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

October 8, 2021 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Mika Pelo Trey Makler Ryan Suleiman Aida Shirazi Addie Camsuzou Emily Joy Sullivan Matilda Hofman Michael Seth Orland Chris Froh

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

A pre-concert talk with the composers will take place between 6:15 pm and 6:45 pm.

Program

Works by UC Davis graduate student composers—

Trey Makler: Handle with Care WORLD PREMIERE

Ryan Suleiman: vox mysterium WORLD PREMIERE

Aida Shirazi: Crystalline Trees WORLD PREMIERE

Addie Camsuzou: Cautionary Tales WORLD PREMIERE

Emily Joy Sullivan: Polaroids WORLD PREMIERE

Mika Pelo, UC Davis Professor of Music: Sunken Cathedrals WORLD PREMIERE

$12 Students and Children / $24 Adults

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Musicians—

Matilda Hofman, conductor and UC Davis lecturer in music
Peter Josheff, clarinet
Tod Brody, flute
Terrie Baune, violin
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and UC Davis lecturer in music
Thalia Moore, cello
Chris Froh, percussion and UC Davis lecturer in music
Michael Seth Orland, piano and UC Davis lecturer in music

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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October 8, 2021 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Mika Pelo Trey Makler Ryan Suleiman Aida Shirazi Addie Camsuzou Emily Joy Sullivan Matilda Hofman Michael Seth Orland Chris Froh

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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Faculty Profile

Mika Pelo
Professor of Music,
Graduate Advisor of
Composition and Theory

Mika Pelo in an open collared light blue shirt with slightly disheveled hair against a green-ish background.

February 18, 2013 Composition, Analysis, Electronic Music

Room 1102, Music Annex

(530) 754-2918

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Student Profile

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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Ryan Suleiman
Ph.D. in Composition

September 14, 2015 Ph.D.https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-suleiman-phd

Ryan Suleiman was born to Lebanese and Mid-Western parents in California. His music engages with dreaming, the natural world, and the understated beauty of everyday life. His one-act chamber opera, Moon, Bride, Dogs, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gem” with “an aesthetic that is at once so strange and so accessible.” While his artistic interests vary, he seeks ways of conveying the simultaneity of beauty and dread that characterizes our times.

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Aida Shirazi

April 21, 2016

Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Aida Shirazi’s music is described as “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker. She holds her B.A. in classical piano from Tehran University of Art (Iran), and her B.M. in music composition and theory from Bilkent University (Turkey). She studied santoor (traditional Iranian dulcimer) with Parissa Khosravi Samani.

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Addie Camsuzou

April 21, 2016

Addie Camsuzou is a composer and violinist from the central coast of California. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory/composition from Sacramento State University, where she studied composition with Dr. Stephen Blumberg, and violin with Ian Swensen and Anna Presler. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition.

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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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Matilda Hofman
Lecturer in Music

August 15, 2013 Conducting

Matilda Hofman, whose conducting has been described as having “a striking sense of purpose” and “taut and finely controlled” (San Francisco Gate), has a busy and varied performance schedule. She works regularly with a wide range of groups in Europe, and in California, which she has made her home. Matilda has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Holland Festival, and Ruhrtriennale among others.

(530) 754-2617

Room 222A, Music Building

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Michael Seth Orland
Piano

February 20, 2013

Michael Seth Orland has appeared extensively in the Bay Area as a chamber musician, playing with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Earplay, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, New Music Theater, the Empyrean Ensemble, Other Minds, and in the San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music Series.

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Chris Froh
Lecturer in Music, Percussion

February 20, 2013 Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, University of Michigan

Percussionist Christopher Froh specializes in promoting and influencing the creation of new music through critically acclaimed performances and dynamic lectures. To date, he has premiered over 150 chamber and solo works by composers from 17 countries. His collaborations include some of the most significant composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chaya Czernowin, David Lang, Steve Mackey, John Adams, George Crumb, Liza Lim, Matthias Pintcher, and Keiko Abe.

Room 228A, Music Building

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

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