CSUF SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents
Faculty Jazz Group feat. Bill Cunliffe, piano, and Rodolfo Zuñiga, drum set with Luther Hughes, Francisco Torres, Kye Palmer, Paul Kreibich, Jeffrey Ellwood, Damon Zick, and Ron Eschete
November 5, 2021
California State University, Fullerton
UNIVERSITY CREDITS Framroze Virjee, President, California State University, Fullerton Carolyn Thomas Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Ron Coley, Vice President, Administration and Finance/CFO David Forgues, Vice President, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Amir H. Dabirian, Vice President, Information Technology Tonantzin Oseguera, Vice President, Student Affairs Gregory J. Saks, Vice President, University Advancement
C OL L E G E O F T H E AR T S Arnold Holland, Ed.D, Dean Dave Mickey, Associate Dean Maricela Alvarado, Assistant Dean Christopher Johnson, Budget Coordinator Heather Guzman, Assistant to the Deans Edward J. Fink, Ph.D, Director, School of Music Jade Jewett, 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 Lara Farhadi, Senior Director of Development Ann Steichen, Director of Development Erika Garcia, 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
WELCOME TO THE COLLEGE OF THE AR TS First, I’d like to start off by saying something I have looked forward to saying for a very long time: “Welcome back!” Welcome back to live performances and in-person exhibitions; welcome back to the thrill of sitting in a darkened theatre or concert hall, waiting with palpable anticipation as performers fill the stage; and welcome back to the very personal experience of being in the presence of an artwork that moves you or challenges your expectations. We’ve missed you. While away from campus, our students continued to create, learn, rehearse, and perform – sometimes in the tiny boxes we’ve all grown accustom to viewing from home – as they prepared for the moment they would once again feel stage lights shining on them. As you can imagine, they are more than ready to perform in front of a live audience! This season, we are offering both on-campus and live streaming options for many of our Department of Theatre & Dance and School of Music performances to accommodate a variety of patrons. With enhancements to our HVAC and air filtration systems, we are also able to provide students with the full breadth of our first-rate performance facilities and numerous art galleries where they perfect their craft daily. In returning to campus, we can once again deliver the full scope of immersive academic experiences and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration that make our college a living laboratory for the arts. Here, success is measured in lines of dialogue, sheets of music, and slabs of clay as our students, faculty, and staff work together to present concerts, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and performances to 40,000+ visitors annually. This would not be possible without the support of our community. As a leading CSU in the arts, we are an essential part of the cultural fabric of Southern California, providing transformational experiences to our students, community, and beyond. If ensuring the arts remain at the forefront of higher education in Orange County is a passion of yours, I encourage you to support the College of the Arts at any level by donating to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today (arts.fullerton.edu/giving). Thank you for joining us for another season of theatre, dance, music, and visual arts. Our doors are open, and we can’t wait to put on a show for you! Arnold Holland, Ed.D.
Dean, College of the Arts
Edward J. Fink, Ph.D - School of Music director Bongshin Ko - School of Music assistant director FULL-TIME FACULTY
Theory and Composition Dr. Pamela Madsen - composition, theory Dr. Ken Walicki* - composition, theory
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 technology 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
Vocal, Choral, and Opera Dr. Mark Goodrich* - voice, academic voice courses Dr. Robert Istad Director of Choral Studies; 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 Jean Ferrandis - flute Sycil Mathai* - trumpet Håkan Rosengren* - clarinet Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore Symphonic Winds conductor SCHOOL OF MUSIC STAFF
Music in General Education Dr. John Koegel* Dr. Katherine Reed
Michael August - Production Manager
Music History and Literature Dr. John Koegel* - musicology Dr. Katherine Reed - musicology
Chris Searight - Musical Instrument Services
Eric Dries - Music Librarian
Jeff Lewis - Audio Engineer
Paul Shirts - Administrative Assistant Elizabeth Williams - Accountant
Strings Kimo Furumoto - Director of Orchestral Studies Bongshin Ko - cello Dr. Ernest Salem* - violin
Sue Winston - Office Coordinator
* denotes Area Coordinator
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PROGRAM
CSUF FACULTY JAZZ GROUP Kye Palmer, trumpet Damon Zick and Jeffrey Ellwood, saxophones Francisco Torres, trombone Bill Cunliffe, piano Ron Escheté, guitar Luther Hughes, bass Paul Kreibich and Rodolfo Zuniga, drums
Whatever You Say.................................................................................Bill Cunliffe Around the Corner.................................................................................Bill Cunliffe Bonita................................................................................................ Horace Silver arr. Paul Kreibich R.T....................................................................................................... Damon Zick Hector, Desmond and Titus................................................................. Damon Zick Climbing Over Mountains......................................................................Bill Cunliffe Emerging...............................................................................................Bill Cunliffe Ain’t Nothin’ Nu....................................................................................Thad Jones
