Emerging Composers Concert 2023
The Athenaeum Art Center, Studios at Bread & Salt
Compositions by:
Joseph Ceballos - University of San Diego
Gabriel de Guzman - San Diego State University
Alex Laubach - Palomar College
Mai Pacumio - San Diego State University
Gerry Reoyo - San Diego State University
Performed by:
Rachel Allen - trumpet
Anahita Pestonjamasp - flute
Varun Rangaswamy - bassoon
Eric Starr - trombone
June 1, 2023
Strength Upon My Tongue
Curated by Jasper Sussman
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
Pub I & II, by Georges Aperghis
Poet’s Song, by Aaron Copland
I Sang, from Moonsongs, by Michael Ippolito
The Cage, by Charles Ives
In Summer Fields, by Charles Ives
The Sicilian Mafia, by Lil Lacy
Gotham Lullaby, by Meredith Monk
The Tale, by Meredith Monk
Get Up, by Tanner Porter
A Clear Midnight, by Jasper Sussman
Etude I, by Jasper Sussman
G3 sequence: a singing meditation, by Jasper Sussman
The Wisdom of Emily, by Jasper Sussman
Jasper Sussman, voice
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Anna Brown Massey, choreography and dance
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Miguel Zazueta, voice
May 21, 2023
It Sounds As Curated by Christian Hertzog
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
Christian Hertzog - It Sounds As (world premiere)
Eve Beglarian - Open Secrets, for toy piano
John Cage - Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
Christian Hertzog - Loops
Robert Erickson - General Speech
Charles Dodge - Any Resemblace in Purely Coincidental
Peter Ablinger - selections from Voices and Piano
Christian Hertzog - Selections from Anything Therefore Is A Delight
Jacob Druckman - Valentine
Alexander Ishov, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Anahita Pestonjamasp, and Bernandeth Negrete, flutes
Kyle Blair, piano
Christian Hertzog, toy piano and synthesizer
Eric Starr, trombone
Matthew Henson, bass
April 28, 2023
Emerging Composers Workshop - Public Reading
The Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt
March 24, 2023
Stoicheía/Elements
Curated by Sarah Skuster
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
Mario Lavista - Marsias for oboe and crystal cups
Alison Loggins-Hull - Homeland
Georgia Phipps - new work
Todd Moellenberg - IS
Iannis Xenakis - Dmaathen
Sarah Skuster, oboe
Rose Lombardo, flute
Ryan Nestor, percussion
January 5-7, 2023
soundON Festival of Modern Music
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California Concert Program (PDF)
December 2, 2022
The Holy Ghost, by Zane Shrem-Besnoy
The Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt
Soprano Saxophone - Ryan Ebaugh
Trumpet - Jordan Adams, Ben Fox
Trombone - Wili Fleming, Rebecca McKinley
Sousaphone - Aaron Gragg
Flute - Ida Naughton, Shari Ressel
Violin - Kristopher Apple
Cello - Sharon Taylor
Piano - Christopher Adler
Percussion -Nathan Hubbard, Jack Nevin
Sound by Andrew Walsh
July 27, 2022
Emerging Composers Concert
Athenaeum Arts Center at Bread & Salt
Original works by: Donovan Alcones - University of San Diego
Gabriel de Guzman - San Diego State University
Maile Pacumio - San Diego State University
Georgia Phipps - Palomar College
Tristan Shin - MIT/Canyon Crest Academy
Julianna Zheng - University of San Diego
Cognitive Dissonance
Curated by Ariana Warren
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Long Meadow, by Max Johnson Mirror Universes 2, by Adam Scott Neal Time Lapse, by Theresa Martin Vacío, by Omar Fraire Ifigenia en, by Wilfrido Terrazas Les Moutons de Panurge, by Frederic Rzewski
soundON Festival of Modern Music
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California FESTIVAL PROGRAM
November 3, 2021
On the Edge of Time
Curated by Eric Starr
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Rachel Allen, Civil Discourse
Varun Rangaswamy, Erratic Peaks
Maddi Baird, Adaptation for Conch Shells
La Monte Young, Composition #13 James Lee III, Accents and Flourishes
Pauline Oliveros, Tuning Meditation
Eric Starr, trombone
Rachel Allen, trumpet
Elizabeth Howard, trumpet
Jane Zwerneman, horn
Kyle Mendiguchia, bass trombone
Sonya Schumann, piano
May 21, 2021 (livestream event)
Digital Dose #4
Erratic Peaks (2021), by Varun Rangaswamy * Falk Commission
Sequenza VII (1969), by Luciano Berio
Mirror/Fall (2011), by Christopher Adler
K's Crossing (2019), by Christopher Adler
Polska efter Axel Edfors
The Serpent's Dance (2021), by Christopher Adler
Sommarvalsen, by Ale Möller
Eric Starr, trombone
Sarah Skuster, oboe
Christopher Adler, khaen
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
April 17, 2021 (video premiere)
Digital Dose #3
Sagitta, by Zane Shrem-Besnoy
Togaku, by Jack Van Zandt
Desert Places, by Florence Anna Maunders
a escada estreita, by João Pedro Oliveira
RATTLE watch, by Ryan Nestor
Robert Zelickman, clarinets
Lisa Cella, flute
Ryan Nestor, percussion
February 20, 2021 (video premiere)
Digital Dose #2
Faultlines (2009), by Chris Cree Brown
Black Flowers (2018), by Chaya Czernowin
things that flow (1996), by Christopher Adler
Weft Sutra (2020), by Philip Blackburn
...ginGer... (2020), by Mark Menzies
Mark Menzies, violin
Christopher Adler, harpsichord
Colin McAllister, electric guitar
Novemer 22, 2020 (video premiere)
Digital Dose #1
On-line concert
Michael Vincent Walter, Obsessive Imagery
Jose Gurria-Cardenas, Mobile Active Simulated Humanoids
Music by Nathan Hubbard
Hilary Tann, Look Little Low Heavens
Libby Larsen, Fanfare for the Woman
Tash Smith Godinez, harp
Nathan Hubbard, percussion
Rachel Allen, trumpet
February 22, 2020
The Visceral Infinites
Curated by Christopher Warren
The Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt
Kristopher and Dina Apple, Allpass: A Prelude to Polymorphic Suite
Joe Garrison, Tea with Steve's Imaginary Friends
Christopher Warren, The Six Perils of Fractured Time
Kristopher Apple, violin
DIna Apple, dancer
Eric Starr, trombone
Ariana Warren, bass clarinet
Christopher Warren, guitar and electronics
Kirsten Ashley Weist, soprano
On the Edge of Time
Curated by Fiona Digney
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Fiona Digney, site specific work
Caroline Shaw, Limestone & Felt
Osvaldo Golijov, Mariel
Peter Garland, MoonViewing Music
Fiona Digney, percussion
Alex Greenbaum, cello
May 2, 2019
In the Land of Forgotten Dreams
Curated by Susan Narucki
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Alba Potes, Dulzuras
Toshio Hosokawa, Renka 1
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Rain
Kaija Saariaho, From the Grammar of Dreams
Roger Reynolds, ImageE
Edgar Guzmán, APNEA
György Kurtág, Einige Sätze aus dem Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Susan Narucki, soprano
Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar
Kirsten Ashley Wiest, soprano
Michael Matsuno, flute
Chris Warren, electronics
April 16, 2019
Made in San Diego
Curated by Christopher Adler
Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium
Carlsbad City Library complex
Robert Erickson, Kryl (1977)
Aaron Alter, For Fred (2015)
Rand Steiger, Post-Truth Lament (2017) Christian Hertzog, Moving Into (2018) Madelyn Byrne, Rain, Sea, Sky (2008)
Christopher Adler, Shift (The Knife Grinder), from Violin Concerto (2013)
Nathan Hubbard, Parameters II (2012)
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Rachel Allen, trumpet
Eric Starr, trombone
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Christopher Adler, piano and keyboard
Ryan Nestor, vibraphone
Nathan Hubbard, drums
Daniel Doerfler, percussion
March 29, 2019
Aeneas in the Underworld
by Christopher Adler
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Colin McAllister, guitar and orator
Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar
Batya MacAdam-Somer and Emily Call, violins
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Jennifer Bewerse, cello
Disparate Voices
Curated by Batya MacAdam-Somer
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Giacinto Scelsi, Hô
Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate, first movement
