RSS FeedUpcoming EventsNoon Concert: Balinese Gamelan - Music & Dance of Bali, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235235-noon-concert-balinese-gamelan-music-dance-of-bali

Lisa Gold, director

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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Concert: Gaona, Rubio, Schulmeister, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243023-concert-gaona-rubio-schulmeister

Juliana Gaona (oboe/English horn), Kathryn Schulmeister (double bass), and Juan David Rubio (drum kit ) perform a set of losely composed and improvised music at CNMAT on April 4th, 8:00pm.

Hawaiʻi-born bassist Kathryn Schulmeister enjoys a creative musical practice ranging from classical to experimental. Kathryn is a member of several contemporary music ensembles including the ELISION Ensemble (Australia), Fonema Consort (Chicago/NYC), and the Echoi Ensemble (LA). She has performed as a guest artist with various international ensembles including Klangforum Wien, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Wild Up!, Delirium Musicum, Ensemble Dal Niente, and Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. Kathryn has been featured as a soloist at venues and festivals around the world including the Los Angeles GRAMMY Museum, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, Museum of Making Music Carlsbad, soundSCAPE Festival Italy, and the Vértice Festival Mexico City. In Fall 2023, she joined the faculty at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music as Assistant Professor of Practice in String Bass.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana Gaona is an oboist, chamber and orchestra musician, and improviser. Juliana has participated in contemporary music festivals and ensembles including the Academia Cervantina in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice Ensemble in Mexico City, and soundSCAPE Festival in Italy. In 2020, she performed virtually with the Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva at the <In/Out> Festival hosted by COINCIDENCIA Swiss and South America cultural exchange. In 2023, she participated in the Ensemble Evolution Summer program in New York City hosted by the International Contermporary Ensemble. As an active improviser, she explores the sonic possibilities of the oboe and English horn by expanding a performative language and experimenting with the reactionary and unexpected dynamics of improvisation. Her ongoing collaborative project with Mexican singer Mariana Flores queries the soundscapes of Latinamerican canciones populares of the mid-twentieth century. Before moving to the Bay area, Juliana was the oboe professor at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Artist/scholar Juan David Rubio has performed for over two decades, mostly on drum kit. His instrumental practice spans jazz, improvisation, punk, contemporary music, and Afro-Latin musics, among others. As a performer and composer, he has produced works for multi- and inter-media settings, electroacoustic pieces, and non-traditionally notated compositions. Juan David has also performed, composed, and produced telematic performances and workshops with collaborators in America, Europe, and Asia. His academic research focuses broadly on Latin American popular musics and global experimental practices, with a focus on alterity, sound technologies, and power. Juan David’s scholarly work has been published in English and Spanish. He is currently Assitant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243023-concert-gaona-rubio-schulmeister
Music Studies Colloquium: Juan Diego Díaz, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/236388-music-studies-colloquium-juan-diego-daz

From Bumba Meu Boi to Burrinha: the Drama of Brazilian Identity in Brazil and Benin.

For nearly two centuries a folk theatre genre of Brazilian origin called burrinha has been performed in present-day Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. Emerging through the migration of victims and victimizers of slavery from Brazil to West Africa in the early nineteenth century, burrinha has become one of the most important symbols of Brazilianness in Benin. In Brazil, where burrinha has become marginal, a related folk theatre genre called bumba meu boi is also considered part of national folklore, representing a romanticized cowboy culture from the Brazilian northeast. How does burrinha enable individuals who identify today as Brazilian-descendants in Benin negotiate their multiple allegiances to Brazil, Benin, and local ethnic groups such as the Fon? In what ways does the Brazilianness expressed by burrinha practitioners in Benin contrasts or aligns with that enacted by bumba meu boi performers in Brazil today? And how can these cultural exchanges and transformations expand our understanding of transatlantic diasporas? This presentation explores these questions through a combination of historical, ethnographic, and performance practice analysis. Focusing on the Beninois case, I show how the multimedia nature of burrinha, which includes music, dance, costumes, acting, masquerades, and storytelling, and its flexible format, have facilitated the accommodation of multiple references.

