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Monday, January 21, 2013

Auditions, University Chorus and UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus

Performing Arts - Music: Audition: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | January 21 – 22, 2013 every day | 4-9 p.m. | 124 Morrison Hall


Department of Music


Audition to participate in Department of Music Choruses spring 2013. Marika Kuzma, director

UNIVERSITY CHORUS
Monday, January 21 from 4-6 pm in 124 Morrison.
Monday, January 21 from 7-9 pm in 124 Morrison.
Tuesday, January 22 from 3-4:30 pm in the Hertz Hall Green Room.
See website for details
Please email...   More >

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Auditions, University Chorus and UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus

Performing Arts - Music: Audition: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | January 21 – 22, 2013 every day | 4-9 p.m. | 124 Morrison Hall


Department of Music


Audition to participate in Department of Music Choruses spring 2013. Marika Kuzma, director

UNIVERSITY CHORUS
Monday, January 21 from 4-6 pm in 124 Morrison.
Monday, January 21 from 7-9 pm in 124 Morrison.
Tuesday, January 22 from 3-4:30 pm in the Hertz Hall Green Room.
See website for details
Please email...   More >

Friday, January 25, 2013

Ivan Fedele, Regent's Lecturer: Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | January 25 | 7-9 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music, Cal Performances


One of his greatest admirers is Pierre Boulez and it is in France that Ivan Fedele consolidated his reputation as a composer whose opus, currently, counts nearly one hundred titles and includes composition of every type: orchestral pieces, works for the theatre, electro-acoustic and chamber music. Without rejecting the teaching of the masters of the historic avant-garde, Fedele seems to put its...   More >


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Davitt Moroney, Harpsichord: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | January 30 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Elizabeth Elkus Noon Concert, UC Berkeley

Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
Music by J.S. Bach, Louis Marchand, Nicolas Le Bègue


Friday, February 1, 2013

W. Anthony Sheppard, Music Studies Colloquium: Puccini and the Music Boxes

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 1 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


W. Anthony Sheppard, Williams College

Department of Music


Monday, February 4, 2013

George E. Lewis, Bloch Lecture: Theorizing Improvisation Today, Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 4 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


GEORGE E. LEWIS, 2013 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor

Lecture Series: Theorizing Improvisation Today
Opening lecture: Prolegomena to Critical Improvisation Studies


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Piano Trio: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 6 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Martha Wasley, piano
April Paik, violin
Leighton Fong, cello

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D Minor, op. 49


Thursday, February 7, 2013

Rap Genius and the Open-Sourcing of Hip Hop Knowledge: A Presentation and a Panel Discussion

Performing Arts - Music: Lecture/Demonstration/MasterClass/Workshop: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 7 | 4-6 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315 (Maude Fife Room)


Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities, American Cultures


Rap Genius and the Open-Sourcing of Hip Hop Knowledge: a presentation by RapGenius.com founder Mahbod Moghadam and a panel discussion about the online presence and future of hip hop featuring: Jeff Chang, Rickey Vincent, and MC Rico Pabón

The landscape in which fans listen to and enjoy hip hop is changing rapidly and dramatically through the use of new information technology projects...   More >


Friday, February 8, 2013

Kronos Quartet Master Class

Performing Arts - Music: Lecture/Demonstration/MasterClass/Workshop: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 8 | 12-4:15 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Elkus Room


Department of Music, Cal Performances


Kronos Quartet Master Class in 3 Segments:
Hank Dutt, violist with Kronos Quartet, is coaching 2 groups of Department of Music student musicians. Later hear violin soloist Vivian Hou perform. Lastly, 8 cellists are on stage and composer Michael Nicholas will be present.

12-1:30pm, 125 Morrison Hall

1:40 - 2:40pm, 125 Morrison Hall

3-4:15pm, 134 Morrison Hall (room change)




Chamber Music: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 8 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20




Ryuichi Sakamoto, Composer Colloquium

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 8 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125, the Elkus Room


Ryuichi Sakamoto

Department of Music, Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), The Japan Foundation


Academy Award winner, pop star, electronic music pioneer, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto speaks at the Department of Music Composer Colloquium. See the Center for Japanese Studies for other events.

