Thursday, September 22 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Matthews Quad

Info booth, givesaways & free ice cream!

Stop by to learn about arts on campus. Talk to representatives from campus art departments, academic departments and student orgs and learn how you can be involved in the arts at UC San Diego!

Learn more at celebratearts.ucsd.edu 

VÍDDIR is a piece for nine flutes, electric bass, double bass, and three percussionists. The work has a special soundscape where texture and dimensions play a fundamental role. The main idea behind the composition is to merge different elements into a single organism. This piece is a collaboration between current UC San Diego alumni, students, and faculty, joined by musicians from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Island. 

Double bass and composition: Bára Gísladóttir

Electric Bass: Skúli Sverrisson

Flutes: Björg Brjánsdóttir, Berglind Tómasdóttir, Wilfrido Terrazas, Michael Matsuno, Rachel Beetz, Alexander Ishov, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Marco Romano, Salvador Lara

Percussions: M. Ángel Cuevas, Elian Sánchez

Sasha Berliner is an award winning vibraphonist and composer based in NYC. Named Downbeat Critics' Poll's Rising Star Vibraphonist winner in 2021, Sasha has notably shared the stage for recent projects with Christian McBride, Tyshawn Sorey, and Nicholas Payton, and leads her own group for international touring. She recently released “Onyx”(2022), her “vigorous, unabashedly avant garde sophomore recording […] finding the budding, San Francisco-born vibraphonist and composer in a fiery, dense and genre-bending posture.” Glide Magazine urges listeners to “add Berliner to the new vanguard of contemporary artists that are reshaping jazz with unconventional compositional approaches”. 

“A young mallet master” - JazzTimes Magazine
“Despite her tender age of 23, Berliner plays, composes and leads her band with maturity and artistic presence rarely attained. […] Berliner is
 in the firmament of the here and now in modern jazz, and appears likely to occupy that upper stratosphere for some time to come.” - Paul Rauch, All About Jazz

BlueRail is a two hour-long, multidisciplinary, international, site-specific, and improvised performance that moves through the halls, patio, stairs, and secret little corners of the Conrad Prebys Music Center building. Over 80 extraordinary musicians, dancers, and visual artists from UC San Diego, San Diego, and Baja California will create BlueRail's audio-visual world.

Like runners passing the baton in a relay race, these artists tag each other in and out of ensembles that will grow and change through parts of the building that we've chosen for the special ways in which they invite new social, convivial, and communal dynamics.

The event will be free and open to the public. Food and drinks will also be provided. The title BlueRail honors the dynamics of circulation that have shaped peoples’ lives in the region. Like the trolleys that change direction at the border, BlueRail explores improvised ways of listening and sound that push and pull in many directions at once.

We hope you will join us for this moving concert that fosters community in a fun and innovative way, while it also brings much needed warmth to our building!

UC San Diego Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor, composer Lei Liang has been collaborating with Scripps oceanographers John Hildebrand and Joshua Jones in exploring the sound of the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic—one of the most inaccessible places to humans on earth. The resulting composition, Six Seasons, combines the sound of the ambient environment (ice, waves, wind), its inhabitants (beluga whales, bowhead whales, bearded seals)—captured by hydrophones deployed at the sea floor—and creative response from one of the world’s leading contemporary music string quartets, Mivos Quartet. 

Buy Tickets: https://artpower.ucsd.edu/event/lei-lang-with-mivos-quartet 

• General Admission: $30
• UC San Diego Student: $9

“Both are absolute masters on their instruments, and both have released many albums as leaders of their own groups, often with each other as members, having collaborated for more than twenty years. . . . One has the sense that not only can Okazaki and Weiss anticipate each other’s next moves, but that they are both deeply dedicated to realizing each other’s artistic visions.” – The Paris Review

"composer-improvisers of absurdly expansive imaginative resources. . . a nearly telepathic rapport. This music is hyperacute and superdynamic, with myriad strategies at play.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO

“a high-order musical brainteaser and a memento of a deep, longstanding mind-meld between these two” - Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone

Miles Okazaki and Dan Weiss have been performing as a duo for over two decades. In early years their repertoire was focused largely on Weiss' translations of tabla material to drumset, and Okazaki's compositions for small ensembles. Gradually they incorporated a wide range of materials from the albums that they worked on together as well as covers and standards. In 2020, they each wrote complete suites for guitar and drums that were recorded and released on the album Music for Drums and Guitar. This concert will feature music from this release. 

Joy Guidry, bassoon - DMA Recital #1 featuring Jordan Davidson on cello

Radical Acceptance is the title of Joy’s new album, and it tells their story of processing trauma, self-care, self-love, and finding hope for the future. Drawing inspiration from the work of Sonya Renee Taylor, who has defined radical self-love as “its own entity, a lush and verdant island are offering safe harbor for self-esteem and self-confidence.”  While Joy’s musical offerings represent a range of musical idioms and methodologies, from improvisation and graphic scores to multimedia and gospel, the uniting principle for Guidry is a focus on the importance of affirmation, validation, and self-care.

Shahrokh Moshkin-Ghalam, Pejman Hadadi and Behfar Bahadoran will take the stage to explore the ecstatic art of improvised music and dance. Acclaimed as one of the world's greatest dancers, Shahrokh's revolutionary style will embody Pejman's masterful percussive expressions and Behfar's passionate motifs - based on the Persian classical Dastgah modal system and Maqam melodic phrasings - on Tar, Setar, and Tanbour.

The audience will be enthralled by this glorious celebration of Persian performing arts.

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PLEASE NOTE:  Audience members are HIGHLY encouraged to arrive early to secure parking and/or consider transportation alternatives. We anticipate a very, very busy campus on this evening.

