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Empyrean Ensemble:
Graduate Student Compositions

June 2, 2019 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Adam Strawbridge Joseph Vasinda Daniel Godsil Josiah Tayag Catalan Sarah Wald Mika Pelo Testing form Sarah Wald

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Mika Pelo, director
UC Davis Professor of Music

Nathaniel Berman, conductor

[Pre-concert talk with the composers at 2:15 pm.]

Works written by UC Davis graduate students—

Adam Strawbridge: aufheben
Joseph Vasinda: Everything Just Clicked into Place…
Josiah Catalan: Micromechanisms No. 1
Daniel Godsil: Cenotaph I
Sarah Wald: Concerto in Miniature

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Open Seating)

The Empyrean Ensemble presents engaging, thought-provoking, eclectic programs, enabling audiences to experience new musical sensations delivered with high artistry by its seven extraordinary core players—the finest new music performers in California. Ensemble-in-residence at UC Davis, Empyrean has premiered more than 200 works and performed throughout California, including appearances at many prominent music festivals and concert series.

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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June 2, 2019 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Adam Strawbridge Joseph Vasinda Daniel Godsil Josiah Tayag Catalan Sarah Wald Mika Pelo Testing form Sarah Wald

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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"UC Davis Composition Students' Music Heard Far and Wide"

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Adam Strawbridge

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July 11, 2018

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Joseph Vasinda

July 11, 2018

Joseph Vasinda is a composer and music educator based in the Sacramento area and is attending school to earn a PhD in music composition and theory. As a composer, he is deeply interested in creating works that resonate with performers. Whether through performer input on the musical material, performer feedback on the experience of playing through the piece, or by using improvisational elements, Joseph writes pieces that he hopes performers will find enjoyable or rewarding.

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Daniel Godsil

April 21, 2016

Born and raised in central Illinois, Daniel Godsil (b. 1982) is a composer of chamber, orchestral, vocal, electronic, and film music, currently pursuing his PhD in composition and theory at the University of California, Davis. He holds an MFA in music composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied with John Fitz Rogers, John Mallia, and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

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Josiah Tayag Catalan
Lecturer in Music
On leave 2025-2026

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April 21, 2016

Josiah Tayag Catalan (he/him) is a Filipino-American composer born in New York City and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, his compositional interests have become centered around discovering the intersects of musics influenced by traditional, avant-garde, popular, and indigenous Philippine musics.

Music Annex, Room 1108, 233 Cushing Way, Davis, CA 95616

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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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