Colloquium is open to members of the Music Department, space is limited. Tickets not required. Reception follows colloquium.

Monday, February 11, 2013

The Land of Fire Consorts: A Closer Look at Music of Azerbaijan

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 11 | 12 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Elkus Room


Imamyar Hasanov; Rufat Hasanov; Elshan Gasimov

The San Francisco World Music Festival


A classic Middle Eastern music concert introducing The Land of Fire Consorts from Azerbaijan, featuring kamancha master Imamyar Hasanov, tar master Rufat Hasanov and nagara master Elshan Gasimovperforming a musical introduction to the microtonal and improvisational tradition of classical Azeri Mugham, taking audiences on a musical tour of Azerbaijani music with repertoire from folk traditions,...   More >


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Amore! 400 Years of Love Songs: University Chorus and Chamber Chorus: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 13 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Marika Kuzma, director

The University Chorus performs solo and choral love songs, including madrigals by Monteverdi and selections from the Brahms Liebeslieder.


Friday, February 15, 2013

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Bartók, Prokofiev

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 15 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, conductor
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Prokofiev Symphony No. 5


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Bartók, Prokofiev

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 16 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, conductor
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Prokofiev Symphony No. 5


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Jazz x 2: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 20 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


UC Jazz All-Star Ensemble (directed by Ted Moore) + Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective (directed by Myra Melford) will perform a double bill of contemporary jazz music.


Friday, February 22, 2013

TM Scruggs, Music Studies Colloquium: Marimbas, Movement and the Analytical Tool of Embodied Performative Knowledge

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 22 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


TM Scruggs, Professor, University of Iowa

Department of Music


What is known within ethnomusicology as “bi-musicality” is, in effect, the research strategy termed participant observation in socio-cultural anthropology. In this talk I consider whether the methodology of performative competence within the target musical culture leads to knowledge of the musical material and/or insight into social relations and meaning that could not have been obtained otherwise.


Monday, February 25, 2013

J. S. Bach Master Class - Prof. Davitt Moroney: (How) should we play Bach on this modern Steinway?

Performing Arts - Music: Lecture/Demonstration/MasterClass/Workshop: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 25 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | stage Hertz Concert Hall


Davitt Moroney, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Music


The Well-Tempered Clavier

Alex Ning Ding, Prelude & Fugue in C minor (Book 1) BWV 847

Anni Wang, Prelude & Fugue in D major (Book 2) BWV 874

Jeremiah Trujillo, Fugue in C# major (Book 1) BWV 848

Free admission, all are warmly invited!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Baroque Chamber Quartet: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | February 27 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


David Granger, dulcian; with Jonathan Davis, harpsichord and organ; Edwin Huizinga, violin; Adriane Post, violin
Simfoniæ Romanæ: 17th Century Instrumental Music From Rome. Works by G. A. Leoni, Alessandro Stradella, C. A. Lonati and Carlo Mannelli.


Friday, March 1, 2013

George E. Lewis, Bloch Lecture #2: Composer Colloquium, Method and Madness in Experimental Improvised Music

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 1 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music


GEORGE E. LEWIS, 2013 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor

Lecture Series: Theorizing Improvisation Today
Opening lecture: Prolegomena to Critical Improvisation Studies




Josh Kun, Music Studies Colloquium: The Aesthetics of Allá

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 1 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


Josh Kun, Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USC)

Department of Music


The Aesthetics of Allá: 21st-century Mexican music in the United States and its role in shaping migrant politics and identity


Saturday, March 2, 2013

Jazz and Improvised Music Benefit Concert: Dan Tepfer and Ben Wendel

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 2 | 7:15-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Dan Tepfer; Ben Wendel

Department of Music


A benefit concert featuring the duo of two rising stars in contemporary jazz from New York City: pianist DAN TEPFER & woodwind player BEN WENDEL, with an opening set by BERKELEY NU JAZZ COLLECTIVE.


