Earplay San Francisco Season Concerts 2011 Season Herbst Theatre, 7:30 PM Pre-concert talk 6:45 p.m.

Earplay 26: Sound Science Monday, February 7, 2011

Jonathan BergerGeorge Crumb  Jonathan Harvey  Betsy Jolas

Earplay 26: Sound Tangents Monday, March 28, 2011 John Cage  Elliott Carter  Jonathan Harvey Earplay 26: Sound Lines Mei-Fang Lin Michelle Lou June 01, 2011 Earplay 26: Sound Lines Wednesday, June 1, 2011 as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Edmund Campion  Jonathan Harvey  Olga Neuwirth  Hèctor Parra  Adam Roberts

Earplay commission/world premiere Earplay commission U.S. Premiere West-Coast Premiere 2010 Winner, Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composition Competition

Hear Earplay in 2012 earplay 27: 2011-12 Season February 6, March 19, May 10, 2012 elcome to Earplay’s final concert of its 26th San Francisco season. Our mission is to nurture new W chamber music — to expand its reach to inspire each one of us through new compositions and performances. The 2011 San Francisco series highlights the innovation from composers at Stanford University. We’re delighted to again participate in the San Francisco International Arts Festival and the exchanges with artists internationally. Tonight composers Edmund Campion and Adam Roberts (2010 Earplay/Aird winner) join us for performances of their works. Tonight is the last Earplay concert for executive director, Aislinn Scofield who leaves us for adventures in Detroit. She will Earplay 2012 transition Earplay’s leadership in time for Earplay’s 27th season Donald Aird to Laura Rosenberg who is returning to the Bay Area and will become Earplay’s new ED. Bon Voyage, Aislinn and welcome, Memorial Laura! Composers Competition

Mark your calendars for Earplay’s 27th season (February 6, March Downloadable application at: 19 and May 10, 2012) highlighting Morton Feldman and more www.earplay.org/competitions commissioned new works. Before February, watch for Earplay around the bay at events to be announced. Earplay continues to Deadline: be at the forefront of bringing new works to the concert hall. We March 31, 2012 appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you at each of our concerts and beyond! Stephen Ness President, Board of Directors Special Thanks To:

Earplay Earplay Staff KALW - Then and Now Advisory Board Board of Directors Sarah Cahill Bruce Christian Bennett Richard Felciano Christopher Froh Stephen Ness, president Aislinn Scofield Peter Moore William Kraft May Luke, secretary executive director Kevin Neuhoff Kent Nagano Bruce Bennett, treasurer Terrie Baune scheduling coordinator Stephen Ness Wayne Peterson Ellen Ruth Rose Terrie Baune, musician representative Renona Brown Chen Yi accountant Karen Rosenak Mary Chun Aislinn Scofield Ian Thomas Mark Veregge Christopher Wendell Jones sound recordist

Earplay, P.O. Box 192125, San Francisco, CA 94119-2125 SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER HERBST THEATRE Wednesday Evening, June 6, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The Herbst Theatre Owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco through the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial of San Francisco The Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor EARPLAY 26: TRUSTEES Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, President Sound Lines MajGen J. Michael Myatt, USMC (Ret.), Vice President Wilkes Bashford Nancy H. Bechtle Belva Davis Thomas E. Horn Mary Chun, conductor Claude M. Jarman, Jr. Mrs. George R. Moscone Tod Brody, flutes Terrie Baune, violin Paul F. Pelosi Peter Josheff, clarinets Ellen Ruth Rose, viola James W. Stafford Karen Rosenak, piano Thalia Moore, cello Diane B. Wilsey

Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director Guest Artists Jennifer E. Norris, Assistant Managing Director Diane Grubbe, flute Alice Lenaghan, flute Jeff Anderle, clarinet Mark Veregge, marimba

Pre-concert talk 6:45 p.m. Bruce Christian Bennett, moderator with Edmund Campion and Adam Roberts

Earplay’s season is made possible with funding from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, The Ross McKee Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Generous Donors.

