UC Davis Faculty Affiliate Susan Lamb Cook, cello, will be
performing some of the Schubert selections on this Friday’s
Faculty Recital, Worlds Apart, as
well as on her Great Composers Chamber Music Series at the
Harris Center at
Folsom Lake College, on Sunday, April 7th.
UC Davis music department composition alumnus Gabriel José
Bolaños (PhD 2016) will join the music faculty
at Arizona State University starting Fall of 2019. His recent
music engages with theories of ecological listening: how our
sense of hearing evolved primarily to interpret our environment.
UC Davis Professor of Music Henry Spiller and graduate student
Gillian Irwin spoke with interviewers from the Voice of America,
Indonesia, about student life for Indonesian students studying at
UC Davis, and about the music department’s Sundanese Gamelan
Ensemble.
From contemporary choral works to classics by Bartók and
Mussorgsky, the UC Davis department of music will present three
diversely programmed concerts within a week at the Mondavi
Center.
Bey’s union with Bourelly, who is a lecturer
in the College of Letters and Science’s department of music,
initially occurred around the former “no man’s land” area of
Cold War Berlin in 1999; the two met there and agreed on a
collaboration. In the piece, the performers move through a
landscape filled with atmospheric sound bites, punctuated by
waves of guitar motion and commentary on today’s tumultuous
world.
Violist and composer Kurt Rohde says he’s
planning to hang up his instrument in 2028, which might not
seem especially imminent. But he’s determined to use that time
to make things better for the violists who come after him.
The Sacramento
Saturday Club has awarded UC Davis undergraduate music major
Mira Huang—a soprano and undergraduate peer advisor—a $500
scholarship. The Sacramento Saturday Club was organized on
December 9, 1893. It is the oldest musical organization in
Sacramento—and one of the oldest west of the Rockies.
JP Jofre will be a featured soloist and composer in the UC
Davis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of works by Argentinian
composers on Saturday, Feb. 2.
“Sing High” composed by Christopher Castro, alum now lecturer,
has its world premiere on Saturday, Feb. 16. The Camellia Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Christian
Baldini, performs the piece as part of their program, “Past,
Present & Future.”
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at C.K. McClatchy High School
Auditorium in Sacramento. There is a pre-concert talk beginning
at 6:45 p.m.
Professor of Music Kurt Rohde of UC Davis,
and Yu-Hui Chang—who taught composition at UC Davis in the early
2000s—are the two guest composers at this year’s Composers
Conference.
Winner of the 2017 Earplay Donald Aird Composition Competition
(for his quartet Aeropittura), Daniel Godsil will
be a guest composer at Western Illinois Univeristy’s New Music
Festival 2019. The Festival takes place in Macomb, IL, March
3-5.
“[Professor] San Martin started the piece during a quiet
composing retreat at Lake Tahoe in 2016 that was interrupted by
ongoing news of gun violence. That charted the course for the
piece.”
“I kept reaching for joy and humor, but there was all this
noise happening behind it.” … “What it sounds like is very
much a part of the process.”
UC Davis music graduate student composer Adam
Strawbridge, along with Wyatt Cannon are
winners of the SFCMP’s SF Search (call for scores)
program. Both winners will have their pieces performed on the
Player’s May 2019
concerts at SFJAZZ, which features the music of Julius
Eastman and Bay Area composer, improviser, and pianist Myra
Melford.
The UC Davis College of Letters and Science’s Department of Music
is holding auditions for University Chorus on Tuesday, Jan. 8,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Music Building. Students, faculty,
staff and community members are encouraged to audition. There are
openings for all voice parts.
Joining the chorus provides singers with the opportunity to
perform onstage in Jackson Hall at the Robert and Margrit
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The hall’s superb
acoustics are renowned by numerous acclaimed musicians and
vocalists who have performed there.
UC Davis alumnus Luciano Chessa (PhD 2004)
recently conducted the Mannes Orchestra of the New School in a
never-before-heard edition of a symphony written by a
modern master composer Julius Eastman. Eastman died
in 1990 in relative obscurity as he had spent his remaining years
in intermittent periods of homelessness, with many of his
belongings—including his scores—lost.
The University Chorus under the direction of Caleb Lewis is
currently in rehearsal for “Una Navidad Latina/A Latin
Christmas,” featuring Spanish and Latin American Christmas music
from the church and the village. Photographer Justin Han attended
a recent rehearsal and captured the Chorus developing the
concert’s program. All photos by Justin Han, copyright UC
Davis.
UC Davis alum, Kristin
Kirk, an undergraduate music composition major who graduated
with Honors in 2017, is featured in an ad for the university’s
Office of Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Services’
#FirstGenUCDavis campaign. The program spotlights students and
alumni who are the first in their families to graduate from
college.
A work by UC Davis music department chair and professor Laurie
San Martin with words by Lucy Corin, professor of English, will
have its world premiere Nov. 18. “Witches” will be performed by
the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the vocal ensemble Volti Nov.
18 in Berkeley and Nov. 19 in San Francisco.
Keys
to Transposition teaches a step-by-step, strategic
approach built on key and starting from scales, arpeggios, and
common patterns. It has several “failsafes” to prevent students
from going wrong, and each unit includes excerpts from the
orchestral, solo, and chamber repertoire, starting with passages
with no accidentals and few leaps and gradually adding
difficulty. Each standard key also includes at least one duet
excerpt.