UCSB Chamber Players Jonathan Moerschel, Director Thursday, June 3, 2021 | 6 pm PDT | Virtual Event

program

Sonata, Op. 120, No. 1 in F minor for clarinet and piano Johannes Brahms Andante un poco adagio (1833-1897)

Alison Schwartz, clarinet Chika Nobumori, piano

Duo in C for two violas, F. 60 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Allegro di molto (1710-1784) Scherzo Soha Sadeghinejad, viola Jonathan Moerschel,* viola

Suite for Four Trombones, Op. 82 Flor Peeters 1. Entrata (1903-1986) 2. Lied 3. Dans 4. Final

Cal Apigo, Harrison Arakawa, Sriram Ramamurthy, Allison Rigler, tenor trombones Olivia Nava, bass trombone

Cantos for Slava (cello and piano) Augusta Read Thomas Cantos IV (b. 1964)

Britta Thomas, cello Anjela Tokadjian, piano

Petrouchka – Reduction for piano duet (1911, rev. 1947) Igor Stravinsky Fourth Tableau: The Shrove-Tide Fair (Toward Evening) – (1882-1971) The Wet-Nurses’ Dance – Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms – Masquerades – [Petrouchka’s Death]

Alvise Pascucci, piano Lucía Álvarez Núñez, piano

*UC Santa Barbara faculty member

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Presented by the University of California, Santa Barbara Division of Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Letters and Science and the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music War Horse John Williams (b. 1932) arr. Max Dei Rossi Susan Faulkner Horn Ensemble Madison Babovec Dylan Correia Max Dei Rossi Jackson Hahn-Smith Cameron Scott Immesoete Olivia Langner Zuowuan “Larry” Li Anthony Sinicrope Jackson Weill

Petite Suite Claude Debussy IV. Ballet (1862-1918)

Ching-Yun Chen, piano Sean Tran, piano

String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp” Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio ma non troppo (1770-1827)

Young Artists String Quartet Gulia Gurevich, violin Anthony Navarro, violin Shirley Shang, viola Naomi Stoodley, cello

All Blues Miles Davis (1926-1991) Arr. Thomas H. Graf

Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet Ethan Baxter and Morgan Smith, trumpets Jackson Hahn-Smith, French horn Cal Apigo, trombone Olivia Nava, bass trombone

Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 Johannes Brahms Allegro moderato (1833-1897) Noelle Barr, violin Jennifer Kloetzel,* cello Zhongxi Lin, piano

Entr’Acte for String Quartet Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) Rafael Vazquez Guevara, violin Martina Chen, violin Karis Lee, viola Ivan Law, cello

*UC Santa Barbara faculty member

*** About the Director

Jonathan Moerschel was born in Boston, Massachusetts into a musical family. His mother, a pianist, and his father, a cellist in the Boston Symphony, fostered his early music studies both in piano and violin. At the age of sixteen, he began studying the viola with John Ziarko and chamber music with the violist from the Kolisch Quartet, Eugene Lehner. Moerschel made his Boston Symphony Hall solo debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra, directed by Keith Lockhart, in 1997 after taking first prize in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

He is the violist of the renowned Calder Quartet, which enjoys a diverse career, playing both the traditional quartet literature as well as partnering with innovative modern composers. The quartet, a recipient of the 2014 Avery Fischer Career Grant, has recently premiered new works by John Luther Adams, , Tristan Perich, Daniel Bjarnason, , and David Lang. They have had recent performances at Lincoln Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre and at the Salzburg Festival. They have performed at top halls and festivals across the globe including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Ojai Music Festival, Melbourne Festival, IRCAM in Paris, Frankfurt Opera, Berkeley’s Cal Performances, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Edinburgh Festival and the Mozarteum.

Moerschel is a Lecturer of Viola and Chamber Music at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has collaborated with eminent musicians Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Paul Neubauer, Steven Tenenbaum, Joseph Kalichstein, Claude Frank, Menachem Pressler and Anne-Marie McDermott. He plays on the “ex- Adam” Gasparo Da Salo viola made in the late 16th Century on generous loan from the Stradivari Society.

He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in viola performance from the University of Southern California, studying with Donald McInnes, and an Artist Diploma from The .