Bill Cunliffe* jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director
Rodolfo Zuñiga jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director
PIANO, ORGAN, PIANO PEDAGOGY
Bill Cunliffe jazz piano
Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Myong-Joo Lee piano
Dr. Robert Watson piano
MUSIC EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING, AND TEACHING CREDENTIAL
Dr. Christopher Peterson choral
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore* instrumental
MUSIC IN GENERAL EDUCATION
Dr. John Koegel*
Dr. Katherine Reed
MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE
Dr. Vivianne Asturizaga musicology
Dr. John Koegel* musicology
Dr. Katherine Powers musicology
Dr. Katherine Reed musicology
STRINGS
Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor
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. Robert Istad Director of Choral Studies and University Singers conductor
Dr. Kerry Jennings* Director of Opera
Dr. Christopher Peterson CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
Dr. Joni Y. Prado voice, academic voice courses
Dr. Bri’Ann Wright general education
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 University Symphonic Winds conductor
STAFF
Michael August Production Manager
Eric Dries Music Librarian
Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator
Will Lemley Audio Technician
Jeff Lewis Audio Engineer
Chris Searight Musical Instrument Services
Paul Shirts Administrative Assistant
Elizabeth Williams Business Manager
* denotes Area Coordinator
Welcome to the College of the Arts Spring 2025 Season. As we come together to enjoy incredible art, dance, music and theatre programming from across the college, I know we are all still reeling from the recent fires that tore through the communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. In many ways, we are all Angelenos and when our city breaks, we break. Many of our students, faculty, and staff are finding comfort in processing complex thoughts and emotions the only way we know how: through the arts. It is our calling and what ties us to our community. Through our programming, we hope to provide a bit of respite to all of you during this time of regrouping and rebuilding.
In the College of the Arts, every note, every movement, and every word spoken on stage brings opportunity for discovery and connection. Whether you are a fellow Titan, family member, or community supporter, we are thrilled to have you here. You are now part of something much larger than this single performance. You are joining a vibrant and diverse collective of artists and technicians working together to push the boundaries of their craft.
Spring 2025 brings us a season of fresh programming to challenge our perceptions and immerse us in new perspectives. Later this month, the School of Music presents “Hajar,” a contemporary opera synthesizing ancient Jewish and Islamic stories into a modern immigration tale. Theatre begins their season with “Significant Other,” a heartfelt tale of love and longing in 21st century New York City. If you haven’t yet seen our spectacular new gallery building, make time to see “Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well” – an exploration of the cosmic phenomena of gravitational waves using video, sound, and images. In May, our dancers and choreographers return to the intimate Hallberg Theatre in “Spring Dance Theatre: From All Sides,” where viewers will experience a variety of dance forms from every angle of the stage.
It takes more than just the emotional support of friends, family, professors, and mentors to enable students to take creative risks of expression. As a college, we remain committed to providing these aspiring arts professionals with scholarships, financial assistance, and the industry-ready equipment, facilities, and opportunities to further develop their skills outside the classroom. Our resolve is steadfast, but we need your continued support to sustain and expand our educational mission, ensuring our students have the tools necessary to succeed. Please consider a donation of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.
I thank you for being here, for your ongoing support, and for your conviction in the power of the arts. Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary.
Sincerely,
Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts
4+9 (2017)................................................................................... Eric Cha-Beach (b. 1982)
Future of Anonymity (1991) ........................................................Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)
Fēfē (2023) ....................................................................................Olivier Tarpaga Tarpaga’s four in three (b. 1978) Dusty Road to Dolo
Go Placidly with Haste (2018)
Jason Treuting Desiderata 1 - Watt Pond - White Diamond - Build Down (b. 1977)
There Will Be Stars (for Pauline Oliveros) (2016) ........................Pamela Madsen (b. 1957)
Go Placidly with Haste (2018) ......................................................