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
BILL CUNLIFFE Cal State Fullerton Professor of Music Bill Cunliffe is a jazz pianist, composer, Grammy Award-winning arranger and record producer. He is known for blending jazz with classical and pop genres based on a deep knowledge of, and a lively curiosity about, musical styles. As a solo artist and bandleader, he has more than a dozen albums to his name and has appeared on numerous recordings. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and began piano lessons with his mother at the age of eight. At 20, having been captivated by the music of Oscar Peterson, he changed his focus from classical music to jazz. As an undergraduate at Duke University, he studied with jazz legend Mary Lou Williams. At the Eastman School of Music, he studied jazz piano with Bill Dobbins and arranging with Rayburn Wright. In 1989, he won the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. Cunliffe began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. Later he toured and recorded with the Clayton Brothers and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, drummer Joe La Barbera, trumpeter Terell Stafford and jazz flutist Holly Hofmann. In addition to solo and guest appearances and leading CSUF jazz ensembles, Cunliffe performs with his trio, big band, Latin band, and his classical/improvisational chamber ensemble. His interest in choral music produced a recording of his jazz-inflected sacred works (“Transformation,” 2008) with the choirs of All Saints Church in Pasadena, where he is composer-inresidence as well as a parishioner. Cunliffe’s score for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 2011 documentary “On the Shoulders of Giants” received two NAACP nominations for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Group or Duo Collaboration. In 2009, he was awarded a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement and has received four other Grammy nominations including two for Best Instrumental Composition. The Los Angeles Jazz Society honored Cunliffe in 2010 with its Composer/ Arranger Award. In addition to teaching full time, Cunliffe is a longtime faculty member of the Skidmore Jazz Institute and the Vail Jazz Workshop.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
RODOLFO ZUÑIGA Drummer and composer Rodolfo Zuñiga is a soughtafter sideman and educator originally from San José, Costa Rica. He has shared the stage with Gary Campbell, Ira Sullivan, Bill Mays, Silvano Monasterios, Tomasz Dabrowski, Stephen Scott, Troy Roberts, Roxana Amed, Martin Bejerano, Camila Meza, John Hart, Michael Dease, Rotem Sivan, Melissa Aldana, Andy Laverne, Othello Molineaux, Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin, Don Friedman, Jonathan Kreisberg, Benny Golson, and Slide Hampton, to name a few. As an educator, Zuñiga has a wealth of experience, holding previous positions at Florida International University, Broward College and Miami Dade College teaching Jazz, Music Production and Music Business. He has performed and presented at the Jazz Education Network convention and has been a Thelonious Monk Institute Clinician. He has taught masterclasses at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Denmark, The American Modern School of Music in Paris, The Universidad de las Americas in Ecuador, The New World School of the Arts in Miami, The University of Costa Rica, and the Symphonic Conservatory in San José. As a leader and composer, Zuñiga’s quartet “Surfaces” has released two albums and has been featured in festivals around the US and in Central and South America. In 2005, the group was awarded the Carnegie Hall Residency under the direction of trumpeter Dave Douglas. In that same year Rodolfo was chosen to be part of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Group, with which he toured the U.S. and was featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The latest configuration of Rodolfo’s group is an octet featuring the “Surfaces” jazz trio, alongside a string trio, electric guitar, and vocals. As a sideman, Zuñiga has toured the world with highly creative jazz projects performing in festivals like The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, The Cully Switzerland Jazz Festival, Jazz Fest Málaga, The Ecuador Jazz Festival, Jazz Sur Le Ville Marseille, The Guatemala Jazz Festival, Ground Up Music Festival, The Jacksonville Jazz Festival, and The St. Petersburg Jazz Festival. In addition, Rodolfo is the drummer for multi-Grammy award winner and best- selling Latin Pop artist Julio Iglesias. As part of this group, he has performed at iconic venues like The Royal Albert Hall in London, The Kremlin Palace in Moscow, The Dubai Opera House, Rockefeller Center in New York, Luna Park Stadium in Argentina, The Forest Opera in Poland, The Yad Eliyahu Stadium in Israel, and The National Auditorium in Mexico City. Zuñiga approaches teaching and performing with an open mind and a hunger to maintain a constant expansion of knowledge in areas such as the intersection of jazz and world music, music technology and nurturing diversity in jazz education. Rodolfo is a proud Zildjian Cymbals and Vic Firth Sticks endorser.
