Department of Music Concert and Event Listing

Wednesdays@7 presents
David Borgo - Suite of Uncommon Sorrows

Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Streaming live from the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater

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The Suite of Uncommon Sorrows is an eleven-part suite of original music composed in response to the tumultuous events of 2020, including the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the growing Black Lives Matter movement, and the debilitating polarization of U.S. politics that made it impossible to address either of these adequately.

Each movement explores a different “uncommon sorrow,” such as kuebiko (a state of moral exhaustion inspired by acts of horror in the news, which forces you to revise your image of what can happen in this world), kenopsia (the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet), chrysalism (an amniotic-like tranquility while a storm rages outside), zenosyne (the sense that time keeps going faster), and pâro (the feeling that no matter what you do it will always be inadequate).

PERFORMERS:

• David Borgo - tenor and soprano saxophones, aerophone
• Tobin Chodos - piano and keyboard
• Mackenzie Leighton - acoustic and electric bass
• Mark Ferber - drum set
• with special guest:
• Peter Sprague - electric guitar

PROGRAM:

Kuebiko

• a state of moral exhaustion inspired by acts of horror in the news, which forces you to revise your image of what can happen in this world

Chrysalism

• an amniotic-like tranquility, similar to how one feels while wrapped in a blanket sitting inside on the couch while a storm rages outside.

Kenopsia

• the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet

Paro

• the feeling that no matter what you do it will always be inadequate

The Village Covidiots

• an inversion of Eric Dolphy’s “Out To Lunch,” dedicated to you know who.

Occhiolism

• the awareness of the limitations of your own perspective

One Step Forward Two Steps Back

• the feeling that although progress is being made, it produces a reaction that is somehow greater than equal and opposite

Zenosyne 

• the sense that time keeps going faster

Camera Lucida is a chamber music collaboration between four musicians with diverse backgrounds. Camera Lucida is a unique project matching masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire with a group of world-class instrumentalists who happen to call San Diego home.

Watch at http://music.ucsd.edu/live 

UC San Diego Department of Music events are currently not open to in-person audiences. 

Program:

Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, K. 379 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor, Opus 114 - Johannes Brahms

Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in B-flat major, Opus 97 "Archduke" - Ludwig van Beethoven

Performers:

Anthony Burr, clarinet

Charles Curtis, violoncello

Jeff Thayer, violin

Reiko Uchida, piano

Under the artistic directorship of UC San Diego distinguished professor and cellist Charles Curtis and anchored by regular featured performances by San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer, Formosa Quartet violist and UCLA professor Che-Yen Chen, concert pianist Reiko Uchida, UC San Diego performance faculty and occasional guests, Camera Lucida has established a tradition of challenging, musically ambitious programs performed with the assurance of an established ensemble, with the added flexibility of changing instrumentation and guests from the international chamber music world.

The UC San Diego Music Palimpsest Ensemble, conducted by Distinguished Professor and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick, returns LIVE with four world premiere compositions by UC San Diego Music graduate students Erin Graham, Ioannis Mitsialis, Alex Taylor, and Jonny Stallings Cárdenas, as well as a special performance of Rebecca Saunders's Fury II, a concerto for double bass performed by Kathryn Schulmeister.

Program:

Jonny Stallings Cárdenas- Double Quartet

Ioannis Mitsialis - The Angel Standing in the Sun

Rebecca Saunders - Fury II

Erin Graham - Flamma

Alex Taylor - Sea Gods

Palimpsest Ensemble:

Myra Hinrichs and Ilana Waniuk, violins

Peter Ko, cello

Kathryn Schulmeister, contrabass soloist (Saunders)

Matthew Henson, double bass

Tasha Smith Godinez, harp

Teresa Díaz de Cossio and Alexander Ishov, flutes

Juliana Gaona Villamizar, oboe

Grace Talaski, bass clarinet

David Aguila, trumpet

Mari Kawamura, piano concerto soloist (Mitsialis)

Dimitrios Paganos Koukakis and Ashley Zhang, piano

Roberto Maqueda, Kosuke Matsuda, and Yongyun Zhang, percussion

Julia Williams, accordion

Mariana Flores, mezzo soprano (Taylor)

Steven Schick, conductor

red fish blue fish performs inti figgis-vizueta's To give you form and breath (2019) and Michael Gordon's Timber (2009) live from the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater on Saturday, November 6 at 5:00 p.m.!

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PERFORMERS:
Mitchell Carlstrom
Michael Jones
Kosuke Matsuda
Roberto Maqueda
Steven Schick
Yongyun Zhang

PROGRAM:
To give you form and breath (2019)
inti figgis-vizueta

Timber (2009)
Michael Gordon

Helwalker - A Folk Opera Audio Drama Ph.D. Dissertation by Barbara Byers

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Helwalker is a new opera/audio drama which explores nature, decay and renewal in the context of a classic hero's journey narrative structure. The story centers around Spearwa, a Viking Shieldmaiden who is wounded in battle and separated from her companions. Spearwa is discovered by a Carrion Beetle and tricked into entering the realm of Hel, or the earth, through a door newly opened by the roots of a fallen oak tree. Realizing her predicament, Spearwa flees into an earthen labyrinth, pursued by the Carrion Beetle and a merry band of scavengers. After many adventures beneath the earth's surface, Spearwa emerges, emotionally and magically transformed by her experience.

in^set, featuring David Aguila, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, and Ilana Waniuk, performs Nasim Khorassani: Unknown (2019), Wilfrido Terrazas: 47 (2020), Kotoka Suzuki: In Praise of Shadows (2015), and Natacha Diels: Second Nightmare, for Kiku (2013) live from the Experimental Theater on Friday, November 12 at 7:00p.m.

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Performers:

David Aguila: trumpet, paper, objects, electronics 

Teresa Díaz de Cossio: flute, paper, objects 

Ilana Waniuk: violin, paper, visuals

Program: 

Nasim Khorassani: Unknown (2019)

Wilfrido Terrazas: 47 (2020)

Kotoka Suzuki: In Praise of Shadows (2015)

Natacha Diels: Second Nightmare, for Kiku (2013)

Please note that in-person attendance for this concert is only open to active members of the UC San Diego community. UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors. We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

Wednesdays@7 presents An Evening of Indian Classical Music with world renowned sitar virtuoso Pandit Kartik Seshadri. 

A tribute to Seshadri's mentor Pandit Ravi Shankar's 100th Birthday.

Accompanied on tabla by Shri Nitin Mitta

Wednesday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Streaming live from the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall

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Fall 2021 Undergraduate Forum
Friday, November 19, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall

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Join us for the Fall 2021 Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music students on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall!

Please note that in-person attendance for this concert is only open to active members of the UC San Diego community. UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors. We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

Percussionist Michael Jones presents his D.M.A. Recital titled "From many, more" on Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall!

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PERFORMERS:
Michael Jones, percussion
Matthew Kline, bass
Shaoai Ashley Zhang, piano

PROGRAM:
A Moment or Two (2021) - Erika Bell
Lullaby (2011) - Nicholas Deyoe
American Dream (2017) - Scott Wollschleger

Please note that in-person attendance for this concert is only open to active members of the UC San Diego community. UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors. We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

Composer Ioannis Mitsialis presents his dissertation recital - Two compositions for solo instruments on Monday, November 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater. 

"In my dissertation recital tonight, two solo pieces of mine are presented, which were composed under different circumstances and time periods. Fractures and permutations for violin and live electronics and Monodromic for solo piano, both explore in their own way the cyclical phenomena, which constitute the fundamental space of my interest in my most recent work. The violin piece makes use of the electronic medium for the first time in my creative practice and relates to the idea of the cycle more at a conceptual level, while the piano piece connects with it more substantially and develops it in its multiple dimensions. These works are the result of my close collaboration with the wonderful soloists Ilana Waniuk (violin) and Kyle Adam Blair (piano), over a long period of time."

Program:

Fractures and permutations for violin and live electronics (2021) - Ioannis Mitsialis

Monodromic for solo piano (2021) - Ioannis Mitsialis 

Performers:

Ilana Waniuk, violin

Ioannis Mitsialis, live electronics

Kyle Adam Blair, piano

Please note that in-person attendance for this concert is only open to active members of the UC San Diego community. UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors. We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

Resonant Modes - Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez Dissertation Recital
Monday November 29th at 5pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
In-person attendance only open to current uc san diego students, staff and faculty

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Dissertation Concert featuring electroacoustic compositions with multichannel live-electronic processing and surface feedback sound generation.

PROGRAM:

Auscultation – For Percussionist, Fixed Media, Surface Feedback, and Live-Electronic Processing

With Rebecca Lloyd-Jones 
Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez – Live-Electronics

Schnur For String Trio and Live-Electronics (Acousmatic performance of the piece with live-
electronic sound processing)

Lorenzo Derini – Violin
Myriam Garcia Fidalgo – Violoncello
Margarethe Maierhofer-Litschka – Contrabass
Andres Gutierrez Martinez – Live-Electronics

Improvisation –– Percussion and Piano with Surface Feedback
Andres Gutierrez Martinez - Piano and Surface Feedback

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The works presented in this concert represent two aspects in my recent work that I have concentrated in for the past two years: Live-Electronic Performance and Surface Feedback.
Surface Feedback is created when a contact speaker and a contact microphone are placed in the same surface – in this case, a drumhead of a bass drum-. I became interested in exploring the manipulation possibilities of such a system, which is somewhat unpredictable given the many different variables that contribute to the sounding result of surface feedback. In Auscultation, I was interested in sonic analogies between the self-generating feedback system, the percussion instruments, and the live electronic processes to create distinct sonic moments -some dynamic, others more static and repetitive. The score allows for some flexibility with regards to the actions of the performer.

In Schnur for String Trio and Live-Electronics, I concentrated on the timbral similarities of different string instruments in order to create a gradually unfolding “sonic flow”, which is projected onto the audience space engulfing the listeners in the sound field. The live-electronic manipulations contribute to exaggerate the instrumental actions, while also projecting the sound of the instruments onto the audience space. The electronic performer has some liberty with regards to the modification of the instrumental sounds given a limited space of action. For this realization, I will only perform the live-electronic part in real-time. The instrumental part will be played back from speakers. The piece was recorded in Graz in September 2021 by members of the Schallfeld Ensemble.

The last piece is an impromptu improvisation with surface feedback on different instruments: Timpani, piano strings to further showcase the possibilities of the feedback system in a less rigid setting.

Join us for Monday Night Jazz with the UC San Diego 95JC Jazz Ensemble directed by Kamau Kenyatta on Monday, November 29th at 7:00 p.m PST!

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Please note this concert will only be available via livestream with no in-person audience.

Piano students directed by UC San Diego Music Distinguished Professor Aleck Karis and doctoral candidate Dimitris Paganos Koukakis will be presenting their Fall concert on Tuesday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

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PROGRAM:
Béla Bartók
Two Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm

Terry Feng

W.A. Mozart
Piano Sonata no. 9 in D major, K.311
I. Allegro con spirito

Sophia Yermolenko

Johannes Brahms
Capriccio, Op. 76, no. 2

Seth Durbin

Sergei Bortkiewicz
Nouvelle Étude, Op. 29 No. 4: Le Philosophe

Shayan Kalantar

J.S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C# Major, BWV 848            
Claude Debussy
Pagodes (from Estampes)

Kelly Feng

Please note in-person attendance for all our concerts are limited to active members of the UC San Diego community (current students, staff and faculty). We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors.

MUS 33A directed by UC San Diego Music Professor Lei Liang presents their class concert on Wednesday, December 1 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall. Music 33A is the first course in a sequence for music majors and nonmajors pursuing an emphasis in composition.  New and original compositions written for solo percussionist Mitchell Carlstrom, will be showcased.

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Please note in-person attendance for all our concerts are limited to active members of the UC San Diego community (current students, staff and faculty). We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors.

The UC San Diego Wind Ensemble directed by Michael Jones will be performing at the Conrad Prebys Music Center East Courtyard on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.!

This concert is outdoors and open to an in-person audience.

Please note this concert will not be livestreamed.

PROGRAM:
Gavorka Fanfare - Jack Stamp

Translation of a Branch - Nasim Khorassani

Armenian Dances - Aram Khachaturian arr. Ralph Satz

Three Chorale Preludes - William Latham

Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed

The UC San Diego Chamber Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi presents their Fall concert on Friday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Watch livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live

Please note in-person attendance for all our concerts are limited to active members of the UC San Diego community (current students, staff and faculty). We apologize, we are currently not accepting external audiences, including alumni.

UC San Diego students, staff and faculty must complete their daily symptom screener and be ready to show the "green thumb" at the door. Masks will be required at all times while indoors.

Percussionist and UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick and pianist and UC San Diego Music doctoral candidate Mari Kawamura will be performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's KONTAKTE (CONTACTS) for electronic sounds, piano and percussion live in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on Wednesday, January 5 at 7:00 p.m.

Pianist Shaoai Zhang presents her final D.M.A. recital featuring works by Alban Berg, Rebecca Saunders, Ludwig van Beethoven and the world premiere of Three Reflections composed by UC San Diego Music Ph.D. candidate Alex Stephenson on Wednesday, February 2nd at 5:00 p.m. at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. 

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Program:

Piano Sonata, op. 1 - Alban Berg

crimson - Rebecca Saunders

Three Reflections - Alex Stephenson

Piano Sonata no. 28, op. 101 - Ludwig van Beethoven 

An evening of Conductions by The Stephanie Richards Conduction Ensemble in remembrance of the pioneering composer, conductor and cornetist Butch Morris. Described as an "improvised duet for conductor and orchestra", Conduction is a language of music that involves interpretation of gestured language between a conductor and ensemble. In honor of his trailblazing Black Feb series in 2005, The Loft is celebrating this unparalleled approach to music-making by presenting a dynamic night of Conduction on Butch Morris' birthday. 

Featuring a multifaceted orchestration of accordions, strings, winds and electronics, the performers include UC San Diego graduate student collaborators: David Aguila, Daniel Corral, Teresa Diaz De Cossio, Myra Hinrichs, Tornike Karchkhadze, Douglas Osmun, Jonathan Stallings, Ilana Waniuk, and Pauline Ng. 

Berglind Tómasdóttir, D.M.A. '13 and Björg Brjánsdóttir, flutes will be performing in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on Tuesday, February 15 at 5PM. The evening will feature the premiere of a new piece composed by Bára Gísladóttir as well as the screening of Berglind Tómasdóttir's video essay “The Origin of Things” and a Q&A at the end of the concert.

Program:

Carolyn Chen — Stomachs of Ravens (2018)

Berglind Tómasdóttir — Bambaló (2013)

Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir — Iða (2015)

Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson — Riposo (2015)

The Origin of Things (2021)

Video Essay by Berglind Tómasdóttir

Berglind Tómasdóttir & Björg Brjánsdóttir — Spuni (2022)

Bára Gísladóttir — Growl Power (2022)

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir — Ethereality (2011)

Q&A with Berglind Tómasdóttir & Björg Brjánsdóttir, flutes

Artist Bios:

Berglind Tómasdóttir is a flutist and interdisciplinary artist living in Reykjavík, Iceland. In her work she frequently explores identity and archetypes, as well as music as a social phenomenon. An advocate of new music, Berglind has worked with composers such as Björk, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Peter Ablinger and Carolyn Chen, and received commissions from Dark Music Days, The National Flute Association, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Reykjavík Arts Festival and Nordic Music Days, to name a few. Berglind Tómasdóttir holds degrees in flute playing from Reykjavik College of Music and The Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and a DMA in contemporary music performance from University of California San Diego. Berglind is a professor in contemporary music performance and program director of NAIP (New Audiences and Innovative Practice) at Iceland University of the Arts.

Björg Brjánsdóttir graduated from the Norwegian Academy of music in the spring of 2017. She has also pursued flute studies at the Music University in Hanover, Munich and Copenhagen. Her main professors were Anna Dina Björn-Larsen, Andrew Cunningham, Per Flemström and Stephanie Hamburger. Björg is the founder of Elja chamber orchestra, which has been prominent in the Icelandic music scene for the last years. Björg is also the flutist of the new music group Caput and performs regularly with various orchestras, such as Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Opera, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bergen Opera. In addition to her career as a flutist, Björg is a certified teacher from Musicians' Health and Movement Institute. 

Björg and Berglind are members of the flute septet Viibra and tour around the world with Björk along with playing on Björk’s newest album, Utopia.

Students in the MUS 103A composition seminar instructed by Distinguished Professor of Music Chinary Ung presents their works on Wednesday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

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Featured Works:

Albert Miao: Kuafu
Chris Lin: Wish
Hailey Myers: Threnody for Annabel Lee
Jacob Alvarez-Alaba: Untitled
Jeremy Greenstein: Stars at Night
Samuel Calto: Embrace
Shawn Wadhwani: Subconscious

Performers:

Stefanie Quintin-Avila, voice
Matthew Henson, double bass
Kosuke Matsuda, percussion

Violinist Ilana Waniuk presents her second D.M.A. recital featuring works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Jessie Cox, and Anqi Liu on Thursday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. 

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Performers:

Ilana Waniuk - violin

Mari Kawamura - piano

Joseph Bourdeau - drumset

Program:

Ilana Waniuk - ember - improvisation with fixed media

Jessie Cox - The Masked Whole/Hole for Violin and Cyborg-drumset (2019)

with Joseph Bordeau - drumset

Sofia Gubaidulina - Dancer on a Tightrope for violin and piano (1992)

with Mari Kawamura - piano

Anqi Liu - A window on an Absurd Scene - for violin and fixed media (2022) *

* world premiere

Lydia Winsor Brindamour presents her PhD Dissertation Installation spaces, between on Tuesday, February 22 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Directed by Lydia Winsor Brindamour

Music by Lydia Winsor Brindamour

Projection and video design by Elizabeth Barrett

Sound design by Stewart Blackwood

Lighting executed by Jessica C. Flores

Performed by:

Kyle Adam Blair, piano

Charles Curtis, cello

Myra Hinrichs, violin

Matt Kline, double bass

Andrew McIntosh, violin

Alex Taylor, viola

Projections run by Alex Stephenson

The Palimpsest Ensemble conducted by Aleck Karis performs works by Pauline Oliveros, Mario Davidovsky, and the world premiere of pieces composed by UC San Diego Music graduate students Delong Wang and Varun Rangaswamy on Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. 

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Program:

Delong Wang "Spiritual Garden I: Largo di Torre Argentina" (premiere)

Pauline Oliveros “Variations for Sextet”

Varun Rangaswamy "Three Hazards Take Their Time” (premiere)

Mario Davidovsky “Piano Septet”

“…If you could only be here with me so I could share with you the happiness of these great poems, they would let you realize what we all now need more urgently: that transience is not separation…” - Rainer Maria Rilke to Adelheid Franziska von der Marwitz, January 14, 1919  (from The Dark Interval, translated and edited by Ulrich Baer)

A single reference contained in a book of Rilke’s letters was the catalyst for this program of little-known works for voice and piano from the early to mid-20th Century. The recital features settings of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren, drawn from his monumental cycles Les Heures Claires, Les Heures d’Après-midi and Les Heures du Soir, in works written by Nadia Boulanger and Raoul Pugno, and Belgian composer Irène Fuerison. Marion Bauer’s early work, Four Poems, Op. 16, (1924)  with texts by John Gould Fletcher, celebrates and illuminates the exquisite, open beauty of the American West. Rarely heard songs by French composer Elizabeth Claisse and Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans complete the program.  

This concert will only be available for viewing live in person or online on March 2nd and will not be available for replay, so make sure to join us at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall or tune-in online on March 2nd at 7:00 p.m.!

The UC San Diego Music Palimpsest Ensemble, conducted by Steven Schick, performs three world premiere compositions by UC San Diego Music graduate students Douglas Osmun, Janet Sit and Ni Zheng, as well as a special performance of Brian Ferneyhough's "La Chute D'Icare," featuring clarinet soloist Madison Greenstone.

Program:

Douglas Osmun "Topographic Veil” (premiere)

Janet Sit “Specific Experiments on Relativeness” (premiere)

Ni Zheng “Hellmouth” (premiere)

Brian Ferneyhough “La Chute D’Icare”, Madison Greenstone, clarinet soloist

Join us for the Winter 2022 Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music students on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall! 

The MUS 32VM voice students presents their winter 2022 concert With love: Fanny and Clara, featuring music by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, on Monday, March 7th at 3:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall. 

Performers:

Maria Torpey

Aparna Alluri

Amelia Mardesich

Julia Yu

Greta Davis

Sam Calto

Emma Price

Isabella Panagiotou

Kyle Adam Blair, piano

Miguel Zazueta, instructor

Pianist Mari Kawamura presents her third D.M.A. recital on Tuesday, March 8 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

J.S. Bach: Partita No. 6 BWV860
Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies

The UC San Diego Bach Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi presents their Winter quarter concert on Wednesday, March9, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

Gregorian chant (arrangement for flute)

Flute: Soumya Kalluri

A.Vivaldi  (1678 – 1741)

Concerto for Violin and Basso Continuo A minor

 Allegro / Largo / Presto

Solo Violin: Zou Yu

Violin: Jane Park, Lucy Lennemann

Viola: Tommy Hines, Cello: Henry Helmuth

Double Bass: Cody Rupp, Harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi

G.Dufay (1397- 1474)

Ave Maris Stella (arrangement for flute, 2 violins and cello)

Flute: Soumya Kalluri

Violins: Zou Yu, Lucy Lennemann, Cello: Henry Helmuth

C.Monteveldi (1567 – 1643)

Toccata / La musica from opera “L’Orfeo”

Soprano: Julia Yu

Flute: Soumya Kalluri, Percussion: Kosuke Matsusa

Violins: Zou Yu, Lucy Lennemann, Cello: Henry Helmuth

Double Bass: Cody Rupp, Harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi

W.Byrd ( c.1539/40 or 1543 – 1623)

Ave Verum Corpus (arrangement for 3 violins and cello)

Violins: Zou Yu, Jane Park, Cello: Henry Helmuth

A.Vivaldi  (1678 – 1741)

Concerto for Two Violins and Basso Continuo A minor

Allegro / Larghetto e spiritoso / Allegro

1st Solo Violin: Jane Park, 2nd Solo Violin: Zou Yu

Violins: Ashely Mok, Lucy Lennemann

Viola: Tommy Hines, Cello: Henry Helmuth

Double Bass: Melissa Heredia, Harpsichord: Takae Ohnishi

Piano students directed by UC San Diego Music Distinguished Professor Aleck Karis and UC San Diego doctoral candidate Dimitris Paganos-Koukakis presents their Winter concert on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 - J.S. Bach
Sophia Yermolenko

Preludes Op 28, no. 4, 7, 9, 24 - Frédéric Chopin
Seth Durbin

Etude Op. 25, No. 1 - "Aeolian Harp" - Frédéric Chopin
Estampes - No. 2, "La soirée dans Grenade" - Claude Debussy
Kelly Feng

Keyboard Suite no. 3 in D minor HWV 428 - George Frideric Handel
Etude no. 11, En Suspens - György Ligeti
Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 7, movements II and III - Edvard Grieg
Terry Feng

Percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones presents her D.M.A. recital "Feminine Virtuosities | Perceptions of Time," celebrating the music of Eleanor Hovda, Marta Ptaszy?ska and Unsuk Chin on Thursday, March 10 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater. 

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Program:

Eleanor Hovda | CYMBALMUSIC II - Centerflow/Trail II (1983)

Marta Ptaszy?ska | Space Model (1975)

Unsuk Chin | Allegro ma non troppo (1994/98)

The UC San Diego Chamber Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi performs works by G. Bottesiini, W.A. Mozart, L.V. Beethoven, C.F. Witt, A. Dvo?ák, F. Doppler and P.I. Tchaikovsky on Friday, March 11, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

G.Bottesiini (1821–1889)

Une Bouche Aimée

Soprano: Aparna Alluri, Double bass: Cody Rupp, Piano: Yuelei Li

W.A.Mozart (1756-1791)

Flute Quartet K285  in D major 

Allegro / Adagio / Rondo

Flute: Soumya Kalluri, Violin: Rose Sanahmadi

Viola: Titan Ngo, Cello: William Lin

L.V.Beethoven (1770-1827)

String Trio No.1, Op.3 in E flat major

1st movement Allegro con brio

Violin: Katelyn Wong, Viola: Ashley Mok, Cello: Bethany Yuan

C.F.Witt (C.1660 –1716)

Suite in F major for Three Flutes and Piano

Entrée / Menuet / Sarabande / Menuet / Bourée 

Flute: Sabrina Wang, Riya Mhatre, Daniel Xu

Piano / Laura Noronha 

A. Dvo?ák (1841-1904)

String Quintet No. 2  2nd mov.  Scherzo

Violin: Lucy Lennemann, Heejeong Lin

Viola: Ariel Anchanattu, Cello: Emily Wong, 

Double bass: Melissa Heredia

F. Doppler (1821-1883)

Duettino hongrois Op. 36

Flute: Simran Bhakta, Audrey Zhao

Piano: Irene Lee

P.I.Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

String Trio in D minor Op.5

1st mov. Pezzo elegiaco 

Violin: Ryan Park, Cello: Henry Helmuth, Piano: Seung Choi

The MUS 33B composition class instructed by UC San Diego Music Ph.D. candidate Anqi Liu presents their Winter 2022 concert featuring new works for flutes and electronics.

Program:

Works for cello

Pressures - Ezekiel Mortensen

El Violoncello Humilde - Jesus Leon

Crystalline - Kelly Chongrui Feng

A Goose Sang a Song - Gabriel Michels

The Crow - Kevin Chin

Works for flutes and electronics

Serein - Kevin Chin

Postured - Gabriel Michels

La Distorsion Detra?s de tus Ojos - Jesus Leon

Memory - Ezekiel Mortensen

The Cheshire Cat’s Grin - Kelly Chongrui Feng

Performer:

Teresa Díaz de Cossío, flutes
Peter Ko, cello

The UC San Diego Bass Ensemble, featuring double bassists Mark Dresser, Kathryn Schulmeister and Matthew Henson, will be performing works composed by Gregg August, Nasim Khorassani, Aaron Mencher, Robert Bui, Charles Schultz, Jonathan Stallings, Kathryn Schulmeister, Matthew Henson and Mark Dresser on Sunday, March 13th at 1:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater.

Program:

Avalanche - Robert Bui 

Double Bass Trio (2022) Jonathan Stallings Cárdenas

Ambler - Kathryn Schulmeister

Blocks - Aaron Mencher

Within a Half - Mark Dresser

Night Walk - Charles Schultz

In Closure (rev. 2022)- Matthew Henson

Invention for Three Tunings - Gregg August *

Unison - Nasim Khorassani 

The concert is an exploration of settings of striking 20th century poetry, set for one to three voices. It features Kaija Saariaho's From the Grammar of Dreams (1988) for two female voices to words from Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the first movement of George Crumb's iconic Madrigals with poems by Lorca, and Hans Werner Henze's moving Three Auden Songs (1984)  for tenor and piano.  

Another special work is Grete von Zieritz's Stimmen im Walde (1993) for coloratura soprano and flute, in its U.S. Premiere.

The second half of the program is devoted to the world premiere of Alex Taylor's Dryad, a 30 minute piece commissioned by the kallisti ensemble for coloratura soprano, lyric soprano, tenor, piano, flute, harp and percussion, with texts by H.D., Ezra Pound, Bryher and Frances Gregg.  

The singers are Stefanie Quintin-Avila, Mariana Flores, and Miguel Zazueta.  They will be joined by Rebecca Lloyd Jones, percussion, Alex Ishov, flute, Tasha Smith Godinez, harp, Kyle Adam Blair, piano with the assistance of conductor Yifan Guo. 

The one fish two fish percussion ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music doctoral candidate Michael Jones presents "Weaving, Flowing", featuring works by Juri Seo, Peter Garland and Paul Lansky, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater. 

one fish two fish Percussion Ensemble:

Angel Cole

Zoe Farrell

Xiao Feng

Ash Floyd

Michael Jones

Alexander Leong

Eric Nguyen

Program:

Shui - Juri Seo

Apple Blossom - Peter Garland

Threads - Paul Lansky

1. Prelude
2. Recitative
3. Chorus
4.  Aria
5. Recitative
6. Chorus
7. Aria
8. Recitative
9. Chorus
10. Chorale Prelude

Violinist Myra Hinrichs presents her D.M.A. recital "Some Quiet Music," featuring tunes by Cat Lamb, Kristofer Svensson, and Michael Harrison, on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Night and Day
Berk Schneider, trombone - DMA Recital

Program:
Catch (2022)
for unaccompanied Trombone
Erin Graham

Music for Trombone, Piano and Percussion (2011) Mike Svoboda
Shaoai Zhang, Piano Michael Jones, Percussion

BRIEF PAUSE
please prepare your wireless headphones

Seg (2020)
for Trombone, Mechanical Metronomes and Live Electronics Sang Song
Michael Jones, Metronomes

Ilha Grande (2022)
for Live Graphic Score and Spatial Audio
Nasim Khorassani and Berk Schneider
Nasim Korassani, Visuals Berk Schneider, Electronics

Improvisation for Trombone, Percussion, and Electronic Synth Concatenations (2022)
Joseph Bourdeau, Percussion Douglas Osmun, Electronics

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Catch evokes images of snagging, getting momentarily stuck or caught, a zipper getting trapped on fabric and moving in abrupt, jerky bursts, or a marble spiraling downwards in increasingly smaller and tighter circles, its patterns becoming smaller and more restricted until it becomes motionless and trapped.


Seg—a shorthand for “segregation”—is prison slang referring to solitary confinement. While it is considered torture by experts, solitary confinement is frequently used in U.S. prisons as a means to punish and discipline inmates. If subject to this punishment, an inmate is placed in an 8ft.x10ft. cell—equipped with a bed, sink, toilet and virtually nothing else—for months, years and sometimes decades. The absence of meaningful social contact and interaction with others is known to cause adverse psychological effects, including mental illnesses ranging from anxiety, clinical depression, and self-mutilation to suicidal thoughts.

Seg is more a reflection on the human condition than a call for prison reform, however. It would be not too far off to assume that, during the pandemic, pretty much every individual on earth experienced isolation in one form or another. It would be preposterous to compare those experiences to the inhumane treatment the prisoners in seg are subject to, of course. But to the extent we have never been so acutely aware of what isolation does to the human psyche, Seg may be viewed as an invitation to reflect upon the fragility of our existence.


Ilha Grande is an island nestled in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro ringed by beaches, vibrant rainforests, waterfalls, and caverns supporting Atlantic birds, amphibians, and cicadas. This fragile ecosystem depends on its diversity of life in order to survive. The improvisation duo Broken Calligraphy has collected binaural and ambisonic recordings from the island, sending the sounds through electronic resonators, spatializing them in synchronicity with a live graphic score. There is no hierarchical form in this collaborative work, which means the score can also follow or react to the sonic elements, providing an equitable creative space during performance.

As improvisatory musicians we actively engage contingency plans in order to balance feedback loops between ourselves and our instruments. Douglas Osmun has taken this idea a step further by developing an AI hub that analyzes socially embodied cognition, creating a sort of symbiotic animism that unites participating improvisors and machine.

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Berk Schneider, trombone (berkschneider.com), serves as an advocate for the arts by cultivating research-creation projects that incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to technology and analysis of social meaning-making devices, promoting prescriptive methods that bring communities of musicians closer together. His collaborations are varied, having worked with musicians such as Joshua Bell, Josh Groban, conductors Valery Gergiev, Brad Lubman, Enno Poppe, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Spano, composers Beat Furrer, Philip Glass, Helmut Lachenmann, Alvin Lucier, actor Alexander Fehling, the Akron, Firelands, and Houston symphonies, Ensemble Modern, Schauspiel Frankfurt, as well as creative director Heiner Goebbels. He is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Rice University, Frankfurt University of Music, and has been a finalist and honorably mentioned in numerous international trombone competitions, including the Robert Marsteller Competition and Lewis Van Haney Philharmonic Prize.

With the now century long use of recording and broadcast technologies to document and disseminate culture has come a tremendous pile of materials, both personal and received. ghostbox views these recorded materials as spirits, dwelling within the decaying husks of our dated technologies, fated to repeat themselves again and again as the world around them moves on. These ghosts vibrate constantly in the air influencing our thoughts and experiences in a number of ways. The program features music by Joseph Bourdeau, David Aguila, Teresa Díaz, Douglas Osmun, Janet Sit, Berk Schneider, and Ilana Waniuk.

Cellist Peter Ko presents his first D.M.A. Recital in collaboration with pianist Kyle Adam Blair, with works by Helmut Lachenmann, Anqi Liu, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown.

Program:

Helmut Lachenmann

"Pression" (1969)

Anqi Liu
"glimmer around…" (2022)

Morton Feldman
"Intersection 4" (1952)
"Projection I" (1950)
"Durations 2" (1960)

Earle Brown
"Music for Cello and Piano" (1955)

Pianist Daniel Pesca, a guest of Distinguished Professor of Music Aleck Karis, will be performing works by Daniel Pesca, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Maurice Ravel, John Liberatore and Gabriel Fauré on Friday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. 

Program:

Watercolors I: A Pair of Cats (2018/2020) - Daniel Pesca

Isles (2017) - Alison Yun-Fei Jiang

       I. As birds bring forth the sun

       II. Salt

       III. Undercurrent

Sonatine (1903-05) - Maurice Ravel

        I. Modéré

        II. Mouvement de menuet

        III. Animé

Six Line Drawings (2016) - John Liberatore

Nocturne no. 6 in D-flat major, Op. 63 (1894) - Gabriel Fauré

Hyde Park Boulevard (2020) - Daniel Pesca

        I. Prelude

        II. Lakeshore Drive (Capriccio)

        III. The Lagoon at Dusk

        IV. Interlude: At Night

        V. Boblink Meadow (Little Scherzo)

        VI. The Wooded Isle

        VII. Promontory Point

Violinist Miranda Cuckson and composer Rand Steiger collaborate on three works for violin and spatialized electronics on Monday, April 11, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

The program will feature Steiger’s “Longing,” written for Miranda Cuckson, and a re-imagining of his work “Nimbus Violin,” originally created in 2016 as part of an installation at Disney Hall for the LA Philharmonic. These will be heard alongside Kaija Saariaho’s four-movement Frises (2011), which layers repeating and reverberating shimmering gestures, and her delicate acoustic violin piece Nocturne (1994).

Program:

Nocturne (1994) - Kaija Saariaho
Nimbus Violin (2022) - Rand Steiger
Longing (2021) - Rand Steiger
Frises (2011) - Kaija Saariaho

Pianist and UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Aleck Karis presents Beethoven’s monumental late sonata, the “Hammerklavier”, one of his most daring and experimental works, along with three Bach preludes and fugues and Beethoven’s first sonata, Opus 2 no. 1 in f minor. 

Program:

Bach

Preludes and Fugues

  C major, book II

  E-flat minor/D# minor, book II

  G major, book I

Beethoven

Sonata, Opus 2 no. 1

  Allegro

  Adagio

  Menuetto: Allegretto

  Prestissimo

Beethoven

Sonata, Opus 106 (“Hammerklavier”)

   Allegro

   Scherzo: Assai vivace

   Adagio sostenuto

   Largo; Allegro risoluto (Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze)

Composer Anqi Liu presents her Ph.D. dissertation, Anqi Liu and Friends, featuring works that Anqi Liu created during her years at the UC San Diego Department of Music on Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Program:

Etude for Echoes featuring Ilana Waniuk, Grace Talaski, Berk Schneider, Michael Jones and Joey Bourdeau

Bass Flute Solo with spatialization & live signal processing for Teresa Díaz de Cossio

Etude for Friends for Ilana Waniuk, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, David Aguila, Peter Ko and Joey Bourdeau

A Window On Absurd Scenes… Violin solo with electronics & video projector for Ilana Waniuk

What Do You Mean? A live set for modular synthesizers, live signal processing , video projector and shadows performed and improvised by Anqi Liu

The UC San Diego Music Palimpsest Ensemble, conducted by Steven Schick, performs four world premiere compositions by UC San Diego Music graduate students Pauline Ng, Steven Whiteley, Daniel Corral and Nathaniel Haering on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

This undergraduate honors recital represents a culmination of the work Sophia has developed on the trumpet over the course of the pandemic. This concert will showcase a variety of tone colors on the trumpet, from triumphant to alone.  She took inspiration from indecision, as experiencing college during a pandemic caused her to feel uncertainty about the future.  She has used trumpet during these times of doubt to move toward present-minded thinking and confidence—the music she created became something tangible in a time of unknowns.  The works in this recital are: Air de Bravoure by Andre Jolivét, Concerto for Trumpet and Piano by Alexander Arutunian, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Eric Ewazen, and two new jazz pieces: Seascape and Sunflower Ridge composed by current UC San Diego student, Gino Calgaro.  She will be accompanied by Kyle Adam Blair on the piano for the classical portions of the recital.

Program:

Air de Bravoure (1954) - André Jolivet (1905-1974)

Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1995) - Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)

Seascape (2020) - Gino Calgaro (b. 2000)

Sunflower Ridge (2022) - Gino Calgaro (b. 2000)

Concerto for Trumpet and Piano (1950) - Alexander Arutunian (1920-2012)

ITHACA

a performance by

Dimitris Paganos Koukakis and Maria Tsingistra

Ithaca symbolizes our journey, the journey around our experiences, the customs deeply rooted within us but also, the exploration around cultures, ideas and people. This is the inspiration for our performance, our point of view through dance and music by Bartok, Shostakovich, Ung and Terrazas.

This concert has unfortunately been cancelled.

Thank you

Miguel Zazueta, voice will be presenting his D.M.A. recital, Meeting Halfway, featuring music by Henze, Britten, Muhly, and Zazueta on Saturday, April 30th at 3:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater. He will be accompanied by Dr. Kyle Adam Blair, piano and Quartet Nouveau.

In this recital I intend to share my personal journey with the concept of intimacy in music. Questioning: What is to be truthful in music? How to be intimate in a musical performance? How can I share what matters to me through a melodic line and a fictional context? Or, as written in the song cycle “Stranger” by Muhly “Is it possible to recover and interpret the past?”.

With all this questions in mind I will present for you four beautiful and very different song cycles:

The elegant “Three Auden Songs” by Hans Werner Henze, the passionate “Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo” by Benjamin Britten, the highly provocative “Stranger” by Nico Muhly, and lastly, “Tres Memorias” of my own authorship.

The accompanists for this recital will be Dr. Kyle Adam Blair in the piano (Henze, and Britten), and Quartet Nouveau (Muhly).

I hope you can join me and my collaborators in this beautiful musical evening.

Miguel Zazueta

Mystery of Tanbur

Kurdish Music of Iran

Featuring performances by Ali Akbar Moradi, Arash Moradi, Kourosh Moradi, and Mehdi Bagheri.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Sia Nemat-Nasser (1936-2021)

In collaboration with the Persian Cultural Center of San Diego.

Kafka Fragments  György Kurtág  
May 2, 2022  7 p.m.  Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego  
Susan Narucki, soprano,  Curtis Macomber, violin 

György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, Op.24 was completed in 1985 and is a seventy-five-minute work for voice and violin, set to fragments of text from the diaries of Franz Kafka. The work is divided into four parts. The first, third and fourth parts consist primarily of movements that are short in duration and which vary widely in their range of expression. These brief, intense movements are juxtaposed with several extended movements, which serve as a counterbalance, allowing us the opportunity to explore the composer's fantastical sound world more fully.  

I have been performing the piece for over thirty years and am drawn to the limitless range of emotional expression that is created through the fusion of the texts with Kurtág's inexhaustible musical imagination. The piece is a tour de force, exploring the limits of what can be expressed through the combination of voice and violin, an outpouring of wonder, rage, and ecstasy. It is a musical journey that I find to be irresistible.   

On May 2, 2022, I will be presenting the work with my longtime friend and colleague, the American violinist Curtis Macomber, a legendary champion of contemporary music. 

The concert takes place at UC San Diego Department of Music Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. 

Soprano Mariana Flores Bucio presents her first DMA Recital featuring works by Georfina Derbéz, Juan Calderón and Kaija Saariaho. 
This recital consists of songs and song cycles of the XXI century. The beautiful coexistence of music and poetry. 

Soprano: Mariana Flores Bucio 
Pianist accompanist : Kyle Adam Blair 
Oboist: Ellen Hindson
Guitarist: José Rodríguez 
Professor: Susan Naruki 

Program:

"Six songs for Soprano and Guitar" (2022) by Juan Calderón. Poetry by Octavio Gamboa.

"Raíz Columna" (2021) by Georgina Derbéz. Poetry by Aurelia Cortés P. 
      *Live Performance Premiere      

"La Cresta de la Duna" dedicated to Mariana Flores Bucio (2021) by Georgina Derbéz. Poetry by Aurelia Cortés P. 
       *Live Performance Premiere   

"Quatre instants" (2003) by Kaija Saariaho. Poetry by Amin Maalouf. 

Double bassist Matthew Henson presents his Masters recital, featuring works by Aaron Cassidy, Håkon Thelin, Bernhard Gander, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jacob Druckman, and George Crumb, on Monday, May 9 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater. 

Program:

The wreck of former boundaries – Aaron Cassidy

amarcord – Håkon Thelin

Soaring Souls – Bernhard Gander

Sonata – Sofia Gubaidulina

Valentine – Jacob Druckman

Madrigals, Book I – George Crumb

In the Shadow of a Mad King - An Evening of Solo and Duos

Bassist Mark Dresser will present compositions and improvisations featuring poet Jerome Rothenberg, trombonist Michael Dessen and the Swiss flutist Matthias Ziegler, telematically performing from Zurich.

