Given to “composition students of great promise,” William David Cooper is among six composers
that will receive a $7,500 Charles Ives Scholarship from the
Academy of Arts and Letters. The awards were announced as part of
the 2014 awards for sixteen composers.
Chris Froh and two UC
Davis percussion students recently travelled to the Stanford
University School of Medicine for a special lecture-demonstration
on Thierry de Mey’s percussion trio, Table Music. The
setting was a clinical anatomy seminar (“Anatomy in Society”)
taught by Professor Bruce Fogel (Stanford).
Jessie Ann Owens, dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis,
announced that she is stepping down on June 30, 2014, at the end
of her eighth year of service as dean. She is the longest-serving
dean in the nearly 20-year history of the division, which is part
of the College of Letters and Science. A musicologist and
professor of music, she will join the faculty following a year of
research leave.
Professor Beth
Levy is among this year’s 10 Chancellor’s fellows. Each fellow
receives a $25,000 award, and is recognized as a Chancellor’s
Fellow for five years.
Under the direction of Jeffrey Thomas, the
American Bach Soloists today announced the release of an
all-Handel album featuring soprano Mary Wilson. The works on the
album are:
Kurt Rohde has received a Copland House Residency
Award. Rohde is among eight American composers and five from
Great Britain to receive the 2013 award. Among the American
winners are Nicholas Omiccioli, a participant in UC Davis’s
“Migration and Music” festival in 2013, as well as Christopher
Theofanidis, whose piano quintet is to be performed by the
Empyrean Ensemble as part of the Festival of New American Music
(FeNAM) at Sacramento State University and on the Empyrean
Ensemble’s November 22 concert
at the Mondav
Christian Baldini received a “Very Good” review for conducting
the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Buenos Aires from La
Nacion newspaper. The program was:
Alejandro Civilotti: Elegía por Julia Ponce
Sant-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Strauss: Don Juan
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has given D. Kern
Holoman an award in excellence in “Historical Recorded Sound
Research in Classical Music” for his book Charles Munch (Oxford
University Press, 2012). The book features an
online appendix,Charles Munch—The Recorded Legacy,
which examines the expansive discography that the conductor was
responsible for.
San Francisco Classical Voice reviewed the first-ever entirely
percussion recital (“Carte Blanche”) at Music@Menlo, featuring UC
Davis’s own Chris Froh, with Ayano Kataoka and Ian Rosenbaum.
Valerio Morucci has won the 2013 Ingolf Dahl Award for his paper
“Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the
Rhetoric of Early Monody,” from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of
the American Musicological Society.
