University Symphony Orchestra Concert 09/18/21

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday I September 18, 2021 Faye Spanos Concert Hall

I 7:30 pm

Winners of the Conservatory Concerto Competition: MONICA MENDOZA flute DIEGO BUSTAMANTE piano TRISTEN COLLINSWORTH bassoon ABIGAIL HERNANDEZ soprano UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Nicolas Waldvogel, conductor

Conservatory of Music 2nd Performance I 2021–22 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific

CONCERT PROGRAM I SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 I 7:30 PM Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

“E Susanna non Vien” from Le Nozze di Figaro

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) Abigail Hernandez, soprano

Andante e Rondo Ongarese

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Tristen Collinsworth, bassoon

Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)

Allegro Scherzando Monica Mendoza, flute

Intermission

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# Minor, Op. 1 Vivace

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Diego Bustamante, piano

Bolero

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The University Symphony Orchestra provides a full range of performance experiences. In addition to the standard repertoire, the orchestra performs literature from the Baroque through the twenty-first century. It collaborates with the Pacific Opera Theatre in fully-staged operas and musical theater, and performs major choral and orchestral works with the University choral ensembles. The orchestra also performs concertos with faculty and guest artists, and with students in the annual Concerto Competition Concert.

Violin 1 Charlotte Han, principal Emma Northcutt Elizabeth Aquino Mereth Niemoeller Liam Shaughnessy Jamie Lue Emma Young Magdalene Myint Adriana Aguayo Violin 2 Aubrey Williams, principal Isabelle Knittle Lauren Huen Marcella Stone-Fox Caroline Burke-Baker Lena Tang Maisie Stollard Arianna Duarte Cody Nguyen Viola Marissa Staffero, principal Samantha Tse Abby Van De Water Cierra Evelyn Gavin Downing Kylie Trenhaile Cello Hasina Torres, principal Jane Damon Bailey LaBrie Jordan Hendrickson Frances Florentino Joanne Oliveira

Bass Noah Gonzales, principal Logan Adams Julianna Meneses Miguel Velarde Joshua Gutierrez Flute Marcus Loya Natalie Kowalski (also piccolo) Phoenix Farris (also piccolo) Kalea Bringas Oboe Byron Ayala (also piccolo) Molly Westlake (also bass) Vanessa Lopez Clarinet Byron Ayala (also piccolo) Molly Westlake (also bass) Vanessa Lopez Bassoon Dorian Jones (also contrabassoon) Ealaph Tabbaa Ella Hebrard Tyler Van Zuiden Horn Jada Ramos Olivia Gideon Reese Romero Skylar Warren

Trumpet Andrew Marcopulos Cristina O’Brien Jack Chivers Noah Granard Saxophone Arturo Garcia Michael De Lashmutt Trombone Matthew Miramontes Rebecca Growcott Brooke Farrar Tuba Domenic Jimenez Timpani Daniel Harrison Percussion Robin Bisho Leonard Cox Jonathan Herbers Mallory Norman Emily Winsatt Celesta Joseph Kruse Harp Candace LiVolsi

SOLOISTS - WINNERS OF THE CONSERVATORY CONCERTO COMPETITION Monica Mendoza has been a lover of music since early childhood. Enthralled by a featurette on a Lord of the Rings DVD about the soundtrack, Monica started taking flute lessons at the age of eleven, first taught by her mother. Monica graduated magna cum laude from University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in 2021, majoring in Music Performance con Flute. During her time at the conservatory, Monica studied under Mathew Krejci and performed in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and many small chamber groups. In February of 2020 and 2021, Monica was nominated and won a place in the conservatory honors recital, and was a winner of the 2021 concerto competition. Monica’s favorite composers are Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, and Maurice Ravel. When she isn’t playing flute, she is writing creatively, playing Uno with siblings, or crocheting.

