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Announcement

Rita Sahai Recipient of a Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award

Rita Sahai, Lecturer in Music and Director of the UC Davis Hindustani Vocal Ensemble, has been selected as a recipient of a Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award, which is given annually by the Welfare Society of India to accomplished Indians living abroad.

Announcement

Juan Diego Díaz Awarded the Helen Roberts Prize
Society for Ethnomusicology

UC Davis Department of Music Professor Juan Diego Díaz has been awarded the Helen Roberts Prize by the Society of Ethnomusicology for the most significant article in the field of ethnomusicology published in the previous year. Diaz received his prize for his article “From Claves Ethnotheory to Clave Theories: A Path Toward Decolonizing Music Analysis,” which was published in the journal Ethnomusicology, the flagship journal in Ethnomusicology. 

Announcement

UCD Music Student and Alumni Participate in CALCAP Chamber Music Workshop

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. 

Announcement

Pablo Ortiz’s Music Distinguished Career

Words matter, and to Pablo Ortiz — Distinguished Professor of Music at UC Davis — they are vital to his music.

Upcoming Events

Event

Picnic Day: Synth Petting Zoo
Saturday, April 18

Sound Lab, Art Annex

Listen, imagine, and create in the Sound Lab at UC Davis. Learn about electronic music and sound synthesis through hands-on exploration of analogue and digital instruments both old and new.

Free

Art Annex, Davis, CA
Event

Picnic Day: Music Student Performances

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Program Includes

Lowell Liebermann: Gargoyles, op. 29
Amy Beach: Dreaming
Angelina Melis

Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise, op. 40, no. 1
Johannes Brahms: Selections from 6 Klavierstücke, op. 118
Kian Abulhosn

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Stick and Bow:
Thursday Concert

Artists-in-Residence

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Stick and Bow

Note: This Shinkoskey Noon Concert is also part of the campus’s Take Our Children to Work Day list of activities — with reduced parking rates and discounted Dining Commons lunches available.

Program

Astor Piazzolla: Buenos Aires Hora Cero

Pablo Ortiz: Dancing with the Wendigo
* commissioned for Stick and Bow

Victor Jarra: Mi Canto Libre

Laurence Jobidon: Huit broderies sur des fragments de langue
* commissioned for Stick and Bow

Ortiz: Manzi

Carlos Puebla: Hasta Siempre

Fiona Apple: Hot Knife

Pablo Casals: The Song of the Birds

Komitas, AKA Soghomon Soghomonian: Le chant de l’immigré

Radiohead: Paranoid Android

System of a Down: Aerials

Jason Noble: Folk Suite
* commissioned for Stick and Bow

a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Stick and Bow:
Friday Concert

Artists-in-Residence

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Stick and Bow

Program

Music by UC Davis graduate student composers—

  • Dean Kervin Boursiquot: H. I. F. A. B. ( How I Feel About Being. . . )
  • James Larkins: Smeared Convexly
  • Joseph Martin: where we meet
  • Samane Paya: Ephemeral
  • Zöe Wallace: Brushstrokes

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital: Helena Birbrower and Cristian Palacios, voices
Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with Michael Parks, piano

Program

Lotti: Pur dicesti, o bocca bella

Schumann: Selections from Liederkreis and Dichterliebe

Fauré: Les berceaux

Sondheim: “No One Is Alone” from Into the Woods

Quilter: Selections from Three Shakespeare Songs

Vaughan Williams: “Let Beauty Awake” from Songs of Travel

Obradors: Selections from Canciones Clásicas Españolas

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

CANCELLED – Michael Goldberg, solo guitar

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Owing to unforeseen circumstances, we will postpone this concert.

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
"Orbiting Spheres"

Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

Matilda Hofman, conductor

Program

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A Minor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegro ma non troppo from the Violin Concerto
with Joshua Lee, violin (Winner of the UC Davis Concerto Competition)

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Reserved Seating—
$12 UC Davis Students
$15.50 Children (under 18)
$24 Faculty/Staff $27.50 Regular

Mondavi Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital: Aster Gad, voice
Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with Shinae Kim, piano

Program

To be announced.

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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