Music

Bryce Cannell’s string quartet, Refractions, has been published by the Society of Composers (SCI) Journal of Music Scores (Vol. 50).

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.

From the December 9, 2013, Dateline article:

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:

Silete venti, HWV 242
Laudate pueri Dominum, HWV 236
Gloria

Beth E. Levy won the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West, (University of California Press, 2012).  

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

In a quote from the review by Jorge Aráoz Badí:

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

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.

Congratulations to Tony Dumas, Chantal Frankenbach, Ana Alonso-Minutti, and Sarah Eyerly for their recent academic appointments.

Tony Dumas, Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (2012), recently accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the State University of New York, College of Brockport.

Chantal Frankenbach, Ph.D. in musicology (2012), accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Music History at California State University, Sacramento.

Kurt Rohde has won a 2013 Barlow Endowment commission to write for cellist Michelle Kesler.

The Barlow Prize site writes:

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.