Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde, co-directors

PERFORMERS Matilda Hofman, conductor Tod Brody, flute Peter Josheff, clarinet Hrabba Atladottir, violin Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Leighton Fong, cello Micheal Seth Orland, piano Chris Froh, percussion

New Music from Davis: Live Music for Silent Films

7:00 pm, Monday, June 4, 2012 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

6:15 pm Pre-Concert lecture a n d discussion with guest composers

The Department of Music presents

The Empyrean Ensemble Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde, co-directors

New Music from Davis: Live Music for Silent Films

Program

A Trip Down Market Street for small ensemble Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro (b. 1984) The Miles Brothers, filmmakers

Reves Transcendants Hendel Almétus Nicholas G. Baish, filmmaker

The Shifts and the Breaks Garrett Shatzer (b. 1980) Joy Li, filmmaker

Synapse Ben Irwin Jean Detheux, filmmaker

Intermission still life with flowers Alex Van Gils (b. 1987) Stephan Meylan, filmmaker

Anamnesis Bryce Cannell (b. 1982) Joy Li, filmmaker

Judas’ Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog William David Cooper (Leaves from Satan’s Book) Carl Theodor Dreyer, filmmaker

The Empyrean Ensemble would like to thank Peter Josheff and Eliza O’Malley for the use of their home for rehearsals.

7:00 pm, Monday, June 4, 2012 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

We ask that you be courteous to your fellow audience members and the performers. Please turn off your cell phones and refrain from texting. Audience members who are distracting to their neighbors or the performers in any way may be asked to leave at any time. Also, this performance is being professionally recorded for the university archive. Photography, audio, or audiovisual recording is prohibited during the performance. ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS

A Trip Down Market Street for small ensemble accompanied by outbursts of light and energetic gestures. The goal of the second and third section is to move the piece Upon first watching this film,A Trip Down Market Street, I from a serene, atmospheric, and stable state to the main could not help but think of my hometown Masaya, Nicaragua: climactic point by way of increasing intensity. horse-drawn carriages, speeding cars, and pedestrians calmly dodging traffic all reminded me of rush hour at home. The film uses video from under water—rocks, water ripples/ This personal association gave the video a surreal, almost bubbles and trees from a river in upstate New York. The humorous, dreamlike quality, which I sought to express video is processed through custom software, which uses harmonically. But one cannot ignore a darker side of this audio input to manipulate the video. The film examines the footage. It was shot just days before the 1906 earthquake, textures of the natural, water/trees, and the digital, glitches/ and I found myself contemplating the fate of the people computer generated images, in conjunction and contrast with captured on film and attempted to draw a wedge between the the textures in the music. blissfully ignorant subjects and the viewer with knowledge of impending destruction. The result is an analogously Hendel Almétus began his musical training at the age fatal musical determinism that emerges from the dreamlike of twelve in Haiti. He earned a BM in composition from harmonies: as the camera approaches the Ferry Building, the Houston Baptist University and an MA in composition from music gradually descends to the ensemble’s lowest register. the Eastman School of Music. He was a fellow in the 2011 This 1906 film was made by the Miles Brothers. FUBiS Summer Program in Berlin, Germany, and studied composition with Samuel Adler. He will also be a fellow at the Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro (b. 1984 Bogotá, 2012 Wellesley Composer’s Conference where he will study Colombia) is a Nicaraguan-American composer and guitarist, currently studying composition with Mika Pelo. Now a with and Eric Chasalow. His music has been second-year graduate student in composition at UC Davis, he performed by the Empyrean Ensemble, the Meridian Brass, received his BA from Columbia University in 2007 where he One Art Ensemble, Schola Cantorum, and he has had pieces studied composition with Fabien Lévy and Sebastian Currier, read by Alarm Will Sound and the Wet Ink Ensemble. and orchestration with Tristan Murail. He has also worked Nicholas G. Baish is a filmmaker/animator/designer based out as a freelance musician in New Haven, CT and was professor of upstate New York. His work focuses on a melding of the of theory, analysis and guitar at Casa de los Tres Mundos senses to create a “synthesized synesthesia.” Music Academy in Granada, Nicaragua. His work draws upon a variety of interests including polystylism, spectralism, psychoacoustics, linguistics, and geology. The Shifts and the Breaks Harry, Herbert, Joseph, and Earle C. Meyers were pioneers of The Shifts and the Breaks can be interpreted both literally early American cinema, having established one of the country’s and figuratively. In the literal sense, melodies shift and first motion picture production companies in 1902. Their most ideas suddenly break away—for example, the rigid opening celebrated film,A Trip Down Market Street, was recorded just days before the devastating 1906 earthquake becomes something much more fluid. Figuratively speaking, and fire that destroyed much of the city’s downtown area. this piece began as a feeble attempt to “modernize” my style, The film offers a glimpse of daily life in San Francisco over a with the idea that my style would “shift” to something new century ago and has recently been selected for preservation in or simply “break away” from something old. Ironically, this the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The film exercise cemented my belief that my style works perfectly itself only narrowly survived the fire, having been shipped to well, hence the resolution to pure tonality just prior to the New York the night before the earthquake destroyed Meyers’ brief coda. The film is by Joy Li. offices, located on Market Street. Garrett Shatzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate in composition at UC Davis. His current commissions include Reves Transcendants a song for Grammy-winning countertenor Ian Howell and guitarist Karl Wohlwend; a piece for the Mobius Trio; a song Reves Transcendants is a three-movement piece that features a cycle for soprano Marlissa Hudson, tenor Charles Blandy, small group of soloists in each movement. The first movement Grammy-winning conductor/violinist John McLaughlin functions as an upbeat to a strong arrival with the intended Williams, and orchestra; and a triple concerto for the Erato purpose of resolving the tension in the second and third Piano Trio and Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. movements. The first section is conceived of patterns of interwoven melodic lines spread across the ensemble and

