Skylar Warren
Sabine Klein, piano
Katie Pelletier, voice
Otter Brass Quintet
Monday, March 24, 2025
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
Tre pezzi in forma di Sonata (1924) Sinfonia
Cello Sonata, op. 67 (1905)
Moderato quasi Andante
Grande Sonata in E Major, op. 29 (1818) Allegro
Karl Pilß (1902–1979)
Glass and Dust (2025)
Sabine Klein, piano
Mel Bonis (1858–1937) arr. Skylar Warren
Friedrich Thurner (1785–1827)
Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943) arr. Matthew Mauro
Colchester Fantasy (1987) The Rose and Crown
Katie Pelletier, voice Skylar Warren (b. 2003)
Maria from West Side Story Suite (1957/2000)
Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)
Leonard Berstein (1918–1990) arr. Jack Gale
Otter Brass Quintet
Parker Deems, Kamron Qasimi, trumpet
Bronson Burfield, trombone
Alejandro Villalobos, tuba
PROGRAM NOTES
This recital is presented as a degree requirement for a Bachelor of Music in music performance.
Skylar Warren is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in music performance at University of the Pacific. He is a composer, hornist, improviser, and educator. Warren considers himself to be a leader in his communities, and he is an avid new music advocate dedicated to creating collaborative and inclusive spaces for artists to work together. Warren has played horn for ten years with various high achieving ensembles such as the Lakeside Symphony and the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet. He attended the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute (2022) and the Kendall Betts Horn Camp (2023) on scholarship.
Program note by the composer
Warren: Glass and Dust
An unlikely duet of voice and horn brings to mind images of glassy hues, and warm colors. Glass and Dust is derived from the poem Prisms by Laura Riding Jackson. Each line of the poem is orchestrated to evoke feelings that I can’t describe in words. As Jackson mulls over the inevitability of life and death, I too am trying to evoke the courageous fear through soft-spoken words and the idealistic bond of the two voices. I hope to explore the feelings that lie between fear, paranoia, sadness, anger, and even hope.
Prisms
What is beheld through glass seems glass. The quality of what I am Encases what I am not, Smooths the strange world. I perceive it slowly In my time, In my material, As my pride, As my possession: The vision is love.
When life crashes like a cracked pane, Still shall I love Even the slight grass and the patient dust.
Death also sees, though darkly, And I must trust then as now Only another kind of prism Through which I may not put my hands to touch.
—Laura Riding Jackson
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