News Archive from 2019-2020
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"The History of the Blues…Scale?" by PhD candidate Asher Tobin Chodosis a featured guest post in Ethan Iverson's blog: "Do the Math". https://ethaniverson.com/the-history-of-the-blues-scale-gu…/ The full article may be found in Jazz Perspectives: |
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Two new faculty members join the Music Department, King James Britt and Matthew Leslie Santana
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Former UC San Diego professor George Lewis is honored with the prestigious Doris Duke Foundation Award
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Donald Trump, opera star? Maybe so, in Anthony Davis’
‘Central Park Five’
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Assistant Professor Sarah Hankins named one of the 2019-2020 Hellman Fellows
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UC San Diego had a large presence at LA Phil's Noon to Midnight Event
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Distinguished Professor and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick performed at the 73rd Ojai Music Festival
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Professor Mark Dresser has received several incredible reviews for his recent release, “Ain’t Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You”, including a NY Times Playlist Pick.
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Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer and UC San Diego music professor Lei Liang had worked with poets, painters and dancers, but never with beluga whales before he came to the university’s Qualcomm Institute as its Research Artist in Residence.
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Professor Shlomo Dubnov's piece, "Query-based Deep Composition" will be in the upcoming MuMe Concert at UNC Charlotte, June 18th.
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Graduate Student Fernanda Aoki Navarro to be one of six composers in the ICECommons Artist-In-Residence program
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Professor Katharina Rosenberger has been awardedthe prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition
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Scientific American: Machines can create art, but can they jam?
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Grammy-winner Kamau Kenyatta and composer Joe Garrison doubly in sync
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Congratulations Grad Student Yi-Hsien Chen!
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Ph.D. Candidate Elisabet Curbelo has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Music Theory at the University of Utah. Alumnus Nick Demaison was hired as an Assistant Professor of Conducting and Director of Orchestral Studies at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and graduating senior Nicole Shao has been accepted into Columbia University’s sound art program.
Both Alumna Chaya Czernowin and Graduate Student Fernanda Aoki Navarro have been awarded Radcliffe Institution fellowships for their works Fast Darkness and In Her Words, respectively.
The New York City based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé, led by conductor Ben Grow, with guest soprano UC San Diego Alumna Alice Teyssier was listed in the New York Times for their performance of a set of 21st century large ensemble works programmed around Claude Vivier's 1981 masterpiece, Bouchara.
Congratulations to each of you!
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European Research Council Awards UC San Diego Professor 2.5 million Euros for Music Research
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Alumni Jonathan and Jared Mattson win San Diego Music Awards’ 2019 Best Jazz Album
Jade Griffin of Triton Magazine writes, "The Mattson 2 is rife with colorful sounds of rhythm, improvisation, story, and of course, the ocean. As they expand the definition of jazz, they are inspiring younger generations of listeners to appreciate the beauty and depth of the genre."
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Graduate Student Nathaniel Haering Wins Prestigious 2019 ASCAP/SEAMUS Award
Congratulations to Graduate Student Nathaniel Haering!
He is the first-prize winner of the 2019 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition.
His new work will be premiered at next years SEAMUS (The Society For Electro-Acoustic Music In the United States) National Conference at the University of Virginia.
The winning piece, "Medical Text p.57" will be released on Music from SEAMUS vol 29.
Nathaniel was one of 4 finalists and was then selected as the first prize winner at the SEAMUS Banquet, at which Gordon Mouma was being honored with the SEAMUS (lifetime achievement) award.
Award description website:
Previous winners:
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Anthony Davis’ ‘Black Lives Matter’ concert to re-visit two of his operas — and preview his next
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Ben Gurion University invites Professor Shlomo Dubnov to speak at its Distinguished Scientist Visitors Program
Professor Shlomo Dubnov has been invited on behalf of the Computer Sciences Department and the Faculty of Natural Science's Distinguished Scientist Visitors Program to give this talk in Ben Gurion University, Israel.
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In February, as a part of Thorpe's week-long residency, she performed among sound installations created by Beloit students on in the Wright Museum.
Inspired by David Tudor's "Rainforest," which Thorpe contributed to, students were charged with collecting the sounds of Beloit. They recorded in various spaces on campus including residence halls, the Science Center, and outdoors, then they composed soundscapes using these recordings.
