CSUF SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents
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Kimo Furumoto • Assistant Director, School of Music Bongshin Ko • Assistant Director, School of Music
Music History and Literature Dr. John Koegel* - musicology Dr. Katherine Reed - musicology
Dr. Christopher Peterson - choral
Bill Cunliffe* - jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director Rodolfo Zuniga - jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music technology
Music History and LIterature
Vocal, Choral, and Opera
Chris Searight - Music Instrumental Service
Dr. Robert Watson - piano
SCHOOL OF MUSIC STAFF
Bill Cunliffe* - jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director
Dr. Ken Walicki* - composition, theory
Eric Dries - Music Librarian
Dr. Mark Goodrich* - voice, academic voice courses
Chris Searight - Musical Instrument Services
Music in General Education
Dr. Robert Istad - Director of Choral Studies and University Singers
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Conducting
Ning An - piano
Strings
Jeff Lewis - Audio Engineer
Dr. Kerry Jennings – Director of Opera
Dr. Mark Goodrich* - voice, academic voice courses Dr. Robert Istad
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Director of Choral Studies; University Singers, and Titan Voices conductor
Dr. Gregory X. WhitmoreSymphonic Winds conductor
* denotes Area Coordinator
Bill Cunliffe - jazz piano
Dr. Robert Watson - piano
Bill Cunliffe - jazz piano
Strings
Elizabeth Williams - Business Manager
Dr. Ernest Salem* - violin
Theory and Composition
Dr. Katherine Reed
Dr. Christopher Peterson - CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
Dr. Kerry Jennings - Director of Opera
Music Education, Teacher Training , and Teaching Credential Dr. Christopher Peterson - choral Dr. Dennis Siebenaler* - general Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore - instrumental
Alison Edwards* - piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Kimo Furumoto - Director of Orchestral Studies Bongshin Ko - cello Dr. Ernest Salem* - violin
Dr. Katherine Reed - musicology
Bongshin Ko - cello
Music in General Education Dr. John Koegel* Dr. Katherine Reed
Paul Shirts - Administrative Assistant
Dr. Pamela Madsen - composition, theory
Piano, Organ, Piano Pedagogy Ning An - piano
Kimo Furumoto - instrumental Dr. Robert Istad - choral Dr. Dustin Barr - instrumental
Jazz and Commercial Music
Jazz and Commercial Music
Kimo Furumoto - Director of Orchestra Studies
Patricia Prunty - voice, academic voice courses
Sue Winston - Office Coordinator
Theory and Composition
Dr. John Koegel*
Dr. Dustin Barr - Director of Wind Band Studies; University Wind Symphony Jean Ferrandis - flute Sycil Mathai* - trumpet
Dr. Dennis Siebenaler* - general Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore - instrumental
SCHOOL OF MUSIC STAFF
William Lemley - Audio Technician
* denotes Area Coordinator
Dr. John Koegel - musicology
Vocal, Choral, and Opera
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Eric Dries - Music Librarian
Rodolfo Zuniga - jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology
Dr. Christopher Peterson - CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
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
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Randall Goldberg, PhD • Director, School of Music
Dr. Ken Walicki* - composition, theory
Edward J. Fink, PhD - School of Music director Bongshin Ko - School of Music assistant director
Kimo Furumoto - instrumental Dr. Robert Istad - choral Dr. Dustin Barr - instrumental
William Lemley - audio technician
Elizabeth Williams - Accountant
Piano, Organ, Piano Pedagogy
Music Education, Teacher Training, and Teching Credential
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Michael August - Production Manager
Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Dr. Pamela Madsen - composition, theory
Michael August - Production Manager
Paul Shirts - Administrative Assistant
Sue Winston - Office Coordinator
Patricia Prunty - voice, academic voice courses
Jeff Lewis - Audio Engineer
WHY WOMEN WENT WEST
Jen Kutler, electronics with texts by Mary Hunter Austin, T.S. Eliot, Terri Niccum, and W.B. Yeats
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Eric Dries and Pamela Madsen, directors
music & concept: Pamela Madsen featuring
Brightwork newmusic
a chamber opera for voices and chamber ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, video, and electronics
Stacey Fraser, soprano
libretto: Pamela Madsen (after Mary Hunter Austin) & Quintan Ana Wikswo Quintan Ana Wikswo, video and texts
with support from National Endowment for the Arts Project Award, Opera America Discovery Award, and Wurlitzer Foundation
Sarah Wass, flute • Brian Walsh, clarinets • Shalini Vijayan, violin Ashley Walters, cello • Nick Terry, percussion • Aron Kallay, piano
I. Journey to the Land of the Moon, for Brightwork newmusic
PROGRAM
II. Come Softly for Brightwork newmusic and Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, Text)
VII. Hunting Weather, Brightwork newmusic, Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, text)
VI. Medicine Wheel, Brightwork newmusic
VII. Going West, Brightwork, Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, text)
III. Getting this Said, Brightwork newmusic, CSUF newmusic ensemble, Stacey Fraser, spoken voice (Terri Niccum, Text)
VI. The Necessary, for video and electronics, (Quintan Ana Wikswo, text, video, Jen Kutler, electronics)
ACT II. The Land of Little Rain-California to the Land of Journey’s Ending-New Mexico