4 ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS still life with flowers Joy Li holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies and English, with a music minor. She began video editing in high school still life with flowers, for video and ensemble, is the result and was given charge of the broadcasting network during her of a collaboration between two old friends and a couple sophomore year. She did freelance video work throughout of beautiful minutes spent atop an apartment building in college, including a video for the UC Davis Teaching the Mission with some flowers, a nice camera, brisk wind, Resources Center. Shortly after graduation, she interned for manuscript paper, and a pencil. The film was created by Stephan Meylan. “Good Day Sacramento.” She currently works in the Music Department for the UC Davis Arts Administrative Group. Alex Van Gils is an award-winning composer and bassist When not working, she plays clarinet with the UCD Concert whose music is influenced by his love of classical music and Band and sings with the University Chorus, Early Music jazz and by his practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism Ensemble, as well as Sacramento-based groups Camerata under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Alex currently studies Chorus and Capella Antiqua. composition at UC Davis with Laurie San Martin.

Stephan Meylan is a founding member of the U.S. Synapse Department of Whimsy, a member of the Brown Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments ensemble in 2010, and an I have been privileged to work with a new film by Jean all-around amusing guy to know. His previous visual work Detheux, created for this performance. The film has inspired has included high-speed stereoscopic photography, splicing my thinking about time, texture, timbre, form, polyrhythm, unauthorized snack food ads into pornography, and the and harmony. I was struck, while working with the film, at faux-fi branding for a closet brewery focusing on the “marine the many ways in which it behaves like music. This untitled grotesque.” He is starting a PhD in Psychology at UC Berkeley film is by Jean Detheux. this fall, and his summer project is a documentary about contemporary economic inequality, the Occupy Movement, Ben Irwin is currently pursuing a PhD in composition and and systematic disengagement of the upper middle class— theory at UC Davis. His principal composition teachers are exclusively intended for audiences in 2080. Kurt Rohde, Ross Bauer, Pablo Ortiz, Laurie San Martin, Stephen Dembski, Laura Schwendinger, and Phillip Rhodes. Recently, Ben’s septet Somnambulist was premiered by the Anamnesis Ottawa New Music Creators, and his Solo for Microtonal Piano When one attempts to recall a memory, the mind often was performed in Wisconsin by Jeff Gibbens. This summer, follows a set procedure. After the initial fragmented Strange Alchemy, for violin and piano, will be performed at the conception, the mind traverses through a web of associations SICPP festival in Boston. Ben will also be an associate artist- to piece together, much like a puzzle, the exact memory. in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, working in This process of recalling a memory, or anamnesis, served consultation with composer-in-residence Melinda Wagner. as inspiration for the film and music. Objects in the film gradually become associated with others, and their Jean Detheux grew up in Belgium and graduated from the connections are emphasized through pairings with musical Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège. He moved to North gestures and/or timbres. The crotale “pillars” add to this America in 1971 and currently lives in Montreal. His artwork gradual realization by slowly expanding outward, note by has been featured in many public and private collections. Due note, until the work nears its end, where a lucid vision of the to allergies to painting materials, he left “natural media” in memory is finally attained. The film is by Joy Li. 1997 and began working exclusively with digital technology and creating “time-based art.” He is currently focused on Bryce Cannell is a first-year PhD candidate in music creating “Visual Music.” His films have been featured in composition and theory at UC Davis, currently studying many festivals around the globe. He directed two films for the under the direction of Pablo Ortiz. He received his MA (with distinction) and BA degrees in Music Composition from National Film Board of Canada (Liaisons and Rupture). He has CSU Fresno, where he studied with Kenneth Froelich and taught art in many schools, including the Alberta College of Benjamin Boone. His honors include second prize in the 2011 Art, the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Carl von Ossietzky International Composition Competition Sculpture, Concordia University, and NYU and has given (Oldenburg, Germany), the 2010 CSU Fresno Department lectures on the Phenomenology of Vision in Canada, the of Music Outstanding Graduate Award, and he was selected United States, Denmark, Belgium, Australia, and Lebanon. He to have a work performed at the 2010 NACUSA National has also published articles on art, animation, software, and Conference (Portland, Oregon). other topics.

5 ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS

Judas’ Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 2013 his opera Hagar will be premiered with members of the Indianapolis Symphony. Judas’ Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan’s He has served on faculty at Purdue University and the Book) opens with the Last Supper and the symbolic Interlochen Arts Camp. Cooper has received three ASCAP indication of Jesus’ betrayer. The film follows Jesus and his awards, including in 2012 the highest prize—the Leo Kaplan disciples to the garden of Gethsemane, and with the Romans award. An alumnus of the Juilliard school, he is currently a marching closer and closer, we witness his agony, betrayal, student of Kurt Rohde at UC Davis. and arrest. Judas receives his reward, but quickly despairs, realizing his folly. My aim was to be as faithful as possible The illegitimate son of a Swedish farmer and his housekeeper, to the events and emotions of the film. The music attempts Carl Theodor Dreyer spent his early years in Danish foster to depict the holiness of the institution of the Eucharist, the homes before being adopted by a strict Lutheran family. deviousness of Judas, the spiritual suffering of Jesus in the His first film showed little promise or talent, but by the late garden, and the drama of Judas’ betraying kiss. 1920s he was hailed as the greatest director ever to emerge from Danish cinema. Among his most celebrated films are William David Cooper’s music has been championed by The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr. His films are typically violinists Augustin Hadelich and Itamar Zorman, the Juilliard slow, intense studies of human psychology, usually of people Orchestra, and the JACK Quartet. It has been performed undergoing extreme personal or religious crises. Blade af throughout the world, including at the Radio France Festival Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan’s Book) was directed by Carl in Montpellier, at many venues in New York City, and at the Theodor Dreyer in 1919.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir Tod Brody, flute, has enjoyed a career studied in Berlin with Axel Gerhardt. of great variety. He was a member of the After finishing her studies, she worked as Sacramento Symphony for many years, a freelance violinist in Berlin for five where he was a frequent soloist on both years, regularly playing with the Berlin flute and piccolo. He currently teaches Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, flute and chamber music at UC Davis, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. She where he performs with the Empyrean also participated in a world tour with the Ensemble. As a member of Empyrean, Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany Earplay, and the San Francisco tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. In 2004 she moved to New Contemporary Music Players, Brody has participated in many York and continued to freelance, playing on a regular basis world premieres and has been recorded on the Arabesque, with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Capstone, Centaur, CRI, Magnon, and New World labels. Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. When not performing contemporary music, he often can be She also plays a lot of new music, most recently with the found in the orchestras of the San Francisco Opera and the Either/Or ensemble in New York in connection with their San Francisco Ballet, and in other chamber and orchestral Helmut Lachenmann festival. Since August 2008, she has settings throughout Northern California. In addition to his been based in Berkeley, California, where she performs with activities as a performer and teacher, Brody is the director of various ensembles, such as the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, and Composers Forum, an organization dedicated to linking the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players to name a few. communities, composers, and performers, encouraging the Atladottir is also a violin lecturer at UC Berkeley. making, playing, and enjoyment of new music.

6 ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Leighton Fong, cello, is a longtime Matilda Hofman’s work as a member of the Left Coast Chamber conductor ranges widely from opera and Ensemble and also serves as principal the symphonic repertoire to her keen cello with the California Symphony. He interest in contemporary music. She plays regularly with the Berkeley studied at Cambridge University, the Contemporary Chamber Players, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Empyrean Ensemble and is an active Eastman School of Music. She works in freelancer in the Bay Area. He has the United States, Canada, and the United taught at UC Berkeley since 1997 and Kingdom and was recently invited to studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the New conduct the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in their New England Conservatory, the Bern Conservatory in Bern, Music Festival, which was broadcast on CBC radio. Operas Switzerland, and the Royal Danish Conservatory in conducted include Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Turn of the Copenhagen, Denmark. He joined the San Francisco Screw, as well as contemporary commissions. She has worked Contemporary Music Players in 2006. with the BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, and Southbank Sinfonia, among others. She is passionate about bringing music to young people and to underprivileged communities. While studying at Eastman she Principally committed to influencing and was music director of the New Eastman Outreach Orchestra, expanding the repertoire for solo which aims to make classical music available to everyone in percussion through commissions and the Rochester community. During her tenure she developed a premieres, Chris Froh is a member of long-term program with the inner-city School of the Arts, the San Francisco Contemporary Music which involved regular mentoring, education concerts, and Players, the San Francisco Chamber side-by-sides. She has studied with David Zinman as a fellow Orchestra, and the Empyrean Ensemble. at the Aspen Music Festival, with Sir Colin Davis, Martyn Known for energized performances hailed Brabbins, and with Kurt Masur. by the San Francisco Chronicle as “tremendous” and San Francisco Classical Voice as “mesmerizing,” his solo appearances stretch from Rome to Tokyo to San Francisco. His critically acclaimed solo Over the past twenty-five years Peter recordings can be heard on the Albany, Bridge, Equilibrium, Josheff has established a solid and Innova labels. A frequent collaborator with leading reputation as a composer, clarinetist, and composers from across the globe, Froh has premiered works advocate of contemporary music. He has by dozens of composers, including John Adams, Chaya premiered and performed hundreds of Czernowin, Liza Lim, David Lang, Keiko Abe, and Francois works by a wide range of composers and Paris. He tours Japan with marimbist Mayumi Hama and has had numerous pieces composed for with his former teacher and marimba pioneer Keiko Abe. him. He performs with Earplay, a San Solo festival appearances include the Festival Nuovi Spazi Francisco-based new music ensemble he Musicali (Rome), the Festival of New American Music, cofounded in 1985. He is also a member of the Paul Dresher Pacific Rim, and Other Minds. Active in music for theater Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Eco Ensemble, and dance, Froh has recorded scores for American appears frequently with the San Francisco Contemporary Conservatory Theater, performed as a soloist with the Music Players, Ensemble Parallele, and Composers Inc., and Berkeley Repertory Theater, and composed original music has performed and toured with Melody of China. He is for Oakland-based Dance Elixir. His score for the Harvard cofounder of Sonic Harvest, a concert series dedicated to new Museum of Natural History’s exhibition of Thoreau’s Walden: vocal and instrumental music, now in its tenth season. A Journey in Photography currently is touring the United Working extensively with young composers, he has States. Equally committed to pedagogy, Froh mentors performed their music and given presentations about writing percussionists through UC Berkeley’s Young Musicians for the clarinet at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, Stanford Program. He is also a faculty member at UC Davis, where he University, San Francisco State University, and Sacramento directs the Samba School and Percussion Group Davis. State University, and for the American Composers Forum Composer in the Schools Program. In 2006 he presented a workshop called “Clarinet for Composers” for the American Composers Forum in San Francisco. He has been on the faculty at San Francisco State University.

7 ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Michael Seth Orland has appeared A champion of contemporary music, extensively in the Bay Area as a chamber violist Ellen Ruth Rose is a member of musician, playing with the San Francisco Empyrean Ensemble and Earplay, the San Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, the Francisco-based contemporary ensemble. Empyrean Ensemble, the Berkeley She performs regularly with Santa Cruz Contemporary Chamber Players, New New Music Works, the Berkeley Music Theater, Other Minds, and in the Contemporary Chamber Players, and the ’s New and San Francisco Contemporary Music Unusual Music series. He has performed Players and has worked extensively with modern works throughout California at venues including Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern and the Cologne experimental UC campuses at San Diego, Davis, and Santa Cruz, and at ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen Ensemble, Sacramento State University, and Cal Arts. He has also appearing at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg played at June in Buffalo (NY), the Mendocino Music Zeitfluß, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Biennial, Budapest Festival, and in the Gund Series at Kenyon College. Orland Autumn, and Kuhmo (Finland) festivals. She has performed may be heard on recordings of contemporary music released as soloist with the West German Radio Chorus, Empyrean by CRI, Centaur, and Capstone. Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz New Music Works, the symphony orchestras of Orland studied piano with Margaret Kohn in Claremont, UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and at the San Francisco Other CA, and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Music Department, Minds and Ojai Music festivals. where he studied harpsichord with Davitt Moroney and composition with Gérard Grisey. He later continued his Rose has premiered several works showcasing the viola, study of composition with David Sheinfeld. Orland has including Kurt Rohde (Double Trouble), Pablo Ortiz (Le Vrai appeared often as a freelance symphony musician and has Tango Argentin). Her recordings include a Wergo CD of the performed many times as a pianist in vocal recitals, as chamber music of German composer Caspar Johannes well as in vocal master classes by artists such as Frederica Walter, which won the German Recording Critics’ new music von Stade. Orland teaches in the music departments at UC prize in 1998. In 2003 she created, organized, and directed Berkeley and UC Davis. Violafest!, a four-concert festival at UC Davis celebrating the viola in solos and chamber music new and old. Rose holds a Master’s degree in performance from the Juilliard School, an artist diploma from the Northwest German Music Academy, and a Bachelor’s with honors in English and American history and literature from Harvard University. She teaches viola at UC Davis and UC Berkeley.

8 ABOUT EMPYREAN

Through compelling performances and diverse programming, the Empyrean Ensemble offers audiences an opportunity to hear original works by emerging and established composers alike. It has premiered more than 200 works and performed throughout California, including appearances at many prominent music festivals and concert series. Empyrean has two full-length CDs released under the Centaur and Arabesque labels and has been the featured ensemble on others. Founded by composer Ross Bauer in 1988 as the ensemble-in-residence at UC Davis, the Empyrean Ensemble now consists of a core of seven of California’s finest musicians with extensive experience in the field of contemporary music. The ensemble is co- directed by composers Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS

Mika Pelo received his DMA from Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a Columbia University under the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Berlin supervision of Tristan Murail and studied Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is at the Royal College of Music in the winner of the 2012 Lydian String Stockholm, Sweden, with Pär Lindgren, Quartet Commission Prize. He has Sven-David Sandström, and Bent received commission awards from Meet Sørensen. Pelo is assistant professor of the Composer—Commissioning Music/ composition and theory at UC Davis. He USA, the NEA, and the Barlow, Fromm, has received awards from the Royal Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations. Academy of Music in Sweden and the Thord Gray Memorial He recently completed new works for eighth blackbird, the Award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Pelo has Scharoun Ensemble, pianist Genevieve Lee, and the Left mostly written instrumental chamber music and music for Coast Chamber Ensemble. An associate professor of orchestra but is also fluent in the electronic music language composition at UC Davis, he will be a Fellow at the Radcliffe and occasionally uses live electronics and writes electro- Institute for 2012–13. A graduate of the Peabody acoustic music. Ensembles that have commissioned or Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, the Curtis performed his music include: Swedish Radio Symphony Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Rohde studied Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, Netherlands Radio Chamber composition with Donald Erb, Ned Rorem, and Andrew Orchestra, Janácˇek Philharmonic Orchestra, North Bohemian Imbrie, and viola with Karen Tuttle, John Graham, and Philharmonic Orchestra, Flux Quartet (New York), the Caroline Levine. He is former artistic director of the Left Swedish Concert Institute, Cecilia Zilliacus, Bengt Forsberg, Coast Chamber Ensemble and has taught composition at UC Earplay, Red Light New Music (New York), the Barbad Santa Barbara and was composer-in-residence at the Yellow Chamber Orchestra (New York), Mika Takehara, Nya Barn Music Festival. Stenhammarkvartetten, Musica Vitae, KammarensembleN, The Pearls Before Swine Experience, and the HUGO string quartet (Iceland).

Administrative & Production Staff

Christina Acosta, editor Philip Daley, publicity manager Rudy Garibay, designer Joshua Paterson, production manager

9 EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE FUND

Anonymous Andrew & Barbara Imbrie Marilyn San Martin Timothy Allen Norman Jones Michael San Martin Ross Bauer * Caralee Kahn Dan Scharlin Simon Bauer Louis and Julie Karchin David E. Schneider Bill Beck & Yu-Hui Chang Marcia & Kurt Keith Allen Shearer Anna Maria Busse Berger Maya Kunkel Ellen Sherman * Hayes Biggs Garretta Lamore Magen Solomon Martin Boykan Gerald and Ulla McDaniel Henry Spiller & Michael Orland Richard Mix & Ann Callaway Hilary and Harold Meltzer Sherman & Hannah Stein Eric and Barbara Chasalow Dr. Maria A. Neiderberger Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef * Mary Chun John and Phoebe Nichols Prof. and Mrs. Olly Wilson Jonathan & Mickey Elkus Pablo Ortiz and Ana Peluffo Yehudi Wyner Adam Frey Jessie Ann Owens & Anne Hoffman Bank of America * Pattie Glennon & Ed Jacobs Can Ozbal and Teresa Wright Aaron Copland Fund for Music * Karen Gottlieb Stacey Pelinka and Jan Lustig Alice M. Ditson Fund, Columbia Paul Grant Wayne Peterson University ** Udo Greinacher David Rakowski & Beth Wiemann Forrests Music Anne M. Guzzo Sheila Ranganath & Jim Fessenden Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation ** Mark Haiman & Ellen Ruth Rose Kurt Rohde Ellen Harrison Joan and Art Rose * = $1,000 or more ** = $5,000 or more D. Kern and Elizabeth Holoman * Jerome W. & Sylvia Rosen * Martha Callison Horst Karen Rosenak * Brenda Hutchinson Marianne Ryan

SUPPORT the EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE

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Please join us for our 2012–13 Empyrean Ensemble Season

Saturday, November 17, 2012 7 pm New Music from the British Isles

Friday, February 1, 2013 7 pm Music & Migration Festival: composer-in-residence Lei Liang

Friday and Sunday, April 19 and 21, 2013 7 pm Operas by Ortiz & Monteverdi

Sunday, May 19, 2013 7 pm New Music from Davis

– RECiTAL HALL – he most important endeavor of the Department of Music today is to build the new Music Performance Building and Recital Hall—a much needed midsize (300–500 seats) concert venue that will serve the campus and the region. An effort to raise $5.5 Tmillion in private funding to augment state and campus funds for the project is underway. For information about the Recital Hall and how to support it, please visit the Department of Music website (music.ucdavis.edu) or call Debbie Wilson, Director of Development for the Division of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies in the College of Letters & Science, at (530) 754-2221.

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