4+9 was written for the So Percussion Summer Institute 2017. The piece explores all the ways that a bar of 9/4 can be subdivided: There are 36 sixteenth notes in the bar (9 beats x 4 sixteenth notes per beat) - and 36 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, and 18. The various combinations of different overlapping divisions in the bar make the underlying groupings of 16th notes constantly sound different. I used this basic idea in a piece for So Percussion’s project ‘A Gun Show’ in 2016, but 4+9 explores simply the pure process of hearing each possible combination in turn.
-Eric Cha-Beach
Taxidermy
CAROLINE SHAW
Why “Taxidermy?” I just find the word strangely compelling, and it evokes something grand, awkward, epic, silent, funny, and just a bit creepy—all characteristics of this piece, in a way. The repeated phrase toward the end (“the detail of the pattern is movement”) is a little concept I love trying (and failing) to imagine. It comes from T.S. Eliot’s beautiful and perplexing “Burnt Norton” (from the Four Quartets), and I’ve used it before in other work—as a kind of whimsical existentialist mantra.
-Caroline Shaw
Future of Anonymity
PAULINE OLIVEROS
Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ‘50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her
work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual.
Fēfē Tarpaga’s four in three
OLIVIER TARPAGA
This is my contemporary offering of Koreduga played on modern drums and wood. This complex rhythm derived from the Koreduga rhythm, is my favorite triplet from the Mandingo empire.
-Olivier Tarpaga
Dusty road to Dolo
OLIVIER TARPAGA
The sound of the Lobi and Djan’s balafon, my grandmother’s guinea fowls climbing the baobab tree, the smell of boiling millet beer, the rooster crowing at 5 am. The melody of this song is inspired by my childhood trips to the small village of Dolo in the West of Burkina Faso with Jeanne, my dear mother.
-Olivier Tarpaga
Go Placidly with Haste
JASON TREUTING
As with my earlier work, Amid the Noise, Go Placidly with Haste is inspired by The Desiderata, Max Ehrman’s secular prayer of the early 1920’s. The first line of the poem, “Go placidly amid the noise and haste,” still resonates in many aspects of my life and it has continued to be a touchstone of my music making.
The work is made up of several smaller movements that can be combined in any way the performers like and played on any instruments the performers choose.
There are three types of music in this set. The bulk of the movements are ensemble pieces that ask the performers to become a part of the orchestration process. Four movements are written as virtuosic solo movements that can also be played in other forms if the performers
PROGRAM NOTES
wish. These movements bring a different energy, perhaps some haste, to some of the other more placid movements. And the third type of music provides a refrain of sorts that can be sewn throughout the set of music. This piece, titled Desiderata, asks the performers to read the poem silently to themselves and organizes the sounds around different highlighted phrases or words.
-Jason Treuting
spatialized even further as a ‘star map’ of a sonic mandala over the entire space of the concert hall, or performance space. A layered version of this work incorporates a choir of voices overlaying another poem by Sara Teasdale “There will be rest.”
There Will Be Stars
There will be stars (for Pauline Oliveros) PAMELA MADSEN
This work was originally commissioned in honor of composer Pauline Oliveros, as a surprise gift to her for her 85th birthday on May 30th, 2017, by McGill University. Perhaps sadly synchronistic, I completed this whole work on Thanksgiving day, November 24th, 2016, the day Pauline passed away, not knowing she had passed--so had to alter the “star map” dates that create the pitches that correspond to her date of birth/death, and connect with the dates that correspond to my birth date and other significant pitch/ date mappings.
This work is inspired by Pauline’s Sonic Mandala Compositional work, similar to her work Rose Moon, and was also composed during my work with Pauline this past year in Deep Listening. The work is for multiple performers, percussionists, instrumentalists, and wandering spoken voice(s)-for as many other players that would like to be “stars,” independent satellites, to perform the layers of the work. The work can also be
There will be stars over the place forever; Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost, Every time the earth circles her orbit On the night the autumn equinox is crossed, Two stars we knew, poised on the peak of midnight Will reach their zenith; stillness will be deep; There will be stars over the place forever, There will be stars forever, while we sleep.”