Program Donors (since February 2010) We thank our donors for their generosity and continued belief in the importance of the creation and performance of new and intriguing music. Olga Neuwirith Spleen (1994) Jeff Anderle $100 + Margo Golding $10,000 + Daniel Gong The San Francisco Grants For the Yen Bachmeier Karen Gottlieb Arts Jonathan Berger John and Lee Hause The William and Flora Hewlett Katherine Blume (1992) Richard Mellott Jonathan Harvey Lotuses Foundation Tod Brody Patricia Moy Mary Chun, Alice Lenaghan, William Beck & Yu-Hui Chang James & April Carlson Wendy Niles $5,000 + John & Mary Caris Pablo Ortiz Terrie Baune, Ellen Ruth Rose, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Chris Concolino Leonard and Sandra Rosenberg Annonymous Thalia Moore Alena Cowan Regina Sneed French American Cultural Exchange Richard Felciano Bill Specht Adam Frey Donald and Phyllis Sutherland $3,000 + Pablo Furman Ava Victoria intermission The Bernard Osher Foundation Patti Glasow Mark Winges The San Francisco Foundation Fund Margot Golding for Artists Christine Gong Douglas Gong Hèctor Parra Time Fields III (2003) Melanie Kwock Gong and more friends $1,000 + Violet Gong Frances L. Bennion U.S. premiere Ross McKee Foundation Martha Callison Horst Kenneth Bruchmeier Terrie Baune Leo Kadehjian Anne Callaway Diane Grubbe Mary Chun Joy Kent Eleanor Cohen May Luke William Kraft Ernestine S. Cohn Bari & Stephen Ness Ann Kroeber Alice Berg Cronin Aislinn Scofield Antoinette Kuhry & Barbara and Sanford Dornbusch Adam Roberts Sinews (2008) Thomas A. Haeuser Robert Fisher $300 + Susan Kwock Donald & Stephanie Friedman Earplay Donald Aird Composers Raymond and Mary Chun Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Gary Friedman Competition 2010 winner Margaret Dorfman Amy Miller Levine Guillermo Galindo Yoshiko Kakudo Alfred Lerdahl Rob Gong Elizabeth O’Malley west coast premiere Rosalie Lowe Louise Haiman Wayne Peterson Dan Scharlin Rollin and Phyliss Harding Sam Nichols & Laurie San Martin Mike Sharp Stephen Harrison Terrie Baune Karen Rosenak Donald & Jill Spuehler Valerie Herr Larry Russo Olly & Louise Wilson Leslie Ann Jones William Schottstaedt Louis Karchin Thomas White Mazdak Khamda Edmund Campion Musica (1997) Teija Kuosku $50 + Nana Kurosawa $200 + Eva Langfedit Mark Applebaum William Beckerman Mary Chun, Alice Lenaghan, Jan Lustig Jonathan Berger Emma Bethencourt Marilyn Mercur Peter Josheff, Karen Rosenak and Jane Bernstein and Robert Ellis Herbert W. Bielawa Ralph & Elizabeth Morrison Wayne & Winnie Chun Patricia Bourne Mark Veregge Norman Reid Margaret Dorfman Seth Brenzel Allen Shearer & Claudia Stevens Patti Noel Dueter Katherine Brody Gary Eskelson William Carlin Kristin Zoernig Ellinor Hagedorn James & April Carlson Christopher Wendell Jones Jim Carr Ruth Knier John Chowning Melanie Kwock Gong Lori Dobbins Peter Moore Janet Elliott Nora Norden Michele Fromson & Cordell Ho Arthur Rose Paolo Geminiani Chen Yi and Zhou Long Arnold Go Earplay Composers: Twenty-Six Years Notes on the Program

