From 10:30 am – 1:30 pm, graduate students and other experts will show off music instruments from around the world. From Indonesia to Australia, to Europe, there are a lot of instruments to see.
At 12:00 noon, we will present a short music concert on the recital hall stage with music students of UC Davis, including the Chamber Singers.
When doctoral music composition students at UC Davis hear their music played for the first time, they hear it played by professionals who are champions of new music with years of performance experience.
“There’s no shortage of performance opportunities, especially for a research program, and that’s something that’s attractive to students.” —Professor Kurt Rohde
One of UC Davis’s highest priorities is the safety of its students and all members of its community. UC Davis prohibits all forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence, including sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and stalking. Such conduct violates University policy and may violate California law.
The Sacramento Saturday Club has awarded UC Davis undergraduate music major Mira Huang—a soprano and undergraduate peer advisor—a $500 scholarship. The Sacramento Saturday Club was organized on December 9, 1893. It is the oldest musical organization in Sacramento—and one of the oldest west of the Rockies.
Professor of Music Kurt Rohde of UC Davis, and Yu-Hui Chang—who taught composition at UC Davis in the early 2000s—are the two guest composers at this year’s Composers Conference.
Winner of the 2017 Earplay Donald Aird Composition Competition (for his quartet Aeropittura), Daniel Godsil will be a guest composer at Western Illinois Univeristy’s New Music Festival 2019. The Festival takes place in Macomb, IL, March 3-5.
Annette Richards is Professor of Music and University Organist at Cornell, and the Executive Director of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies. She is a performer and scholar with a specialty in eighteenth-century music and aesthetics, and interdisciplinary research into music, literature, and visual culture. She is founding editor of Keyboard Perspectives, a yearbook dedicated to historical performance and keyboard culture, but her scholarly work extends far beyond the organ and its 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.