Diego Bustamante, from Chico, CA, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, where he studied with professor Frank Wiens and Dr. Sonia Leong. He has been an active performer throughout California, appearing as a solo artist, chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and concerto soloist. Notable appearances include performing the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D Minor with the North State Symphony in Chico and Redding, CA. While at UOP, he was bestowed the Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award, which is presented to one conservatory student each year. He is currently teaching piano at Sayla Music Academy in Lodi, and Pacific Community Music School at the UOP campus. He was also hired as the rehearsal pianist for the UOP Opera Theatre’s upcoming production of The Threepenny Opera. In addition to being a classical musician, he is also an active ragtime pianist, and a regular performer at the West Coast Ragtime Festival. Aside from his passion for music, he is also a birder and overall nature enthusiast.

SOLOISTS - WINNERS OF THE CONSERVATORY CONCERTO COMPETITION

Tristen Collinsworth graduated from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Music degree in performance on bassoon. During his time at Pacific, Tristen played with the symphonic wind ensemble, university symphony orchestra, Pacific pep band, 28/78 new music ensemble, and Pacific heavy ensemble. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music in performance on bassoon at the Baylor University School of Music in Waco, Texas.

Abigail Hernandez, a native of Los Angeles, California, is a recent graduate from the University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music; where she received a Bachelor of Music in Performance. She studied with Voice professor Daniel Ebbers, Jim Haffner, Director of Pacific Opera theater, and Burr Phillips, Vocal coach. While at Pacific she was a featured soloist in the Opera Follies, Homecoming Prism Concerts and in 2019’s production of Brigadoon. She was cast in roles of Amiam in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, and Nettie, from Rodgers & Hammersteins Carousel.

During her senior year she played the role of Olivia from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in a joint project with Pacific’s Media X program. In Spring of 2021 she took part in Belonging: a Pastiche Opera Film, under the guidance of guest director Ann Baltz. She is a two time recipient of the Stockton Opera Competitions Scholarship, and was part of Pacific’s Honors Recital last spring. Abigail is set to start her Master in Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music this fall.

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR Dr. Nicolas Waldvogel conducts University Symphony Orchestra and teaches conducting and music history at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music since 2001.

He has guest conducted the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland) and the State Philharmonic “Dinu Lipatti” (Romania). He was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival, where he studied with Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, and John Nelson. He also assisted Horst Stein in a production of Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper, in Berlin.

Dr. Waldvogel has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, with Anonymous 4, and with Alan Gilbert. His recent credits include a performance of Ives’s immense Fourth Symphony, Verdi’s La traviata, Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and the complete symphonies by Jean Sibelius. He also contributed to the “Symphony” article for Oxford Bibliographies Online.

Translation of Mozart Aria E Susanna non vien?

And still, Susanna does not come!

Sono ansiosa di saper come il Conte

I am anxious to know how the Count

Accolse la proposta. Alquanto ardito,

received the proposal.

Il progetto mi par.

The scheme appears rather daring,

E ad uno sposo si vivace

with a husband so rash and jealous!

E geloso! Ma che mal c’e?

But what’s the harm in it?

Cangiando i miei vestiti con quelli

Changing my clothes for those of Susanna, and she for mine,

Di Susanna, e i suoi co’miei: Al favor della notte. Oh, cielo!

A qual umil stato fatale Io son ridotta da un consorte crudel!

Che dopo avermi con un misto Inaudito d’infedeltà, Di gelosia, di sdegni, prima amata, Indi offesa, e alfin tradita,

under cover of night. Heavens!

To what humble and dangerous state I am reduced by a cruel husband, who, with an unheard-of combination of infidelity, jealousy and disdain first loved me, then abused and finally betrayed me

Fammi or cercar da un mia serva aita!

now forces me to seek the help of a servant!

Dove sono i bei momenti

Where are the golden moments

di dolcezza e di piacer,

of tranquillity and pleasure;

dove andaron i giuramenti

what became of the oaths

di quel labbro menzogner!

of that deceitful tongue?

Perché mai, se in pianti e in pene

When my life

per me tutto si cangiò,

changed into tears and pain,

la memoria di quel bene

why did the memory of that joy

dal mio sen non trapassò?

not disappear from my breast?

Dove sono i bei momenti, ecc.

Ah! If then my constancy

Ah! Se almen la mia costanza

still loves through its sorrow,

nel languire amando ognor

the hope yet remains

mi portasse una speranza

of changing that ungrateful heart.

di cangiar l’ingrato cor!

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