Eliane Aberdam Richard Felciano Mario Lavista Marc Satterwhite Sarah Aderholdt John Felder Anne LeBaron Eric Sawyer sound...perplexed, struggling for Thomas Adès Morton Feldman Yinam Leef Arnold Schoenberg Spleen (1994) Donald Aird Richard Festinger Fred Lerdahl Ralph Shapey bass clarinet solo breath and voice. Eleanor Alberga Irving Fine Peter Scott Lewis Salvatore Sciarrino Richard Aldag Michael Finnissy Jorge Liderman David Schiff by Olga N e u w i r t h Thus composes Olga Neuwirth in Alexis Alrich Tom Flaherty Peter Lieberson David Schober Allen Anderson Andrew Frank György Ligeti Philippe Schoeller this piece, which was published in Mark Applebaum David Froom Liza Lim Arnold Schoenberg Robert Basart Pablo Furman Mei-Fang Lin Excess and the grotesque have 1994 and first premiered in Schwaz. Roger Sessions Ross Bauer Beat Fürrer Scott Lindroth Bruce Christian Bennett Guillermo Galindo David Liptak Allen Shearer always formed the very foundation of The colorful richness of the bass Seymour Shifrin Arthur Berger Michael Gandolfi Zhou Long Olga Neuwirth’s musical reservoir. clarinet is astounding - pushed into Jonathan Berger Guy Garnett Michelle Lou Sheila Silver Luciano Berio Stacy Garrop Jing Jing Luo Reynold Simpson Down here, nothing is spared hair-splitting ranges which should Christophe Bertrand John Gibson Witold Lutoslawski Paul Siskind Jan Bilk James Giroudonv Drake Mabry Ronald Bruce Smith - not the composing individual, in fact not even belong to such Herb Bielawa Glenn Glasow John MacDonald David Soley Susan Blaustein Daniel Godfrey Steven Mackey Harvey Sollberger not the listener, not even the an instrument. In these heights, Stephen Blumberg Alexander Goehr Katherine Malyi Claudio Spies performer. The musical moments the sounds are stripped and lay Linda Bouchard Perry Goldstein Ursula Mamlock Jeff Stadelman Michelle Green Donald Martino Kurt Stallman of oversubscription demand drastic bare - they vie for self-expression, David Meckstroth Martin Boykan Mark Grey Dorrance Stalvey Carolyn Bremer Stephen Michael Gryc Marjorie Merryman Eitan Steinberg extremes in all aspects. It is for nearness, for some semblance Benjamin Britten Susan Harding Olivier Messiaen Frank Stemper Christopher Burns Lou Harrison Donal Michalsky of warmth - stilted, lamenting, Mark Stickman the very same artistic self- Ann Callaway Ellen Ruth Harrison Darius Milhaud Igor Stravinsky struggling for air and tone. Ronald Caltabiano Stephen Hartke Eric Moe relinquishing first felt in all of its Edmund Campion Hugh Hartwell Chris Treubue Moore Kotoka Suzuki Sounding, they search for their James Carr Jonathan Harvey Paul Moravec Toru Takemitsu self-destructive intensity by French Elliott Carter Hans Werner Henze Gustavo Moretto Bruce Taub lyricists such as Baudelaire or own place, and in these existential Chris Chafe Martin Herman John Thow Yu-Hui Chang Jennifer Higdon Thea Musgrave Leilei Tian Rimbaud. The first Spleen-poem outskirts blooms something Eric Chasalow Alexander Hills Hyo-Shin Na Ushio Torikai resembling the suggestion of a new Yi Chen Vincent Chee-yung Ho William Neil Joan Tower from Charles Baudelaires collection Miguel Chuagui Sunji Hong Olga Neuwirth Christopher Trapani beauty - like a forgotten wallflower. Timothy Vincent Clark Martha Callison Horst Sam Nichols Bertram Turetzky Les fleurs du mal begins with the Steven Clark Toshio Hosokawa Roger Nixon Nicolas Tzortzis Olga Neuwirth, asked about Spleen Joao Pedro Oliveira lines: Aaron Copland Joan Huang Jason Uech Lee Hyla Henry Onderdonk replied: “Nothing is to be said. I Eleanor Cory Galina Ustvol’skaya i Cindy Cox Igor Iachimciuc Pablo Ortiz David Vayo simply wish to say nothing about it.” Ruth Crawford Seeger Victor Ialeggio Gabriela Ortiz Pluvius, irritated with the entire city, Curt Veeneman George Crumb Shintaro Imai Jose Antonio Orts Claude Vivier Pours from his urn in great waves a Beth Custer Andrew Imbrie Hèctor Para - Reinhard Schulz Caspar Johannes Walter Marc-Andre Dalbavie Charles Ives Krzysztof Penderecki dismal cold Greg D’Alessio Edward Jacobs Jeffrey Perry Xi-Lin Wang Luigi Dallapiccola Stephen Jaffe Wayne Peterson Anton von Webern Over the pale inhabitants of the James Dashow David Jaffe Alexander Post Judith Weir neighboring cemetery Olga Neuwirth Mario Davidovsky Ping Jin Laurie Radford Daniel Weymouth Peter Maxwell Davies Betsy Jolas David Rakowski Scott Wheeler And mortality over the foggy outskirts (b.1968, Austria) Adriana Verdié de Vas Christopher Wendell Jones Shulamit Ran Barbara White Romero Peter Josheff Bernard Rands Frances White studied composition Tamar Diesendruck Louis Karchin Maurice Ravel Beth Wiemann This very picture drills itself into with Erich Urbanner at Lori Dobbins Arthur Keiger Belinda Reynolds Olly Wilson Franco Donatoni Hi-Kyung Kim Steve Ricks Mark Winges the brain and consciousness. These the Vienna Academy of Kui Dong Earl Kim Andrew Rindfleisch Walter Winslow Jérome Dorival