InterArts Collaborative Projects Symposium

INTERARTS COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS SYMPOSIUM THE ART OF SONG: The Mono-Drama Pamela Madsen, director featuring

Brightwork newmusic quartet (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) Stacey Fraser, soprano Guest Composer: Dana Kaufman

12:30-9:00pm • Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Recital Hall

C AL STAT E FULLER TON

C S U F S C H O O L O F M US IC

RONALD S. ROCHON President, California State University, Fullerton

DR. RANDALL GOLDBERG Director, School of Music

SEAN E. WALKER Provost and VP for Academic Affairs (Interim)

KIMO FURUMOTO Assistant Director, School of Music

ARNOLD HOLLAND, EDD Dean, College of the Arts

BONGSHIN KO Assistant Director, School of Music

SCHOOL OF M U S I C F U L L-TI M E FAC U LT Y A N D S TA F F Bongshin Ko cello Dr. Ernest Salem* violin

FACULT Y 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 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 Reed musicology STRINGS Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor

THEORY AND COMPOSITION Dr. Hesam Abedini composition, theory 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 Ken McGrath* percussion Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore University Symphonic Winds conductor Michael Yoshimi* clarinet S TA F F Michael August Production Manager Charlotte Bouck Audition Coordinator, Asst. Production Manager Eric Dries Music Librarian Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator Jeff Lewis Audio Engineer Chris Searight Musical Instrument Services Paul Shirts Administrative Assistant Elizabeth Williams Business Manager

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Welcome to the spring 2026 events season at Cal State Fullerton’s College of the Arts.

We have been hard at work in every classroom, practice room, and studio across campus preparing to share new sounds and bold creativity with all of you. We are thrilled you are here.

Our students and their success form the core of our purpose in the College of the Arts but unlike their counterparts in other colleges, their paths are not solely formed through classroom learning; they are revealed in the moments when talent meets opportunity.

Like when a dancer attends an intensive, or when a musician travels abroad on tour, or an actor or artist is mentored – this is where promise is transformed into possibility.

The Dean’s Fund for Excellence gives students access to meaningful experiences like these and many more, including masterclasses, research opportunities, materials, and professional conferences. You can help ensure creativity isn’t limited by circumstance.

Consider a gift of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.

This spring semester is brimming with performances and exhibitions for all to enjoy – some that will make you laugh and others that will make you think. In the School of Music, Sibarg Ensemble, featuring our own Hessam Abedini, explores the musical intersections of Iranian music and jazz on February 20. In April, Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring” follows the shy, virtuous title character as he rebels against his prudish upbringing. Join us in the Little Theatre beginning March 5 for the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” – an uproarious sendup of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale, “The Princess and the Pea.” If you’re craving something completely different, Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” opens March 19 to hold a mirror to the absurdity of mob mentality and the struggle to maintain individuality in the face of mass hysteria. And in late spring, our dancers and choreographers return to demonstrate their inimitable power and grace in “Spring Dance Theatre.”

Across the walkway from where you’re seated are the College of the Arts Galleries.

You can still catch exhibitions from Soo Kim and Carol Caroompas until May, or stop by the galleries on Wednesdays for our bi-weekly Student Galleries opening receptions.

They are always full of energy, and you might even find student artwork to purchase and take home!

Whether you’re returning to our venues or here for the first time, we are so excited to present another season to you. Thank you for joining us.

Sincerely, Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts

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PR OG R A M (Program subject to change.)

12:30–4:30 PM | WORKSHOP / COACHING SESSION

Brightwork New Music Quartet + Stacey Fraser (with Dana Kaufman) 12:30 pm

Giovanni Guillen: Le Drapeau noir (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

1:00 pm

Luke Templeman: Five Haikus for voice and piano Luke Templeman, piano; Stacey Fraser, voice (TBD)

1:30 pm

Cristian Polo: L’Adieu (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

2:00 pm

Scott Dilbeck: The Sovereign (Brightwork quartet)

2:30–3:00 pm

BREAK

3:00 pm

Shannon Hayden: Black Elm (Brightwork trio + Shannon Hayden, cello)

3:30 pm

Alex Lopez: Falling (Brightwork + Alex Lopez, trumpet)

4:00 pm

Julia Craft: Little Kitty Playtime, my awesome list (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

4:30–5:45 PM | GUEST COMPOSER PRESENTATION Dana Kaufman “The Trial and Triumph of Opera Composition”

6:00–9:00 PM | SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS & CONCERT I. Papers and Lecture-Performances (6:00–6:30 pm) Daniel Meyers

Tonal Stability and Psychological Instability in Poulenc’s La voix (paper presentation)

Malek Sammour

Voicing Tension: Interpreting Samuel Barber’s I Hear an Army Through the “Grain of the Voice” in a Contemporary, Transcultural Context (lecture-performance)

Tim Cervenko

John Musto’s Rome: In the Café (lecture-performance)

PR OG R A M

II. New Works: Student Compositions / Performances (6:45–7:45 pm) What We Carry Forward: A Mono-Drama in Two Songs for Voice and Piano I. Inheritance II. Morning Song Text: Erika Jackson | Music: Adrian Rangel Sanchez Menendez Brothers Opera Scene (4:20) for two tenors and piano Alan Garcia (tenor), Steven McCann (librettist/tenor), Rose Taylor (composer/pianist) Dana for piano and voice Whitney Edwards (composer) Five English Haikus for piano and voice I. sanguineous tears II. the [earth] III. please listen IV. unheard V. [red] VI. what will be Luke Templeman (composer) Transubstantiation (final scene), Mono-Drama for SATB Choir Julia Craft (composer) Jeremy Lee (conductor, SATB Choir)

III. Brightwork New Works (Performance/Recording) (8:00–9:00 pm) Giovanni Guillen

Le Drapeau noir (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

Cristian Polo

L’Adieu (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

Scott Dilbeck

The Sovereign (Brightwork quartet)

Shannon Hayden

Black Elm (Brightwork trio + Shannon Hayden, cello)

Alex Lopez

Falling (Brightwork + Alex Lopez, trumpet)

Julia Craft

Little Kitty Playtime, my awesome list (Brightwork quartet + Stacey Fraser)

A BOUT T HE E NS E MBL E

Aron Kallay, piano and artistic director Rachel Iba, violin Jennifer Bewerse, cello Brian Walsh, clarinet Stacey Fraser, voice BRIGHTWORK ENSEMBLE is a classical new music septet based in Los Angeles, California. The band features a fearless group of world class, awardwinning musicians consisting of piano, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, voice, and percussion--a flexible“ Pierrot + percussion” instrumentation “ that has become the foundation of modern chamber music.

Brightwork champions the best of the music being written today through commissions, premieres and recordings, while also performing our favorite masterworks from the last hundred years.

Hailed as one of L.A.’s “most gutsy new-music ensembles” (Mark Swed, LA Times), with the “rare ability to make complex music feel clear, immediate, and intelligible” (Charles Burns, SF Classical Voice), Brightwork has established itself as a leading voice in Southern California’s new music scene. Always exciting and emotionally engaging, the ensemble’s performances have enthralled audiences across the region and earned spots in SF Classical Voice’s Best Performances of 2025. The ensemble is part of Brightwork newmusic, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that also presents the Tuesdays @ Monk Space concert series, runs educational outreach and residencies as Project Beacon, and releases music (audio and video) on its label, Brightwork Digital.

Stacey Fraser

ABOUT T HE G UE S T COMPOSE R

Dana Kaufman

Hailed as a “whirlwind” (Gramophone) and “powerfully funny” (The Observer), Dana Kaufman creates music that is as intellectually “ingeniously derived” as it is vibrant (Sequenza 21). Her works have found homes around the world— from Carnegie Hall and the National Gugak Center in South Korea to more unconventional spaces like The Tank and Opera on Tap. Whether she’s being commissioned by the Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera, the Louisville Ballet, or GRAMMY-winner Nadia Shpachenko, Dana brings a passion for storytelling and drama to her work. A recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Estonia, National Endowment for the Arts grant, OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grant (supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation), and five American Prize honors, Dana is a frequent speaker at international venues on queer opera and gender diversity in composition, topics she champions with a genuine desire to shake up the status quo.

Dana received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Russian (magna cum laude) from Amherst College and her Master of Music in Composition from The New England Conservatory. She is now a Centennial Medalist of University of Miami Frost School of Music, from which she received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition. When she isn’t teaching as Associate Professor in Music Composition at University of California, Riverside, you can find her plotting her next mediocre stand-up comedy routine with the same whirlwind energy she brings to her scores. danakaufmanmusic.com

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Pamela Madsen is a composer, performer, theorist, writer and curator of new music. From massive immersive concert-length projects, solo works, chamber music to multi-media opera collaborations her work focuses on issues of social change, exploration of image, music, text and the environment. With a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCSD, studies with Brian Ferneyhough, Mellon Foundation Doctoral Research Award in theory at Yale University, Post- Doctoral research in Music Technology at IRCAM, Paris, and Deep Listening Certificate with Pauline Oliveros, her creative projects and research focuses on the evolution of compositional thought, improvisation, electronic music, and women in music.

Madsen’s works have been commissioned and premiered world-wide by such artists as Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Brightwork newmusic, ModernMedieval, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tony Arnold, Nicholas Isherwood, Stacey Fraser, Claire Chase, Jane Rigler, Anne LaBerge, Brian Walsh, Lisa Moore, Vicki Ray, Aron Kallay, Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, Ashley Bathgate, Trio Solisti, New York New Music Ensemble, Either/Or, yesaroun’ duo, California Ear Unit, Verdehr Trio, Zeitgeist, JACK, Ethel, Lyris, Formalist and Arditti string quartets with multimedia collaborations with visual artists Quintan Ana Wikswo, Camille Seaman, Jimena Sarno and Judy Chicago.

Major concert-length projects include Madsen’s Opera America and National Endowment for the Arts Funded Opera: Why Women Went West, National Endowment for the Arts and New Music USA supported Oratorio for the Earth; Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat; Luminosity: Passions of Marie Curie multi-media opera; Melting Away: Gravity for orchestra, with Arctic photographer Camille Seaman; We are All Sibyls-Envisioning the Future Project multi-media opera installation with visual artist Judy Chicago. Selected as Huntington Library Mellon Research Fellow, Alpert Award Panelist, Creative Capital artist “on the radar” with awards from Opera America, National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Scandinavian Foundation, artist residency fellowships at MacDowell Colony, UCross, Wyoming, Women’s International Studies Center, New Mexico, Wurlitzer Foundation Award, with international Russia/Siberia Concert tour, featured composer at Pulsar Festival, Denmark, she is a frequent guest artist at festivals and universities worldwide. She is Director of the Annual New Music Festival, InterArts Collaborative Projects at Cal State Fullerton where she is Professor of Music Composition, Music Theory and Director of the New Music Ensemble.

Pamela Madsen

DONOR APPLAUSE $500,000 + Mrs. Junko Klaus $100,000-$499,999 Johnny Carson Foundation $50,000-$99,999 CSU Northridge Foundation Leo Freedman Foundation Ms. Susan Hallman in Memory of Ernie Sweet ‘77 Mr. Matthew Scarpino & Ms. Karyn Hayter Mr. Steve & Mrs. Robin Kalota Dr. Sallie Mitchell* Dr. Tedrow & Mrs. Susan Perkins Mrs. Louise Shamblen $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. Darryl Curran Mrs. Lee C. Begovich Mrs. Marilyn Carlson Ms. Mary A. and Mr. Phil Lyons Mr. Bob & Mrs. Terri Niccum Mr. Ernest & Mrs. Donna Schroeder Dr. Ed & Mrs. Sue Sullivan $10,000-$24,999 Dr. Joseph & Dr. Voiza Arnold Mr. John Aimé & Ms. Robin de la Llata Aimé Dr. Marc Dickey Mrs. Evelyn Francuz Mr. Edward & Mrs. MaryLouise Hlavac Ms. Kathleen Hougesen Ms. Kathy Mangum Mr. James & Mrs. Eleanore Monroe Mrs. Norma Morris Mr. John Brennan & Ms. Lucina Moses $5,000-$9,999 Mr. Nick & Mrs. Dottie Batinich Continuing Life LLC Ms. Harriet Cornyn Mr. William S. Cornyn Dedicated 2 Learning Mr. Richard & Mrs. Susan Dolnick Ebell Club of Fullerton Friends of Jazz, Inc. Dr. Margaret Gordon

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Empower our students to become the successful creative professionals our economy so desperately needs! Consider making a gift of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.

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