Thorpe also gave talks on composing nonanthropocentrically and sound as place of maintaining environmental stability, in addition to a performance with sound art made by the students of Yvonne Wu. She was joined by Stephan Moore for the performance.
Read the full description of the residency here.
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April 10th 2019
Keir will be playing a trio recital with fellow AMOC instrumentalists Conor Hanick (piano) and Coleman Itzkoff (cello) at National Sawdust in NYC. Pieces will include Its Own Accord, a piece written for him by Matthew Aucoin, and Celeste Oram’s Sanz cuer/Amis, dolens/Dame, par vous (2016), a work that uses a medieval French ballade as a springboard to explore the fluidity between the sacred and the mundane, the virtual and the real, the performative and the everyday.
April 12th 2019
Keir will be playing two pieces written for him by Matthew Aucoin. Performing with Matt Aucoin and with violinist Miranda Cuckson, as part of a live WBUR broadcast concert in Boston.
April 24th & 25th 2019
Keir will be performing his collaboration with choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith, A Study on Effort, at UNC Chapel Hill as part of the Carolina Performing Arts initiative, featuring music by James Tenney, JS Bach, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Malcolm Goldstein, as well as his own compositions/improvisations.
May 16th-19th 2019
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Jazz trumpeter Stephanie Richards pays tribute to New York City on her sophomore album Take the Neon Lights, out now.
After her “spellbinding” (NPR) debut celebrated by the
New York Times as a “bold pronouncement” trumpeter Stephanie Richards celebrates her latest project Take The Neon Lights (Birdwatcher records). An avant/jazz expedition of grit and brilliance, this project is takes sounds of city life and explores a spontaneous prose of ugly beauty.
The album features NYC players James Carney on piano, Sam Minaie on bass and Andrew Munsey on drums, the single, titled Brooklyn Machine made the New York Times playlist for 2019, with Nate Chinen’s WBGO calling it “ingenious….Steph Richards is a trumpeter whose skillset explodes every category”.
Read the review on "The Free Jazz Collective" here.
Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead Critic reviews Assistant Professor Stephanie Richards' new album "Take The Neon Lights" On NPR's Fresh Air. Whitehead writes, "Richards is a musician who's attuned to her instrument's idiosyncrasies and pet sounds. On her new album, she's helped along by the collective sound environment created by her quartet." Listen or read the transcript here. Read another review on "Next Bop" here. |
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Cross-Wired Brings International Percussionists to UC San Diego for One Dynamic Week
Concerts, master classes will workshop and premiere new piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds
Director of Communications, UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities Anthony King interviews Distinguished Professor and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick and University Professor Roger Reynolds about their week-long event Cross-Wired.
Anthony King writes, "The UC San Diego Department of Music’s Cross-Wired series is incredibly unique, Distinguished Professor Steven Schick said. It’s a week-long set of mini-concerts, master classes and large-scale performances for seven up-and-coming percussionists, each who will be studying new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and University Professor Roger Reynolds."
Read the full article here.
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Mark Dresser Still the Ace of Bass
Wonderful write up on Professor Mark Dresser in the Houston Chronicle. Andrew Dansby writes, "Mark Dresser spent a decade playing bass in a revered quartet led by the avant-garde legend Anthony Braxton. For many that spell would be a career maker, but for Dresser it’s just part of a long, winding career as a notable bassist, composer and improviser."
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News 8 celebrates Emeritus Professor Cecil Lytle in Throwback: San Diego icons celebrated during Black History Month
In addition to sharing his thoughts on the power of music and what it meant to be successful, Cecil also showcased some of his musical talents in the throwback reel.
Watch the throwback interview here.
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Ph.D. Candidate Anahita Abbasi starts the year off strong with several touring dates of her world premiere works
The Ensemble Modern performed Anahita's work, Situation II / Dialogue this January in London at this year's Sound State festival in Southbank Centre. This concert was recorded by BBC - they will broadcast it sometime in May-June. The work also premiered in Frankfurt. Frankfurt's concert was broadcasted in its full length on 28th February on the radio station HR2:Kultur.
Anahita's work, Intertwined Distances also premiered in the UK and was commissioned by Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.
Ensemble Schallfeld koncertje performed her work, Situation / Dialogue, as well as,
Anahita's work, Distorted Attitudes IV / Facile synthesis for string quartet (2015) premiered in
The Swedish group, UME DUO is also touring with Anahita's piece, sirventès (2017) in Europe, the second concert will be in Switzerland at the Historisches Museum Baden on March 30th .
Anahita was invited by the Iranian Female Composers Association to be a part of a festival of Iranian women composers in Washington DC on March 30th. She will present an American premiere piece at the Kennedy Center and then in New York at Roulette on April 3rd.
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University of California San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities | Department of Music presents: Cross-Wired
February 25 to March 1, 2019, at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
A series of percussion concerts and master classes by renowned & emerging percussionists, including a solo concert by Steven Schick and a world premiere composition by Roger Reynolds.
Cross-Wired is unique: in a week-long set of concerts and master classes, seven young percussionists from North America and Europe will be in residence at UC San Diego to study a new work for percussion solo by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and University Professor, Roger Reynolds. The new work, for percussion with text by Samuel Beckett, will be coached by Cross-Wired host Steven Schick, along with Reynolds, Theatre and Dance faculty member Eva Barnes and two distinguished alumni of UC San Diego: Aiyun Huang(University of Toronto) and Ivan Manzanilla (University of Guanajuato).
Open to the public are afternoon masterclasses, a daily informal concert at 5:00 and two concerts in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
On Wednesday, February 27, Distinguished Professor Steven Schick will present a solo concert, including the first performance of Reynolds’ new piece, Here and There. On Friday, March 1, guest faculty Ivan Manzanilla and Aiyun Huang will present new solo works in a concert that will conclude a red fish blue fish performance of Iannis Xenakis’s Persephassa for six antiphonal percussionists.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Xenakis' work Persephassa. The seating configuration of the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall was specifically designed to accommodate and feature this masterwork. The Friday, March 1st concert will be the first time Persephassa will be performed in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
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Distinguished Professor Jann Pasler, President and founder of the Friends of the Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal.
Since summer 2016, Distinguished Professor Jann Pasler has served as a member of the organizational and curatorial team of The Museum of Black Civilizations which opened in Dakar, Senegal, on 6 December 2018. Built by the Chinese at a cost of $34.5 million, this is the first such museum of its size and ambition in Africa, with close to 14,000 square m. of floor space and capacity for 18,000 exhibits. Not ethnographic or anthropological in nature, it will showcase not only both traditional and contemporary arts, media, and cultures, but also African contributions to the scientific, technical, and cultural heritage of humanity. Central to its mission is cultivating bridge-building, collaboration, and global dialogue in Africa and its diasporas. The museum also plans to house returned artefacts from France and elsewhere.
During the planning workshops in August 2016, Professor Pasler was asked by the Senegalese Minister of Culture to create a "Friends of the Museum of Black Civilizations." As its founding President, she conceived it as both private and based on volunteer work in support of another organization, the first such association in Senegal. Before it opened, she served as an international ambassador and advocate for the Museum in Senegal, Morocco, France, and the USA. In Senegal, she has focused on building a public for it—not obvious in a culture with no history of museum-attendance. To help with this, at the Friends’ first General Assembly in November 2016, she created an auxiliary group, the Young Friends of Dakar, for those from 18 to 35 years old. At its second General Assembly in December 2018, numerous local members joined committees she established to work on communication and promotion, bringing in school children, encouraging local partnerships, and organizing arts-related activities. Professor Pasler hopes eventually to raise an international endowment that would assure the museum's future independence from the inevitable flux of local politics.
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Professor Katharina Rosenberger's world premiere work, "Folds" receives mention on the Schott Music Corporation & European American Music the Violin Channel websites
New York-based violinist Miranda Cuckson performs the world premiere performance of intermedia artist Katharina Rosenberger and projection designer John Burnett’s Folds for Solo Violin and Electronics.
Click on the links below to read the full articles:
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Graduate Student Qing Qing Wang receives praise from Marcus Overton of the Union Tribune
Overton writes, "Composer Qing Qing Wang was in the audience to accept enthusiastic applause for the world première of this year’s Nee Commission, “Between Clouds and Streams.” In striking orchestral tone painting that ranged from barely audible low registers to extremely high ones, Wang evoked a world of natural beauty, as well as the long tradition of Chinese ink wash painting."
