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Talamantes and the Chavez Advanced Mariachi Band
Fox 40 News Feature

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.

Announcement

Music Alumni Perform Internationally While Another Represents New Talent

A trio of alumni from the UC Davis Department of Music have recently gained recognition for their performances and achievements. 

Announcement

Matilda Hofman Named Artistic Director of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

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.

Announcement

Graduate Student’s Short Opera Premieres in the UK

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. 

Upcoming Events

Event

Elysée Harp Duo

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

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.

Program

James Hartway: Two Nights in Spain

Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Nicholas Tolle: Works by Graduate Student Composers
Artist-in-Residence

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Program

Bryndan Moondy: … nearly still …

Zoë A. Wallace: Tantrum

Max Gibson: …through the gloaming, earth glistens with radiant stars…

Colin Minigan: Towards Southgate

Dean Kervin Boursiquot: TBA

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Empyrean Ensemble
& Nicholas Tolle

Sam Nichols, director

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

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

Free, no tickets required

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Telegraph Quartet

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Telegraph Quartet
Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins
Pei-Ling Lin, viola
Jeremiah Shaw, cello

Program

Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 1

Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Heidi Moss Erickson and Faythe Vollrath Celebrate 400 Years of Music

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

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

And other selections to be announced.

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital:
Lany De La Campa, violin

Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with TBA, piano

Program

J.S. Bach: Allemande from Partita No. 1 in B Minor

Bach: Preludio from Partita No. 3 in E Major

Charles de Bériot: Concerto No. 9

William Ten Have: Allegro brilliante, op. 19

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital:
Katie Gorden, oboe

Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with TBA, piano

Program

To be announced.

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital:
Megan Gürer, voice

Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with Karen Rosenak, piano

Program

To be announced.

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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