Framroze Virjee, President, California State University, Fullerton
Amir H. Dabirian, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (Interim)
Alexander Porter, Vice President, Administration and Finance/CFO
David Forgues, Vice President, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion
Rommel Hidalgo, Vice President, Information Technology
Tonantzin Oseguera, Vice President, Student Affairs
Gregory J. Saks, Vice President, University Advancement
Arnold Holland, EdD, Dean
Dave Mickey, Associate Dean
Bonnie Li Victorino, Academic Resource Manager
Christopher Johnson, Budget Coordinator
Heather Guzman, Assistant to the Deans
Visual Arts Special Projects, Jade Jewett
Dr. Randall Goldberg, Director, School of Music
Dr. James Hussar, Chair, Department of Visual Arts
Jamie Tucker, Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance
Jennifer Frias, Director, Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery
John Spiak, Director, Grand Central Art Center - Santa Ana
Ann Steichen, Director of Development
Erika Ochoa, Support Group Coordinator
Julie Bussell, Director, Marketing & Patron Services
Stephanie Tancredi, Box Office Manager
Heather Richards-Siddons
Marketing & Communications Specialist
Alvin Chiu, Graphic Designer
Jason Pano, Social Media Strategist
Greetings from the College of the Arts! It’s so good to have you back, and we have an exceptional spring season planned for you. With programming ranging from groundbreaking theatre productions to World-Premiere concerts, our spring offerings seem to shine a bit brighter this semester. On January 28, we kicked things off with the Visual Arts Modernization Project Preview Event and groundbreaking ceremony. More than 100 invited guests joined us for a sneak peek of the project as they engaged with some of the latest technology-driven art tools, experienced AR/VR project demonstrations by visual arts students, and viewed scale models of the complex. When completed, this renovation will transform our campus and community, positioning CSUF’s visual arts program – the largest in the Cal State system – as a leader in cutting-edge art education and practice within the CSUs. Follow our progress and join us on this extraordinary journey at art.fullerton.edu/vamod.
This season’s fresh slate of visual arts exhibitions and performing arts concerts and productions are sure to keep you coming back to campus! Beginning February 18, Begovich Gallery presents the exhibition “Figures, Poses, and Glances: The Coded Illustrations of J.C Leyendecker,” at MUZEO Museum & Cultural Center, exploring the coded depictions of queer culture in the eradefining images of this early twentieth-century American illustrator. The School of Music honors Black History Month with a performance of “Symphony No. 1 in E minor” by composer Florence Price – the first Black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. In Theatre, Maria Cominis’ “Women of Zalongo” weaves together the experiences of four generations of Greek women into a story of resilience, struggle, and survival. And in May, our student dancers and choreographers collaborate in rhythmic, expressive movement as “Spring Dance Theatre” returns to the Little Theatre.
Our diverse programming mirrors the diversity of the College of the Arts and is a testament to the values we hold. We embrace the possibility inherent in each of our students and celebrate their successes alongside them on their path to becoming future artists, educators, performers, and arts professionals. As patrons, donors, friends, and family, I know you also champion their success. Demonstrate your commitment to the future of the arts by supporting the Dean’s Fund for Excellence at any level. Donate today at arts.fullerton.edu/giving
I invite you to visit to campus our again for another performance, or to check out our progress as the Visual Arts Modernization Project moves into the next phase of construction. You may have even seen the walls of one of our new buildings going up along State College Blvd! Whatever brings you here, welcome. We are so proud to show you all that the College of the Arts at Cal State Fullerton has to offer.
Arnold Holland, Ed.D. Dean, College of the Arts
Dr. Randall Goldberg • Director, School of Music
Kimo Furumoto • Assistant Director, School of Music
Bongshin Ko • Assistant Director, School of Music
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Conducting
Kimo Furumoto - instrumental
Dr. Robert Istad - choral
Dr. Dustin Barr - instrumental
Jazz and Commercial Music
Bill Cunliffe* - jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director
Rodolfo Zuniga - jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director
Piano, Organ, Piano Pedagogy
Ning An - piano
Bill Cunliffe - jazz piano
Alison Edwards* - piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Dr. Robert Watson - piano
Music Education, Teacher Training, and Teaching Credential
Dr. Christopher Peterson - choral
Dr. Dennis Siebenaler* - general
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore - instrumental
Music in General Education
Dr. John Koegel*
Dr. Katherine Reed
Music History and LIterature
Dr. John Koegel - musicology
Dr. Katherine Reed - musicology
Strings
Kimo Furumoto - Director of Orchestra Studies
Bongshin Ko - cello
Dr. Ernest Salem* - violin
Theory and Composition
Dr. Pamela Madsen - composition, theory
Dr. Ken Walicki* - composition, theory
Vocal, Choral, and Opera
Dr. Mark Goodrich* - voice, academic voice courses
Dr. Robert Istad - Director of Choral Studies and University Singers
Dr. Kerry Jennings - Director of Opera
Dr. Christopher Peterson - CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
Patricia Prunty - voice, academic voice courses
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Dr. Dustin Barr - Director of Wind Band Studies, University Wind Symphony, University Band
Jean Ferrandis - flute
Sycil Mathai* - trumpet
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore Symphonic Winds conductor
SCHOOL OF MUSIC STAFF
Michael August - Production Manager
Eric Dries - Music Librarian
William Lemley - Audio Technician
Jeff Lewis - Audio Engineer
Chris Searight - Music Instrumental Services
Paul Shirts - Administrative Assistant
Elizabeth Williams - Business Manager
Sue Winston - Office Coordinator
* denotes Area Coordinator
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OUT OF DOORS:
featuring free improvisations by CSUF New Music Ensemble members, and works by Philip Glass, Pamela Madsen, and premiere of a newly commissioned work by Eleonor Sandresky
Opening Improvisation: Dots, Lines and Curves (2023) .............................. Eric Dries and CSUF New Music Ensemble
CSUF New Music Ensemble
The Singing of the Waves (2009/2023) .....................................................Pamela Madsen (arranged by Eric Dries for CSUF New Music Ensemble)
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Leaf: Japanese Knotweed (2023) (World Premiere) ............................................................................ Eleonor Sandresky (Commissioned by CSUF New Music Ensemble)
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Samba Jorge Cardoso
Ivan Parga-Renteria, guitar
Trilogy Sonata Philip Glass (from Satygraha: Evening Song Conclusion, Act III)
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Hommage à J. S. Bach Béla Kovács Richard Greenwood, clarinet
Meditation on Sacred Mountain ...............................................................Pamela Madsen (from Why Women Went West (2023))
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Closing Improvisation-March Improvisation .......................................... arr. Eric Dries and (based on “With Drums and Pipes”
CSUF New Music Ensemble from Bela Bartok: Out of Doors Suite (2023)) www
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Jeffrey Plett, flute, saxophone
Richard Greenwood, clarinet/tenor
Owen Wells, clarinet/bass clarinet
Jessica Lewis, cello
Ivan Parga-Renteria, guitar
David Varela, guitar
Esther Risdale, electric bass
Daniel Myers, piano
Manuel Laverde-Cubillos, keyboards
Julia Craft, keyboards, electronics
Janae Haradedian, soprano
Lorna Katz, alto
Lucas Edwards, tenor
Kevin Barba, baritone
CSUF New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Pamela Madsen, artistic director and Eric Dries, director and conductor, focuses on the instruction in the techniques of contemporary concert music, and preparation of small group performances of contemporary instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic chamber music literature from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. We study and perform a wide range of repertoire from the contemporary period: from, experimental, atonal, to extended tonal, minimalism, post-minimalism, post-modernism to multi-media collaboration, film music, deep listening and improvisational forms in an attempt to explore both
the repertoire and performance practice in New Music. Students improve through rehearsal, learning new techniques and through engagement with guest composers and performers and practice strategies to develop critical evaluation of their own performances. Weekly rehearsal and coaching sessions are set up for each individual small chamber music group on a to be determined basis. At times, the chamber music group members themselves will be asked to create, arrange, or improvise scores, and engage in improvisatory practices.
ELEONOR SANDRESKY composer
Dubbed a “piano goddess,” Eleonor Sandresky is a composer, inventor of the Wonder Suit, producer of film with live orchestra concerts, co-founder of the MATA Festival, and performing member of the Philip Glass Ensemble family from 1991 - 2019. Eleonor’s music is heard around the world, from the Venice Biennale to her hometown of New York to the Totally Huge New Music Festival and beyond. She has received numerous grants and commissions from notable institutions such as NYSCA, ASCAP, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, and has been composer-in-residence at Yaddo, STEIM (Studio for Electronic Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, and MacDowell. Recent works include Strange Energies, a set of etudes for solo piano (2019); Wunderkammern Live! for ensemble and film, (2017) premiered on Tribeca New Music, Donne Songs Without Words, for choreographed viols and baroque harp, commissioned by Parthenia (2015). Since 2012 she has been composing etudes for solo piano, Strange Energies with an album