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Celeste Oram mentioned in the Union Tribune for her opera, "He Pūtōrino Mākutu (A Magic Flute) —
A Taonga Pūoro Puppet Opera"
“Celeste has a gift for putting old music in new frames. Also, the piece is just delightful and manages to pose a lot of questions about what these traditions have to say about each other, without shoving anything down people’s throats.”says Matthew Aucoin, curator of the San Diego Symphony’s “Hearing the Future” festival.
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Graduate Student Kevin Green will be presenting a paper/interactive demonstration this Friday, February 15th at the 6th Global Reggae Conference 2019. This conference will be held at The University of the West Indies-Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica.
The presentation is entitled, Curricular Concepts in Children's Music Education with Jamaican Music and the Melodica.
In his paper and partial interactive presentation, Kevin disputes the notion that Jamaican music and ideas in music making are unsuitable of serious music study. He presents effective strategies used for student instruction while he was teaching at The Brooklyn Brownstone School-K628; a public school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. He intends to take attendees through his repertoire choices, methodology, processes, and general concept while using reggae music and the melodica for training students in reading music, ear training, and beginning improvisation. A sharing of the history and cultural component of his former students daily instruction will also be addressed; which entailed using reggae music, the melodica, and Afro-Brazilian samba-reggae rhythms and drums to help students make Afro-diasporic cultural connections between America, Jamaica, and Brazil.
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Professor Erik Carlson and Alum Greg Stuart recorded an album of duos by Eva-Maria Houben that made the Best Contemporary Classical of 2018 at Bandcamp.
Peter Margasak of Bandcamp writes, "These four pieces for violinist Erik Carlson and percussionist Greg Stuart—the latter a trusted collaborator of the best known Wandelweiser figure in the U.S., Michael Pisaro—are deliriously minimal, with scores that sketch out only the most basic of precepts."
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Assistant Professor Stephanie Richards is kicking the new year off with several concerts and a debuting album called Take the Neon Lights and Wear a Crown.
FONT WEST | January 20-27, 2019
Festival of New Trumpet Music West 2019
FONT co-director Stephanie Richards and Dan Atkinson, a Grammy-nominated jazz producer and artistic director for UC San Diego Urban, have put together the first-ever West Coast edition of FONT, FONT West, for one week in January 2019.
The festival involves the collaboration of leading San Diego arts organizations including the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Digital Gym Cinema, UC San Diego Department of Music, Panama 66, The Loft, Fresh Sound, San Diego Symphony, Quartyard, and
UC San Diego Urban.
FRESH SOUND presents Stephanie Richards + quartet | Friday, January 25, 2019
White Box Live Art at Liberty Station
Richards will be performing her new album Take the Neon Lights and Wear a Crown, with Joshua White, piano; Brian Walsh, bass clarinet; Andrew Munsey, drums and Mark Dresser, bass. This concert is part of the SD Symphony's "Hearing the Future" festival and FONT West (Festival of New Trumpet)
Tickets at the door: $20 and $10 for students
BLACK FEBRUARY | February 4, 11, 25 2019
The Loft at UC San Diego
Developed by the pioneering artist Butch Morris, Conduction can be described as a duet for conductor and ensemble. In honor of his trailblazing Black February series in 2005, The Loft is celebrating this unparalleled approach to music making by presenting three dynamic nights of Conduction each Monday of February. Stephanie Richards will be performing the series with her Winter 201.
TAKE THE NEON LIGHTS AND WEAR A CROWN | March 1, 2019
Birdwatcher Records
After her "spellbinding" (NPR) debut record, new music trumpeter Stephanie Richards follows up with a premiere of works from her latest project. Using New York City as a backdrop, Richards selected poems from icons including Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg to name a few, and has crafted music for quartet that explores a spontaneous prose of grit and brilliance; the ugly beauty of the city.
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UC San Diego Music will have a large presence in the San Diego Symphony Hearing the Future festival so make sure you mark your calendars!
Hearing the Future, curated by composer-conductor (and 2018 MacArthur Fellow and Genius Award recipient) Matthew Aucoin, explores and celebrates the power of music and art to give voice to the evolution and revolutions in the world at large. -- San Diego Symphony
CONVOLUTION: A TWISTED JOURNEY OF MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
January 11, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.
