Gregory OakesMorris Rosenzweig Ken Ueno

Christopher Shultis Fred SturmWilliam WoodBeth Yip Beth Yip

Daniel LippelBrigida LujánLisa Nevada

PanaiotisSteven PaxtonJoshua RupleyFalko Steinbach Falko Steinbach

Chatter 20-21 Paul CliftDuo X

Jonah ElrodBarbara Monk FeldmanRichard HermannGabriel LandstedtGabriel Landstedt

Emanuele ArciuliVolker BlumenthalerOğuz Büyükberber

Elaine BearerRichard Cameron-WolfeDaniel DavisDavid DunnDavid Dunn

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John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium 2013

FEATURED ARTISTSEmanuele ArciuliElaine BearerVolker BlumenthalerOğuz BüyükberberRichard Cameron-WolfeLaura Carmichael Chatter 20-21Paul CliftDaniel DavisDavid DunnJonah ElrodBarbara Monk FeldmanRichard HermannGabriel LandstedtDaniel Lippel

Brigida LujánLisa NevadaNew Music New Mexico Gregory OakesPanaiotisSteven PaxtonMorris RosenzweigJoshua RupleyNaomi SatoChristopher ShultisFalko Steinbach Fred Sturm Ken UenoWilliam WoodBeth Yip

UNM College of Fine Arts AdministrationKymberly Pinder, Ph.D., DeanSteven Block, Ph.D, Chair, Department of MusicRegina Carlow, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Student AffairsKeith Lemmons, Associate Dean of Faculty AffairsMary Anne Newhall, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Research and Technology

UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust OfficersJames Bonnell, ChairJohn Robb, Interim Vice ChairMarilyn Fletcher, SecretaryRobert Tillotson, Ph.D., Immediate Past Chair

Composers’ Symposium StaffKarola Obermüller, Peter Gilbert, Co-Artistic DirectorsNancy Harbert, Program Specialist, John Donald Robb Musical TrustTom McVeety, Graduate Assistant, John Donald Robb Musical TrustLauren Hood, Keller Hall ManagerManny Rettinger, Audio EngineerLiz Rincon, Technical Assistant

Cover image: “Camino Real #5” by Michael Cook, courtesy of David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A Note from the Artistic DirectorsIn 1911, Igor Stravinsky would write that ballet was “the one form of theatre which sets itself the basic goal of beauty and nothing more.” That particular blend of drama and abstraction was for him the perfect milieu for developing a profoundly new artistic voice. The intoxication he felt encountering those early productions of the Ballet Russe would lead him to the circles of Mikhail Fokine and Sergey Diaghilev and ultimately inspire him to reinvent the possibilities of music.

And yet bringing dance and music together was not easy. As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Le Sacre du Printemps this year, the legendary work that has endured as a seminal part of the histories of both music and dance, it seems worth remembering that collaboration is an incredible challenge.

Fokine had already complained of the difficulty in counting Petrushka, so the job of tackling Stravinsky’s even more complex Le Sacre came to Vaslav Nijinsky, whose remarkable success in the lead role of Petrushka led Stravinsky to write, “Superlatively moving and with deep feeling. ...it was completely new for him and he made something of it, something utterly beautiful.” But communication between Nijinsky as choreographer and Stravinsky seems to have not been very smooth or effective.

If Stravinsky had misgivings about Nijinsky’s work, history has validated the dramatically personal approach Nijinsky took to movement. His transformation of classical ballet from a vision of grace to an incarnation of vitality was in many ways the perfect complement to the wild energy of Stravinsky’s music.

Le Sacre stands, despite the tensions and difficulties in its assembly, as a banner for what the bringing together of two art forms can be. But perhaps it is only an aberration of modernity that we even think of dance and music as separate at all – a manifestation of categorizing the world into fields of extreme specialization. Certainly we have thousands of years of fully fused musicdance/dancemusic in our collective past.

In this year’s John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, we are excited to bring together several different approaches to the question of how music and movement influence each other: music inspired by dance, dance inspired by music, music programmed and assembled around movement, and movement and music conceived from the start as fundamental aspects of each other’s fabric.

Even beyond the anniversary of Le Sacre, it seems a fitting subject for this symposium, as such points of union between the arts of dance and music were no stranger to John Donald Robb. Robb’s phenomenal collection of New Mexican folk music includes vast quantities of dance music, some of which he transcribed and adapted or used as inspiration for original work. Certainly Dean Robb saw, heard and knew as well as anyone how completely inextricable from one another in their histories are movement and music.

Finally, as new directors of the symposium, it’s been our pleasure to take the reins of this rich tradition. We’re excited to have become a part of the Robb Trust, UNM’s musical family and the New Mexican music community. We look forward to meeting and working with you all.

– Peter Gilbert and Karola Obermüller

John Donald RobbJohn Donald Robb (1892-1989) brought a broad-based passion for music when he left a Wall Street law practice to join the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1941. He immersed himself in the culture of his new home, recording more than 3,000 Hispanic folk songs in travels across the state. Robb was a prolific composer, and in his 70s, he turned his talents to composing electronic music after he became one of the first in the country to buy a Moog Synthesizer. His works are still performed today.

