Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde, co-directors

PERFORMERS Hrabba Atladottir, violin Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Mary Artmann, cello Michael Seth Orland, piano Peter Josheff, clarinet Eric Zivian, piano Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello Ross Bauer, Composer Portrait Celebrating His Sixtieth Birthday

7:00 pm, Sunday, January 22, 2012 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

6:15pm pre-concert talk with composers Ross Bauer, Martha Horst, and Harold Meltzer Empyrean Ensemble

Co-directors Mika Pelo Kurt Rohde

PERFORMERS

Hrabba Atladottir, violin Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Mary Artmann, cello Michael Seth Orland, piano Peter Josheff, clarinet Eric Zivian, piano Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello

Administrative & Production Staff

Christina Acosta, editor Philip Daley, publicity manager Rudy Garibay, designer Joshua Paterson, production manager The Department of Music presents

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

Ross Bauer Composer Portrait

Program

The Near Beyond for Clarinet and String Trio Ross Bauer (b. 1951)

Pink Angels for Violin, Viola, and Violoncello Harold Meltzer (world premiere, in honor of Ross Bauer’s sixtieth birthday) (b. 1966)

Riff Tides for Violin, Cello, Viola, Bass Clarinet Martha Horst (world premiere, in honor of Ross Bauer’s sixtieth birthday) (b. )

Tribute for Cello and Piano Ross Bauer

Intermission

Sequenza IX for Solo Clarinet Luciano Berio (1925–2003)

Piano Quartet Ross Bauer Moderato Adagio Allegro giocoso

Please join us for a reception following the concert in the Bartholomew Room

Sunday, January 22, 2012 • 7:00 pm Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center

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

Ross Bauer’s compositions Fund at the Library of Congress, Meet the Composer, the “consistently reveal clarity of form ASCAP Foundation, the Barlow Endowment at Brigham Young coupled with expressive elegance and a University, Symphony Space, Concert Artists Guild, and the distinct musical trajectory that rewards chamber choir Volti. During the 2007–08 concert season he the listener with its internal logic and was Music Alive composer-in-residence with the Colonial compelling conclusions” (Academy Symphony in New Jersey. In 2011 he served both as guest Award citation). His work is published by composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference and as C. F. Peters, APNM, and ACA, and resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference and recorded on the GM, Centaur, and New Composers’ Forum of the East. While in graduate school he World labels. Both Ritual Fragments, a CD co-founded the new music ensemble Sequitur and remains its of his chamber and vocal music, and Thin Ice, for cello and coartistic director. Harold was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1966, fourteen players, are available on Albany Recordings. grew up in Long Island, graduated summa cum laude from , and holds degrees from King’s College, The Near Beyond, for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello, was Cambridge, and the , as well as from composed during the fall of 2005 (at the request of Laurie Columbia Law School. He teaches at Vassar College and lives San Martin and Yu-Hui Chang) for Peter Josheff and the with his family in the East Village of Manhattan. Empyrean Ensemble. It’s dedicated to the memory of Lois Jones, an early and fervent supporter of Empyrean Ensemble, In writing my little string trio I was influenced by Willem a friend of modern art of all kinds, and a warm and de Kooning’s 1945 painting Pink Angels, its canvas suffused wonderful human being. Although there are some expressive with pink biomorphic spaces that compete for attention with moments, particularly near the end, The Near Beyond is not of an active gold field. Mediating between them are pentimenti, an elegiac character. Lois’s spirit was too buoyant for that. or black lines that suggest the painter’s earlier and different placement of these pink spaces on the canvas. The overall In one movement lasting around ten minutes, the piece falls impression is of bodies striving for a sense of place over into six sections of varying length. The opening, marked time, and that seemed fitting inspiration for music meant to Mysterious and subdued, quarter note = 104, unfolds slowly commemorate a friendship that has grown and deepened over with long, drawn-out harmonies in the strings leading the last twelve years. Happy Birthday, Ross. seamlessly into a lyrical viola solo. Things become more —H.M. animated with the entrance of the clarinet, initiating an extended passage that features dialogue with the strings. The tempo increases and the clarinet takes center stage with the strings playing pizzicato accents in octaves leading to Martha Horst is a composer who has a very long, wide-ranging tune with continuous pizzicato devoted herself to the performance, arpeggiation. The fifth section, for the strings alone, builds to creation, and instruction of classical an intense climax in double stops that then dissolves into a music. Her music has been performed by col legno battuto upbeat passage (tapping the strings with the performers and groups including the bow). The sixth and final section, the only truly slow music Fromm Players, Earplay, Alea III, of the piece, has the clarinet playing a variant of the opening Empyrean Ensemble, Susan Narucki, Left string tune in counterpoint with the strings, and its last two Coast Ensemble, Dal Niente, the notes are doubled by the cello. The cello has the last word: a Women’s Philharmonic, Composers, Inc., descending passage marked morendo (dying away). CUBE, members of the Scottish Chamber —Ross Bauer Orchestra, Eric Mandat, and Amy Dissanayake. Horst has won the Copland Award, the 2005 Alea III International Composition Competition, and the Rebecca Clarke International Composition Competition and has held The New York Times listed an October fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the 2010 Naxos release of Harold Arts, Wellesley Conference, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Meltzer’s music as one of the best and Dartington International School in the United Kingdom. classical recordings of the year. The disc Her Piano Sonata No. 1, recorded by acclaimed pianist Lara includes Sindbad, for narrator and piano Downes, was released nationally by Crossover Media. She trio, with John Shirley-Quirk narrating, began her performance and music theory training at the age and the sextet Brion, a finalist for the 2009 of five and studied formal composition at , Pulitzer Prize. His work has been honored under Ross Bauer, , and John Chowning at by the Rome Prize, the Barlow Prize, a CCRMA. She has attended several national and international Guggenheim Fellowship, a Charles Ives festivals and studied with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and Oliver Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency, and by commissions Knussen. She received a PhD in theory and composition from in the last few years from the , the UC Davis. Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations, the McKim

