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 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 (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)
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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’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.
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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.
Composer Miguel del Aguila wrote the guitar work Sambeando (2021) for Hermann. Together with the North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz in New York City, he premiered Suite Continental (2019) by composer Alex Rodriguez, a work dedicated to him. In addition, the Estonian composer Renée Eespere dedicated his solo guitar work Immutatio (2003) to Hermann, a piece which was featured in Soundboard Magazine.
As a pedagogue, Hermann taught as Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College, UC Riverside, and the New England Conservatoy of Music School of Continuing Education (2010-16). He similarly concluded a music-ineducation internship at the Music Education Department of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (2008) and was appointed as Artist-Teacher in the Boston Symphony Orchestra new community program (2008-10). Additionally, Hudde worked on an orchestra management internship for Handel & Haydn Society in Boston (2008). Hermann also was a participant in an Invitational Seminar at New England Conservatory, “Venezuela’s Message of Social Transformation Through Music: A Model for Education, Social Reform and Human Development in the U.S.?” (2007).
As a musicologist, Hermann’s articles
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, Músicaenclave, Diagonal: An IberoAmerican Music Review and Harvard Review of Latin America, and also wrote the forthcoming chapter, “Bernstein and Latin America,” in the Bernstein in Context volume (Cambridge University Press).
Hermann has presented his research at the American Musicological Society, UC Irvine, UC Merced, Tufts, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, McGill, Harvard, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and Wheaton College, among other universities. Hermann’s contemporary musicological research projects have benefited from various grants, fellowships, and awards, including a Second Prize (2016) and an Honorable Mention (2014) in the Otto Mayer-Serra Award for IberoAmerican Music Research. His research “Voices of the Americas: Conversations with Latin American Composers in the United States” (2016) was awarded a grant from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. Hermann similarly received the Jane’s Travel Grant to research from the Latin American and Latino Studies at Brandeis University (2012) and his project: Pan Americanism in Action: Latin American Music and Composers at Tanglewood from 1941 to 1965 was granted with the “Outstanding Research and Proposal Project.”
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
Our mission is to Engage, Educate, and Elevate the Human Spirit
Soka Performing Arts Center strives to elevate humanity through transcendent experiences. Come experience our exquisite acoustics. Come to expand your understanding and appreciation of music. Come to forge community and emotional connections through the shared experience of live music.
Soka Performing Arts Center is located on the beautiful hilltop campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo. Our facility includes the 1,032seat Concert Hall featuring world-class acoustics designed by master acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, designer of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, among many others. We also have an intimate 350-seat Black Box Theatre that allows for multiple seating configurations including club seating with bistro tables.
More than 750 performances have taken place since the center’s dedication on May 27, 2011. The 2023-24 season marks our twelfth season presenting first-class programming in our world-class concert hall. We are continuing to expand our programming and outreach with the addition of a Children’s Concert Series, Blues Festival, and the only Great Pianists Series on the West Coast. From classical and jazz to world and contemporary music, the Soka Performing Arts Center has become a prized space for artists and audiences alike.
We are proud to be the home of the Pacific Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Our Sundays @ Soka Series with Pacific Symphony continues to be one of our most popular series year after year. Our presentations with other Orange County arts organizations have enabled us to reach further into our community to offer arts education and programming. Our partnership with the Philharmonic Society of Orange County includes our PSOC Series, which brings superlative artists to our stage. We also partner with PSOC for our Outreach Program, bringing over 7,000 school children to Soka Performing Arts Center to experience live performances with outstanding musicians.
With its world-class acoustics and first-class performances, Soka Performing Arts Center is quickly becoming one of the cultural jewels of Orange County.
OUR SUPPORTERS
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($75,000+)
Dr. Kenneth & Sandra Tokita
Sam* & Lyndie Ersan
CONCERTMASTER ($10,000+)
Ms. Emi Maeda
STAGE CHAMPION ($5000+)
Yoshitomo & Takemi Daido
STAGE BENEFACTOR ($1000+)
Anonymous
OC Chinese Cultural Club
John and Sue Prange
Terumi Saito
Jochen Schumacher
Alex & Sandy Scott
Scott A Shuping
Anson and Marilyn Wong
PLATINUM CLEF ($500+)
Anonymous
Jeffrey Hendrix
Edward D. Jones
Jane A. Lynch
GOLD CLEF ($200+)
Judy Kaufman
Lorraine Leiser
Naomi Uchiyama
SILVER CLEF ($100+)
Renée Bodie
Sam Chang
Masako Inage
Debrah Jiang
Chiharu Nagai
Paul Porto
Thomas Prigorac
Jonia Suri
Joseph Whittaker
BRONZE CLEF ($25+)
Raquel Bruno
Kenneth Hanawa
Ryosuke Iga
Jeannette Pease
Joyce M Wrice
Taro Yamanashi
* Deceased
List current as of 09/26/2024
The Soka Performing Arts Center deeply appreciates the support of its sponsors and donors, and makes every effort to ensure accurate and appropriate recognition. Contact Renée Bodie, General Manager at (949) 480-4821 to make us aware of any error or omission in the foregoing list.
