Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 7:30 p.m. Fresno State Music Building Wahlberg Recital Hall
Tickets: $5.00 General; $2.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors/Students
Proceeds benefit the Special Piano Events Fund
Tickets are available from the Department of Music Box Office: 11:00am-1:00pm
Online: www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml
Friday, April 25, 2008
Dame Evelyn Glennie in a Master Class/Clinic
The Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities and Department of Music
present
Dame Evelyn Glennie in a Master Class/Clinic
Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:30-2:30pm - Fresno State Music Building Concert Hall
Tickets: General Public $15.00; Students, $10.00; Faculty, Staff and Seniors $12.00
Information: Contact Dr. Matthew Darling, Percussion Studies
California State University, Fresno (559)-278-2840
Tickets are available from the Department of Music Box Office: 11:00am-1:00pm
Online: www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml
Evelyn gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. For the first ten years of her career virtually every performance she gave was in some way a first. Her diversity of collaborations have included performances artists such as Nana Vasoncelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Fred Frith.
Evelyn has commissioned one hundred and fifty new works for solo percussion from many of the world's most eminent composers and also composes and records music for film and television (EG Composer). Her first high quality drama produced a score so original she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards (BAFTA's); the UK equivalent of the Oscars.
Out of the 25 recordings made so far, Evelyn's first CD, Bartok's Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion won her a Grammy in 1988. A further two Grammy nominations followed, one of which she won for a collaboration with Bela Fleck. Evelyn's twelfth solo CD, Shadow Behind the Iron Sun (BMG Records) was based on a radical improvisational concept and has once again questioned people's expectations. More of her bio can found on her website: http://www.evelyn.co.uk/. An interpreter for the hearing impaired will be at this event.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Upcoming Music Department Events
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Fresno New Music Festival: Sonic Bloom
Sonic Bloom is a newly formed composer's consortium dedicated to the
promotion and performance of Central Valley composers
3:00 p.m. - Wahlberg Recital Hall
FREE Admission; Seating Limited
Clendenin Brass Quintet
7:30 p.m. - Wahlberg Recital Hall
$5.00 General; $3.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors/Students
Fresno New Music Festival
From Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, April 20, the CSUF Music Department will be hosting the Second Annual Fresno New Music Festival, a program dedicated to the performance and composition of contemporary art music.
On Thursday, at 7:30 in the Concert Hall, will be the Fresno State Faculty
Composers Recital, featuring works by five members or former members of the music department faculty, including the premier of my new piece, Two Songs of Moonlight. The texts for these songs were written by my colleague Helene Joseph-Weil who will also sing them. She will be joined by pianist Hatem Nadim and cellist Thomas Loewenheim.
Things really heat up on Saturday, starting at 10:00 with a composition
master class featuring Professor Emeritus Jack Fortner. Dr Fortner will discuss ritual in music. This will be in lecture hall M160 in the Old Music Building. At 1:00 in the concert hall, the award winning UHS Orchestra, led by Jon Malcolm, will perform a concert of all new music.
In the Concert Hall at 3:00, the Fresno State Percussion ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Matt Darling, will display their incredible talent in an exciting array of new percussion music. At 5:00, there will be the amazing 60x60 Electroclips Show, sixty one minute electronic music pieces linked together at breathtaking speed. At 7:00, in the foyer of the New Music Building, there will be a festival-wide reception. Come out and meet the musicians and composers. To wrap up this marathon day of music, the incredible Cincinnati based Conundrum Chamber Ensemble will perform their very special repertoire of contemporary music.
Sunday is Sonic Bloom day. Sonic Bloom is an exciting new organization of composers in the Central Valley, from Davis to Bakersfield. At 11:00, in M127 in the New Music Building, Sonic Bloom will hold its General Meeting. The public is invited to come and observe. At 2:00 in the Concert Hall, there will be a pre-concert presentation. Then at 3:00, the Fresno New Music Festival proudly presents the Sonic Bloom Student Composers Recital featuring students from every member school.
All Sonic Bloom events and the Composition Master Class are free admission.
All other concerts are $8.00. Tickets can be ordered in advance at
http://www.csufresno.edu/music/
An all festival pass will be available for $15.00.
On Thursday, at 7:30 in the Concert Hall, will be the Fresno State Faculty
Composers Recital, featuring works by five members or former members of the music department faculty, including the premier of my new piece, Two Songs of Moonlight. The texts for these songs were written by my colleague Helene Joseph-Weil who will also sing them. She will be joined by pianist Hatem Nadim and cellist Thomas Loewenheim.
Things really heat up on Saturday, starting at 10:00 with a composition
master class featuring Professor Emeritus Jack Fortner. Dr Fortner will discuss ritual in music. This will be in lecture hall M160 in the Old Music Building. At 1:00 in the concert hall, the award winning UHS Orchestra, led by Jon Malcolm, will perform a concert of all new music.
In the Concert Hall at 3:00, the Fresno State Percussion ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Matt Darling, will display their incredible talent in an exciting array of new percussion music. At 5:00, there will be the amazing 60x60 Electroclips Show, sixty one minute electronic music pieces linked together at breathtaking speed. At 7:00, in the foyer of the New Music Building, there will be a festival-wide reception. Come out and meet the musicians and composers. To wrap up this marathon day of music, the incredible Cincinnati based Conundrum Chamber Ensemble will perform their very special repertoire of contemporary music.
Sunday is Sonic Bloom day. Sonic Bloom is an exciting new organization of composers in the Central Valley, from Davis to Bakersfield. At 11:00, in M127 in the New Music Building, Sonic Bloom will hold its General Meeting. The public is invited to come and observe. At 2:00 in the Concert Hall, there will be a pre-concert presentation. Then at 3:00, the Fresno New Music Festival proudly presents the Sonic Bloom Student Composers Recital featuring students from every member school.
All Sonic Bloom events and the Composition Master Class are free admission.
All other concerts are $8.00. Tickets can be ordered in advance at
http://www.csufresno.edu/music/
An all festival pass will be available for $15.00.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
National Public Radio Features Fresno State Music Faculty and Choir
Fresno State music faculty members Helene Joseph-Weil, Benjamin Boone, and
Hatem Nadim were featured in a full-length feature story that was aired on NPR's
"Weekend Edition" this past Saturday. The story focuses on Joseph-Weil and Boone's new Cantata, ASCENCION, which was premiered at Fresno State last month.
To hear the full story, click on the link below:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88781704
Hatem Nadim were featured in a full-length feature story that was aired on NPR's
"Weekend Edition" this past Saturday. The story focuses on Joseph-Weil and Boone's new Cantata, ASCENCION, which was premiered at Fresno State last month.
To hear the full story, click on the link below:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88781704
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