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Student Chamber Ensembles

Ualbany Performing Arts Center

Jazz "Big Bands" of UC Davis

Percussion Ensemble UC Davis

Concert Bands of UC Davis

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Jazz Combos of UC Davis

Earplay

Empyrean Ensemble: "Works by Graduate Students"

UC Davis Sinfonietta

Trois Bois

Michael Goldberg, Solo Guitar

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: "Brazil & Jazz"

Lillian Gordis, Harpsichord Jérôme Hantaï, Viola da Gamba

Wendy Richman: "Works By Graduate Students"

Wendy Richman, Viola

PinkNoise: "Black as a Hack for Cyborgification"

PinkNoise: "Works By Graduate Students"

These new pieces for solo violin, or solo violin and electronics, were created as part of the graduate student workshop, in which graduate students meet with Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir each week during Fall Quarter, refining their compositions.

Hrabba Atladottir, Solo Violin: "Works By Graduate Students"

Portia Njoku, Tuba

Jazz "Big Bands" Of UC Davis

Mike Marshall and Choro Famoso bring a bright energy and virtuosity to their concerts, maybe matched only by the Brazilians themselves. Choro is an important musical tradition of Brazil with characteristic Afro-Brazilian rhythms and European popular dance tunes. Mike—already known throughout the world for pushing on the boundaries of many music genres—became smitten with Choro on his first adventure in Brazil.

Mike Marshall and Choro Famoso

The UC Davis Concert Band presents thoughtful works written especially for concert band, and sometimes for film (“My Neighbor Totoro” and “The Polar Express” to name a couple). Constituting members of the UC Davis community from students to graduate students to faculty, the band is proud to represent more than thirty areas of study in its members.

Magela Herrera Quartet: "Works By Graduate Students"

Empyrean Ensemble: "Rzewski’s Coming Together"

The Bacchetto / Sabey Duo is a collaborative project of San Francisco-based composer-performers Nick Bacchetto and Ben Sabey. The duo creates new works for piano and live electronics using MIDI Polyphonic Expression instruments controlling analog modular synthesis, which is spatialized into any speaker configuration via the new Dolby Atmos renderer.

Bacchetto / Sabey Duo

Warp Trio is an Internationally touring cross-genre chamber music experience. Every chamber music program needs this kind of energy.

Warp Trio: "Works By Graduate Students"

Black Voices is an original concert program that integrates classical, jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word—sounds and poetry created by African-American artists—in an effort to lift up lesser-known contributions that define the multifaceted culture of the United States. Featuring the award-winning artist LiKWuiD, the program utilizes poetry of Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and the Sacramento-based Maya Angelou. It also features original spoken word material, set against music by Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, Harry Burleigh, and original compositions by Warp Trio members.

Warp Trio: "Black Voices"

Kineko Barbini, violin, I-Hui Chen, piano

UC Davis Concert Band

UC Davis’s own Jazz Big Bands present songs from the Great American Songbook as well as a few contemporary works and sometimes feature student vocalists too. Tunes by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and many others are often presented.

Jazz Big Bands of UC Davis

The UC Davis Jazz Combos—usually quartets or quintets—present a wide range of jazz standards, and feature several extended solos with improvisation.

Musics Of The World

Maryam Farshadfar, piano (Ph.D., ethnomusicology, University of Montreal) and Shawyon Malek-Salehi, violin (B.A., music, UC Davis, ‘14) present this lecture-recital, which discusses the history of piano and violin in Iran, and the influence of Persian culture on Western composers from the late 19th century to the present. The recital includes performances of a variety of lesser-known pieces by Western and Persian composers, including pieces by Samin Baghcheban, Gena Branscombe, Henry Cowell, and others.

Lecture-Recital: “Persian Serenades of the West”

Bay Area Indonesian-Folk-Rock fusion group, Purnamasari grew out of the idea of supporting a new generation of artists from both sides of the world through music and dance. The concert takes place on the eve of the LUCE Foundation’s conference “Rethinking the History of Indonesian Music.

Purnamasari

Ann Lavin, Clarinet Dagenais Smiley, Violin

Immerse yourself in the Halloween season with the eerie and spooky sounds of the harpsichord. Spine-chilling chords and cackling runs bring alive a concert of things that go bump in the night, with black cats, Jeckyl and Hyde, and even compositions written by spirits. Featuring works by J.S. Bach, Dominico Scarlatti, James Dorsa, and Rosemary Brown.

The Macabre: A Harpsichord Halloween

TriMusica

Joseph Donald Peterson, Solo Viola

Preconcert Discussion from 1:15–1:45 pm with composer Yu-Hui Chang and Empyrean’s director Sam Nichols.

Empyrean Ensemble

Chris Froh: "Graduate Student Works For Percussion"

“Of California Ecology” features new works based on different facets of California’s natural world. The trio will perform compositions by ensemble members, Julie Herndon, and Sl(e)ight Ensemble’s 2020 call-for-scores winner Kian Ravaei. Drawing on the artists’ distinct backgrounds in jazz, band, and chamber music, the program is inspired by seismic activity, fungal biomes, waterways, and social ecology, among other natural phenomena. The result is a diverse set of works all created with the aim of bringing appreciation to California’s beautiful and delicate environment.

Sl(e)ight Ensemble: "Of California Ecology"

This recital features 20th-century American music, with transcriptions by famed Russian-Lithuanian-American violinist Jascha Heifetz, from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, as well as Samuel Barber’s own transcription of the second movement of his Piano Concerto.

UC Davis Concerts

Jun 28, 2023

Student Chamber Ensembles

Jun 6, 2023

Jazz "Big Bands" of UC Davis

Jun 2, 2023

Percussion Ensemble UC Davis

May 31, 2023

Concert Bands of UC Davis

May 25, 2023

Jazz Combos of UC Davis

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