IV. The Birds Here, Aron Kallay, piano, and Stacey Fraser, voice, video and electronics (Quintan Ana Wikswo, text, video, Jen Kutler, Electronics)
IV. Water trails of the Ceriso/57 Buzzards Brightwork newmusic: Shalini Vijayan, violin, Ashley Walters, cello, Sarah Wass, flute, Brian Walsh, clarinet CSUF New Music Ensemble (Mary Hunter Austin, text, Pamela Madsen, projected images)
ACT I. Leaving Home-Earth Horizon
V. Owl’s Breath, Brian Walsh, bass clarinet, video and electronics, (Quintan Ana Wikswo, video, Jen Kutler, Electronics)
II. Country of Lost Borders-This Cold Wind for Brightwork newmusic, Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, Terri Niccum, texts)
SCENIC BREAKDOWN AVAILABLE ONLINE music.fullerton.edu/programnotes
V. The Consecrating Mother: I Mary, Mary by Herself, Ashley Walters, cello, Aron Kallay, piano, Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, T.S. Eliot, texts)
I. Echo: Empathy Superimposition for video and electronics, Recorded performance of Stacey Fraser, voice, Aron Kallay, piano, CSUF New Music Ensemble (Quintan Ana Wikswo, text, video, Jen Kutler, Electronics)
III. Prayer for My Daughter for Shalini Vijayan, violin, Ashley Walters, cello, Aron Kallay, piano, Stacey Fraser, soprano (Mary Hunter Austin, W.B. Yeats texts)
This Two-Act, multi-scene, 80-minute multi-media work explores specific times, location and dramatic action in writer, mystic, environmental and indigenous activist, Austin’s life. The historical drama is paired with the simultaneous unfolding of the contemporary multi-media drama of Quintan Ana Wikswo’s texts and video creating a parallel dark shadow drama of the unfolding sonic landscape of the Desert Southwest that is timeless. Commissioned and funded in part by National Endowment for the Arts for an unstaged concert premiere Brightwork New Music, Stacey Fraser, soprano; Opera America Discovery Award funds the Lab Production, Workshop, Reading and Working performance of the complete opera for 2022-2023. HEX Ensemble (SSATTB) will perform the choral works from the opera in a set entitled “SACRED MOUNTAIN” as part of the CSUF Annual New Music Festival, on February 18th, 2023.
Why Women Went West explores controversies over human rights, water wars, early 20th-century feminist artist communities through the life of Mary Hunter Austin. Writer, feminist, conservationist, and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights, Austin’s quest, trauma, and journey uncovered dark mysticism in the American Southwest. Resonating with concerns over marginalization of indigenous cultures, desecration of women, nature, and women’s escape from conventions through their artistic agency, this work reveals ongoing trauma of woman’s quest for autonomy. A complex, problematic story of coming to terms with one’s self as a woman in society, Why Women Went West chronicles Mary Austin’s escape from persecution to transformation of white woman’s privilege and passion for preservation of nature, history, and indigenous culture.
SYNOPSIS
Why Women Went West is a multi-media chamber opera in which two voices—I, Mary (soprano) and Mary by Herself, (recorded voice of soprano/spoken voice/electronics) tells the unfolding narrative of a sole woman protagonist and her journey west. Fourteen songs comprise the two-part narrative; with empathy, ritual, and passion they trace Mary’s experiences from her youth in a Midwest small town in late 19th century to her pioneer days in California, and finally to her wild west days in New Mexico where she eventually confronts death and overcomes the challenges that have plagued her through out her life.
STACEY FRASER has been described as having a “wonderfully controlled soprano voice,” by Alex Ross of the New York Times, and “an astonishing presence,” by Jennifer de Poyen of the San Diego Union Tribune. The Canadian soprano’s eclectic musical interests have made her much in demand on international operatic, concert, and theatre stages across the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe. In a review of the concert Sequenza~Sequenza! at Tuesdays at Monkspace, Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times described her rendition of Berio’s Sequenza III as “a seamless aria, sure of musical direction while missing none of the humor or the frightening shocks of horror.” Recent credits include the title role in Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies; the starring role in a music art film entitled Still Life After Death by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Sandra Powers; the premiere of Grammy-winning composer Jack Van Zandt’s song cycle written for her, A Chaos of Light and Motion; and director/ producer of Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. Current projects include performing premieres of NEA-awarded operas by Pamela Madsen and Jack Van Zandt, and a new recording of Ben Johnston’s Calamity Jane to her daughter with Brightwork newmusic for MicroFest Records. Additional recording projects include a CD with Van Zandt, featuring his A Chaos of Light and Motion and excerpts from his opera The New Frontier. Fraser is Director of Opera Theater and Professor of Music at California State University San Bernardino.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
We play the music we love, whether this is one of our favorite masterworks of the 20th century, or the latest dazzling score from a composer whose music we just discovered. What the listener can expect at a Brightwork concert–at the very least–is exciting, emotionally engaging music presented in state-of-the-art performances. Brightwork seeks to draw the audience into the creative process.
