Pacific Orchestras
Laura Jackson, guest conductor
Eric Dudley, conductor
2024-25 Composition Competition Winner
Marcus Rudes
2024-25 Performance Competition Winners
Mia Janosik, mezzo-soprano
Magdalene Myint, piano
Friday, April 25, 2025
7:30 pm
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Romance (2025)
Marcus Rudes (2005)
Laura Jackson, conductor
Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio from La Clemenza di Tito, KV 621 (1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Mia Janosik, mezzo-soprano
Abigail Miller, clarinet Eric Dudley, conductor
Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54 (1845)
Allegro affetuoso
Magdalene Myint, piano Eric Dudley, conductor
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 (1804–1808)
Allegro con brio
Andante con moto
Allegro
Allegro
Pause
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Laura Jackson, conductor
PROGRAM NOTES
Rudes: Romance
Romance is based on a piece I wrote for wind band in 2023, originally titled Asunder. Out of curiosity, I decided to revisit the work with a new understanding of theory and orchestration, as I’d written the piece as a senior in high school with little compositional background outside of songwriting. The music evokes a sense of nostalgia and tranquility that serves as a nod to William Grant Still.
—Marcus Rudes
Mozart: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio
Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia and premiered in Prague on September 6, 1791. The Act I “Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio” is a spectacular dramatic scena in which Sesto (a trouser role) agrees to do the bidding of Vitellia, whose love the Roman emperor Tito has spurned. Although Sesto’s own love for Vitellia is unrequited, he plans to carry out her vengeance against Tito. Sesto displays his willingness—to the point of murdering Tito—to gain Vitellia’s love.
— adapted from Herbert Glass
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54
Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, on June 8, 1810, and died in an asylum at Endenich, near Bonn, on July 29, 1856. Between May 4 and 20 of 1841, he composed a Concert Fantasy in A minor for piano and orchestra, and on August 8 that year, Clara Schumann played it through twice at a closed rehearsal of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Felix Mendelssohn conducting. Four years later, beginning in late May 1845, he reworked the Fantasy into the first movement of his Piano Concerto, completing the second movement on July 16 and the finale on July 31 that same year. Clara Schumann was soloist for the first performance of the concerto on December 4, 1845, in Dresden, with Ferdinand Hiller, to whom the work is dedicated, conducting.
—Michael Steinberg
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven began work on the Fifth Symphony shortly after completing the Third; in fact, ideas that he would use in the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies already had appeared in his sketchbook for the Third. He stopped work on the Fifth in 1806 to write what then became his Fourth Symphony. When he resumed work on the Fifth, it was in tandem with a new symphony, the Pastoral. Both symphonies had their first performances December 22, 1808, on an ill-fated mega-concert that also included vocal pieces as well as the premieres of the Choral Fantasy and Piano Concerto No. 4, with the composer in his last public appearance as soloist.
—John Henken
Mozart: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio
Parto, ma tu ben mio, Meco ritorna in pace; Sarò qual più ti piace, Quel che vorrai farò.
Guardami, e tutto oblio, E a vendicarti io volo; A questo sguardo solo Da me sì penserà.
Ah, qual poter, oh Dei Donaste alla beltà!
—Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio
Mozart: I go, but my dearest
I go, but my dearest, Make peace again with me; I will be what you would most, Have me be, do whatever you wish.
Look at me, and I will forget all, And fly to avenge you; I will think only Of that glance at me.
Ah, ye gods, what power You have given beauty!
—trans. opera-arias.com
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
An eloquent and articulate artist on and off the podium renowned for her dynamic leadership, energetic performances, and progressive vision, American conductor Laura Jackson is praised for her innovation, passion, and commitment to the continued growth of the symphonic repertoire and expanding music’s impact within communities. Having served as the fourth music director and conductor of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra (Reno Phil) since 2009, her contract has been unanimously renewed through the end of 2028-29 season, ensuring that diverse, compelling repertoire, and creative community programming will continue through the organization’s 60th anniversary. A 21st century conductor at home with repertoire from every era, Jackson is recognized for her championing of new music, her creativity with commissions, and her commitment to mentoring and encouraging the next generation of musicians, composers and women conductors. She is in her third season as an official mentor to emerging women conductors across the globe in the Taki-Alsop Foundation’s Fellowship program. With the Reno Phil, she also partners with the Davidson Institute in Reno Nevada to feature their instrumental fellows in concert. A frequent guest conductor, she has led distinguished ensembles across the United States, Canada, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Algeria, and China, and her relationships with orchestras continue to expand.
A champion of living composers, Laura Jackson created the Reno Philharmonic’s Composers in Residence initiative and has commissioned and presented several world premieres. She has led over 50 Reno Phil premieres and multiple Western U.S. premieres. Under her leadership, the Reno Phil has expanded its community and education programs to include the Composers in Residence, Conduct Us, movies with live orchestra performances, the annual Play for a Day, and the youth orchestras have expanded from three to five ensembles. Additionally, live streaming of concerts was introduced in 2020.
