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Portia Njoku, tuba and UC Davis lecturer in music
with a guest pianist to be announced
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These new pieces for solo violin, or solo violin and electronics, were created as part of the graduate student workshop, in which graduate students met weekly with Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir each week during Fall Quarter, refining their compositions.
Program
James Larkins,
Jacob Lane,
Paul Engle,
Orkun Akyol,
Peter Chatterjee
About the Artist
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in several Northern California ensembles, including UC Davis’s Empyrean Ensemble, The New Century Chamber Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, ECO, and the SF Contemporary Music Players. Before coming to California, she spent time in New York, where she played on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among others. She studied violin with Professor Axel Gerhardt at Künste University, Berlin. After her studies in Germany she participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk and a tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. She also freelanced in Germany, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. |
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In addition to performing works by our own graduate student composers on this program, PinkNoise—known for its contemporary improvisational performance practice—will perform its own program, featuring the open-instrumentation work “Black as a Hack for Cyborgification” by Jessie Cox, alongside other works, on Friday, April 14th, at 5:00 pm.
Program
Zoë A. Wallace,
Max Gibson,
Alex Minigan,
Orkun Akyol,
Trey Makler
About the Ensemble
PinkNoise is a New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to musical improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic mediums as a reaction and response to the conditions of our community and our society. Our mission is to reveal how improvisation in musical performances lies at the intersection of historical and contemporary works, and how it is a synthesis of multifarious cultures and styles from the past and the present that connect us to our conscience in society. We also believe in performing new works by composers in acoustic and electronic mediums and collaborating with visual artists and writers to present music as a collaborative and interdisciplinary art form.
Each member of the ensemble is a performer, composer, and creator committed to inverting, translating, reflecting, and transcending the boundaries of both old and new music to present a kaleidoscopic range of performances that connect us to our sensibilities and conscience.
PinkNoise is a recipient of grant awards from the Amphion Foundation and the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music. |
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Program
Jessie Cox: Black as a Hack for Cyborgification
About the Ensemble
PinkNoise is a New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to musical improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic mediums as a reaction and response to the conditions of our community and our society. Each member of the ensemble is a performer, composer, and creator committed to inverting, translating, reflecting, and transcending the boundaries of both old and new music to present a kaleidoscopic range of performances that connect us to our sensibilities and conscience.
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Cindy Behmer, oboe,
Cathie Apple, flute,
Timothy Stanley, cello,
Dr. Faythe Vollrath, harpsichord and UC Davis lecturer in music,
Program
Elliot Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord,
Manuel de Falla: Harpsichord Concerto |
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Program
To be announced.
About the Artist
Wendy Richman has been celebrated internationally for her compelling sound and imaginative interpretations in a wide range of genres. Her debut solo album, vox/viola (New Focus Recordings, 2020), features nine commissioned works for singing violist by leading contemporary composers. She is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, with whom she performs regularly in New York City and around the world, and she has performed regularly with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the period instrument ensemble Tesserae. Dr. Richman is a faculty member at both UCLA and California State University-Northridge (CSUN), where she teaches a variety of academic music courses and applied viola, and she is a sought-after clinician at universities and conservatories across the country. |
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Program
Zoë A. Wallace
Max Gibson
Jacob Lane
Bryndan Moondy
Joseph Donald Peterson
Joseph Vasinda
Emily Joy Sullivan |
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Lillian Gordis, harpsichord, with Jérôme Hantaï, viola da gamba. Program to be announced. |
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Michael Goldberg, solo guitar and UC Davis lecturer in music
Program
To be announced. |
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Christian Baldini, director and conductor
Program
Luciano Berio: Laborintus II
text by Edoardo Sanguineti
with Sam Nichols, electronics, and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, narrator
About the Program
Italian composer Luciano Berio pioneered electronic elements in his scores, and in his homage to the 12th-century poet Dante Alighieri he laid a musical fabric (which includes recorded audio) against a collection of poems called Laborintus by Edoardo Sanguineti, which is spoken throughout the music. The result is Berio’s Laborintus II. Sanguineti’s text is thematically Dante-esque, and incorporates poetry of T.S. Elliot and Ezra Pound alongside his own. Berio said his “Laborintus II is a theatre work; it can be treated as a story, an allegory, a documentary, a dance. It can be performed in a school, in a theatre, on television, in the open air, or in any other place ….” In this performance these texts will be read by Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti, and the electronic music section will be performed by music faculty Sam Nichols. |
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Sam Nichols, director
“Preconcert Discussion from 6:15–6:45 pm with Empyrean director Sam Nichols.”
Program
James Larkins,
Paul Engle,
Bryndan Moondy,
Joseph Donald Peterson,
Adam Strawbridge,
Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro (Ph.d. composition ‘15): New Work PREMIERE |
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Terrie Baune, violin
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and UC Davis lecturer in music
Thalia Moore, cello
John Chernoff, piano
Earplay Ensemble
Program
Laurie San Martin: Fray for String Trio (2016)
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet in C Minor (1879)
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Otto Lee, director and UC Davis lecturer in music
Program
To be announced. |
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Chris Froh, director and UC Davis lecturer in music
Program
To be announced. |
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Otto Lee, director and UC Davis lecturer in music
Program
To be announced. |
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Pete Nowlen, coordinator
Program
To be announced. |
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