Faculty News and Accomplishments Lecturer of Violin Ertan Torgul featured as Guest Teaching Artist for The REALLY Big Class
Lecturer of Violin Ertan Torgul was featured as a Guest Teaching Artist for The REALLY Big Class, an online masterclass series, on December 3, 2020. Torgul worked virtually with students from Austria, the UK, North Carolina, and Texas, playing music of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Lalo. The REALLY Big Class was created to provide inspiration, motivation, and community for violinists worldwide during the COVID-19 lockdown. The first session of the series ran from April to July 2020 with guest teaching artists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and the United States, and over 100 student performers from around the world, ranging in age from 11 to adults. Read more here.
Continuing Lecturer of Percussion Jon Nathan featured in Opera Santa Barbara and Lobero Theatre’s “Staying Home for Christmas”
Continuing Lecturer Dr. Jon Nathan performed in Opera Santa Barbara and the Lobero Theatre’s “Staying Home for Christmas” holiday concert, which was recorded live at the Lobero Theatre and streamed online from December 23-26, 2020. Hosted by Opera Santa Barbara Artistic and General Director Kostis Protopapas and Lobero Theatre Executive Director David Asbell, the free event featured Santa Barbara artists. Dr. Nathan led a jazz quartet with Santa Barbara City College’s Jim Mooy (trumpet), Santino Tarafella (bass), and Andy Langham (piano). Dr. Nathan arranged Jingle Bells and God Bless Ye Merry Gentlemen for the quartet, and the group also played a Gospel-style arrangement of Silent Night. Read more here.
Emeritus Faculty News Teaching Professor Emeritus Jeremy Haladyna contributes essay to Brazilian music journal ORFEU
Teaching Professor Emeritus Dr. Jeremy Haladyna contributed an essay, titled “Villa-Lobos Vindicated (At Last): A Pan-American Prescription,” to the October 2020 issue of the Brazilian music journal ORFEU. In the essay, Haladyna argues that the “New World” can lay claim to new confidence as to musical matters: it can now rival Europe, at least as to raw material. He seeks to bolster this assertion with a look into three specific areas: rhythm, tuning, and contextualization. Haladyna retired from UC Santa Barbara in June 2019, after serving over 25 years on the composition faculties of both the Department of Music and the College of Creative Studies. Read more here.
Photo: Gaby Goldberg
Professor Emeritus Joel Feigin’s Opera Outcast at the Gate now available online
Professor Emeritus Dr. Joel Feigin’s opera, Outcast at the Gate, is now available to view online via the composer’s YouTube channel. The video is a pre-recorded performance of a presentation by the Center for Contemporary Opera, which took place on June 14, 2019 at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre in New York, NY. This semi-staged public workshop featured half of the original work and was directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Sara Jobin, with Tracey Woolley as Production Stage Manager. Feigin served as Professor of Composition at UC Santa Barbara from 1992-2015. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School. Read more here.
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