Eric Dudley joined University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music in 2019. He leads a multifaceted career as a conductor, composer, vocalist and pianist immersed in the creation of music both past and present, and as an original member of the two-time Grammy Award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, he toured worldwide with the group and appears extensively on their acclaimed recordings. Dudley came to the Bay Area from New York in 2016 as interim music director of the orchestra program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Shortly after, he was appointed as artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the largest and most long-standing ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music on the West Coast, where he is currently in his seventh season of leadership. While in New York, Dudley performed and conducted with organizations as diverse as Ekmeles and Tenet vocal ensembles, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street Church, Ensemble Signal, Bard Summerscape Opera, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Prior to that, he was assistant conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi for four years. His guest conducting engagements have included the Ojai Festival in California, Ensemble L'Instant Donné in France, the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia.
Winner of the 2024-25 Conservatory Composition Competition, MarcusRudes is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in music composition at University of the Pacific. His teachers include Hendel Almetus, Andrew Conklin, and Eric Wood. As a saxophonist under the tutelage of Ricardo Martinez, he regularly performs with Pacific Wind Bands and in saxophone chamber settings. Additionally,Rudeswrites and produces music that crosses alternative and folk idioms under the alias, kikoy. He plans to release new music with Pac Ave Records (a student-run recording label at Pacific).
Mezzo-soprano Mia Janosik is a winner of the 2024-25 Conservatory Performance Competition. She boasts a diverse repertoire and desire for musical exploration with performance experience including opera, musical theatre, collaborations with student composers, studio recording sessions, and more. As a senior music performance major studying with Daniel Ebbers at University of the Pacific, she has most recently portrayed Ruggiero (Alcina), Cinderella’s Stepmother (Into the Woods) and Nettie Fowler (Carousel) with Pacific Opera Theatre. Janosik also serves as alto section leader for Pacific Singers and is a member of a voice, bassoon, and piano trio on campus. Additionally, she is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Pianist Magdalene Myint is a winner of the 2024-25 Conservatory Performance Competition. She is a senior performance major studying piano with Sonia Leong and collaborative piano and organ with Pat Grimm. Across the conservatory, she diversifies her performances in various large ensembles including the University Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Wind Bands, Pacific Singers, and University Chorus, as well as in various chamber ensembles and recording projects. Myint serves as the president of an on-campus student-run chamber orchestra, the Pacific Repertoire Orchestra, and maintains a private studio and teaches at the Pacific Community Music School and throughout the Central Valley. Upon graduation, she will pursue master’s degrees in piano performance and collaborative piano at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The Pacific Orchestras perform an inclusive range of contemporary and historically significant works. The ensemble provides performers with a variety of sizes and settings to explore an exciting range of repertoire. Pacific faculty, students, and guest artists perform with the ensemble as concerto and aria soloists and as guest conductors. Participation in the ensemble is open to all Pacific students by audition.
Violins 1
Jamie Lue
co-concertmaster
Emma Young co-concertmaster
Lizzie Mendoza
Raffaella Wong
Juan Gutierrez‡‡
Christopher Thant
David Collum‡‡
Violins 2
Jamie Lue*†‡
Emma Young**
Carissa Lee
Alizon Lopez
Sharon Williams‡‡
Julianna Ramirez
Violas
Erick Sariles, principal
Roselyn Wang‡‡
Ekaterina Dorozhkina‡‡
Sam Tse‡‡
Cellos
Hasina Torres***
Nicholas Trobaugh†‡
Jane Damon
Hope Lee
Jiangshuo Ma
Benedict Ventura
Basses
Julianna Meneses principal
Victor Camacho
Kathryn Schulmeister††
Angel Sosa‡‡
Flutes
Riko Hirata**
Jasmine Valentine*
Ethan Williams‡
Arianna Pereyra
Oboes
Walker Austin***
Emily Zamudio†‡
Alice Chao
Clarinets
Vanessa Lopez*‡
Abigail Miller†**
Edmund Bascon
Aubrey Ewing
Bassoons
Jordan Wier, principal
Nadege Tenorio
Jess Vreeland
Horns
Don Parker*†‡
Skylar Warren**
Marcelo Contreras
Jas Lopez
Trumpets
Parker Deems‡**
Alayna Ontai*
Trombones
William Giancaterino principal
Radley Rutledge
Matthew Young
Percussion
Matthew Kulm principal
Casey Kim
Robert McCarl
*principal, Rudes †principal, Mozart ‡principal, Schumann **principal, Beethoven ††faculty member ‡‡community member
Faculty Coaches
Brittany Trotter, flute
Patricia Shands, clarinet
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, English horn
Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon
Sadie Glass, horn
Leonard Ott, trumpet
Bruce Chrisp, low brass
Jonathan Latta, timpani, percussion
Ann Miller, violin
Igor Veligan, viola
Vicky Wang, cello
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Jonathan Latta, ensembles program director
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