$20 general admission, $15 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $10 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

UC Berkeley Gospel Chorus: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 6 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


D. Mark Wilson, director

African American Spiritual and Gospel tradition
celebrates nature’s awakening, anticipating spring.


Friday, March 8, 2013

David Jaffe: Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 8 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music


Composition colloquium




Peter Tregear, Music Studies Colloquium: The City Comes to the Met: The US premiere of Jonny spielt auf

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 8 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


Peter Tregear, Australian National University

Department of Music


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

University Baroque Ensemble, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 13 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Davitt Moroney, director

The University Baroque Ensemble performs music of Bach,Vivaldi, and Handel on antique instruments.


Friday, March 15, 2013

Improvisation Weekend: Symposium March 15 to 17

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 15 – 17, 2013 every day |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities


3 days of lectures, panels, workshops, & concerts devoted to improvisation begins with GEORGE LEWIS’s 3rd Bloch Lecture on 3/15 at 3, and 7:30 concert at the Center for New Music in San Francisco (http://centerfornewmusic.com, 415.275.2466) and end with a Freight & Salvage concert on 3/17 at 8 (http://thefreight.org).

Academic sessions are free & open to the public, concerts are ticketed.



George E. Lewis, Bloch Lecture #3: Composer Colloquium, Why Do We Want Our Machines to Improvise?

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 15 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music


GEORGE E. LEWIS, 2013 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor

Lecture Series: Theorizing Improvisation Today
Opening lecture: Prolegomena to Critical Improvisation Studies




UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tharp

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 15 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, conductor

Reynold Tharp, Wide sea, changeful heaven
Stravinsky, Symphony in Three Movements
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 8


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Improvisation Weekend: Symposium March 15 to 17

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 15 – 17, 2013 every day |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities


3 days of lectures, panels, workshops, & concerts devoted to improvisation begins with GEORGE LEWIS’s 3rd Bloch Lecture on 3/15 at 3, and 7:30 concert at the Center for New Music in San Francisco (http://centerfornewmusic.com, 415.275.2466) and end with a Freight & Salvage concert on 3/17 at 8 (http://thefreight.org).

Academic sessions are free & open to the public, concerts are ticketed.



UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tharp

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 16 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, conductor

Reynold Tharp, Wide sea, changeful heaven
Stravinsky, Symphony in Three Movements
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 8


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Improvisation Weekend: Symposium March 15 to 17

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 15 – 17, 2013 every day |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities


3 days of lectures, panels, workshops, & concerts devoted to improvisation begins with GEORGE LEWIS’s 3rd Bloch Lecture on 3/15 at 3, and 7:30 concert at the Center for New Music in San Francisco (http://centerfornewmusic.com, 415.275.2466) and end with a Freight & Salvage concert on 3/17 at 8 (http://thefreight.org).

Academic sessions are free & open to the public, concerts are ticketed.



The Twenty-first Century Piano: music of Cindy Cox, Andrew List, Keeril Makan, and Vin Shende

Performing Arts - Music: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 17 | 4-6 p.m. |  CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)


Center for New Music and Audio Technologies


renowned pianist George Lopez, Artist in residence, Bowdoin College, plays new works by Cindy Cox, Andrew List, Keeril Makan, and Vin Shende



University Chorus Faculty Artist Series

Performing Arts - Music: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 17 | 5 p.m. | SF Conservatory of Music, Caroline Hume Concert Hall


50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

San Francisco Conservatory of Music


Marika Kuzma directs the University Chorus in a performance of David Conte's September Sun


Students and Seniors: $15 General Admission

Buy tickets online.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | March 20 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


David Milnes, conductor

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Reynald Tharp: Wide Sea, Changeful Heaven


