The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present the fourth annual UCSB Summer Music Festival on Saturday, August 10 and Sunday, August 11, 2019 on the UCSB campus. Sponsored by the UCSB Office of Summer Sessions, the festival will feature performances by the Los Angeles-based Isaura String Quartet, violist and UCSB Music alumnus Jonathan Morgan, Adelfos Ensemble, Sahlala Band, UCSB University Carillonist Wesley Arai, dancers from the Santa Barbara community, and UCSB Music graduate students and alumni. Additional festival highlights include an Interactive Multimedia Exhibition presented by graduate students from the Media Arts and Technology program and the Department of Music, a Children’s Concert featuring the folk music ensemble Kalinka, a concert highlighting plucked string instruments from around the world, a concert and discussion focusing on the challenges facing women artists, and world premiere performances of works by UCSB composers. All events will be presented free of charge at several venues across the UCSB campus including the MultiCultural Center Theater, Storke Tower, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts’ Digital Arts and Humanities Commons, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, and the Music Department’s Karl Geiringer Hall, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, and Music Bowl.

 

 

 

 

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present its Spring Concert Series from Wednesday, May 29th to Friday, June 7th. Highlights include Dr. Jeremy Haladyna’s final concert as Director of the UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music (ECM); the UCSB Chamber Choir and Women's Chorus program, "BANG, SCRAPE, and SHOUT!," featuring special guests from the UCSB Percussion Ensemble, UCSB Young Artists String Quartet, and the San Marcos High School Choral Program; and the UCSB Gamelan Ensemble's joint concert with the community gamelan ensemble, Gamelan Sinar Surya.

 

 

 

UC Santa Barbara will present the second annual UCSB Arts Walk on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 4:30-8 p.m. at various locations across the UCSB campus. Sponsored by UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts with presentations from the UCSB Library, Department of Music, MultiCultural Center, Department of Theater and Dance, Department of Art, College of Creative Studies, and Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, the event will give students, faculty, staff, and community members the opportunity to visit galleries and studios, watch preview performances and behind the scenes rehearsals, and participate in programming designed to highlight the artistic creativity and talent of the UCSB community, all free of charge.

 

 

 

 

The Chinese-American Horn Quartet, comprised of students of Dr. Steven Gross, will be in residence in China’s capital city, Beijing, from March 23-29, 2019. The quartet’s itinerary will include concerts, clinics, and masterclasses at the Beijing Central Conservatory, one of the world’s leading music schools; the RDFD School, an elite high school affiliated with Renmin University; and prominent horn maker Briz Musical Instruments. Quartet members Daoji Yang and Kangcheng Li are Beijing natives and attended the RDFD School before enrolling at UC Santa Barbara. Anthony Sinicrope is from Minnesota and Olivia Langer grew up in Arkansas. The Quartet will be joined by accompanist Dr. Pascal Salomon, an alumnus of the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music.

 

 

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music’s Corwin Chair of Composition and the College of Creative Studies will present the Villiers Quartet as part of the Corwin Chair Series on Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 4 p.m. in Karl Geiringer Hall. The program will include UCSB Professor Emeritus Peter Racine Fricker’s String Quartet No. 2 (1953) and String Quartet No. 3 (1976), as well as Thea Musgrave’s String Quartet (1958). The concert, which honors two composers with ties to UCSB’s Music Composition programs, is co-sponsored by the UCSB College of Creative Studies and the Corwin Chair of Composition in the Department of Music. Admission is free.

 

 

 

 

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present its Winter Concert Series from Wednesday, March 6th to Friday, March 15th, with performances by the Ensemble for Contemporary Music (ECM), Wind Ensemble, Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus, Middle East Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Music of India Ensemble, and Gospel Choir, along with a special Faculty Chamber Music Showcase concert on Monday, March 11th. Highlights include the Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus’ “Tribute to Teachers” program; the Middle East Ensemble’s program featuring Persian music and dance in celebration of the Ensemble’s 30th year; and a Faculty Chamber Music Showcase featuring works by Ernst von Dohnányi, Xavier Montsalvatge, and Maurice Ravel, with performances by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, violinist Ertan Torgul, violist Jonathan Moerschel, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, and pianists Natasha Kislenko and Robert Koenig.

 

 

 

 

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music and Department of Theater and Dance will present a unique collaborative concert featuring chamber music and dance on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The program will feature original choreography by UCSB Department of Theater and Dance faculty and students set to music by contemporary luminaries such as David Lang and Andy Akiho, with performances by UCSB Department of Music faculty and students. The program is being sponsored by the Music and Theatre and Dance departments, with matching funding from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

 

 

 

 

In an unprecedented collaboration, UC Santa Barbara Library and Opera Theatre will present the North American premiere of Franz Lehár’s 1904 women’s suffrage operetta, The Mock Marriage (Die Juxheirat), on Saturday, February 16 and Sunday, February 17, 2019 at the historic Lobero Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara. Both performances of the operetta—which was selected from UC Santa Barbara Library’s Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive—will be performed in English by graduate and undergraduate students from the award-winning UC Santa Barbara Opera Theatre program.

 

 

 

The UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will present Professor of Piano Paul Berkowitz in recital on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8 pm in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the UCSB campus. Mr. Berkowitz—best known for his performances and recordings of Franz Schubert and the other Viennese masters Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms—will take something of a departure into the works of J.S. Bach, Bartók, and Chopin.

 

 

 

 

Professor Emeritus Carl Zytowski, a longtime member of the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music faculty, passed away on Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2018 at the age of 97. Professor Zytowski was a veteran, having served in the United States Air Force from 1942-1945.