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Receive up to $12,000 in scholarship funds!
The University of California, Santa Cruz invites high school seniors to apply for the Student Resident String Ensemble Program. Ensemble members will receive scholarship funds of up to $12,000*, participate in a number of department-sponsored performances and public concerts, and have the opportunity to be coached by Roy Malan, concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet and member of the UCSC String faculty.
The UCSC department of Music offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Undergraduate students receive a strong foundation in musicianship, giving them excellent preparation for graduate work and professional careers. The department's Music Center provides state-of-the art instructional and performance facilities for its students, including the Recital Hall that critics have called "the finest college hall of its size in California."
*Students selected for the program will receive $3,000 per year for two years. The student's progress will be reviewed after two years; if satisfactory progress has been made, the student will receive an additional $3,000 per year for the following two years. To receive the award each year students must be registered full-time music majors in good standing.
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Apply by November 30th, 2007
Applicants must send a CD or cassette of two contrasting works (a total of 15-20 minutes of music). Please include a one-page outline of musical experience (instrument, years studied, orchestra experience, works performed). Be sure to include your name, address, telephone number and email address. Send all materials by November 30, 2007 to:
Coordinator, Resident Student Ensemble Program
Music Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Finalists will be invited to UCSC to meet with the String Faculty and Director of Ensembles for an audition/interview in February of 2008.
All applicants must file a formal application for admission to the University of California, select Santa Cruz as one of their campuses, and be admitted. A copy of the completed UC application must be sent to the Resident String Program electronically or by mail (postmarked by November 30, 2007). For admissions information and deadlines, call the UCSC Admissions Office at (831) 459-4008 or visit them online at http://admissions.ucsc.edu. For more information, contact the program by email at rse@ucsc.edu or by phone at (831) 459-2164, or visit us online at http://music.ucsc.edu/scholarships/rse.html.
Conductor, Nicole Paiement, has been the Artistic Director of Ensemble Parallèle since 1993. With this professional ensemble Paiement has recorded many world-premiere performances including music by Lou Harrison (3 CDs), Germaine Tailleferre (2 CDs), Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Henri Collet, Andrew Imbrie and music by students of Olivier Messiaen. The Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of music from the 20th and 21st centuries and has commissioned many new works from composers of various countries. Commissions and world premieres have included music by Laura Schwendinger, Elinor Armer, Alden Jenks, Bruce Mather, Stella Sung, Jacques Desjardins, John Harbison, Hi Kyung Kim, Carolyn Yarnell, Wayne Peterson, and Robert Helps. The quality of their work has been supported by many organizations including the National Endowment of the Arts, the Art Research Institute of the University of California, and the Aaron Copland Foundation.
Paiement is also the Director of Ensembles at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she conducts the Orchestra, the Chamber Singers and the Opera. With her University ensembles, she has recorded various CDs including music by Schütz, Stradella, Tailleferre, Cope, and Harrison. Since 1999, Paiement has also been the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble (NME). Under her baton, NME has gained recognition in the Bay Area as a dynamic new-music ensemble, promoting and commissioning works of living composers. The Ensemble has commissioned many works including music by Martha Horst, Eric Sawyer, Cindy Cox and Alexandra Vrebalov. Recordings with this ensemble include music by David Conte, Michèle Reverdy, Darius Milhaud and Andrew Imbrie. The Ensemble also focuses on honoring the accomplishments of established living composers. Such events have included concerts around Elinor Armer, George Perle, Andrew Imbrie, Sophia Gubaidulina and Chou Wen-chung.
In 2002, Paiement, with the support of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, founded the BluePrint project – a series focused on building new music for the city. Receiving rave reviews from the press as being “something remarkable and unique in the big bad city” it quickly gained a reputation for presenting unique and expert programs. In its first season BluePrint, in collaboration with the French Embassy, honored the work of Messiaen and the legacy of his living students. Composers from various countries who had studied with the master came to San Francisco to participate in panel discussions of their music. American premieres of their work were presented and recorded. During that season, Paiement also honored the class of Darius Milhaud, students of his teaching at Mills College. Various living American composers who had studied with him participated in the event. Another highlight of the season was the BluePrint collaboration with the International Women Composers Festival in the presentation of works by living women composers from around the world. During BluePrint 2003-04, Paiement collaborated with the Other Mind Festival in San Francisco and conducted the American premiere of Hanna Kulenty’s Flute Concerto. This past season, BluePrint celebrated the achievements of three pillars of music: Ligeti, Weill and Dutilleux. As expressed by the press at the close of the season “BluePrint, now finishing its third year is certainly among the finest blendings of older 20th century and new music that I’ve seen anywhere….. they make it fit together with panache.. This year’s season, sponsored by the Austrian Consulate, focuses on the New Viennese Perspectives and brings American Premiere performances of works by Olga Neuwirth and Brian Cherney, and a new commissioned work by Laura Schwendinger.