Jerome Kitzke Adam Roberts are garish colors which are mortally Music and Performing Arts. Her MA Stefan Wolpe Jacob Druckman Barbara Kolb Jody Rockmaker Charles Wuorinen Edwin Dugger Anthony Korf Mauricio Rodriguez threatened by asphyxia and become thesis was on the use of music in the Iannis Xenakis Joel Durand Paul Kozel Kurt Rohde Tolga Yayalar pale. This must indeed be a piece Alain Resnais film “L’amour a mort”. David Dzubay William Kraft Mathew Rosenblum Jason Eckardt Meyer Kupferman Morris Rosenzweig Pagh-Paan Younghi for a just one wind instrument - let During that period she also studied at George Edwards Gyorgy Kurtag Chris Roze Isang Yun Aaron Einbond Bun-ching Lam Kaija Saariaho Eric Zivian alone, ready for any extreme of the Electroacoustic Institute. During Mirtru Escalona-Mijares David Lang Virginia Samuel Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Leo Eylar Massimo Lauricella Laurie San Martin Ellen Taafe Zwilich Fredrik Fahlman Richard Lavenda Carlos Sanchez-Gutiérrez 1985-86 she studied composition Lotuses (1992) and theory with Elinor Armer at by onathan arvey the Conservatory of Music in San J H Francisco, as well as fine art and film for flute, violin, viola, and cello at the Art College. From 1993-94 she studied with Tristan Murail in In Harvey’s music, aesthetic and Paris, and took part in the “Stage religious ideas are not separable d’Informatique Musicale” at IRCAM, from questions of musical Paris. technique. Where his works seek to express extra-musical ideas, Two portrait concerts were they do so not through vague, dedicated to her in the Salzburg subjective “associations” on the play nurtures new chamber music linking audiences, Festival 1998 within the series of part of composer or listener, performers, and composers through concerts, commissions, concerts “Next Generation”. In 1999 but rather by means of concrete and recordings of the finest music of our time. she was awarded the “Förderpreis musical processes. When Harvey der Ernst von Siemens-Stiftung”, mentions, in reference to Lotuses, Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, München and the “Hindemith- that in Buddhist teaching the Earplay is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music Preis” of the Schleswig-Holstein- lotus is a “symbol of the rich offering audiences a unique opportunity to hear eloquent, Musik-Festival. Her first opera was individuality of forms of being,” vivid performances of some of today’s finest chamber music. successfully performed during the he is also saying something about Earplay concerts feature the Earplayers, seven artists who, as a “Wiener Festwochen” in 1999, and musical technique. His music group, have developed a lyrical and ferocious style. Earplay has she was awarded the “Ernst Krenek- cultivates the individuality of line performed over 425 works in its 26-year history including 110 Preis” for it. and gesture and tone. Character is everything. The transcendent world premieres and over 50 new works commissioned by the quality of his music is not arrived ensemble. The 2011 season reinforces Earplay’s unwavering track She has created a number of different at in spite of his individual record of presenting exceptional music in the 21st century. works including “Clinamen/Nodus” materials, but precisely through (2000) which was written for Pierre entering more profoundly into Boulez and the London Symphony their particularity. Individual donations are vital to Earplay’s success and we Orchestra and been composer- appreciate your generosity. If your company has a matching policy, we would be most grateful. in-residence with the Koninklijk Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders in In the opening of Lotuses, each fragment is shaped by its Call us or see our website (www.earplay.org) to make an Antwerp and the “Luzerner Festwochen”. electronic donation: or take a pre-addressed envelope tonight. underlying breath patterns, but is unique in the detail of its Thank you! Together we can keep the music coming! tone, phrasing and contour. The sustained use of unison between Earplay, P.O. Box 192125, San Francisco, CA 94119-2125 instruments (often tinged with subtle pitch inflections) suggests studied privately (on the advice City Philharmonic, New Jersey Jeff Anderle a multiple-voiced unity, a rich of Benjamin Britten) with Erwin (Clarinetist/ Symphony, San Francisco Opera, identity that thrives on ambiguity Stein and Hans Keller. He was a bass clarinetist) Symphony Silicon Valley, Opera as separate melodic lines Harkness Fellow at Princeton (1969- is currently the San Jose, California Symphony overlap and combine with one 70). In the 1980’s he was invited clarinetist of the and numerous other regional another. Throughout the piece, to work at IRCAM in Paris and led bi-coastal ensemble orchestras. Mr. Veregge has also this lyrical, subjective voice is to his interest in electronic music REDSHIFT. He has also