SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
PACIFIC RIM MUSIC FESTIVAL
"Music from the Past, Music for the Future"
April 21–25, 2010
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
1. Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:30 PM
Opening Concert: "Celebration of Edgard Varèse":
Seizing the Future, Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Ensemble Parallèle, San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble, UCSC Percussion Ensemble with members of the UCSC Wind Ensemble
Déserts; Intégrales; Octandre; Density 21.5; Ionisation
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2. Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:30 PM
Premiere Concert I: Sympathetic Modalities I
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea and Del Sol String Quartet
New works by Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno*, David Rakowski*, Geonyong Lee*, Sungki Kim*, Koji Nakano*, Ching-Yi Wang*, Nick Vasallo*, Jiyoung Ko*, Noah Meites*
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3. Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:30 PM
Premiere Concert II: Sympathetic Modalities II
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea and Lydian String Quartet
New works by David Evan Jones*, Yu-Hui Chang*, Laurie San Martin*, Chou Wen-chung++, Paul Nauert*, Hi Kyung Kim*, Seung-Hee Lee*, Vedran Mehinovic*, In-Kyu Kim*
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4. Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7:30 PM
New York New Music
New York New Music Ensemble
Works by Lei Liang, David Cope*, Andrew Imbrie, Charles Wuorinen*, Chou Wen-chung+
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5. Sunday, April 25, 2010, 2:00 PM
From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Coast
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
UCSC Balinese and Sundanese Gamelan Ensembles
New works by Bill Alves*, Nano S, I Gede Oka Artha*, I Made Arnawa, Ni Ketut Arini
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* world premiere
+ west coast premiere
++ us premiere
MORE CONCERTS (Admission Free)
1. April 23, 2010, Friday, 1:00-3:00 PM
Music Center Ensemble Rehearsal Room (MC 114)
A Reading Session with the New York New Music Ensemble
Works by Young-Shin Choi, Noah Meites, Beth Ratay, and Ma'ayan Tsadka
2. April 24, 2010., Saturday, 1:00 PM.
Music Center Recital Hall
Premiere Concert III: Young Composers’ Edition
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea Guest Ensemble and Santa Cruz String
New works by Andre Marquetti*, Daniel Brown*, John Seales*, Ma’ayan Tsadka*, Phillip Lamperski*, Young-Shin Choi*
ADDITIONAL EVENTS: Colloquium, Symposium, Film Presentation, and Talks
1. April 19, 2010, Monday, 2:00 PM, Music Center Performance Studio
Colloquium: Chou Wen-chung (Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus, Columbia University)
“Prerequisite for a 21st Century Composer: a personal experience”
2. April 20, 2010, Tuesday, 11:00 AM, Music Center Room 130
John Robison (Professor, University of South Florida)
“New Horizons: LEE Chan-Hae in the Twenty-First Century”
3. April 21, 2010, Wednesday, 11:00 AM, Music Center Performance Studio
Chinary Ung (Professor, University of California, San Diego)
“Spirituality in the Music of Chinary Ung”
(This talk is dedicated to Robert Amory.)
4. April 21, 2010, Wednesday, 4:00 PM
Film Presentation ( By Invitation Only)
Edgard Varèse: The One All Alone by acclaimed
Dutch film maker Frank Scheffer
5. April 23, 2010, Friday, 3:00 PM, Music Center Performance Studio
Symposium: “Inter-Cultural Creative Process”
Speakers:
1). Leta Miller (Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Gamelan influences in the non-gamelan works of Lou Harrison”
2). Choon-Mee Kim (Professor , Korean National University of Arts)
“Towards the Philosophy of ‘The Life of a Tone’: PAIK Byung Dong”
3). Yayoi Everett (Professor, Emory University)
“Exploring the Concept of One-note Polyphony in the Music
by East Asian Composers”
Respondents: Festival participating composers
6. April 24, 2010, Saturday, after 7:30 Concert:
Post-Concert Talk, Music Center Recital Hall
Members of the Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, New York New Music Ensemble
Composer Chou Wen-chung, and Participating composers
ASSOCIATED EVENTS
1. A Benefit Film Presentation by the Other Minds
(US Premiere Presentation)
April 19, Monday, 7:30 PM
Edgard Varèse: The One All Alone, Directed by Frank Scheffer
Q & A with Chou Wen-chung and Frank Scheffer
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street, San Francisco
http://www.otherminds.org/
2. Pacific Rim Music Festival Brandeis at Brandeis University
April 26, Monday, 7:00 PM
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea and Lydian String Quartet
April 27, Tuesday, 7:00 PM
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea and Lydian String Quartet
http://www.brandeis.edu/arts/concerts/PacificRimMusicFestival.html
3. NONG FESTINAL at Korean National University of the Arts
September 6 - September 7, 2010
Premiere Concerts I, II, III: Sympathetic Modalities/ Korea nexT