There is important
information—particularly for first-year music students—to
read through regarding Music 6 (Theory) and Music 16
(Musicianship), including placement.
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UC Davis Department of Music undergraduate student Zoe
Plateau and music alumni Annamarie Bosco,
Andrew Hudson, Larry Lozares, Avery Snyder, Ben
Saetern, Natalie Laurie, Katie Gorden, Asa Stern, Laura
Zhang and Oscar Santamaria were participants in this year’s
CALCAP Chamber Music
Workshop held at California State University,
Sacramento.
UC Davis alum Fawzi Haimor (B.A. music ’05, M.A. music ’07) has
been named the fourth music director of the Marin Symphony
Orchestra. In the upcoming season he will conduct the orchestra
in works that include, among others, classics such as Dmitri
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto, Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony,
and works by living composers, such as the American composer
Valerie Coleman’s Umoja and New Zealand-Greek
composer John Psathas’s Tarantismo.
Graduating music major Benjamin Saetern, flute, is this
year’s winner of the UC Davis Concert Band Soloist Competition.
He performs Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino with the Concert
Band, directed by Pete Nowlen, at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi
Center for the Performing Arts on May 21 at 7 p.m.
Grand Staircase Mezzanine, Peter J. Shields Library
Presenting excerpts from short plays from Written and
Directed By, as well as dance excerpts from Control /
Shift, both presented by the Department of Theatre and
Dance. Also: Two J.S. Bach selections for solo cello with
students in the music department.
This program offers a vivid journey through the
flourishing sound world of early Baroque Italy, a time when
keyboard instruments were at the heart of musical invention.
The harpsichord — an instrument of both intimacy and brilliance
— served as a vehicle for improvisatory toccatas, virtuosic
dances, ornate vocal transcriptions, and whimsical character
pieces that delighted courts and salons alike. Featuring
composers Alessandro Scarlatti, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Francesca
Caccini, and Bernado Pasquini.
Music is love, music is transparency, music is everything
beautiful depending on how you want to see it.
— Adel Nuñez Castillo (“El Sobroso”)
These four selections offer a deeply personal exploration of the
music and culture of surrounding particular individuals, from
Cuba to the Casamance region of West Africa.
Films
Mind Hands Work: Fidel Sambou Builds an Ekonting
— by Professor Scott Linford / Official Selection
Rai Film Festival 2025
El Sabroso
about Cuban tres-guitarist Adel Nuñez Castillo
— by Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti /
Official Selection, Newport Beach Film Festival
2025
Oh Boy
— by Jen Sherrill, graduate student specializing in
ethnomusicology
Rubble
“When the day and all else is gone, what remains is the party in
the rubble”
— by Ana María Díaz-Pinto
Empyrean Ensemble
Sam Nichols, director • Matilda Hofman, resident conductor
Program
Ensemble Dal Niente:
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece: Segment of the Third Letter
(2007)
Anthony Cheung: Windswept Cypresses (2005)
Empyrean Ensemble:
Bryndan Moondy: these waters and our porous
lines PREMIERE
Free
Ensemble Dal Niente is presented by the Mondavi Center for
the Performing Arts. Additional support is given by the Joy
S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concerts Endowment.
