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.
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.
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.
Alejandro Ataucusi: “The Peruvian Charango in Tradition and
Innovation: A Performance-Lecture”
In this performance-lecture, Alejandro Ataucusi will showcase
unique techniques developed in the Peruvian charango tradition
and introduce the modern hatun charango and its harmonic
possibilities. The performance is Jan. 20 at 4:15 p.m. in the Ann
E. Pitzer Center and is free and open to all.
An acclaimed charango virtuoso, Ataucusi is also a guitarist,
composer, and educator. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, he has
performed throughout Peru, the United States, and Europe, and in
2022 was named by El Peruano newspaper as one of the
“finest interpreters of the hatun charango.”
In addition to his solo artistry, Ataucusi is the founder and
bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian jazz group Forbidden Tropics,
with whom he has released multiple projects including the
critically acclaimed Peruvian Rhapsody (2022). His
unique musical voice bridges tradition and innovation, blending
Andean heritage with jazz, classical, and contemporary
influences. He has also contributed to the cultural and academic
discourse on traditional Andean music through lectures and
performances at Rutgers University, New York University, and the
University of California, Riverside.
This is a co-sponsored event between the Music Department (as
part of the Ethno/musicology Forum series) and the Hemispheric
Institute of the Americas.
Adam Moezinia Folk Element Trio
Adam Moezinia, guitar
Emiliano Lasansky, bass
Marcello Carelli, drums
Moezinia’s trio is rooted in the jazz tradition but is
influenced by folk music from all over the world including West
Africa, South Africa, the Caribbean, the UK and Appalachia,
and explore the unique relationship between jazz and folk
music — sharing those discoveries with audiences across the
globe.
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).
Hosted by the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, music
students in the Department of Music will perform
Chacon’s American Ledger No. 1 (2018) in
the courtyard between the Gorman Museum and the Della Davidson
Dance Studio.
American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance,
telling the creation story of the founding of the United States
of America. In chronological descending order, moments of
contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of
cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through
graphic notation, and realized by sustaining and percussive
instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a
match.
Chacon is the Winter Quarter spotlight artist in The
California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.
