily Joy Sullivan Jacob Lane Sarah Wald Adam Strawbridge Trey Makler

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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Emily Joy Sullivan

September 6, 2019 Master’s in music composition, SUNY FredoniaBA in music, Amherst College

Emily Joy Sullivan (b. 1987) is a composer, educator, and choral director based in Northern California.

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Jacob Lane

October 22, 2020

Jacob Lane is a composer, pianist, and educator who lives in Davis, California. He is the pianist for the chamber group Sl(e)ight Ensemble and has been a member of The Music Teachers’ Association of California since 2015. In addition to his private studio, Jacob teaches piano performance and music theory at New World Music Academy in Pleasanton, California. Jacob holds degrees in music performance from Mills College (Oakland, California), and Northern Vermont State University (Johnson, Vermont).

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Sarah Wald

April 21, 2016

Sarah Wald was born in Chicago. She attended Columbia University in the City of New York for her bachelor’s degree in music with a focus in composition. While at Columbia, Sarah studied composition with Tristan Murail and Arthur Kampela, as well as with Robert Lombardo in Chicago. She also studied flute with Sue Ann Kahn. Sarah then studied with Conrad Susa and David Garner at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for her master’s degree in composition. For her master’s thesis, she composed and produced Elegy for a Lady: a Music Drama in One A

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Adam Strawbridge

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July 11, 2018

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Trey Makler

September 6, 2019

Trey Makler (b. 1994) is a musical storyteller. His music creates dramatic, poignant narratives that take the listener on unexpected journeys through memories of hope, play, struggle, and triumph. Aside from composing, he enjoys writing poetry, doodling, and organizing concerts. He is a doctoral candidate in composition and theory at the University of California, Davis, and holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the University of Missouri. His primary teachers have included Mika Pelo, Melinda Wagner, Stefan Freund, and W. Thomas McKenney.

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New compositions by UC Davis graduate student composers—

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