Event

“Kurt Rohde’s
Farewell Tour, PART 2″

Kurt Rohde chuckling in front of a brick wall.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Kurt Rohde, viola
UC Davis Professor of Music

Elainie Lillios: Fluid | Crystal | Vapor 
for Viola and Live, Interactive Electroacoustics

Peter Van Zandt Lane: Décalcomanie No. 2 
for Viola and Live Electronics

UC Davis Lecturer Sam Nichols: Imaginary Units 
for Viola and Electronics

Tina Tallon: excision no. 2—they didn’t know we were seeds 
for Viola and Live Electronics

UC Davis Alumnus Richard Chowenhill: crush for Amplified Viola

A multiyear commissioning project that is modeled after Cher’s decades-long farewell tours, Kurt Rohde’s Farewell Tour—Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6—commissions new works by the most gifted composers who, Rohde feels, are underrepresented and deserve a wider audience, while also broadening the repertoire for viola. His project’s anticipated year of completion is 2028, at which time he will retire from playing in performance and donate his instrument to some talented whippersnapper who wants to play viola.

Free (a Shinkoskey Noon Concert)

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