New Music from Davis: Live Music for Silent Films

Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde, co-directors PERFORMERS Matilda Hofman, conductor Tod Brody, flute Peter Josheff, clarinet Hrabba Atladottir, violin Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Leighton Fong, cello Micheal Seth Orland, piano Chris Froh, percussion New Music from Davis: Live Music for Silent Films 7:00 pm, Monday, June 4, 2012 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts 6:15 pm Pre-Concert lecture an d discussion with guest composers

The Department of Music presents The Empyrean Ensemble Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde, co-directors New Music from Davis: Live Music for Silent Films Program A Trip Down Market Street for small ensemble Reves Transcendants The Shifts and the Breaks Synapse still life with flowers Anamnesis Judas Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan s Book) The Miles Brothers, filmmakers Nicholas G. Baish, filmmaker Joy Li, filmmaker Jean Detheux, filmmaker Intermission Stephan Meylan, filmmaker Joy Li, filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, filmmaker Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro (b. 1984) Hendel Almétus Garrett Shatzer (b. 1980) Ben Irwin Alex Van Gils (b. 1987) Bryce Cannell (b. 1982) William David Cooper The Empyrean Ensemble would like to thank Peter Josheff and Eliza O Malley for the use of their home for rehearsals. 7:00 pm, Monday, June 4, 2012 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts We ask that you be courteous to your fellow audience members and the performers. Please turn off your cell phones and refrain from texting. Audience members who are distracting to their neighbors or the performers in any way may be asked to leave at any time. Also, this performance is being professionally recorded for the university archive. Photography, audio, or audiovisual recording is prohibited during the performance.

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS A Trip Down Market Street for small ensemble Upon first watching this film, A Trip Down Market Street, I could not help but think of my hometown Masaya, Nicaragua: horse-drawn carriages, speeding cars, and pedestrians calmly dodging traffic all reminded me of rush hour at home. This personal association gave the video a surreal, almost humorous, dreamlike quality, which I sought to express harmonically. But one cannot ignore a darker side of this footage. It was shot just days before the 1906 earthquake, and I found myself contemplating the fate of the people captured on film and attempted to draw a wedge between the blissfully ignorant subjects and the viewer with knowledge of impending destruction. The result is an analogously fatal musical determinism that emerges from the dreamlike harmonies: as the camera approaches the Ferry Building, the music gradually descends to the ensemble s lowest register. This 1906 film was made by the Miles Brothers. Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro (b. 1984 Bogotá, Colombia) is a Nicaraguan-American composer and guitarist, currently studying composition with Mika Pelo. Now a second-year graduate student in composition at UC Davis, he received his BA from Columbia University in 2007 where he studied composition with Fabien Lévy and Sebastian Currier, and orchestration with Tristan Murail. He has also worked as a freelance musician in New Haven, CT and was professor of theory, analysis and guitar at Casa de los Tres Mundos Music Academy in Granada, Nicaragua. His work draws upon a variety of interests including polystylism, spectralism, psychoacoustics, linguistics, and geology. Harry, Herbert, Joseph, and Earle C. Meyers were pioneers of early American cinema, having established one of the country s first motion picture production companies in 1902. Their most celebrated film, A Trip Down Market Street, was recorded just days before the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed much of the city s downtown area. The film offers a glimpse of daily life in San Francisco over a century ago and has recently been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The film itself only narrowly survived the fire, having been shipped to New York the night before the earthquake destroyed Meyers offices, located on Market Street. Reves Transcendants Reves Transcendants is a three-movement piece that features a small group of soloists in each movement. The first movement functions as an upbeat to a strong arrival with the intended purpose of resolving the tension in the second and third movements. The first section is conceived of patterns of interwoven melodic lines spread across the ensemble and accompanied by outbursts of light and energetic gestures. The goal of the second and