Surface for solo hammered dulcimer was composed in 2023. In this work, I perform a timbral exploration of the body of this traditionally folk instrument through articulation of its various unique resonant surfaces, highlighting aspects of the instrument’s pitched and percussive nature, and bringing about a multitude of gradually unfolding sonorities.

Influx for string quartet was originally composed for the Mivos quartet in 2022. This piece aims to explore a continual straddling of the boundary between identifiably pitched and noisy complexes through a collage of distinctive interspersed textural identities.

Constellations was composed in 2023 for three vibraphones, viola, cello and contrabass. The work explores various textural environments, each composed of a limited set of idiosyncratic behaviors. These behavioral elements are reconceived in each textural circumstance through a variety of transformational processes. This compositional approach examines the unique effect which space and time confer on one’s perception and experience of reality. To me, this entertains our ability to capture distinctive dimensional perspectives, each of which offers their own beauty.

- Zachary Konick

All Performers:
Violin I – Myra Hinrichs
Violin II – Pauline Ng
Viola – Rebecca Matayoshi
Cello – Robert Bui
Contrabass – Matthew Henson
Vibraphone I – Camilo Zamudio
Vibraphone II – Kosuke Matsuda
Vibraphone III – Mitchell Carlstrom
Hammered Dulcimer – Zachary Konick
Conductor – Berk Schneider

Biography:

Zachary Konick is a San Diego based composer, percussionist, hammered dulcimerist and music instructor. He received his BM from the University of Maryland and his MM degree at the University of South Florida in music composition. He has received notable performances by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the newEar Ensemble, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the Florida Orchestra, The Conjunct Contemporani del CSMIB (Palma, Spain), the McCormick Percussion Group, the JACK, Ethel, Spektral, and Mivos String Quartets, as well as solo performances by Lee Hinkle, and Alice Weinreb. His music has been conducted under the baton of Oliver Knussen, Aleck Karis, Michael Francis and Steven Schick. He is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at the University of California San Diego, where he primarily studies with Roger Reynolds. His past mentors have included Thomas DeLio, Chinary Ung, Lei Liang, Katharina Rosenberger, Baljinder Sekhon, and Paul Reller.

Ken Anderson, San Diego's leading proponent of gospel, directs UC San Diego's Gospel Choir in a concert of African-American spirituals, blues, and traditional songs.

Friday June 2 at 7pm 
in the UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall
Featuring six new works

"By The Meanderings"                                                           Akari Komura
for 3 doublebasses with fixed media

"Hybridization"                                                                       Grace Talaski
for Bb clarinet and contrabass trio 

"Expanding Ostinato with Incongruent Melodies                    Matthew Henson
and Hammer--Ons in Separate Pulses"

"Sysyphus"                                                                              Jordan Davidson

"Breathe, guilt"                                                                        Andrew Crapitto
for double bass trio       

Contextin'                                                                                 Mark Dresser

Performers; Andrew Crapitto, Matthew Henson, Mark Dresser - basses
Grace Talaski - Bb clarinet
 

In its final concert of the season, the UC San Diego Wind Ensemble performs works by inti figgis-vizueta, Carlos Chávez, John Barnes Chance, Hailey Myers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Leonard Bernstein.

Directed by Michael Jones

TIME CHANGE TO 11AM!

Gabriel Michels: hold
(Trumpet, violin)

Kelly Feng: Can You See the Shapes in the Clouds?
(bass flute, trumpet, violin)

Jesus Leon: The Sky  
(flute, trumpet, contrabass)

Min Ju Kim: Playground
(flute, trumpet. violin)


Performers:

Teresa Díaz de Cossio, flute
David Aguila, trumpet
Ilana Waniuk, violin
Jesus Leon, bass

Rand Steiger, conductor

The 95JC concert will feature an ensemble performing a variety of exciting compositions, including some new compositions written and arranged by student musicians. Instrumentation includes voice, violin, saxophones, rhythm section and afro-latin percussion. 

