Empyrean Ensemble will premiere two new works
by Taproot Festival Participating Composers
Inga Chinilina and Yuting Tan, and both
Quince and Spektral Quartet
will perform a work to be announced.
Empyrean Ensemble Mika Pelo, director
UC Davis Professor of Music
Two new string quartets by Taproot Festival
Participating Composers, a new quartet by
a UC Davis Graduate Student in Music,
as well as quartets to be announced.
Steve Reich’sMusic for 18 Musicians
(1974–76)
with members of the Empyrean Ensemble
Hrabba Atladottir, violin
Michael Seth Orland, piano to be announced, 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,
two to-be-announced pianists,
a to-be-announced clarinetist,
and Stephen Bingen,
audio engineer
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 21st-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. *
