UNIVERSITY CHOIR

WITH THE VAIL STRING QUARTET JOSHUA PALKKI, CONDUCTOR GUK-HUI HAN, PIANO CHAMBER CHOIR

WITH THE UNIVERSITY STRING QUARTET JONATHAN TALBERG, CONDUCTOR GUK-HUI HAN, PIANO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2016 8:00PM LOS ALTOS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES. PROGRAM I.

The Star Spangled Banner...... Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) & John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) arr. Tim Sharp

The New Colossus...... Kevin Memley (b. 1971)

University and Chamber Choirs II. Guk-Hui Han—piano

The Roof...... Andrea Ramsey (b. 1977)

Emma McAllister—violin

Kyrie from Mass in C...... Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)

Hannah Penzner—soprano, Michelle Choi—mezzo soprano, David Dumond—tenor, Stefan Jevtic—bass

Elegischer Gesang...... Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Dark Night of the Soul...... Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

University Choir with the Vail String Quartet Joshua Palkki—conductor, Guk-Hui Han—piano Lea Guardado—soprano INTERMISSION III.

Sept Chansons...... Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) 1. La blanche neige 6. Marie

Effortlessly Love Flows...... Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960)

Five Hebrew Love Songs...... (b. 1970) 1. Temuná (A picture) 2. Kalá (Light bride) 3. Lárov (Mostly) 4. Éyze shéleg! (What snow!) 5. Rakút (Tenderness) Amanda Mitton—soprano

Soneto de La Noche...... Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

The Hope of Loving...... Jake Runestad (b. 1986) 1. Yield to Love 2. Wild Forces 3. Wonderous Creatures 4. The Heart’s Veil 5. My Soul is a Candle 6. The Hope of Loving

The Bob Cole Chamber Choir with the University String Quartet Jonathan Talberg—conductor 2 Michaela Blanchard—soprano, Jesse Tebay—baritone ABOUT JOSHUA PALKKI

Dr. Joshua Palkki joined the faculty of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach as Assistant Professor of Vocal/Choral Music Education in Fall of 2016. At CSULB, he leads the University Choir, teaches courses in music education (including choral repertoire and pedagogy), interfaces with the College of Education, and mentors graduate students in music education. Dr. Palkki is passionate about teacher education and preparing preservice teachers to be competent and caring teachers with the knowledge and skills to address issues of social justice through music education.

Palkki earned a PhD in Music Education (Choral Conducting cognate) from Michigan State University in 2016. His dissertation, advised by Dr. Cynthia Taggart, explored the experiences of transgender students in high school choral programs. In 2016, he received a university-wide Emerging Progress Toward Excellence in Diversity award as well as the MSU Council of Graduate Students Disciplinary Leadership Award for his work on LGBTQ inclusion in music education. He was also a recipient of the MSU Dissertation Completion Fellowship. During his tenure at MSU, he studied conducting with Dr. Sandra Snow, Dr. Jonathan Reed, and Dr. David Rayl. In addition to his membership in university choirs, Dr. Palkki has performed with professional and semi- professional choirs including The Choral Project (San José, CA), Cantate Chamber Singers (Washington, D.C.) and the Sedona Academy of Chamber Singers (Sedona, AZ) and can be heard on the Clarion and Raven labels with these ensembles. In 2011, while earning a master’s degree in Choral Conducting at Northern Arizona University with Dr. Edith Copley, Palkki was a finalist in the graduate division of the 2011 American Choral Directors Association national conducting competition. In 2011, he was named Outstanding Graduate Student in the Northern Arizona University School of Music. An active guest conductor and clinician, he conducted the Nevada Middle School All-State Choir in 2016 and has served on the faculty of both the Northern Arizona University Curry Summer Music Camp and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Dr. Palkki has served as guest conductor or clinician in California, Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, and Nevada.

In 2001-02, while completing his undergraduate degree in Vocal/General Music Education at Ball State University, Joshua was a guest student at San José State University where he studied conducting with Professor Elena Sharkova and Dr. Charlene Archibeque. Palkki served as choral director at Hoover Middle School and Lincoln High School, two performing arts schools in San José, California. He taught choir and handbells at Norwood School in Bethesda, Maryland. During his tenure at Norwood he prepared a choir to perform in the American Ballet Theatre production of The Nutcracker at the Kennedy Center and was selected as a conducting fellow for the 2013 Chorus America Children’s/Youth Choir Conducting Master Class at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. In 2012, Norwood granted him funds for travel to Kenya, which enabled collaboration with Children of Kibera Foundation (now part of the Kenya Education Fund) and Red Rose School.

