There is important
information—particularly for first-year music students—to
read through regarding Music 6 (Theory) and Music 16
(Musicianship), including placement.
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
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Tito Talamantes, who directs the UC Davis Mariachi Ensemble, was
featured by Fox 40 News. Talamantes now directs the Advanced
Mariachi Ensemble at Cesar Chavez High School in Stockton, where
he began as a student.
Matilda Hofman, a lecturer in music at UC Davis, has been named
the new Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
beginning with their 2023–24 season. Left Coast is based in the
Bay Area and has gained a reputation for bringing to light
treasured works alongside new creations by living composers.
Graduate student composer Max Gibson along with collaborator
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambaksh (Librettist) will see the premiere of
their short opera Leonard as part of Jewellery
Quarter Festival in late July. The work was commissioned by
the Birmingham
Opera Company in the United Kingdom.
Elysée Harp Duo
Beverly Wesner-Hoehn
Kerstin Allvin
Showing off the versatility of the harp, the Elysée Harp Duo
performs its own arrangement of the “Carnival of the
Animals,” which was originally written for a chamber orchestra
with two pianos, along with James Hartway’s 1994 “Two
Nights in Spain.” Hartway
is Distinguished Professor of Music at
Wayne State University whom the Elysée Harp Duo has often
collaborated with.
Empyrean Ensemble
Sam Nichols, director • Matilda Hofman, resident conductor
featuring Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom (artist-in-residence)
Nicholas Tolle has made it his mission to get the cimbalom (the
Hungarian hammered dulcimer) in front of as many living
composers as possible. He joins UC Davis’s professional
contemporary music ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, for
this concert at the end of his week-long residency. The
concert features works for the cimbalom by classical
composers of different regions and centuries: Hungarian
composer György Kurtág’s 1961 “Tre Pezzi” and the more recent
2015 “Etudes” by Korean-American composer Juri Seo. The
cimbalom is also featured in “Five Animated Shorts” by Steven
Mackey, a composer and alumnus (B.A. music ‘78) of UC Davis who
won a GRAMMY award in 2012.
Program
Juri Seo: Etudes for Solo Cimbalom
Gerard Grisey: Prologue for Solo Viola
Zachary James Watkins: New Work
— Intermission —
György Kurtág: Tre Pezzi, op. 38
Kurtág: Tre Altri Pezzi, op. 38a
Steven Mackey (B.A. music ‘78): Five Animated Shorts
Faythe Vollrath, keyboard and UC Davis lecturer in music
Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano and UC Davis lecturer in music
On the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death (in 1623)
UC Davis lecturer in music Faythe Vollrath will perform music
of Byrd on a popular instrument of the time: the English Tudor
virginal. The instrument is a sort of soft-spoken
harpsichord, and the instrument she will be performing on was
donated by the family of a previous UC Davis voice teacher,
Nadine Salonites. Soprano and also a UC Davis lecturer in music
(teaching voice), Heidi Moss Erickson will perform selections
to be announced. Heidi has learned how to sing through her
Bell’s Palsy paralysis and created an inspiring vocal
pedagogy.
Program
William Byrd: All in a Garden Green and Oh
Mistris Myne
John Dowland: Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now
Invite and Fine Knacks for Ladies
Henry Purcell: Music for Awhile and If Music be the
Food of Love