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KYE PALMER Kye Palmer is a native of southern California and a graduate of Cal-Poly, Pomona. He held the trumpet chair in the house band on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 2006-2009 and was heard nightly on NBC. Since then, he has maintained a busy recording schedule including movie and TV soundtracks as well as CDs with major artists. He is a featured soloist on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s On The Shoulders of Giants. Other movie soundtrack work includes Selma, Jersey Boys, Skating to New York, Gangster Squad, Seven Pounds, Three to Tango, Stuart Little and Man of the Year. Before his tenure on the Tonight Show, Palmer toured with the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band. This included many jazz festival appearances as well as the Wave Fest at the Greek Theatre and a night at the Hollywood Bowl with Eddie Palmieri, Donald Harrison and Joey DeFrancesco. He has also performed and recorded with the widely acclaimed Brian Setzer Orchestra. Palmer has performed live with music legends Bob Dylan, Tom Jones, Tony Bennett, Seal, Stanley Clarke, Helen Reddy, and Joe Williams. Television soundtrack work includes Mob City, Vampire Diaries, Judging Amy, Beverly Hills 90210, and jingles for Cadillac, Nissan, Suntory and Hyundai. Palmer can be heard playing live jazz with his own group at various Los Angeles venues including The Lighthouse and Vibrato. Regular appearances as a sideman include DMQ, the Edmund Velasco Quintet, the Chris Walden Big Band, and Bill Cunliffe’s Imaginacion. He has also appeared with Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Arturo Sandoval’s all star LA Big Band, and the big bands of Johnny Mandel and Emil Richards. His compositions can be heard live with several of these groups and his arrangement of Kenny Barron’s Voyage was recorded by Poncho Sanchez and is available on iTunes. As an educator, Palmer has taught applied trumpet at USC and CalState Fullerton, Jazz Theory and Improvisation at Riverside Community College, and maintained a private teaching studio for students of all ages since 1999. His former students include members of John Mayer’s and Michael Buble’s touring bands as well as a Downbeat college award winner and a Grammy In The Schools band member. As a clinician/soloist he has worked with students and bands at the University of North Florida, University of Memphis, Mount San Antonio College, Riverside Community College, Cal-State Fullerton, and many local high schools. He has also authored several articles on jazz improvisation for the International Trumpet Guild.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
DAMON ZICK Damon Zick is a saxophonist, woodwind performer, composer and educator residing in Burbank, California. He was born and raised in Seattle before heading to the East Coast in 1993 to study saxophone, clarinet, composition and jazz at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. After two years in Miami Beach where he performed and recorded with the New World Symphony, Damon relocated to Los Angeles to complete an M.M. degree in Jazz Winds from the California Institute of the Arts where he studied with Charlie Haden. Since then he has been straddling the worlds of jazz and classical music as an active freelance musician in Los Angeles. Damon’s jazz quintet “Damon Zick and Friends” has toured the U.S. extensively and released two CD’s of original compositions, “We Are Large” with Evander Music and “The Outing.” Zick regularly performs with world/jazz group Quarteto Nuevo, the Westland Trio, the Industrial Jazz Group, and John Tesh. In addition he has shared the stage with jazz artists such as Bob Mintzer, Vinny Golia, Joe Henderson, Joe LaBarbera, Jack Sheldon, Adam Benjamin, Larry Koonse, and Nate Wood among others. As a founding member of the Los Angeles Jazz Collective, he has also been a featured artist at the Reno Jazz Festival, Bakersfield Jazz Festival and UW Eau Claire Jazz Festival. As a classical musician Zick has performed with the Los Angeles Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony, the Ojai Festival Chamber Ensemble, and on the Los Angeles Philharmonics Green Umbrella Series among others. He was a featured performer on Los Angeles Opera’s Grammy winning recording of Kurt Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny. Recent solo appearances include “Bohemian Rhapsody” with MUSE/IQUE playing the part of Freddy Mercury on alto sax. Zick was hired by the U.S. State Department to help adjudicate ensembles for placement into the American Music Abroad program. He is on the faculty of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and California State University at Fullerton and has performed clinics and master classes at colleges and universities across the United States.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
