Empyrean Ensemble
Sam Nichols, director • Matilda Hofman, resident conductor
Program
Ensemble Dal Niente:
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece: Segment of the Third Letter
(2007)
Anthony Cheung: Windswept Cypresses (2005)
Empyrean Ensemble:
Bryndan Moondy: these waters and our porous
lines PREMIERE
Free
Ensemble Dal Niente is presented by the Mondavi Center for
the Performing Arts. Additional support is given by the Joy
S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concerts Endowment.
Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
featuring paintings by Peter London
and music by Ryan Suleiman (Ph.D. music ‘20)
Program
Modest Mussorgsky: Selections from Pictures at an
Exhibition (1874)
Claude Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse (1904)
Franz Liszt: “Sposalizio” from Second Year of
Pilgrimage: Italy (1858)
Ryan Suleiman: Three London Etudes (2024) WORLD
PREMIERE Radiant
Floating Triptych
Electric Clouds
**commissioned by and in collaboration with artist Peter London
for Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
Grand Staircase Mezzanine, Peter J. Shields Library
Music for one, two, three, and even four harps (!), including a
new instrument added to UC Davis’s instrument collection in 2025.
The ensemble is directed by Kerstin Allvin, UC Davis lecturer in
harp, who will also perform.
Originally from Colombia, Juan David Rubio
Restrepo’s research interests include theories
of the human; decolonial theory; media studies; cultural and
ethnic studies; critical theory; studies of music and sound;
ethnomusicology; and Latin American, Chicanx, Caribbean and
African-American thought.
