April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
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April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Saturday, April 14, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Music for live and recorded digital media featuring music by composers Gerry Basserman, Peter Elsea, Paul Nauert, and James Tenney.
Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Composer/clarinetist/laptop artist Matt Ingalls and percussionist William Winant in a program of free improvisation and works by Ingalls, Denis Smalley, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Plus tributes to composers Lou Harrison and James Tenney featuring the UCSC Percussion Ensemble.
Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
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April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Thursday, April 19, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
John Schneider leads the ensemble PARTCH in a program featuring the music and novel musical instruments of maverick American composer Harry Partch.
Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
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MUSIC FOR KOREAN GAYAGEUM AND WESTERN INSTRUMENTS (PREMIERE CONCERT I)
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Sunday, April 22, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Hee-Jeong Kim and You-Seon Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with UCSC graduate student performers (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, and Patrick Richey) to present world premiere compositions by graduate student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, Young-Shin Choi, Joel Ford, Jean Ahn, Sue-Hye Kim, Simon Hutchinson, Monica Lynn, and John Seales).
Admission: Free
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MUSIC FOR KOREAN GAYAGEUM AND WESTERN INSTRUMENTS (PREMIERE CONCERT II)
April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Monday, April 23, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Eun-Ah Kwak and Hee-Jeong Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with members of San Francisco’s Ensemble Parallèle (Jean-Michel Fonteneau and John Sackett) to present world premieres of music by composers from the Bay Area and Korea, including Yu-Hui Chang, David Cope, Andrew Imbrie, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, Sung-Ki Kim, and Young-Ja Lee.
Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
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April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music
Sunday, April 29, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Double bill: cellist Franklin Cox in a set featuring premieres by Benjamin Carson and Avi Tchamni and music by Brian Ferneyhough. Flutist / saxophonist / composer Karlton Hester and guests (Renata Bratt, Larry T. Douglas, Stan Poplin, Kamau Seitu) preview Hester’s large-scale cycle Balledrama, which explores relationships and intersections between musical and universal order.
Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
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