JEFFREY ELLWOOD Jeffrey Ellwood is the director of instrumental jazz studies at Mt. San Antonio College. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music and Master of Music degree from Cal State Fullerton. Ellwood has studied saxophone and improvisation with: James Moody, Rick Margitza, Ralph Bowen, John Ellis, Billy Pierce, George Garzone, Hal Crook, Gary Foster, Eric Marienthal, Charlie Banacos, Jim Odgren, James Rotter, and Charles Richard. While at Berklee, Ellwood had the distinct pleasure of being a member of the Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Herb Pomeroy. This group shared the stage with: Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Joe Zawinul, Toshiko Akiyoshi and many more. Jeff has performed or recorded with: Tony Bennett, Alan Pasqua, Bill Cunliffe, Rick Margitza, Jerry Bergonzi, Terell Stafford, Joe LaBarbera, Jimmy Haslip, Dave Carpenter, Darek Oles, James Moody, Randy Brecker, Christian McBride, Stevie Wonder, Bob Mintzer, Eddie Daniels, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Grusin, John Williams, and Quincy Jones to name a few. In 2002 and 2003 Ellwood was accepted to attend the Henry Mancini Institute. In 2005 he performed as a featured artist with Alan Pasqua at the International Association Of Jazz Educator’s Conference in Long Beach, CA. In 2013 Ellwood started a project with the great Jerry Bergonzi. This project is a compilation of all of jerry’s compositions. He has also co-authored a book entitled “Basic Jazz Improvisation for All Musicians” (Walrus Music Publishing). Ellwood is an adjunct professor of jazz saxophone at Cal State Fullerton He is a Yamaha Performing Artist
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FRANCISCO TORRES Francisco Torres is a well-respected trombonist, bass trombonist, educator, composer and arranger who hails from Hermosillo, Sonora. Born in 1974, Francisco didn’t start his musical training until 15 years old, playing alto saxophone then switching to tuba and euphonium. By accident, he discovered jazz trombone while watching the jazz band practice before school. He was hooked. After graduating from high school, Torres went on to study with Dr. Tony Mazzaferro and Dr. Greg Woll at Fullerton College, where he played in the jazz band, symphonic band and the symphony orchestra. While at Fullerton, he was a featured soloist with the symphonic band, performing Carnival Of Venice on euphonium and later in the year, Bolero with the Fullerton College symphony. After transferring to Cal State Long Beach, he was again a featured soloist with the symphonic band, performing Carnival of Venice on euphonium and Bolero with the Cal State Long Beach symphony. Torres has emerged as a first-class arranger and composer, particularly in the field of Latin jazz. He has served as musical director, producer and arranger for the Grammy-winning percussionist Poncho Sanchez for 12 years. He is also a member of Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, John Beasley’s Monkestra, Bill Cunliffe’s Bachannalia, and has performed or recorded with Arturo Sandoval, Bill Holman, Manhattan Transfer, Joey Defrancesco, Natalie Cole, Doc Severinsen, Sammy Nestico, and Terence Blanchard, as well as Santana, Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Mathis, Robbie Williams, and many others. For eight seasons he was first-call sub with the Dancing With the Stars Orchestra, and has appeared with different artists on the Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, The Late Late Show, and Jimmy Kimmel. Being known primarily as a studio and jazz trombonist, Torres has also excelled in the field of classical music. He can be heard as trombonist, bass trombonist and valve trombonist for Michael Giacchino on the Pixar film Coco. Some of his most recent films credits are The Secret Life of Pets, Ice Age 4, Penguins of Madagascar, and Straight Outta Compton. On TV he can be heard on The Simpsons, Elena of Avalor, Sofia The First, and The Get Down, as well as many others. He regularly records trombone for orchestra shows and parades for Shanghai Disney, Tokyo Disney, Walt Disney World and Disneyland, and has recorded a multitude of musically diverse albums with major music stars including Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Dr. Dre, Michael Bublé, Frank Ocean, Pitbull, All American Rejects, Spoon, Angelique Kidjo, Ry Cooder, Brian Setzer, and Los Lobos.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