Finding Inspiration

In addition to his intense interest in the folk music of New Mexico, Robb traveled widely, always seeking knowledge and interaction with folk culture around the world.

“One night I saw a crowd of four or five men (all men, no women) and I could hear this music for violin and guitar coming from around one of those beautiful fountains in one of the little squares. I stopped and asked them who they were and whether they would come up (to the house where he was staying) and play those songs for me and they did! I didn’t have the piano at that time. I sat across the table from them and copied down something like 30 melodies which, as it turned out, were melodies that were used at the Fiesta of the Holy Cross in Taxco and that they had peculiarly interesting names like “Danza de Los Tres Potincíales” –

Dance of the Three Powers” and that’s a well-known Mexican tradition. The three powers are what? Imagination – well, they’re three intellectual aspects of life: the dance of the tigers, the dance of the bull, the dance of the little weavers, you know? “De los Tecamates,” they call them, the little weavers.”

— John Donald Robb

Summer ca 1938, in Taxco, Mexico

Following this summer, Robb returned to Albuquerque and composed Dances From Taxco, which will be performed during the Robb Concert on March 25, 2013.

IMAGE BY A. JONES, COURTESY OF UNM LIBRARIES’ CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST RESEARCH

About the TrustThe John Donald Robb Musical Trust at the University of New Mexico is dedicated to keeping alive the vibrant spirit and contributions of John Donald Robb, former dean

of the College of Fine Arts, an accomplished composer, educator and music collector/arranger whose preservation of Hispanic folk music in New Mexico is unmatched.

What do we do?

SUPPORTnew music through the

UNM John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium

ENCOURAGEthe work of emerging composers through the

UNM John Donald Robb Composers’ Competition

EDUCATEthe community through concerts of John D. Robb’s music

and underwriting a Robb Fellow

COLLABORATEwith community organizations on educational initiatives.

“The Robb Trust is a hidden treasure at the University of New Mexico, contributing one of the premier archives of Southwestern music recorded by John Robb over half a century. These rare recordings provide a comprehensive history that is invaluable to understanding many local cultures. Robb had the foresight to capture history while it was in the making for us now to learn from and enjoy. “

— Dean Kymberly Pinder UNM College of Fine Arts

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Discover more about the Trust at www.robbtrust.org

We invite you to share comments about the symposium and to be our friend at www.facebook.com/robbmusicaltrust

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SUNDAY, MARCH 24

5:00-6:30 PM CLARINET MASTER CLASS: Room 2100 Gregory Oakes

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MONDAY, MARCH 25

9:00 AM WELCOME & PRESENTATION: Kurt Frederick Hall (Room B-120)

Steven Block, Chair, Department of Music

Peter Gilbert and Karola Obermüller, Symposium Artistic Directors

Tom Maguire: Barbarians at the Gate s Stravinsky, Diaghilev & The Ballets Russes

11:00 AM LECTURE CONCERT: Keller Hall Compositions by Volker Blumenthaler and Falko Steinbach

1:00 PM MEET THE COMPOSER: Room 1106 Volker Blumenthaler

2:00 PM COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS: Room 1106 Volker Blumenthaler and Paul Clift

3:00 PM WORKSHOP: Room 1111 Oğuz Büyükberber: How to Practice Improvisation

4:00 PM MEET THE COMPOSER: Room 1111 Paul Clift

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TUESDAY, MARCH 26

9:30 AM MEET THE COMPOSER: Kurt Frederick Hall (Room B-120) Ken Ueno

9:30 AM SAXOPHONE MASTER CLASS: Room 1106 Naomi Sato

11:00 AM INTERDISCIPLINARY PANEL DISCUSSION: Carlisle Gym, South Arena Music and Movement

2:00 PM PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP: Kurt Frederick Hall (Room B-120) Duo X: Performance in Space

3:30 PM COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS: Room 2100 Volker Blumenthaler and Morris Rosenzweig

5:00 PM ARTIST TALK: B-117 Installation artist David Dunn

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

10:00 AM COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS: Room 2100 Ken Ueno and Oğuz Büyükberber

11:00 AM MEET THE COMPOSER: Room 2100 Morris Rosenzweig

1:00 PM COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS: Room 1111 Morris Rosenzweig and Ken Ueno

3:00 PM MEET THE COMPOSER: Room 1111 Oğuz Büyükberber

4:00-6:00 PM PIANO MASTER CLASS: Keller Hall Emanuele Arciuli

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Jonah Elrod Wins Scott Wilkinson Contest

Jonah Elrod, a graduate student in music composition at the University of New Mexico, took top honors in the 2012-13 Scott Wilkinson Composition Contest for his composition titled, A Spotless Moon, for B-flat clarinet, cello, piano and percussion. The five-movement work consists of gestures presented at the beginning of the piece, and then viewing them from different perspectives as the movements unfold.