release of the same name in 2020. Her most recent music is inspired by nature and are often hybrid works that combine visuals and music. These include pieces for fixed media as well as live, often improvised, performance and push the boundaries of what a score can be. CSUF New Music Ensemble commissioned Leaf 1: Knotweed, the latest and most challenging score to date. The premiere is set for May, 2023. Working at the forefront of avant-garde concert-as-theater, Eleonor reinvented herself as the Choreographic Pianist with her groundbreaking composition, A Sleeper’s Notebook (1999-2003). In these works, she explores her deep interest in how motion translates to emotion through sound. She is also the inventor of The Wonder Suit, a remote set of wireless sensors worn and used to trigger sonic events during live performance. She has created large-scale works for the Suit, most recently, A Space Odyssey (2016), which incorporates found sounds from NASA as a basis for the composition. Eleonor continues to don The Wonder Suit in improvised, live performance. In the last few years she has also been a featured composer/performer at London›s Cafe Oto, Morelia Center for Electronic Music in Mexico, San Francisco Center for New Music, USC Fullerton New Music Festival and Gallery MC in Manhattan. Deeply involved in the genre of live music and film, Eleonor composes, conducts and produces concerts of her own scores, as well as those of Leonard Bernstein and Philip Glass. Her music is available on Sony Classics, Koch International, Orange Mountain Music, Supertrain Records, ERM Media, One Soul Records and Albany Records.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
Pamela Madsen is a composer, performer, writer and curator of new music. From massive immersive concertlength projects, solo works, chamber music to multi-media opera collaborations her work focuses on issues of social change, and impactful projects that explore women, diversity, inclusion, empowerment and the environment. With a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCSD, Mellon Foundation Doctoral Research Award, Yale University, Post- Doctoral research in Music Technology at IRCAM, Paris, and Deep Listening Certificate with Pauline Oliveros, she is an established composer in Orange County, Professor of Music at Cal State Fullerton, with an international career. Her works have been commissioned and premiered world-wide by such artists as Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Brightwork newmusic, HEX Vocal Ensemble, loadbang, ModernMedieval, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tony Arnold, Nicholas Isherwood, Stacey Fraser, Claire Chase, Jane Rigler, Anne LaBerge, Brian Walsh, Lisa Moore, Vicki Ray, Aron Kallay, Bugallo- Williams Piano Duo, Ashley Bathgate, Trio Solisti, New York New Music Ensemble, Either/Or, yesaroun’ duo, California Ear Unit, Verdehr Trio, Zeitgeist, JACK, Ethel, Lyris, Formalist and Arditti string quartets with multi-media collaborations with visual artists Quintan Ana Wikswo, Camille Seaman, Jimena Sarno and Judy Chicago. Major concert-length projects include her Opera America and National Endowment for the Arts Awarded Opera: Why Women Went West, National Endowment for the Arts and New Music USA supported Oratorio for the Earth; New Music USA awarded Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat; Luminosity: Passions of Marie Curie multi-media opera; Melting Away: Gravity for orchestra, with Arctic photographer Camille Seaman; We are All SibylsEnvisioning the Future Project, Los Angeles-a multi-media opera installation project with visual artist Judy Chicago. Selected as an Alpert Award Panelist, Creative Capital artist “on the radar” with prestigious awards from Opera America, National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Scandinavian Foundation, fellowships at Huntington Library, MacDowell Colony, UCross, Wyoming, Women’s International Studies Center, New Mexico, Wurlitzer Foundation Award with international Russia/Siberia Concert tour, featured composer at Pulsar Festival, Denmark, she is a frequent guest artist at festivals and universities worldwide. She is Director of the Annual New Music Festival, InterArts Collaborative Projects at Cal State Fullerton where she is Professor of Music Composition and Director of the New Music Ensemble.
www.pamelamadsenmusic.com
PAMELA MADSEN composer, artistic director, CSUF Music Ensemble
ERIC DRIES
composer/arranger, director, CSUF New Music Ensemble
Eric Dries is a pianist, improviser, composer and educator who explores the innovative fields between traditional jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary classical music. His work explores a wide range of stylistic practices from jazz and contemporary music worlds in diverse performance situations. Dries is interested in expanding experimental ideas while honoring the fundamental tenets of the jazz tradition. His solo piano performances reinterpret and invigorate the tradition of jazz standards with a foundation of rhythmic experimentation and harmonic and melodic expansion. Dries has performed and recorded with some of the top studio and freelance musicians in southern California where he is in high demand at high profile performance venues. Dries early notated compositional works explore virtuosic solo instrumental experimentation and unusually orchestrated chamber ensemble combinations. His current compositional work combines the rigor of compositional technique with improvised frameworks of traditional jazz and experimentalism of new music to create systems of group dynamics that encourage performer-composer collaboration and new sonic exploration in each performance. Dr. Dries holds a Ph.D. in Composition and M.A. in Music Theory from University of California San Diego, where he studied with Rand Steiger, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough, with post-doctoral studies and research in Music Technology at IRCAM. He studied jazz improvisation and composition with bassist Richard Davis and saxophonist Les Thimmig at University of Wisconsin Madison where he .received his BM in Music Composition, studying with Stephen Dembski. Dries currently is a Lecturer in Music composition, theory, jazz, and music technology at California State University Fullerton School of Music.
www.driesmusic.com
