UC San Diego Music

TODAY AT 5PM // Kallisti, directed by Professor Susan Narucki, presents "embraced by gossamer hope" on the #UCSDMusic youtube channel! The concert begins with Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire (1889) of Claude Debussy, sung by soprano Stefanie Quintin-Avila and pianist Gabriel Allan Paguirigan followed by Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940) written by Benjamin Britten, performed by tenor Miguel Zazueta and pianist Kyle Adam Blair. The program concludes with Sieben frühe lieder(1908...) by Alban Berg in a performance by soprano Mariana Flores Bucio and pianist Kyle Adam Blair. Tune-in: https://youtu.be/dm1CO49M9EQ Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/548518059492619

TODAY AT 5PM // The Undergraduate Vocal Master Class (MUS 32VM) instructed by Professor Susan Narucki and accompanied by pianist Dr. Kyle Adam Blair presents their Spring 2021 concert! The concert includes songs by Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Cecilé Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, among others. Tune-in: https://youtu.be/_t4SWMFRJhw Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1221295888391648/

The UC San Diego Jazz Ensemble (MUS 95JC) directed by Grammy award-winning producer and UC San Diego Music Teaching Professor Kamau Kenyatta presents their Winter Showcase! Tune-in to the #UCSDMusic YouTube Channel at 2:00 p.m. PST between February 1-7 for new performances daily by UC San Diego's undergraduate students! More info: MUS 95JC Winter Showcase Tune-in: https://youtube.com/playlist... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities

Congratulations to composer and UC San Diego Music Ph.D. candidate Yi-hsien Chen on receiving the third prize in the NTSO (National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra)'s 2021 Composition Competition for his orchestral piece, Viewing Distant Song! The piece presents his lifelong fascination with the beauty of Taiwanese aboriginal music and its presence in our sonic environment. UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Welcome back Tritons! The UC San Diego Changemakers Week (January 16-23) is going virtual this year! Discover how to create positive social change through public and community service, research, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, social justice, and more. Register for events at changemaker.ucsd.edu. ... #UCSDChangemakerWeek #tritonchangemakers #UCSDMusic

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 12PM PST// UC San Diego Music Assistant Teaching Professor King Britt will be a panelist on the Sundance Film Festival's Music in Cinema virtual panel presented by BlackStar Film Festival! This free virtual panel will feature a conversation on film scoring and music-making, moderated by The New Yorker's Doreen St. Felix, with musicians Fatima Al Qadiri (Atlantics) and King Britt (Miami Vice/True Blood). Learn more and RSVP: https://village.festival.sundance....org//600a013f154d0ac756e UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Meet Composer and UC San Diego Music graduate student Joey Bourdeau with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about Joey's journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com/int/life-work-joseph-bourdeau-la-jolla... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Composer and #UCSDMusic grad student Daniel Corral collaborated with choreographer DaEun Jung on her piece Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40, featuring Pansori singer Melody Shim. The work will be presented at REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater's NOW Festival from January 28-30! Learn more & tune-in: https://www.redcat.org/event/now2020/week3 UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities... UC San Diego See more

Composer and UC San Diego Music Professor Marcos Balter's Pessoa and Pan are featured in The New York Times article 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Flute Listen and read more: https://www.nytimes.com//five-minutes-classical-music-flut UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities... #UCSDMusic See more

Meet Composer and UC San Diego Music graduate student Erin Graham with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about Erin's journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com//rising-stars-meet-erin-graham-san-di... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Meet Composer and UC San Diego Music graduate student Stephen de Filippo with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about Stephen's journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com//meet-stephen-de-filippo-stephen-de-f... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Meet Pianist and UC San Diego Music graduate student Mari Kawamura with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about Mari's journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com/interview/conversations-mari-kawamura... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

We have no musical agenda except the intent to send healing vibrations vibrations for peace, said #UCSDMusic Professor Mark Dresser If you missed the concert on Election Day, you can still watch the performances at Deep Tones for Peace!