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InstallationListening to What I Cannot Hear 2

by David Dunn

This installation runs continuously throughout the symposium in the UNM Art Museum Media Gallery.

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7:00 PM Keller Hall RITE OF SPRING CELEBRATION CONCERT

Igor Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps Joshua-Allen Rupley and Gabriel Landstedt, pianos

World premieres by Elaine Bearer, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Daniel Davis, Richard Hermann, Barbara Monk Feldman, Panaiotis, Steven Paxton, Falko Steinbach, Christopher Shultis, William Wood, Beth Yip

Chatter 20-21 Jesse Tatum, flute; Michael Gruetzner, clarinet; Jeff Cornelius, percussion; David Felberg, violin; James Holland, cello

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MONDAY, MARCH 25

11:00 AM Keller Hall LECTURE CONCERT

Falko Steinbach Collage David Schepps, cello; Falko Steinbach, piano

Volker Blumenthaler from pensieri sparsi e sogni del giorno (2006/2007) Volker Blumenthaler, cello

JOHN DONALD ROBB CONCERT

Music and Movement6:30 PM Keller Hall Lobby PRE-CONCERT TALKDemonstration of John Donald Robb Moog Synthesizer

7:00 PM Keller Hall JOHN DONALD ROBB CONCERT

John Donald Robb Dances from Taxco op. 11 (1978) Brigida Luján (choreography and dance); David Felberg, conductor

Paul Clift 1950c (2011) Daniel Lippel, guitar

John Donald Robb Cosmic Dances of Shiva

Volker Blumenthaler fliessend-still (2006)

John Donald Robb Rhythmania Lisa Nevada, choreography; New Music New Mexico, David Felberg, director; Tina

Termini, flute/alto flute; Michael Shu, violin; Michael Gruetzner, clarinet; Mathias Iff, cello; Huailin Liu, piano; Joshua Nation, percussion; Camille Duran, Emily Innis, Kaitlin Innis, Dalton Valerio, dance

8:00 PM Keller Hall Lobby Reception

8:30 PM Keller Hall ARCIULI SOLO CONCERT

Giacinto Scelsi Quattro Illustrazioni

George Crumb Eine kleine Mitternachtsmusik

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Frederic Rzewski Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

John Adams Phrygian Gates Emanuele Arciuli, piano

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Paul Clift Wins John Donald Robb Composers’ CompetitionA composition titled, 1950c, for restrung classical guitar, written by Paul Clift, a composer living in New York City, has won the 2012 UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust Composers’ Competition. Clift, a doctoral student at Columbia University, designed his winning composition as a musical metaphor to the style of abstract impressionist painter Clyfford Still. The biennial competition requires composers to use material from the John Donald Robb Field Recordings in the UNM Center for Southwest Research. It comes with a $3,500 prize.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 26

7:00 PM Keller Hall VISITING COMPOSER SHOWCASEMorris Rosenzweig Ceaseless Mantras Go From One Illusion to Another Emanuele Arciuli, piano

Oğuz Büyükberber Claim for clarinet solo Oğuz Büyükberber, clarinet

Jonah Elrod A Spotless Moon Christian Newman, piano; Michael Gruetzner, B-flat clarinet; Elizabeth Purvis, cello;

Joshua Nation, percussion

Volker Blumenthaler innehalten (2008) Fred Sturm, piano

Oğuz Büyükberber XY for alto saxophone, clarinet, live electronics and video

Duo X: Laura Carmichael, clarinet; Naomi Sato, alto saxophone

8:15 PM Room B-117 CRACKLE BOX RITUALKen Ueno Crackle Box Ritual (2012) For extended voice and clarinet with live electronics and movement Ken Ueno, voice and electronics; Gregory Oakes, clarinet

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

7:30 PM UNM ArtsLab black box URBAN DOLDRUMS, A STAGED CONCERT

Duo X: Laura Carmichael, clarinets; Naomi Sato, sho and saxophone

Marcel Wierckx Cube (2009) for saxophone, bass clarinet, live electronics and video

Anne La Berge Urban Doldrums (2007) electronic structure for two improvising musicians

Wim Hendrickx On the Road (2013) solo saxophone and soundtrack

By-Product (2007) a collaboration made with the performers together with Adam Melvin, electronics and Mark Melvin, film and video

Morris Rosenzweig Katrina, 2005 and counting (2009) for solo clarinet and soundtrack

Ken Ueno Two Believers on opposite sides of the same ocean, transcribing the same sky at the same time, one at sunrise, the other at sunset (2003) for clarinet and sho; Marcel Wierckx, video

Special GuestsEmanuele ArciuliEmanuele Arciuli is a professor at the Conservatory in Bari, Italy. He has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers in today’s classical music scene. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, with a strong affinity for composers from the United States. Arciuli continuously develops new projects and is in constant pursuit of new ideas and innovative programs. ‘Round Midnight Variations, a group of 16

compositions that were written expressly for him by leading composers, is considered to be one of the most significant contemporary American piano collections. In 2011, Arciuli received the Premio Franco Abbiati, the most important Italian critic’s prize. In winning this prize, he follows in the footsteps of Maurizio Pollini, Radu Lupu and Zubin Mehta. His many recordings include Gates to Everywhere, with music by Carla Bley, Fred Hersch and Chick Corea, the complete piano works of Berg and Webern, and the world premiere of Bruno Maderna’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. His newest comprehensive book on American piano music, Musica per pianoforte negli stati uniti, was recently published in Italy and presented at the MiTo Settembre Musica Festival in Torino by Enzo Restagno.

