Bartok’s two sonatas for violin and piano were written for and
dedicated to Jelly D’Aranyi, the fiery Hungarian violinist of the
early 20th century who was the great niece of violinist Joseph
Joachim. Written in 1921, his first sonata is a rarely-heard
masterpiece of epic proportions, recalling the exotic colors and
compelling rhythms of Bartok’s ballet The Miraculous
Mandarin.
Christian Baldini, music director and
conductor
UC Davis Professor of Music
Ravel:Pavane pour une infante
défunte
The haegeum is a two-stringed fiddle
of Korea. The physical nature of the haegeum allows it to
produce a diverse variety of timbres making it a popular
instrument for court, folk, and contemporary music. It is even
being used in Korean pop music.
Jean Ahn:The Woven Silk for
Haegeum and Orchestra
with Soo Yeon Lyuh
Christian Baldini: New Work for Haegeum and
Orchestra
with Soo Yeon Lyuh
Premiere
Steve Reich’sMusic for 18 Musicians
(1974–76)
with members of the Empyrean Ensemble
Hrabba Atladottir, violin
Michael Seth Orland, piano Hannah Addario-Berry,
cello
voices of the Quince Ensemble,
Liz Pearse | Kayleigh Butcher
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett | Carrie Henneman Shaw
UC Davis Lecturer in Music Chris Froh and
undergraduate percussion students,
marimbas, xylophones, and vibraphones,
UC Davis Lecturer in Music I-Hui Chen, piano,
with two
to-be-announced pianists,
UC Davis Lecturer in Music Ann
Lavin, clarinetist,
UC Davis Graduate Student in Music Joseph Vasinda,
clarinetist,
and Stephen Bingen,
audio engineer
Mezzo-soprano Helēna Sorokina was born in Riga,
the capital of Latvia. She gained her first musical
experiences at the age of five in violin,
piano, and voice. She studied choral conducting at
the Latvian Music Academy and worked as a conductor with several
choirs. Since 2010 she has been studying singing at the
University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, first with
Claudia Rüggeberg and later with Antonius Sol. As a
participant in several choir conducting and singing
competitions she achieved honorable achievements. In
2008 she won the Emilis Melngailis Competition for Young
Conductors in Liepaja, Latvia, for the Best Interpretation of a
Choral Orchestra Work. In the same year, she was in the
final four of the International Choir Conductors Competition
Towards Polyphony in Wroclaw (Poland) and was awarded the Special
Jury Prize.
Sorokina works regularly as an oratorio and concert singer for
the EuropaChorAkademie and various orchestras in Germany and
abroad. Under the direction of Joshard Daus she sang the old
parts in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s
Messiah, Bruch’s The Song of the Bell, and
Mendelssohn’s Paulus in some of the largest concert
halls in Germany, Italy, and Austria. Thanks to her absolute
ear, in 2013 she was able to create one of the main roles (1st
woman) in the premiere of the opera Asteroid 62 by D.
Kourliandski and in 2016 the alto in the world premiere of the
opera performance Paradise by M. Hiendl at
the musikprotokoll, Styrian Autumn festival.
As a soloist she performed as part of the International
Bruckner Festival Linz 2014 (EntArteOpera). Since 2015 she
has been a scholarship holder of the American Institute of
Musical Studies (AIMS) and LiveMusicNow. She regularly
organizes recitals, including her 2015 concert “Shadow
Theater with Harpsichord” as part of the Riga Festival for Early
Music and Dance, and in 2016 the concert “Heavenly Sounds
and Voices” as part of Linzer Höhenrausch. She regularly
performs chanson programs together with Professor Karlheinz
Donauer and their popular interpretations include songs
sung by Zarah Leander and Marlene Dietrich. In this genre,
she has been performing in variety shows with the jazz orchestra
Eddie Luis and the Merciless. In 2017 she joined the vocal
ensemble for old and new music called “Cantando
Admont” under the direction of Cordula Bürgi. With this
ensemble she has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Yale NUS
College in Singapore, open music and the other string in Graz,
Klangspuren Schwaz, Imago Festival Ljubljana, Music and Church
Brixen, Brücken_18.
The ZOFO-MOMA Live Concert Experience unfolds as an aurally
and visually stunning walking tour through a virtual museum
of modern art. Against an ever-changing backdrop of contemporary
paintings, 15 new ZOFO-commissioned duet compositions are
revealed throughout the 72-minute continuous performance. And in
a nod to Mussorgsky, this twenty-first-century Pictures at an
Exhibition leads viewers from one gallery to the next
accompanied by a new “Promenade” Theme arranged by ZOFO’s Keisuke
Nakagoshi.
For this cutting-edge project, ZOFO solicited new works from
top composers around the globe—including UC Davis’s own
professor of music Pablo Ortiz—and requested
each to select a painting representative of his or her culture
as a springboard to the creative process. The result is a
rich tapestry of sights and sounds reflecting the cultural,
musical, and artistic diversity of our world community.
* The program runs 75 minutes and is presented without an
intermission. *
Michael B. Bakan, Professor of Ethnomusicology,
is Head of the World Music Ensembles Program in the College
of Music at Florida State University, where he directs the
Omnimusica intercultural ensemble and the Sekaa Gong Hanuman
Agung Balinese gamelan. His more than fifty publications include
the books World Music: Traditions and
Transformations, which has been adopted at over 200
universities and colleges worldwide; Music of Death and
New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan
Beleganjur, reviewed in The Times (London) as
one of the two “most significant publications on Balinese music
in almost half a century”; and the
recently published Speaking for Ourselves:
Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism, from Oxford
University Press (2018).
The 1939 award-winning film (Best Score and Best Song Academy
Awards) is a perennial favorite that has been meticulously
restored. The Pitzer Center provides comfortable seating and
great sound for this Technicolor classic.
A young farm girl and her little dog are magically transported
into the enchanted land of Oz via a Kansas tornado. As they
travel down Oz’s Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard and ask
him to send them home, they encounter a wonderful, funny,
terrifying and, ultimately, enlightening group of characters,
human and otherwise.
The film is based on the book The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz, first published in 1900 and written by Frank
Baum. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and
Margaret Hamilton star in this film.
Barnabé Janin, tenor and director
Lise Viricel, soprano
Josquin Gest, countertenor
Benjamin Ingrao, tenor
Eric Chopin, bass-baritone
L’ensemble Coclico, founded in 2014, brings
together professional singers who specialize in
Renaissance and medieval music and improvisation. In concert, the
ensemble revives the improvised polyphonies of the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance, restoring to life the
organa, hymns, French chansons from the court of
Burgundy, motets, psalms, songs of the Renaissance, Italian
lauds, English carols, and more.
In a spirit musical and playful, as well as pedagogical,
the members of the ensemble share their enjoyment of
improvisation through concerts, spectacles and lectures with
musical illustrations.
