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

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(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.

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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.

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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. As a clarinetist, he has per- and St. Lawrence string quartets. Recent high- formed and recorded with musicians and groups lights include appearances with Jaime Laredo as diverse as Th e Klezmatics, Orpheus Chamber and Peter Serkin, as well as collaborations with Orchestra, Steve Reich and Musicians, the Paula Robison and the Kalichstein-Laredo- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Robinson Trio. Ms. O’Connor, who has record- John Zorn. As a composer, he has an active ca- ed for the Arcadia, CRI, Koch International and reer as a producer of electronic music both for Bridge labels, received a doctorate from SUNY his own works and in collaboration with other Stony Brook and is professor of fl ute at the composers. His playing can be found on more Purchase College Conservatory of Music. than  recordings, including three solo discs: the critically acclaimed Spasm and , and Richard O’Neill (viola), a member of Chamber his newest, Ten Children, which garnered a Music Society Two, has performed as chamber “Parenting Pick” award in Parenting magazine’s musician and soloist through the United States, music listing for . France, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. He has per- formed at the Marlboro Festival for the past three Ikue Mori (electronics) moved from her native summers and has been a guest artist for the Da Tokyo to New York in . She formed the Camera Society of Los Angeles, the Chamber seminal No Wave band DNA with fellow noise Music Society of Fort Worth, the CooperArts pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. In the Series at the Cooper Union and Bargemusic. mid-s, Ms. Mori started to employ drum He has also toured extensively with Musicians machines in the unlikely context of improvised from Marlboro, the Metamorphosen Chamber music. She has collaborated with numerous im- Orchestra and the International Sejong Soloists. provisors throughout the United States, Europe Mr. O’Neill holds a BM from the University of and Asia while continuing to produce and re- Southern California, where he graduated magna cord her own music. In , Ms. Mori won cum laude, and is currently pursuing his master’s the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics degree at Th e Juilliard School. He has studied Digital Music. In , she started using a lap- with Paul Neubauer, Karen Tuttle, Donald top computer to expand on her already signa- McInnes and Sally Peck. ture sound She has received commissions from both the Kitchen Ensemble and the Relâche Founded in , the Pacifi c Mozart Ensemble Ensemble. In , she was awarded the Alphert/ (PME) delivers passionate, expert and engag-

16 CAL PERFORMANCES About the Artists ing choral performances of every genre of mu- ulties at Th e Juilliard School. He has been an sic from Brahms to Brubeck to Sufj an Stevens. Artist of Th e Chamber Music Society of Lincoln PME is also known for its innovative collabo- Center since . rations with contemporary composers and art- ists, including John Adams, Meredith Monk, Wendy Tamis (harp) holds the post of prin- Dave Brubeck and David Lang. Most recently, cipal harpist with the Berkeley Symphony, the these collaborations resulted in a  Grammy Fremont Symphony and the Bear Valley Music nomination for Best Choral Performance for the Festival and is the acting principal harpist with Harmonia Mundi recording of Bernstein’s Mass the Boise Philharmonic in Idaho. Ms. Tamis with Maestro Kent Nagano and the Deutsches performs regularly with several Bay Area orches- Symphonie-Orchester. tras, including the Napa Valley Symphony, Santa Since founding PME in , Artistic Cruz Symphony, West Bay Opera, Modesto Director Richard Grant has led the group in Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony. She has well over  concerts and three international performed with the San Francisco Symphony, tours. Music Director Lynne Morrow is direc- Opera and Ballet orchestras and has toured sev- tor of the Voice and Opera/Music Th eater pro- eral times with the Western Opera Th eater, the grams at Sonoma State University. Dr. Morrow touring company of the San Francisco Opera. has recently been appointed Music Director of She performs as a member of a fl ute and harp the Oakland Symphony Chorus. She is also the duo and the Muir Trio, a harp, clarinet and so- host of the Stern Grove Music Festival. prano ensemble. Ms. Tamis has been a featured soloist with the Th is season, Fred Sherry (cello) continues his Berkeley Symphony, Oakland Civic Orchestra, series of recordings of Schoenberg with Robert Prometheus Symphony, Diablo Symphony, San Craft on the Naxos label and will conduct Francisco City College Orchestra, Contra Costa Hans Peter Cloos’s staging of Pierrot lunaire Chamber Orchestra and Vallejo Symphony. with Mosaic and Julia Migenes. He will hold She has recorded with the San Francisco and a residency at the University of Toronto and a Berkeley symphonies and has played under Kent chamber music residency at Indiana University, Nagano, Herbert Blomstedt and Michael Tilson and he will travel again to Korea for the Busan Th omas. Music Festival. In addition, he recently added to his vast discography of living composers William Winant (percussion) is princi- with the release of Fast Fantasy, featuring mu- pal percussionist with the San Francisco sic of Charles Wuorinen; Necronomicon by Contemporary Music Players and the John John Zorn; and Steve Mackey’s cello concerto, Zorn Chamber Ensemble. Composers who Banana/Dump Truck. Upcoming releases in- have written works for him include John Cage, clude the Elliott Carter cello concerto with the Lou Harrison, John Zorn, Peter Garland, Alvin BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recent appearances Curran, David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, include Zankel Hall, Miller Th eatre, the nd Chris Brown, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Street Y and the Guggenheim Museum. Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Somei Satoh and In , in collaboration with the Chamber Wadada Leo Smith. Mr. Winant has been fea- Music Society of Lincoln Center and Merkin tured as a guest artist with the Los Angeles Concert Hall, Mr. Sherry created and directed Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony A Great Day in New York, the groundbreaking and the Berkeley Symphony, and at various fes- festival featuring the music of  living com- tivals, including Ravinia, Salzburg, Holland, posers. Mr. Sherry is a founding member of Ojai, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Taklos, Other the groups Tashi and Speculum Musicae and is Minds, Lincoln Center, Royal Festival Hall, a member of the chamber music and cello fac- Library of Congress, the Barbican Centre and

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Brooklyn Academy of Music. For  years, he was principal percussionist with the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and he was timpanist with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra from  to . Mr. Winant is a Visiting Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, and teaches at Mills College and UC Berkeley. He has made over  record- ings covering a wide variety of genres, includ- ing music by Earle Brown, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Danny Elfman (Batman Returns), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Th e Ex, Han Bennink, White Out with Jim O’Rourke, Th urston Moore and Mike Patton. His recordings with the critically acclaimed Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio can be heard on the New Albion, Tzadik and CRI/ New World labels.

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