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Faculty News 2-3

Announcements 4

Upcoming Concerts 5

Past Concerts 6

Student News 7

December Calendar 8

January Calendar 9

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Music Department

Camino Hall 161

5998 Alcalá Park

San Diego, CA 92110

Phone: (619) 260-2938

Winter 2014

Good end-of-semester to you all!

This is the last of our newsletters for 2014.

This was a good year for the Music

Department as we have many new students

and several ongoing initiatives – such as the

student pep band, the Arts Entrepreneurship

Minor, and the Teaching Credential/Music

Education program. We hope to establish

these programs in the spring.

Remaining Concerts: These include the

Chamber Ensembles concert (Dec. 4 7:30 in

Shiley), Lessons and Carols (Dec. 5 7:30 and

Dec. 7 2pm: Founders Chapel), the Gamelan

Ensemble concert (Dec. 9 7:30 in Shiley), the

Jazz Ensemble concert (Dec. 10 7:30 in

Shiley), the Student Recital (vocal & piano;

Dec. 11 12:15 in Shiley), the Mariachi concert

(Dec. 11 7:30 in Shiley), the Annual Messiah

Sing- and Play-Along (Dec. 12 7:30 and Dec.

14 2pm, in Founders Chapel), and the Digital

Audio Composition Student Recital (Dec. 16

in Shiley). Come check these wonderful

events out!

For those of you in San Diego during

Intersession, the Mariachi Showcase will be

held throughout Camino on January 15-18,

bringing to campus some of the greatest

Mariachi performers and educators in the

country. Spring semester will feature two

recitals: A senior recital by Kevin Nguyen and

a junior recital by Hayley Park. The Angelus

sacred music concert will also be a major

event. And, very importantly, I hope that many

of you will volunteer to help out as we hold the

Society for Ethnomusicology Southern

California/Hawaii Chapter Conference on

campus on Feb 28-March 1. We will have

students and scholars from throughout the

region giving presentations on a wide variety of

topics and will hold a special evening of

performances.

Course News for the Spring: In addition to our

regular slate of spring courses, four special

topics courses are scheduled. Dr. Pfau is

teaching the topic Music and Therapy in

MUSC 333 Pro-seminar in Musicology, I am

teaching the topic Introduction to

Ethnomusicology in MUSC 440W Topics in

Ethnomusicology, Dr. Adler is teaching the

topic Rhythm and Tim in MUSC 494 Special

Topics in Music Theory/Composition, and Dr.

Kaiser is teaching the new MUSC 421

Interactive Digital Music and Arts. Please

participate in an ensemble (or two)! You have

several choices: Chamber Music Ensembles,

Concert Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Opera

Workshop, Gamelan Ensemble, and Mariachi

Ensemble.

Good news: More sound rock/attenuation will

be added to the renovated spaces Camino 140-

145 in January. And, all external windows are

supposed to be double-paned during Spring

Break. These efforts should stem most of the

sound bleed problems some of you have

experienced in the practice rooms.

Dr. Yeung will be on sabbatical leave in the spring. Although she will occasionally be around the Department, please say goodbye to her

before the end of the semester. Replacing her as Chamber Music Ensembles instructor in the spring will be Ramon Negron.

I hope that you all have enjoyed this eventful semester! It was Dr. Amrein’s first and she has already made a very positive impact in the

Department. I want to extend thanks to several people: Anh Le has been very capably serving as Student Intern. Jeff Kaiser continues

his excellent service as Concert Manager. And, Marilou continues to excel and improve our Department as our Executive Assistant; she

has a smile for everyone.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

David Harnish

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Christopher Adler Christopher Adler travelled to Northern Illinois

University for a week-long residency with the nief-norf Project,

where he premiered a new composition by Los Angeles composer

Nicholas Deyoe, and performed a trio by Evan Ziporyn. He also

performed his composition Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze with

the students of the NIU New Music Ensemble, and coached a

performance by the NIU Percussion Ensemble of his percussion

quintet Pines Long Slept in Sunshine.

In January, Dr. Adler will perform in the annual soundON Festival

of Modern Music at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La

Jolla, with the ensemble NOISE. The performances feature works

by modern composers James Erber, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter

and many others, including multiple world premieres. The festival

includes concerts on January 8, 10 and 11, as well as a workshop in

contemporary music for musicians at all levels. For more

information about the festival, visit www.sandiegonewmusic.com Christopher Adler (piano) performing his composition Ecstatic Volutions in

a Neon Haze with nief-norf cellist Ashley Walters and students of the NIU

New Music Ensemble.

In June, 2015, Christopher Adler will be composition faculty at the

2015 nief-norf Summer Festival held at the University of Tennessee in

Knoxville. The festival includes opportunities for composers,

performers of all instruments, and scholars, to come together for two

weeks in an intensive workshop environment dedicated to

contemporary music. Please talk to Dr. Adler if you would like to

learn more about this innovative summer festival opportunity.

David Harnish During the last part of this semester, I presented a paper titled “The

Musical Lives of Processions” at the Society for Ethnomusicology

conference in Pittsburgh. While there, I co-accepted the Bruno Nettl Prize for the

Longing for the Past publication (2013) of early 20th-century Southeast Asian

recordings, annotations and descriptions. I also sat in on one piece of a conference

performance by the Dangdut Cowboys. My review of Andy McGraw’s Radical

Transformations: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Contemporary Music was

published in Sojourn 29 (3). As faculty Liaison for the Kyoto Symposium, I attend

the Kyoto Prize Ceremony in November honoring three outstanding individuals.

The Arts and Philosophy laureate, Fukumi Shimura, will come to give a Symposium

at USD on March 19. She is a master kimono maker, using only plant dyes of

hundreds of hues that she collects and mixes herself from the environment. Ms.

Shimura is a major figure in the Mingei folk arts movement in Japan and founded a

school to instruct students in both the philosophy of Mingei and the techniques

necessary to mix colors and harmonize human and natural worlds within kimono

design. It was an honor to meet her and it is always an honor to meet Princess

Takamado, who is the Honorary Chair of the Kyoto Prize Ceremony. As usual, I

also performed a few gigs in LA with La Revancha, a Latin rock band. Dr. Harnish jamming with the Dangdut Cowboys,

Society for Ethnomusicology conference,

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Jeff Kaiser was interviewed in October at length by Darwin Grosse for "Art

+ Music + Technology," an ongoing series featuring many prominent artists using new

technologies in the visual and sonic art worlds. http://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-

049-jeff-kaiser

From Grosse’s site: “It's hard to compartmentalize Jeff Kaiser. He's a monster trumpet

player, a music label impresario, ethnomusicologist and technologist. Somehow, he finds

a way to live his life where he can be all of these things - all of the time. He's a force, but

also an incredibly nice guy to talk to.

In our chat, we talk about coming out of a religious music background, driving into (and

through) an academic endevour, and coming out the other side with a hard-to-define

career. We also talk about words, which might sound funny, but it really important when

you think about how people interact with art and music's place in history.”

Jeff Kaiser

Jeff Kaiser performing a concert with the great

Marco Eneidi last spring at Club Celeste in

Vienna, Austria. Marianne Pfau Dr. Pfau looks forward to a very busy Advent and Christmas Season, with numerous performances in the Bay Area and in

Germany between 1st of Advent and January 6 (Epiphany) 2015. One will be a concert at St. Jacob’s in Hamburg, with works by Bach,

Telemann and Mattheson. All three Baroque composers worked at that same church some 300 years ago.

In celebration of Bach’s 330th birthday in Spring 2015, Dr. Pfau will offer two related events. One is a lecture for USD’s Bridges

Academy on Feb 25 2015, “Measures of Grace: Thoughts on Bach's Cantatas 138, 164, and 187." The other is the annual Lenten

concert on the Angelus Early Music Series in Founders Chapel, on March 21 2015, 7 pm. The concert features live

performance of these three cantatas by Bach, with commentary, and offers the opportunity to hear four fine guest

soloist; Rita Lily (soprano), Christopher Fritzsche (haute-contre), John Russel (tenor) and Jeffrey Fields (bass),

joined by San Francisco’s Jubilate Baroque Orchestra performing on historical instruments.

For Women’s History Month, Dr. Pfau will give a lecture for the Oceanside Art Museum’s distinguished speakers

series, entitled: “Songs of the Living Light: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1178) as Composer.”

And Dr. Pfau is looking forward to her newest course at USD, the Pro-Seminar on Music Therapy, MUSC 333.

Students from Music, Theatre, and Psychology will work together, exploring music’s power of healing.

Violinist/violist Alyze Dreiling was born in Detroit, Michigan, beginning her studies with Mischa Mischakoff and

graduating from Indiana University where she studied with Josef Gingold. Relocating to San Diego, she joined the

adjunct faculty at USD, as well as the faculty for the USD Chamber Music Festival and the adjunct faculty at Grossmont College. She is

the violinist with Trio Licenza, the piano trio in residence at USD, and she also performs as violist with Grossmont Symphony String

Quartet and she is the violinist with the California Consort, founded by contrabassist, Bertram Turetzky. In 2014, Dreiling achieved

third place nationally in the youth orchestra division of the American Prize in Conducting competition.

Alyze Dreiling

Angela Yeung Dr. Yeung's Greater San Diego Chamber Orchestra performed at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts in September and at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido in November, in addition to accompanying music faculty Edmund Stein and Ramon Negron in Shiley Theatre, also in November. Her Greater San Diego Chamber Chorus, accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra, performed the Mass of St Cecilia by Gounod at the San Rafael Cathoic Church in October, with music faculty Therese Bulat as soprano soloist. Her Coterie Celli performed at the Music on the Mountain Concert Series in Julian, CA in November. The Greater San Diego Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, and Coterie Celli, are all under the Greater San Diego Music Coterie, founded by Dr. Yeung in 2010.

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AnnouncementsAnnouncementsAnnouncements

Majors:

Lilia Baldauf

Julia Francone

Solomon-Dane Hood

Gabriel Kong

Victoria Lam

Anh Le

Lennie Macias

Chiara Sutton

Minors:

Shannon McAvoy

Alec Palmer

Welcome!

Pep Band

The Music Department would like to

give a warm welcome to our recently

declared music majors and minors!

JOIN THE PEP BAND STUDENT CLUB: We are

forming a Pep Band Student Club here at USD and students

will have the chance to play at basketball games throughout

the season. Any students with music experience, please

consider joining! Please contact either Chiara Sutton

at chiaracsutton@sandiego.edu OR Emily Bolender

atemilybolender@sandiego.edu. Go Toreros!

Dr. Angela Yeung As some of you may have heard, Dr. Yeung will be on sabbatical leave in the spring semester. Fundamentals of Music Theory (MUSC 120) will be taught by Dr. Jeff Kaiser (sec 1) and Dr. Emilie Amrein (sec 2), and Mr. Ramon Negron will be in charge of the Chamber Music Ensembles. You can still contact Dr. Yeung via email, at ayeung@sandiego.edu.

USD Radio Event USD Radio is hosting a “Scavenger Hunt” on Dec.

5th from 2-4 p.m. all around campus. Participate by

going to the 3rd floor of the SLP during these hours for

your first clue. The Grand Prize will be two free tickets

to Wrex the Halls, a concert presented by FM91.1 Our

very own Lennie Macias (a MUSIC MAJOR!!!) is the

Community Director for this organization and coordi-

nated this awesome event. You may contact her via

email with any questions at mylenem@sandiego.edu.

Treble Threat Concert Treble Threat, USD’s A Capella group will present a

concert on Saturday, December 6 at 6:00 p.m. in the Shiley

Theatre. Admission: $2.00

The concert will feature a mesmerizing selection of songs, solo

performances and beautiful Christmas music! Some of our

music students namely Alison Linehan, Solomon-Dane Hood,

Haley Pugh and music alum Bryce Guzzetta ‘14 are members

of this great group!

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Directed by IPutu Hiranmayena

and assisted by David Harnish PhD

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Student Instrumentalist Recital

On Saturday, November 22nd five student

instrumentalists put on a great recital

performing music by Saint-Saens,

Beethoven, and more. We loved seeing the

students take initiative to put on this

concert and we hope to see more in the

future.

Picture: (from left to right) Julia Francone

‘17 (viola), Anh Le ‘17 (flute), Lennie

Macias ‘17 (trombone), Anastasia Osowski

‘15 (violin), and Taylor Cottle ‘17 (cello).

Veterans Memorial Concert

Adam Johnson’s Alumnus Concert

This year, the world marks the 100th anniversary of the

outbreak of the First World War. On November 10 & 11,

2014, under the direction of Dr. Emilie Amrein, the USD

Choral Scholars and Concert Choir presented a moving

program of sacred choral literature in commemoration of

this event.

Music alumnus, pianist and composer Adam Johnson (Eros)

‘00 performed his own music in his unique and quirky style.

The concert featured music faculty Dr. Angela Yeung, USD

music alumni and special guests. A truly enjoyable event for

all!

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San Diego recently held an International Leadership Conference and one of USD’s own chamber group took part of it.

The group was part of an experiment to demonstrate leadership skills that are inherent in performing groups.

The musicians tell us a bit about their experience...

Anh Le: “It was a great experience. I got to see how each of us takes up the leadership role and that was very eye-opening.”

William Carleton: “It was interesting to think more about how playing as a quartet applies to other sorts of cooperative work and

leadership roles.”

Julia Francone: “I learned to be really flexible. It was not at all what I expected, but I wasn't sure what to expect. It was really interesting

and I really enjoyed the experience. We interacted with the audience a lot compared

to a performance. They were really responsive and I'm glad I got to have that

experience.”

Mae Frank: “It was nice to hear the feedback of our audience and how much they

appreciated our music. Their feedback reminded us why we play music in the first

place.”

USD Music at the Int’l Leadership Conference

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December 2014

December 4th: Chamber Music Ensemble

French Parlor at 7:30pm

December 9th: Gamelan Concert

Shiley Theatre at 7:30pm

December 10th: Jazz Concert

Shiley Theatre at 7:30pm

December 11th: Student Recital

Shiley Theatre at 12:15pm

December 11th: Mariachi Concert

Shiley Theatre at 7:30pm

December 12th: Messiah Sing– and Play-Along

Founders Chapel at 7:30pm

December 14th: Messiah Sing– and Play-Along

Founders Chapel at 2pm

December 16th: Digital Audio Student Recital

Shiley Theatre at 2pm

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January 2015

January 5th: Start of Intersession. Over Intersession there will be a Jazz course taught by Scott Walton

January 15-18: The USD 2015 Mariachi Showcase, directed by Serafin Paredes, is an exciting event involving

workshops and competition with participation of the best high school mariachi ensembles in the southland

including some from Texas! Students learn techniques for mastery of the style, how to play and find a voice

within a group, how to respect the rich and living tradition of mariachi. 15 high school mariachi ensembles will

be selected to perform in the professional Mariachi Showcase on Sunday, January 18th. More details to come

on the music department website. For more information, contact the USD Music Office at (619) 260-2938.

January 26th: Spring 2015 semester begins!

Happy

New

Year!!

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