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Empyrean Ensemble: “New Music from Davis”
Sam Nichols, director

April 29, 2022 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Dean Kervin Boursiquot Trey Makler Colin Minigan Bryndan Moondy Matilda Hofman Ellen Ruth Rose

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Featuring Hidejiro Honjoh, shamisen (and UC Davis artist-in-residence), the Empyrean Ensemble will present world premieres by UC Davis graduate student composers in its annual “New Music from Davis” program. Conducted by Matilda Hofman, UC Davis lecturer in music, the instrumentation of each new work complements the featured instrument, the traditional (and versatile!) Japanese 3-string plucked shamisen.

Program

Trey Makler: wrapped around your finger

Bryndan Moondy: Refract — Suspend

Hiroya Miura: Knight’s Crossing

Colin Minigan: Till the soil

Dean Kervin Boursiquot: Spill

Traditional: selections for solo shamisen

$12 Students and Children / $24 Adults

Campus community (students, staff, or faculty) must show a cleared Daily Symptom Survey at the door.
Others [age 12 and older] must show proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID at the door.
Masks are strongly encouraged but not required.
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Direct link to the livestream.

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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April 29, 2022 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Dean Kervin Boursiquot Trey Makler Colin Minigan Bryndan Moondy Matilda Hofman Ellen Ruth Rose

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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Dean Kervin Boursiquot

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June 4, 2021

Dean Kervin Boursiquot, born in 1986, is a first-generation Haitian-American, and New York native. The guitar, film music, and music from the twentieth century sparked his interest in music composition. While in New York, he received his bachelor’s degree in composition at Mannes College the New School for Music. Notable awards include: Vox Novus Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Parhelion Trio 2012, Peter Gross grant 2010, Mannes Orchestra Competition 2009, CRICE (composer-in-residence Chamber-Ensemble) commission and second place Jean Schneider Goberman Prize 2009.

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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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Colin Minigan

June 8, 2021 B.A. Music: Skidmore College M.M. Music Composition: Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Colin Minigan (b.1994) is a Massachusetts-born composer whose recent music is concerned with natural phenomena, and the relationship between static and fluid elements of musical composition and performance. In addition to composition Colin spent time studying ethnomusicology and uses this perspective to inform his compositions. Colin has frequently collaborated on dance projects with performances throughout the United States and is an administrator and curator of the Xsection Film Festival, a festival aimed at promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between dance, science, and film.

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Bryndan Moondy

June 3, 2021 M.A., University of California Santa CruzB.M., San Francisco State University

Bryndan Moondy is a composer and guitarist rooted in Northern California. Bryndan’s creative practice seeks to engage the substance and materiality of sound and is driven by a fascination with the meanings we construct for ourselves through listening and engagement with[in] sound spaces. His work frequently draws influence from the natural world and other mediums within the visual and literary arts. Bryndan has received degrees from San Francisco State University and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition and theory at UC Davis.

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Matilda Hofman
Lecturer in Music

August 15, 2013 Conducting

Matilda Hofman has a varied and busy conducting schedule. Reviewers have described her conducting as “taut and finely controlled” and giving “a striking sense of purpose.” She is Music Director of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, conductor-in-residence for the Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis and Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Matilda also serves as a cover conductor for the San Francisco Symphony.

(530) 754-2617

Room 222A, Music Building

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Ellen Ruth Rose
Viola

February 20, 2013

A champion of contemporary music in the United States and abroad, violist Ellen Ruth Rose is currently a member of Empyrean Ensemble, the flagship new music ensemble in residence at UC Davis, and Earplay, the San Francisco-based contemporary ensemble.

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Empyrean Ensemble: “New Music from Davis”
Sam Nichols, director