Wednesday, April 3, 2013

University Wind Ensemble: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 3 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Robert Calonico, director

Shostakovich Festival Overture; Percy Grainger, Colonial Song; John Estacio, Frenergy; Shelley Hanson, Volver a la Montaña


Friday, April 5, 2013

Voice Masterclass with Soprano Dominique Labelle

Performing Arts - Music: Lecture/Demonstration/MasterClass/Workshop: Affiliated/Co-sponsored: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 5 | 12-2 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Dominique Labelle

Department of Music, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra


Arias and songs by Lully, Vivaldi, Barber, Vaughan Williams performed by undergraduate music majors in the Department of Music

Throughout her career, soprano Dominique Labelle has fearlessly plumbed the technical and emotional depths of music, turning in performances of “almost alarming ferocity” (San Francisco Chronicle),
possessed of “conviction but without exhibitionism” (De Telegraf),...   More >




Chamber Music: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 5 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Department of Music students perform chamber music on the Hertz Hall stage.

Brahms Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor
Smetana String Quartet No. 1
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1




George E. Lewis, Bloch Lecture #4: Composer Colloquium, Memory and Mutation: Improvisation and the Web

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 5 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music


GEORGE E. LEWIS, 2013 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor

Lecture Series: Theorizing Improvisation Today
Opening lecture: Prolegomena to Critical Improvisation Studies




Deborah Kapchan, Music Studies Colloquium: The Promise of Listening: Listening Acts and Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in France

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 5 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


Deborah Kapchan, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University, Department of Performance Studies

Department of Music


Deborah Kapchan's colloquium, "Listening Acts and Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in France" will be based on her Introduction to the Theorizing Sound Writing volume she is editing, with examples from her fieldwork.


Saturday, April 6, 2013

Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.




Music from Java: Gamelan Sari Raras

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Gamelan Sari Raras

Midiyanto and Ben Brinner, directors
with guest artist Djoko Walujo Wimboprasetyo


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.


Monday, April 8, 2013

Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Violin and Piano: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 10 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Tammy Lian, violin
Miles Graber, piano
Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano
Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 3 Ballade for solo violin




Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.


Thursday, April 11, 2013

Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.


Friday, April 12, 2013

Solo Piano: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 12 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Tony Lin, solo piano

BACH-BUSONI: Chaconne in D minor
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in E minor, Op. 90;
CHOPIN: Etude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude and Fugue in A major, Op. 87 No. 7
PROKOFIEV: Diabolic Suggestion, Op. 4, No. 4
LISZT: Mazeppa




Andrew Imbrie Spotlight

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 6 – 12, 2013 every day | 3 p.m. |  American Century Music


Department of Music


American Century Music will be presenting a 1-hour program on our Internet radio station focusing on the music of former UC Berkeley composer Andrew Imbrie. The program will run from April 6-12 at 9 AM EST and again at 6 PM EST.




Steven Stucky-Cancelled: Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 12 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music, Cal Performances


Unfortunately, the Friday 4/12 composition colloquium with Steve Stucky is cancelled. He will reschedule next season.




Edwin Seroussi, Music Studies Colloquium: Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Folksongs of the post-Tradition Era

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 12 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


Edwin Seroussi, Professor of Musicology, University of Tel Aviv; Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Department of Music


Folksongs of modernity are a lieu de memoire in the literary sense, namely a place that is visited and revisited during any utterance of and exposure to the song. They are equated to the place that ruins occupy in the modern imagination as sites of remembrance as well as visual constructions of the past that can be visited and experienced in the present.


Saturday, April 13, 2013

African Music and Dance

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 13 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


African Energy for the Spirit, a journey through the dance-drumming traditions of ancient West & Central African civilizations featuring the African Music & Dance Ensemble, CK Ladzekpo, director; Fua Dia congo, Muisi-Kongo Malonga, director; & UCB African Music Ensemble, CK Ladzekpo, director


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Monday, April 15, 2013

The Art of Whistling: Christy Dana performs Handel

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 15 | 12:15-1 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Elkus Room 125


Christy Dana, Music Department

Christy Dana


Music Department faculty member and whistler Christy Dana presents a concert of the music of Georg Friedrich Handel as well as selections from musical theater.