A native of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Joshua identifies very closely with Garrison Keillor’s tales of Lake Wobegon. In addition to great choral music, he has a keen interest in all things Finnish, LGBTQ and gender issues in music education, culturally relevant teaching, and broader issues of music education and social justice. Dr. Palkki has presented at state and national research and practitioner conferences including the NAfME National In-Service National Conference, the Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium, LGBTQ Studies in Music Education III, and the ACDA National Conference. His writing appears in the Choral Journal, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Journal of Research in Music Education, Research and Issues in Music Education, and Research Studies in Music Education. Joshua currently serves on the editorial boards of two journals: TOPICS, a practitioner journal published by the May Day Group, and New Directions in Music Education. ABOUT JONATHAN TALBERG Dr. Jonathan Talberg serves as Director of Choral, Vocal, and Opera Studies at the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach where he is conductor of the 2016 “Choir of the World”— the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir. His ensembles have performed with groups as diverse as the Kronos Quartet, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Rolling Stones. He has twice conducted at the National Association for Music Education regional honor choir, at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 American Choral Directors Western Convention and at the 2009 and 2013 National Collegiate Choral Organization Conferences. He has lead All-State choral concerts from Oregon to Maine, and has performed in various venues throughout Europe and Asia, including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s and St. 3 Mark’s Basilicas in Italy, the Karlskirche in Vienna, the Matyas Templom in Budapest, and at the Great Hall of the People in China. In constant demand as a guest conductor, he has worked with all levels of singers—from elementary to professional—throughout the and Europe. In addition to his work at the Bob Cole Conservatory, Dr. Talberg is Music Director at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, where he conducts both the Cathedral Choir and the Cathedral Singers, a 16-voice professional chamber choir that sings weekly in service. He served as Director of the Los Angeles Bach Festival from 2008 until 2013, and before that, as conductor of the Long Beach Bach Festival and Camerata Singers. Dr. Talberg is the recipient of the 2015 President’s Award from the California Music Educators Association, “honoring extraordinary accomplishments in music education.”

Prior to his appointment at CSULB in 2000, Dr. Talberg served as Conducting Assistant to the Cincinnati Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival, and as principal choral conductor at Arrowbear Music Camp in Southern California. Before graduate school, he taught high school choir in Orange County and at the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts. He is a past-president of the California Chapter of the ACDA. He is also an editor at Pavane Music Publishing, where a choral series dedicated to outstanding quality, collegiate-level music is published under his name.

Of the many hats he wears each day, the one he is most proud of is mentor to the next generation of choral musicians. Alumni of the Bob Cole Conservatory Choral Studies program are teaching at elementary, middle and high schools, churches, community colleges and four-year universities throughout the country. Recent Bob Cole Conservatory graduates are currently earning—or have finished—their doctorates in choral music at the University of Michigan, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Iowa, and the University of Southern California.

Dr. Talberg received his BM in Choral Conducting from Chapman University, where he received the Outstanding Alumnus in the Arts award in 2014. He earned his MM and DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops, and the May Festival Chorus. His conducting teachers include Roger Wagner, William Hall, Earl Rivers, John Leman and Elmer Thomas. ABOUT GUK-HUI HAN Dr. Guk-Hui (Cookie) Han received her BM in Piano Performance from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, her MM in Collaborative Piano from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and a DMA in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from USC, Thornton School of Music. Dr. Han is excited to join us as the BCCM staff accompanist.

Her career has taken her all over the world, from accompanying operas and vocal festivals in Korea to premiering new works in Los Angeles, California. She has had extensive experience as a collaborative pianist, working with the USC Thornton Chamber Singers, the USC Apollo Men’s Chorus, Wind Ensemble and was the music director for a production of Le Portrait de Manon.

During the summers Guk-Hui extended her studies, attending the Collaborative Artist Program, Aspen Music Festival, CO (2008), as a master course participant at the Franz-Schubert Institut, Baden bei Wien, Austria (2012), attending the Professional Pianist Program at Songfest, Colburn School of Music and was invited to the preliminary round of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, London, England (2013). This past summer she participated in French immersion program, L’Ècole Français, at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

While studying at USC and University of Cincinnati, Guk-Hui was awarded teaching assistantships. She also has received scholarships to the Aspen Music Festival, the University of Cincinnati, Songfest and was awarded USC’s Koldofsky Fellowship 2010-2014. Dr. Han also has been elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, a music honorary society. Her major teachers have been Alan L. Smith, Kenneth Griffiths and Lydia Eunsuk Yu.

Don’t miss our Winter Festival Concert Saturday, December 3, 2016 @ 4:00pm + 8:00pm Sunday, December 4, 2016 @ 4:00pm Brian Dokko, Sean Fitzpatrick, Christine Guter, Marcus Klotz, Joshua Palkki, and Jonathan Talberg, conductors First Congregational Church of Long Beach Tickets $30/20/15 4 PERSONNEL CSULB UNIVERSITY CHOIR Joshua Palkki—conductor / Guk-Hui Han—piano

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Julia Chapman Jasmine Ahloo David Dumond Justin Baptista Symphonie Constant Chloe Billings Kyle Gabriel Chris Cazneaux * Candelaria Dangerfield Joey Carini Garrett Koneval Tim Cervenka Lea Guardado Michelle Choi Jimmy Lopez Christopher Colocho Katherine Keilty Dylan Gastelum Vincent Loza Stefan Jevtic Kelly McCandless Natalie Gonzalez Luke McCandless Kris Kath Nicole Peppel * Kaytie Holt Casey McCreary Issac Kang Hannah Penzner Abby Huesmann Henry Meza Lou Rosen Kelsey Reynolds Nagel Martinez Mateo Real Malek Sammour Tiffany Reyes Amanda Mello Michael Rothbart * Jordan Tickner Abigail Rosenthal Niko Murakami Sean Wilburn Julia Schrodt Christine Patrikian Abigail Wyatt Chloé Puertas Jordan Rupp *Section Leader Sammy Sohn * Vail String Quartet Milan Stachelek Emma McAllister—violin Laura Warfield Makena Clark—violin Taylor Cooksey—viola Jaemin Lee—cello

BOB COLE CONSERVATORY CHAMBER CHOIR Jonathan Talberg—conductor / Marcus Klotz—assistant conductor / Guk-Hui Han—piano

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Clare Bellefeuille-Rice Attia Arenas Ulysses Aquino Mason Allred Michaela Blanchard Molly Burnside Jonny Arenas John Carroll Emily Bosetti Courtney Burroughs Harlee Balajadia Ryan King Marisa DiCamillo Saane Halaholo Morgan Davi * Andrew Konopak * Jennifer Campbell Genie Hossain Jonathan Knauer Zachary Haines Sarah Conniff Jasmine Khorsandi Blake Larson Gregg Haueter Kali Hardwick Bekka Knauer * Ricardo Martinez Marcus Klotz Amanda Mitton Kaylee Lackman David Morales Jesse Tebay Kathleen Moriarty Brittany Logan Thomas M. O’Hara Brandon Guzman Jennifer Paz * Ashley Miner Jeremy Padrones Emilio Valdez Kathleen Van Ruiten Pauline Tamale Patrick Tsoi-A-Sue

*Section Leader University String Quartet Jaclyn Kim—violin Mizuki Tagaki—violin Seulgee Park—viola Hyunji Yi—cello 5 BOB COLE CONSERVATORY DONORS The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSULB recognizes and thanks the following donors for their generosity to our students and programs. Included are donors who have contributed to the Annual Fund and Special Events from Fall 2015. Private donations help support scholarships, production, tours, and concerts. Legacy Donors Anonymous Jack & Marilyn Kates † Bob & Regena Cole Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lee (In memory of Elaine Richey) L. Patrick Pritchard Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Lee Paul & Jane Lindsey Golden Baton Circle ($50,000 and above) Long Beach Community Foundation Hon. Jacob Adajian Los Altos United Methodist Church Beverly August † (In memory of George August) Myrna Mallek-Roth Dramatic Allied Arts Guild Pacific Gas & Electric Company Friend of the Bob Cole Conservatory Patrick & Karen McDonough For more information Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Roberta Medford and tickets please call Centennial Properties Eric Lou Mellencamp 562.985.7000 or visit: Fine Arts Affiliates Mark & Roberta Morrison Joanne France Mike & Erin Mugnai* The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Richard Nelson Dr. Matthew & Mrs. Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation Dr. Donald & Sandra Para Kip Polakoff † (In memory of Carol Polakoff) Perform International, LLC The Estate of Virginia Skinner John & Evelyn Pohlmann John Queen Directors Circle ($10,000 -$49,999) Craig and David Richey Hon. Burton Barnett Scott St. Marie Margaret H. Bedel Cathrine Schaffer-Bohlen California Community Foundation Ivan A. Shulman William Gillespie Foundation Linda Schnabl Frieda Rapoport Caplan Audre Slater Ley Malilay Kathy K. Smith Shigemi Matsumoto & Marty Stark Robert & Janet Spidell (In memory of Moriichi & Suki Matsumoto) Starbucks Coffee Company Irene S. Meyer Virginia L. Stevens Presser Foundation Dr. Michael Stugrin & Brian Buchanan John Jacob Shaak (In memory of Bernard Lee Shaak) Dr. Jonathan Talberg Sigma Alpha Iota Fraternity Joseph & Hester Van Ruiten Hon. Samuel W. Warner Yamaha Corporation of America

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