A reception will follow.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/236388-music-studies-colloquium-juan-diego-daz
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 6https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232502-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

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Musical Theater Prize Concert, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232504-musical-theater-prize-concert

World premiere of “The Little Prince”, an opera composed by UC Berkeley student Chengrui “Tom” Pan in fulfillment of the Musical Theater Prize. 

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Noon Concert: Broadway Bound!, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235236-noon-concert-broadway-bound

Musical theater’s greatest songs and scenes performed by students from the Vocal Studies program.

Nikolas Nackley, director

Jeffrey Sykes, piano

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Okaiko: Performance Silkworm, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/241964-okaiko-performance-silkworm
Through poetic exploration of voice, body, and costume, performer Aine Nakamura (Ph.D. student, Music) will present a new performance, Okaiko. Okaiko are silkworms, a starting point for contemplating both the delicate image of silk textiles and the dense complexities of the silk industry and global trade. Until her exploration, silk for Nakamura was simply a part of her maternal family history in the city of mulberries, Hachiouji. Raw silk exported from Asia to Europe and the U.S. were used to make influential products. So many hands, many of them women’s hands, have been involved in the global manufacture of silk products: laboring hands in factories that seemed separated from politics have produced luxuries, weapons, and status symbols. Silk was one of the main products through which Japan gained economic profits and strengthened its military prior to World War II. For Nakamura, silk-related industrial labor and domestic reproductive labor overlap through the figures of hard-working silkworms and social norms imposed upon women. Former silk workers later commented that they were just thankful to have been able to work for their parents.

What is a cocoon, nest, safe space? How can a silkworm molt out of a cocoon and become a moth without being boiled? How can a new language be reimagined without being confined? If silkworms, diligent industrial and domestic labor, or export and import are linked in the chains of complicity with violence, what kinds of small acts can become catalysts for coexistence? Through these questions of gender, trade, labor, and Okaiko, Nakamura will study her familial and personal ethnography.

A talk and Q&A will follow the performance, moderated by Professors Marié Abe (Music) and Andrew Leong (English).



Singer, performer and composer Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, weaving stories.

Her recent works include her solo performance Under an Unnamed Flower at the 2022 Venice Biennale, performance project Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains presented at the 2022 Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele, an outdoor audiovisual performance CICADA premiered at CNMAT at UC Berkeley (2023) in collaboration with visual artist Olivia Ting and sound technologist Luke Dzwonczyk. She has presented her other performances and mixed music and artworks at The LAB is SF, Berlin University of the Arts, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, Errant Sound in collaboration with Brandon LaBelle, A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsky, Dias de Música Electroacústica, the SEAMUS Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival performed with cellist Madeleine Shapiro, October New Music Festival performed with Mikro Ensemblen, and Abrons Arts Center with International Contemporary Ensemble. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (2021-22, Berlin), The Leo Bronstein Homage Award, and The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.
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Composition Colloquium: Marty Ehrlich, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235706-composition-colloquium-marty-ehrlich

JULIUS HEMPHILL’S MULTINATIONAL CRUSADE FOR HARMONY
Marty Ehrlich – presentation

Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) was a major creative force in the New Jazz of the 1970s onwards. He was a founding member of two seminal artistic collectives, the Black Artist Group (BAG) of St. Louis, MO., and the World Saxophone Quartet. Hemphill was a protean improvisor and composer, who looked throughout his life career to center his musical work within theatre, dance, poetry, and visual art. This talk will present an overarching view of Hemphill’s compositional and improvisational contexts and speak to ways in which Hemphill saw his creative work, though aesthetics, politics, spirituality, and interconnected artistic mediums. This talk will present a range of new information on Hemphill’s work which the establishment of the Julius Hemphill Archive has brought to light.

