Part of the 24th Annual New Music Series April 9, 2025
April 9, 2025
RONALD S. ROCHON
President, California State University, Fullerton
AMIR H. DABIRIAN
Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
ARNOLD HOLLAND, EDD
Dean, College of the Arts
DR. RANDALL GOLDBERG Director, School of Music
KIMO FURUMOTO
Assistant Director, School of Music
BONGSHIN KO
Assistant Director, School of Music
SCHOOL OF MUSIC FULL-TIME FACULTY AND STAFF
FACULTY
CONDUCTING
Kimo Furumoto instrumental
Dr. Robert Istad choral
Dr. Christopher Peterson choral
Dr. Dustin Barr instrumental
JAZZ AND COMMERCIAL MUSIC
Bill Cunliffe* jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director
Rodolfo Zuñiga jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director
PIANO, ORGAN, PIANO PEDAGOGY
Bill Cunliffe jazz piano
Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Myong-Joo Lee piano
Dr. Robert Watson piano
MUSIC EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING, AND TEACHING CREDENTIAL
Dr. Christopher Peterson choral
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore* instrumental
MUSIC IN GENERAL EDUCATION
Dr. John Koegel*
Dr. Katherine Reed
MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE
Dr. Vivianne Asturizaga musicology
Dr. John Koegel* musicology
Dr. Katherine Powers musicology
Dr. Katherine Reed musicology
STRINGS
Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor
Bongshin Ko cello
Dr. Ernest Salem* violin
THEORY AND COMPOSITION
Dr. Pamela Madsen, composition, theory
Dr. Ken Walicki* composition, theory
VOCAL, CHORAL, AND OPERA
Dr. Robert Istad Director of Choral Studies and University Singers conductor
Dr. Kerry Jennings* Director of Opera
Dr. Christopher Peterson CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
Dr. Joni Y. Prado voice, academic voice courses
Dr. Bri’Ann Wright general education
WOODWINDS, BRASS, AND PERCUSSION
Dr. Dustin Barr Director of Wind Band Studies, University Wind Symphony, University Band
Jean Ferrandis flute
Sycil Mathai* trumpet
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore University Symphonic Winds conductor
STAFF
Michael August Production Manager
Eric Dries Music Librarian
Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator
Will Lemley Audio Technician
Jeff Lewis Audio Engineer
Chris Searight Musical Instrument Services
Paul Shirts Administrative Assistant
Elizabeth Williams Business Manager
* denotes Area Coordinator
Welcome to the College of the Arts Spring 2025 Season. As we come together to enjoy incredible art, dance, music and theatre programming from across the college, I know we are all still reeling from the recent fires that tore through the communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. In many ways, we are all Angelenos and when our city breaks, we break. Many of our students, faculty, and staff are finding comfort in processing complex thoughts and emotions the only way we know how: through the arts. It is our calling and what ties us to our community. Through our programming, we hope to provide a bit of respite to all of you during this time of regrouping and rebuilding.
In the College of the Arts, every note, every movement, and every word spoken on stage brings opportunity for discovery and connection. Whether you are a fellow Titan, family member, or community supporter, we are thrilled to have you here. You are now part of something much larger than this single performance. You are joining a vibrant and diverse collective of artists and technicians working together to push the boundaries of their craft.
Spring 2025 brings us a season of fresh programming to challenge our perceptions and immerse us in new perspectives. Later this month, the School of Music presents “Hajar,” a contemporary opera synthesizing ancient Jewish and Islamic stories into a modern immigration tale. Theatre begins their season with “Significant Other,” a heartfelt tale of love and longing in 21st century New York City. If you haven’t yet seen our spectacular new gallery building, make time to see “Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well” – an exploration of the cosmic phenomena of gravitational waves using video, sound, and images. In May, our dancers and choreographers return to the intimate Hallberg Theatre in “Spring Dance Theatre: From All Sides,” where viewers will experience a variety of dance forms from every angle of the stage.
It takes more than just the emotional support of friends, family, professors, and mentors to enable students to take creative risks of expression. As a college, we remain committed to providing these aspiring arts professionals with scholarships, financial assistance, and the industry-ready equipment, facilities, and opportunities to further develop their skills outside the classroom. Our resolve is steadfast, but we need your continued support to sustain and expand our educational mission, ensuring our students have the tools necessary to succeed. Please consider a donation of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.
I thank you for being here, for your ongoing support, and for your conviction in the power of the arts. Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary.
Sincerely,
Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts
A Book of (Musical) Stories
Brightwork newmusic
Sara Andon, flute • Brian Walsh, clarinet • Shalini Vijayan, violin
Maggie Parkins, cello • Aron Kallay, piano • Nick Terry, percussion
Through centuries of droughts, floods, fires and quakes, a grove of Wild Oaks has sustained life on a Los Angeles hillside. Enter Croogés, an ambitious developer with a vision. The Wild Oaks are singing, but for how long?
MLK & Coliseum is part of Rickerby Hinds’ beautiful set called Intersections which is a semi-autobiographical collection of lyrics written for Interstitial. Each lyric, from the perspective of a character named Carlos, is about a different intersection in the Crenshaw neighborhood, where he grew up. MLK & Coliseum is about the intersection of boyhood and manhood, adolescence and adulthood, and the fascinating ways in which we define it. One of what will ultimately be up to four movements, I was drawn to this text because of the concentric circles of intersections within, whether it be a physical place, the time of day, or the bicycle he uses to get around town. We set out to make something that was defined by the intersection of our own art forms, using recordings of Kerby’s own voice layered over itself in conjunction with the voices of HEX and the instrumentalists of Brightwork, making an electroacoustic pastiche at the intersection of our shared love of our new home in the greater L.A. Region.
Thank you to Brightwork and HEX for workshopping the piece and bringing the character of Carlos to life. I am incredibly grateful to Kerby for trusting me with this collection of lyrics that are so compelling and letting me use his recorded voice in the work. There are so many other intersections to explore, and I hope we get to work on this set again in the future, it deserves its own feature performance!
Waterways and Dwellings
MOLLY PEASE
Text by Molly Bendall
Contemplating the question “What is a dwelling place?,” Molly Pease’s Waterways and Dwellings, with text by Molly Bendall, turns towards Ballona Creek as a source of ecological and cultural knowledge. Waterways and Dwellings began with a walk along the nearly ninemile-long creek that connects the city to the Ballona Wetlands, Marina Del Rey, and the Pacific Ocean. Over the course of their walk, they paid attention to the ecological and social conditions of the area: what could be heard, seen, and smelled from the path. These sounds and textures were recorded and interpreted by the composer to create a sonic landscape that pulls from local birds, rowers yelling and paddling by, rolling bicycles, and the sound of the boardwalk. Waterways and Dwellings looks to Ballona Creek’s history to converse with its present condition.
This performance of the piece will feature the first and fourth movement. The first movement titled “I. Can an empty space compose?” is a contemplation of what place is and how we think about space in a holistic sense: the history of the Tongva people, the birds, the currents in the water, and the trash lining the creek bed. The piece contains layered voices, rhythmic ideas, and extended techniques inspired by the environment. Breath sounds evoke foghorns. Overtone singing and whistling creature texture. Yodels reminiscent of local birds and vocal improvisation that reflects the improvisational qualities of nature ground the piece in the environment of Ballona Creek and its accompanying paths, travels, and conversation.
In “IV. Bow to Stern”, Pease turns to jazz and rock influences as she considers a creaky old boat rocking and hitting the dock of the marina. The boats of the past enter the harbor: the Entertainer, the Mona Lisa. Eventually, time and history catch up with the landscape, carrying the uncertainty of the future. If only it carried the script of what it was.
Stories
VERONIKA KRAUSAS
Text by Sarah LaBrie
Memories are likened to trees growing in all directions. Those memories are stories that branch out, intersecting, and existing between cultures and locations.
Without History, Without Pain
CAROLYN CHEN
Text by Warren Liu
Warren Liu’s poem “Before We Were Tasked With Our Forgetting” considers the Pacific coast as a site of historic violence by settlers to native peoples and ecosystems. Without History, Without Pain takes on this sense of tension and loss fought over longer historical, even geological time. In the music, voices and instruments shift between singing tones, the din of crowds, murmurs of the unspoken, and the roar of the ocean.
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SAUNDER CHOI
Text by Brian Sonia-Wallace
For as long as we’ve known each other, we’ve joked about writing a gay bathhouse opera. There’s something operatic about the bathhouse, the ritual drama of socialization and seduction, the scorn or the ecstasy. When Interstitial tasked us with sharing unique Angelino stories, this was the one we chose – a private world, invisible from the street, in which the queer community meets itself. We are a community that cuts across race and age, history and creed. The bathhouse is a closed community space and therefore a sacred space, in which Angelinos from all walks of life make (phallic) fellowship. Today, as the world moves increasingly online, bathhouses are fading, but also an oasis for our community. We ask: what can it mean to meet each other? How can we find each other sacred?
Fun fact: Gay bathhouses have, historically, hosted both music performances and church services.
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Brightwork newmusic and HEX would like to thank Overtone Industries for their donation of rehearsal space.