4 ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS

Before moving to Illinois, Horst was an active member of directions are suggested, but are usually cut off, often rather the musical community, served as president prematurely. This process naturally generates a considerable of Earplay, a San Francisco-based contemporary music amount of tension, tension that culminates in the substantial ensemble, and, in addition to her compositional activities, and active final section of the piece. The rhetoric of the piece, was also a professional singer, performing regularly with the more floaty and introspective earlier, becomes quite rhythmic Chorus. She was a soloist in the and driving here, leading to a series of repeated notes Symphony’s Grammy award-winning production of Sweeney followed by a long sixteenth-note unison passage between the Todd starring Patti LuPone and Neil Patrick Harris. Dr. Horst cello and piano. A short reprise of some earlier soft chords currently teaches composition and theory at Illinois State leads to the somewhat abrupt ending. University and has also taught at UC Davis, East Carolina University, and San Francisco State University. —Ross Bauer

Riff Tides is a short, fast-paced work written at the request of Empyrean Ensemble to honor Ross Bauer’s sixtieth birthday. I was relieved when Empyrean Ensemble asked me to write a Sequenza IX, for solo clarinet (1980), is the ninth in a series short work of no more than five minutes to honor Ross Bauer. of fourteen works scored for various solo instruments written If not given such a time constraint, I would have to write a between 1958 and 2002 by the Italian composer Luciano work several hours long to honor my most cherished mentor. Berio (1925–2003). This work was later adapted for alto saxophone by Berio in 1981 (Sequenza IXb) and for bass When seeking inspiration for this work, I thought of the clarinet by Rocco Parisi in 1998 (Sequenza IXc). Empyrean Ensemble’s fabulous bass clarinetist Peter Josheff. I wanted to write something that showed off his musicality and The sequenzas, Italian for sequence, explore the inherent rhythmic flare. Another source of inspiration for this work qualities and technical extremes of the instrument and was the bass clarinet playing of jazz musician Michel Pilz, a are considered by some as one of the most remarkable German-born bass clarinetist who played with the Manfred compositional achievements of the late twentieth century. School Quintet in the sixties and seventies. Watching videos The fluid, almost tranquil melodies of Sequenza IX are of Mr. Pilz playing bass clarinet made me envision what carefully countered with abrupt gestures that propel the it would have been like to watch a young Ross Bauer play music forward while simultaneously concealing the ultimate saxophone in the seventies. destination. The thorough investigation of the clarinet’s varied timbres and refined application of extended techniques Riff Tides is comprised of several short, explosive motives. further demonstrates the depth of this work and supports Many of these motives feature an upbeat, extended head the declaration of the collection’s place in twentieth-century followed by an accented short tail, creating a sort of motivic literature. snap. The physical motions Peter Josheff makes while playing syncopated rhythms inspired this snappy rhythmic —Bryce Cannell shape. The lunging motion of these motives also inspired the reference to tides in the title. Although the piece is more stylistically in line with contemporary classical music, the My Piano Quartet, written during the summer of 2004, was middle section does feature an impromptu bass clarinet commissioned by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber solo supported by jazzy chomping gestures in the strings. Players. Divided into three contrasting movements, and Another small jazz element of the piece is the recurring flat- lasting about fourteen minutes, the piece tends toward a nine chords. sparer texture than much of my other music. —M.C.H. —Ross Bauer

