Earplay San Francisco Season Concerts 2007-08 Season Herbst Theatre, 7:00 PM Pre-concert talk 6:15 pm

Earplay 23: Facets and Lines Monday, November 12, 2007 Peter Maxwell Davies, Barbara White, Liza Lim, Wayne Peterson, Mei-Fang Lin, Mark Applebaum

Earplay 23: Unorthodox Journeys Monday, February 11, 2008 Peter Maxwell Davies, Claude Vivier, Morton Feldman, Martha Horst, Aaron Einbond, Richard Festinger

Earplay 23: Intricate Inventions Wednesday, May 28, 2008 as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Peter Maxwell Davies, Christopher Burns, Salvatore Sciarrino, Beat Furrer

Special Performances:

Wayne Peterson 80th Birthday Celebration Thursday, September 20, 2007 Knuth Hall San Francisco State University August 30-31, 2007

Festival of New American Music Sonic Bloom of the Central Valley Monday, November 5, 2007

Wayne Peterson 80th Birthday Celebration Monday, November 5, 2007 State University, Sacramento elcome to an Earplay performance. Our mission is to nurture new chamber music --composition, performance, and audience--all vital components. WEach concert features the renowned members of the Earplay ensemble performing as soloists and ensemble artists, along with special guests. Over twenty-three years, Earplay has made an Earplay enormous contribution to the bay area music community. The Earplay ensemble has performed hundreds of works by more Donald Aird than two hundred . Earplay has commissioned an Memorial average of two new works per season, and has presented more than one hundred world premieres. Composers Competition We find this tour to the Central Valley an exciting venture and look forward to your respones. Downloadable application at: www.earplay.org/competitions Stephen Ness President, Board of Directors Deadline: March 31, 2008

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Stephen Ness, president Aislinn Scofield May Luke, secretary executive director Jeff Bilden, College of the Redwoords Dan Scharlin, treasurer Scott Koué Joey Essig, Merced Arts Center technical director/stage manager Ken Froelich, Fresno Sate University Gamaliel Galindo Terrie Baune, musician representative Terrie Baune scheduling coordinator Scott Koué Mary Chun Staci Santa, Merced Arts Center Christopher Wendell Jones Bill Beckerman bookkeeping services

Thursday Evening, August 30 at 7:30 p.m., The Merced Arts Center Mission: Friday Morning, August 31 at 11:30 a.m., College of the Sequoias Friday Evening, August 31 at 8:00 p.m., Fresno State University

arplay nurtures new chamber music. EARPLAY links EARPLAY 23: The Valley Tour audiences, performers, and composers through concerts, ecommissions, and recordings of the finest music of our time.

Mary Chun, conductor Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, EARPLAY is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music offering audiences a unique opportunity to hear eloquent, vivid Guillermo Galindo, maiz Emily Onderdonk, viola performances of some of today’s finest chamber music. Earplay concerts Stacey Pelinka, flutes Daniel Reiter, cello feature the Earplayers, a group of seven artists who have developed a Peter Josheff, clarinets Michael Seth Orland, piano lyrical and ferocious style. EARPLAY has performed over 400 works in Lisa Weiss, violin Chris Froh, percussion its 22-year history including 107 world premieres and 47 new works commissioned by the ensemble. The 2007-08 season reinforces EARPLAY’s unwavering track record of presenting exceptional music in the 21st century.

Featured Soloists

Guillermo Galindo Michael Seth Orland Stacey Pelinka

This tour is made possible by generous grants from the James Irvine Foundation and Meet the , A Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA Commission

Earplay is funded in part by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of , Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Individual donations are vital to Earplay’s success. We hope you will consider The Amphion Foundation, the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, Fund for Contemporary Music, making a contribution. If your company has a matching policy, that will be the Fund for New Music, the Bernard Osher Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Ross McKee an additional benefit. See our website for information on making donations: Foundation, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Generous www.earplay.org. Donors. Program Earplay Artistic Board of