Volker BlumenthalerVolker Blumenthaler studied cello, music theory and composition in Mannheim and Cologne, Germany, with Hans Vogt and Jürg Baur, among others. From 1979-87 he was a university lecturer for music theory at the University of Music Rhineland/Cologne and presented guest lectures from 1989-90 at the National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu/Taiwan. Since 1992 he has been a professor for composition and music theory at the University of Music Nuremberg. Activities

since 1993 have included serving as author of broadcast-features for Commentaries on New Music (SWR Stuttgart/Baden-Baden), presenting workshops in 1994-95 for analysis and composition at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei/Taiwan and in 1997 as a guest lecturer at Harvard University (about the chamber opera Jason Medea). In 1994 and 1998, he was invited to the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt/Germany, and in 2011 Blumenthaler presented a guest lecture and workshop in composition at the Taipei/Taiwan-TMC International Music Camp. He received a scholarship from the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome/Italy in 1982 and a 1987 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann scholarship of the City of Cologne. He received the 1982 award for young composers of the City of Stuttgart and a 1987 prize at the Concours International de Composition Musical Opera & Ballet in Geneva, Switzerland. To learn more, please visit www.volker-blumenthaler.de.

Oğuz Büyükberber Turkish born clarinetist/composer Oğuz Büyükberber’s musical work stands on the crossroads of contemporary composition, improvisation, Turkish music and jazz. He studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay, and audited Theo Loevendie’s composition classes. He has performed in major festivals all over Europe such as North Sea, Traumzeit, Akbank and London Jazz Festivals, appeared on more than 40 albums including two releases on Blue Note, and

nine of his own CDs. He now lives in Amsterdam and collaborates with a pool of international musicians, including Simon Nabatov, Gerry Hemingway, Guus Janssen, Claudio Puntin and Wolfgang Reisinger. Always seeking structure even when letting go in high-energy free improvisation, he also incorporates his own visual art into musical performances and finds new ways to use live-electronics. Büyükberber composes music both for his own projects and other ensembles. Büyükberber has been working in collaboration with STEIM (Studio for Electro- Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam and he consulted in the SABRe (Sensor Augmented Bass clarinet Research) directed by Matthias Müller at the ICST (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology) in Zürich. In 2012 he was given a “Carte Blanche” from the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, one of Europe’s major jazz venues. In 2011 he was named a Selmer Artist.

Chatter 20-21In December 2002, Chatter was formed by David Felberg, violinist and conductor, and Eric Walters, cellist and composer, for the purpose of performing classical music from the 20th and 21st centuries, which had been rarely performed in Albuquerque or New Mexico. Today, Sunday Chatter, Chatter Cabaret and Chatter 20-21, led

by Artistic Directors David Felberg and James Shields (principal clarinet, Canadian Opera Company), present a full spectrum of classical music, from traditional to contemporary. Chatter’s repertoire includes unusual instrumentations, electronic elements and rarely heard works in unconventional, intimate venues. Among Chatter’s hallmarks are unique performance opportunities for musicians and composers, courageous and unexpected programming for all-age audiences, a confluence of music and poetry, and presentation of young talent on the stage. Chatter’s values are rooted in collaboration, diversity and the celebration of the arts in a manner that transcends the commonplace. The three series present 64 concerts each year. You can learn more at www.chatterchamber.org.

Paul CliftPaul Clift, an Australian composer, has been living in New York City since receiving a Columbia doctoral fellowship in 2009. He earned a master of music at King’s College in London and a bachelor of arts with honors at Monash University Conservatorium in Australia. He participated in the New Music Technology and Composition cursus at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics

and Music, which culminated in the premiere of With my limbs in the dark for five musicians and dancer, composed in collaboration with French choreographer Alban Richard. Clift’s music often makes abstract associations with linguistics, as well as modernist literature and painting. His works have been performed at festivals in North America, Europe and Australia. He has collaborated with soloists and ensembles such as Argento, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Instant Donné, Contrechamps, Itnéraire, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. His principal teachers have been George Benjamin, Jean-Luc Hervé, Fred Lerdahl, Philippe Leroux, Fabien Lévy, Yan Maresz and Tristan Murail.

Duo XDuo X presents a cross-cultural dialogue about nature and technology, the body and the mind, contact and energy, internal and external power. Saxophonist/sho player Naomi Sato (Japan) and clarinetist Laura Carmichael (USA) formed Duo X in 2003 in Amsterdam. They are part of an ongoing Dutch ensemble culture that engages in East-West musical dialogue, new composition, experimental improvisation

and creative exploration. In the past 10 years they have performed in Germany, Italy, Turkey, the U.S., Japan and at home in The Netherlands, including residencies at UC Davis Mondavi Center and Harvard University. In 2010 they won the “performance prize” at Tokyo Wonder Site’s Experimental Sound, Art and Performance Festival. The duo has developed staged concerts, integrating video and electronics, and new technologies like wireless controllers. They often collaborate with composers to create personal, intimate programs, taking inspiration from theater processes. Both highly experienced classical musicians, individually they work regularly with major ensembles in Europe and participate in a collective of Dutch artists called Radio Kootwijk Live that produces site-specific concerts. Currently they are touring the U.S., featuring their “Urban Doldrums” program and a new “Calligraphy Project” program with new works by Ken Ueno, Toshio Hosokawa and Oğuz Büyükberber. You can read more about them at www.lauracarmichael.com www.sato-naomi.com and www.myspace.com/duox.

Daniel LippelDaniel Lippel is active as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. Highlights of his recent performances include chamber appearances at the Macau International Music Festival (China), with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and at Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, along with recitals at the Ft. Worth Art Museum (Ft. Worth Guitar Guild Festival), Cleveland Institute of Music’s Guitar Weekend Festival and for the Triangle Guitar Society in Raleigh-

Durham and Philadelphia Guitar Society. He has been a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble since 2006, and new music quartet Flexible Music since 2003. Lippel is co-founder and current director of New Focus Recordings, and his recordings on this label have garnered praise from such publications as Gramophone, American Record Guide, Classical Guitar and New Music Box. Lippel received his doctorate in guitar performance from the Manhattan School of Music, under the guidance of David Starobin.

Gregory OakesGregory Oakes is one of the most exciting and energetic clarinetists of his generation. From his Carnegie Hall debut with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez to his performances as a member of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Oakes has been praised by critics for his “outstanding performance” (New York Times) and “jazzy flourishes” (Denver Post). His performance highlights include a concerto with the Colorado

Symphony Orchestra, the Telluride Jazz Festival with Grammy® Award-winner Terence Blanchard, a concert at Amsterdam’s venerable new music hall De IJsbreker and a solo feature at Berlin’s prestigious MaerzMusik festival. Oakes has performed at multiple

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International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests, the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium and the International Computer Music Conference. He has performed throughout the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Thailand. He has held residencies at Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, in Aspen, and Amsterdam’s STEIM. His solo CD New Dialects appears on the Centaur Records label. His recordings appear on Bridge, CRI, Gothic, Karnatic Lab Records, and Naxos and broadcasts on National Public Radio. Oakes is on the faculty of Iowa State University and is principal clarinet of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. He is a Buffet Group USA and Vandoren Performing Artist.

Morris RosenzweigMorris Rosenzweig grew up in New Orleans among the tailors, merchants and strong-willed women of an extended family that has lived in southern Louisiana since the mid-1890s. He earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Utah. Rosenzweig’s compositions have been widely presented throughout the

United States and Europe, as well as in Japan, Argentina, Mexico and Israel by groups that include the New York New Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, “Piano and Percussion-Stuttgart,” EARPLAY, the New Orleans Symphony and the Utah Symphony. He has recorded six CDs, which are available on the Albany and New World labels. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Bogliasco Study Center. Commissions have come from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, Fromm Foundation, and he has received support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Recent and upcoming activities include a retrospective concert in the Trinity Artists Series in November 2012, a collaboration with photographer Savina Tarsitano for a series of upcoming multi-media exhibitions and a commission from the Orchestra of the League of Composers for spring 2014 in New York City.

Ken UenoA recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno is a composer/vocalist and an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, SFCMP, the Nieuw Ensemble and Frances-Marie Uitti have championed his music. Ueno’s music has been performed at MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, Ars Musica, Other Minds, the Hopkins

Center, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Spoleto USA. Ueno’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, has been featured in their repertoire for over 10 years, with performances at Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and was aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. A portrait concert of Ueno’s was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. As a vocalist, he specializes in extended techniques and has collaborated in improvisations with Joey Baron, Joan Jeanrenaud, Ikue Mori, and Tim Feeney amongst others. Recently, he performed his vocal concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Ueno holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A monograph CD of three concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. Learn more at http://kenueno.com

Local GuestsElaine BearerElaine Bearer is a neuroscientist and composer. She is a professor at the University of New Mexico, with a tenured appointment in the Pathology Department in the School of Medicine and a secondary appointment in the Music Department. She began composing at 6, and as a teenager went to Paris to study with the renowned Nadia Boulanger. After working several years as a professional composer, Bearer turned to science to study the neurological basis

of musical experience. For 20 years she has investigated the molecular detail and circuitry of the brain. Her music is performed worldwide.

Richard Cameron-WolfeComposer-pianist Richard Cameron-Wolfe lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico, where he teaches piano and hosts a monthly three-hour, web-streaming “Sunday Morning [Un]Classics” radio show (dominated by 20th/21st-century music) at www.krza.org. He is devoted to the promotion of modern classical music, which he prefers to call “sound art”. His current projects include the recording and editing of three CDs – two of his own compositions,

the other showcasing his repertoire of piano music by lesser-known 20th-century composers. His works-in-progress include Infra-Ultra (orchestra) and An Inventory of Damaged Goods (piano).

Daniel DavisThe compositions of Daniel Davis are melodic, linear, contrapuntal, folk-oriented, minimal, micro-compositional and based on personal experience and dreams. He has also composed music for theater, modern dance, opera, hymns, anthems and video documentaries. His Three Evening Prayers are on the Oasis in the Desert CD recording by Gamelan Encantada. He plays viola, violin, sings, gardens, walks the dogs and teaches music at UNM and CNM.

David Dunn David Dunn is a composer who primarily engages in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch. Other mentors include composers Kenneth Gaburo and Pauline Oliveros, in addition to Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski. He has been the recipient of more than 35 grants and fellowships for both artistic and scientific research. In 2005 he received the prestigious Alpert

Award for music, the Henry Cowell Award from the American Music Center in 2007, and most recently an Artist Award Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for 2013.

Jonah ElrodJonah Elrod is a graduate student in music composition at the University of New Mexico. For the past five years, he has studied with professors Christopher Shultis, Richard Hermann, Karola Obermüller, Peter Gilbert and José-Luis Hurtado. In 2011, he was an arranger in the Hey, Mozart! concert festival in Albuquerque, and in 2012 he wrote the film score for the short film, Contingency. Recently he has been experimenting with electronic means

to create new musical sounds and to improvise with other composers in a live performance setting.

Barbara Monk FeldmanBarbara Monk Feldman has been a guest lecturer for performances of her music at the Ferienkürse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt (1988-94), and she has also lectured at universities in the United States and Canada. Her article, “Music and the Picture Plane,” has been published in res 32,1997 and in Contemporary Music Review, 1998. Her compositions have been performed at festivals in Europe, Japan and North America, including the Festival Nieuwe Muziek,

Middelburg, the Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, MaerzMusik, Berlin, and have been recorded for radio by BBC London, BRT Brussels, CBC Montreal, HR Frankfurt and WDR Cologne. She lives in Santa Fe.

Richard HermannRichard Hermann, professor of music at UNM, holds degrees from Eastman School of Music, Yale University, the New England Conservatory and Drake University in music theory, composition and music education. His compositions have been recorded by National Public Radio and performed in Beijing, Boston, Madrid and New York. He has lectured on music from the 17th-20th centuries before the American Musicological Society, Society for

Music Theory, Austria 996-1996: Music in a Changing Society, IRCAM, MaMuX, Music Analysis Today: Crisis or (R)evolution?, Music Theory Society of New York State, New England Conference of Music Theorists, Sibelius Academy and the Sorbonne.

Gabriel Landstedt Gabriel Landstedt is a 17-year-old pianist, and a student of Falko Steinbach. He is currently a freshman and Presidential Scholar at the University of New Mexico, seeking a degree in Music Performance. In 2012, he won first prize at the Jackie McGehee Young Artist Competition, and made his orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the New Mexico Philharmonic. In both 2011 and 2012, Landstedt placed first in the Music Teachers National

Association State Piano Competition, Senior Division. In the summers of 2011 and 2012, he attended the Lindlar Internationales Klavierfestival in Lindlar, Germany, where he received master classes and performed solo recitals.

Brigida Luján Brigida Luján is a professional flamenco dancer with an MA in dance and 12 years teaching experience. She has performed on stages throughout the U.S. and in Spain. Luján was on the dance faculty at the Santa Fe Community College for five years. She has also taught at the National Conservatory of Flamenco in Albuquerque, Institute for Spanish Arts in Santa Fe, University of New Mexico and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, in addition

to workshops in various cities nationally. She holds a New Mexico teaching license in Dance and is the first and only American to be accepted into Madrid’s Professional Association of Teachers for Spanish Dance and Flamenco.

Lisa NevadaLisa Nevada has been contributing to the field of dance for more than a decade as a dancer, teacher, improv technician and choreographer. She has performed with companies such as Bill Evans Dance Company (2002-2004), Keshet Dance Company (1996-2012), Jewell and Company Dance Theater (2005-present), Ecotone Physical Theatre (2006-present), PutAttention Dance Collective (2004-2008), Lawine Torren (2011) and Dancing Earth

(2011-2012). She is pursuing an MFA in dance at the University of New Mexico with a focus on performance and choreography. Nevada’s extensive experience directing and teaching children, incarcerated youth, college students and professionals has instilled a strong investment in dance education that goes beyond the studio and reaches out into the community.

New Music New MexicoNew Music New Mexico (NMNM) was started by Professor Kevin Vigneau 10 years ago as an outlet for music students at UNM to take up the challenge of learning and performing contemporary music. The group is currently directed by David Felberg, who is also the artistic director of Chatter. It is a Pierrot-sized ensemble, consisting of violin, flute, clarinet, cello, and piano, and performs twice per

semester. The group also does readings and performances of student compositions. NMNM’s 2012-13 season repertoire included pieces by Reich, Cage, Scelsi, and Schoenberg, among others.

PanaiotisPanaiotis has performed worldwide as singer and electronic musician/composer for more than 25 years. A co-founder of The Deep Listening Band with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster, he has specialized in electronic and digital media and music throughout his career. Panaiotis has composed music for more than 40 theater and dance productions as well as film. His dance work, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, which premiered in Basel,

Switzerland, was performed at the UGArts 96 Olympic Festival. More recently he has developed music and user-control systems for interactive virtual environments, and is currently design and R&D director for High Desert Interactive.

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Steven PaxtonComposer and conductor Steven Paxton is chair of the Contemporary Music Program at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, where he teaches composition, music technology, music theory and choral music. Paxton has worked extensively in collaborative art forms, especially as a composer, sound designer and musical director for the stage. From 1988 to 1994, he was composer-in-residence for the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival,

and his opera, Bellini’s War, was premiered at Texas Tech University in 2001. A new commissioned work for guitar ensemble, Automaton Variations, was premiered in April 2012 at the Nevada Music Educator’s Association Conference in Las Vegas.

Joshua-Allen RupleyPianist Joshua-Allen Rupley is in his third year at the University of New Mexico studying piano performance under Professor Falko Steinbach. He is a regular guest of the Klavierfestival Lindlar held each summer near Cologne, Germany, where he studies with Steinbach and has performed several times. He won the Jackie McGehee Concerto Competition in 2011, is regularly recognized at the MTNA competition, and was a competitor

the 2012 International Keyboard Odyssiad Competition and the 2013 Metropolitan International Piano Competition. He performed Liszt’s Totentanz with the New Mexico Philharmonic in 2011 and will perform Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Figueroa Project in the 2013-2014 season.

Christopher ShultisChristopher Shultis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Regents’ Professor of Music, began his teaching career at the University of New Mexico (1980-2011) where he taught percussion, musicology and composition. His scholarly writings on John Cage are internationally recognized. Shultis’ first compositions were experimental in nature. Now his music is almost always discovered in quiet and solitude during long

walks in woods and mountains. His complete works are published by the American Composers Alliance, and his music has been performed in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Korea. His CD, “Devisadero: Music from the New Mexico Wilderness,” is available through Navona Records. Website: chrisshultis.com Blog: “The Great (un) Learning” chrisshultis.blogspot.com

Falko SteinbachFalko Steinbach is recognized worldwide as a soloist, composer and piano pedagogue. A Steinway artist, he performs and teaches at international festivals in the United States, Asia and Europe. Born in Aachen, Germany, he gave his first public recital at 12 and won his first piano competition at 17. Among Steinbach’s compositions are one opera; Apocalypse, a cycle of spiritual music for choirs and ensembles; and his cycle of 53 etudes, which he published in four

volumes. Because new music is a significant interest for him, he frequently presents new works to audiences in lecture concerts. He has made 14 compact disc recordings as well as videos and has appeared widely on German and U.S. radio and television.

Fred SturmFred Sturm, a University of New Mexico alumnus (MM 1979), specializes in the piano music of Latin America, with a particular emphasis on Heitor Villa-Lobos. He has performed regularly in the Albuquerque area and beyond for the past three decades and has recorded six CDs to date, most recently “Federico Ibarra, Music for Piano.” In a review of that CD in the current Fanfare Magazine, Peter Burwasser wrote, “He plays the music of Ibarra as if he were writing

it on the spot. It is rare to hear a musician so inhabited by the material.”

William WoodWilliam Wood was composer-in-residence and a professor of theory and composition at the University of New Mexico from 1971-2009. He was a student of Aaron Copland and Wolfgang Fortner while in residence at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, and went on to earn a doctorate in composition from the Eastman School of Music. An active jazz saxophonist, Wood has been a lead alto player in back-up bands for a wide range of

performers, including Mel Torme, Nancy Wilson, Paul Horn, the Temptations and the Supremes. His music has been performed at the Madrid Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Town Hall (New York), Tanglewood and many other venues.

Beth YipBeth Yip, an Albuquerque native, received degrees in trombone performance and theory/composition from the Eastman School of Music and the University of New Mexico. Her thesis explored feminist themes in the music of Pauline Oliveros and she continues to be interested in experimental and alternative approaches to sound. In addition to working as a freelance musician, Yip has co-organized the Unheard Of concert series, featuring local

composers, and created a grant-funded soundscape installation project, Harvesting Local Soundscapes. Two of her pieces for Gamelan Encantada, Patience: A Game and Cycles of Terror and Peace, have recently premiered on local stages.

