Music 2A, 6A, and 16A must be taken concurrently for a total of 7
units. This set of courses comprises first-year theory
requirements for music majors and begins once a year, in the
fall quarter.
Performance Track Jury Auditions are postponed until early
fall.
Students who were planning on taking the auditions are advised to
sign up for the fall auditions once the call is out. Students
that pass the audition in the fall will be allowed to hold junior
recitals in the spring the same year, in order to not delay
progress in the track.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Please feel free to email Professor Mika Pelo should you have any
questions.
One of the most important priorities of the music department
today is establishing a fund to cover the otherwise out-of-pocket
expenses for individual music lesson instruction for UC Davis
students. These students gain necessary one-on-one instruction
from a career professional in their field and use those skills in
individual and group performances—including the UC Davis Symphony
Orchestra, Choruses, Percussion Ensemble, Baroque, Early Music,
and more. We seek everyone’s support in this endeavor.
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 UC Davis Department of Music brings life to both classic and
newly-created works. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic we will
not offer in-person concerts in the Fall of 2020. We hope we
can return to presenting in-person concerts sometime between
January and June of 2021. In fact, we have many spectacular and
diverse programs planned by the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra,
Empyrean Ensemble, Chorus, Concert Band, and others.
Beginning in October, we will livestream weekly noon
concerts thanks to generous gifts made to the Joy S. Shinkoskey
Series of Noon Concerts Endowment. Gifts to the endowment are
made by local Davis resident Brett Hewitt and others, and support
professional musicians from our region. If you are able, consider contributing to
the fund.
We are also exploring the possibility of streaming a few creative
performances by our student ensembles. We will release more
information as our options become more clear. Any streamed
concerts will be shown on the Music at UC Davis YouTube
channel.
Graduate student Jonathan Favero, who
is studying composition at UC Davis, will have his piece for solo
flute, Meditation on King, performed
by Ensemble Mise-En’s
Kelley Barnett via YouTube
streaming. The program will also include include five other
solo works, including two premieres, on instruments from flute to
contrabass flute.
The
College of Letters and Science graduate student exhibition
will include work by two doctoral students in composition and
theory. The exhibition showcasing work by 29 graduate students in
seven disciplines will take place online this year due to
COVID-19. Sarah Wald is
presenting her Rumination on ‘La Prima Vez’ (for
solo flute), performed by Wald, and Meditation on ‘La Prima
Vez’ (for piano four hands), performed by the piano duo
ZOFO, along with the scores and program notes. The pieces are
part of her dissertation collection of works based on Sephardic
songs. Adam
Strawbridge will present a video performance by ZOFO of his
Ohrwurm, made up of ten variations of Bach’s
chorale “O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort” (BWV 20).
The Sacramento
Saturday Club has awarded UC Davis undergraduate music major
V. Leone Rivers—a percussionist—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.