Piano Workshop - Beethoven plus: Piano 150C Studio with Prof. Nicholas Mathew

Performing Arts - Music: Lecture/Demonstration/MasterClass/Workshop: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 15 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | stage Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Prof. Nicholas Mathew Piano Workshop

Tritia Timmins on the 1st mvt “Allegro con brio” from Beethoven’s
Waldstein Sonata in C Major (op. 53):

Jake Scheps on the final mvt “Presto” from Mozart’s Sonata in A
Minor, K310

Theodora Serbanescu-Martin on the 1st mvt “Allegro assai,” from
Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata in F Minor (op. 57)

Free and open to the public


Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Chamber Duo - Viola and Piano: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 17 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
Karen Rosenak, piano

REBECCA CLARK: Morpheus;
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata for viola and piano, op. 147


Friday, April 19, 2013

Joshua Fineberg: Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 19 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music, Cal Performances


Composition colloquium




Ellen Lockhart, Music Studies Colloquium: Incomplete Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 19 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall


Ellen Lockhart, Princeton University

Department of Music


Saturday, April 20, 2013

Cal Day in the Department of Music

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 20 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


All day MUSIC in and around the music buildings, Hertz HALL, Morrison Hall, and Sather Tower (the Campanile).

Outdoor chamber ensembles, the orchestra with featured soloists, Javanese gamelan, an instrument workshop, African drumming and dance, jazz, Baroque, gospel chorus, carillon recitals, music library tours, and an electronic sound garden. Something for everyone, come hear!




University Chorus and Chamber Chorus: Songs of Spring, Songs of Praise

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 20 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Marika Kuzma, director

Poulenc Gloria with chamber ensemble

Choral pieces about the spring from various cultures and centuries by Monteverdi, Hindemith, Wikander, Dychko, Britten, Felciano, Liderman

J.S. Bach Gloria in excelsis Deo


NOTE: This concert takes place on April 20 at 8pm (not April 21).


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Undergraduate Composer's Concert

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 22 | 12-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


New compositions from undergraduate composers in the Department of Music

Admission free and open to the public


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Gamelan of Java and Bali: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 24 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Midiyanto & I Made Subandi, directors

Students perform on beautiful antique instruments.


Friday, April 26, 2013

George E. Lewis, Bloch Lecture #5: Composer Colloquium, Improvisation as a Way of Life: Freedom, Habitus, and the Blues

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 26 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music


GEORGE E. LEWIS, 2013 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor

Lecture Series: Theorizing Improvisation Today
Opening lecture: Prolegomena to Critical Improvisation Studies


Saturday, April 27, 2013

UC Berkeley Chamber Orchestra: Free Admission

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1, ("Classical")
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 - Karen Rosenak, piano
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4, ("Italian")

Melissa Panlasigui, Jane Kim, Garrett Wellenstein - conductors


All Audiences

All Audiences

Sunday, April 28, 2013

University Gospel Chorus: Old Time Gospel Radio Hour

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | April 28 | 3-4:30 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


D. Mark Wilson, director

We commemorate gospel radio choirs, musicians, and deejays who popularized gospel music through religious broadcast networks and other media.

Sheila Robinson, guest deejay


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ken Berman Jazz Trio: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 1 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Ken Berman, piano; Kai Eckhardt, electric bass; Akira Tana, drums, perform original music, including The Poet, Old Dylan, The Unoriginal, Old Style Tune, and Bill Frissell.