James Beauton, DMA Graduate Student
Justin Morrison, SDSU Professor, School of Music and Dance
Venue: Sandbox
A BRIEF HISTORY OF "NEW MUSIC" WITH MATTHEW AUCOIN
PhD candidate Keir GoGwilt, PhD Graduate Student, Integrative Studies
San Diego Symphony
Venue: The Auditorium at TSRI
January 16 & 17, 2019 | 8:00 p.m.
Celeste Oram, PhD Candidate
Assistant Professors Amy Cimini and Wilfrido Terrazas,
Alumni Kyle Motl and Judith Hamann,
Graduate Students Barbara Byers, Keir GoGwilt, Madison Greenstone, and Alexandria Smith
San Diego Guild of Puppetry
Radio Tautitotito
San Diego Symphony
January 17, 2019 | 5:00 p.m.
Professor Susan Narucki and kallisti
San Diego Symphony
January 25, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.
Assistant Professor Stephanie Richards
Fresh Sound
January 26, 2019 | 7:00 p.m.
Distinguished Professor and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick
Claude Debussy - Jeux (arranged, Cliff Colnot)
Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy for Violin (arranged, Tobin Chodos) Keir GoGwilt, violin Gustav Mahler -Das Lied von der Erde (arranged, Schoenberg) Jessica Aszodi and John Russell, soloists
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RETAKING THE STAGE:
WHAT ARTISTS CAN BE IN OUR SOCIETY
A comprehensive article about Inheritance by James Chute of
New Music USA discussing the role of art in society:
Read the full article here.
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Appointment of Professor Susan Narucki as Inaugural
Director of Arts and Community Engagement
Congratulations to Professor Susan Narucki on her appointment as Inaugural Director of Arts and Community Engagement, a new initiative from the Division of Arts and Humanities.
Arts and Community Engagement is housed within the Institute of Arts and Humanities, and its goal is to connect students, faculty, alumni, staff and the greater community in a variety of performance, program and academic activities that highlight art as a means of fostering broader cultural dialogue and civic engagement.
Selected after an open call for faculty nominations within the Division of Arts and Humanities, Narucki began in the position December 1st, 2018 and has been appointed for two years.
Read more about the initiative here.
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Music Critic Alex Ross highlights several projects by UC San Diego's current faculty members and recent alumni in the New Yorker’s list of Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018.
Ross was "shaken" by Alum Tina Tallon’s “. . . for we who keep our lives in our throats . . .,” a response to sexual abuse which premiered on the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella Series in October. Tina is a recent PhD composition graduate who is now Assistant Professor at Boston Conservatory.
Distinguished Professor Steven Schick’s performance of “Inuksuit” at the U.S.-Mexico border in January, with dozens of percussionists participating on both sides of the wall, gets special mention and a featured video. This was only one facet of Schick’s ambitious month-long festival titled “It’s About Time.”
Under notable recordings, Ross highlights the work of UC San Diego alum Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose composition “Aequa” is featured on a recording by the International Contemporary Ensemble (Sono Luminus), and the work of Professor Charles Curtis, who performed Cassandra Miller’s “Duet for Cello and Orchestra" with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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UC San Diego Music Department has a large presence in the Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event On April 16, 2019-the late, legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham's 100th birthday-the largest Cunningham event ever staged will take place in London, New York City, and Los Angeles.
Assistant Professor Stephanie Richards, Ph.D. Candidates Suzanne Thorpe, and Madison Greenstone will create the live score for the event at UCLA's Center for the Arts of Performance.
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He Pūtōrino Mākutu' - a taonga pūoro puppet opera He Pūtōrino Mākutu (Eine Zauberflöte/A Magic Flute) is a chamber opera that combines two musical traditions from antipodes of the globe: Viennese classicism and taonga pūoro. With the support of the San Diego Symphony's 'Hearing the Future' festival, this opera will be presented here in San Diego on January 16th and 17th 2019, at Sandbox.
The company is comprised of UC San Diego Music Department faculty members Amy Cimini, Wilfrido Terrazas, current graduate students Madison Greenstone, Alexandria Smith and Alumni Barbara Byers, Kyle Motl, Judith Hamann, Celeste Oram, Keir GoGwilt along with collaborators from all over the world.
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Congratulations to grad student Nathan Haering for winning third prize in the WOCMAT 2018, The International Phil Winsor Computer Music Competition.
His piece "Medical Text p.57" was recently performed at The 14th International Workshop of Computer Music and Audio Technology (WOCMAT 2018) in Taiwan.
Read more about the competition here.
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Professor Mark Dresser featured in the San Diego Troubadour
Robert Bush of San Diego Troubadour wrote a rich and historical article about Professor Mark Dresser.
Bush writes, "(Mark Dresser's) aesthetic is complex (though never for the sake of complexity), organic, and most of all, joyful."
He continues, "Dresser is most vividly experienced live in concert where one can truly marvel at the brilliance of his considerable technical prowess"
Read the full article here.
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Professor Katharina Rosenberger will be participating the National Sawdust's 2019 FERUS Festival
dedicated to presenting the latest in cutting-edge new music, with an emphasis on performances that push the envelope.
Miranda Cuckson, an original National Sawdust Curator, returns with collaborator Katherine Rosenberger to present Folds, an innovative program that explores the duality of materiality versus immateriality.
Read details about the festival here.
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Professor Lei Liang appointed to to serve as the Artist Director and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Chou Wen-Chung Music Research Center. The Chou Wen-Chung Center is due to open later this month in Guangzhou, China. Chou Wen-Chung is the most respected senior Chinese composer who served as Dean at Columbia University, and was mentor to three generations of younger composers, including our own Professor Chinary Ung.
Professor Liang was personally invited by Professor Chou Wen-Chung to serve as the Artist Director and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Chou Wen-Chung Music Research Center. The Center will preserve Wen-Chung's legacy, and promote new music in China. Professor Liang will head to China later this month to moderate the Center's opening, with guests from around the world at a two day conference, as well as two concerts dedicated to Wen-Chung's music.
Read Chou Wen-Chung's prestigious biography here.
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Chamber Opera Addressing Gun Violence to Receive World Premiere at UC San Diego. Produced by Grammy Award-winning soprano Susan Narucki, “Inheritance” usesRead the full article here. |
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"Inheritance" was the subject of an in-depth article in the Fall Arts Preview issue of City Beat. Read the full article here. Jeff Terich writes, "The creators of Inheritance promise a multimedia experience that steps outside of what can be expected of an operatic production. But Narucki has her own specific hopes for what kind of impression the work leaves on the audience." “If one person sees this and is moved to rethink possibilities of how we experience and interact with the world, then I think we’ve succeeded.” The chamber opera was also listed as one of the San Diego Union-Tribune's top ten picks for Classical Music this Fall. See |
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Professor Roger Reynolds discusses his "Bridging Chasms" project with John Wilkens of the Wilkens writes, 'Bridging Chasms' will bring small groups of recognized experts from different disciplines together over the course of a weekend to talk about the things they care about the most. And to listen. Read more about the project on the website below. http://www.bridgingchasms.org/ The first event will be held at UC San Diego September 21st-23rd. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/…/sd-me-chasm-project-2… |
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Professor Lei Liang was mentioned in a few articles recently:
His solo orchestral music CD is coming out next month, on
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Professor Chinary Ung composed music and environmental sounds for the upcoming performance of Letters From Home.
Letters From Home is written and performed byKalean Ung and premieres on this October 26, 2018. Letters From Home weaves together storytelling, music, and Shakespeare, in a powerful exploration of generational trauma and the ability of art to transform pain into unexpected moments of grace.
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The work was created in collaboration with Alumni Kyle Motl. |
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Distinguished Professor and Conrad Prebys Presidential Chair
Rand Steiger's world premiere composition Tropes received ecstatic praise in the
Christian Hertzog from the
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Alumni Michelle Lou was awarded the Michelle plans to develop a hybrid analog/digital feedback live performance system. Learn more about her project and see the other fellows here. |
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Mivos Quartet welcomes new cellist Graduate Student Tyler J. Borden!
After six years with the Mivos Quartet, Mariel Roberts will be stepping down as their cellist. In October of this year, Graduate Student/Cellist Tyler J. Borden will be picking up her mantle.
Congratulations TJ and best of luck on the east coast!
Click on the image to the left to watch TJ perform, Ferneyhough - Time and Motion Study II (1973-1976). |
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Integrative Studies Read the full article here. Click Idioma in the sidebar to select your language. |
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| Graduate Student Tina Tallon was granted the Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her composition, Read the press release here Tina holds a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Clark University in the Visual and Performing Arts Congratulations Tina! Click on the image to the right to listen to
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Newsletters from 2019-2020
The following newsletters were sent via e-mail:
July 01, 2020
Academic Achievement & Service Awards 2019-2020UC San Diego’s Department of Music is proud to announce the 2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Student award recipients.