Daniel Reiter Reiter’s Raga (2006) Composers: 23 Years continued Advisors

Steve Ricks Kotoka Suzuki Peter Josheff, Emily Onderdonk, Andrew Rindfleisch Toru Takemitsu Dan Reiter Richard Felciano Jody Rockmaker Bruce Taub Kurt Rohde John Thow William Kraft Cindy Cox 2 Studies from Hierosgamos: Mathew Rosenblum Leilei Tian Kent Nagano Morris Rosenzweig Ushio Torikai Seven Studies in Harmony and Chris Roze Wayne Peterson Resonance (2003) Virginia Samuel Christopher Trapani Laurie San Martin Bertram Turetzky Michael Seth Orland Carlos Sanchez-Gutiérrez Jason Uech V. Playful, but driven Marc Satterwhite Galina Ustvol’skaya VI. Fleeting Eric Sawyer David Vayo Salvatore Sciarrino Curt Veeneman Claude Vivier � Mirtru Escalona-Mijares Cincos Transfiguraciones Llana (2004) David Schiff Caspar Johannes Walter David Schober Xi-Lin Wang Ea r p l a y o n CD Stacey Pelinka Philippe Schoeller Anton von Webern Ci n d y Co x Daniel Weymouth Geode (1996) Scott Wheeler I. Conticinio (Earplay commission) Allen Shearer Barbara White II. Danza Sheila Silver Frances White Axis Mundi (2004) III. De aroma de Mujer y Flor Reynold Simpson Beth Wiemann (Earplay/Fromm Music Foundation IV. Lejania Paul Siskind Olly Wilson commission) Ronald Bruce Smith Mark Winges V. ...por el camino.. i b b y a r s e n David Soley Walter Winslow L L Every Man Jack (2006) Harvey Sollberger Stefan Wolpe Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata K303 (1778) Claudio Spies

Jeff Stadelman Lisa Weiss, Michael Seth Orland Kurt Stallman Pagh-Paan Younghi Jo r g e Li ede r m a n Dorrance Stalvey Isang Yun Swirling Streams (2004) Guillermo Galindo Post-colonial Discontinuum (2006 Eitan Steinberg Eric Zivian Frank Stemper Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon ) A Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA Commission Mark Stickman Ellen Taafe Zwilich Wi l l i a m Kr a f t

Igor Stravinsky Guillermo Galindo, Stacey Pelinka, Vintage Renaissance Peter Josheff, Lisa Weiss, Dan Reiter, and Beyond (2005) Michael Seth Orland, Chris Froh, (Earplay commission/Serge Koussevitzky Mary Chun Music Foundation)

