Lisa Graciano Paul Miller Patrick Liddell Megan Hewitt Richard Phillips Bay Area Indonesian-Folk-Rock fusion group, Purnamasari grew out of the idea of supporting a new generation of artists from both sides of the world through music and dance. The concert takes place on the eve...
Maryam Farshadfar, piano Shawyon Malek-Salehi, violin Maryam Farshadfar, piano (Ph.D., ethnomusicology, University of Montreal) and Shawyon Malek-Salehi, violin (B.A., music, UC Davis, ‘14) present this lecture-recital, which discusses the history of piano and violin in Iran, and the influence of Persian culture on Western composers...
Mariachi UC Davis • Tito Talamantes, director Gamelan Ensemble • Henry Spiller, director Samba School • Brian Rice, director Bluegrass and Old Time String Band • Scott Linford, director Program To be announced.
Featuring Christian Baldini as director and conductor. This Kinetic Energy program evokes the physical energy of Stravinsky’s Petrushka ballet and explores the energy of memory in George Walker’s Lyric for Strings as well as the sonic energy processed by Alejandro Civilotti’s own cochlear implant in...
Otto Lee, director and UC Davis lecturer in music The UC Davis Jazz Combos—usually quartets or quintets—present a wide range of jazz standards, and feature several extended solos with improvisation. Program To be announced.
Otto Lee, director and UC Davis lecturer in music UC Davis’s own Jazz “Big Bands” present songs from the Great American Songbook as well as a few contemporary works and sometimes feature student vocalists too. Tunes by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and many others are...
Pete Nowlen, director The UC Davis Concert Band presents thoughtful works written especially for concert band, and sometimes for film (My Neighbor Totoro and The Polar Express to name a couple). Constituting members of the UC Davis community from students to graduate students to faculty,...