Program:

Diagonalia - Mark Dresser

“Between a Half” - Mark Dresser  with Matthias Ziegler - bass and contrabass flute, telematically performing from Stäfa, Switzerland

“Tination” - Mark Dresser (solo works for prepared contrabass)

“Gloaming”” -  Mark Dresser   featuring  Michael Dessen - trombonist

“Hobby Lobby Horse”     

In the Shadow of A Mad King - Concert Version  - Jerome Rothenberg

FANFARE  after Shelley

LIES

FACES

THE LONELY DEAD

CODA

TAN-AW

Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Cebuano

(v. to see, to look at, to view, to mind, to contemplate, to be vigilant)

In a time where we find ourselves in a place of disillusionment, in a state of flux – with differing energies and a wavering sense of stability, we must take a step back and find resolve within ourselves. As the Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal wrote in one of his plays: “Con el recuerdo del pasado, entro en el porvenir (I enter the future with a memory of the past),” which transformed into the Filipino proverb: “Ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan (He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination);” it is in retrospection that we learn to ground ourselves and remember who we were – to which we anchor our aspirations and dreams, as we prepare to propel to attain our full potential.

Yet as we move forward, we must constantly remind ourselves that we are finite beings, all fighting against time to an inevitable end. As we begin to see the limits of time, may our memories of the past move us to a position of hope toward a future with endless possibilities, for it is through acknowledging our history as weavers of time that we can begin to live in the present. 

TAN-AW seeks to look deeper into ourselves and find our innate purpose as stewards of our bodies and of the earth. As we are easily eclipsed by the noise of voices in and out of our heads, it is challenging to see clearly and be illuminated by our verity. But as the Persian poet Rumi says, “What you seek is seeking you,” may we remember to find solace within ourselves and gain the courage to continue treading our unique paths.

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Featuring new works by Filipino composers Dave Jimuel Dagta, Jonathan Domingo, Feliz Macahis, and Chaitanya Tamayo, the pieces in the recital program are written in various languages: Cebuano, Ilocano, Ibaloi, Kalanguya, and Tagalog as part of the WIKAWIT initiative of revitalizing Filipino languages through music. 

Support the project through this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wikawit/wikawit-revitalization-of-filipino-languages-through-music

Clarinetist Evan Lam will be presenting his undergraduate honors recital, featuring works by Carl Nielson and W.A. Mozart, on Saturday, May 14th, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. He will be joined by fellow UC San Diego Music undergraduate students Kelly Feng, Alexander Leong, Michael Megally, Annie Phan, Christopher Nowak, and Gaby Carr.

Program:

Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57 - Carl Nielsen

Evan Lam, clarinet

Kelly Feng, piano

Alexander Leong, snare

Clarinet Quintet K581 in A Major - W.A. Mozart

Evan Lam, clarinet

Michael Megally, violin 1

Annie Phan, violin 2

Christopher Nowak, viola

Gaby Carr, cello

Exploring Legacy

Introducing a new collection of historically important percussion instruments from the personal collection of the ground breaking composer Chou Wen-chung (1923-2019), the percussion group red fish blue fish in partnership with the Transplanted Roots Percussion Conference will present a concert entitled "Exploring Legacy" on May 18 in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at 7:00 p.m. Featured will be Professor Chou's master work for percussion quartet, Echoes from the Gorge, which will be performed for the first time using the original instruments for which it was written.  

These instruments, thanks to a generous gift from the Chou family, are now the core part of UC San Diego's "Chou Percussion Collection." They represent not just Professor Chou's music, but his spirit of cross-cultural collaboration and the partnership between Chinese and Western musicians.  The collection will the basis for an annual "Chou Percussion Commission," given to a UC San Diego graduate composer to compose a piece of music using or inspired by the collection.  

In addition to Echoes from the Gorge, "Exploring Legacy" will feature works by Erin Graham, the inaugural Chou Commission recipient, along with music by Lei Liang, a Chou student, and by Edgard Varèse, Professor Chou's mentor. Soloists include flutist Wilfrido Terrazas, contrabassist Mark Dresser, and percussionists Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Yongyun Zhang.

PROGRAM:
Iannis Xenakis - Komboi

Edgard Varese - Density 21.5

Chou Wen-chung - Echoes from the Gorge

intermission

Erin Graham - Shape of Silence

Transplanted Roots Research Symposium 2022
(https://www.transplantedroots.org)

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall

PROGRAM:
Eva-Maria Houben - John Muir Trails I (in the fullness of time)

Alvin Singleton - Extension of a Dream

Erik Griswold - Twos and Threes

Intermission

Rachel C. Walker - ?? November Moon

Roberto Palomeque - Travesia de un Migrante

Wally Gunn - Book of Hours *World premiere*

PERFORMERS:
red fish blue fish
Fisher/Lau Project
Terry Longshore
Yongyun Zhang
Roberto Palomeque
Eric Shuster

PROGRAM:
Thought Sectors composed by Sarah Hennies
Performed by Steven Schick

PROGRAM:
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I

TaPIR Lab, University of Toronto
Aiyun Huang, director
Tyler Cunningham
Hoi Tong Keung
Bevis Ng
Matti Pulkki
Timothy Roth

*This project is made possible with the support of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Program*

Roundtable Discussion: Chou Wen-chung, with Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor Lei Liang, Composer Erin Graham, and Percussionist Yongyun Zhang

PROGRAM:
Edgard Varèse - Ionisation | performed by the Transplanted Roots community

Iannis Xenakis – Kotos | performed by Robbie Bui

Iannis Xenakis – Evryali | performed by Mari Kawamura

Intermission 1

Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds | performed by Michael Jones

Iannis Xenakis – Psappha | performed by Steven Schick

Intermission 2

Iannis Xenakis - Pléiades | performed by red fish blue fish

Pianist Terry Feng presents his undergraduate honors recital on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 at 7:00 pm in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. He will be performing solo piano with repertoire from Handel, Grieg, Ligeti, and Bartok. 

Program: 

Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 - Edvard Grieg (1865)

Etude no. 11 En Suspens - Gyorgy Ligeti (1994)

Suite in D minor, HWV 428 - G.F. Handel (1720)

6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm - Bela Bartok (1940)

Soprano Julia Yu will be presenting her undergraduate honors recital on Saturday, May 22^nd, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. She will be performing works by Barbara Strozzi, Lili Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Richard Strauss, and Arnold Schoenberg. Dr. Kyle Adam Blair will be joining her on the stage to interpret the subtle poetry and alluring melodies of these selected artsongs and arias.

Soprano: Julia Yu

Pianist: Kyle Adam Blair

Professor: Susan Narucki

Program:

My Tears – Barbara Strozzi

From Clearings in the Sky by Lili Boulanger:

She is solemnly gay

Sometimes, I am sad

At the foot of my bed

The lilacs which bloomed last year

From Twelve Poems by Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland:

When they come back

Heart we will forget him

I felt a funeral in my brain

The Chariot

--Intermission--

Zerbinetta’s Aria – from Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss

From 8 Cabaret Songs by Arnold Schoenberg:

Simple Song

Gigerlette

Galathea

Composer Sarah Hennies, M.A. '03 will be leading a composition masterclass on Tuesday, May 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Recital Hall (Room 127).  

Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, love, intimacy, psychoacoustics, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Festival Cable (Nantes), send + receive (Winnipeg), O’ Art Space (Milan), Cafe Oto (London), ALICE (Copenhagen), and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Cristian Alvear, Claire Chase, R. Andrew Lee, Talea Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Two-Way Street, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire.

Her ground breaking audio-visual work Contralto (2017) explores transfeminine identity through the elements of “voice feminization” therapy, featuring a cast of transgender women accompanied by a dense and varied musical score for string quartet and three percussionists. The work has been in high demand since its premiere, with numerous performances taking place around North America, Europe, and Australia and was one of four finalists for the 2019 Queer|Art Prize.

She is the recipient of a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a 2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has received additional support from New Music USA, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

Sarah is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College.

The final IS Focus of the academic year

Tuesday, 24 May, 4- 5:50, Conrad Prebys Music Center, Room 231

"Extended from What: A Critical Survey of Extended Vocal Techniques in Theory,Culture, and Practice"

Charissa Noble, University of San Diego

In the decades following World War II, exponential development in sound technology and significant growth in ethnomusicology as an academic discipline captivated the aesthetic imagination of many musicians; such breathless innovations and expanded cultural vistas intrigued artists already interested in musical experimentation as a mode of critical discourse that simultaneously critiques the musical and social status quo. One manifestations of this cultural zeitgeist included a heightened interest in so-called extended vocal techniques in the mid to late twentieth century.

Much of the pedagogical discourse defines extended vocal techniques [hereafter EVT] by way of a comprehensive list of examples, compiling indices of vocal practices and artists. By contrast, much of recent musicological literature avoids using the term altogether (perhaps due to its perceived ethnocentric connotations), and academic writing on experimental voice has trended toward artist biographies, interview anthologies, or critical readings of their works; yet the frequent discursive grouping together of these artists functionally reinforces (rather than challenges) the fraught implications of EVT. Few have clearly defined EVT in a way that addresses the varied historical and contextual understandings of the term and its attendant socio-cultural undertones, which has allowed it to remain murky, problematic, and tacitly shaped by cultural assumptions.

In this research, I suggest that recasting EVT as a situated framework of listening based on contextually-conditioned expectation clarifies the term and facilitates a more robust critical conversation about voice and vocal aesthetics as a site of dense meanings. By locating the appearances of the term EVT in musical discourse from earliest to latest, this research places EVT discourse and practice within concrete historical moments, attending to the time period, social context, institutional affiliations, and musical tradition of both the artists most frequently cross-referenced in EVT discourse (from Cathy Berberian to Pamela Z) as well as the authors who write about them. Through an investigation of EVT’s meaning(s), I formulate a rhizomatic account of the development of EVT as a concept across various Euro-American classical and post-classical traditions, and examine how its differences and similarities over the years has reflected and radically reimagined our broader perspectives on voices, bodies, music, and identity.

Charissa Noble is an experimental vocalist and musicologist, and currently teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2019), and previously earned an M.A. in music history at San Diego State University with a secondary emphasis in 20th Century American Art (2013). Her research interests include avant-garde music scenes in early 20^th century California coastal communities, as well as late 20^th century experimental vocal techniques and their overlap with developments in electronic sound. Charissa has presented her research at the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the International Society for Minimalist Music, Music and the Moving Image at New York University, and Cornell University’s After Experimental Music conference (2018). Her recent publications include an article on Johanna Beyer’s unfinished opera, Music of the Spheres in the journal Sound American. Charissa is also deeply committed to the advancement of the local arts scene in San Diego, collaborating on educational outreach programs with numerous local organizations including San Diego New Music, the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, San Diego Art Institute, and Art of Élan.

Ffft!

Concert and Lecture-Performances by Sabine Vogel and Alex Nowitz

Program:

Concert of Improvised Music for Voice, Flutes and Objects

Sabine Vogel: Recorded Landscapes
A lecture-performance about improvisation in and with the natural environment

Alex Nowitz: The Strophonion and I
Extended vocal performance art using custom, gesture-controlled live electronics

Q&A with Sabine Vogel and Alex Nowitz

Juliana Gaona presents her 2nd D.M.A. recital, dislocated shapes, featuring music by Obermüller, Cecillia Arditto, and Melissa Vargas on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater. 

Program:

different forms of phosphorus - Karola Obermüller
for cor anglais and extreme reverb

Música Invisible - Cecilia Arditto
for English horn

unrelentingly restless (premiere) - Melissa Vargas
for English Horn and objects

Arrangements of Latinamerican canciones
Mariana Flores (voice) 

Piano students directed by pianist Dimitris Paganos-Koukakis, D.M.A. '22 presents their Spring concert on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

Sophia Yermolenko

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp minor Op. 3, no. 2

W.A. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 9 in D Major, K. 311

                       I. Allegro con spirito

Shayan Kalantar

Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude S. 139 no. 1

W.A. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 8 in A Minor, K. 310

                       I. Allegro Maestoso

Seth Lerer

W.A. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 13 in B-flat major, K. 333

                       I. Allegro

                       II. Andante cantabile

                       III. Allegretto grazioso

Seth Durbin

L.V. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)

                          I. Allegro con brio

Kelly Feng

Claude Debussy: Estampes, L. 100

                            I. Pagodes

                            II. La soiree dans Grenade

                            III. Jardins sous la pluie

The UC San Diego Wind Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music doctoral candidate Michael Jones will be performing in the Conrad Prebys Music Center East Courtyard on Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m.

The concert will not be livestreamed. RSVP not required to attend in person.

Program:

Highland Anthem (2012) - Andrey Stolyarov (b. 1990)

Magneticfireflies (2001) - Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)

Loch Lomond (1991) - Traditional Scottish Tune (arr. R. Huntington-Woodman) (trombone part arr. Katherine Pittman)

Gravity (2018) - Aaron Mencher (b. 1996)

Divertimento for Band, Op. 42 (1951) - Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)

Percussionists Angel Cole and Eric Nguyen present their joint undergraduate honors recital in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater! They will be joined by UC San Diego Music graduate students Michael Jones and Mitchell Carlstrom for Water Music.

PROGRAM:

Velocities (1990) - Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)

Eruption of Sakurajima (2008) - Jessica Muñiz-Collado (b. 1986)

An Economy of Means (2016) - Robert Honstein (b. 1980)

Canned Heat (2002) - Eckhard Kopetzki (b. 1956)

Iterations (2021) - Rebecca Lloyd-Jones (b. 1989)

Water Music (2004) - Tan Dun (b. 1957)

Join us for the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music students on Friday, May 27, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall!

Featuring:

Terry Feng
Peyton Graves
Kaira Hammerstrøm
Hailey Myers
Trevor Newman
Joaquin Quintero
Ryan Rickey
Charles Schultz
Qui-Shawn Tran
Aditya Visvanath
Joslin Wang
Julia Yu

Alex Stephenson presents his sound installation Landscape with Changes in collaboration with lighting designer Jessica C. Flores. Landscape with Changes began as an online installation in 2021 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be its first in-person realization, utilizing eight-channel sound spatialization. The installation will run from approximately 5:00-9:00pm. Audience members are invited to come and go and can experience the environment whenever and for however long as they like. There are no loops, no exact repetitions of any kind—it is a landscape continually reinventing itself, yet, somehow, always recognizably the same.

Photo credit: Anqi Liu

Composer Alex Stephenson, fellow UC San Diego graduate musicians, conductor and UC San Diego Distinguished Professor Steven Schick, and visiting performers Duo Axis present "Hybrid Worlds," a concert of two recent works and a world premiere.

Program:

Stephenson: Three Reflections (2020–21) for solo piano and synthesizer

Shaoai Ashley Zhang, piano and synthesizer

Stephenson: Adrift (2021) for flutes, piano, and electronics

Duo Axis – Zach Sheets, flutes, Wei-Han Wu, piano

Stephenson: Chamber Concerto (2022) for nine players and electronics – world premiere

Michael Jones, percussion
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, percussion
Shaoai Ashley Zhang, piano and synthesizer
Kyle Adam Blair, synthesizer
Ilana Waniuk, violin
Pauline Ng, violin
Alex Taylor, viola
Peter Ko, cello
Matthew Kline, double bass
Steven Schick, conductor

The UC San Diego 95JC Jazz Ensemble directed by Kamau Kenyatta presents their Spring 2022 concert on Wednesday, June 1st at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater!

We Are All Singers is an interactive workshop presented by the UC San Diego Chamber Singers. Have you ever thought, “I bet I could sing, I just don’t know how,” or “I love singing, but only when no one can hear me”? Join us, and we’ll lead you in fun, intuitive exercises that help you tap into the experience of singing with your full Self!

Featuring:

Naveed Asgharpour

Audrey Gomez

Felipe Luzuriaga

Ani Sancianco

Hayata Shibuya

Jasper Sussman, director

The one fish two fish undergraduate percussion ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music doctoral candidate Michael Jones presents as rain hollows stone... featuring music by Molly Joyce, Tawnie Olson, David Macbride and Tan Dun on Friday, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Performers:

Mitchell Carlstrom

Angel Cole

Zoe Farrell

Xiao Feng

Ash Floyd

Michael Jones

Alexander Leong

Eric Nguyen

Program:

Chic (2014) - Molly Joyce (b. 1992)

as rain hollow stone... (2011) - Tawnie Olson (b. 1974)

Light Waves (2012) - David Macbride (1951-2018)

Water Music (2004) - Tan Dun (b. 1957)

The UC San Diego Chamber Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi presents their Spring concert on Friday, June 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

The MUS 32VM Vocal Masterclass, directed by UC San Diego Music graduate student Miguel Zazueta, presents their Spring concert on Sunday, June 5 at 2:00 p.m. in. the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.