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June 29, 2020
UC San Diego Music New Faculty: Marcos Balter and Kamau KenyattaThe UC San Diego Department of Music is proud to announce new faculty members Marcos Balter and Kamau Kenyatta.
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June 26, 2020
UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick Wins 2020 Ditson Conductor's AwardUC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick Wins 2020 Ditson Conductor's Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
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May 29, 2020
Upcoming Virtual Events & News at UC San Diego MusicStay connected digitally with UC San Diego Music for the latest happenings!
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April 24, 2020
Upcoming Virtual Events & News: The Latest Happenings at UC San Diego MusicStay connected digitally with UC San Diego Music for the latest news and upcoming virtual events!
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April 21, 2020
Camera Lucida Update for the 2019-2020 SeasonCamera Lucida concerts on April 20th and May 18th are cancelled due to COVID-19. Refunds will be issued by the UC San Diego Box Office.
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March 04, 2020
CANCELLATION: Future of Experiential Technology SymposiumFuture of Experiential Technology Symposium has been postponed.
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February 27, 2020
Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor and Author Deborah Wong to Present Her Research on Taiko in Southern California - Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m.Wong will reflect on the process of researching taiko in Southern California, read short passages from her book Louder and Faster, and consider how and why Japanese American activism matters.
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February 25, 2020
For Immediate Release: The Future of Experiential Technology Symposium - Friday, March 13th 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.How data-driven technology is shaping content creation and user engagement
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February 24, 2020
UC San Diego Music - This Week's Featured Concerts: February 24 - March 1, 2020 Archive
February 17, 2020
UC San Diego Music - This Week's Featured Concerts: February 17 - 23, 2020 Archive
February 11, 2020
For Immediate Release: Music for Flute and Harp written by Mexican Composers - WEDS@7 February 12thMexican Music (Mostly Not) for flute and harp featuring Tasha Smith Godinez, harp and Wilfrido Terrazas, flute with special guest Mariana Flores Bucio.
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February 07, 2020
Camera Lucida - Monday, February 10th - Ravel, Beethoven, BrahmsAt UC San Diego's Conrad Prebys Concert Hall - Monday, February 10th at 7:30 p.m.
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February 06, 2020
For Immediate Release: An Intercultural Collaborative Concert featuring Musicians in San Diego and Seoul - Thursday, February 13th 7:30 p.m.Changing Tides II, an intercultural music collaboration responding to the climate crisis, featuring renowned improvisers in Seoul and San Diego performing together via cutting-edge technologies.
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February 04, 2020
For Immediate Release: WEDS@7 Susan Narucki, soprano - *NEW DATE* - March 4thSoprano Susan Narucki will present an evening of music that celebrates the human voice in its most intimate, lyrical and exuberant form.
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February 01, 2020
A Special Invitation to Arts Patrons from STEVEN SCHICK: Beethoven InterpolationsFree ticket offer!
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January 27, 2020
UC San Diego Music - This Week's Featured Concerts: January 27 - February 2, 2020 Archive
January 24, 2020
For Immediate Release: Beethoven Interpolations: An Evening of Music and Conversation - Saturday, February 1stSteven Schick curates the Reed Family Concert in celebration of Beethoven's 250th birthday - Saturday, February 1st at 7 p.m.
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January 22, 2020
For Immediate Release: A Concert Honoring Conrad Prebys - WEDS@7, January 29thRand Steiger curates a concert honoring the philanthropic gifts of Conrad Prebys - Wednesday, January 29th at 7 p.m.
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December 18, 2019
UC San Diego Music Featured Concerts - Winter PreviewLIVE from the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego!
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December 06, 2019
Camera Lucida - Monday, December 9th - Schumann, Kurtag, Milhaud & StraussAt UC San Diego's Conrad Prebys Concert Hall - Monday, December 9th at 7:30 p.m.
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November 25, 2019
UC San Diego Music - This Week's Featured Concerts: November 25 - December 1, 2019 Archive
November 19, 2019
UC San Diego Music - This Week's Featured Concerts: November 19 - 24, 2019 Archive
September 16, 2019
Camera Lucida 2019-2020 Single Tickets On Sale NowSeason Tickets On Sale Now!
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