World Music at Mingei 2023

THE CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC

WORLD MUSIC AT MINGEI

2023 CONCERTS

Welcome to the second season of World Music at Mingei. The series includes classical and folk music traditions that introduce the sounds, aesthetics, and cultural significance of the music from select regions around the globe. This year we are presenting three concerts that include the music of Senegal, Thailand, and China.

Concert programming is one of three core services the Center for World Music provides to San Diego. Our most extensive program, World Music in the Schools, brings hands-on music and dance to 10,000 students annually. Over the past 24 years, we ' ve partnered with 100 different San Diego schools offering artist residencies and interactive assemblies representing over 25 diverse cultural traditions.

We hope you enjoy the CWM’s 2023 musical selections. And we thank you for your support and enthusiasm.

Monica Emery Executive Director Center for World Music

“We enjoyed the series so much! I believe that events like this do more than anything else to bring people together, fight racism, and enrich ourselves.”

The Center for World Music expresses appreciation to all of the talented artists who perform and teach world music in San Diego, thereby sharing and honoring performing arts from across the globe.

2023SERIESSPONSOR

Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

BOARDMEMBERS

Dr Timothy Rice, President

Dr. Lance Nelson, Vice President Natasha Kozaily, Secretary Jake Bakke, Treasurer

Dr. Purna Patnaik, Outreach Coordinator

Dr Supeena Insee Adler Edoardo Cavallero

Dr Bernard Ellorin Delores Fisher Jonathan Fohrman

Dr David Harnish Dr. Meghan Hynson

Dr Tom Johnston-O'Neill Shari Johnston-O'Neill Connie Kaczmarczyk Shibani Patnaik Letitia Rogers

Preston Swirnoff Monica Wishard

BOARDMEMBERSEMERITUS

Dr. Robert E. Brown, Founder

Dr Lewis Peterman Prof. Danlee Mitchell

Dr Arkal Shenoy Mandyam Venkatesh

STAFF

Monica Emery, Executive Director

Stefanie Schmitz, Director, World Music in the Schools

Jonathan Parker, Associate Director, World Music in the Schools

Laurel Grinnell-Wilson, Assistant Director, World Music in the Schools

Letitia Rogers, Coordinator, Access to the Arts for Seniors

Center for World Music

Mailing: 11011 N. Torrey Pines Rd • La Jolla, CA 92037 centerforworldmusic.org • 619.363.3007

PROGRAMS

World Music in the Schools

The CWM's youth education program facilitates cross-cultural learning opportunities in the performing arts traditions of the world Master artists teach and perform for an estimated 10,000 students annually in K-12 San Diego area schools.

Community Performances & Workshops

The Center for World Music brings the world's performing arts to the public through a carefully curated annual concert series and free public presentations and workshops in partnerships with community institutions, museums, libraries, and other San Diego performance venues

Access to the Arts for Seniors

This special program presents the world’s performing arts on location in affordable housing facilities for seniors with limited access to cultural enri

Odissi Dance School

In collaboration with the Orissa Dance Academy (Odisha, India) the CWM brings visiting artists from India to San Diego for extended teaching residencies facilitated through our Odissi Dance School

Amadou Fall

A native of Senegal, West Africa, Amadou Fall comes from a family of musicians. His father, Mamadou Fall, was a guitarist who performed with wellknown Senegalese artists.

While he was growing up, Amadou’s family lived close to a community of griots (storytellers and keepers of tradition). From the age of ten, he often visited the house in which the griots lived, where they taught him how to play a few songs on the kora, the 21-sring gourd harp that you will see him play tonight. He fell in love with the instrument. Building on what he had been taught, Amadou embarked on a new journey to master the art of kora playing.

Now some 20 years later, Amadou has performed extensively in Africa, including concerts with artists such as Baba Maal, Fatou Lowbe, Ibrahim Ba, Djembe Rhythm, and Irene Tassembedo. His international tours have included visits to France, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and England, as well as Canada, Mexico, and the United States He has several albums to his credit, recorded with musicians from around the globe.

Currently residing in Indio, California, Amadou Fall works to bring people from all walks of life together in peace through his music

Supeena Insee Adler, Christopher Adler, and Batya MacAdam-Somer

Supeena Insee Adler is a trained ethnomusicologist and an accomplished Thai musician. Raised in Northeast Thailand, near the Laotian border, she is fluent in Lao as well as Thai. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology, Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, where–in addition to directing the Music of Thailand Ensemble–she also serves as world music instrument curator Professor Adler has curated Thai music and dance events in Southern California with artists from North America and Thailand, and performed in venues across the U.S.

Having repaired and restored the Thai musical instrument collection at UCLA in 2014–2015, she subsequently re-established the Music of Thailand Ensemble class there after a four-decade hiatus. For nearly two decades, she has volunteered to teach Thai traditional music at the Thai Buddhist Temple of San Diego, where she also performs regularly. She holds a Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) and an M.A. in Southeast Asian studies from UC Riverside. She earned her B F A in Thai classical music from Mahasarakham University, Thailand

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Composer and improviser Christopher Adler will join Supeena Insee Adler. Dr. Adler is a professor of Music and director of Asian Studies at the University of San Diego. He is the world’s leading innovator in contemporary concert music for the khaen, the bamboo free-reed mouth organ of Laos and Northeast Thailand. With his ongoing project New Musical Geographies, he has promoted the instrument by commissioning and recording new works by composers from around the world. In 2020, he released Triangulations: New music for khaen, volume one, the first compact disc dedicated to contemporary khaen composition. His compositions have been released on many labels including Tzadik and Innova, and his performances on labels including Centaur and Vienna Modern Masters.

Batya MacAdam-Somer is a violinist, violist, and vocalist specializing in collaboration and experimentation Her work spans classical, avantgarde, folk, and popular music genres, taking her to venues throughout the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Europe. She has performed with ensembles and organizations including Project [BLANK], Art of Elan, San Diego New Music, Festival Vértice, wasteLAnd, Bang on A Can All-Stars, Hutchins Consort, the San Diego Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic. She is also a member of Baby Bushka, an all-female band celebrating the music of Kate Bush.

Professor Chi Li is a highly accomplished performing artist on the erhu (two-stringed, bowed fiddle) and an important teacher of Chinese music. After graduating from the Conservatory of Chinese Music (Beijing), she served as the erhu soloist at the National Traditional Orchestra of China and frequently performed in presidential concerts in Beijing during the 1980s. In the U.S., she has been featured in concerts at such prestigious venues as Madison Square Garden and Lincoln Center in New York and the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C.

Professor Li has been on the faculty of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology since 1997. At UCLA, she leads the Music of China Ensemble and teaches all the major Chinese instruments These include the erhu, zheng (bridged zither), dizi (bamboo flute), yangquin (hammered dulcimer), pipa (four-stringed plucked lute), ruan (four-stringed plucked lute with a round body), sanxian (three-stringed plucked lute), and qin (sevenstringed bridgeless zither).

She was soloist for the soundtrack of Disney-Pixar’s Bao, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Short in 2019.

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We at the Center for World Music are proud of our array of programs, especially our long-standing school music program. Please consider supporting our initiatives and sharing in our mission to serve people in the San Diego area. Your contribution would be deeply appreciated by the musicians and the audiences we bring together

I hope you will consider a gift in 2023.

Timothy Rice, Board President

Center for World Music

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