Nicolás Lell Benavides’ music has been praised for cooking up a “jaunty score [with] touches of cabaret, musical theater and Latin dance” (OPERA NEWS.) In 2024 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has also received commissions from The New York Philharmonic/The Juilliard School, the LA Phil, Eighth Blackbird, New Century Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Hope, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, West Edge Opera, Washington National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Music of Remembrance, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Fry Street Quartet, Friction Quartet, and Khemia Ensemble. His music has received support from the American Composers Forum, The Barlow Endowment, New Music USA, Opera America, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His opera about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, with libretto by Marella Martin Koch, will premiere with West Edge Opera, San Diego Opera, The BroadStage, and Opera Southwest in the 2025-26 season.
Molly Pease is a LA-based vocal artist and composer who is inspired by nature, passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, and who speaks honestly about mental health in her music. Her recent works include erde dreams for solo voice, electronics, and trio; Waterways and Dwellings, a collaboration with poet Molly Bendall written for chamber vocal and instrumental ensemble; and her album Inner Astronomy, which incorporates her father’s oceanic, birdinspired poetry that focuses on struggles with depression and addiction. She was recently awarded Opera America’s Discovery Grant for Women Composers for her opera-in-progress HYSTERIA. As a performer, Molly has worked with Overtone Industries, theatre dybbuk, Impulse New Music Festival, Resonance Collective, and The Industry, and has appeared on GRAMMY-awarded and
nominated albums with Tonality and Wild Up, respectively. Molly is member and assistant director of experimental vocal sextet HEX, and regularly performs with LA Master Chorale and LA Choral Lab. She has performed with Björk, TuneYards, Sigur Rós, and Kronos Quartet. www.mollypeasemusic.com
Composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia of Lithuanian heritage, raised in Canada, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Commissions and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, The Industry, New York City Opera, Calgary Opera, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Detroit Symphony, Ensemble musikFabrik at the Darmstadt Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Chicago Architecture Biennial (2016), Piano Spheres, The Vancouver Symphony, ERGO Projects, Esprit Orchestra, Fort Worth Opera, Jacaranda Music, Motion Music, San Francisco Choral Artists, and the Penderecki String Quartet. She is currently on the composition faculty at the Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles and a founding member of the performance arts collective Sprung. www.veronikakrausas.com www.playwithsprung.com
Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday through sound, story, light, and movement. It has been informed by studying the guqin, the Chinese zither traditionally played for meditation in nature. Recent projects include an audio essay on a scream and commissions for Klangforum Wien and the LA Phil. Described by The New York Times as “most consistently alluring … a quiet but lush meditation,” her work has been
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
presented in 25 countries and supported by the Berlin Prize, Fulbright, and ASCAP’s Fred Ho Award. Recordings and writings are available on Leonardo Music Journal, MusikTexte, and the New Centennial Review. She earned a Ph.D. in music from UC San Diego, and a M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature and B.A. in music from Stanford University.
Saunder Choi, a Filipino composer and choral artist based in Los Angeles, has earned international acclaim with performances by groups like Conspirare, Philippine Madrigal Singers, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, etc. He’s the winner of the 2024 American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Raymond Brock Prize for Professional Composers. As an arranger, he has written for Lea Salonga, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, and many others. He sings with Pacific Chorale, L.A. Choral Lab, and HEX Vocal Ensemble, as well as in film scores like Disney’s The Lion King, Mulan, Avatar 2, and others. His compositions champion DEIJ themes, including immigration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ advocacy, climate justice, and representations of his Filipino-Chinese heritage. He is the Director of Music at the UU Church of Santa Monica and a teaching as an artist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. www.saunderchoi.com
Brightwork newmusic was founded in 2013 by pianist and Pomona College faculty member Aron Kallay. The organization’s mission is to enliven and expand contemporary classical music with a focus on West Coast composers and performers. The members of the in-house ensemble, Brightwork, are among the best chamber musicians in the world. The ensemble strives to find new and exciting ways to connect with audiences in the US and abroad by presenting friendly and exciting concerts in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Through its educational outreach program, ProjectBeacon, they work closely with young musicians and composers across Southern California. The goal is to empower the next generation of artists through residencies with youth orchestras and universities, student composer readings, masterclasses, and workshops.
A flexible and fearless group of world-class musicians, Brightwork consists of piano, violin, soprano, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion (an instrumentation which is often called “Pierrot + percussion,” and which is to modern chamber music what the string quartet was to earlier centuries), and champions the best of the music that’s being written today, while continuing to play the classics of “new” music from the last hundred years.
We play the music we love, whether this is one of our favorite masterworks of the 20th century, or the latest dazzling score from a composer whose music we just discovered. What the listener can expect at a Brightwork concert–at the very least–is exciting, emotionally engaging music presented in state-of-the-art performances. Brightwork seeks to draw the audience into the creative process.
Described by the LA Times as “a luminous ensemble of singers,” HEX is an award-winning contemporary vocal sextet based in Los Angeles dedicated to performing new works that reimagine the expressive potential of the human voice. The group features criticallyacclaimed singers who have been featured soloists with LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Industry Opera. HEX has performed with Brightwork newmusic, theatre dybbuk, and the Resonance Collective, and at venues such as the Broadstage, Meng Concert Hall, Tuesdays@Monk Space, HEAR NOW Music Festival, Sound and Fury Concert Series, and more. In 2022, HEX was nominated for the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice awards in four categories and received the award for “Best Orchestral Performance” for their premiere performance of Oratorio of the Earth.
A “fanciful and downright utopian artist and thinker” (LA Times), Fahad Siadat explores sound as spiritual practice, creating interdisciplinary pieces as a vehicle for unveiling the mystery of our interconnected world. His music is described as “evoking wonder, desire, and terror” (Off Broadway) with narratives that “border on being a spiritual journey” (LA Dance Chronicle). and has been presented by the L.A. County Museum of Art, Broadstage, and Museum of Contemporary Art. Working as a performer, composer, conductor, and curator, Fahad is the director of the Resonance Collective and the award-winning vocal ensemble HEX. His music has been performed in Europe, China, and across the United States.
ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Fahad SIADAT
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ONTIVEROS SOCIETY
The Ontiveros Society includes individuals who have provided a gift for Cal State Fullerton through their estate plan. We extend our deep appreciation to the following Ontiveros Society members, whose gifts will benefit the students and mission of the College of the Arts:
ANONYMOUS
JOHN ALEXANDER
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ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: The Alliance for the Performing Arts (formerly MAMM) benefits performing arts students through underwriting visiting artists; special theatre, dance, and music performances; and other unique experiences for members.
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ART ALLIANCE: Art Alliance promotes excellence and enjoyment in the visual arts, and their fundraising efforts contribute to student scholarship, gallery exhibitions, opening receptions and sculpture acquisition on campus.
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MUSIC ASSOCIATES: Music Associates maintains a tradition of active involvement and community support, and raises scholarship funds for School of Music students through annual fundraising events and membership dues.
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COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • SELECT EVENTS
College of the Arts Galleries Exhibitions
Vitae: A New Generation
Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well
Michelle Emami: Arcana Past Forward (Redux) Through May 17
Sergei Babayan, piano
February 16 • Meng Concert Hall
Sō Percussion*
February 20 • Meng Concert Hall
Hajar: Opera In Concert
February 21 • Recital Hall
University Symphony Orchestra feat. Music Associates’ Student Concerto/Aria Competition Winner February 23 • Meng Concert Hall
World Citizen Band with Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble
February 26 • Meng Concert Hall
Advanced Vocal Workshop with guest Michael Schütze, piano
March 6 • Recital Hall
Significant Other March 6–15 • Hallberg Theatre
Collage: 18th Annual Benefit Concert Sponsored by Morningside
March 8 • Meng Concert Hall
Dr. Joni Prado, soprano & Dr. Kerry Jennings, tenor, with Michael Schütze, piano
March 9 • Meng Concert Hall
Mela Quartet
March 12 • Meng Concert Hall
University Singers & Concert Choir
March 15 • Meng Concert Hall
Bill Cunliffe & Alison Edwards, duo piano
March 16 • Meng Concert Hall
Tuesday Matinée
March 18 • Recital Hall
Ralph Farris, viola, with CSUF Wind Symphony and Rodolfo Zuniga, percussion
March 18 • Meng Concert Hall
Spring Awakening
March 20–29 • Young Theatre
Talich Quartet
March 28 • Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra with the Talich Quartet
March 30 • Meng Concert Hall
Inna Faliks, piano
April 8 • Meng Concert Hall
Brightwork New Music and HEX Vocal Ensemble*
April 9 • Meng Concert Hall
Ernest Salem, violin and Alison Edwards, piano
April 13 • Meng Concert Hall
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
April 17–26 • Little Theatre
Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble and Fullerton Latin Ensemble
April 22 • Meng Concert Hall
Cello Choir
April 25 • Recital Hall
University Symphonic Winds
April 27 • Meng Concert Hall
CSUF New Music Ensemble and CSUF Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble*
April 30 • CPAC 119
University Band
April 30 • Meng Concert Hall
Spring Dance Theatre
May 1–10 • Little Theatre
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra
May 2 • Meng Concert Hall
University Wind Symphony
May 3 • Meng Concert Hall
Jazz Singers
May 5 • Meng Concert Hall
Titan Voices & Singing Titans
May 7 • Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus
