2025_01_30 UKNME Program by UK New Music Ensemble

UNIVERSITY

Recital of the Composition Studio of Professor Juan Trigos & featured composer Hebert Vázquez

January 30th, 2025 at 7.30 pm

Niles Gallery

Pre-Concert Talk and Concert

UK New Music Ensemble & Guests

Juan Trigos, conductor

Music by Olivia Spaulding, Steve Reaves, Adam Zoolalian, Carlos Martínez and Hebert Vázquez

PROGRAM NOTES

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PROGRAM

Nocturne Pacificae* / 2025 for solo piano

Adam Zoolalian, piano

A Promise* / 2025 for soprano and piano

Daniela D'Ingiullo, soprano

Juan Trigos, piano

The Woodpecker / 2025 for solo flute

Mary Margaret Zrull, flute

Trio, for piccolo clarinet and piano* / 2025

I. Movement

II. Movement

Olivia Spaulding

Steve Reaves

Mary Margaret Zrull, piccolo

¿?¿?, Clarinet

Adam Zoolalian, piano

Adam Zoolalian

Sunrise on the Parkway / 2024 for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

I. Allegro

II. Andante e Scherzando

III. Allegro Spiritoso

The Maribo Trio

ToniMarie Marchioni, oboe

Scott Wright, clarinet

Allison Nicotera, bassoon

Pedacería Fantástica** / for guitar and ensemble

Daniel Monroy, guitar

UK New Music Ensemble

Scarlet Head, piccolo/alto flute

Hebert Vázquez

Jojo Dennis, clarinet/bass clarinet

James Beckner, percussion

Angela Wang, piano

Selena Noelia Vega Campana, violin

Tze-Ying Wu, viola

Jackson Arnold, cello

Adam Florence, double bass

Juan Trigos, conductor

CS = UK Composition Student

Carlos MartínezCS

UK New Music Ensemble is dedicated to contemporary classical music composed in the last 50-70 years, especially by living composers from around the world. Juan Trigos is music director and principal conductor of UK NME.

Juan Trigos, composer and conductor. Creator of the concept Abstract Folklore. His most significant compositions include six Operas, five Symphonies, three Cantatas, Concertos for several instruments, diverse chamber music and for solo instruments. His music has been performed in many cities and countries of Europe, America (continent) and Japan. Recently, he has been awarded with one of most important music composition’s prizes in Canada, The Azrieli Commission for International Music of the Azrieli Foundation to write the Cantata-Oratorio Simetrías Prehispánicas (Prehispanic Simertries) premiered last October 28, 2024, by the Chorus and members of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal conducted by Andrew Megill and streamed live on Medici TV, among other renowned platforms. In 2020 with the From Commission (Harvard University). He is member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (Mexico). As a conductor he has specialized in XX Century and Contemporary music. He has commissioned, premiered, promoted, and recorded an extensive catalogue of works with numerous choirs and orchestras around the world. Currently he is Music Director and Principal Conductor of The Last Hundred Ensemble (Miami) and Sinfonietta MIQ (Guanajuato). He was also Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Oaxaca and Guanajuato Symphonies, Orquesta de Cámara de Bella Artes (Mexico City) and Principal Conductor of the Eastman BroadBand Ensemble (Rochester, NY). Among his most relevant recordings released by iTinerant (2015 and 2016) are his Opera DeCachetitoRaspado, a Cd which include three Concertos (clarinet, four guitars and piccolo), and his Symphony n. 4 Nezahualcoyotl Icuicahan (Chants of Nezahuacoyotl) and the Ballet Sansón (suite). Upcoming releases in 2025 are Juan Trigos Guitar Work 1 (Naxos, 2025) and his opera Ella-Miau (She-Meow). Throughout twenty years of teaching, he organized successful workshops. He lectured and conducted composition seminars, workshops, master classes, and symposiums at several other institutions in Europe, United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico. In collaboration with Franco Donatoni, he organized an International Composition Course and Festival over four consecutive years (Mexico 1993-96). In 2017, was honored with the Howard Hanson Visiting Professor residency of Eastman School of Music. In 2022 with the Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar Fall 2022 in Latin American Studies at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. Currently, is Assistant Professor of Music in Composition & Theory at University of Kentucky, in Lexington.

UK New Music Ensemble

Juan Trigos, conductor

Daniela D’Ingiullo, soprano

Scarlet Head, piccolo/alto flute

Jojo Dennis, clarinet/bass clarinet

James Beckner, percussion

Adam Zoolalian, piano

Angela Wang, piano

Selena Noelia Vega Campana, violin

Tze-Ying Wu, viola

Jackson Arnold, cello

Adam Florence, double bass

GUESTS

The Maribo Trio

ToniMarie Marchioni, oboe

Scott Wright, clarinet

Allison Nicotera, bassoon

PROGRAM NOTES

A Promise by Steve Reaves - Lyrics

I could ask you for a promise but it's not one that I'd keep and I'd hate to think that I might make you lose a little sleep.

I could ask you for a memory but it's not one that I'd share and I'd hate to think that I might make you think I really care. And I do, you know.

I could ask you for some music 'cause I know you love to dance, but I never thought that you would ever take another chance with me.

I could ask you for a reason, but you couldn't tell me why and I'd hate to think that I might see a teardrop in your eye. And I would you know, Yes, would you know Yes, I would you know. Oh, I love you so. You know I love you so,

Featured Composer

Hebert Vázquez

What are we_ to do? Oh ... Do you know, what I'm going through Oh Oh so!

I could ask you for a promise, but it's not one that I'd keep and I'd hate to think that I might make you lose a little sleep.

But one day when the sun comes up, you'll realize that I'm gone. You'll check your heart to make sure, that the beating still goes on

And it does you know, Yes, it does you know Yes, it does you know. Oh, I love you so You know I love you so you know.

- Steve Reaves

He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but since childhood he moved to Mexico where he studied at the National Conservatory of Music. There he was a student of Mario Lavista, in the subjects of Analysis and Composition, and of Marco Antonio Anguiano, in guitar. Later he studied for a master's degree in Composition at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, under the guidance of Leonardo Balada, Lukas Foss and Reza Vali, and obtained a doctorate in Composition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2000 he is a professor at the School of Music of the University of San Nicolás in Morelia, where he has organized concerts and courses on music theory, history and philosophy. For a year he devoted himself to research at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. During this period he completed a cycle of six chamber music pieces titled Bestiario and a book about the work of composer Mario Lavista. His works have been performed at numerous international festivals in Canada, Chile, Cuba, Spain, the United States, Italy and Mexico by groups such as the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, the Nomad Ensemble of Japan, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra , the UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra and many more. Among his main works are The Garden of the Purple Passage for flute and guitar, Music for two mega instruments and chamber ensemble, a string quartet, Bestiary: Jabberwock for flute, bass clarinet and piano, Fantastic piecea for guitar and chamber ensemble, and a concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra composed thanks to his Guggenheim fellowship.

NEXT CONCERTS

March 14th at 7.30 pm - Singletary Recital Hall

March 18th at 7.30 pm - St. Bede Episcopal Church, Coral Gables (FL)

Music by Federico Bonacossa, Dorothy Hindman, Juan Trigos and Catalina von Wrangell

Soloists: Daniela D’Ingiullo, soprano / Dieter Hennings, guitar in collaboration with The Last Hundred, Inc. supported by University of Kentucky School of Music, Miami-Dade Community Grant and City of Coral Gables

April 17th at 7.30 pm - Singletary Recital Hall

Two new works by Jeffrey Jones and Ángel Gómez from the Composition Studio of Professor Juan Trigos Tacambarenses III by Gerhart Muench Dance Mobile by Augusta Read Thomas

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Interested in being a member of UK New Music Ensemble?

Consider participating in course MUC 570-025 (Spring 005) - one credit hour. It is open to any UK student by audition. For more information contact juan.trigos@uky.edu

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