� Earplay Composers: 23 Years Notes on the Program Eliane Aberdam James Dashow György Ligeti Sarah Aderholdt Peter Maxwell Davies Hugh Hartwell Liza Lim Thomas Adès Jonathan Harvey Mei-Fang Lin (Fremont , 2002). Dan is Donald Aird Adriana Verdié de Vas Scott Lindroth Da n i e l Re i t e r , Reiter’s Raga also a former Earplay member (1989- Eleanor Alberga Romero Martin Herman David Liptak (2006) clarinet, viola, cello 90). Richard Aldag Tamar Diesendruck Jennifer Higdon Zhou Long Reiter’s Raga, is a trio , originally Lori Dobbins Vincent Chee-yung Ho Alexis Alrich Jing Jing Luo conceived for 2 cellos and bass, Allen Anderson Sunji Hong Witold Lutoslawski revised for clarinet, cello and bass, As a composer, Dan has written varied Robert Basart Kui Dong Martha Callison Horst Drake Mabry revised again for violin, viola and Ross Bauer Jérome Dorival Joan Huang John MacDonald chamber works. In 1999 he won an Bruce Christian Bennett Jacob Druckman Lee Hyla Steven Mackey cello, and finally for clarinet, viola Izzy Award for his composition Raga Arthur Berger Edwin Dugger Igor Iachimciuc Katherine Malyi and cello. The piece exploits three Bach B Minor featuring dancer Robert Jonathan Berger Joel Durand Victor Ialeggio Ursula Mamlock note shapes in place of chords as Moses. He has had the privilege of David Dzubay Shintaro Imai a basis for variations. After a short working with India’s master musician Jason Eckardt Christophe Bertrand David Meckstroth introduction the main body of Ali Akbar Khan and has recorded two Herb Bielawa George Edwards Marjorie Merryman Aaron Einbond material is introduced. Sections CDs (Garden of Dreams and Legacy) Susan Blaustein Edward Jacobs Mirtru Escalona-Mijares are then stretched or reduced with Khansahib. In addition, Dan Stephen Blumberg Stephen Jaffe Donal Michalsky Leo Eylar or otherwise altered fancifully. produced Cello and Harp, a CD of his Linda Bouchard David Jaffe Fredrik Fahlman Ping Jin As variations progress, cadenzas own compositions for cello and harp Richard Felciano Betsy Jolas Paul Moravec are introduced, culminating into with his wife, Natalie Cox. John Felder Christopher Wendell Christopher Burns Gustavo Moretto extended solos for the cello over a Morton Feldman Jones Carolyn Bremer Tristan Murail 25 beat section in a classical Indian Richard Festinger Peter Josheff Thea Musgrave musical style. The piece closes with Irving Fine Louis Karchin Ann Callaway Hyo-Shin Na Tom Flaherty Arthur Keiger the opening introduction. D.R. 2007 Ronald Caltabiano William Neil Andrew Frank Hi-Kyung Kim Olga Neuwirth i n d y o x Edmund Campion David Froom C C , 2 Studies from Roger Nixon James Carr Pablo Furman Jerome Kitzke Hierosgamos: Seven Studies Joao Pedro Oliveira Beat Furrer Barbara Kolb in Harmony and Resonance Chris Chafe Henry Onderdonk Guillermo Galindo Anthony Korf (2003) piano solo Pablo Ortiz Yu-Hui Chang Michael Gandolfi Paul Kozel Da n i e l Re i t e r Gabriela Ortiz V. Playful, but driven Eric Chasalow Guy Garnett William Kraft (b. 1951) is principal Jose Antonio Orts Yi Chen Stacy Garrop Meyer Kupferman cellist with the VI. Fleeting Miguel Chuagui Hèctor Parra John Gibson Gyorgy Kurtag Oakland East Bay The hierosgamos is an ancient Timothy Vincent Clark James Giroudonv Bun-ching Lam Symphony (OEBS), principle which reveals the ultimate Steven Clark Glenn Glasow David Lang Jeffrey Perry Festival Opera wholeness concealed among pairs Aaron Copland Daniel Godfrey Massimo Lauricella Wayne Peterson Orchestra, Diablo Eleanor Cory Alexander Goehr Richard Lavenda Alexander Post of apparent opposites. Literally Cindy Cox Perry Goldstein Mario Lavista Laurie Radford BalletOrchestra and “sacred marriage”, this mysterious Michelle Green Anne LeBaron Fremont Symphony. His solo work union involves a simultaneous George Crumb Mark Grey Yinam Leef Shulamit Ran has included ’s moment of creation and dissolution Beth Custer Stephen Michael Gryc Three Meditations (OEBS, 2000) and between the self and the other, a co- Marc-Andre Dalbavie Maurice Ravel Susan Harding Peter Scott Lewis Robert Schumann’s terminus spiritualization of matter Greg D’Alessio Lou Harrison Jorge Liderman Daniel Reiter Ellen Ruth Harrison Belinda Reynolds Donors 2006-07 & 2007-08 Seasons and a materialization of spirit. In the Cindy Cox (b. 1961) $10,000 + Richard Felciano Hal Fischer language of alchemy, Carl Jung spoke has held fellowships Argosy Foundation Richard Festinger Guillermo Galindo of a “chemical wedding”, where the at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Fund Ruth Knier John and Lee Hause “yang and yin” of things is purified Music Center, the The James Irvine Foundation Karen Rosenak Valerie Herr back into an original unity. Aspen Music Festival, Meet the Composer, A Meet Scott Jacobson the MacDowell the Composer $200 + Louis Karchin Commis-sioning Patti Noel Dueter William Kraft In this large work for piano, I attempt Colony, and the Civitella Ranieri Music/USA Andrew W. Imbrie Arthur Kreiger to show how opposing characteristics Foundation in Italy. She has received Commission Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Paul & Ellen McKaskle awards from the Academy of Arts The San Francisco Grants For Nancy & Howard Mel and materials ultimately derive the Arts from a single source. Two seemingly and Letters, the National Endowment $100 + Samuel Nichols & Laurie San The William and Flora Hewlett Tod Brody Martin contradictory properties of the piano for the Arts, the Fromm Foundation, Foundation ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, John & Mary Caris Pablo Ortiz are very important to me: first, the William Beck & Yu-Hui Chang Kurt Rohde and the International Competition for $5,000 + piano is a huge (horizontal) harp, Seth Brenzel & Malcolm Gaines Mathew Rosenblum Women Composers. Commissioned Anonymous with its strings under many tons of Raymond & Mary Chun Anonymous pressure and capable of incredibly piece Geode was recorded by Earplay Chen Yi & Long Zhou Dan Scharlin The Aaron Copland Foundation powerful resonance. Second, the and released on the CRI label as well Jane Galante Allen Shearer & Claudia Stevens Amphion Foundation as Axis Mundi which will be rleased Mark Haiman & Ellen Ruth Rose Ushio Torikai piano is essentially a percussion Ann and Gordon Getty Kenneth Johnson instrument, and not a sustaining in September on the Albany label. Foundation Christopher Wendell Jones Up to $50 instrument, as many eighteenth and The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Antoinette Kuhry & Frances L. Bennion Cindy Cox is presently an Associate Foundation nineteenth century composers tried Thomas A. Haeuser Linda Bouchard The Ross McKee Foundation to make it. Reconciling these two Professor at UC Berkeley and is Alfred Lerdahl Patricia Bourne The San Francisco Arts aspects led me to use the harmonic considered one of the leading Renae Breitenstein Commission Amy Miller Levine series and a predominately motoric composers of her generation. Her Florence Neuhoff Kenneth Bruchmeier Ernestine S. Cohn and continuous percussive texture. music is widely respected for its $3,000 + Nora Norden Alice Berg Cronin intelligence, complexity, fluency, Carol & Brooke Aird Wayne Peterson Lori Dobbins and for the numinous sensibility it Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia Michael Richards The etudes principally address the William Schottstaedt Barbara and Sanford Dornbusch emanates. University study of harmony and harmonic The Bernard Osher Foundation Donald and Phyllis Sutherland Donald & Stephanie Friedman resonance. The overtone series (up to Steven Smith Olly Wilson Konstantin Gavrilov and H. Cross Ellinor Hagedorn the sixteenth partial) and its inverse The Zellerbach Family Mark Winges Foundation Dan & Rachel Winheld Alice Hannah provide the pitch material. I further Stephen J. Harrison divide the piano’s eighty-eight keys $1,000 + $50 + John and Lee Hause into zones of eleven half-steps, Accenture Linda Allen Bud Hazelkorn and use these areas as secondary May Luke Mark Applebaum Arthur Kreiger relationships throughout the work. John Mugge & Ronald Caltabiano Herbert W. Bielawa Lin Mantell � Bari & Stephen Ness Ann Callaway Amelie C. Mel De Fontenay Kitty Brody Wendy Niles • $300 + James & April Carlson Mary Chun John Chowning Margaret Dorfman Jeff Dunn i s l i n n c o f i e l d (executive A S III.- De aroma de Mujer y Flor director) has extensive experience Es c a l o n a -Mi j a r e s with a wide range of Asian Cinco Transfiguraciones performing arts from her sixteen Llana (2004) flute solo This is inspired by a piece, which years at the Asian Art Museum. She talks about the beauty and charm of has received awards for her work women. The five pieces are inspired by including The Bernard Osher Cultural Ma i z i n a c t i o n popular Venezuelan songs written Award, a special Izzy Award (Isadora at the end of the nineteenth century IV.- Lejania Duncan), travel awards from the and beginning of the twentieth. The fourth piece is inspired by my Korea Foundation, the Republic of These songs were selected because mother’s favorite song. It’s homage China (Taiwan), and the East-West of their sentimental value to me and to her memory. The intimate Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Formal my first encounters with music. character of the piece comes from studies include a B.A. in Theater, its name and its significance. Lejania Washington State University, a B.A. in Two of the pieces have a particular means remoteness in English. Studio Art (Photography and Textiles), value, I. - Conticinio and IV. - Lejania. and an MA. Interdisciplinary Art, San Francisco State University. I.-Conticinio V.- ...por el camino...