Paiement’s interest in both vocal and instrumental music has led her to conduct and record many new operas. With Ensemble Parallèle, she recorded the world premiere of Lou Harrison’s serial opera Rapunzel and has recently mounted the world premiere of the final version of his last opera Young Caesar. She also recorded David Conte’s The Gift of the Magi. In 2003, she made her Korean debut conducting the world premiere of Chan-Hae Lee’s opera Back to the Origines and Nicola Le Fanu’s Old Woman of Beare. Last year, she returned to Korea to conduct a reprise of Chan-Hae Lee’s opera and to also conduct the Korean premiere of David Jones’s Bardos. In her interest to work on interdisciplinary projects, she has collaborated with many dancers and media artists. Through these collaborations she toured with Ensemble Parallèle in Australia last summer and participated in the Asian-American-Australian Sound-Dance and Multi-media Connections in the premiere performance of Hi Kyung Kim’s Rituel III. This work involved the collaboration of dancer Aeju Lee, video artist Eliot Anderson and choreographer Tandy Beal. A reprise of this project will be performed in Los Angeles and at the San Francisco International Art Festival this coming May.
Paiement is also an active guest-conductor. Her more recent guest conducting engagements have included the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Kochi Orchestra from Japan, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. This coming Fall, she will return to Korea to conduct the Seoul Symphony in an orchestral concert of world premieres.
Paiement received her doctorate in conducting from the Eastman School of Music and has had additional studies with Eric Leinsdorf. She has won numerous awards for her work in both early and contemporary music.
Roy Malan studied in London with Yehudi Menuhin and then at Juilliard and
the Curtis Institute with Ivan Galamian and Efrem Zimbalist. He has been
concertmaster and solo violinist with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
since 1974 and a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. For
twenty years Malan was concertmaster of both Sinfonia San Francisco and the
San Francisco Chamber Symphony and a featured soloist on the latter's
European tours. He is on the faculty at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. Mr. Malan is also founder and co-director with pianist Robin
Sutherland of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival. He has received critical
acclaim for concerto appearances at New York's Lincoln Center, Washington's
Kennedy Center, the Paris Opera and the Edinburgh Festival. He has recorded
extensively with Robin Sutherland, the San Francisco Contemporary Music
Players and as a concerto soloist. The author of a biography on the late
Efrem Zimbalist, Malan was honored in 1982 by Zimbalist's dedication of a
specially orchestrated version of his "Coq d'or Fantasy." He was further
honored by the bequest of the great Russian violinist's collection of
favorite bows.
Concurrent affiliations: concertmaster, San Francisco Ballet; principal
violinist, San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players; founder and director,
Telluride Chamber Music Festival; faculty, Rocky Ridge Music Center. Former
affiliations: Ithaca College; Stanford University; first violinist: Porter
Quartet, Stanford String Quartet, Ives Quartet, Crown Chamber Players, San
Francisco Piano Trio. Teachers: Ivan Galamian, Efrem Zimbalist, Yehudi
Menuhin. Performances: solo and chamber music in the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Interests: emphasis on 19th-century
literature and performance practice and on virtuoso techniques; chamber
music. Recordings: Sonatas, by Efrem Zimbalist and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
(Genesis Records); Sonatas, by Robert Russell Bennett and Ottorino Respighi
(Orion Master Recordings); Fredrick Kaufman Concerto, Violin Sonata (Orion
Master Recordings); Music from Telluride (Transparent Recordings); and
numerous contemporary works for CRI and Newport Classics, including a solo
violin piece, Gihon, written for him by jazz flutist James Newton.
Pedagogical philosophy: acquisition of the technique, tone, and general
musical culture essential for performing the Classical, Romantic,
contemporary, and virtuosic basics of the repertoire; cultivation of the
sensitivity and discipline essential for chamber music playing.
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