UC Davis Music
Department
of
Music
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Christian Baldini, music director and conductor
University Chorus Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
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All performances take place in Jackson Hall at 7PM unless otherwise noted, and are $8 for students and youth, and $12/15/17 for adults.
Friday, October 10, 2014 • 8PM
Rising Stars of Opera, featuring Julia Bullock, soprano, and the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows in arias by Bellini, Mozart, and Poulenc. Free, ticketed; limit 4 per household
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Love, Death, and Pranks Mozart: Overture to Idomeneo Mahler: Rückert Lieder with Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano Wagner: Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Saturday, December 6, 2014
University Chorus and the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
Christian Baldini and the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, January 31, 2015 This program will feature a work by a Music and Words Composer Fellow as well as composer-in-residence Melinda Wagner’s Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion—with Tod Brody, flute—for which she won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The program will also feature Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia with eight vocal soloists.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Alumni Chorus, University Chorus, and the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Ariadne’s Thread, Ecstasy, and Classicism Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase Varèse: Amériques Beethoven: Violin Concerto with Alina Kobialka, violin
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Surprise and Drama, a program featuring the winner of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition as well as Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 (“Surprise”).
Friday, June 5, 2015
University Chorus
Daedalus String Quartet, photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
One-of-a-Kind Performances All performances take place in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at 7PM unless otherwise noted, and are $8 for students and youth, and $20 for adults.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Daedalus String Quartet
Friday, February 20, 2015
Samul GwangDae, Korean drumming Friday, April 24, 2015
Musics of the World with special gu ests, including the Korean Drumming Ensemble, Gamelan Ensemble, and the Samba School.
In addition to these fine concerts, the UC Davis Department of Music presents a series of free Shinkoskey Noon Concerts, often in the Yocha DeHe Grand Lobby. Also, the department and the Mondavi Center will co-present Music and Words festival, January 29–31, 2015. See page 28. For more specific information on these programs, visit music.ucdavis.edu or call 530.752.7896. As an exclusive benefit to Mondavi Center subscribers, tickets to UC Davis Department of Music events can be purchased with a subscription. Mondavi Center discounts do not apply. Contact the Mondavi Center Ticket Office for details. These events do not apply towards a CYO Subscription.