On Tuesday, November 3, Deep Tones for Change will transmit 4 performances each hour, spanning the 17 hours that US polls are open nationwide, from the East Coast to Hawaii - 68 individual performances! Deep Tones for Peace 2020 was launched by UC San Diego Professor of Music Mark Dresser and William Parker. A regular streaming of live meditations for peace, healing and transformation is delivered by musicians transmitting deep tones that can strengthen the unseen bonds of ou...r diversity as we oppose economic, educational, and environmental inequities fueled by racism, sexism, and greed. Deep Tones for Peace is a public Facebook group - membership is open to everyone, and listening is possible for anyone: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeepTonesForPeace2020 Learn more: https://www.broadwayworld.com//Deep-Tones-For-Change-to-St UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Meet Composer and UC San Diego Music graduate student Nathan Haering with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about his journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com/interv/meet-nathaniel-haering-la-jolla... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

#UCSDMusic alum Nathan East is one of the nine new trustees joining the UC San Diego Foundation board! The mission of the UC San Diego Foundation is to foster and promote support for UC San Diego through charitable giving, advocacy, leadership, consultation and fiduciary duty, and to assist the Chancellor and other campus leaders through outreach to the community. Nathan East is recognized as one of the most recorded musicians in music, credited on over 2,000 recordings. He’...s a founding member of contemporary jazz supergroup Fourplay and is known for his musical collaborations with Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, Anita Baker, George Harrison, BB King, Stevie Wonder and Daft Punk. East’s debut album went to #1 on Billboard’s Jazz Charts and won a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. East, a 1978 UC San Diego graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Music, was honored by the United States Congress with a Congressional Record for his contribution to the worldwide music community. Learn more: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu//nine-trustees-join-the-uc-san-d

Meet Composer and UC San Diego Music graduate student Andres Gutierrez with the SD Voyager Magazine! Read about his journey as a musician: http://sdvoyager.com//meet-andres-gutierrez-andres-gutierr... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Giovanni Russonello of The New York Times picks UC San Diego Associate Professor of Music Steph Richards's "Glass" from her newly released album "Supersense" as one of this week's most notable new songs and videos! "The trumpeter Steph Richards is an emerging maestro of extended technique which usually means altering the process of playing an instrument, to elicit atypical sounds. But on Supersense, a new album, Richards shows that it can mean more than that. First she a...ssembled a quartet of esteemed improvisers a generation or two ahead of her the pianist Jason Moran, the bassist Stomu Takeishi and the drummer Kenny Wollesen who gently fortify Richards’s aesthetic, which favors tremulous atmospherics and wriggling snakelets of melody over clear narrative. Then, working with the multimedia artist Sean Raspet, she created a batch of abstract, unnamable scents with far-out ingredients (for instance: cricket exoskeletons) to guide the musicians as they recorded each track. Physical copies of the album come with a scratch-and-sniff sheet, allowing you to immerse yourself in the same aura that surrounded the band as it played. With social distancing forcing so many changes to the ways we relate, think of Richards as extending the techniques of artistic interaction, creating a way for audiences and performers to share space from afar." GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO https://www.nytimes.com//playlist-ariana-grande-arlo-parks UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

JUST RELEASED! UC San Diego undergrad music students Donald Liang and Terry Feng's new album Library of Dreams is out now on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music! UCSD Geisel Library. A place to study, catch up on lectures and homework, goof around with friends, cram for upcoming midterms and finals, ingest abnormal amounts of coffee, eat, sleep, research, and learn. 8 unique floors, but one place to call home. Library of Dreams features 8 tracks correlating to the 8 f...loors of Geisel Library. Recreating the different environments and moods of each floor, the album is a sonic tour of the library, as well as beats to help you focus, study, or simply just relax. Go for a Study Grind on Floor 6, Meme and Chill with friends on Floor 1, or take a break and get some Fresh Air on Floor 3. It’s Geisel, the Library of Dreams. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7M975UnfPMXZ7jT3nNsKsB Apple Music: https://music.apple.com//album/library-of-dreams/1536635496 YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist Meet Donald Liang: Donald is a fourth year music composition student at UC San Diego. His main interests are music production and writing music; specifically, he enjoys the creative processes of music and the inner mechanisms of how artists take creative ideas and bring them to life. His musical experience began from classical piano, and eventually evolved to a passion for guitar and singing. His passion for music has led him to participate in many different forms of musical activities, including choir, acappella, worship, and collaborating with friends to create different kinds of music. Meet Terry Feng: A third year piano performance and computer science student at UC San Diego, Terry Feng enjoys the intersections of music, human experience, culture, and technology. As a classically trained pianist, but also as an avid listener of genres spanning film score, contemporary instrumental, and pop, he enjoys music from a perspective of theory and how it shapes the intricate dialogue between composer, performer, and listener. He has since played with the La Jolla Symphony-Chorus, volunteered and performed with International Music Sessions, and is currently exploring avenues involving machine learning and audio synthesis. UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

Check out some behind the scenes photos from the making of UC San Diego Associate Professor of Music Steph Richards's new album "SUPERSENSE" that will be released tomorrow October 23rd! Check out the album here: https://stephrichards.bandcamp.com/album/supersense UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities... #UCSDMusic See more

Composer, percussionist and #UCSDMusic alum Sarah Hennies speaks with Steve Smith of The New York Times about her composition The Reinvention of Romance and the shift from composing solo pieces meant for her own use to the increasing demand to provide pieces meant for others, and to entrust those artists with the profoundly personal motivations encoded into her music. Core concerns she enumerates in her professional biography are ‘queer and trans identity, love, intimacy... and psychoacoustics.’ Ms. Hennies writes music rife with psychological effects and emotional undercurrents, like those that pulse within ‘The Reinvention of Romance.’ And she conveys alienation and ambiguity with instruments altered, muffled or played unconventionally in ‘Spectral Malsconcities’ and ‘Unsettle.’ But in those same works and others, Ms. Hennies also evokes recognition, transformation and acceptance. Sarah Hennies received her master’s degree from UC San Diego, where she worked with percussionist, conductor and Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick. Read more about her work here: https://www.nytimes.com//arts//sarah-hennies-composer.html UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities UC San Diego Alumni

Fonema Consort to release second Digital Mural project tomorrow featuring bassist and #UCSDMusic grad student Kathryn Schulmeister and composer/performer Dylan DelGiudice’s Mined Temporalities See the video below to hear from Kathryn about how this piece came to be: https://fb.watch/1gnz-ZzyFq/... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities UC San Diego

TODAY AT 7PM EDT/4PM PDT // Join the International Contemporary Ensemble for an evening of exploring string works by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association - IFCA! Ensemble musicians Josh Modney (violinist), Kyle Armbrust (violist), Wendy Richman (violist), and Michael Nicolas (cellist) will discuss each work with the composers, diving into compositional process and collaboration. Works include: Anahita Abbasi: Situation IV / Io E iO (2016, rev. 2017) Bahar Royae...e: Tombstone (2017) Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Veiled (arranged for viola and electronics, 2019) Rojin Sharafi: sandbox (2017) Homa Samiei: Fate (2019) RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tues7-ifca-works-for-strings-t UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities UC San Diego #UCSDMusic

Trumpeter and UC San Diego Music Associate Professor Steph Richards to release new album "SUPERSENSE" with a trio of fellow all-star improvisers Jason Moran, Stomu Takeishi and Kenny Wolleson. In order to provide listeners a rich experience that is often taken away in the digital format, Richards tapped acclaimed multimedia artist Sean Raspet to create singular, abstract scents to both inform and accompany the recording. Physical copies of "SUPERSENSE" include Sean Raspet's s...cent creations that are presented on a scratch and sniff card so that listeners can get the full experience, taking in the smells as they hear each track. Buy the Vinyl/CD/Digital Album: https://stephrichards.bandcamp.com/album/supersense Check out the MV for the track "Underbelly": https://youtu.be/HrPofQDKLTI UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 2PM PDT // The Lied Society will broadcast the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning composer and UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Music Anthony Davis's new composition We Call the Roll commissioned by The Lied Society and Schubert Club. Tune in on The Lied Society’s website: https://liedsociety.org https://operawire.com/lied-society-to-live-stream-world-pr/... UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities #UCSDMusic