MEMBERS OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS IN A MASTER CLASS with
MEMBERS OF UCSB JAZZ ENSEMBLE
MON., SEPT. 28 at 2 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Free Admission,
Co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures. 

Members of the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis lead a master class with members of the UCSB Jazz Ensemble led by Jon Nathan.

UCSB CORWIN CHAIR SERIES presents Guest Artists from ICST
Concert: THURS., OCT. 1, 7 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Free Admission 
Lecture: THURS., OCT. 1, 2 p.m. in the California Nano Systems Institute Room  1601, Free Admission 

The UCSB CORWIN CHAIR SERIES will begin a new series this fall, one that will bring cutting edge artists from leading electronic and computer music organizations to the campus. The first event will feature guest artists from ICST- The Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of the Zurich University of the Arts.  They will present research projects in the fields of sound diffusion with ambisonics, generative art, human gesture and psychoacoustics. The October 1 evening concert includes electroacoustic works and live performances featuring composers and performers from the Institute including Germán Toro Perez, Jan Schacher, Martin Neukom, Daniel Bisig, and Philippe Kocher. The ICST activities are supported by Swissnex, an institution based in San Francisco devoted to the exchange of knowledge in science, education, art, and innovation between Switzerland, the USA and Canada.

THOMAS HAMPSON, Baritone, IN A MASTER CLASS
WITH UCSB STUDENTS
THURS., OCT. 8, 3:30 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)
Open to the public for observation - Admission is free

Thomas Hampson, "the leading American baritone" (Gramophone) and Music Academy of the West alumnus, presents a master class with outstanding UCSB students.

NATASHA KISLENKO with HATEM NADIM -"2x2 - A DUO RECITAL 
SUN., OCT. 11, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

UCSB faculty pianist NATASHA KISLENKO and guest artist guest artist HATEM NADIM will present "2x2 - A DUO RECITAL - One Piano, Four Hands."  This  exciting evening of piano duets consists of pieces by Mendelssohn and Carlos Gustavino, followed by Stravinsky's own four-hand version of his "Rite of Spring."  Hatem Nadim, originally from Cairo, Egypt, is a member of the Music Department at CSU Fresno.  An acclaimed pianist and chamber musician, he has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Korea and the Middle East  with such famed musicians as Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael Flaksman, and Susanne Rabenschlag.

UCSB Create presents
Philippe Manoury, composer
Christophe Desjardins, viola
Christophe Lebreton, sound engineer
in a Lecture and Performance of "Partita 1" for solo viola and electronics
WED., OCT. 21, 6 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Free Admission

French composer Philippe Manoury, currently on the faculty at UC San Diego, is  joined by Christophe Desjardins and Christophe Lebreton in a performance of  his Partita 1.

Generous support for this program has been provided by:
- GRAME, Centre national de création musicale
- FACE, French American fund for contemporary music
- Culturesfrance
- the BureauExport (french-music.org)
- the Durand-Salabert-Eschig Editions (Universal Music Publishing Group)

UCSB SYMPHONY in Halloween Spooktacular!
with emcee Tony Miratti
THURS., OCT. 29, 9 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

The UCSB Symphony Orchestra will present a Halloween Spooktacular!  conducted by Dr. Richard Rintoul and assistant conductor Anthony Kim, with scary music by Humperdinck, Grieg and Mussorgsky.  Also featured will be the UCSB Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jon Nathan, and organist Jeremy Haladyna. The audience is encouraged to costume for the occasion!

UCSB CORWIN CHAIR SERIES presents THE HUB
FRI., NOV. 6 at 7 p.m, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
Free Admission

The UCSB CORWIN CHAIR SERIES will present guest artists from The HUB with Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone, Tim Perkis, John Bischoff, Mark Trayle, and Chris Brown.  Computer network music, as practiced by The Hub over the last two decades, is characterized by the sharing of digital information via a network, which is used to algorithmically influence the music played by each player in the group.

UCSB CREATE & MEDIA ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM present MUSIC DESIGN
THURS., NOVEMBER 12, 8 p.m. , Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

UCSB CREATE - The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Curtis Roads, Associate Director, Matthew Wright, Research Director) presents compositions projected on the Creatophone, a pluriphonic sound projection system developed at CREATE in conjunction with the renowned firm of Meyer Sound. Featured will be the rarely-heard GENDY 3 (1991), a tour-de-force of stochastic synthesis by the late Iannis Xenakis. New works by the Paris-based composer Horacio Vaggione and UCSB's Curtis Roads will also be highlighted.

UCSB WIND ENSEMBLE
THURS., NOV. 19, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
Admission is $15/General,$7/Students - Tickets at the door

Paul Bambach, Director, and Kathryn Woolf, Graduate Assistant, will lead works from the nineteenth century including Charles Gounod's Petite Symphony and Ludwig Spohr's Nocturne, Op. 34,  as well as more contemporary works including Robert Jager's Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Robert Sheldon's Velocity, and Frank Ticheli's Gaian Visions.

UCSB CHAMBER CHOIR with ORCHESTRA - HANDEL: BELSHAZZAR and SOLOMON
FRI., NOV. 20 at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of State and Constance in Santa Barbara,  There will be a donation at the door of $15/General, $7/Students

The highly acclaimed UCSB CHAMBER CHOIR with ORCHESTRA will be led by conductor Michel Marc Gervais in scenes, arias and choruses from Belshazzar and Solomon, two rarely heard oratorios by the famous composer of The Messiah. Discover Handel anew in this rare performance by one of Santa Barbara's premiere choral ensembles!