Directed by Kamau Kenyatta

one fish two fish percussion ensemble
Mel Conti Chen, Zoe Farrell. Xiao Feng, Ash Floyd, Michael Jones, Alexander Leong, Jiawei Li, Thatcher Rexach, and Xiaoxuan Zhang

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Sculpture in Wood (1995) Rüdiger Pawassar

Restless (2013) Rich O’Meara
Xiao Feng, marimba

Intentions (1983) Eugene Novotney
II. Proposal
III. Function

Cenas Amerindias (1986-87) Ney Rosauro
I. Brasiliana
Zoe Farrell, percussion

Day of the South Winds (Gió Nôm) (2003) Kim Ngoc

Six Elegies Dancing (1987) Jennifer Stasack
I. Adamantly, Vigorously
II. Intensely
III. Gingerly, Very Stable
IV. Furiously
V. With Deliberate Concentration
VI. Elegiac
Alexander Leong, marimba

Walking with O. (2023) Janet Sit *world premiere

The UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Alex Taylor, present their final concert for the 2023-24 season features Beethoven's iconic fifth symphony with its revolutionary motto and powerful instrumentation, expanding the symphony orchestra with trombones, piccolo and contrabassoon. We are delighted to collaborate with graduating DMA pianist Shaoai Ashley Zhang on Mozart's sparkling piano concerto in E-flat, and also showcase the atmospheric music of one of UC San Diego's talented graduate composers, Akari Komura. Wenpeng Gao, preparing his conducting portfolio for graduate school, will lead Weber's der Freischütz overture, a characterful opener by turns pastoral and demonic. 

Akari Komura - Weaving Air (world premiere)
Carl Maria von Weber - Overture to Der Freischütz (conducted by Wenpeng Gao)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 22 in E-flat major - Shaoai Ashley Zhang soloist
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 5 in C minor

JUNE 10-11, 2023 SACRED AND SUBLIME

ARIAN KHAEFI, SALLY & EINAR GALL CHORUS DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR

Arian Khaefi takes the podium to conduct this program of rich choral and symphonic repertoire. We’ll open with R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee, a spell-binding oratorio that is “deep rooted in Spirituals and folklore.” We’ll then present Young Artists Competition winner from 2021, Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, as soloist in Mendelssohn’s gorgeous Violin Concerto. The program will conclude with Ernst Bloch’s monumental Avodat Hakodesh. Rarely performed, this epic sacred work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra represents the full maturity of Bloch’s music in the Jewish tradition.

R. Nathaniel Dett                                 The Chariot Jubilee

Felix Mendelssohn                               Violin Concerto

YAC Winner 2021: Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, violin

Ernst Bloch                                            Avodat Hakodesh

Soloist: 2021 Young Artist Competition winner Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, violin; Michael Sokol, Baritone; Richard Hodges, Tenor

More information & Tickets: https://www.ljsc.org/

JUNE 10-11, 2023 SACRED AND SUBLIME

ARIAN KHAEFI, SALLY & EINAR GALL CHORUS DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR

Arian Khaefi takes the podium to conduct this program of rich choral and symphonic repertoire. We’ll open with R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee, a spell-binding oratorio that is “deep rooted in Spirituals and folklore.” We’ll then present Young Artists Competition winner from 2021, Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, as soloist in Mendelssohn’s gorgeous Violin Concerto. The program will conclude with Ernst Bloch’s monumental Avodat Hakodesh. Rarely performed, this epic sacred work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra represents the full maturity of Bloch’s music in the Jewish tradition.

R. Nathaniel Dett                                 The Chariot Jubilee

Felix Mendelssohn                               Violin Concerto

YAC Winner 2021: Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, violin

Ernst Bloch                                            Avodat Hakodesh

Soloist: 2021 Young Artist Competition winner Ayrton Coehlo Pisco, violin; Michael Sokol, Baritone; Richard Hodges, Tenor

More information & Tickets: https://www.ljsc.org/

MANGROVE

An eclectic group of improvising musicians, from many different walks of life coming together as one to create a one of a kind sonic communal sound quilt in real time!
 

Music 201B. Projects in New Music Performance: Improvisation and the Laboratory of Imagination

Instructor: Matana Roberts

Hailey Myers is a graduating senior presenting her final recital in pursuit of Honors in Composition for her bachelor's degree in Music. She prefers to describe herself as "funky fresh," but her feet are on the ground just as much as her head is in the clouds. A commentary on big feelings, big change, and big dreams, Hailey's last hurrah at UC San Diego is a concert you won't forget anytime soon!