Carolyn Chen, Some Dragons (San Diego premiere)
György Kurtág, Kafka Fragments, Books II and III
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Bonnie Lander, voice
October 10, 2018
ORGANIZED RUCKUS, SOLEMN STILLNESS: A NARRATIVE OF EXPERIMENTALISM
Curated by Charissa Noble
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Ruth Crawford, Preludes for Piano: Andante Mystico, Intensivo
Johanna Beyer, Ballad of the Star Eater
Malcolm Goldstein, Sounding the Fragility of Line
John Cage, Aria with Fontana Mix
Francisco Eme, jardines colgantes
Kristopher and Dina Apple, Sacred Geometries
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Ariana Warren, clarinet
Kristopher Apple, violin
Christopher Adler, piano
Francisco Eme, electronics
DIna Apple, dancer
Christopher Warren, electronics
Madelyn Byrne, Piano Sonata
Dorothy Chang, Five
Emily Doolittle, Gliese 581c
Emily Doolittle, select pieces from Minute Etudes Book 1 & Book 2
Kala Pierson, Flare and Spark Tonia Ko, Highwire (west coast premiere), with special guest Sarah Skuster, oboe
Ingolf Dahl, Concerto a Tre
Krzysztof Penderecki, Quartett für Klarinette und Streichtrio
Kimmo Hakola, Diamond Street
Madelyn Byrne, In a Winter Landscape
John Fonville, Songs of Sappho
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin and viola
Paivikki Nykter, viola
Elizabeth Brown, cello
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Linde Timmermans, Cante de Ida y Vuelta
Luciano Berio, Les mots sont allés...
Bela Bartok, selected duos
Tina Tallon, selective defrosting
Caroline Shaw , Entr'acte
Missy Mazzoli, Quartet for Queen Mab
Steve Reich, Different Trains
March 10, 2017
An Imperfect Storm
Curated by Eric Starr
Atheaeum Art Center, San Diego, California
Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel
John Cage - 4'33"
Timothy McCormack - Heavy Matter
Sofia Gubaidulina - Lamento
Charles Wuorinen - Trio for Bass Instruments
David Sampson - Morning Music
Eric Starr, trombone
Tina Chong, piano
Jory Herman, bass
Rachel Allen, trumpet
John Wilds, trumpet
Danielle Kuhlmann, horn
and Luke Storm, tuba
March 16, 2017
Desert Visions
Curated by Christopher Adler
Atheaeum Art Center, San Diego, California
Christopher Adler – Song for a Form Carved by Water
Jeff Herriott – I stood on the shore and looked up at the birds
Christopher Adler – Strata
Peter Garland – Walk in Beauty
Somei Satoh – Hikari
Christopher Adler, piano
Allison Adams, saxophones
Dustin Donahue, percussion
Gérard Grisey – Stèle
Malin Bång – hyperoxic
Garth Paine – new work
Tristan Murail – Ethers
Rachel Beetz, flute
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Mark Menzies, viola
Alex Greenbaum, cello
Scott Worthington, double bass
Eric Starr, trombone
Dustin Donahue and Ryan Nestor, percussion
October 21, 2016
A California Score
curated by Rachel Beetz
Natacha Diels – ether
Kaija Saariaho – Cendres
John Cage – Inlets
Peter Ablinger – Instruments & (Regenstuck)
Peter Ablinger – California Score
Samuel Dunscombe – new work (world premiere)
Michael Pisaro – new work (world premiere)
Rachel Beetz, flute
Jennifer Bewerse, cello
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Dustin Donahue, percussion
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon - Jácaras
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon - Candelabra
Morton Feldman - Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)
Conlon Nancarrow - String Quartet #1
Lisa Bielawa - The Dragon and the Girl
Silvestre Revueltas - Three Pieces
Morton Feldman - For Aaron Copland
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez - Three Machines
Alex Greenbaum, cello
Wesley Precourt, violin
Tina Chong, piano
The Hausmann Quartet (Isaac Allen, Angela Choong, Bram Goldstein, Alex Greenbaum)
March 10, 2016
Accordant Commons
Stephanie Aston, Marja Liisa Kay, Tany Ling and Argenta Walther
Atheaeum Art Center, San Diego, California
Asilo by Linda Rife * fly blue between light by Carolyn Chen * Say Darlin' Say by Melinda Rice * Palus by Kari Besharse * The Sun Goes Mad by Molly Thompson * untitled for D. T. by Michelle Lou * In Fading Colors of Autumn Hills by Chen-Hui Jen * H by Fernanda Navarro * In principio by Hildegard von Bingen Lullaby for Daisy Pauline by Pauline Oliveros
and new works by Leah Reid and Tina Tallon
Pierre Boulez – Le Marteau sans Maître
Gerard Grisey – Solo por Deux
Tristan Murail – Tellur
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Rachel Beetz, flute
Colin McAllister, guitar
Mark Menzies, viola
Dustin Donahue, Steve Solook and Jason Ginter, percussion
Simone Mancuso, conductor
Eric Starr, trombone
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
October 2, 2015
McAllister-Keller Duo:
Colin McAllister, guitar and Derek Keller, guitar and voice
Atheaeum Art Center, San Diego, California
Steve Reich – Nagoya Guitars
Mario Lavista – Cante
Franco Donatoni – Algo 2
Christopher Adler – Aeneas in the Underworld, Act II (world premiere of the complete Act II)
Arnold Schoenberg – Six Little Pieces for Piano, arranged by Derek Keller
Paul Bellinati – Jongo
Compositions by John Dowland and Gesualdo
David Anderson – Caprriccio No 2
David Anderson – Sonata for Bass and Harp
David Garner – When the Old Man Smokes
Betty Roe – Cat and Mouse
Jeff Greene – Marrow
David Garner – world premiere of commissioned work
Michel Van der Aa – and how are we today?
Jory Herman, bass
Bonnie Lander, soprano
Julie Smith Phillips, harp
Brendan Nguyen, piano
Ori Talmon – borders-collapse:collapse
Peter Ablinger – Regenstuck
Liza Lim – Invisibility
Helmut Lachenmann – TemA
Helmut Lachenmann – Got Lost
Vinko Globokar – Monolith
CELEBRATING SAN DIEGO NEW MUSIC
Presented in partnership with the San Diego Symphony
The Auditorium at TSRI, La Jolla, California
John Cage – Aria / Concert for Piano and Orchestra
David Lang – Frag
John Luther Adams – Wind in High Places
Christopher Adler – Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze
Amy Beth Kirsten – Little Alice
Jessica Aszodi, soprano
Sarah Skuster, oboe
Christopher Adler, piano
STIRRING SONGS FOR VOICES AND INSTRUMENTS
Affiliated Artist Series Concert Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
George Crumb, Madrigals Books I & III
Lou Harrison, First Concerto for Flute and
Percussion
Andrea Clearfield, Three Songs for Oboe and Double Bass After Poems by Pablo Neruda
Thea Musgrave, Impromptu for flute and oboe
Michael Mauldin, Birds in Winter: six preludes for harp
Jessica Aszodi, soprano
Rachel Beetz, flute
Jory Herman, contrabass
Julie Smith Phillips, harp
Sarah Skuster, oboe
Steve Solook, percussion
Lorena Santana, performer
March 27, 2014
The SAN ANDREAS QUARTET Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
Presented in collaboration with Chamber Music OC
Chronotope Study 1 by Jason Federmeyer Music for Violin, Clarinet, Trombone and Piano by Charles Krenner FantasyToccata, by Vera Ivanova SIlver Horizion by Eric Guinivan, and two on-stage rock-paper-scissors showdowns to select compositions by Luciano Berio (Sequenza V or IX) and Caleb Burhans (As Desperation Sets In or Phantasie for Trombone)
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Iryna Krechkovsky, violin
Kevin Kwan Loucks, piano
Eric Starr, trombone
Gyorgy Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre
Gyorgy Ligeti, Der Sommer
Charles Ives, Premonitions
Charles Ives, The New River
Charles Ives, The Indians
Giacinto Scelsi, Trio for Strings
Gyorgy Kurtag, Signs, Games and Messages
Elliott Carter, Figment No. 2: Remembering Mr. Ives
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Jisun Yang, violin
AJ Nilles, viola
Alex Greenbaum, cello
Christopher Adler, piano
July 24, 2013
The Low Frequency Ensemble
Space4Art, San Diego, California
Caleb Burhans, Gatekeeper
Charles Wuorinen, Trio for Bass Instruments
Jon Deak, Homage to Bruckner
Hindemith, 4 Stucke
Patrick Neher, Ayres
Daniel Dorff, Sonatina D' Amore
June 21, 2013
The Calsbad Music Festival Village Music Walk
Carlsbad, California
Louis Andriessen, Workers Union
Sarah Skuster, oboe; Ariana Warren, clarinet; Robert Zelickman, clarinet; Eric Starr, trombone; AJ Nilles, viola; Jory Herman, bass; Christopher Adler, piano; Steve Solook, percussion
Alfred Schnittke, Violin Sonata No. 1
Witold Lutoslawski, Epitaph for Oboe and Piano
Witold Lutoslawski, Dance Preludes
David Lang, Press Release
Elliott Carter, Inner Song
Nicholas Deyoe, Fantasia III
Jisun Yang,
violin; Sarah Skuster, oboe; Ariana Warren, clarinet; Brendan Nguyen, piano; Christopher Adler, piano
Beat Burrer, Invocation VI David Chisholm, "Le peu d'eau" from Le debut et le fin de la niege (U.S. premiere) Gyorgy Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo
Edgard Varese, Density 21.5
Elliott Carter, Two songs from Of Challenge and Love
Michaerl Daugherty,
Viola Zombie
Jessica Aszodi, soprano; Rachel Beetz, flute; Gareth Zehngut, viola; AJ Nilles, viola; Stephen Lewis, piano
Erki-Sven Tuur, Symbiosis
John Cage,
Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
Witold Lutoslawski,
Chantefleurs et Chantefables
John Cage, One2
Rozalie Hirs, Article 5 (North American premiere)
Arvo Part, Fratres
Christopher Adler, piano; Stephanie Aston, soprano; Jory Herman, contrabass; Christian Hertzog, toy piano; Brendan Nguyen, piano; Wesley Precourt, violin
January 16, 2005
NOISE at the Library
with guests Mark Menzies and Robert Zelickman Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
October 17, 2004 A Daniel Pearl Music Day 2004 Event
NOISE at the Library
with guests Harvey Sollberger, Paivikki Nykter, Robert Zelickman, Kathleen Gallagher and Reiko Mana Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
September 26, 2004
Christopher Adler, Colin McAllister and Derek Keller, dual CD release concert Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
June 11, 2004 Derek Keller's Fear Ego Love
Performance at the University of California San Diego
April 18, 2004
NOISE at the Library
with guests Harbey Sollberger, John Fonville, Kathleen Gallagher, Carolyn Tyler (Lechusza Aquallo) and Robert Esler Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
January 14, 2004
Performance at Stanford University, Strictly Ballroom concert series
January 12, 2004
Performance at the California Institute of the Arts
October 19, 2003
NOISE at the Library
with guests Robert Zelickman, Paivikki Nykter, Alan Lechusza, Rob Esler and Aiyun Huang Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
May 18, 2003 Mark Randall Osborn Memorial Concert
NOISE at the Library Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
March 20, 2003
Performance at the University of San Diego
with guest Alan Lechusza
January 18, 2003
NOISE at the Library
with guest cellist Felix Fan and guests Harvey Sollberger, Paivikki Nykter, Don Nichols, Marion Garver, Mia Ferm, Christopher Adler and Christopher Williams Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
November 14, 2002
Performance at the University of Virginia
with guest cellist Franklin Cox
October 20 , 2002
NOISE at the Library
with guests cellist Felix Fan and guests Christopher Adler and Joscha Oetz Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
May 19, 2002
NOISE at the Library
with Reynard Rott and guests Aleck Karis, Sandra Brown and Luciane Cardassi Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
April 6, 2002
NOISE at the Library
with Reynard Rott and guests Alan Lechusza and Christopher Adler Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
January 20, 2002
NOISE at the Library
with Reynard Rott and guests Jane Rigler and Luciane Cardassi Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
April 29, 2001
NOISE at the Library
with guests Carol Plantamura, Lois Martin, Ivan Manzanilla, Greg Stuart, Rand Steiger, Anthony Burr, Scott Walton, Martha Renner and Lorie Kirkell Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
March 4, 2001
NOISE at the Library
with founding member cellist Reynard Rott
with guests Carol Plantamura, Ivan Manzanilla, Greg Stuart, Rand Steiger and Christopher Williams Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