The Improvisers Initiative presents the visionary bassist, improviser, composer, and educator, William Parker in a telematic concert performing with UC San Diego graduate student ensemble led by Mark Dresser and guests. Four new "sculpted improvisations," including dedications to Civil Rights activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois as well as experimental filmmaker Chantal Anne Akerman, and more.

William Parker is “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time.” - Village Voice  

Bio:

William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time.”  

In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.

Parker’s current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore.  Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others. 

***PLEASE NOTE:  Mr. Parker is not able to travel to San Diego for this concert, but he will perform live with the ensemble via "tele-presence"!

Blacktronika : Where I Stand Festival, brings together six innovative musical groups to create a full day of sonic cultural expression. The liberation-oriented free jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, Caribbean influenced multi-instrumentalism of Xenia Rubinos, the Grammy nominated cosmic funk from Georgia Ann Muldrow to the Zimbabwean hip hop of Chimurenga Renaissance, electro-acoustic time travelers Tyshawn Sorey and King Britt and UC San Diego’s debut of multicultural supergroup, 5hz .

Freedom music for your mind body and soul.

Blacktronika is a UC San Diego Music course created by Prof. King Britt, that honors the innovators of color who have contributed to the global advancement of electronic music.

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus

October 29-30, 2022- Powerful Nature

GUEST CONDUCTOR RUBEN VALENZUELA

This concert will open with Joan Tower’s intrepid work; a “tribute to women who take chances and who are adventurous.” We’ll then feature local favorite pianist Kyle Adam Blair as soloist in Chávez’ dynamic Piano Concerto. Beethoven’s beautiful “Pastoral” Symphony, so named by the composer himself, will complete the program.

Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #6

Carlos Chávez - Piano Concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #6

Soloist: Kyle Adam Blair, piano

Learn more: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/october-29-30-powerful-nature

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus

October 29-30, 2022- Powerful Nature

GUEST CONDUCTOR RUBEN VALENZUELA

This concert will open with Joan Tower’s intrepid work; a “tribute to women who take chances and who are adventurous.” We’ll then feature local favorite pianist Kyle Adam Blair as soloist in Chávez’ dynamic Piano Concerto. Beethoven’s beautiful “Pastoral” Symphony, so named by the composer himself, will complete the program.

Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #6

Carlos Chávez - Piano Concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #6

Soloist: Kyle Adam Blair, piano

Learn more: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/october-29-30-powerful-nature

BE - longing explores the converging specters that exist between sound, music, word, and image, and the construction of meaning in human experiences of space, its expansions, and contractions. Nuria Manzur-Wirth (texts, voice, staging), Jérôme Piguet (video installation), Maximilian Haft (music/violin), and Wilfrido Terrazas (music/flutes) make up the axes of this interdisciplinary and intra-sensory dialogue.

Blacktronika: Club Experience pop up is a physical in person extension of the Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music course. The course honors all the innovators of color that contribute to the advancement of electronic music. Chicago & NY House, Detroit Techno, Jamaican Dub, Funk, Disco, Hip Hop, Amipiano and more are all rooted in black music. These nights provide a remote course with the opportunity to experience the music the way it is meant to be, on a sound system in a safe space. Also provides an opportunity for all to unite for the rhythm. 

"So The Last Shall Be The First..."

In October 2010, Camera Lucida performed the very last string quartet of Beethoven, the Quartet in F major, Opus 135. Not only the last of his string quartets, Opus 135 is in fact Beethoven's last full composition, completed in October 1826, months before his death. With that performance, Camera Lucida initiated an extended survey of all sixteen quartets of Beethoven – not in one weekend, or in one season, but over years. In certain years we presented only one quartet; in some, more than one. These complex, intensely demanding works were situated in the familiar habitat of music by Haydn, Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms, surrounded by the avatars of that intoxicating and abundant world, 19th century European chamber music. Perversely, we programmed the Beethoven cycle in backwards order from the last to the first, working in reverse historical time, but forwards in lived time. We hoped to trace the mysteries of this music back to its beginnings, from the enigmas of the late quartets, to the almost embarrassing opulence and exhibitionism of the middle quartets, back to the initial salvo of six quartets published as Opus 18 in 1801. The penultimate installment of our cycle was the Quartet in c minor, Opus 18 No. 4, on February 10, 2020. And then the world pandemic stopped us in our tracks.

Camera Lucida returns on Monday, November 7 to the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall to complete our task. As the last chapter in this quixotic endeavor, 12 years after its inception, we will present the very first of Beethoven's quartets, the String Quartet in (again!) F major, Opus 18 No. 1.

Our program includes the Piano Trio in E-flat major of Haydn, as well as Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A major. We rejoice in welcoming you back to our concert hall, and to the sounds, vibrations, and shimmering resonances of the illuminated chamber, Camera Lucida.

Camera Lucida

Reiko Uchida, piano

Jeff Thayer and Wes Precourt, violins

Che-Yen Chen, viola

Charles Curtis, cello

Haydn: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Hob XV:30

Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Opus 18 Nr. 1

Dvorak: Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major, Opus 81

Ticket Information: music.ucsd.edu/tickets

Non-Campus Affiliate: $37.00 | Campus Affiliate: $25.00

Tickets are free at the door for UC San Diego students with ID. First come first serve and subject to availability.

David Borgo will be presenting a new ensemble and a new suite of original music, titled Cautiously Optimistic.

Featuring:

David Borgo, saxophones and flutes

Alan Eicher, piano

Zo Shah, electric guitar

Justin Grinnell, contrabass

Julien Cantelm, drum set

Please note this concert is cancelled tonight.

Music 201A. Projects in New Music Performance - Jazz Improvisation 

Graduate students under the instruction of Mark Dresser perform.

