Adam Moezinia Folk Element Trio
Adam Moezinia, guitar
Emiliano Lasansky, bass
Marcello Carelli, drums
Moezinia’s trio is rooted in the jazz tradition but is
influenced by folk music from all over the world including West
Africa, South Africa, the Caribbean, the UK and Appalachia,
and explore the unique relationship between jazz and folk
music — sharing those discoveries with audiences across the
globe.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist
born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the
span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on
national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed,
or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis
Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New
York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer
mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project
(NACAP).
Hosted by the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, music
students in the Department of Music will perform
Chacon’s American Ledger No. 1 (2018) in
the courtyard between the Gorman Museum and the Della Davidson
Dance Studio.
American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance,
telling the creation story of the founding of the United States
of America. In chronological descending order, moments of
contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of
cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through
graphic notation, and realized by sustaining and percussive
instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a
match.
Chacon is the Winter Quarter spotlight artist in The
California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.
Empyrean Ensemble
Sam Nichols, director • Matilda Hofman, resident conductor
Musicians Playing
Tod Brody, flute*
Peter Josheff, clarinet*
Jennifer Ellis, harp
Michael Seth Orland, piano*
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola*
Thalia Moore, cello*
Chris Froh, percussion* *core member
Program
Josiah Catalan: TBA
for clarinet, viola, and piano
Raven Chacon: TBA
Chris Castro: Lines PREMIERE
for flute, percussion, harp, viola, and cello
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) PREMIERE Radiant
Floating Triptych
Electric Clouds
**commissioned by and in collaboration with artist Peter London
for Sakurako Kanemitsu, piano
Ottorino Respighi: Selections from Deità
Silvane Musica in horto
Egle
Anne Philips: An Alaskan Trilogy
Francis Poulenc: Selections from Le travail du peintre
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 ’77 and Mary G. Puma Engagement and
Research in Italy Fund at the National Film School, Rome,
Italy. 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