Written by composer Laudelino Inspired by a piece based on Mejias to whom I owe my second the national Venezuelan dance, name (“Mirtru Laudelino”) as my “Joropo”. father was a big admirer of him. Cinco Transfiguraciones Llana My parents told me that that was was premiered in the XXIX the song that accompanied my Aspect Festival, Salzburg, 2005 � first entrance into our house, after by Linda Wetherill. - M.E.M. my mother and I left the hospital xxxxx won the 2007 Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composition Award and Earplay as Mentor where I was born. Obviously I do not had its premiere U.S. performance in Earplay mentors young composers remember anything. May 2007. through the Experimental Reading The poetic material of Conticinio is drawn from its name, which is in Project. Composers submit works � for an intense reading and dialog. Spanish means the moment when The ERP gives the composers the silence of the night falls. That’s M i r t r u an opportunity to work with why the weight and the importance Es c a l o n a - professional musicians who are of the final silence with the attaca for Mi j a r e s new music specialists in a mentored the second piece. (b. 1976) com- environment and experience the pleted his ini- musical process of interpreting the tial studies in See us at www.earplay.org II.- Danza score. Available to colleges. This is inspired by Barlovento, a Venezuela with Rafael Saaverdra and

song with Afro Venezuelan Rhythm. Gerado Gerulewiez. In 2000 he moved to and continued in Nannerl performed all over Europe in San Francisco Symphony’s New Berkeley Contemporary Chamber electroacoustic music with Christine concerts for royalty arranged by their and Unusual Music series. He has Players, Santa Cruz New Music Groult at the “Ecole Nationale father, Leopold, himself a prominent performed modern works throughout Works, and at the Other Minds, de Musique de Pantin” where he music teacher and composer. Wolfgang California as well as at June in Buffalo, Berkeley EdgeFest, Festival Nuovi obtained the “Diplóme des étude Mozart composed his first piece of the Mendocino Music Festival, and Spazi Musicali, and Pacific Rim musicales” (DEM) with distinction, in music at the age of 5 and by the time at Kenyon College in Ohio. Orland Music Festivals. 2003 and the prize of the completion of his early death at age of 35, he had may be heard on recordings of contemporary music released by CRI of studies by the SACEM. Afterward he written over 600 compositions, many and Centaur. He has appeared often received a Diplóme de Composition of which continue to be performed as a freelance symphony musician, from the Conservatoire Nationale, in today’s standard repertoire of and has performed many times as Sc o t t Ko u é (technical director/ Strasbourg with Ivan Fedele. He is concert, opera and chamber music. a pianist in vocal recitals, as well as stage manager) is a sound recordist, currently attending the specialization in vocal master classes given on the editor and designer with thirty years class of Philippe Leroux at the Ecole In Mozart’s youth, the most popular Berkeley campus by Frederica von of experience in film, advertising and Nationale de Musique de Blanc- of all chamber music forms was the Stade and Sanford Sylvan. Orland is the theater. His work can be heard Mesnil. Mirtru Escalona-Mijares has “unaccompanied sonata”, the sonata on the music faculty at UC Berkeley in over thirty films including The collaborated with various ensembles for piano with accompaniment for and also teaches there in the Young Legend of Drunken Master (starring and institutions such as the National violin. The implicit understanding at Musicians Program Jackie Chan) and the award-winning Council of Culture of Venezuela, the that time was for the keyboard part to Titanic. His credits on these and other International meeting of composition be played by a lady and a gentleman projects include sound supervisor, – Syntono, Hochshule für Musik Franz to “accompany” her on the violin. sound editor, creator of specialized Liszt Weimar, Centre de Création The form represented an apt musical sound effects and Foley recordist. Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), and analogy to the social custom of the day. Ch r i s Fr o h (per- Industry awards include the SILVER cussion) is a San Cité Internationale Universitaire de HUGO, New York Festival, the London The first movement of the Sonata in Francisco freelance Paris. International Advertising Award and C Major, K.303, composed in 1778, p e r c u s s i o n i s t Golden Reel (Titanic, Best Sound). He follows a unique formal model which specializing in new also collaborated with photographer begins with slow music (a short music written for David Waldorf in Experience & Wo l f g a n g Am a de u s Mo z a r t Adagio), then changing keys into solo and chamber settings. He Exchange: Documentary as the Art of (1778) the dominant, G major, breaks into a Sonata K303 received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Collaboration, Kent State University. lively Allegro. The Adagio returns in violin and piano degrees at the University of Michigan Scott’s formal training includes an elaborated form and with a twist and has also studied at the Eastman I.Adiago and molto allegro Theatrical Design at U.C. Davis. stays in the home key of C major. School of Music and the Toho Gakuen When the point is reached where Conservatory of Music, where he was Wolfgang Amadeus the Allegro restarts, it is now in the a special audit student of marimbist Mozart (1756-1791), home key of C major and serves as an Keiko Abe. He is a member of the one of history’s most orthodox recapitulation. So in a single San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Empyrean Ensemble, the popular and prolific movement there exists normal sonata • new-music improvisation group European classical form but also incorporates slow music composers needs within the integrated whole. [from DG little introduction. recording 410 896-1] sfSound, and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. As child prodigies, he and his sister He has also performed with Earplay, (violin) has since performed as principal the object itself. The challenge of Li s a W e i s s Gu i l l e r m o Ga l i n d o A Bay area native, violist with orchestras around the writing a piece that combines a Weiss has earned country including the Santa Fe Post-colonial Discontinuum hybrid electro-mechanical cyber- (2006) international recog- Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the totemic object with a chamber nition as a chamber Berkeley (CA) Symphony, and the maiz, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, ensemble is an attempt to establish musician, including Reno Philharmonic. From 1995 to piano and percussion a dialogue of reconciliation between 1997 Ms. Onderdonk toured with the awards in the Portsmouth and order and chaos, music and noise, the Lyon National Opera in France, again Coleman competitions, and as a primitive and the civilized, science as principal violist, traveling to Paris, In search of a hybrid 21st-century participant in the Marlboro Festival. and religion, the real and the unreal, London and Vienna and recording post-Mexican art form that reconciles She performs as concertmaster and North and South, the Dark Ages and CDs of Offenbach, Donizetti, Massenet contradictory concepts such as primal soloist with Philharmonia Baroque, the Enlightenment. and Puccini. She has performed with instincts, animism, and mythology and is also a member of the American the , the New with contemporary science and Bach Soloists, the Arcadian Academy, Jersey Symphony, the San Francisco technology, I decided to create an and BMV 2000. As a guest artist, she Symphony, San Francisco Opera and integrated art form that works as a has appeared with many chamber Ballet. conduit that truthfully reflects my ensembles including the Artaria hybrid reality as a contemporary G u i l l e r m o Quartet, Musica Pacifica, American artist, a human being, and a post- Ga l i n d o ’s (b. 1960) Baroque, and Philome l. Da n Re i t e r (cello) Please see the Mexican composer living in the US. artistic work spans a composer bio. wide spectrum of artistic expression Maiz, my first “cyber-totemic” from symphonic A native of San object, was built using a set of composition to the Francisco, Em i l y found recombinant objects that Mi c h a e l Se t h domains of music-computer inter- n de r d o n k (piano) have a personal meaning and close O Or l a n d action, electro-acoustic music, opera, received her bache- studied with relationship to my life. Pre-Colombian film music, instrument building, lor’s and master’s Margaret Kohn and cultures believed that the sound and multimedia installation and degrees at the Man- is a graduate of the of physical objects is linked to their soundscape instrument building, hattan School of UC Berkeley Music existence and therefore to their spirit. Department, In pre-Colombian times, instruments and multimedia installation and Music and went on to post-graduate soundscape design. His music has where he studied harpsichord with were built from well-chosen physical studies at University and the been performed and shown at major New England Conservatory of Music. Davitt Moroney and composition sources such as a sacred tree or the with Gérard Grisey. He later festivals and art exhibits throughout Her teachers include James