This work is part of my large-scale multi-movement multi-media work “There will come soft rains” for percussion, spoken voice, solo cello and electronics, string quartet, and projected images commissioned by Cory Hills, solo percussion/ spoken voice, Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, cellist Ashley Bathgate, Eclipse String Quartet and others. I am composer in residence amongst the remains of the utopian beach-front Artist colony of Crystal Cove State Park, the ruins of the mid-century utopian oasis: ZZYZX, which now houses the Desert Studies Center in the Mojave National Preserve to create, document sounds, and present performances of this work.
-Pamela Madsen
ABOUT SŌ PERCUSSION
For twenty years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker).
Sō’s commitment to the creation and amplification of new work, and their extraordinary powers of perception and communication have made them a trusted partner for composers, allowing the writing of music that expands the style and capacity of brilliant voices of our time. ollaborative composition partners include Caroline Shaw, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Nathalie Joachim, Dan Trueman, Kendall K. Williams, Angélica Negrón, Shodekeh Talifero, claire rousay, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Bora Yoon, Olivier Tarpaga, Bobby Previte, Matmos, and many others.
The current season hears Sō and Caroline Shaw perform a program highlighting their newest album, Rectangles and Circumstance, at the Barbican in London, the BOZAR in Brussels, Saffron Hall in Essex, and at 92NY in New York City. Recent Sō highlights have included performances at Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Big Ears, Cal Performances, at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Penn Live Arts in Philadelphia, the Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa, the Oklahoma Philharmonic, the Library of Congress, touring Benin and
Burkina Faso with Olivier Tarpaga, and more.
In addition to Rectangles and Circumstances, their recent albums with Caroline Shaw include Let the Soil Play its Simple Part; and the Grammy-award winning Narrow Sea with Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish, all on Nonesuch Records. Other recent albums include an acclaimed version of Julius Eastman’s Stay On It, and Darian Donovan Thomas’s Individuate. This adds to a catalog of more than twenty-five albums featuring landmark recordings of works by Steve Reich, Steven Mackey, David Lang, and many others.
In Fall 2024, Sō Percussion began its eleventh year as the Edward T. Cone performers-in-residence at Princeton University. Rooted in the belief that music is an elemental form of human communication, and galvanized by forces for social change, Sō enthusiastically pursues a range of social and community outreach through their nonprofit umbrella, including partnerships with local ensembles including Brooklyn’s Pan in Motion; their Sō Laboratories concert series; a studio residency program in Brooklyn; fundraising for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen; and the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, an intensive two-week chamber music seminar for percussionists and composers.
Sō is: Jason Treuting, Adam Sliwinski, Eric Cha-Beach, and Josh Quillen
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FROM SŌ PERCUSSION
Sō Percussion’s 2024-2025 season is supported in part by awards from:
• The National Endowment for the Arts
• The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of
• Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature
• The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
• The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
• The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
• The Amphion Foundation
• The Brookby Foundation
• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
• The Howard Gilman Foundation
• The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Sō Percussion uses
Pearl/Adams Instruments
Vic Firth Drumsticks and Mallets
Zildjian Cymbals
Blackswamp Accessories
Remo Drumheads
Estey Organs
Kyle Dunleavy Steel Pans
MalletMan Steel Drum Mallets
Sō Percussion would like to thank these companies for their generous support and donations.
$500,000 + Mrs. Junko Klaus
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Johnny Carson Foundation
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CSU Northridge Foundation
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Ms. Susan Hallman in Memory of Ernie Sweet ‘77
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Continuing Life LLC
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Ebell Club Of Fullerton
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Gifts received from July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024
ONTIVEROS SOCIETY
The Ontiveros Society includes individuals who have provided a gift for Cal State Fullerton through their estate plan. We extend our deep appreciation 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
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GRETCHEN KANNE
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DR. JUNE POLLAK
& MR. GEORGE POLLAK*
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MARY K. & WILLIAM SAMPSON
LORENA SIKORSKI
DOUGLAS G. STEWART
ANDREA J. & JEFFREY E. SWARD
RICHARD J. TAYLOR
VERNE WAGNER
RICHARD WULFF
DR. JAMES D. & DOTTIE YOUNG*
The College of the Arts Proudly Recognizes the 300+ Members of Our VOLUNTEER SUPPORT GROUPS
ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: The Alliance for the Performing Arts (formerly MAMM) benefits performing arts students through underwriting visiting artists; special theatre, dance, and music performances; and other unique experiences for members.
SPECIAL SUPPORT AND EVENT UNDERWRITING
Judy Atwell
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ART ALLIANCE: Art Alliance promotes excellence and enjoyment in the visual arts, and their fundraising efforts contribute to student scholarship, gallery exhibitions, opening receptions and sculpture acquisition on campus.
SPECIAL SUPPORT AND EVENT UNDERWRITING
Fay Colmar
John DeLoof
Joann Driggers & Steve Collier
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MUSIC ASSOCIATES: Music Associates maintains a tradition of active involvement and community support, and raises scholarship funds for School of Music students through annual fundraising events and membership dues.
SPECIAL SUPPORT AND EVENT UNDERWRITING
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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
COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • SELECT
College of the Arts Galleries Exhibitions
Vitae: A New Generation
Chris O’Leary: Gravity Well
Michelle Emami: Arcana Past Forward (Redux) Through May 17
Sergei Babayan, piano
February 16 • Meng Concert Hall
Sō Percussion*
February 20 • Meng Concert Hall
Hajar: Opera In Concert
February 21 • Recital Hall
University Symphony Orchestra feat. Music Associates’ Student Concerto/Aria
Competition Winner
February 23 • Meng Concert Hall
World Citizen Band with Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble
February 26 • Meng Concert Hall
Advanced Vocal Workshop with guest Michael Schütze, piano
March 6 • Recital Hall
Significant Other March 6–15 • Hallberg Theatre
Collage: 18th Annual Benefit Concert
March 8 • Meng Concert Hall
Dr. Joni Prado, soprano & Dr. Kerry Jennings, tenor, with Michael Schütze, piano
March 9 • Meng Concert Hall
Mela Quartet
March 12 • Meng Concert Hall
University Singers & Concert Choir
March 15 • Meng Concert Hall
Bill Cunliffe & Alison Edwards, duo piano
March 16 • Meng Concert Hall
Tuesday Matinée
March 18 • Recital Hall
Ralph Farris, viola, with CSUF Wind Symphony and Rodolfo Zuniga, percussion
March 18 • Meng Concert Hall
Spring Awakening
March 20–29 • Young Theatre
Talich Quartet
March 28 • Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra with the Talich Quartet
March 30 • Meng Concert Hall
Inna Faliks, piano
April 8 • Meng Concert Hall
Brightwork New Music and HEX Vocal Ensemble*
April 9 • Meng Concert Hall
Ernest Salem, violin and Alison Edwards, piano
April 13 • Meng Concert Hall
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
April 17–26 • Little Theatre
Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble and Fullerton Latin Ensemble
April 22 • Meng Concert Hall
Cello Choir
April 25 • Recital Hall
University Symphonic Winds
April 27 • Meng Concert Hall
CSUF New Music Ensemble and CSUF Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble*
April 30 • CPAC 119
University Band
April 30 • Meng Concert Hall
Spring Dance Theatre
May 1–10 • Little Theatre
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra
May 2 • Meng Concert Hall
University Wind Symphony
May 3 • Meng Concert Hall
Jazz Singers
May 5 • Meng Concert Hall
Titan Voices & Singing Titans
May 7 • Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus
