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Zorn Notes.Indd Cal Performances Presents Sunday, November , , pm Hertz Hall Composer Portrait: John Zorn PROGRAM Mysterium Orphée () Tara Helen O’Connor, fl u t e Ikue Mori, electronics Richard O’Neill, viola Wendy Tamis, harp Stephen Drury, celeste William Winant, percussion David Rosenboom, conductor Sortilège () Michael Lowenstern and Anthony Burr, bass clarinets Frammenti del Sappho () Pacifi c Mozart Ensemble: Lorna Baird, soprano Peggy Rock, mezzo-soprano Lynne Morrow, mezzo-soprano Kimberly Keeton, mezzo-soprano Valerie Brown, alto David Rosenboom, conductor Walpurgisnacht () Jennifer Choi, violin Richard O’Neill, viola Fred Sherry, cello INTERMISSION 12 CAL PERFORMANCES Program (fay çe que vouldras) () Stephen Drury, piano Evocation of a Neophyte and How the Secrets of the Black Arts Were Revealed unto Her by the Demon Baphomet () Martha Cluver, soprano Karen Gottlieb, harp David Johnson and William Winant, percussion David Granger, contrabassoon Members of the Pacifi c Mozart Ensemble David Rosenboom, conductor Aubrey Beardsley, Evocation of a Neophyte and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel Th is presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Liz and Greg Lutz. Cal Performances’ – Season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 13 About the Artists of the New Century Players at the California Institute of the Arts since and was Co- Director of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology from to . He taught at Mills College from to , serving as Professor of Music, Head of the Department of Music and Director of the Center for Contemporary Music, and held the Darius Milhaud Chair from to . He studied at the University of Illinois, where he was later awarded the prestigious George A. Miller Professorship, and has held positions in the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York in Buff alo, York Drawing on his experience in a variety of genres University in Toronto (where he was Professor including jazz, rock, hardcore punk, classical, of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies), Bard klezmer, fi lm, cartoon, popular and improvised College, Simon Fraser University, San Francisco music, John Zorn has created an infl uential body Art Institute, California College of Arts and of work that defi es academic categories. A native Crafts and Ionian University in Greece. His of New York City, he has been a central fi gure in work has been presented in many venues around the downtown scene since , incorporating a the world, widely published and recorded on a wide range of musicians in various composition- variety of labels. More information is available al formats. He learned alchemical synthesis from at http://music.calarts.edu/~david. Harry Smith, structural ontology with Richard Foreman, how to make art out of garbage with Anthony Burr (bass clarinet) has worked Jack Smith, cathartic expression at Sluggs and widely as a clarinetist, electronic musician hermetic intuition from Joseph Cornell. Early and composer, with groups and artists in- inspirations include American innovators Ives, cluding Jim O’Rourke, the Chamber Music Varèse, Cage, Carter and Partch, the European Society of Lincoln Center, Ensemble Sospeso, tradition of Berg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Kagel, Klangforum Wien, Jim Black, Chris Speed, soundtrack composers Herrmann, Morricone Mark Dresser and others. He performs and and Stalling as well as avant-garde theatre, fi lm, records as a duo with Skuli Sverrisson and is a art and literature. member of the Australian contemporary music ensemble Elision. With Steve Asbury, he created David Rosenboom (conductor) is a composer, Biospheria: An Environmental Opera, a site-spe- performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, cifi c piece based on the story of Biosphere , the author and educator, known as a pioneer in living laboratory in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. American experimental music. He has explored Another large-scale spectacle, Th e Mizler Society, ideas in his work about the spontaneous evolu- co-created by John Rodgers, was presented by tion of musical forms, languages for improvisa- the Australian Art Orchestra at the Melbourne tion, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, Museum in . As a clarinetist, Anthony Burr cross-cultural collaborations, performance art, has enjoyed a distinguished career as an expo- computer music systems, interactive multi- nent of contemporary music. media, compositional algorithms and extended musical interface with the human nervous sys- Jennifer Choi (violin) has charted a career that tem since the s. Mr. Rosenboom has been breaks through the conventional boundaries of Dean of the School of Music and Conductor solo violin, chamber music and improvisation. 14 CAL PERFORMANCES About the Artists Th e New York Times has described her as a player the John Zorn Ensemble. Mr. Drury is artistic with “brilliance and command,” and the Seattle director of the Callithumpian Consort, and he Weekly applauded “intense, spectacularly virtuo- created and directs the Summer Institute for sic play.” As a soloist and chamber musician, she Contemporary Piano Performance at the New has performed in venues worldwide, such as the England Conservatory. He earned his under- Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Alice graduate degree from Harvard College, and has Tully Hall in New York, the Mozartsalle in also earned the New England Conservatory’s Vienna and the RAI National Radio in Rome. select Artist Diploma. His teachers have in- For the past years, Jennifer has performed cluded Claudio Arrau, Patricia Zander, William and recorded over new works by composers Masselos, Margaret Ott and Th eodore Lettvin. such as Elliott Sharpe, Christian Wolff , John He teaches at the New England Conservatory. Zorn and Lee Hyla. Since graduating from Th e Juilliard School in , she has daringly ven- Karen Gottlieb (harp) has performed regularly tured out into the world of improvisation, utiliz- with the San Francisco Symphony as second ing her virtuoso technique in collaborating with harpist since . She has toured extensively some of the most creative improvisers, including with them on their US, European and Asian Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Erik tours, as well as performed on many of their re- Friedlander and Susie Ibarra, with whom she cordings. She is a member of the San Francisco has joined forces in the Susie Ibarra Trio. Contemporary Music Players and principal harpist with the California Symphony and Martha Cluver (soprano) received her degree Skywalker Recording Symphony. Ms. Gottlieb from the Eastman School of Music in . received her bachelor’s degree from the University She sings with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, of Washington in Seattle and a master’s degree Vox Vocal Ensemble, Schola Nova, Antisocial in performance from the Cleveland Institute Music and often with the new-music group of Music. She is on the faculty of San Franciso Alarm Will Sound. Her recent musical activities State University and Mills College. include solos from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Fauré’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah, all with David Granger (contrabassoon) attended the the Trinity Choir. As a student at Eastman, Manhattan School of Music before becom- Ms. Cluver performed many works of modern ing principal bassoonist of the Sacramento composers such as Crumb, Reich, Xenakis, Berio Symphony, a post he held for years. He cur- and Robert Morris. She studied viola with John rently is principal bassoonist of the Napa Valley Graham, early music with Paul O’Dette and Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic and Chirstel Th ielmann and new music with Brad the Modesto Symphony, and is a member of Lubman. Ms. Cluver has recorded Steve Reich’s the Oakland East Bay Symphony. In , he Music for Large Ensemble for Nonesuch Records, began teaching at UC Davis, and he became co- Th e Desert Music for Cantaloupe Records and a ordinator of its chamber music program in . compilation of his works for Sweet Spot DVD. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in . Mr. Granger attended Indiana University’s Stephen Drury (piano, celeste), named Early Music Institute and received a performer’s Musician of the Year by Th e Boston Globe, has diploma in Baroque bassoon in . concertized throughout the world. In , he organized a year-long festival of the music of John David Johnson (percussion) coordinates the Cage. Mr. Drury has commissioned new works percussion program at the California Institute for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, Terry of the Arts, where he has been teaching for Riley and Chinary Ung with funding provided years. He plays marimba with the Lian Ensemble by Meet the Composer. He tours frequently with and the Dark Wing Trio. He is the percussion- CAL PERFORMANCES 15 About the Artists ist with the chamber ensemble XTET and Ucross Residency. She is currently working on plays in PARTCH, a chamber group dedicated projects with Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra, to performing the music of Harry Partch. He Kim Gordon, DJ Olive, Jim O’Rourke, Zeena plays vibraphone and marimba with the Vinny Parkins, Haco and Aki Onda, John Zorn and Golia Large Ensemble, the Kim Richmond Jazz Mike Patton. Orchestra and pops/classical veteran pianist Roger Williams. He has played mallet percussion Tara Helen O’Connor (fl u t e ) is winner of an with Yusef Lateef, Mel Tormé, Dave Brubeck, Avery Fisher Career Grant. A founding mem- Maureen McGovern, Wadada Leo Smith and in ber of the New Millennium Ensemble and a Disney cartoons. He has performed with the Los member of Windscape, she is fl ute soloist of the Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacifi c Symphony Bach Aria Group. She performs regularly with and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and was the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a member of the historic Blackearth Percussion the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, Group from to . Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest and Music from Angel Fire. Michael Lowenstern (bass clarinet) is a clari- She has collaborated with the Orion, Borromeo netist and composer.
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