performed been active in chamber music heard alternating with more where he composed eight major with the Del Sol String Quartet, performances with Earplay, ritualistic dance music. At one works. Harvey has also composed the San Francisco Contemporary Composer’s Inc., the Other point, near the end, the three for most other genres: orchestra, Music Players, and the Magik*Magik Minds Festival, San Francisco stringed instruments sound chamber, as well as works for solo Orchestra. Past affiliations include Contemporary Players, San Jose for all the world like an Indian instruments. He has produced a large positions as the clarinetist of the Chamber Orchestra, and other tabla accompanying the solo output of choral works, including ADORNO Ensemble, clarinetist and Bay Area ensembles. He currently flute. At others, they transform the large cantata with electronics Associate Artistic Director of The teaches percussion at Stanford their characteristic tone into Mothers shall not Cry (2000). His Definiens Project in Los Angeles, University as well as, general music something more reminiscent of music has been extensively played clarinetist at the Bang on a Can classes at Los Alamitos Elementary electronic music: a shifting of and toured by Ensemble Modern, Summer Music Festival in 2007 and at in San Jose. timbral boundaries, which the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble flute player complements both Ictus Ensemble of Brussels. About in 2006. through a variety of extended 50 recordings are available on CD techniques such as multiphonics, and his music is regularly performed Jeff is on the clarinet faculty of the San and by changing instruments at all the major international between flute, piccolo and bass contemporary music festivals. Francisco Conservatory of Music. He � received his Master of Music Degree flute. there in 2006, studying clarinet with I a n T h o m a s (sound recordist) by Julian Johnson, notes from Music Luis Baez. is a native of San Francisco, who of Jonathan Harvey, January 25, (2003) currently works in film as a sound 2000 at Stanford University by San Time Fields III Francisco Contemporary Music flute solo designer and composer. Players and Stanford Chamber by è c t o r a r r a M a r k V e r e g g e Chorale H P (percussion) received Both the rhythmic components and i s l i n n c of i e l d J o n a t h a n his Bachelor’s of Music A S collections of highs in Time Fields (executive director) has extensive a r v e y (b.1939, degree from San Jose H III were developed almost entirely experience with a wide range of England) was State University, by the computer-assisted program Asian performing arts and has a major music and his Master’s of for composition “Open Music”, received numerous awards for her scholar at St John’s Music at The Juilliard School in New developed at IRCAM. Out of the work. Formal studies include theater, College, Cambridge. He gained York City. He has performed with tension between formal thought studio art and interdisciplinary art. doctorates from the universities of the Caracas Philharmonic, Mexico and expressive intuition emerges a Glasgow and Cambridge and also Opera and others. Contemporary combination of tones, articulations Orchestra of Liège, Holland Symfonia, K a r e n music performances include of timbres and gestures exploring the National Orchestra d’Ile-de-France, R os e n a k blurred frontiers of perception that Barcelona and Catalonia National (piano) is an numerous appearances with exist between the dimensions of time Orchestra, Proxima Centauri, etc. “almost native” of sfSound Group; the US premiere and harmony. The piece is dedicated He has received numerous the Bay Area. She of John Wolf Brennan’s solo flute to Sophie Dardeau the French flautist commission and prizes including the was a founding piece, Drei ver-flix-te Stücke; and a and was first performed in homage Earplay Donald Aird Composers member/pianist of Bay Area new-music retrospective of Pauline Oliveros’ to her at the Amphitheatre X of Paris Competition (2007). Currently, groups Earplay and the Empyrean work in which she performed Trio VIII, on 17 June 2004. — H. P. he is Professor of Electroacoustic Ensemble, and she currently for Flute, Piano and Page Turner with Composition at the Conservatorium performs with those groups. She Sarah Cahill and Monique Buzzarté. of Aragon (Spain) and resident studied modern piano with Carlo Hèctor Parra, composer at IRCAM in Paris. He lives Bussotti and Nathan Schwartz, (b.1976, Barcelona) Alice Lenaghan and credits Margaret Fabrizio with studied at the in Paris since 2002. (flute) is currently introducing her to the fortepiano Conservatorium of the Principal Flutist (2008) by during her graduate work in early Music in Barcelona, S i n e w s of the Oakland music at Stanford University. She where he was awarded prizes with Adam Roberts East Bay Symphony has found the balance between old distinction in Composition, Piano