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.
Sakura-Rose Duo
Rose Hegele, soprano • Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
featuring paintings by Peter London
and music by Ryan Suleiman (Ph.D. music ‘20)
Program
George Crumb: “The Night in Silence Under Many a Star” from
Apparition
Ryan Suleiman: decekth joy, water destroy
Ryan Suleiman: Three London Etudes (2024) WEST COAST
PREMIERE
**commissioned by and in collaboration with artist Peter London
for Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
Arnold Schoenberg: Selections from Vier Lieder, op.
2
Francis Poulenc: Selections from Le travail du peintre
Anne Philips: An Alaskan Trilogy
Stephen Sondheim: ”Children and Art” from Sunday in the
Park with George
Key Image: The Funk Off Band, an energetic jazz-in-the-street
marching band during the Umbria Jazz Festival, 2024–25.
Umbria Jazz Feast — a Documentary Film
PREMIERE
Directed by Alberto Guerri (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
/ National Film School, Rome, Italy) and
Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis)
What happens when Italian cuisine and wine are paired with
global African music and served in a Medieval piazza in central
Italy populated by local people, tourists, and migrants from
the Global South? “Umbria Jazz Feast” is a research
project that investigates multisensorial intersections during
the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. It
presents a new look at this festival by addressing the
question: how is jazz perceived as part of a new global
identity intersecting with local and global cuisine, art, and
culture?
Free
Umbria Jazz Feast is made possible by the generous support of
the Eivind G. Lange (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografi
‘77) and Mary G. Puma Engagement and Research in Italy
Fund. At UC Davis, additional support was given by a Seed
Grant for International Activities from Global Affairs as well as
the College of Letters and Science and the Department of
Music.
Since its inception in 2010, Rising Stars of Opera has featured
vocal artistry, stirring melodies, and a glimpse at the opera
stars of tomorrow, and every ticket has been free to the public
thanks to Barbara K. Jackson.
Rising Stars of Opera features singers from the acclaimed San
Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias
with full orchestral accompaniment from our own UC Davis
Symphony Orchestra.
Program
Gioachino Rossini: “Largo al factotum” from The
Barber of Seville
W. A. Mozart: “Sull’aria” from Le nozze di Figaro
Camille Saint-Saëns: “Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix”
from Samson and Delilah
Rossini: “Dunque io son” from The Barber of Seville
Giacomo Puccini: “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca
Georges Bizet: “Votre toast” from Carmen
INTERMISSION
Manuel de Falla: Dance from La vida breve
Alfredo Catalani: “Ebben! Ne andrò lontana” from La
Wally
Bizet: “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” from Carmen
Francesco Cilea: “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana
Lecouvreur
Leonard Bernstein: “Glitter and be Gay”
from Candide
