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Kurt Rohde’s Micro Opera “4:30 Movie” Premieres in San Francisco
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

The cover of the "4:30 Movie" book by Donna Masini shows red chairs in a movie theatre. Next to it is a picture of Kurt Rohde in black and white.

Professor Kurt Rohde’s new micro opera 4:30 Movie will premiere April 29 and 30, 2023, at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco as part of a program presented by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Soprano Nikki Einfeld, stars in 4:30 Movie, complemented by percussion and electronics.

Announcement

Pablo Ortiz Concertino Premiered by ZOFO
San José Chamber Orchestra

Pianists Keisuke Nakagoshi and Eva Maria Zimmermann playfully play at the piano keys, sitting on the same bench. Eva Maria is reaching across Keusuke's hands to the high notes of the keyboard.

The San José Chamber Orchestra will give the premiere performance of Professor Pablo Ortiz’s ZOFO Encajonado on May 14, 2023, at 7:00 pm at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Willow Glen, California. ZOFO Encajonado is a concertino in three movements for piano four hands, cajon, and strings. ZOFO is a piano duo comprised of Eva Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi, and they have frequently collaborated with Pablo Ortiz, and have been in residence at UC Davis.

Announcement

New Album Produced by Scott Linford: “Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

New Album Produced by Scott Linford: “Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia”

Scott Linford, assistant professor of music, has produced and recorded a new album—Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and The Gambiaas part of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. The album features nine master players of the ekonting, a three-stringed instrument made from a gourd and papyrus reed by people of the Jola ethnic group.

Announcement

Lifetime Achievement Award for Jessie Ann Owens
Renaissance Society of America

Jessie Ann Owens, wearing glasses and a maroon collared shirt, smiling with a warm wooden background.

Distinguished Professor of Music, emeritus, Jessie Ann Owens, has been awarded the prestigious Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award by the Renaissance Society of America. The board of directors of the society gives the award annually to an individual with “uncompromising devotion to the highest standard of scholarship, accompanied by exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies.”

Upcoming Events

Event

Student Recital: Jenny Landeta, flute
Senior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with Karen Rosenak, piano

Program

C.P.E. Bach: Sonata in A Minor

Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

Michel Blavet: Sonata in G Minor (“La Lumague”)

Ernest Bloch: Suite Modale for Flute and Piano

Catherine McMichael: Trillium from Floris

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital: Natalie Laurie, flute
Senior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Program

Eugène Bozza: Jour d’été à la montagne pour quatre flûtes
with Christian Stan, Estevan Romero, and Nathan Haghgoo

Henri Dutilleux: Sonatine
with Karen Rosenak, piano

Hildegard von Bingen, transcr. Natalie Laurie: O quam mirabilis est 
for Alto Flute and Bowed Vibraphone
with Maddie Karzin, vibraphone

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in B Minor
with Jason Chen, harpsichord

Ian Clarke: Maya 
with Samantha Murray, harp, and Stacey Pelinka, flute

Malia Mohrman: Song of Parting 
with Malia Mohrman, piano

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Student Recital:
Avery Snyder, horn

Junior Recital

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

with Karen Rosenak, piano

Program

Franz Strauss: Nocturno 

W.A. Mozart: Horn Concerto No 3 in E-Flat Major, K. 447

Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, op. 11

Louise Farrenc: Sextet in C Minor, op. 40

Free​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Concert Bands of UC Davis
Spring Concert

Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

Program

Campus Band • Garrett Rigsby, conductor

Amanda C.E. Aldridge: On Parade: Quick March (1914)

Clare Grundman: Kentucky 1800 (1954)
with Brad Sparks, guest conductor and Assistant Director of the UC Davis Marching Band

Shelley Hanson: Albanian Dance (2005)
with Natalie Laurie, guest conductor and undergraduate music major

Olin Hannum:* Amabié – アマビエ (2022)

Mat Campbell: A Thousand Inner Voices (2022)

Concert Band • Pete Nowlen, conductor

Soo-Hyun Park: Festival Bong-Ji-Ga (2015)

Paule Maurice: Tableaux de Provence (1948–55)
with Dave Wang, saxophone, Winner of the inaugural Concert Band Soloist Competition

Lindsay Bronnenkant: Tarot (2021)

Olin Hannum:* Odds and Unevens (2018, revised 2023)

* Olin Hannum (B.A. music ‘09) is the Associate Director of Bands at Oregon State University. In that capacity he oversees and directs all aspects of the Athletic Bands program, including the Oregon State University Marching Band, Rhythm and Beavs travel band, Basketball Bands, and other ensembles. In addition to the Athletic Bands program, Hannum conducts and directs the Wind Symphony, and teaches other courses in music.

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Open Seating)

Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA
Event

Musics of the World

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Program

Gamelan • Henry Spiller, director

Mariachi • Tito Talamantes, director

Bluegrass and Old Time String Band • Scott Linford, director

Samba School • Brian Rice, director

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Valente Lecture: Olin Hannum on Writing for Wind Ensemble
Oregon State University

Recital Hall. Ann E. Pitzer Center

Olin Hannum (B.A. music ‘09) is the Associate Director of Bands at Oregon State University. In that capacity he oversees and directs all aspects of the Athletic Bands program, including the Oregon State University Marching Band, Rhythm and Beavs travel band, Basketball Bands, and other ensembles. In addition to the Athletic Bands program, Hannum conducts and directs the Wind Symphony, and teaches other courses in music.

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

(Ethno)musicology Forum: “Examining Speech and Song Surrogacy in the Yorùbá Dùndún Talking Drum”
Kristina Knowles (Arizona State)

Room 266, Everson Hall

The Yorùbá dùndún drum serves dual purposes as a musical instrument and speech surrogate. This talk shares a series of interdisciplinary studies that explore the dùndún’s ability to acoustically represent Yorùbá speech and song and potential factors that may contribute to the successful decoding of drum messages. The first half of the talk will focus on results from a set of acoustic analyses conducted on a corpus of Yorùbá speech and song excerpts and their representation on the dùndún, focusing on microstructural correlations in pitch and rhythmic features. The second half will discuss a cross-cultural behavioral study exploring the role of individual differences in language and musical expertise on the effectiveness of speech and song surrogacy recognition.

Kristina Knowles is a music theorist with research specialties in rhythm and meter, music and time, music theory pedagogy, 20th-century music, and music cognition. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music theory and music cognition at ASU, and has presented at numerous regional, national, and international conferences in the fields of music theory and music cognition, including the Society for Music Theory, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and the European Music and Analysis Conference. Her most recent publications include chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Music and Time (2022) and Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom (2023) and an article in Contemporary Music Review (2022) on rhythm and meter in works by George Crumb. Currently, she is working on several multi-disciplinary collaborative research projects as well as a larger project examining experiences of time in music.

Everson Hall, Davis, CA
Event

Percussion Ensemble UC Davis

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Chris Froh, director and UC Davis lecturer in music

Program

Thierry De May: Table Music (1985)

Mario Bertoncini: Tune (1965) for Amplified Cymbals

… and other works!

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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