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15th annual CARLSBAD MUSIC FESTIVAL august 24-26, 2018 EVENT PROGRAM Adventurous music by the beach www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program CS6 Ver.3.indd 1 8/22/2018 11:16:06 PM CARLSBAD MUSIC FESTIVAL Excellent acoustics just up the coast. SEASON OPENER Festival Program Table Of Contents TICKETED CONCERT PROGRAMS & BIOS . 2 Bach + Glass: FESTIVAL SCHEDULE . 14 FREE CONCERTS ARTIST BIOS . 18 with Simone Dinnerstein A Far Cry CARLSBAD MUSIC FESTIVAL DONORS . .24 SPONSORS & PARTNERS . 26 FRIDAY | SEP 14 | 8 PM Program: Bach–Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Keyboard Concerto in G Minor, STAFF . 27 2018 Kennedy Center Honors Awardee Philip Glass–Symphony No. 3 and Southern California debut of Piano Concerto No. 3 VENUE MAP . .28 Packages and Tickets on Sale Now! 1 University Dr., Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 | 949.480.4278 | [email protected] | www.performingarts.soka.edu 1 CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program10061R_CMF_FP8-24.indd 1 CS6 Ver.3.indd 2-1 7/31/18 10:46 AM 8/22/2018 11:16:06 PM Ticketed Concert Programs & Bios DANIEL PATE, PERCUSSION Friday, august 24 •5:15-6:00 St Michael’s Chapel PROGRAM: robert Honstein: An Economy of Means (2015) daniel Wohl: Kin (2015) BIO: Percussionist Daniel Pate is an international performer, collaborator, curator, researcher, and educator. He is constantly working to expand the concept of the contemporary percussionist through adventurous programming, diverse commissions and engaging performances that feature exciting electronic and visual elements. Dr. Pate works to create an inviting concert environment grounded in personal emotions and topics where audiences can experience these works both visually and aurally in a way that is familiar to them. GYAN RILEY Friday, august 24 • 7:00-8:00 The Mission Church PROGRAM: Gyan Riley will be performing music from his new album Sprig BIO: Gyan Riley’s diverse work now focuses on his own compositions, improvisation, and contemporary classical repertoire. Gyan has been commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, New Music USA, the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the American Composers Forum, and the New York Guitar Festival. He has performed with Zakir Hussain, Lou reed, John Zorn, the Kronos Quartet, iva Bittova, the Bang- On-a-Can all-stars, the san Francisco symphony, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, and his father, the composer/pianist/vocalist Terry Riley. Various tours have taken him throughout Europe, Canada, Latin America and the US, both as a soloist and in various ensembles. Gyan resides in 2903 Carlsbad Blvd. in Carlsbad New York City and frequently performs with the duo Probosci, the trio Eviyan, and the electric guitar quartet Dither. Gyan has four solo CD titles and many ensemble/collaborative recordings, frontporchgallery.org (760) 795-6120 most recently working with the Tzadik Records label in New York. Fine Art & Gallery Store Wed-Fri Noon-6 pm Sat & Sun 11 am-5 pm 2 3 CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program CS6 Ver.3.indd 2-3 8/22/2018 11:16:07 PM JULIANNA BARWICK HAUSMANN QUARTET Friday, august 24 • 8:15-9:15 saturday, august 25 • 12:45-1:45 The Mission Church St. Michael’s Chapel BIO: PROGRAM: Julianna Barwick is singer and composer who builds hypnotic and expansive songs through Caroline shaw: Entr’acte (2011) the layering and looping her often-wordless singing and synthesizers. rooted in church singing, tina tallon: selective defrosting (2012) Barwick achieves the effect of massed voices through the electronic manipulation of her own solo rhiannon giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option (2017) voice. Her albums have been widely critically-acclaimed at outlets such as Pitchfork and NPr. Missy Mazzoli: Quartet for Queen Mab (2015) Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces (1923) ISAAC SCHANKLER BIO: The Hausmann Quartet has established itself as an integral part of the cultural life of Southern saturday, august 25 • 12:00-12:30 California since its arrival in san diego in 2010. as faculty artists-in-residence at san diego St. Michael’s Church State University they teach and organize the chamber music program, engage in interdisciplinary collaborations with other departments and visit local schools for concerts and clinics on PROGRAM: behalf of the School of Music and Dance. Their latest endeavor is Haydn Voyages: Music at the repeat substance - isaac schankler; composition, accordion and electronics Maritime, a quarterly concert series on a historic ferry boat exploring the string quartet repertoire BIO: through Haydn’s quartet cycle. They pioneered interactive programs for students, adult amateur Isaac Schankler is a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician living in Los Angeles. musicians and local seniors and homeless as Ensemble-in-residence at Mainly Mozart with Schankler’s recent performances and commissions include works for the Nouveau Classical support from the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and ACMP. Founded in the Project, the ray-Kallay duo, Friction Quartet, gnarwhallaby, the Los angeles Percussion Quartet, summer of 2004 at Lyricafest, they have recently been hailed as “Excellent” by u-t san diego Lorelei Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble, flutist Meerenais him, and bass-baritone and “an accomplished young foursome with a luscious sound and an experimental bent” (repeat Nicholas Isherwood. Recent honors include awards and grants from Meet the Composer, the Performances), and maintain an active performance schedule throughout North america and National Opera Association, the American Composers Forum, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Asia. The members of the Hausmann Quartet are violinists Isaac Allen and Bram Goldstein, and the American Prize. violist Angela Choong and cellist Alex Greenbaum. 