and violin solo and has performed and new music, and between old Harmony. He studied piano with Mª winning composition of the 2010 Earplay Principal Flute with the Detroit, and new pianos, to be an ongoing, Jesús Crespo, and composition under Donald Aird Memorial Composers Toledo, Flint, and Napa Symphonies Competition most satisfying pursuit. Since 1990, David Padros, Brian Ferneyhough and and Michigan and Sacramento she has been on the faculty at Jonathan Harvey as well as Michael Sinews, was commissioned by and is Operas. As a chamber musician U.C. Berkeley, where she teaches Jarrell at the Conservatorium of dedicated with love to Gabriela Díaz. she has performed numerous years musicianship and contemporary Music in Geneva. Formal studies While composing this piece, I was at the National Flute Association chamber music. include a Master in Composition particularly attracted to the physical conventions and her premiere CD, awarded by the University of Paris, associations with the word “sinew,” Doppler Effect, is available from VIII, annual course in Composition at as in “tendon.” This association Flute World. Her flute and piano Guest Artists IRCAM and post-graduate courses at transformed me into the composer as duo, Keys and Breeze, frequently the CNSMD Lyon. sculptor, as I imagined myself working presents audience friendly a resistant material into a variety recitals and has been awarded a D i a n e G r u b b e of textures, focusing on the tactile (flute) freelances in performance grant through the Yolo Premieres of his works have nature of the material. The form is a the San Francisco County Arts and California Arts been performed by the Ensemble result of this physical engagement, of Bay Area and Councils. Dr. Lenaghan received Intercontemporain, the Klangforum pulling, pushing, stretching, resting, of has performed a DMA from the University of Wien, the Arditti String Quartet, keeping my hands in the dirt all the with Pocket Opera, Napa Valley Michigan and performance degrees Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble while. —A.R. Symphony, Golden Gate Opera, from Western Michigan University Contrechamps, musikFabrik, KNM Lamplighters, Lyric Opera, Festival and the Oberlin Conservatory of Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Music. Orchestra, the Philharmonic written by composer Libby Larsen Since 1982, Ms. Moore has been Adam Roberts and librettist Philip Littell, and Associate Principal Cellist of the San (b.1980) is a composer advocacy group affiliated commissioned by the Sonoma City Francisco Opera Orchestra, and in composer living in with the Boston Modern Orchestra Opera. 1989 joined the cello section of the Cambridge, MA, Project. San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. whose music is informed by a P e t e r J os h e ff M u s i c a (1997) variety of impulses, from European flute, clarinet, piano and marimba (clarinet) has been a llen uth ose E R R and American modernism to clarinetist, composer (viola) relocated by Edmund Campion minimalism. His music has been and advocate of to the Bay Area in recently performed in the U.S. and contemporary music 1998 after having Musica is the final piece from a set Europe by ensembles and individuals in the Bay Area for spent several years of four pieces entitled Quadrivium. such as the Arditti Quartet, Alarm over twenty years. in Cologne, Germany, The pieces are designed to be played Will Sound, Le Nouvel Ensemble either individually or together as a He is a founding member of Earplay, where she first became immersed in Modern, Ensemble FA, Garth Knox, complete uninterrupted cycle. The the San Francisco-based new music contemporary music. As a member and Gabriela Díaz, and at venues and first three pieces of the cycle were ensemble, as well as a member of the experimental ensembles festivals such as Wien Modern completed and premiered in Rome of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen (Vienna), Musique Biennale en Scene while I was holder of the Fredric A. the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Ensemble, and as a frequent guest (Lyons, France), The Stone (NY), the Julliard/Walter Damrosch 1995 Rome Berkeley Contemporary Chamber with Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern, 2009 ISCM World Music Days, and Prize in Music composition. The last Players. He performs frequently with she toured throughout Europe, the Summer Institute for piece, Musica, was written for the the San Francisco Contemporary premiering and recording countless Contemporary Performance Practice New York New Music Ensemble a Music Players, Melody of China, and works. She has performed as soloist (Boston). few years later. Musica is scored for Composers Inc. He has performed with the West German Radio flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, marimba as a clarinetist on many commercial Chorus and appeared at the Cologne and piano. recordings. Peter’s recent works Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg Roberts studied composition at include Caught Between Two Worlds, Zeitfluss, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice the Eastman School of Music (BM), Three Poems by Dorothy Cary Biennial, and Budapest Autumn Harvard University (PhD), and In the Middle Ages, the science- (2009) and Inferno (2008). festivals. Ms. Rose holds degrees in in Vienna at the University for oriented Quadrivium [Mathematica viola performance from The Juilliard Performing Art and Music with David (Arithmetica), Geometria, School and the Northwest German Liptak, Chaya Czernowin, Augusta Astronomia and Musica] was Thalia Moore Read Thomas, Bernard Rands, Joshua (cello), attended Music Academy; and a degree in combined with the Trivium (rhetoric, Fineberg, and Julian Anderson, among the Juilliard School English and American history and grammar and logic) to form the seven others. Active as an advocate for new of Music as a literature from Harvard University. Liberal Arts. The use of the term music, he is the Artistic Administrator scholarship student Quadrivium dates to the time of for the Callithumpian Consort (www. of Lynn Harrell, Boethius and can be translated from callithumpian.org), and a charter and received her bachelor’s and the latin as a “place where four ways member of the Score Board, a master’s degrees in 1979 and 1980. meet”. Each piece in my Quadrivium involves some use of quadraphonic ( L’Institut de Recherche et Performers sound and four points of diffusion. Coordination Acoustique/Musique). He was then commissioned by My reference to this arcane term IRCAM to produce a large work active freelance career, teaches at T e r r i e B a u n e is actually an inside joke. I found for interactive electronics (Natural (violin), in addition the University of California, Davis, it humorous in 1995 that my Selection) (ICMC 2002). Other to being a member and directs the San Francisco Bay future was being connected to the projects include a Radio France of Earplay, she is Co- Area Chapter of the American Academy and to Rome. I am from Commission l’Autre, the full-scale Concertmaster of Composers Forum. Texas and I never even left my ballet Playback (commissioned the Oakland-East home state until I was well over by IRCAM and the Socitété Bay Symphony and Concertmaster 20 years old! I continue to find it des Auteurs et Compositeurs of the North State Symphony and M a r y C h u n Dramatiques ) and , for Baritone very funny today that most of my ME a former member of the Empyrean (conductor) and live electronics, commissioned musical life has been associated Ensemble. Her professional credits has premiered by the MANCA festival in with the University and the include concertmaster positions with the works of association with CIRM (Centre Academy. I love being a Professor, the Women’s Philharmonic, Fresno many composers, National de Création Musicale). but my actual nature is as far from Philharmonic, Santa Cruz County including John those academic concerns as I can Campion is currently Professor Symphony, and Rohnert Park Symphony. Adams earth-quake romance I Was imagine. of Music at the University of A member of the National Symphony Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw Berkeley in California where he also Orchestra for four years, she also the Sky, which she conducted in The Campion Quadrivium has been serves as Co-Director at CNMAT spent two years as a member of the Paris, Hamburg, and Montreal. In completely recorded by Earplay (The Center for New Music and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra of demand as a collaborator for new with David Milnes conducting and is planned for a CD release sometime in AudioTechnologies). New Zealand, where she toured and lyric work and traditional operatic the next year. recorded for Radio New Zealand with repertoire, she has worked with the Gabrielli Trio and performed with opera companies in Europe and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. the U.S. such as Opera de Lyon, Edmund Campion La Monnaie, Kosice State Opera, (b.1957) received his Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera

Doctorate degree T o d B r o d y Theater of Saint Louis, Opera (flute) has been in composition at Idaho, the Texas Shakespeare in the forefront of Festival, Cleveland Lyric Opera, contemporary music and attended the Pacific Repertory Opera, the Los activity in northern Paris Conservatory where he Angeles Music Center Opera and California through worked with composer Gérard San Francisco Opera. In Fall 2006 his performances Grisey. In 1993, he created the she premiered Every Man Jack, � and recordings with the San Francisco piece Losing Touch (Billaudot a new chamber opera based on Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, and Editions, Paris) at IRCAM the life of writer Jack London, the Empyrean Ensemble. He maintains an