PROGRAM:
Arias

Maria Torpey – Soprano / Song to the moon – Rusalka -Antonín Dvorák

Emma Price – Soprano / Un moto di giogia – Le Nozze di Figaro – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Aparna Alluri – Soprano / Batti, batti, o bel Masseto – Don Giovanni – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Sam Calto – Tenor / Stars – Les Misérables – Claus Michel Schönberg

Isabella Panagiotou – Soprano / O mio babbino caro – Gianni Schicchi – Giacomo Puccini

Greta Davis – Mezzo-soprano / Chanson Boheme – Carmen – Georges Bizet

Julia Yu – Soprano / Bester Jüngling – The Empresario – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Duets:

Emma Price and Sam Calto / Là ci darem la mano – Don Giovanni – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Maria Torpey and Julia Yu / Mira o Norma – Norma – Vicenzo Bellini

Aparna Alluri and Isabella Panagiotou / Sull'aria – Le Nozze di Figaro – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Julia Yu and Greta Davis / Flower duet – Lakmé - Léo Delibes

Instructor: Miguel Zazueta
Vocal Coach and accompanist: Dr. Kyle Adam Blair

Intersections in Music, Identity, and Society Research Symposium
Presented by MUS 120
Tuesday, June 7 
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

ON ZOOM! Links provided below!! 

All are welcome.
RSVP not required. 

This symposium is the culminating event for Contemporary Music Studies I & II, a course series in which students design, generate and carry out original research projects across all dimensions of musical thought and practice. Please join us to celebrate their incredible work, which engages themes around identity, family and personal transformation; explores music’s relationships to work, leisure and happiness; excavates and critiques institutional histories; celebrates subcultural communities; and dramatizes dance, performance, listening and artistic aspiration in action.  During the symposium, students will give 10-minute presentations on their research projects, followed by Q&A. Please bring headphones, a playback device (computer, tablet, smart phone), and your dancing shoes! All are welcome.  

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

11:00 am - 11:15 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amy Cimini, Kat Pittman and Special Guests 

ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87638028700?pwd=eTZGNG5UTFFENFBhUGtrTDkwelhHUT09

11:20 am - 12:30pm
Program Session 1
Panel 1A: Institutions, Cultures and Communities
Chair: Lydia Brindamour 
ZOOM LINK:  https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95144221760

**Shawn Wadhwani: The Grammys and its Institutional Flaws

**Julio Villarruel: Audio FX in a Spatialized setting

**Ziqing Chen: How Music Contributes to an Effective Advertisement: Researching the Role of Music in Advertising

**Randy Lew: Defining Authenticity of Jazz in a Foreign Context

**Madeline McKenzie: Rise Up!: An Analysis and Deep Dive into the Rising Feminine within Hip Hop and its Subculture

Panel 1B: Creative Interventions Across Media, History and Culture 
Chair: Anqi Liu
ZOOM LINK: https://ucsd.zoom.us/my/anqiliu

**Yichan Yin: Chinese Music in Comparison to the Western 

**Chris Lin: Wish

**Narek Megherdichi-Mardrosians: Sacred Prayers of Forgotten Ancestors

**Diego Martinez: Binding of Isaac: Sacrilege

**Sierra Plys: Violations in Timing

Panel 1C: Music in Academic Institutions and Underground Scenes 
Chair: AM Medina
ZOOM LINK: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98906312990

**Mariah Baxter: Identity and the Underground: Analyzing the Artist-Audience Relationship 

**Hailey Myers: Making a Music Department, Past and Present: Contemporary Dialogues with Erickson and Oliveros

**Jeremy Greenstein: The Contrasting Roles of Music as Work versus Music as Enjoyment

**Sophia DiGiovanni: The Impacts of Education on Music Perception

**Shayan Kalantar: 

12:30 pm - 12:40 pm Break

12:40 pm - 1:50 pm
Program Session 2
Panel 2A: Creative Interventions Across Dance, Friendship and Emotion
Chair: Lydia Brindamour
ZOOM LINK:  https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95144221760 

**Dennis Florendo: Harmony of Life 

**Zoe Farrell: Aspiring Artists: The Road to Fame

**Ezekiel Mortensen: Signal Smoke 

**Jackson Jakovic: Shine

**Tyler Lee: Latin Dance and the Human Experience

Panel 2B: Family Histories and Personal Transformations 
Chair: AM Medina
ZOOM LINK: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98906312990

**Jesus Leon: Una Mexicana En Los Estados Unidos

**Kaelynn Choi: Lost in the Musical Journey: How Encouragement Makes Dreams Happen

**Ray Jhay Bueno: Musical Influence to Musical Improvement: A Not So Simple Melody

**Benjamin Simon: A Personal Exploration in an Attempt to Reintegrate and Generate Awareness

Panel 2C: Happiness, Embodiments and Ethics in Practice  
Chair: Anqi Liu
ZOOM LINK: https://ucsd.zoom.us/my/anqiliu

**Albert Miao: Music as the Collective Unconscious: Animating the Mundane

**Jacob Harmon: How Our First Music Shapes Our Music Today

**Shannen King: The Prevalence of Foreign Language Music in a Country of Mixed Cultures

**Peihan Liu: Performance, Sound and Individuality: A Reflection  

1:55 pm - 2:00 pm
Closing Remarks
ZOOM LINK:  https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95144221760 

Tyler Lee, Post-Symposium Dance Workshop
ZOOM LINK:  https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95144221760 

Media work by Chase Anderson and Gabriel Michels in Gallery, TBA

Mus 201B Spring 2022 Final Concert: 

Two Works by The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Program:

Roscoe Mitchell (b. 1940)

People in Sorrow (1969) 

Malachi Favors Maghostut (1927- 2004)

Magg Zelma (1980)

Performers:

Boris Acosta Jaramillo, piano, percussion

Joey Bourdeau, drums, percussion, toys, voice

Matthew Henson, bass, percussion

Doug Osmun, electronics

Varun Rangaswamy, bassoon, percussion

Jonny Stallings, melodica, clarinet, toys, percussion

Grace Talaski, clarinets

Wilfrido Terrazas, flutes, whistles, percussion

UC San Diego's ICAM Music majors presents their senior projects on Thursday, June 9th at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, North Courtyard and at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.

5:00 PM - CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER, NORTH COURTYARD

Project exhibits by Charles Weigel, Daniel Yi, Eito Murakami, Eliezer Cervantes, Jeffrey Xing, Joshua Chiu, Lynden Kim, Ruby Do, Timothy Gmeiner, Christy Huynh, and Yu Zhang

7:00 PM - CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER 

Presentations by Eden Evans, Eito Murakami, Jeffrey Xing, Kevin Garnica, Mary May Nguyen, Raymond Rubalcava, Shangshu (Mint) Shi, Timothy Gmeiner, Valen Chang, and Yichan Yin

UC San Diego's ICAM Music majors presents their senior projects on Thursday, June 9th at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, North Courtyard and at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.

5:00 PM - CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER, NORTH COURTYARD

Project exhibits by Charles Weigel, Daniel Yi, Eito Murakami, Eliezer Cervantes, Jeffrey Xing, Joshua Chiu, Lynden Kim, Ruby Do, Timothy Gmeiner, Christy Huynh, and Yu Zhang

7:00 PM - CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER 

Presentations by Eden Evans, Eito Murakami, Jeffrey Xing, Kevin Garnica, Mary May Nguyen, Raymond Rubalcava, Shangshu (Mint) Shi, Timothy Gmeiner, Valen Chang, and Yichan Yin

"This class MUS 176 : CONTROLLER-ISM : APPLIED TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PERFORMANCES, explored the application of various midi controllers in a live performance context.  We studied the ergonomics of each controller in relationship with customizing software environments that catered to each individual’s music.  

We built multi-layered, internal layouts that lend itself to the most direct way to engage with the computer and the audience. 

The class  allowed them to think creatively about the structures and limitations that lay in front of them and how best to deal with this in a live context.

This is their first Controllerism performance in front of an audience."

- Professor King Britt

Controllerism is a term coined in ’05 by electronic producer Moldover.

Live performances by:
Yichan Yin
Omar Flores
Valen Chang
Guy Laborde
Jackson Matley
Maximillian Chen
Benjamin Redlawsk

video: Keanu Nazemi