On Saturday, April 30, the Camellia Symphony Orchestra, under
the baton of music director and conductor Christian Baldini,
will close its 53rd season with a concert titled “Magnificent
Spirit” at 7:30 p.m. at the Sacramento City College Performing
Arts Center.
Four faculty members from the University of California, Davis
have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
including Christopher A. Reynolds, professor of music. They are
among 213 scientists, artists, writers and leaders in business,
politics and philanthropy to be selected this year.
Music professor Laurie San Martin has been awarded
a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
The fellowship will provide funding for San Martin, who has
taught at UC Davis since 2001, to do research and compose works
for the San Francisco vocal ensemble Volti and New York’s Cygnus
Ensemble.
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Audiences can try an afternoon of Javanese-style music and
storytelling at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Mondavi Center’s
Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, as Javanese-born musician and
storyteller Midiyanto performs with the Bay Area-based ensemble
Gamelan Sari Raras in a program titled Wayang Kulit.
Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the
Pan American Dream byUC Davis Music Professor
Carol A. Hess (Oxford
University Press, 2013) was referenced by William
Robin in a feature profiling composer Alberto Ginastera
for The New York Times. The extensive article,
“Protecting Alberto Ginastera From
Oblivion,“ celebrates the late composer’s
centennial and his place in Latin American
composition.
The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Choir, Alumni Choir,
and the community-based Davis Chorale will be featured together
in a concert on Sunday, March 13, at 7 p.m. at the Mondavi
Center, which will include a performance of the Symphony No. 9 of
Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as shorter works by Beethoven and
W.A. Mozart. It will be a big event, with nearly 200 singers and
a large orchestra on stage.
Can you spare an hour at lunchtime on Thursdays? If so, you may
be interested in joining the growing audience for the UC Davis
music department’s Shinkoskey Noon Recitals. Did we mention that
the concerts are free, and unticketed?
Attendance at the concerts, formerly held in an austere lecture
hall in the Music Building, has blossomed over the past year or
so as the location shifted to the more inviting Mondavi Center.
(The transfer was prompted due to noise at the Music Building,
stemming from the construction of the adjacent Pitzer Center).
Hendel Almétus was selected by the BAU Institute (Building,
Arts, Urbanism) to participate in a summer arts residency at
the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
The SF Civic Center blog named two UC Davis performances among
the top 10 classical music performances of 2015: American
Bach Soloists and Berio’s “Sinfonia.”
Back in 2007, when Blue Heron, the virtuosic and intrepid
early-music chorus, put on its first Christmas concert, it was
stocked with esoteric fare: 15th-century English carols,
Burgundian part songs, even a few motets from Cyprus. Most of it
was stuff that few if any listeners would’ve heard previously, an
unusual gambit for a season in which we prize the well-known, the
comfortable.
Music faculty members and husband and wife Sam Nichols and
Laurie San Martin have known cellist David Russell for 20 years
and they’ve been writing music for him nearly that long.
Nichols’ newest piece for Russell, “This Is Not a Toy For
a Child,” will have its first performance by the UC Davis
Symphony and Russell on Nov. 21. The concert is at the
Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC
Davis.
Russell, Nichols and San Martin met while they were students at
Brandeis University in the 1990s. They each have written three
pieces for Russell, who is a lecturer in music at Wellesley
College.
I heard a very nice concert by the UC Davis Early Music
Ensemble last year. “Very nice,” though, doesn’t begin to
express what I heard this past Wednesday night at the Episcopal
Church of St. Martin in Davis. Under the leadership of
its new director, Matilda Hofman, the Early Music Ensemble has
been transformed into something that demands notice.
I heard a very nice concert by the UC Davis Early Music
Ensemble last year. “Very nice,” though, doesn’t begin to
express what I heard this past Wednesday night at the Episcopal
Church of St. Martin in Davis. Under the leadership of
its new director, Matilda Hofman, the Early Music Ensemble has
been transformed into something that demands notice.
I heard a very nice concert by the UC Davis Early Music
Ensemble last year. “Very nice,” though, doesn’t begin to
express what I heard this past Wednesday night at the Episcopal
Church of St. Martin in Davis. Under the leadership of
its new director, Matilda Hofman, the Early Music Ensemble has
been transformed into something that demands notice.
I heard a very nice concert by the UC Davis Early Music
Ensemble last year. “Very nice,” though, doesn’t begin to
express what I heard this past Wednesday night at the Episcopal
Church of St. Martin in Davis. Under the leadership of
its new director, Matilda Hofman, the Early Music Ensemble has
been transformed into something that demands notice.
The Davis Sinfonietta, a new ensemble under the direction of
Jonathan Spatola-Knoll, will give its debut performance at 7
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin,
640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis.
UC Davis Music Professor Carol A.
Hess has been awarded the Robert M.
Stevenson award for Representing the Good Neighbor:
Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream (Oxford
University Press, 2013). The book investigates the
reception of Latin American art music in the U.S. during the Pan
American movement of the 1930s and 40s. Under the Good Neighbor
Policy, crafted by the administration of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt to cement hemispheric solidarity amid fears of European
fascism, Latin American art music flourished and U.S. critics
applauded it as “universal.”
Musicologist and UC Davis Professor of Music Jessie Ann Owens received the
2015 Noah Greenberg
Award for outstanding performance projects from the
American Musicological Society. Along with the Blue Heron
ensemble and its artistic director, Scott Metcalfe, Owens
will produce the first recording of Cipriano de
Rore’s I madrigali
a cinque voce (1542).
The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra performs the first orchestral
piece by French composer Olivier Messiaen, and the first
orchestral piece by UC Davis faculty composer Sam Nichols, as
well as the Third Symphony by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius,
during a performance at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, in the
Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall. All three works have three
movements, giving the program further symmetry.
The concert also will feature a return by cellist David
Russell, who appeared with the orchestra in 2007 for the
premiere of UC Davis faculty composer Laurie San Martin’s Cello
Concerto. This time, Russell will be featured in the new
cello concerto by Nichols (who is, incidentally, San
Martin’s spouse).
…After returning to the U.S., he obtained a doctorate in 1960
at New York University. He joined the faculty of the University
of California at Davis in 1963 and became a professor of music
there in 1971…