MUS 201A Improviser's Ensemble 

Tonight's concert is a response to a quarter-long immersion in different approaches to improvised music informed in part by a virtual residency and concert with the visionary renowned bassist, composer, author William Parker.  

We will present individual approaches and different strategies to activate improvised music for a medium size ensemble including notated scores with improvisational interludes, time based graphic scores, event based scores, and the conducted structured improvisation language, Soundpainting.

Enjoy!

Ensemble:

Ilana Waniuk-violin - graphic score
Natalia Merlano-Gomez - voice & electronics - Soundpainting
Miguel Zazueta-Cervera-voice
Anita Chandanvarkar - flutes - Soundpainting
Grace Talaski - clarinet/bass clarinet - Flow chart 
Paul Roth - alto sax - score
S Whiteley - graphic score
Jonny Stallings Cárdenas - piano - score
Camilo Zamudio - drums/percussion
Matthew Henson - instructional and graphic score
Mark Dresser - bass and instructor

Join us for the Fall 2022 Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music students on Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall!

RSVP to attend in person: music.ucsd.edu/tickets
Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live

PROGRAM:
Minuet - Henry Purcell
Grace Koumaras, harpsichord

Prelude and Fugue in C Major, WTC 1 - Bach
Suite in D minor - Froberger
Peihan Liu, harpsichord

The Death of Narcissus - Kaira Hammerstrøm
Kaira Hammerstrøm, clarinet
Calvin Luu, piano

Sonata for Clarinet in Bb and Piano - Francis Poulenc
Randy Lew, clarinet
Anthony Burr, piano

A Journey in the Folk and Traditional Music of Iran

Khosro Soltani: Persian Wind Instruments

Mohammad Ghavihelm: Tombak and Daf

The UC San Diego Gospel Choir directed by Ken Anderson presents their Fall 2022 concert in the Mandeville Auditorium.

The MUS 95JC Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kamau Kenyatta, presents their Fall 2022 concert in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.

Join us for the Chamber Orchestra's first concert since before the start of the pandemic. We present an exciting program of symphonic favorites. Conducted by graduate student Alex Taylor.

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven - Coriolan Overture
Antonín Dvořak - Symphony no. 9 "From the New World"

The MUS 33A Introduction to Composition course instructed by Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Music Lei Liang will be performing their works in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on Wednesday, November 30 at 3:00 p.m.

The MUS 130 Chamber Ensemble instructed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi presents their Fall 2022 concert in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on Friday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m.

DECEMBER 3-4, 2022- PASSIONATE VOICES

GUEST CONDUCTOR JEFFREY MALECKI

Subtitled “Foxtrot for Orchestra,” The Chairman Dances by Adams will open December’s concert program. Sang Song, this year’s Nee Commission winner, will premiere a brand-new work, after which the chorus will join the orchestra to present Rossini’s iconic and powerful Stabat Mater.

John Adams - The Chairman Dances

Sang Song

Nee Commission, 2022

Berk Schneider, Trombone Soloist

Gioachino Rossini - Stabat Mater

Victoria Robertson, soprano; Sarabeth Belon, mezzo-soprano; Bernardo Bermudez, tenor; Travis Sherwood, baritone

Ticket Link: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/december-3-4-2022---passionate-voices

DECEMBER 3-4, 2022- PASSIONATE VOICES

GUEST CONDUCTOR JEFFREY MALECKI

Subtitled “Foxtrot for Orchestra,” The Chairman Dances by Adams will open December’s concert program. Sang Song, this year’s Nee Commission winner, will premiere a brand-new work, after which the chorus will join the orchestra to present Rossini’s iconic and powerful Stabat Mater.

John Adams - The Chairman Dances

Sang Song

Nee Commission, 2022

Berk Schneider, Trombone Soloist

Gioachino Rossini - Stabat Mater

Victoria Robertson, soprano; Sarabeth Belon, mezzo-soprano; Bernardo Bermudez, tenor; Travis Sherwood, baritone

Ticket Link: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/december-3-4-2022---passionate-voices

The MUS 32VM Voice Students instructed by UC San Diego Music graduate student Miguel Zazueta presents their Fall 2022 concert on Sunday, December 4 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Recital Hall.

Percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones presents her third D.MA. recital on Friday, January 13th at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater. 

Program:

Netty Simons DESIGN GROUPS 1 (1967)

Maryanne Amacher ADJACENCIES (1965)

Performers:

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Dustin Donahue, Amy Cimini

Steven Schick, David Aguila, Theocharis Papatrechas

Winter Juries: A Collaboration Concert with First Year Composition and Performance students

Program:

Shadow (2022)
Haihui Zhang, composer
Jonathan Stehney, bassoon

Scope of Senses (2022), for flute and double bass
Akari Komura, composer
Anita Chandavarkar, flute
Andrew Crapitto, double bass

Four Scenes from Kusamakura (2022), for soprano and percussion
Andrew Crapitto, composer
Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano
Camilo Zamudio, percussion

one fish two fish ensemble:
Mitchell Carlstrom
Mel Chen
Zoe Farrell
Xiao Feng
Ash Floyd
Michael Jones
Alexander Leong
Thatcher Rexach

Program:

Credo in US (1942) - John Cage (1912-1992)

Immersion (1998) - Annea Lockwood (b. 1939)

Frogs (1958) - Keiko Abe (b. 1937)

Zoe Farrell, marimba

Trio for Percussion (1968) - William Kraft (1923-2022)

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29 Palm Trees (2019) - Kevin Good (b. 1992) - world premiere

Land (2004) - Takatsugu Muramatsu (b. 1978)

Alexander Leong, marimba

Lift-Off! (1968) - Russell Peck (1945-2009)

Wednesdays@7 presents Reed Family Concert: Double Concerto, conducted by UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick, on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, featuring music by Igor Stravinsky, UC San Diego Music Ph.D. candidate Alex Taylor, and Unsuk Chin.