Friday, May 3, 2013

Schumann Quartet + Shostakovich Octet: 60th Annual Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 3 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
I. Introduzione: Andante Espressivo -- Allegro
II. Scherzo: Presto -- Intermezzo
III. Adagio
IV. Presto

Tammy Lian, Alia McKean, Violins
Cindy Wang, Viola
Rio Vander Stahl, Cello


Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
I. Prelude: Adagio -- Più mosso -- Adagio
II. Scherzo: Allegro...   More >




University Baroque Ensemble: Music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Dowland

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 3 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Davitt Moroney, director

Students perform the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Dowland on antique instruments.


$16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Wind Ensemble: Premieres, a Concerto, and more!

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 5 | 3 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Robert Calonico director

Michael Senturia: Toccata, Chorale Variations, and Fugue for Band (premiere)

Mark Popeney: darkness and beauty of stars (premiere)
with UC Alumni Chorus, Mark Sumner, director

Carl Maria VonWeber: Concerto No. 1 (Movements 1 and 3) featuring clarinet soloist Lauren Washburn

Sparke: Four Norfolk Dances

Williams: Fiesta


$16 General Admission, $12 Seniors, $5 Students

Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Spring 2013 Piano Juries: Piano students perform from classic repertoire

Performing Arts - Music: Student recital/Class concert: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 6 | 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Students perform short pieces to fulfill requirements of the Music 150C piano class.

Free and open to the public


All Audiences

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Senior Piano Recital

Performing Arts - Music: Student recital/Class concert: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 7 | 5:15-7 p.m. | Morrison Hall, Upstairs Loft


Jenny Larsen; Janice Chen

Department of Music


Come see an evening of piano performance! Program includes Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, and more....   More >

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Piano Sonatas: 60th Annual Free Noon Concert Series

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 8 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Pianist Nathan Noh performs BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 26 and CHOPIN Sonata No. 2


Friday, May 10, 2013

Steingrimur Rohloff: Composer Colloquium Series

Performing Arts - Music: Colloquium/Symposium/Conference: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 10 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room


Department of Music, Cal Performances


Composition colloquium




UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Benefit Concert: Bloch Schelomo, Beethoven Symphony 9

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 10 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
Ann Moss, soprano
Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Nik Nackley, baritone
University Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director

Ernest Bloch, Schelomo, Mosa Tsay, cello soloist

See rehearsal photos on the UC Berkeley Department of Music Facebook page!


$20 general admission, $15 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $10 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Benefit Concert: Bloch Schelomo, Beethoven Symphony 9

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 11 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
Ann Moss, soprano
Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Nik Nackley, baritone
University Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director

Ernest Bloch, Schelomo, Mosa Tsay, cello soloist

See rehearsal photos on the UC Berkeley Department of Music Facebook page!


$20 general admission, $15 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $10 UC Berkeley students (student ID required)

Performances subject to change without notice. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-9988.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Berkeley New Music Project/Eco Ensemble

Performing Arts - Music: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 13 | 8 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


David Milnes conducts new works by UC Berkeley graduate student composers, featuring our resident professional new music ensemble.


Saturday, May 18, 2013

Concert by Graduating Seniors: Department of Music

Performing Arts - Music: Student recital/Class concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 18 | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Music Department Graduating Seniors perform in their final recital at Hertz Hall. Works by Bartók, Mozart, Debussy, Borodin, Satie, Fauré, Bernstein, Shostakovich.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Download the entire program (PDF) at the link below.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Music Commencement: Concert and Ceremony

Performing Arts - Music: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | May 19 | 12-3:30 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


12-1pm
Concert featuring winners of the Eisner Performance prize
Free and open to the public

1:30pm
Commencement Ceremony

Reception follows


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Cello Duo: 61st Annual Noon Concert - First!

Performing Arts - Music: Noon concert: Highlight: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | September 11 | 12:15-1 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall


Department of Music


Cellists Mosa Tsay and Graham Nelson perform works by Jean Barriére, Alberto Ginastera, and Astor Piazzola.

Jean Barriére: Sonata for 2 cellos, No. 10 in G

Alberto Ginastera - Pampeana No. 2

Astor Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango

Piazzolla - Oblivion