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Marty Ehrlich is the chief researcher of the Julius Hemphill Archive at New York University, and the editor of the Hemphill’s compositional work available through Subito Music. Ehrlich is a celebrated instrumentalist and composer who performed as a member of the Julius Hemphill Big Band and the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet. He continued the work of the Sextet for a decade after Hemphill’s death, keeping these seminal compositions before the public.

Marty Ehrlich is currently the Interim Director of Jazz Studies at SUNY Stony Brook University, and Professor Emeritus of Jazz and Contemporary Music at Hampshire College.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235706-composition-colloquium-marty-ehrlich
Music Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Montano, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/242689-music-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-montano

One Publication, King of Soca (2022), and Two Stories: The Strategies and Challenges of a Black Male Singer (Machel Montano) and a Black Female Manager from the English-speaking Caribbean

Elizabeth Montano is a graduate from the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor degree in Education, a Master of Philosophy degree in Cultural Studies, and a Diploma in ACEM (Entertainment Management). In addition to her forty years of experience as a manager, she straddles the roles of mother, author, and director of several companies in the Montano empire.

A reception will follow.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/242689-music-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-montano
Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective & Goldberg-Melford Quintet with special guest Marty Ehrlich, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232505-berkeley-nu-jazz-collective-goldberg-melford-quintet-

An evening of creative jazz by students in the Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective (Myra Melford, director), the Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford Duo and the Goldberg-Melford Quintet.

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African Music Ensemble, April 13https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232510-african-music-ensemble

Spirit of Africa
C.K. Ladzekpo, director

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UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble II, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232490-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-ii

Matthew Sadowski, conductor

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Kate van Orden | Mapping Music and Migration: Questions of Scale, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/237678-kate-van-orden-mapping-music-and-migration-questions-

Musicology’s embrace of what is being called global music history is proving extremely useful as a place from which to contest Eurocentric histories of music and develop new working methods equipped to address the meaningfulness of music in places where cultures, languages, and people were in constant contact. In this talk, 1.) I begin by outlining the analytic categories employed in migration studies and underscoring their usefulness to music historians. 2.) I go on to ask some larger questions designed to incite discussions concerning matters of scale. What is the relationship between micro and macro history in musicological research? How can musicology best operate at the scale of seas and oceans? 3.) I wrap up by setting musicological research in perspective by comparing it to hard forms of world history designed to discover global unities created by economic, colonial, and—eventually—industrial processes. Case studies drawn from recent scholarship are threaded throughout.

Kate van Orden is Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean, popular music (mostly 16th-c, but also in the 1960s), and cultural mobility. Her latest project is Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550-1800 (I Tatti Research Series 2), an edited volume. Her prize-winning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in 16th-c. Europe (Oxford, 2015), Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (Chicago, 2005), and articles in Seachanges, Renaissance Quarterly, and Early Music History. In 2016, she received a French Medaille d’Honneur. van Orden currently serves as President of the International Musicological Society (2022-2027), editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies of Music, and co-edits the series Musics in Motion (Michigan). She also performs on baroque and classical bassoon, with over 60 recordings on Sony, Virgin Classics, and Harmonia Mundi.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Noon Concert: Chamber Music for Piano and Winds, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235237-noon-concert-chamber-music-for-piano-and-winds

Students from the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra perform small ensemble works under the direction of Leighton Fong.

Wind Quintet, Op. 43, Nielsen

Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano, Poulenc

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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Composition Colloquium: Martin Keary, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235710-composition-colloquium-martin-keary

Based in London, Martin Keary is a composer, designer, and communicator. He completed his master’s degree in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under Gordon McPherson in June 2016.

Apart from his purely musical pursuits, Martin is interested in merging his visual and musical backgrounds to create works in the ‘visual music’ genre. This involves live ensembles synchronizing with visuals on screen.