UCSB JAZZ ENSEMBLE IN A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SILVER
SUN., NOV. 22 at 7 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

The Jazz Ensemble opens the 2009-10 year with a tribute concert to the great pianist/composer Horace Silver, who has written dozens of jazz classics that remain staples of jazz education and performance. The forces of jazz performance at UCSB (one big band, four combos and two vocalists) join to present over a dozen classic Silver compositions including The Jody Grind, Liberated Brother, Sister Sadie (as arranged by film composer Alf Clausen), Nutville (as performed by the Buddy Rich Big Band), Nica's Dream, and the very often played and heard funky jazz tune, Song for My Father. Also to be performed are less well known tunes such as Barbara, Juicy Lucy, Calcutta Cutie, and the haunting Lonely Woman.

When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for musical composition (in the liner notes to the 1968 record, Serenade to a Soul Sister), he expounded on the importance of "meaningful simplicity." The pianist could have just as easily been describing his own life.

For more than fifty years, Silver has simply written some of the most enduring tunes in jazz while performing them in a distinctively personal style. It's all been straight forward enough, while decades of incredible experiences have provided the meaning. Silver helped create the rhythmically forceful branch of jazz known as "hard bop" and based much of his own writing on blues and gospel---the latter is particularly prominent on one of his biggest tunes, "The Preacher." Silver was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on September 2, 1928, and currently resides in Los Angeles where he has continued to produce music into his late years.

UCSB OPERA SCENES
FEATURING A SCENE FROM JOEL FEIGIN'S TWELFTH NIGHT
MON., NOV. 23, 8 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall
(Music Room 1250),
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

New faculty member Ned Canty, who has directed for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, Juilliard, and Yale, leads outstanding UCSB students in an evening of opera scenes. Selections include pieces from Donizetti's Elixir of Love, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and Puccini's Suor Angelica, as well as a special presentation of a scene from faculty member Joel Feigin's new opera, Twelfth Night, based on the play by William Shakespeare, with libretto by Joel Feigin.
  
Twelfth Night was chosen by New York City Opera for its VOX 2003 series of readings:  Showcasing American Composers. A chamber orchestra version  of Twelfth  Night, commissioned by Long Leaf Opera in North Carolina, was  premiered by them in October 2005.  The Raleigh News and Observer commented,  ". . . many striking passages, hushed and shimmering for lovers, sparkling and cheeky for the comic figures."
 
Feigin comments, "Like all myths, Twelfth Night seems to have existed long before Shakespeare wrote it, and certainly before any of us first saw or read it.  I, for one, have long been enchanted by the heady perfume of Illyria, where 'journeys end in lovers meeting' as the wise and funny Fool, Feste, sings in the first excerpt on the CD, the song O Mistress Mine.
 
"In adapting the play as an opera libretto, I was naturally forced to recombine the scenes in various ways, and above all to cut out much of the dialogue, leaving only a scaffolding on which to base the opera.  Above all, I was fascinated by Shakespeare's presentation of the extraordinary varieties of love, by the various ways in which we all yearn for our 'true love's coming, that can sing both high and low.'"

UCSB ECM - ENSEMBLE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - SPECIES: THE CONCERT    
TUES., DEC. 1 at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, Tickets at the door

Director Jeremy Haladyna leads the ECM in its first concert of the year with two pieces by Anthony Gilbert, and the clarinet turned Man-Moth (Mothman?) in David Schober's small hole at the top of the sky, as well as penquins baptized by mistake and made human in Director Jeremy Haladyna's Penquin Island ballet.  This alongside solid new grit for viola and piano by George Tsontakis (U.S.) and Marcel Mihalovici (France-Romania). And fittingly, the delicious behind-the-shadow play of Penderecki's Quartett for clarinet and string trio.

UCSB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - PICTURES!
with FACULTY ARTIST YUVAL YARON, VIOLINIST
WED., DEC. 2 at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

Dr. Richard Rintoul conducts the UCSB Symphony Orchestra in evocative music from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg and Mussorgsky/Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as Max Bruch's popular Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor with renowned UCSB faculty artist, Yuval Yaron, violin.

UCSB MEN'S & WOMEN'S CHORUSES - Sir Christëmas
THURS., DEC. 3, 8 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, located at 1500 State Street,
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

UCSB's all-male and female choruses present a delightful Christmas concert featuring carols set by Benjamin Britten, Zoltan Kodaly, Alfred Burt, Carl Zytowski, Healey Willan, Eleanor Daley, and others. 15th century melodies and texts blend with enchanting new settings in this lively holiday performance. Helena von Rueden and Adam Kurihara are conductors.

UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
FRI., DEC. 4, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
Admission is $15/General, $7/Students, with tickets at the door

The highly popular UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR, directed by Victor Bell, regularly presents sold-out concerts, performs at numerous campus events, and has produced several cds.

UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE
"An Evening of Middle Eastern Music & Dance"
with guest dancer Cris!
SAT., DEC. 5 at 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Admission is $17/General, $9/Students, with tickets at UCSB Associated Students Ticket Office, 893-2064. 
Visit:http://www.music.ucsb.edu/mee 

The UCSB MIDDLE EAST ENSEMBLE,  directed by Scott Marcus, presents "An Evening of Middle Eastern Music & Dance."  Also featured will be the MIddle East Ensemble's Dance Troupe, directed by Alexandra King. The Middle East Ensemble, North America's largest Middle Eastern orchestra, has drawn wide acclaim and support from nearly a dozen Middle Eastern communities throughout Southern California, as well as a loyal following from local audiences.