RON ESCHETÉ Ron Escheté (pronounced ESH-tay) is the consummate master of the seven-string guitar. Whether he is playing bebop, ballads or blues he is a musically sophisticated guitarist who plays with grace and dignity. Escheté is currently performing and recording with the Ron Escheté Trio, featuring Todd Johnson on six-string bass and Kendall Kay on drums. While he has long been regarded as one of the finest guitarists in mainstream jazz, now he ranks as an innovative leader for his work with this ensemble. Escheté was born in 1948 in Houma, Louisiana, and not surprisingly his early influences were jazz masters Jim Hall, Howard Roberts and Wes Montgomery. After receiving his first guitar at the age of 14, he joined a quartet and was working clubs in Louisiana before he had even graduated from high school. He attended Loyola University where he majored in classical guitar and minored in flute. While there he studied with classical guitarist Paul Guma. Shortly after Escheté left Loyola he was tapped to tour with Buddy Greco. While on tour with Greco, he set his sites on the Los Angeles music scene. In 1970 Escheté relocated to California, working and recording with vibist Dave Pike. Then in 1975 he joined forces with pianist Gene Harris and quickly establish his reputation as a premier accompanist. Over the decades he has worked with the greatest artists in jazz including: Ella Fitzgerald; Sarah Vaughn; Diana Krall; Dizzy Gillespie; Milt Jackson; Ray Brown and many more. Escheté has appeared on the Tonight Show with Diana Krall, the Merv Griffin Show with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra, the Mike Douglas Show with Buddy Greco. He has played nearly every notable jazz venue in the southern California including the Catalina Bar and Grill, The Jazz Bakery, Steamers, DontÈ's, Carmeloís, The Parisian Room and The Lighthouse to name only a few. He has toured extensively and has played major venues from New York to San Francisco. He cites a 1988 gig in San Diego as a critical turning point in his career. There he began to shed his reputation as the quintessential sideman; he stepped to the center of the stage and he began exploring original material. While his career has been primarily focused on performance, this master musician has dedicated nearly twenty five years to teaching music at many colleges and univesities, including among others: North Texas State University, Utah State University, Loyola University, Louisiana State University at New Orleans, California State Universities at Long Beach and Fullerton, and Musicianís Institute in Hollywood. He has authored three books: Melodic Chord Phrases (R.E.H Publications), The Jazz Guitar Soloist (Alfred Publications), and a book of Howard Roberts solos entitled Super Solos (Payback Publications).
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
LUTHER HUGHES Bassist Luther Hughes has played bass with some of the biggest names in jazz in a career spanning over 40 years. He has performed or recorded with jazz legends such as Gene Harris, Mundell Lowe, Joe Henderson, Carmen MacRae, Willie Bobo, Horace Silver, Harold Land, Don Ellis, Joe Pass, Louis Bellson, Hampton Hawes, Ronnell Bright, Herb Geller, Mal Waldron, Diana Krall, Michael Feinstein and many more. Hughes received his training at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music and Long Beach City College, earning his bachelor's degree from Cal State Long Beach. His teachers included Alex Cirin, Thomas Martin, Nat Gangursky, Eileen Strang and Sue Raney. Hughes is involved in the music business in a number of ways: as a Band Leader, he currently leads The Cannonball-Coltrane Project, as well as Luther Hughes and Friends: Remembering The Nat King Cole Trio and H.E. R.K. (Hughes, Eschete, Ranier, Kreibich). As a record producer and music publisher, Luther heads up Primrose Lane Music, which he founded in 2004. As an educator, he currently teaches at Cal State University in Fullerton, CA and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA. He has taught at Cal State University Long Beach, Goldenwest College, the Musicians Institute, Rio Hondo College, and formerly served as the Southern California Regional Director for Bruce Forman's JazzMasters Workshop. Having recorded and performed on stage, and for film and television scores, Hughes has appeared as a band member on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Boston Legal.
ABOUT THE FACULTY ARTIST
PAUL KREIBICH Paul Kreibich was born May 24, 1955 in Los Angeles, moving to Costa Mesa, CA when he was an infant. From an early age he showed an interest in drumming. As a kid he made his own drum set out of a cardboard barrel and coffee cans. He then began playing in the school band at the age of nine. At 12 years old he started private lessons with Bob Wrate. He was drum major at Costa Mesa High School and already working five nights a week at a local club on Balboa Island by his junior year. He continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He returned home to attend Orange Coast College and study with renowned percussionist Forrest Clark. He then worked for two years with tenor saxophonist Vince Wallace's Quintet ("…that was my real schooling!") Following this, he worked a variety of musical jobs including a stint with the Continental Circus. In 1979 at the age of 23 Kreibich got his first major jazz gig with the great singer Carmen McRae. They toured the United States and Japan including a concert at Carnegie Hall. Kreobich moved to Los Angeles in 1981, began private studies with wellknown drum teacher Fred Gruber, and attended LA City College. Impressed with Japan and their love of jazz, he accepted an offer to return to work in Japan for 6 months with American and Japanese musicians in Osaka and Kyoto. Upon his return to Los Angeles he got back into the local music scene. At a friend's coaxing, he went to a "cattle call" audition for the Ray Charles Band. He was the last drummer to play and was hired on the spot. He traveled with the band internationally for four years. Los Angeles remained Kreibich’s home base and he became first call drummer for many touring artists such as Mose Allison, Red Rodney, The Woody Herman Band, Anita O'Day, Scott Hamilton, Joe Pass, Charles Brown, Rosemary Clooney, Lee Konitz, and others. His recording credits are now well over 60 titles. In 1995 he joined the Gene Harris Quartet where he toured and recorded with the group until Harris' untimely passing in January 2000. He plays on Harris' last Concord release "Alley Cats" along with Ernie Watts, Red Holloway and Jack McDuff. Kreibich continues to record and perform locally as well as touring. He is now on the music faculty of Cal State Fullerton and teaches privately. He has also taught at USC and Valley College. Kreibich’s first CD as leader and composer with pianist Karen Hammack is entitled 'Lonesome Tree.'" His second CD as leader, "The Jazz Coop- Spiral Stairway," is a quintet featuring tenor sax player Brian Mitchell. Both releases are available through North Country, at cdbaby.com, at cdstreet.com and at thejazzmart.com.
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ONTIVEROS SOCIETY The Ontiveros Society includes individuals who have provided a gift for Cal State Fullerton through their estate plan. Our deep appreciation is extended to the following Ontiveros Society members, whose gifts will benefit the students and mission of the College of the Arts: Anonymous John Alexander Lee & Dr. Nicholas A.* Begovich Gail & Michael Cochran Marc R. Dickey Joann Driggers Betty Everett Carol J. Geisbauer & John* Geisbauer Sophia & Charles Gray MaryLouise & Ed Hlavac
Gretchen Kanne Dr. Burton L. Karson Anne L. Kruzic* Loreen & John Loftus Alan A. Mannason* William J. McGarvey* Dr. Sallie Mitchell Eleanore P. & James L. Monroe Lynn & Robert Myers Dwight Richard Odle*
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Thelma & Earl Mellott Bettina Murphy Grace & Ujinobu Niwa Kerry & John Phelps Mary & Jerry Reinhart
Ann & Thad Sandford Dodo V. Standring Carolyn & Tom Toby John Van Wey
MORE INFORMATION: Erika Garcia • 657-278-8683 There are many ways to support the College of the Arts, the School of Music, Department of Theatre and Dance, and Department of Visual Arts: Student Scholarships Unrestricted Gifts Designated Gifts
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COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • SELECT EVENTS | FALL 2021 Kim Abeles: Smog Collectors, 1987-2020 Through December 18, 2021 Begovich Gallery
Alex McDonald, piano: Guest Artist Recital Wed., November 3, 2021 Meng Concert Hall
How I Learned to Drive September 29 – October 2, 2021 Arena Theatre
Almost, Maine November 3–6, 2021 Arena Theatre
University Symphony Orchestra Sat., October 2, 2021, 3 pm Meng Concert Hall
Opera Scenes: Opera Meets the Seven Deadly Sins November 4-6, 2021 Recital Hall
CSUF Wind Symphony & CSUF Smphonic Winds Sun., October 3, 2021, 3 pm Meng Concert Hall Fullerton Jazz Orchestra & Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble Sat., October 8, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall Advanced Vocal Workshop with guest Mark Robson, piano Tues., October 12, 2021, 8 pm Recital Hall (Nickelodeon) The SpongeBob Musical October 13–16, 2021 Little Theatre Sonnets for an Old Century October 20 – 23, 2021 Arena Theatre University Singers & Concert Choir Sun., October 17, 2021, 3 pm Meng Concert Hall Within Reach October 27 – 30, 2021 Hallberg Theatre Rong-Huey Liu, oboe, & William May, bassoon: Faculty Artist Recital Tues., November 2, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra feat. guest concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis Sun., November 14, 2021, 3 pm Meng Concert Hall Fullerton Jazz Orchestra & Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble Tues., November 16, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall Fall Dance Theatre November 16 – 20, 2021 Little Theatre CSUF Wind Symphony Fri., November 19, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall Titan Voices & Singing Titans Mon., December 6, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall University Band Wed., December 8, 2021, 8 pm Meng Concert Hall The Wolves December 8 – 11, 2021 Young Theatre Deck the Hall at Cal State Fullerton! December 11, 12, 2021 Meng Concert Hall
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