Jennifer Jolley is a West Texas-based
composer of vocal, orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber, and
electronic works. She is also Assistant Professor of Composition
at the Texas Tech University’s School of Music.
Jennifer’s work draws toward subjects that are political and
even provocative. Her collaboration with librettist Kendall
A, Prisoner of Conscience, has been described as “the
ideal soundtrack and perhaps balm for our current ‘toxic’…times”
by Frank J. Oteri of NewMusicBox. Her piece Blue
Glacier Decoy, written as a musical response to the Olympic
National Park, depicts the melting glaciers of the Pacific
Northwest. Her partnership with writer Scott Woods, You
Are Not Alone, evokes the fallout of the #MeToo Movement.
Jennifer’s works have been performed by ensembles worldwide,
including the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony,
Dulciana (Dublin, Ireland), Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra
(New York, NY), and the SOLI Chamber Ensemble (Alba, Italy
residency). She has received commissions from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary
Music, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Vermont Symphony
Orchestra, University of Texas Wind Ensemble, the Quince
Ensemble, and many others.
Jennifer deeply values the relationship that is created between
composers and the communities with whom they collaborate. She has
been composer-in-residence at Brevard College, University of
Toledo, the Vermont Symphony, the Central Michigan University
School of Music, and the Alba Music Festival in Italy. Most
recently she was the Composer-in-Residence of the Women
Composers Festival of Hartford in 2019. She promotes
composer advocacy and the performance of new works through her
opera company North American New Opera Workshop, her articles
for NewMusicBox, and her work on the Executive Council
of the Institute for Composer Diversity and the New Music USA
Program Council.
Program is pre-recorded in multiple locations and mediums,
and will be premiered online only.
This concert will showcase collaborative works among five
creative writing Master of Fine Arts students and four doctoral
students in music composition and theory. The noon concert will
also include music, theatre and dance students performing, as
well as music faculty. The prerecorded concert will be shown on
the Department of Music YouTube channel and available
for viewing after its premiere. This is the third year of the
collaboration.
Originally scheduled for the Spring of 2020, the concert was
delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Geographies I
for Soprano and Piano
words by Jen Soong (MFA student, Creative Writing)
music by Daniel Godsil (PhD student, music
composition)
—Anushka Kulkarni, soprano (PhD student, musicology)
—Carla Bond, mezzo-soprano (PhD student, musicology)
—Kate Campbell, piano
Earrings
a Musical Drama
story by Mangai Arumugam (MFA, Creative Writing ‘20)
music by Emily Joy Sullivan (PhD student,
music composition)
lyrics by Mangai Arumugam and Emily Joy Sullivan
—Kurt Rohde, viola and Professor of Music at UC Davis
—Kate Campbell, piano and celesta
can you hear me?
words by Anna Tuchin (MFA student, Creative Writing)
music by Orkun Akyol (PhD student, music
composition)
—Sarah Miller, solo voice (PhD student, musicology)
—Orkun Akyol and Reuben de Lautour, electronics
Spaceman / Watchman
text by Sawyer Elms and Jordan Dahlen (MFA, Creative Writing)
music by Trey Makler (PhD student, music
composition)
—Leanny Muñoz, soprano (PhD student, musicology)
—Sawyer Elms, speaking role 1 (MFA, Creative Writing)
—Jordan Dahlen, speaking role 2 (MFA, Creative Writing)
—Kate Campbell, piano
Free, online only via YouTube
a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Dagenais Smiley, violin and UC Davis
lecturer in music
Chase Spruill, violin
Cassandra Lynne Richburg, viola Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and UC
Davis lecturer in music Susan Lamb Cook, cello and
UC Davis lecturer in music
Program—
Joseph Bologne, Le Chevalier de
Saint-Georges: String Quartets in G Minor and C Major, from
Six Concertante Quartets
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in G
Minor, K. 516
Örjan Sandred is a Swedish composer of
instrumental and computer music. After teaching electro-acoustic
composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for seven
years, he moved to Canada in 2005 to take up the position as
Professor of Composition at the University of Manitoba.
With the financial support from the Canadian Foundation for
Innovation and the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund, he
founded Studio FLAT, a studio for computer music research and
production at the University of Manitoba in 2009.
Sandred’s works span over a wide range of ensemble types. He has
composed music for symphony orchestra as well as chamber music.
Most notably, he has written a series of compositions with live
electronics, including solo parts for oboe, percussion,
saxophone, piano, violin, cello, voice, saxophone quartet and
pipe organ.
Naomi André is a Professor in Women’s
Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and
the Residential College Arts and Ideas in the Humanities program
at the University of Michigan. She received her BA in music from
Barnard College and MA and PhD in musicology from Harvard
University. Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding
gender, voice, and race. Her publications include topics on
Italian opera, Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in
prisons. Her books, Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti,
and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian
Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012,
edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the
mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender, race
and identity. She recently published Black
Opera: History, Power, Engagementwith University
of Illinois Press, a monograph on staging race and history
in opera today in the United States and South Africa. She has
served on the Graduate Alumni Council for Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Art and Sciences, the Executive Committee for
the Criminal Justice Program at the American Friends Service
Committee (Ann Arbor, MI), and has served as an evaluator for the
Fulbright Senior Specialist Program.
Matilda Hofman, conductor and
UC Davis lecturer in music Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and UC Davis
lecturer in music
Peter Josheff, clarinet
Jennifer Ellis, harp Chris Froh, percussion and UC Davis lecturer
in music Michael Seth
Orland, piano and UC Davis lecturer in music Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and UC Davis
lecturer in music
Felipe Lara, a Brazilian-American composer
praised by the New York Times and other
critics for his brilliant modern music, rates collaboration with
other musicians the most important aspect of his work.
Scott Linford is an Assistant
Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. He has conducted musical fieldwork
in West Africa, Central America, and the United States around
themes of participation and musical experience, ethnicity,
gender, agriculture and the environment, musical geographies, and
colonial and post-colonial politics. Raised in the San Francisco
Bay Area, he holds an MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA.