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Your support helps ensure Soka Performing Arts Center fulfills its purpose: to engage, educate, and elevate the human spirit. Your gift supports the programming of world-class performances, provides transformative educational outreach experiences, and opens the opportunity to build engagement with our community by sharing the joy of live music.
OUR TEAM
OUR PARTNERS
• Blueport Jazz and Dr. Jim Merod
• Philharmonic Society of Orange County
• Pacific Symphony
• Parnassus Society
SOKA PAC MANAGEMENT TEAM
Renée Bodie
General Manager & Artistic Director
John Morgan Box Office Manager
Antoinette Rossman House Manager/Assistant to the General Manager
Jaime Spataro Marketing & Communications Manager
Steve Baker Production Manager
Aadya Agrawal Stage Manager
Jarmil Maupin Internal Events Manager
Piano Tuners
Kathy Smith Lead Tuner
Ron Elliott
David Stoneman
David Vanderlip
Soka Performing Arts Center resides on the beautiful campus of Soka University of America. We thank the SUA Board of Trustees and the SUA Leadership Council for all of their support.
SUA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Stephen S. Dunham, JD | CHAIR
Vice President and General Counsel Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University | Baltimore, Maryland
Tariq Hasan, PhD | VICE CHAIR
Chief Executive Officer, SGI-USA | New York, New York
Andrea Bartoli, PhD
President, Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue | New York, New York
Matilda Buck
Benefactor | Los Angeles, California
Lawrence E. Carter, Sr, PhD, DD, DH, DRS
Dean, Professor of Religion, College Archivist and Curator, Morehouse College | Atlanta, Georgia
Andy Firoved
CEO, HOTB Software | Irvine, California
Jason Goulah, PhD
Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and Director, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education, Director of Programs in Bilingual-Bicultural Education, World Language Education, and Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship, College of Education, DePaul University | Chicago, Illinois
Clothilde V. Hewlett, JD
Commissioner of Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, State of California | San Francisco, California
Karen Lewis, PhD
Sondheimer Professor of International Finance and Co-Director, Weiss Center for International Financial Research, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Luis Nieves
Founder, Chairman Emeritus AUL Corp, Benefactor | Napa, California
Isabel Nuñez, PhD, MPhil, JD
Professor of Educational Studies, Dean of School of Education, Purdue University Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, Indiana
Gene Marie O’Connell, RN, MS
Health Care Consultant, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing | Corte Madera, California
Adin Strauss
General Director, Soka Gakkai International-USA | Santa Monica, California
Yoshiki Tanigawa
Benefactor, Soka Gakkai | Tokyo, Japan
Gregg S. Wolpert
Co-president, The Stahl Organization | New York, New York
Edward M. Feasel, PhD
President, Soka University of America (ex-officio member) | Aliso Viejo, California
SUA Leadership Council
Edward M. Feasel, PhD
President
Chief Academic Officer
Professor of Economics
Archibald E. Asawa
Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Investment Officer
Katherine M. King, PHR
Executive Vice President of University Community
Chief Human Resources Officer
Title IX and Section 504 Coordinator for Faculty, Staff and Others
Michael Weiner, PhD
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of East Asian History & International Studies
Kevin Moncrief, PhD
Vice President for Mission Integration
Bryan E. Penprase, PhD
Vice President for Sponsored Research and External Academic Relations Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Tomoko Takahashi, PhD, EdD, LHD
Vice President for Institutional Research and Assessment
Dean of the Graduate School Professor of Linguistics and Education
David Welch, JD Vice President University Counsel
M. Robert Hamersley, PhD Dean of Faculty Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry
Hyon J. Moon, EdD Dean of Students Title IX and Section 504 Deputy Coordinator for Students
Michelle Hobby-Mears, MBA Associate Dean of Students Director of Student Activities
Andrew Woolsey, EdD Dean of Enrollment Services
Martin Beck, MA
Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications