2025.04.26 | 12th Annual SUA Music Faculty Recital Program

SUA Faculty Recital Saturday, April 26 | 2 PM

Sponsored by Soka University of America’s Creative Arts Program

Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University of America

Program

PROGRAM Calling All Michael Golden

Alfred Lang and Friends

Lonely Town - Pas de Deux from On the Town Leonard Bernstein Alfred Lang and Friends

Times Square: 1944 from On the Town Leonard Bernstein Alfred Lang and Friends

Piano Sonata in C Major Op. 2 No. 3 I. Allegro con Brio Ludwig van Beethoven Wan-Chin Chang (piano)

Alone Together Arthur Schwarz

Mina Choi (piano), Steven Ragsdale (alto saxophone)

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

Mina Choi (piano), Steven Ragsdale (alto saxophone)

Helen’s Song George Cables

Mina Choi (piano), Steven Ragsdale (alto saxophone)

Program

PROGRAM (Cont.)

Canción Caroreña Rodrigo Riera

Hermann Hudde (guitar)

La Casa Azul Aquilez Báez

Hermann Hudde (guitar)

Sambeando Miguel del Águila

Hermann Hudde (guitar)

“Allegro un poco Vivace” from Sonata Mexicana Manuel M. Ponce Hermann Hudde (guitar)

For the Children of All Ages (after Newtown) Michael Golden (piano/composer)

Music for a Found Harmonium Simon Jeffes

Allison Johnson (accordion), Michael Golden (keyboard), Alfred Lang (trumpet), Mina Choi (piano)

SUA Faculty Recital

Wan-Chin Chang Adjunct Instructor - Piano

Wan-Chin Chang appears regularly as a soloist with orchestras such as the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, Dana Point Symphony, Southern California Philharmonics, MiraCosta College Symphony, La Mirada Symphony, Southland Symphony, Temecula Valley Symphony, Orchestra Collectives of Orange County, Orange County Symphony, and Orange County Wind Symphony. Besides concerto and solo performances, she also frequently collaborates with other musicians in chamber recitals.

She had been invited to perform at across the county, appearing in Valdosta University, Saginaw Valley State University, Grand Valley University, Fullerton College, Fallbrook Music Society, White Lake Chamber Music Festival, Blodgett Faculty Recital Series at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, The Gladys Frisch Harris Piano Festival, and Orange Women’s Club.

Dr. Chang attended the University of Southern California and Aspen Music Festival with full scholarships, and she was the winner of the Leni Fe Foundation Scholarship, Pi Kappa Lambda Award, Chamber Music Award, and Outstanding Graduate Award. She also served as an assistant lecturer while completing her DMA in piano performance with a minor in violin performance from USC under the guidance of Antoinette Perry on the piano, and Eudice Shapiro on the violin. She is currently the assistant concertmaster of Sea Coast Symphony and principal second

violin at Orchestra Collective of Orange County.

As an educator, Dr. Chang’s students consistently receive top ratings and prizes in MTNA and MTAC evaluations and competitions. Several of her students have been accepted into music schools at University of Southern California, California State Universities (Fullerton, Long Beach, and San Marcos), and Chapman University. She has been on the judging panel of The Musical Merit Foundation of San Diego, MTAC San Diego Concerto Competition, Chopin Festival in San Diego, Southern California Philharmonic Young Artists Competition, Pelican International Music Competition, Concours International Competition, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp staff competition and camper competition. She is currently on faculty at MiraCosta College in Oceanside and Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo. During the summer, she is the piano department director at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.

SUA Faculty Recital

Mina Choi

Adjunct Instructor - Jazz Mina Choi is a pianist, composer, and arranger from Seoul, South Korea. Mina has received a Master Degree of Music from California State University, Fullerton, where she studied piano and arranging with Bill Cunliffe. Since her journey here she has also had the opportunities to write and arrange many pieces for jazz combos and jazz orchestras.

Her big band arrangements of tunes by the legendary pianist George Cables were featured recently at a performance by the Harvard Jazz Band at Harvard University. Her arrangement of “Bolivia” was chosen by the ASMAC judging committee in the 2015 ASMAC/ Pete Rugolo Big Band Arranging & Composing Competition.

Also, her original of “Paddle through the Lake” was awarded in the 2017 Bill Conti Big Band Arranging and Composing Competition.

Michael Golden

Professor of Music Composition & Theory Michael Golden studied music composition in the Pacific Northwest with, among others, William Bergsma, Tomas Svoboda, Diane Thome, and William O. Smith, receiving the DMA from the University of Washington in 1992.

Dr. Golden has composed for a wide range of media. He has been commissioned to write solo and

She received a DownBeat 38th Annual Student Music Award for Outstanding Performance with her own original composition, “Sing ChaCha” and arrangement, “Falling away with you” of Muse.

The music of Mina has very creative and competitive sound compared with other musicians.

Her enthusiasm and commitment to music is infectious. Her message to the world, that she wishes to share through music, is one of hope and love.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM chamber ensemble works, large ensemble works, and pieces for jazz ensembles of all sizes, and has also composed music for computer, live electronics, and mixed media, including websites, film, video and theatre productions.

Dr. Golden’s music has been performed throughout much of the United States as well as on six of the seven continents. He has also performed as a jazz pianist throughout the US and abroad.

Hermann Hudde Hermann Hudde is a recitalist, having given performances at such distinguished venues as the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, Graphik Museum “Pablo Picasso”, St. ElizabethKirche and Lateinamerikanischen Musiktage in Germany, Maryland University, the Venezuelan Arts Gallery of New York, La Universidad Central de Venezuela, Fundación John Boulton, Casa de Estudios Latinoamericanos “Rómulo Gallegos”, and Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela in Caracas, Wasserstaawerk Concertgebow in Holland, Sala Teatina in Florence, University of Chicago Fulton Recital Hall, El Instituto de Cultura y Educación de México en Chicago, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Keller Room in New England Conservatory, MIT Guest Artist Concert Series, King’s Chapel, The Loring-Greenough House, and St. Paul Cathedral, Bentley University in Boston, Dartmouth College Vaughan Recital Series, La Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and L’Université de Franche-Comtè in Besancon, France. As a chamber musician, he has worked with the singer Claudia Hernández and the flutist Gary Woolf in Europe, and with the pianist David Hessney and singers Sarah Cossaboon and Jessica Bachicha in the US.

Hermann’s concerted engagement with creative performance practices is reflected in his community performance outreach and work in non-traditional venues including public schools, senior centers, and public libraries.

As a four times recipient of the prestigious Gluck Fellow Program of the Arts at the University of California, Riverside (2017-21), he continued to bring interactive live music programs to dozens of public schools in Southern California.

Previously, in Boston, Hermann received a Performance Outreach Fellowship from the New England Conservatory of Music (2006-07).

As a recording artist, Centaur Records released his newest cd “Iberoamérica” (2009) with liner notes by Lecturer Olmanda Hernandez-Guerrero from Simmons College.

SUA Faculty Recital The German label Dreyer & Gaido produced Hermann’s first cd entitled “Trivium” (2003) with liner notes by the English composer John Duarte. This album has been highly acclaimed in Europe by Akoustic Gitarre, Fonoforum and Gitarren Hamburg.

and reviews have been published in refereed journals such as the Journal of the Society for American Music, Current Musicology, Tempo, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Revista Musical Chilena, Soundboard, Revista de Musicología, The World of Music, Resonancias, Latin American Music Review, Composer Miguel del Aguila wrote Músicaenclave, Diagonal: An Iberothe guitar work Sambeando (2021) American Music Review and Harvard for Hermann. Together with the Review of Latin America, and also North/South Consonance Chamber wrote the forthcoming chapter, Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz “Bernstein and Latin America,” in in New York City, he premiered Suite the Bernstein in Context volume Continental (2019) by composer (Cambridge University Press).

Alex Rodriguez, a work dedicated to him. In addition, the Estonian Hermann has presented his research composer Renée Eespere dedicated at the American Musicological his solo guitar work Immutatio (2003) Society, UC Irvine, UC Merced, Tufts, to Hermann, a piece which was San Francisco Conservatory of featured in Soundboard Magazine.

Music, McGill, Harvard, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and Wheaton As a pedagogue, Hermann taught as College, among other universities.

Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College, Hermann’s contemporary UC Riverside, and the New England musicological research projects Conservatoy of Music School of have benefited from various grants, Continuing Education (2010-16). fellowships, and awards, including He similarly concluded a music-ina Second Prize (2016) and an education internship at the Music Honorable Mention (2014) in the Education Department of the Boston Otto Mayer-Serra Award for IberoSymphony Orchestra (2008) and American Music Research. His was appointed as Artist-Teacher in research “Voices of the Americas: the Boston Symphony Orchestra Conversations with Latin American new community program (2008-10).

Composers in the United States” Additionally, Hudde worked on an (2016) was awarded a grant from the orchestra management internship Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. for Handel & Haydn Society in Hermann similarly received the Boston (2008). Hermann also was a Jane’s Travel Grant to research participant in an Invitational Seminar from the Latin American and Latino at New England Conservatory, Studies at Brandeis University (2012) “Venezuela’s Message of Social and his project: Pan Americanism in Transformation Through Music: A Action: Latin American Music and Model for Education, Social Reform Composers at Tanglewood from and Human Development in the U.S.?” 1941 to 1965 was granted with the (2007).

“Outstanding Research and Proposal Project.”

As a musicologist, Hermann’s articles

SUA Faculty Recital Hermann Hudde earned a PhD in Musicology from the University of California, Riverside (2021) with his dissertation “Negotiating Politics and Aesthetics: The Untold History of Latin America Modern Art Music in the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood (1940-1951).”

He also holds a Master of Music Degree with a Music-in-Education concentration (2008) at New England Conservatory in Boston, under the tutelage of Robert Sullivan and a Master of Arts in Musicology from Brandeis University thanks to the support of scholarships.

Hermann also earned a Bachelor’s degree in music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold Abteilung Münster, Germany (2003) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1998). Hermann received a scholarship from The Mozarteum University in Salzburg to attend the Summer Academy (2004), where he met and became a student of Edoardo Catemario at the Accademia Musicale di Firenze, Italy (2005-06). Hermann began his guitar studies in Venezuela with Rubén Riera and studied music theory with the composer Alvaro Cordero.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Allison Johnson Allison Johnson has degrees in music from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), UC San Diego (PhD) and a post-doctoral fellowship in Asian Studies/Music (Occidental College). She also studied Javanese gamelan in Yogyakarta with Suhardi.

Her works have been performed in Europe, Asia, and the US at Montalvo Arts, China-ASEAN Music Festival in Nanning, and Agosto Foundation in Prague, among others, multi-media works have been performed at the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, New Directions in Asian-American Music Festival, California Biennial, Feminist Theory & Music, Pasadena ArtNight, World Electro Acoustic Listening Room, La Jolla Athenaeum, and Frau Musica (nova) Festival in Cologne, among others.

She has received commissions, grants, awards, and residencies from Centrum Arts, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Center for Cultural Innovation, International Institute for Asian Studies, American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Luce Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Irvine Foundation, City of Pasadena, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and the Getty Foundation, among others.

She has published, presented, and served on panels on various topics on music, theater, race, and culture, and has been a guest lecturer at

National Taiwan University, Freie Universität Berlin, Simon Fraser University, USC, UC Irvine, and Mills College.

She is a four-time semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference and one of her collaborative works received a Critical Issues Grant from the Humanities for the Public Good.

Her film music (called a “raunchy jazz score” by Film Comment) was featured on Kino Lorber’s 2020 rerelease of films by pioneer director Alice Guy-Blaché and was honored at Columbia University in June 2021 at the Women & the Silent Screen conference.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Alfred Lang

Adjunct Instructor - Music Alfred Lang has been an active freelance trumpeter in Southern California for 40+ years. He taught at UCI before coming to Soka University 19 years ago. He has performed with all the major musical organizations here in the LA area - Pacific Symphony, Opera Pacific, Pageant of the Masters, Long Beach Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Long Beach Chorale, South Coast Symphony...and many others. He is a long-time faculty member of the Humboldt brass chamber music workshop and has

recently begun teaching trumpet and coaching chamber music at Chapman University.

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