third section is to move the piece from a serene, atmospheric, and stable state to the main climactic point by way of increasing intensity. The film uses video from under water rocks, water ripples/ bubbles and trees from a river in upstate New York. The video is processed through custom software, which uses audio input to manipulate the video. The film examines the textures of the natural, water/trees, and the digital, glitches/ computer generated images, in conjunction and contrast with the textures in the music. Hendel Almétus began his musical training at the age of twelve in Haiti. He earned a BM in composition from Houston Baptist University and an MA in composition from the Eastman School of Music. He was a fellow in the 2011 FUBiS Summer Program in Berlin, Germany, and studied composition with Samuel Adler. He will also be a fellow at the 2012 Wellesley Composer s Conference where he will study with Melinda Wagner and Eric Chasalow. His music has been performed by the Empyrean Ensemble, the Meridian Brass, One Art Ensemble, Schola Cantorum, and he has had pieces read by Alarm Will Sound and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Nicholas G. Baish is a filmmaker/animator/designer based out of upstate New York. His work focuses on a melding of the senses to create a synthesized synesthesia. The Shifts and the Breaks The Shifts and the Breaks can be interpreted both literally and figuratively. In the literal sense, melodies shift and ideas suddenly break away for example, the rigid opening becomes something much more fluid. Figuratively speaking, this piece began as a feeble attempt to modernize my style, with the idea that my style would shift to something new or simply break away from something old. Ironically, this exercise cemented my belief that my style works perfectly well, hence the resolution to pure tonality just prior to the brief coda. The film is by Joy Li. Garrett Shatzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate in composition at UC Davis. His current commissions include a song for Grammy-winning countertenor Ian Howell and guitarist Karl Wohlwend; a piece for the Mobius Trio; a song cycle for soprano Marlissa Hudson, tenor Charles Blandy, Grammy-winning conductor/violinist John McLaughlin Williams, and orchestra; and a triple concerto for the Erato Piano Trio and Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. 4

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS still life with flowers still life with flowers, for video and ensemble, is the result of a collaboration between two old friends and a couple of beautiful minutes spent atop an apartment building in the Mission with some flowers, a nice camera, brisk wind, manuscript paper, and a pencil. The film was created by Stephan Meylan. Alex Van Gils is an award-winning composer and bassist whose music is influenced by his love of classical music and jazz and by his practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Alex currently studies composition at UC Davis with Laurie San Martin. Stephan Meylan is a founding member of the U.S. Department of Whimsy, a member of the Brown Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments ensemble in 2010, and an all-around amusing guy to know. His previous visual work has included high-speed stereoscopic photography, splicing unauthorized snack food ads into pornography, and the faux-fi branding for a closet brewery focusing on the marine grotesque. He is starting a PhD in Psychology at UC Berkeley this fall, and his summer project is a documentary about contemporary economic inequality, the Occupy Movement, and systematic disengagement of the upper middle class exclusively intended for audiences in 2080. Anamnesis When one attempts to recall a memory, the mind often follows a set procedure. After the initial fragmented conception, the mind traverses through a web of associations to piece together, much like a puzzle, the exact memory. This process of recalling a memory, or anamnesis, served as inspiration for the film and music. Objects in the film gradually become associated with others, and their connections are emphasized through pairings with musical gestures and/or timbres. The crotale pillars add to this gradual realization by slowly expanding outward, note by note, until the work nears its end, where a lucid vision of the memory is finally attained. The film is by Joy Li. Bryce Cannell is a first-year PhD candidate in music composition and theory at UC Davis, currently studying under the direction of Pablo Ortiz. He received his MA (with distinction) and BA degrees in Music Composition from CSU Fresno, where he studied with Kenneth Froelich and Benjamin Boone. His honors include second prize in the 2011 Carl von Ossietzky International Composition Competition (Oldenburg, Germany), the 2010 CSU Fresno Department of Music Outstanding Graduate Award, and he was selected to have a work performed at the 2010 NACUSA National Conference (Portland, Oregon). Joy Li holds a bachelor s degree in film studies and English, with a music minor. She began video editing in high school and was given charge of the broadcasting network during her sophomore year. She did freelance video work throughout college, including a video for the UC Davis Teaching Resources Center. Shortly after graduation, she interned for Good Day Sacramento. She currently works in the Music Department for the UC Davis Arts Administrative Group. When not working, she plays clarinet with the UCD Concert Band and sings with the University Chorus, Early Music Ensemble, as well as Sacramento-based groups Camerata California Chorus and Capella Antiqua. Synapse I have been privileged to work with a new film by Jean Detheux, created for this performance. The film has inspired my thinking about time, texture, timbre, form, polyrhythm, and harmony. I was struck, while working with the film, at the many ways in which it behaves like music. This untitled film is by Jean Detheux. Ben Irwin is currently pursuing a PhD in composition and theory at UC Davis. His principal composition teachers are Kurt Rohde, Ross Bauer, Pablo Ortiz, Laurie San Martin, Stephen Dembski, Laura Schwendinger, and Phillip Rhodes. Recently, Ben s septet Somnambulist was premiered by the Ottawa New Music Creators, and his Solo for Microtonal Piano was performed in Wisconsin by Jeff Gibbens. This summer, Strange Alchemy, for violin and piano, will be performed at the SICPP festival in Boston. Ben will also be an associate artistin-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, working in consultation with composer-in-residence Melinda Wagner. Jean Detheux grew up in Belgium and graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège. He moved to North America in 1971 and currently lives in Montreal. His artwork has been featured in many public and private collections. Due to allergies to painting materials, he left natural media in 1997 and began working exclusively with digital technology and creating time-based art. He is currently focused on creating Visual Music. His films have been featured in many festivals around the globe. He directed two films for the National Film Board of Canada (Liaisons and Rupture). He has taught art in many schools, including the Alberta College of Art, the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Concordia University, and NYU and has given lectures on the Phenomenology of Vision in Canada, the United States, Denmark, Belgium, Australia, and Lebanon. He has also published articles on art, animation, software, and other topics. 5

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS Judas Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog Judas Betrayal from Blade af Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan s Book) opens with the Last Supper and the symbolic indication of Jesus betrayer. The film follows Jesus and his disciples to the garden of Gethsemane, and with the Romans marching closer and closer, we witness his agony, betrayal, and arrest. Judas receives his reward, but quickly despairs, realizing his folly. My aim was to be as faithful as possible to the events and emotions of the film. The music attempts to depict the holiness of the institution of the Eucharist, the deviousness of Judas, the spiritual suffering of Jesus in the garden, and the drama of Judas betraying kiss. William David Cooper s music has been championed by violinists Augustin Hadelich and Itamar Zorman, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the JACK Quartet. It has been performed throughout the world, including at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, at many venues in New York City, and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 2013 his opera Hagar will be premiered with members of the Indianapolis Symphony. He has served on faculty at Purdue University and the Interlochen Arts Camp. Cooper has received three ASCAP awards, including in 2012 the highest prize the Leo Kaplan award. An alumnus of the Juilliard school, he is currently a student of Kurt Rohde at UC Davis. The illegitimate son of a Swedish farmer and his housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer spent his early years in Danish foster homes before being adopted by a strict Lutheran family. His first film showed little promise or talent, but by the late 1920s he was hailed as the greatest director ever to emerge from Danish cinema. Among his most celebrated films are The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr. His films are typically slow, intense studies of human psychology, usually of people undergoing extreme personal or religious crises. Blade af Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan s Book) was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer in 1919. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir studied in Berlin with Axel Gerhardt. After finishing her studies, she worked as a freelance violinist in Berlin for five years, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. She also participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. In 2004 she moved to New York and continued to freelance, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke s, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She also plays a lot of new music, most recently with the Either/Or ensemble in New York in connection with their Helmut Lachenmann festival. Since August 2008, she has been based in Berkeley, California, where she performs with various ensembles, such as the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, and the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players to name a few. Atladottir is also a violin lecturer at UC Berkeley. Tod Brody, flute, has enjoyed a career of great variety. He was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for many years, where he was a frequent soloist on both flute and piccolo. He currently teaches flute and chamber music at UC Davis, where he performs with the Empyrean Ensemble. As a member of Empyrean, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Brody has participated in many world premieres and has been recorded on the Arabesque, Capstone, Centaur, CRI, Magnon, and New World labels. When not performing contemporary music, he often can be found in the orchestras of the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet, and in other chamber and orchestral settings throughout Northern California. In addition to his activities as a performer and teacher, Brody is the director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Composers Forum, an organization dedicated to linking communities, composers, and performers, encouraging the making, playing, and enjoyment of new music. 6

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS Leighton Fong, cello, is a longtime member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and also serves as principal cello with the California Symphony. He plays regularly with the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, the Empyrean Ensemble and is an active freelancer in the Bay Area. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 1997 and studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the New England Conservatory, the Bern Conservatory in Bern, Switzerland, and the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark. He joined the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2006. Principally committed to influencing and expanding the repertoire for solo percussion through commissions and premieres, Chris Froh is a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and the Empyrean Ensemble. Known for energized performances hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as tremendous and San Francisco Classical Voice as mesmerizing, his solo appearances stretch from Rome to Tokyo to San Francisco. His critically acclaimed solo recordings can be heard on the Albany, Bridge, Equilibrium, and Innova labels. A frequent collaborator with leading composers from across the globe, Froh has premiered works by dozens of composers, including John Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Liza Lim, David Lang, Keiko Abe, and Francois Paris. He tours Japan with marimbist Mayumi Hama and with his former teacher and marimba pioneer Keiko Abe. Solo festival appearances include the Festival Nuovi Spazi Musicali (Rome), the Festival of New American Music, Pacific Rim, and Other Minds. Active in music for theater and dance, Froh has recorded scores for American Conservatory Theater, performed as a soloist with the Berkeley Repertory Theater, and composed original music for Oakland-based Dance Elixir. His score for the Harvard Museum of Natural History s exhibition of Thoreau s Walden: A Journey in Photography currently is touring the United States. Equally committed to pedagogy, Froh mentors percussionists through UC Berkeley s Young Musicians Program. He is also a faculty member at UC Davis, where he directs the Samba School and Percussion Group Davis. Matilda Hofman s work as a conductor ranges widely from opera and the symphonic repertoire to her keen interest in contemporary music. She studied at Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. She works in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and was recently invited to conduct the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in