Currently, Martin holds the position of Vice President of Product at Muse, overseeing the product direction for various music applications, including MuseScore, Audacity, and Ultimate Guitar. His notation typeface, ‘Leland,’ is now integrated into popular notation software like MuseScore, Sibelius, and Dorico.

Martin is also known for his YouTube channel, ‘Tantacrul,’where he delves into discussions about music philosophy, theory and history. Additionally, he shares insights into his own contributions to music and software design.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235710-composition-colloquium-martin-keary
Music Studies Colloquium: Benjamin Ory, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235944-music-studies-colloquium-benjamin-ory

Bukofzer vs. Lowinsky: Heinrich Besseler’s Students at UC Berkeley

Benjamin Ory is a musicologist interested in the intersection of early music and historiography. 

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235944-music-studies-colloquium-benjamin-ory
University Gospel Chorus, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232511-university-gospel-chorus

Gospel Music and the Crossover
Experience the soulful and uplifting sounds of classic Black Gospel intertwined with contemporary crossover genres at this inspiring concert.

Candace Johnson, director

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Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended

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PERFORMANCES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232511-university-gospel-chorus
Gamelan Sari Raras, April 20https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232512-gamelan-sari-raras

Javanese Arts: Dance, Classical and New Music for Gamelan


Midiyanto, Director

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232512-gamelan-sari-raras
Noon Concert: Baroque Ensemble, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235238-noon-concert-baroque-ensemble

Finding Bach’s Roots - Tracing Bach’s lineage through Tunder, Buxtehude, JC Bach and concluding with works by Johann Sebastian.

Christine Brandes, conductor

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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The Wednesday Club: A New Musical, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/wednesday-club

TDPS presents:

The Wednesday Club

Written & Directed by Joe Goode
Music Direction & Composition by Ben Juodvalkis

April 25–28, 2024
Zellerbach Playhouse

What do a gay cowboy, a slam poetry genius, a revolutionary poet, a naturalist, a couple of starry-eyed lovers, and a doomsayer have in common? They all want to experiment with the theatrical form as members of the Wednesday Club, a group of LGBTQ+ drama nerds (and their allies) who get together to test out their theatrical innovations every Wednesday evening in a church basement.

Based on songs from the repertoire of the Joe Goode Performance Group, this piece looks at the sometimes painful process of collaboration and the wisdom that can be gleaned from listening and slogging through the rough stuff to arrive at a place of trust and belonging.


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Composition Colloquium: OpenLab, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235709-composition-colloquium-openlab

Multiple speakers, Music research at CNMAT

Talk only

The colloquium will consist of talks and concerts by visiting lecturers and CNMAT OpenLabs led by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. In rotation, members of the class will be appointed as respondents for the presentations. The responsibility of the respondent is to facilitate the discussion during and after the talk; their names will be communicated later on. All the events will be hosted at CNMAT.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235709-composition-colloquium-openlab
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232518-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232518-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus
UC Berkeley Philharmonia Orchestra, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232519-uc-berkeley-philharmonia-orchestra

Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky, arr. Maurice Ravel
Thomas Green and Noam Elisha, conductors

 

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232519-uc-berkeley-philharmonia-orchestra
UC Berkeley Chamber & University Chorus, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232517-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus

Wei Cheng, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232517-uc-berkeley-chamber-university-chorus
Del Sol Quartet, April 27https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243319-del-sol-quartet

San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere - screaming out Aeryn Santillan’s Makeshift Memorials from a Mission District sidewalk or a rural high school, bouncing Ben Johnston’s microtonal Americana off the canyon walls of the Yampa River or the hallowed walls of Library of Congress, bringing Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio home to the island detention barracks or across the Pacific to the Singapore International Arts Festival. Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue and bringing people together.