Tribute, composed for Fred Sherry and Gilbert Kalish and dedicated to Andrew Imbrie on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, was written in December of 2000. Tribute is an intense little piece in one movement lasting about five minutes. It makes considerable demands on both performers, the cellist in particular.

A fundamental idea of Tribute involves a gradual lengthening of phrases—from rather short and simple phrases, first by the cello alone, to longer, more complex ones in which the piano, which at first has played a supporting role, becomes more independent. As the piece unfolds, various musical

5 ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir Cellist Mary Artmann joined the studied in Berlin with Axel Gerhardt. Veronika String Quartet, in residence at After finishing her studies, she worked as Colorado State University, Pueblo, in a freelance violinist in Berlin for five 2006. Currently engaged in building the years, regularly playing with the Berlin string and chamber music program at the Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, university, she has a thriving cello studio. and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. She Artmann graduated with high distinction also participated in a world tour with the from UC Berkeley and received her Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany Master of Music degree from the tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. In University of Southern . She 2004 she moved to New York and continued to freelance, completed postgraduate work at Oberlin College playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New Conservatory and Kent State University and was twice the York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and New Jersey recipient of the Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship. Symphony Orchestra. She also plays a lot of new music, most A champion of new music, she also has an interest in early recently with the Either/Or ensemble in New York in music performing on viola da gamba with the University of connection with their Helmut Lachenmann festival. Since Southern California Early Music Ensemble, the Oberlin August 2008, she has been based in Berkeley, California, Consort, and the Buffalo Consort of Viols. She is principal where she performs with various ensembles, such as the cellist with the Pueblo Symphony and has performed with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Left Coast Chamber Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonics and is a former member Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, and the Berkeley of the Slee Sinfonietta and the Scandinavian Chamber Contemporary Chamber Players to name a few. Atladottir is Orchestra of New York. also a violin lecturer at UC Berkeley.

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, Francisco-based contemporary ensemble. the 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 San Francisco Symphony’s New and San Francisco Contemporary Music Unusual Music series. He has performed Players and has worked extensively with modern works throughout California at Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern and the venues including UC campuses at San Diego, Davis, and Cologne experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Santa Cruz, at Sacramento State University, and Cal Arts. He Thürmchen Ensemble, appearing at the Cologne Triennial, has also played at June in Buffalo (NY), the Mendocino Music Berlin Biennial, Salzburg Zeitfluß, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Festival, and in the Gund Series at Kenyon College. Orland Biennial, Budapest Autumn, and Kuhmo (Finland) festivals. may be heard on recordings of contemporary music released She has performed as soloist with the West German Radio by CRI, Centaur, and Capstone. Chorus, Empyrean Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz New Music Works, Orland studied piano with Margaret Kohn in Claremont, the symphony orchestras of UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and CA, and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Music Department, at the San Francisco Other 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 , 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.

6 ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Over the past twenty-five years Peter Jean-Michel Fonteneau is a Josheff has established a solid founding member of the Ravel String reputation as a composer, clarinetist, and Quartet, winner of two prizes at the advocate of contemporary music. He has Evian String Quartet International premiered and performed hundreds of Competition in 1989, and of the first works by a wide range of composers and French Grammy Award “Les Victoires de has had numerous pieces composed for la Musique Classique” in 1993. They him. He performs with Earplay, a San toured extensively around the world and Francisco-based new music ensemble he single-handedly created the first-ever cofounded in 1985. He is also a member string quartet residency program in of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and France. Highly sought after, Fonteneau performs frequently the Eco Ensemble, appears frequently with the San with such renowned artists as Leon Fleisher, Menahem Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Parallele, Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Kim and Composers Inc., and has performed and toured with Kashkashian, members of the Amadeus, Juilliard, Pro Arte, Melody of China. He is cofounder of Sonic Harvest, a and Fine Arts Quartets. A passionate and devoted teacher, concert series dedicated to new vocal and instrumental Jean-Michel Fonteneau served on the faculty of the music, now in its tenth season. Working extensively with Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, young composers, he has performed their music and given France, until 1999, when he moved to the to presentations about writing for the clarinet at UC Berkeley join the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. and UC Davis, Stanford University, San Francisco State His students have won national and international University, and Sacramento State University, and for the competitions, appeared on Composer in the Schools Program. In 2006 he presented a workshop called “Clarinet “From the Top,” and received Presidential Scholar honors. for Composers” for the American Composers Forum in San He appears regularly at summer festivals including the Francisco. He has been on the faculty at San Francisco State Yellow Barn Music Festival, Domaine Forget, Oberlin at University. Casalmaggiore, MYA, and the Morges Summer Academy in Switzerland. Fonteneau’s recordings can be found with Musidisc-France and Albany Records.

Eric Zivian, pianist and composer, was born in Michigan and grew up in Toronto, Canada, where he attended the Royal Conservatory of Music. After receiving a diploma there, he left home at age fifteen to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree. He went on to receive graduate degrees from the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. He studied piano with Gary Graffman and Peter Serkin and composition with Ned Rorem, , and . He attended the Tanglewood Music Center both as a performer and as a composer and has given solo recitals in Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has played concertos with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. Since 2000, Zivian has performed extensively on original instruments, playing fortepiano in the Zivian-Tomkins Duo and the Benvenue Fortepiano Trio. He is also a member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, has performed with the Empyrean Ensemble and Earplay, and is a frequent guest artist on the San Francisco Conservatory’s faculty chamber music series. His compositions have been performed widely in the United States and in Tokyo. He was awarded an ASCAP Jacob Druckman Memorial Commission to compose an orchestral work, Three Character Pieces, which was premiered by the Seattle Symphony in March 1998.

7 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

Composer and violist Kurt Rohde lives Mika Pelo received his DMA from in San Francisco. His music has been Columbia University under the described as being “filled with supervision of Tristan Murail and studied exhilaration and dread. It’s a mirror of at the Royal College of Music in our times” (San Jose Mercury News). Stockholm, Sweden, with Pär Lindgren, Recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship Sven-David Sandström, and Bent and the Hinrichsen Award from the Sørensen. Pelo is assistant professor of American Academy of Arts and Letters, composition and theory at UC Davis. He he has received a Guggenheim has received awards from the Royal Fellowship, and commission awards from Academy of Music in Sweden and the the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Thord Gray Memorial Award from the American- Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, the Barlow Scandinavian Foundation. Pelo has mostly written Endowment for Music Composition, the National Endowment instrumental chamber music and music for orchestra but is for the Arts, and the Hanson Institute for American Music. He also fluent in the electronic music language and occasionally was a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship uses live electronics and writes electro-acoustic music. from the American Academy in Rome and the Berlin Prize Ensembles that have commissioned or performed his music Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. In 2012– include: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Manfred 13, he will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Honeck, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Janácˇek Studies. Recent projects include a work for puppet theater, a Philharmonic Orchestra, North Bohemian Philharmonic violin concerto for Axel Strauss, and a work for eighth Orchestra, Flux Quartet (New York), the Swedish Concert blackbird. He was the featured composer with Southwest Institute, Cecilia Zilliacus, Bengt Forsberg, Earplay, Red Light Chamber Music for their “Ascending Dragon” project during New Music (New York), the Barbad Chamber Orchestra (New the 2009–10 season and in 2010–11 had new works York), Mika Takehara, Nya Stenhammarkvartetten, Musica performed by the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and the Left Vitae, KammarensembleN, The Pearls Before Swine Coast Chamber Ensemble. From 2011 to 2013, he will have Experience, and the HUGO string quartet (Iceland). new works performed by eighth blackbird, Southwest Chamber Music, Firebird Ensemble, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and Sequitur. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, the Curtis Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Rohde studied composition with Donald Erb, Ned Rorem, and Andrew Imbrie, and viola with Karen Tuttle, John Graham and Caroline Levine. He is former artistic director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, co-director of the Empyrean Ensemble (http://music.ucdavis.edu/empyrean), and teaches composition and theory at UC Davis. He has taught composition at UC Santa Barbara and was composer- in-residence at the Yellow Barn Music Festival and guest composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference. Rohde plays with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the New Century Chamber Orchestra. Visit Rohde’s web site http:// www.KurtRohde.com.

8 EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE FUND

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

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9 Please join us for our

2011–12 Empyrean Ensemble Season Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center

Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:00 pm Concert III—Songs, Whispers, Tales and Utterances—New Works for Voice Haleh Abghari, soprano Chris Froh, percussion Gee: Mouthpiece VI Nichols: Three Songs (text includes writings by Emily Brontë, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, and a riddle from the Exeter Book) San Martin: Conference of Birds Unfeathered Pre-concert lecture and discussion at 6:15 pm with guest composers. $8 Students and Children, $20 Adults Standard Seating

Monday, June 4, 2012 7:00 pm Concert IV—New Music from Davis Composers include Gabriel Bolaños Chamorro, William Cooper, Alex Van Gils, Bryce Cannell, Scott Perry, Garrett Shatzer, Ben Irwin, and Hendel Almétus. Pre-concert lecture and discussion at 6:15 pm with guest composers. $8 Students and Children, $20 Adults Classical Cabaret Seating

– 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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SeaTS and SToneS Recognized by gifts of $1,000 or more Aguirre Family UC Davis Music Faculty In Memory of John and Norma Meyer Angelo D. Arias and Family Christian Baldini and Kenneth N. MacKenzie Maureen Miller Robert and Joan Ball Matilda Hofman Clyde and Ruth Bowman Teresa Paglieroni Cynthia Bates David and Helen Nutter Elizabeth Bradford Sarah and Ross Bauer, Ph.D. Pablo Ortiz Karen and Irving Broido Thomas Pattison Kathryn Caulfield Mika Pelo and Paul and Nancy Caffo Philip and Dennis Cook and Hrabba Atladottir Laura Cameron Shirley Penland Susan Lamb Cook Laurie San Martin and Bruce and Mary Carswell David and Dair Rausch Martha Dickman Sam Nichols Linton and Elizabeth and Donna M. Di Grazia Jeffrey Thomas Carol Corruccini Eugene Renkin Nancy DuBois Mary and George Dahlgren G. Thomas and Richard and Vera Harris Seth Singers, Allen and Joan Sallee Paul W. Hiss, M.D. Alumni 1994–2008 Mary Lou Dobbins Katherine Schimke Julia and Richard Kulmann Seth Arnopole John and Maxine Schmalenberger Charlene R. Kunitz John Baker Catherine Duniway J. Tracy and Katherine and David Benjamin Robert and Sally Schreiber William Landschulz Penn Brimberry Ann Edmondson Roy and Polly Sheffield Beth E. Levy Joshua Eichorn Andrew and Judith Gabor Suzette Smith Craig M. Machado Stephen Fasel Government Ronald and Rosie Soohoo Heather Kernberger Katherine Ivanjack Affairs Consulting Joe and Betty Tupin MacKenzie Eric and Jacque Leaver Paul and June Gulyassy Laura and Gary and Jane Matteson Joshua and Sara Margulis Charlene R. Kunitz Richard Van Nostrand Deborah and Hugh McDevitt Elizabeth Parks Russell and Elisabetta Vivoda Maureen Miller Ellen Proulx Suzanne Hansen Richard and Gail M. Otteson Keith and Jennifer Rode John and Marylee Hardie Shipley Walters Christopher Reynolds and Steven Rosenau Benjamin and Noel and Pamela Warner Alessa Johns Asa Stern Lynette Hart Robert and Kurt Rohde and Stephanie Sugano John and Patricia Christine Wendin Timothy Allen Thomas Wilberg Hershberger Debbie B. Wilson Jerome and Sylvia Rosen Bette Gabbard Hinton Robert and Joyce Wisner Schore Family Dirk and Sharon Hudson Donald and Diane Woods Thomas and James and Karen Slabaugh Patricia Hutchinson St. Helena Henry Spiller and Barbara K. Jackson Hospital Foundation Michael Orland Jerry and Teresa Kaneko Hannah and Sherman Stein Kit and Bonita Lam Henry and Ann Studer Ruth Lawrence Lynne Swant and Family Jerry and Uwate Family Marguerite Lewis Larry and Frederick and Rosalie Vanderhoef Lucinda March Marya Welch Theresa Mauer Carla Wilson Gary and Jane Matteson Robert and Margaret McDonald