Program:

Igor Stravinsky "Septet"

Alex Taylor "Inclinations"

Unsuk Chin "Double Concerto" (Ashley Zhang and Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, soloists)

Following more than a dozen years of live musical performance across geographical distance, Widening the Embrace continues a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. Directed by Mark Dresser and Michael Dessen, the concert features acclaimed musicians Ingrid Laubrock, Fay Victor and Patricia Brennan in New York City performing together with Dresser, Dessen, Joshua White, and Gerald Cleaver in California, with audiences at both locations. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, each concert features an ensemble of improvisers split across our two sites and premieres new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations.

Musicians in NYC:
Fay Victor – voice
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone
Patricia Brennan – vibraphone

Musicians in San Diego:
Michael Dessen – trombone
Joshua White – piano
Mark Dresser – bass
Gerald Cleaver – drums

Widening the Embrace: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert (San Diego - Seoul, 2023)

Widening the Embrace is the third stage in our collaboration, which began in 2016 with Changing Tides I and was followed at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 with Changing Tides 2: Requiem for the Earth. Our intention is to forge a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, an ensemble of ten Korean and American improvisers split across our two sites will premiere new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations.

Musicians performing in Seoul:
Jean Oh (guitar)
Aram Lee (daegum)
Ju Hee Go (haegum)
JoonSu Kim (singer)
Donghyeok Kwak (modular synthesizer)

Musicians performing in San Diego:
Michael Dessen (trombone)
Wilfrido Terrazas (flute)
Joshua White (piano)
Mark Dresser (bass)
Gerald Cleaver (drums)

Wilfrido Terrazas

The Torres Cycle

The Torres Cycle (2014-2021) is a music ritual which honors and celebrates the seven cardinal directions: North, South, East, West, Above, Below, Center. It comprises seven compositions for diverse instrumental ensembles which incorporate improvisatory and spatial strategies to ask fundamental questions about location, orientation, belonging, and seeking sanctuary. The Torres Cycle invites humans to engage in processes of reconciliation between us and the places we inhabit and their histories. The Torres Cycle was released as an album by the New York-based label New Focus Recordings in April 2022.

J.S. and J.C. BACH

Music for One and Two Harpsichords 
Harpsichordists: Arthur Haas and Takae Ohnishi

Program:
J.C.Bach / Sonata for two harpsichords
J.S. Bach / Ricercar 6 voices from Musical Offering for two harpsichords 
J.S. Bach / Goldberg Variations ( Arthur Haas)

UC San Diego Wind Ensemble

Michael Jones, director

Program:

Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2015) - Andrew Ardizzoia (b. 1979)

Irish Tune from County Derry (1918) - arr. Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Four Scottish Dances (1957) - Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)

In Dreams (2018) - Cait Nishimura (1991)

Canticle of the Creatures (1984) - James Curnow (b. 1949)
I. Prologue
II. Brother Sun
III. Sister Moon and Stars
IV. Brother Fire
V. Mother Earth
VI. Epilogue

UC San Diego Music welcomes sound artist, researcher and composer Stefan Maier to the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater for a collaborative evening length work with faculty member Michelle Lou. The duo will present a structured improvisation on hardware and software electronics and spatialized audio.

FEBRUARY 11-12, 2023- LEARNING TO FLY

STEVEN SCHICK MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS, CONDUCTOR

We welcome back Steven Schick to conduct this exciting concert. Mary Kouyoumdjian, UCSD alumna and celebrated composer often described as “politically fearless,” will be this year’s Brenda and Steven Schick commission honoree. The orchestra will then present Stravinsky’s energetic Firebird Suite, a work whose premiere was so successful it catapulted the composer to international fame. We will then share Varèse’s work, Octandre, followed by American operatic soprano, and UCSD faculty member, Susan Narucki performing Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

Walking with Ghosts                                   Mary Kouyoumdjian

Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet

Brenda and Steven Schick Commission

Igor Stravinsky                                              Firebird Suite

Edgard Varèse                                             Octandre

Richard Strauss                                            Four Last Songs

Jeff Anderle, Bass Clarinet; Susan Narucki, Soprano

Learn more about The Steven Schick Prize for Acts of Musical Imagination and Excellence, click here.

Purchase tickets: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/february-11-12-2023-learning-to-fly

FEBRUARY 11-12, 2023- LEARNING TO FLY

STEVEN SCHICK MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS, CONDUCTOR

We welcome back Steven Schick to conduct this exciting concert. Mary Kouyoumdjian, UCSD alumna and celebrated composer often described as “politically fearless,” will be this year’s Brenda and Steven Schick commission honoree. The orchestra will then present Stravinsky’s energetic Firebird Suite, a work whose premiere was so successful it catapulted the composer to international fame. We will then share Varèse’s work, Octandre, followed by American operatic soprano, and UCSD faculty member, Susan Narucki performing Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

Walking with Ghosts                                   Mary Kouyoumdjian

Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet

Brenda and Steven Schick Commission

Igor Stravinsky                                              Firebird Suite

Edgard Varèse                                             Octandre

Richard Strauss                                            Four Last Songs

Jeff Anderle, Bass Clarinet; Susan Narucki, Soprano

Learn more about The Steven Schick Prize for Acts of Musical Imagination and Excellence, click here.

Purchase tickets: https://lajollasymphonychorus.ticketspice.com/february-11-12-2023-learning-to-fly

Kosuke Matsuda is presenting his first DMA recital at the UC San Diego Department of Music on Monday, February 13th at 5PM(PT) in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.

The concert will feature “Reminiscence” by Toshio Hosokawa, “Chatter/Clatter” by Roger Reynolds, “Weiss/Weisslich 31e” by Peter Ablinger, and “Bone Alphabet” by Brian Ferneyhough. Theocharis Papatrechas will be a collaborator in creating electric and spatialized sound systems.

Kosuke Matsuda Bio:

Kosuke Matsuda is a solo percussionist born in Nagasaki, Japan, who has performed throughout Asia and the United States. He graduated from Ueno Gakuen University in 2015 with a Bachelor's of Arts in Percussion Performance. He studied with Kunihiko Komori at the Aichi University of Fine Art, while earning his Master's of Arts in Percussion Performance in 2017. He moved to the United States in 2018, and completed his second master's degree and artist diploma at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Here, he studied contemporary music performance with Svet Stoyanov and orchestral music with Matthew Strauss.

Matsuda performed as a soloist with Lancaster Symphony in 2019. He gave the Japanese world premiere of Le Livre des Claviers (entire movements) by Philippe Manoury in 2018. He presented the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Percussion Symphony No.2 with the New World Symphony percussion ensemble in 2019.

He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music Performance under Steven Schick’s percussion studio at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a member of the Red Fish Blue Fish percussion ensemble group.

My first UC San Diego recital, "Apparition," showcases highly contrasting pieces that yet revolve around themes of internal and external presence. First, S Whiteley’s sonically and visually intriguing new work “INTRA” blends cello, live electronics, interactive lights, and choreography, exploring the entangled unconscious of performer/instrument, folly, presence, and absence of the human body from the stage. Next, Luigi Dallapiccola, in his « Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio ,» uses a colorful array of expressive markings serving to fully conceal and illuminate fragments of 12-tone collections. To follow, Liza Lim's "Invisibility" explores the "aesthetics of presence" in which "shimmering effects both reveal and hide the presence of the numinous." Finally, Chinary Ung's "Grand Alap: A Window in the Sky" brings the numinous to the forefront, communicating to the surrounding spirits and symbolizing a rebirth of the soul.

Program:

INTRA (2023) by S Whiteley

Luigi Dallapiccola: Ciaccona, Intermezzo, e Adagio 

Liza Lim: Invisibility 

Chinary Ung: Grand Alap 

    with Yongyun Zhang, percussion

The Wednesday@7 Palimpsest concert, conducted by Distinguished Professor of Music Aleck Karis, features a world premiere by UC San Diego Music Ph.D. candidate Erin Graham, Mario Davidovsky's "Ambiguous Symmetries," Harrison Birtwistle's "Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum," and Arnold Schoenberg’s classic “Ode to Napoleon”.

Genre bending, luscious ethereal ice cream for the ears; that’s what the best experimental music for voice and electronics can be. Our hour-long concert will feature music by composers from all across the globe who have transformed the singing voice through their boundless musical ideas.  Performed in the superb technological space of the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater, our concert is a chance to experience electronic music in a way you’ve never imagined.

kallisti is a vocal ensemble at UC San Diego performing contemporary Chamber Opera and masterworks of 20/21st CenturyVocal Chamber Music led by Grammy Award winning Soprano Susan Narucki. 

Program:

Rand Steiger

Falling, rising    for two female voices and electonics

Natalia Merlano Gomez and Mariana Flores Bucio, sopranos

Agata Zubel

Parlando             for voice and electronics
Unisono 1           for voice, percussion and electronics

Miguel Zazueta tenor and Mitchell Carlstrom percussion

Phillippe Manoury

Illud etiam          for soprano and electronics

Mariana Flores, soprano

Marta Sniady    

S!C2  for soprano and electronics

Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano

Macri Cáceres

Cuerpo y Territorio (2022)  Voice, flutes, and voice pedal

Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano

Peter Ko presents his second DMA recital, “that which remains..”, a program that interweaves music of the Renaissance with contemporary works. It features works by Matthias Pintscher, Tobias Hume, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Carolyn Chen.

Program:

Figura V / Assonanza (2020) - Matthias Pintscher

Pavan (p. 1605) - Tobias Hume

Adagio, from “Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio” (1945) - Luigi Dallapiccola

Captain Hume’s Galliard (p. 1605) - Tobias Hume

Woodycock (ca. 1580) - Anonymous

rara avis (2015) - Carolyn Chen

Woodycock (ca. 1580) - Anonymous

Wednesdays@7 presents red fish blue fish, directed by UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick, on Wednesday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater. The ensemble featuring Steven Schick, Michael Jones, Kosuke Matsuda, Yongyun Zhang, Mitchell Carlstrom and Camilo Zamudio will perform music by David Lang and John Cage.

Program:

John Cage

But what about the noise of crumpling paper which he used to do in order to paint the series of "Papiers froissés" or tearing up paper to make "Papiers déchirés?" Arp was stimulated by water (sea, lake, and flowing waters like rivers), forests

John Cage

Amores I.II.III.IV for percussion trio and prepared piano

David Lang

The So-called Laws of Nature

The Ensemble:

Mitchell Carlstrom

Mel Chen

Ash Floyd

Zoe Farrell

Michael Jones

Alexander Leong

Kosuke Matsuda

Steven Schick

Camilo Zamudio

Yongyun Zhang

Myra Hinrichs presents her DMA recital, “Some Slightly Louder Music," with music by Lim, Sabat, Goldfarb, Democ and Hinrichs on Friday, March 3rd at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Program:

Claudius Ptolemy by Marc Sabat (with Peter Ko, cello)

Philtre by Liza Lim

Alec Goldfarb

Ziadba by Adrian Democ

Simultaneously by Myra Hinrichs

Blacktronika: Club Experience pop up is a physical in person extension of the Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music course. The course honors all the innovators of color that contribute to the advancement of electronic music. Chicago & NY House, Detroit Techno, Jamaican Dub, Funk, Disco, Hip Hop, Amipiano and more are all rooted in black music. These nights provide a remote course with the opportunity to experience the music the way it is meant to be, on a sound system in a safe space. Also provides an opportunity for all to unite for the rhythm. 

Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman continue their exploration of the songs of women composers in a concert to be presented on March 8, 2023, at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at the UC San Diego Department of Music.  The duo's recording of songs by women composers, This Island, featuring songs by Nadia Boulanger, Marion Bauer, Henriette Bosmans, Elizabeth Claisse and Irene Fuerison, was released by London's AVIE Records in February 2023.  

The upcoming program features works by two illustrious living composers, Tania Leon and Judith Weir as well as little known works by African American composer Margaret Bonds, French composer Elizabeth Claisse, and more. Although written in a wide array of compositional styles, each composer has an uncommon sensitivity to the fusion of text and music, and exceptional skill in writing for the combination of voice and piano.  

British composer Judith Weir's The Voice of Desire, a song cycle written in 2003, is a series of conversations between humans and birds, in which, according to the composer, "the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint than their human hearers."  With texts by John Keats, Thomas Hardy Robert Bridges and a setting of Yoruba Poetry translated by Ulli Beier, Weir's luminous, intricate writing for the piano provides a perfect framework for vocal writing of immense variety and uncommon skill.  

Cuban-born American Tania Leon was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize and honored at the Kennedy Center.  Her music is characterized by its rhythmic vitality, bold use of instrumental timbre and color and inventive and expressive vocal writing.  The Atwood Songs, with poems by the well-known novelist Margaret Atwood, are by turns exuberant, irreverent and wistful.  Margaret Bonds is best known for her settings of texts by Langston Hughes; our program will present four little known setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay.  In addition, Elena Ruehr's exquisite piano solo, Erinnerung, and selections from This Island will complete the program. 

Anita Chandavarkar, flute presents her first D.M.A. Recital on Thursday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Program:

Poison Mushroom, for flute and electronics - Dai Fujikura (b. 1977)

Anita Chandavarkar, flute

Naakishchiin Ana’i, for flute and marimba - Raven Chacon (b. 1977)
Anita Chandavarkar, flute
Kosuke Matsuda, marimba

Solo Improvisation
Anita Chandavarkar, bansuri

Improvisation
Anita Chandavarkar, flute; Andrew Crapitto, double bass; Sergey Kasich, electronics; Ilana Waniuk, violin; Camilo Zamudio, percussion

Join us for the Winter 2023 Undergraduate Forum showcasing UC San Diego's undergraduate music students on Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall!

The UC San Diego 95JC Jazz Ensemble directed by Kamau Kenyatta presents their Winter 2023 concert on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Mandeville Auditorium!

Piano students, instructed by Shaoai Ashley Zhang, presents their Winter 2023 concert on Monday, March 13 at 2:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Scriabin, Godowsky, Debussy and Schumann.

Performers:

Sophia Yermolenko

Jack Melcher

Shayan Kalantar

Rachael Qian

Seth Durbin

Kelly Feng

Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flute presents her D.M.A. Recital, WHITE, featuring works by Alonso, Díaz de Cossio, Stallings, Saunders, Retif and Waniuk, on Monday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Featuring:
Mariana Flores, Ana and Rocío Díaz de Cossio, and Jonathan Stallings

For the winter quarter, the Chamber Orchestra has split into two orchestras, so that we can fit on the Concert Hall stage (!) We present two programs, both featuring the music of the excellent and influential composer Joseph Bologne (often known by his title the Chevalier de Saint-Georges). He was perhaps the first musician of African descent to be widely celebrated in Europe, and as well as being a virtuoso violinist, conductor and fencer, his violin writing in particular was hugely influential on Mozart.

We also feature two exciting larger symphonies: Schubert’s “Unfinished” and Tchaikovsky’s second symphony, which draws its material from Ukrainian folk songs.

Program:

Symphony no. 1, in G Major - Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Allegro Assai

Symphony no. 8 in B Minor, “Unfinished” - Franz Schubert

I. Allegro Moderato

II. Andante con moto

Intermission

Symphony no. 2, in D Major - Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

I. Allegro Presto

II. Andante

III. Presto

Symphony no. 2, in C Major, “Ukrainian” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I. Andante sostenuto – Allegro vivo

II. Andantino marziale, quasi moderato

III. Scherzo: Allegro molto vivace

IV. Finale: Moderato assai – Allegro vivo

The UC San Diego Gospel Choir, directed by Ken Anderson, presents their Winter 2023 concert on Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. in the Mandeville Auditorium. 

Undergraduate students enrolled in the MUS 33B Introduction to Composition course instructed by Erin Graham presents their compositions on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 at 2:30 pm in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Recital Hall!

Performers:

Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flute

Alex Taylor, viola

Peter Ko, cello

The UC San Diego Bach Ensemble, directed by Takae Ohnishi, presents their Winter 2023 concert on Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

The UC San Diego Wind Ensemble directed by Michael Jones presents their Winter 2023 concert, featuring music by Chen Yi, Paul Creston, Darius Milhaud, Ryan Bear and Paul Hindemith, on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mandeville Auditorium.

Program:

Spring Festival (2001) - Chen Yi

Suite Française (1945) - Darius Milhaud

I. Normandie

II. Bretagne

III. Ile de France

IV. Alsace-Lorraine

V. Provence

Legend (1944) - Paul Creston

The Arrival of Wingèd Victory (2021) - Ryan Beard

“March” from Symphonic Metamorphosis (1945, arr. 1972) - Paul Hindemith (arr. Keith Wilson)

Zakir Hussain is a Grammy award-winning tabla musician who has opened new possibilities beyond the framework of traditional Indian music in collaboration with artists of other diverse genres worldwide. Hussain’s performance innovations include a unique method of creating melodies on the tabla, originally regarded as a rhythmic instrument of accompaniment. In the process, he has expanded the tabla’s possibilities and established it as one of the most expressive percussion instruments in the world. With his superb technique, engaging performances, and rich creativity, he has made a tremendous impact on world music audiences and performers alike.

A Q and A session between world renowned sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri (Indian Classical Music, UC San Diego) and maestro Zakir Hussain precedes the event.

Register Here: https://kps-zakirhussain.eventbrite.com

The UC San Diego Chamber Ensemble directed by UC San Diego Music faculty Takae Ohnishi presents their Winter concert on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

MARCH 18-19, 2023- MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

GUEST CONDUCTOR MICHAEL GERDES

Brahms’s colossal Requiem may have been inspired by the death of his mother in 1864, a loss which caused him
profound grief. This large-scale work for orchestra, chorus, and soprano and baritone soloists is performed in German, a departure from the traditional Latin. Also on this program, we’ll feature the 2021 Nee Commission winner, Alex Stephenson. The program will open with Missy Mazzoli’s “minimalist” gymnopédie for small orchestra, Music for Orbiting Spheres.

Program:

Missy Mazzoli                                               Music for Orbiting Spheres

Alex Stephenson                                          Nee Commission, 2021

Johannes Brahms                                        Ein Deutsches Requiem

Soloist: Philip Lima, Baritone; Tasha Koontz, Soprano

Tickets: https://www.ljsc.org/events/october-29-30-2022-powerful-nature-921-873-891

MARCH 18-19, 2023- MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

GUEST CONDUCTOR MICHAEL GERDES

Brahms’s colossal Requiem may have been inspired by the death of his mother in 1864, a loss which caused him
profound grief. This large-scale work for orchestra, chorus, and soprano and baritone soloists is performed in German, a departure from the traditional Latin. Also on this program, we’ll feature the 2021 Nee Commission winner, Alex Stephenson. The program will open with Missy Mazzoli’s “minimalist” gymnopédie for small orchestra, Music for Orbiting Spheres.

Program:

Missy Mazzoli                                               Music for Orbiting Spheres

Alex Stephenson                                          Nee Commission, 2021

Johannes Brahms                                        Ein Deutsches Requiem

Soloist: Philip Lima, Baritone; Tasha Koontz, Soprano

Tickets: https://www.ljsc.org/events/october-29-30-2022-powerful-nature-921-873-891

MUS 32VM Voice Students, directed by Miguel Zazueta, presents their Winter Recital on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall!

Singers: Greta Davis, Maria Torpey, Amelia Mardesich, Isabella Panagiotou, Aparna Alluri, Emma Price, Sam Calto *Guest, Jackson Jakovic, Leticia Guzmán, Zoe Graziano, Imo Gong, Kit Chan, and Yuhan Leng

Accompanied by: Dr. Kyle Adam Blair

The one fish two fish undergraduate percussion ensemble directed by Michael Jones presents their Winter 2023 concert, featuring music by Steve Reich, Owen Clayton Condon, Andrea Mazzariello, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Frederic Rzewski, on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023, 7:00 pm in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater.

Program:

Music for Pieces of Wood (1973) - Steve Reich

Fractalia (2011) - Owen Clayton Condon

Babybot (2008-11) - Andrea Mazzariello

Aura (2011, arr. for quartet 2015) - Anna Thorvaldsdottir

Les Moutons de Panurge (1969) - Frederic Rzewski

Percussionist Yongyun Zhang presents her first DMA recital in the Experimental Theater on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 5:00 p.m.

The program will include a diverse selection of works, including Grand Alap: “A Window in the Sky” (1996), Toucher (1973), The King of Denmark (1964), ?Corporel (1985), by renowned composers Chinary Ung (b. 1942), Vinko Globokar (b. 1934), and Morton Feldman (1926-1987).

Yongyun will be joined by Robbie Bui on cello for Globokar's Toucher. 

Stage direction by UC San Diego Theatre & Dance PhD candidate: Michelle Huynh.

FOR PHILIP GUSTON (1984) - Morton Feldman

Alexander Ishov, flutes
Liam Wooding, piano and celesta
Steven Schick, percussion

duration: approximately 4 hours 30 minutes
image: Friend - To M.F. by Philip Guston (1978)

Read Robert Worby's "Notes on For Philip Guston by Morton Feldman"

Grace Talaski, clarinet, will perform classic well-loved pieces in the contemporary solo clarinet repertoire as well as the premiere of a wacky new piece composed by her. The program will start with Press Release (1992) by David Lang (b. 1957), a funky minimalist solo bass clarinet piece. Next is the lively standard Three Pieces for clarinet solo (1918) by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Then Grace will perform In Memoriam Jon Higgins for clarinet in A and slow sweep, pure wave oscillator (1987) by Alvin Lucier (1931-2021), a work with a sonically rich and complex audience experience. Finally, the program will conclude with the world premiere of Grace’s new composition Three Elaborations for demi-clarinet (2022). Written for a shortened version of the B-flat clarinet, this piece is a whimsical and humorous extended technique exploration.

About Grace Talaski: 

Grace Talaski is a clarinetist and composer originally from Caro, Michigan. Grace specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century clarinet repertoire, especially pieces involving electronics and extended techniques. She enjoys free improvisation and creating clarinet-based sound worlds with electronics. Grace also composes music for solo clarinet that focuses on exploring the vast sonic possibilities that the clarinet has to offer, especially through experimentation with multiphonics. Grace received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance and Chemistry from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 2017. Grace received a Master of Music in Performance from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2021. She is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in Contemporary Performance at UC San Diego.