Del Sol has commissioned or premiered hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Gabriela Lena Frank, Tania León, Huang Ruo, Frederic Rzewski, Vijay Iyer, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, Chinary Ung, Chen Yi, Andy Akiho, Erberk Eryilmaz, Theresa Wong, and Reza Vali. Many of these works are included on Del Sol’s critically-acclaimed albums. New recordings released in 2023 include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with North Indian musicians Alam Khan, sarode & Arjun Verma, sitar and SPELLLING and The Mystery School with Oakland magical-futurist pop phenomenon SPELLLING. Huang Ruo - A Dust in Time, Del Sol’s eleventh album, was released in 2021 by Bright Shiny Things, and was described in the New York Times as “excavations of beauty from the elemental.”

Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND - Oratorio was commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet to shine a light on local history with global implications. Performances of ANGEL ISLAND in the current season include a New York City premiere directed by Matthew Ozawa and presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and Beth Morrison’s Prototype Festival in January 2024. Supported by a Hewlett Foundation 50 Commission, the work came to life in 2021 through numerous community programs, culminating in performances on Angel Island inside the immigration station detention barracks. This project has grown into new musical collaborations that allow Del Sol to amplify the voices of the Asian-American community including neighborhood pop-ups with Angel Island descendents “The Last Hoisan Poets,” an ongoing concert series at the Angel Island Immigration Station, and an upcoming podcast series.

The Quartet has performed at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, including the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Esplanade Singapore, National Museum of Asian Art, National Gallery of Art, Symphony Space, Miller Theater, Other Minds Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Clefworks Festival, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Fe Opera, and Chautauqua Institution. Every spring, Del Sol and Holiday Expeditions lead five-day musical whitewater adventures along the Yampa River. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Del Sol initiated The Joy Project, an ongoing series of outdoor pop-up concerts featuring short commissioned works inspired by the theme of joy. These pieces reached thousands in public spaces around the Bay Area— parks, sidewalks, open-spaces — where people could enjoy the music in the open air.

Deeply committed to education, Del Sol enjoys working with young composers. Over the years, talented students they first met through workshops, coaching and residencies have often grown into valued colleagues. Recent residencies include Universities of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz. They especially value their ongoing relationship with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California.

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Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violins
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello


In addition to musical composition, Reynolds’s recent projects include an innovative collection of texts and images, PASSAGE and a collaborative book exploring the evolution of a house design for him and his partner Karen: Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House (Routledge, 2022). Reynolds is also an influential member of the international consortium, ACTOR, based in Montréal, and the originator of the “Bridging Chasms” initiative [bridginigchasms.org] that seeks to improve cross-disciplinary communications. In 2023, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reynolds’s music has been published exclusively by Edition Peters New York for over 5 decades. He has been commissioned by the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, BBC, San Diego, and National symphonies and the Japan Philharmonic; by the British Arts Council, the French Ministry of Culture, Ircam, and the Fromm, Rockefeller, Suntory, and Koussevitzky foundations. A partial listing of Reynolds’s students suggests the scope of his influence. They occupy influential positions at Harvard (Czernowin), SUNY - Buffalo (Felder), University of Michigan (Daugherty), UC Santa Cruz (Carson and Jones), North Texas (May), University of Utah (Curbelo), USC (Rikakis), Arizona State University (Navarro), University of Western Australia (Tonkin), École Nationale de Musique et de Danse d’Évry [Essonne] (Vérin), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Cuñha), Mozarteum Salzburg (Hiendl), and Beijing Normal University (Zhou). Notable free-lancers include Takasugi (Cambridge), Wallin (Oslo), Greene (San Diego, USA) Kortekangas (Helsinki), and Lin (Taipei), Hembree (Appleton, USA).

Reynolds’s work is the subject of a Library of Congress Special Collection and is also represented in the Sacher Stiftung in Basel, and UC San Diego’s Geisel Library. Long friendships with Cage, Nancarrow, Takemitsu and Xenakis inform his outlook in procedural and personal ways. He envisions his own path as entailing the principled weaving together of threads from tradition(s), with novel provocations originating (often) outside music. He conceives of composition as “a process of illumination,” a path toward (occasional) clarity in turbulent times. He seeks the satisfaction of proposing and experiencing unexpected connections, of bringing the elevating capacities of music into public spaces, of engaging with other arts and artists to discover new amalgamations of sensation and insight that can “improve the human experience.”