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Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

The Gorham Family Foundation

Dean Martha Bedard

James & Diane Bonnell

James Bratcher*

Jack Douthett, Jr., Ph.D. & Leah Kier

JJ & Darlene Evers

Marilyn Fletcher

E. Richard Hart & Lynette Westendorf

Eileen Grevey Hillson & Dr. David C. Hillson

Lt. Colonel (Retired) Guy & Nina Hobbs

Dr. & Mrs. David Holton

Belinda Jentzen & Richard Virtue

Michael Kelly

Dale & Susan Kempter

William H. Kersting

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Mathisen

AcknowledgmentsThe UNM Department of Music and the UNM Robb Trust would like to thank the

following individuals and organizations for support of the 2013 John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium and Trust initiatives.

UNM Music Department Chair Steven Block and all the participating UNM music faculty and students, all of whom make the symposium possible.

Vladimir Conde Reche, Richard Hess and the UNM Theatre & Dance Department

Tim Castillo, David Beining and the UNM Arts Lab

Sara Otto-Diniz, Steven Hurley and the UNM Art Museum

Nanette Ely-Davies and Frank Horner, Jr., SpeedZone Print & Copy

Travel for Duo X and Oğuz Büyükberber is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.

Elsa Menéndez

Sue McAdams

Bruno & Elsie Morosin, Ph.D.

Carolyn Mountain & John Cordova, Jr.

Priscilla Robb McDonnell

The Honorable James A. Parker

Dean Kymberly Pinder

Sheilah Purcell-Garcia

John D. & Peggy Robb

Dr. Margaret Roberts

Ted Rush

Christopher Shultis

Dr. Janet Simon & Mark Weber

Douglas Swift, Ph.D. and Mrs. Swift

Alice J. Thompson

Robert Tillotson, Ph.D.

Dr. Robert & Karen Turner

Scott & Jane Wilkinson

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THE MEMBERS OF THE UNM JOHN DONALD ROBB MUSICAL TRUST BOARD OF DIRECTORS GENEROUSLY SUPPORT THE

Forty-Second Annual U N M Composers’ Symposium

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Thomas McVeety

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James Bratcher*

Charlemaud Curtis

Thomas Dodson

Darlene Evers

Carmoline Grady

James Linnell

Michael Mauldin

Christopher Mead

Elsie Morosin

David Oberg

William Seymour

Christopher Shultis

Scott Wilkinson

James Wright

HONORARY MEMBERS

Martha Bedard

Steven Block

James Bonnell

Jack Douthett

Marilyn Fletcher

Peter Gilbert

Nina Hobbs

Kymberly Pinder

John D. Robb

Priscilla Robb McDonnell

Robert Tillotson

Karen Turner

Belinda Jentzen

Michael Kelly

Dale Kempter

Elsa Menéndez

Carolyn Mountain

Henry Nemcik

Karola Obermüller

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UNM COMPOSERS’ SYMPOSIUM:

Encouraging ExperimentationIn 1972, William Wood joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico as composer-in-residence and associate professor of composition-theory. That year, he invited his former teacher, Norman Lockwood, whose compositions were performed, along with the works of UNM student composers during a late-April concert program. This marked the beginning of what is now known as the UNM Composers’ Symposium, an event that has occurred annually and uninterrupted since then, making it one of the longest-running festivals of new music in the world.

In the subsequent years, remarkable guests including several Pulitzer Prize winners came annually to the UNM campus, interacting with student composers and performers. Always, experimentation was encouraged. It didn’t take long for the symposium to gain an international reputation.

One featured guest was invited to each symposium until 1989. In honor of the university’s centennial that year, the symposium honored 40 UNM Music Department alumni and friends, with special tributes, including one to John Donald Robb, former dean of the UNM College of Fine Arts and to UNM alumnus John Lewis, who had gone on to become musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

That same year, the Robb Concert was established, beginning a tradition in which compositions of the former dean would be performed at every symposium. A decade later, the symposium was renamed the John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium to honor the former dean who had been instrumental in developing the music program at UNM. The symposium is now presented jointly by the UNM Department of Music and the John Donald Robb Musical Trust.

Beginning in the 1990s, the symposium experimented with themes, such as film music and music theory and jazz. The Department of Music faculty became more involved. In addition to concerts during the multi-day event, a full schedule of daytime master classes and lectures featuring visiting guests was introduced, providing exciting opportunities for students.

In celebration of the New Mexico Centennial in 2012, the works of more than 50 composers were featured during the 10-day symposium. With this year’s theme, Music and Movement, the symposium artistic directors strive to provide a memorable experience. All events on the UNM campus are free and open to the public, which continues another long tradition: making the music available to everyone.

A Sample of the Symposium’s Many Renowned Past Guests

Robert Ashley

Milton Babbitt

Konrad Boehmer

Anthony Braxton

Martin Bresnick

John Cage

Michael Colgrass

George Crumb

Julio Estrada

Lukas Foss

Lou Harrison

Alan Hovhaness

Karel Husa

John Harbison

Ernst Krenek

Libby Larson

John Lewis

Gordon Mumma

Thea Musgrave

Pauline Oliveros

Vincent Persichetti

Roger Reynolds

Ned Rorem

Maria Schneider

Gunther Schuller

Cecil Taylor

James Tenney

Joan Tower

Christian Wolff