Pandit Kartik Seshadri, sitar

Accompanied by Pandit Arup Chattopadhyay on Tabla

An hour long opera for voices and piano that only uses four pitches, and is full of variety, expression and hilarious to boot - too good to be true, right?  Not at all!  Tom Johnson’s The Four Note Opera  has been an underground favorite since its premiere in 1972.  Supremely well-crafted for the vocalists and written in the minimalist style,  Johnson’s tale is a joyous and bouyant look at idosyncracies (!) of beloved genre of opera, as well as  the charming foibles of those who perform it.  

An hour long opera for voices and piano that only uses four pitches, and is full of variety, expression and hilarious to boot - too good to be true, right? Not at all! Tom Johnson’s The Four Note Opera has been an underground favorite since its premiere in 1972. Supremely well-crafted for the vocalists and written in the minimalist style, Johnson’s tale is a joyous and bouyant look at idosyncracies (!) of beloved genre of opera, as well as the charming foibles of those who perform it.

An hour long opera for voices and piano that only uses four pitches, and is full of variety, expression and hilarious to boot - too good to be true, right? Not at all! Tom Johnson’s The Four Note Opera has been an underground favorite since its premiere in 1972. Supremely well-crafted for the vocalists and written in the minimalist style, Johnson’s tale is a joyous and bouyant look at idosyncracies (!) of beloved genre of opera, as well as the charming foibles of those who perform it.

VOZ DORMIDA: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Alida Vázquez

Mexican American composer Alida Vázquez Ayala (1930–2016) was an essential figure in the narratives of women pioneers in electronic music and a feminist who actively worked towards achieving spaces of equity for women composers. Still, her life story and work are virtually unknown. This conference intends to celebrate Vázquez’s legacy by hosting key figures in her life – friends, mentors, colleagues, and family, many of whom will meet for the first time in this event— and by offering performances of her work for the first time in decades. 

This conference will be a space to critically engage with fundamental topics related to women in the arts during the 20th Century, to feminism, in particular Chicana/Latina feminism, and others such as migration and identity, situated in between the context Vázquez grew up in, in Mexico, and the context she spent most of her life in, in New York City. Also key to this event is bringing Vazquez's music back to life. There will be a concert dedicated to her work featuring UC San Diego graduate students and alumni, to take place at the UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center.

DAY ONE:  Conference papers in the Experimental Theater.

DAY ONE at 5:00 PM in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall:  CONCERT Honoring the Life and Work of Alida Vázquez

VOZ DORMIDA: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Alida Vázquez

Mexican American composer Alida Vázquez Ayala (1930–2016) was an essential figure in the narratives of women pioneers in electronic music and a feminist who actively worked towards achieving spaces of equity for women composers. Still, her life story and work are virtually unknown. This conference intends to celebrate Vázquez’s legacy by hosting key figures in her life – friends, mentors, colleagues, and family, many of whom will meet for the first time in this event— and by offering performances of her work for the first time in decades. 

This conference will be a space to critically engage with fundamental topics related to women in the arts during the 20th Century, to feminism, in particular Chicana/Latina feminism, and others such as migration and identity, situated in between the context Vázquez grew up in, in Mexico, and the context she spent most of her life in, in New York City. Also key to this event is bringing Vazquez's music back to life. There will be a concert dedicated to her work featuring UC San Diego graduate students and alumni, to take place at the UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center.

DAY TWO:  Workshops in the Experimental Theater

MAY 6-7, 2023 ECHOES OF COLOR

GUEST CONDUCTOR SAMEER PATEL

This concert will be bookended by two stunning pieces by British composer Anna Clyne. The opening work Within Her Arms was written as an ode to her mother, a meditation on loss, love, and life. The closing work will be her 2020 composition, Color Field, a work that was inspired by abstract artist Mark Rothko’s painting: Orange, Red, Yellow. Aaron Copland’s orchestral suite from the ballet Rodeo, and Leon Littlebird’s 2021 Brenda and Steven Schick commission, When Echoes Speak, will round out the program.

Anna Clyne                                     Within Her Arms

Aaron Copland                               Suite from Rodeo

Leon Littlebird/Max Wolpert     When Echoes Speak
2021 Brenda and Steven Schick commission

Anna Clyne                                     Color Field

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

MAY 6-7, 2023 ECHOES OF COLOR

GUEST CONDUCTOR SAMEER PATEL

This concert will be bookended by two stunning pieces by British composer Anna Clyne. The opening work Within Her Arms was written as an ode to her mother, a meditation on loss, love, and life. The closing work will be her 2020 composition, Color Field, a work that was inspired by abstract artist Mark Rothko’s painting: Orange, Red, Yellow. Aaron Copland’s orchestral suite from the ballet Rodeo, and Leon Littlebird’s 2021 Brenda and Steven Schick commission, When Echoes Speak, will round out the program.

Anna Clyne                                     Within Her Arms

Aaron Copland                               Suite from Rodeo

Leon Littlebird/Max Wolpert     When Echoes Speak
2021 Brenda and Steven Schick commission

Anna Clyne                                     Color Field

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

Travel back in time with harpsichordist and UC San Diego lecturer Takae Ohnishi as she teams up with friends from the San Diego Symphony to revel in the joys of a springtime evening in the Baroque era. It is certain to be a lighthearted evening filled with virtuosic performances of some of the great works written for the harpsichord. 

Presented by ArtPower | Ticket information

image: Chris Weiss

Photography: Shayne Gray, Artwork: Dan Tapper

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/