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243319-del-sol-quartet
UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble I, April 28https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232489-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-i

Matthew Sadowski, conductor

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510.642.4864 or hertzhallmgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232489-uc-berkeley-wind-ensemble-i
Noon Concert: Performance Class Piano Recital, May 1https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235239-noon-concert-performance-class-piano-recital

Piano students from the studio class, Music 168CS, perform a variety of solo works.

Admission to all Noon Concerts is free. Registration is recommended at music.berkeley.edu/register.

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change. Social distancing, masks, and proof of COVID 19 vaccination may be required. UC Berkeley does not promise or guarantee that all patrons or employees on site are vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals may be present as a result of exemptions, exceptions, fraudulent verification, or checker error. None of these precautions eliminate the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Registration is strongly encouraged for noon concerts at music.berkeley.edu/register.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/235239-noon-concert-performance-class-piano-recital
Galan Trio Concert, May 2https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243426-galan-trio-concert

Galan Trio’s Kinesis,” a survey on the music of contemporary American composers in an original, multifaceted concert program. The project draws from a collaboration between Galan Trioand professors of composition from selected US Universities, and from the notion of “Kinesis.” Kinesisis an undirected movement of a cell, organism, or part, in response to an external stimulus. In Greek, Kinesis means movement, motion. Motion is a fundamental characteristic of all living beings; motion is what all musicians worldwide have desired during the last couple of years; motion alludes to continuity and it’s a promise for the future of “Kinesis”itself.

The first edition of the project featured the work of five composers who contributed one original work for piano trio reflecting on the period of the pandemic. Galan Trio counts four editions by now in East Coast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South Central regions and works by Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Martin Gendelman, Matthew Greenbaum, David Martynuik, Ken Steen, Alex Lubet, Navid Bargrizan, Larry Alan Smith and Richard Lavenda among others. The April 2024 edition in California features the work of Robert Denham, David Carter, Christopher Dobrian, Kevin Zhang, Pamela Madsen, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Deborah Kavasch, Ines Thibaut, Cindy Cox and Patricia Allessandrini.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/243426-galan-trio-concert
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, May 3https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232521-uc-berkeley-symphony-orchestra

Reflets de l’ombre, Carmine Cella
Rite of Spring, Stravinsky
Alpine Symphony, Strauss

David Milnes, conductor

 

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232521-uc-berkeley-symphony-orchestra
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, May 4https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232523-uc-berkeley-symphony-orchestra

Reflets de l’ombre, Carmine Cella
Rite of Spring, Stravinsky
Alpine Symphony, Strauss

David Milnes, conductor

 

Safety
The UC Berkeley Department of Music is committed to the health and safety of our students, staff, and patrons. Measures to protect concertgoers and musicians will be informed by state, local, and UC Berkeley Public Health policies and are subject to change.

Accessibility
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the Hertz Hall Manager at 510-642-4864 or HertzHallMgr@berkeley.edu. with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232523-uc-berkeley-symphony-orchestra
University Baroque Ensemble, May 5https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232525-university-baroque-ensemble

Finding Bach’s Roots: Tunder, Buxtehude, Bach and Beyond
Christine Brandes, director

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Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended

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PERFORMANCES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232525-university-baroque-ensemble
Berkeley New Music Project with Eco Ensemble, May 9https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232526-berkeley-new-music-project-with-eco-ensemble

New works by UC Berkeley graduate student composers featuring the department’s resident new music ensemble, Eco Ensemble. This is a ticketed event.

https://events.berkeley.edu/music/event/232526-berkeley-new-music-project-with-eco-ensemble