Empyrean Ensemble
Sam Nichols, director • Matilda Hofman, resident conductor
Program
To be announced.
Free
Ensemble Dal Niente is presented by the Mondavi Center for
the Performing Arts. Additional support is given by the Joy
S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concerts Endowment.
Joy S. Shinkoskey was the mother of Deborah Pinkerton and
mother-in-law to Bret Hewitt. They established an endowment to
support noon concerts and musical performances in the UC Davis
Department of Music.
Joy S. Shinkoskey (Pinkerton)
1923–1999
Mother of four children, including Deborah Pinkerton, Joy
Shinkoskey was in her younger years a model and played the
piano which is where she developed her love of music, playing
Beethoven piano works in the Spokane Music Festival, 1940, and
throughout her life.
