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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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UC Davis Music Alum to Lead Marin Symphony Orchestra

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

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Event

Raven Chacon
The California Studio

Ann E. Pitzer Center

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP).

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
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Chase Spruill, violin
Faythe Vollrath, harpsichord

New Paths for Old Instruments: Contemporary Works for the Harpsichord

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Chase Spruill, violin
Faythe Vollrath, harpsichord

This program focuses on modern works for solo harpsichord or harpsichord and violin, including the world premiere of “Sustainable Mindfulness” by Slovakian composer Peter Machajdik.

Program

Peter Machajdik: Sustainable Mindfulness (2024) PREMIERE

Jean Ahn: Archimides’ Principle (2021)

Free
a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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