4 5 CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program CS6 Ver.3.indd 4-5 8/22/2018 11:16:07 PM TASHA SMITH GODINEZ, HARP saturday, august 25 • 3:30-4:30 Carlsbad Inn’s Village Terrace PROGRAM: Michael Byron: In the Village of Hope (2013) andres Martin: Postales del Alma (2012) BIO: A champion for contemporary harp music, Tasha Smith is continuously commissioning and searching for willing and talented composers. She is passionate about breaking the perceived boundaries of her instrument and creating new sound while augmenting the repertoire for the harp. some of the composers writing for Ms. smith godinez are: Michael Byron, andres Martin, Jose gurria-Cardenas, Michael Vincent Waller, Christopher garcia, Christopher adler, Bekah MAIN STAGE Simms, William David Cooper and Paolo Germiniani. Ms. Smith Godinez’ discography includes a self-released solo album, Postcards from the soul (2014) and her recording of Michael Byron’s SERIES solo harp work, in the Village of Hope, on the Cold Blue record label (2015). she is currently ON SALE NOW! working on her third album, a compilation of all new works for harp, with a planned release in THE MARRIAGE 2019. OF FIGARO Subscribe today! Darlene Marcos Shiley Tasha has studied with Isabelle Perrin, Elena Mashkovtseva and Susan Allen. She holds Lead Production Sponsor performance degrees from both san diego state university (Bachelor’s 2005, Master’s 2010) and l’Ecole Normale de Musique alfred Corot in Paris, France (2006). Ms. smith godinez has held October 20–28, 2018 the position of principal harpist for both the Orquesta de Baja California (tijuana, Mexico) and the grossmont symphony Orchestra (san diego, California) and as section harpist with the san RIGOLETTO Diego Symphony. February 2–10, 2019 CARMEN March 30–April 7, 2019 dētour SERIES ALL IS CALM ON SALE NOW! THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 December 7–9, 2018 THREE DECEMBERS March 8–10, 2019 ONE AMAZING NIGHT 2019 STEPHEN COSTELLO & STEPHEN POWELL May 15, 2019 sdopera.org/carlsbadmusic | (619) 533-7000 PHOTO: JEFF ROFFMAN PHOTOGRAPHY 6 7 2018–19 SEASON 2018–19 CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program CS6 Ver.3.indd 6-7 8/22/2018 11:16:10 PM STEPHANIE RICHARDS + ANDREW MUNSEY QUINTET saturday, august 25 • 6:30-7:30 The Mission Church MUSICIANS: Stephanie Richards, trumpet Brian Walsh, bass clarinet Joshua White, piano Dave Tranchina, bass Andrew Munsey, drums BIO: steph richards and andrew Munsey join forces to co-lead a new project with the talents of creative musicians Joshua White (piano), Brian Walsh (bass clarinet) and dave tranchina (bass). With a decade of experience creating music together, these musicians will explore compositions by Richards and Munsey that thrive at the praxis of improvisation and structure. Hailed as “spellbinding” (NPr) and “one of the leading trumpet players and improvisors” (Free Jazz Collective), steph richards has built a compelling presence in the creative music scene, having worked alongside pioneering creative musicians Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill and John Zorn and performance artists Yoko Ono and Laurie Anderson. As a composer, her works have premiered at Carnegie Hall, the Blue Note and Lincoln Center. Her recently released debut album *FuLLMOON,* acclaimed by the New york times as “a bold pronouncement” is out on Relative Pitch Records. Richards is a Yamaha Performing Artist and is on faculty at UC San Diego. Andrew B. Munsey is drummer, composer, and recording engineer who has performed and premiered works at Lincoln Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Symphony Space, while his work as an engineer and editor can beheard on recordings from the Bridge, New World, Hathut, Innova, No Business and NNA Tapes recording labels. His work as a sound designer, mixing engineer, and composer has been exhibited and screened at the Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou (Fr), Fridericianum (dE), Van gogh Museum (NL), Anthology Film Archives, and the Library of Congress with festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. 8 9 CarlsbadMusicFestival_2018-Program CS6 Ver.3.indd 8-9 8/22/2018 11:16:12 PM DONNACHA DENNEHY A ndrew Anderson Andrew Anderson is a musician deeply invested in the performance of contemporary music, COMPOSER PORTRAIT CONCERT in both solo and collaborative settings. As a collaborator, he has worked as vocal coach and saturday, august 25 • 8:00-9:00 performer for the Southern California premiere of the Ned Rorem opera Our Town.