their New Music Festival, which was broadcast on CBC radio. Operas conducted include Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Turn of the Screw, as well as contemporary commissions. She has worked with the BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, and Southbank Sinfonia, among others. She is passionate about bringing music to young people and to underprivileged communities. While studying at Eastman she was music director of the New Eastman Outreach Orchestra, which aims to make classical music available to everyone in the Rochester community. During her tenure she developed a long-term program with the inner-city School of the Arts, which involved regular mentoring, education concerts, and side-by-sides. She has studied with David Zinman as a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, with Sir Colin Davis, Martyn Brabbins, and with Kurt Masur. Over the past twenty-five years P e ter Josheff has established a solid reputation as a composer, clarinetist, and advocate of contemporary music. He has premiered and performed hundreds of works by a wide range of composers and has had numerous pieces composed for him. He performs with Earplay, a San Francisco-based new music ensemble he cofounded in 1985. He is also a member of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Eco Ensemble, appears frequently with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Parallele, and Composers Inc., and has performed and toured with Melody of China. He is cofounder of Sonic Harvest, a concert series dedicated to new vocal and instrumental music, now in its tenth season. Working extensively with young composers, he has performed their music and given presentations about writing for the clarinet at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and Sacramento State University, and for the American Composers Forum Composer in the Schools Program. In 2006 he presented a workshop called Clarinet for Composers for the American Composers Forum in San Francisco. He has been on the faculty at San Francisco State University. 7

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS Michael Seth Orland has appeared extensively in the Bay Area as a chamber musician, playing with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, New Music Theater, Other Minds, and in the San Francisco Symphony s New and Unusual Music series. He has performed modern works throughout California at venues including UC campuses at San Diego, Davis, and Santa Cruz, and at Sacramento State University, and Cal Arts. He has also played at June in Buffalo (NY), the Mendocino Music Festival, and in the Gund Series at Kenyon College. Orland may be heard on recordings of contemporary music released by CRI, Centaur, and Capstone. Orland studied piano with Margaret Kohn in Claremont, CA, and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Music Department, where he studied harpsichord with Davitt Moroney and composition with Gérard Grisey. He later continued his study of composition with David Sheinfeld. Orland has appeared often as a freelance symphony musician and has performed many times as a pianist in vocal recitals, as well as in vocal master classes by artists such as Frederica von Stade. Orland teaches in the music departments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. A champion of contemporary music, violist Ellen Ruth Rose is a member of Empyrean Ensemble and Earplay, the San Francisco-based contemporary ensemble. She performs regularly with Santa Cruz New Music Works, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and has worked extensively with Frankfurt s Ensemble Modern and the Cologne experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen Ensemble, appearing at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg Zeitfluß, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Biennial, Budapest Autumn, and Kuhmo (Finland) festivals. She has performed as soloist with the West German Radio Chorus, Empyrean Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz New Music Works, the symphony orchestras of UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and at the San Francisco Other Minds and Ojai Music festivals. Rose has premiered several works showcasing the viola, including Kurt Rohde (Double Trouble), Pablo Ortiz (Le Vrai Tango Argentin). Her recordings include a Wergo CD of the chamber music of German composer Caspar Johannes Walter, which won the German Recording Critics new music prize in 1998. In 2003 she created, organized, and directed Violafest!, a four-concert festival at UC Davis celebrating the viola in solos and chamber music new and old. Rose holds a Master s degree in performance from the Juilliard School, an artist diploma from the Northwest German Music Academy, and a Bachelor s with honors in English and American history and literature from Harvard University. She teaches viola at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. 8

ABOUT EMPYREAN Through compelling performances and diverse programming, the Empyrean Ensemble offers audiences an opportunity to hear original works by emerging and established composers alike. It has premiered more than 200 works and performed throughout California, including appearances at many prominent music festivals and concert series. Empyrean has two full-length CDs released under the Centaur and Arabesque labels and has been the featured ensemble on others. Founded by composer Ross Bauer in 1988 as the ensemble-in-residence at UC Davis, the Empyrean Ensemble now consists of a core of seven of California s finest musicians with extensive experience in the field of contemporary music. The ensemble is codirected by composers Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde. ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Mika Pelo received his DMA from Columbia University under the supervision of Tristan Murail and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, with Pär Lindgren, Sven-David Sandström, and Bent Sørensen. Pelo is assistant professor of composition and theory at UC Davis. He has received awards from the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden and the Thord Gray Memorial Award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Pelo has mostly written instrumental chamber music and music for orchestra but is also fluent in the electronic music language and occasionally uses live electronics and writes electroacoustic music. Ensembles that have commissioned or performed his music include: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, Flux Quartet (New York), the Swedish Concert Institute, Cecilia Zilliacus, Bengt Forsberg, Earplay, Red Light New Music (New York), the Barbad Chamber Orchestra (New York), Mika Takehara, Nya Stenhammarkvartetten, Musica Vitae, KammarensembleN, The Pearls Before Swine Experience, and the HUGO string quartet (Iceland). Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is the winner of the 2012 Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize. He has received commission awards from Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/ USA, the NEA, and the Barlow, Fromm, Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations. He recently completed new works for eighth blackbird, the Scharoun Ensemble, pianist Genevieve Lee, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. An associate professor of composition at UC Davis, he will be a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for 2012 13. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, the Curtis Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Rohde studied composition with Donald Erb, Ned Rorem, and Andrew Imbrie, and viola with Karen Tuttle, John Graham, and Caroline Levine. He is former artistic director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and has taught composition at UC Santa Barbara and was composer-in-residence at the Yellow Barn Music Festival. Administrative & Production Staff Christina Acosta, editor Philip Daley, publicity manager Rudy Garibay, designer Joshua Paterson, production manager 9

EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE FUND Anonymous Timothy Allen Ross Bauer * Simon Bauer Bill Beck & Yu-Hui Chang Anna Maria Busse Berger Hayes Biggs Martin Boykan Richard Mix & Ann Callaway Eric and Barbara Chasalow Mary Chun Jonathan & Mickey Elkus Adam Frey Pattie Glennon & Ed Jacobs Karen Gottlieb Paul Grant Udo Greinacher Anne M. Guzzo Mark Haiman & Ellen Ruth Rose Ellen Harrison D. Kern and Elizabeth Holoman * Martha Callison Horst Brenda Hutchinson Andrew & Barbara Imbrie Norman Jones Caralee Kahn Louis and Julie Karchin Marcia & Kurt Keith Maya Kunkel Garretta Lamore Gerald and Ulla McDaniel Hilary and Harold Meltzer Dr. Maria A. Neiderberger John and Phoebe Nichols Pablo Ortiz and Ana Peluffo Jessie Ann Owens & Anne Hoffman Can Ozbal and Teresa Wright Stacey Pelinka and Jan Lustig Wayne Peterson David Rakowski & Beth Wiemann Sheila Ranganath & Jim Fessenden Kurt Rohde Joan and Art Rose Jerome W. & Sylvia Rosen * Karen Rosenak * Marianne Ryan Marilyn San Martin Michael San Martin Dan Scharlin David E. Schneider Allen Shearer Ellen Sherman * Magen Solomon Henry Spiller & Michael Orland Sherman & Hannah Stein Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef * Prof. and Mrs. Olly Wilson Yehudi Wyner Bank of America * Aaron Copland Fund for Music * Alice M. Ditson Fund, Columbia University ** Forrests Music Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation ** * = $1,000 or more ** = $5,000 or more SUPPORT the EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE Please consider supporting the Empyrean Ensemble. Our future performances, recording, commissions, and educational programs can be realized and expanded only through your generous contributions. Your fully tax-deductible donation is greatly appreciated. We also encourage matching grants. Please send your checks, payable to UC Regents, specifying Empyrean Ensemble Fund in the memo field, to Empyrean Ensemble Fund, Department of Music, One Shields Avenue, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616. Thank you again for your support. music.ucdavis.edu/empyrean Please join us for our 2012 13 Empyrean Ensemble Season Saturday, November 17, 2012 New Music from the British Isles 7 pm Friday, February 1, 2013 7 pm Music & Migration Festival: composer-in-residence Lei Liang Friday and Sunday, April 19 and 21, 2013 Operas by Ortiz & Monteverdi 7 pm Sunday, May 19, 2013 New Music from Davis 7 pm

RECiTAL HALL The most important endeavor of the Department of Music today is to build the new Music Performance Building and Recital Hall a much needed midsize (300 500 seats) concert venue that will serve the campus and the region. An effort to raise $5.5 million in private funding to augment state and campus funds for the project is underway. For information about the Recital Hall and how to support it, please visit the Department of Music website (music.ucdavis.edu) or call Debbie Wilson, Director of Development for the Division of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies in the College of Letters & Science, at (530) 754-2221. Founders ($350K and higher) Barbara K. Jackson Grace and Grant Noda directors ($50K and higher) John and Lois Crowe RECiTAL HALL SOCiETy Recognized by gifts of $25,000 or more Patrons ($25K and higher) Wayne and Jacque Bartholomew Ralph and Clairelee Leiser Bulkley Lorena J. Herrig D. Kern and Elizabeth Holoman Albert McNeil Mary Ann Morris Jessie Ann Owens and Anne L. Hoffmann Wilson and Kathryn Smith Richard and Shipley Walters Ed and Elen Witter In Memory of Kenneth N. MacKenzie Natalie and Malcolm MacKenzie Aguirre Family Angelo D. Arias and Family Robert and Joan Ball Cynthia Bates Ross Bauer, Ph.D. Kathryn Caulfield Dennis Cook and Susan Lamb Cook Philip and Katie Daley Martha Dickman Donna M. Di Grazia Nancy DuBois Richard and Vera Harris Paul W. Hiss, M.D. Julia and Richard Kulmann Charlene R. Kunitz Katherine and William Landschulz Craig M. Machado Heather Kernberger MacKenzie Gary and Jane Matteson Deborah and Hugh McDevitt Maureen Miller Matt and Karen Nofziger Gail M. Otteson Christopher Reynolds and Alessa Johns Kurt Rohde and Timothy Allen Jerome and Sylvia Rosen Schore Family Thomas and Karen Slabaugh Henry Spiller and Michael Orland Hannah and Sherman Stein Henry and Ann Studer Lynne Swant and Family Uwate Family Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef Marya Welch Carla Wilson SEATS And STOnES Recognized by gifts of $1,000 or more UC Davis Music Faculty Christian Baldini and Matilda Hofman Beth E. Levy David and Helen Nutter Pablo Ortiz Mika Pelo and Hrabba Atladottir Laurie San Martin and Sam Nichols Jeffrey Thomas Seth Singers, Alumni 1994 2008 Seth Arnopole John Baker David Benjamin Penn Brimberry Joshua Eichorn Stephen Fasel Katherine Ivanjack Eric and Jacque Leaver Joshua and Sara Margulis Elizabeth Parks Ellen Proulx Keith and Jennifer Rode Steven Rosenau Asa Stern Stephanie Sugano Thomas Wilberg In Memory of Kenneth N. MacKenzie Clyde and Ruth Bowman Elizabeth Bradford Karen and Irving Broido Paul and Nancy Caffo Laura Cameron Bruce and Mary Carswell Linton and Carol Corruccini Mary and George Dahlgren Allen and Mary Lou Dobbins John and Catherine Duniway Robert and Ann Edmondson Andrew and Judith Gabor Government Affairs Consulting Paul and June Gulyassy Charlene R. Kunitz Russell and Suzanne Hansen John and Marylee Hardie Benjamin and Lynette Hart John and Patricia Hershberger Bette Gabbard Hinton Dirk and Sharon Hudson James and Patricia Hutchinson Barbara K. Jackson Jerry and Teresa Kaneko Kit and Bonita Lam Ruth Lawrence Jerry and Marguerite Lewis Frederick and Lucinda March Theresa Mauer Gary and Jane Matteson Robert and Margaret McDonald John and Norma Meyer Maureen Miller Teresa Paglieroni Sarah and Thomas Pattison Philip and Shirley Penland David and Dair Rausch Elizabeth and Eugene Renkin G. Thomas and Joan Sallee Katherine Schimke Maxine Schmalenberger J. Tracy and Sally Schreiber Roy and Polly Sheffield Suzette Smith Ronald and Rosie Soohoo Joe and Betty Tupin Laura and Richard Van Nostrand Elisabetta Vivoda Richard and Shipley Walters Noel and Pamela Warner Robert and Christine Wendin Debbie B. Wilson Robert and Joyce Wisner Donald and Diane Woods St. Helena Hospital Foundation