Buswell, hair of a sacred animal. The sorcerer continued his study of composition the , Latin America, Raphael Bronstein, Arianna Bronne, had a close relation to these objects. with David Sheinfeld. Europe, and Asia. Guillermo Galindo’s Daniel Kobialka, and Karen Tuttle. The sound that the objects produced Orland has appeared extensively in was not separated from the object; piece Haiku II (for flute and recorded the Bay Area as a chamber musician, therefore the object could not be ambience), with text by Michael playing with the San Francisco While working on her master’s separated from its deeper meaning. McClure, opened the first series of Contemporary Music Players, degree Ms. Onderdonk toured with Latin American Earplay, the Berkeley Contemporary Maiz, a cyber-totemic device the Opera National in the US at the The Roy and Edna Chamber Players, New Music controlled through a computer, Company as principal violist. She Disney/CalArts Redcat Walt Disney Theater, Other Minds, and in the produces mechanical sounds from Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Between Performers S t a ce y P e t e r Jo s h e f f 2000-2001, Guillermo Galindo wrote Pe l i n k a (flute) (clarinet) is active both two of his major works in the field is a native of the as a composer and a of opera; Califas 2000 with text and Bay Area. She performer. Based in performance art by MacArthur Grant the San Francisco Bay Ma r y C h u n (con- received degrees from Cornell recipient Guillermo Gomez Peña and ductor) has pre- University and the San Francisco Area, he is a founding Decreation/Fight Cherries with text miered the works Conservatory, where she studied with member of Earplay, a member of by MacArthur Grant recipient Anne of many composers, Timothy Day. More recently, she has the Paul Dresher Ensemble,the Carson. including John pursued additional studies with Keith Empyrean Ensemble, and the Adams earthquake Underwood, Julie McKenzie, and Liisa Berkeley Contemporary Chamber His awards and commissions romance I Was Ruoho of Finland. Players. He has performed with most include: Oakland East Bay Symphony Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw Stacey plays principal flute with San of the new-music ensembles in the Orchestral Commission “Words the Sky, which she conducted in Paris, Francisco Opera’s Merola Program Bay Area, including the San Francisco and Music Project”; Creative Hamburg, and Montreal. In demand productions, and second flute with Contemporary Music Players and Work Fund Media Arts Grant; as a collaborator for new lyric work the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Composers Inc. California Arts Council Composers and traditionl operatic repertoire, she Midsummer Mozart Festival. She Fellowship; American Composers has worked with opera companies in plays chamber music - emphasizing Forum Continental Harmony Grant; Europe and the U.S. such as Opera de contemporary works - with the Left (maiz), Residency for Composition at Lyon, La Monnaie, Kosice State Opera, Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Worn Gu i l l e r m o Ga l i n d o the Banff Center for the Arts; the Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera Theater Chamber Ensemble, and Ensemble Please see composer bio. ASCAP Special Awards; the Jovenes of Saint Louis, Opera Idaho, the Texas Parallèle, with whom she has recorded Creadores Grant from the Fondo Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Lyric works of Lou Harrison and Dusan Nacional para la Cultura y las Arles, Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, the Bogdanovich. She has performed on ; and Meet the Composer Los Angeles Music Center Opera and traverso flute with Cordelia, a baroque (1997 and 2004). Mr.Galindo’s formal San Francisco Opera. In Fall 2006 she ensemble specializing in the music of studies include composition degrees premiered Every Man Jack, a new J.S. Bach, and with the Madison Bach from Escuela Nacional de Música chamber opera based on the life Musicians. (Mexico City), Berklee College of writer Jack London, written by Stacey is a practitioner of the of Music (Boston), Mills College composer Libby Larsen and librettist Feldenkrais Method® of movement Donald Swearingen ©2006 (Oakland) with additional studies Philip Littell, and commissioned by education, having completed the at CNMAT (UC-Berkeley), and the Ali the Sonoma City Opera. Semiophysics Feldenkrais training Akbar College of Music (San Rafael). with Dennis Leri in July of 2005. She His teachers include Julio Estrada, applies principles of the Feldenkrais Federico Ibarraa, Robert Kyr, Alvin Method in both performance and Curran, and Andrew Imbrie. teaching.

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