As part of Christian Wolff's UCSD residency, students and faculty will spend the evening presenting his music.

General: $15.50

UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50

Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID

Box Office: 858-534-3448

On Tuesday, April 23, UCSD’s Department of Music will host a public symposium on the life and work of acclaimed 20th-century composer, Christian Wolff (http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~wolff/). The composer will be joined in public discussion by a panel of five distinguished faculty members:

Michael Davidson (Literature)

Charles Curtis (Music)

Roger Reynolds (Music)

Yolande Snaith (Theater & Dance)

Babette Mangolte (Visual Arts)

The symposium begins with a live performance of Wolff’s music - including Duo for Two Violins performed with two cellos by Jennifer Bewerse and Charles Curtis - followed by introductions of panel members and their questions. The composer will have a period to respond to these topics, after which, the panel will rejoin him for discussion , after which the floor will be opened to the audience.

Part of UCSD's Springfest, this concert celebrates music by and inspired by British composer Harrison Birtwistle. The evening includes 9 settings of Lorine Niedecker (performed by Diagenesis Duo) and 9 Settings of Celan by Harrison Birtwistle, paired with a world premiere by graduate composer Ryan Welsh.

FREE!

An evening of electronic, ambient, and live music in the varied environments of the Birch Aquarium. Wander through sea life galleries and enjoy the atmosphere(s) at your leisure.

Jennifer will perform Sept Papillons by Saariaho and Diagenesis Duo will perform selections from Hands and Lips of Wind by Mischa Salkind-Pearl

$10 Admission (includes aquarium admission)

Quartet Nouveau presents The Human Experience: Loss as the second in a four concert series about the human experience, part of Quartet Nouveau's chamber music residency at Hope United Methodist Church. 

The program includes pieces that express loss: Vasks String Quartet No. 3, Barber's String Quartet with its famous slow movement, and Hindemith's Trauermusik for solo viola.

FREE!

A program of new and recent vocal chamber music composed and performed by UCSD graduate students and friends. Texts from Chaucer, Laxness, and sundials.This concert, with reception to follow, inaugurates the Department of Music’s annual Springfest, a showcase for the innovative work of its graduate composers, performers and interdisciplinary artists.

In an evening of premieres Diagenesis Duo will perform two new works for cello and voice by Steve Lewis and Yi Hong Sim. 

FREE!

Composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Allan Havis, Lear on the 2nd Floor is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s King Lear. It tells the story of Nora Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher beset with early onset Alzheimer’s. As Nora loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is increasingly at the mercy of her three quarreling daughters. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer is Shakespeare’s fool in this version and is her constant companion as she walks through a world where the past and present blend and reality bends. Davis’s arrangement and instrumentation reflect diverse influences ranging from classical opera to jazz to reggae.

Lear on the 2nd Floor is the fourth chamber opera production of kallisti. The cast includes Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez, Alice Teyssier, Philip Larson and Susan Narucki in the title role.   Steven Schick serves as music director and conductor of UCSD's contemporary music ensemble Palimpsest.  The creative team includes Mark DeChiazza, director, Victoria Petrovich, set designer, Mary Ellen Stebbins, lighting designer, and Halei Parker, costume designer.

General: $15.50

UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50

Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID

Box Office: 858-534-3448

Composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Allan Havis, Lear on the 2nd Floor is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s King Lear. It tells the story of Nora Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher beset with early onset Alzheimer’s. As Nora loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is increasingly at the mercy of her three quarreling daughters. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer is Shakespeare’s fool in this version and is her constant companion as she walks through a world where the past and present blend and reality bends. Davis’s arrangement and instrumentation reflect diverse influences ranging from classical opera to jazz to reggae.

Lear on the 2nd Floor is the fourth chamber opera production of kallisti. The cast includes Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez, Alice Teyssier, Philip Larson and Susan Narucki in the title role.   Steven Schick serves as music director and conductor of UCSD's contemporary music ensemble Palimpsest.  The creative team includes Mark DeChiazza, director, Victoria Petrovich, set designer, Mary Ellen Stebbins, lighting designer, and Halei Parker, costume designer.

General: $15.50

UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50

Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID

Box Office: 858-534-3448

Composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Allan Havis, Lear on the 2nd Floor is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s King Lear. It tells the story of Nora Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher beset with early onset Alzheimer’s. As Nora loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is increasingly at the mercy of her three quarreling daughters. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer is Shakespeare’s fool in this version and is her constant companion as she walks through a world where the past and present blend and reality bends. Davis’s arrangement and instrumentation reflect diverse influences ranging from classical opera to jazz to reggae.

Lear on the 2nd Floor is the fourth chamber opera production of kallisti. The cast includes Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez, Alice Teyssier, Philip Larson and Susan Narucki in the title role.   Steven Schick serves as music director and conductor of UCSD's contemporary music ensemble Palimpsest.  The creative team includes Mark DeChiazza, director, Victoria Petrovich, set designer, Mary Ellen Stebbins, lighting designer, and Halei Parker, costume designer.

General: $15.50

UCSD Faculty, Staff, FOM, Alumni: $10.50

Student Rush: Free, one-hour before concert, with ID

Box Office: 858-534-3448

Jennifer will join bassist Scott Worthington for a performance of Rossini's duet for cello and bass. 

FREE!