NEWMUSICBRIGHTWORK
Aron Kallay, founder & artistic director, piano
is a classical new music sextet based in Los Angeles, California. A flexible and fearless group of world-class musicians, Brightwork consists of piano, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion (an instrumentation which is often called “Pierrot + percussion,” and which is to modern chamber music what the string quartet was to earlier centuries), and champions the best of the music that’s being written today, while continuing to play the classics of “new” music from the last hundred years.
Aron is the director of Brightwork newmusic. Described as a “modern renaissance man,” (Over the Mountain Journal) Grammy® nominated pianist Aron Kallay‘s playing has been called “exquisite…every sound sounded considered, alive, worthy of our wonder” (LA Times). “Perhaps Los Angeles’ most versatile keyboardist,” (LaOpus) Aron has been praised as possessing “that special blend of intellect, emotion, and overt physicality that makes even the thorniest scores simply leap from the page into the listeners laps.” (KPFK) Aron’s performances often integrate technology, video, and alternate tunings; Fanfare magazine described him as “a multiple threat: a great pianist, brainy tech wizard, and visionary promoter of a new musical practice.” Aron has performed throughout the United States and abroad and is a fixture on the Los Angeles new-music scene. He is the co-founder and board president of People Inside Electronics (PIE), a concert series dedicated to classical electroacoustic music, the managing director of MicroFest,
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sarah Wass, executive director, flute Flutist Sarah Wass chose her instrument in the third grade because she knew it would fit in her backpack. Since then, she has become a busy performer, teacher and advocate for arts education. In addition to her work with Kadima Conservatory, Sarah has designed and implemented curriculum and arts-based programming for Harmony Project, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Oakwood School and the Academy of Creative Education. She maintains a flute studio in Silverlake, offering private and group lessons to students ages 6 to adult. As a soloist, Sarah has recorded concerti by Mozart and Quantz, as well as, sonatas by J.S. Bach for the “Modulations” music therapy series by Tempo Space Productions. As a new music specialist, Sarah has had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s leading composers including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Anne LeBaron, Frank Denyer, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Cerrone, Liviu Marinescu and Mark Trayle. She has been an artistin-residence at the University of Surrey, Stanford University and Dartington International Summer School of the Arts. Sarah regularly performs chamber music with her husband, guitarist Steven Thachuk and pianist Traci Esslinger and can be heard on recordings by pop artists A Fine Frenzy, Bright Eyes and numerous independent film scores. Sarah holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
Los Angeles’ annual festival of microtonal music, and the co-director of the underground newmusic concert series Tuesdays@MONK Space. He is also the co-director of MicroFest Records, whose first release, John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things, was nominated for a Grammy® award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Aron has recorded on MicroFest, Cold Blue, Delos, and Populist records. In addition to his solo work, Aron is currently a member of the Pierrot + percussion ensemble Brightwork newmusic, the Varied Trio, and the Ray-Kallay Duo. He is on the faculty of Pomona College.
Brian Walsh, clarinets
Nick Terry, percussion
Brian Walsh is a musician who is interested in sound and communication, regardless of the genre. He specializes in performance on the clarinet and bass clarinet, and is fluent in many styles of music. He is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, BFA), and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. He frequently performs with such diverse groups as Inauthentica, The New Century Players, The Industrial Jazz Group, PLOTZ!, The Doug McDonald Brass and Woodwind Coalition, and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. He also leads Walsh Set Trio, a jazz ensemble focusing on the performance of his own compositions. Performances have taken him to Japan, Canada, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Iceland, and all over the United States. He has premiered pieces by Luigi Nono, Girard Grisey, James Newton, Rosalie Hirs and many others. Past collaborators have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Money Mark, Bright Eyes, James Newton, Larry Koonse, Muhal Richard Abrams, the Henry Mancini Orchestra, and the Riverside Philharmonic. He is also an active private teacher and clinician. He is an instructor at Baxter-Northup Music, the Oakwood School, and the Academy of Creative Education.
Nick Terry is a percussionist specializing in contemporary classical chamber music. In 2005, he cofounded Ensemble XII, an international percussion orchestra which Pierre Boulez endorsed as “… representing the next generation in the evolution of modern percussion.” In 2008, he founded the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, who were nominated for Best Chamber Music Performance in the 55th Grammy Awards, featured artists at the 2013 Percussive Arts Society International Convention, included among iTunes 2014 Best of Classical Music, and hailed by The New York Times for their “mesmerizing, atmospheric, and supremely melodic music.” He is a founding member of L.A.’s ensemble PARTCH, whose 2014 release on Bridge Records (Plectra and Percussion Dances), won Best Classical Compendium at the 57th Grammy Awards. His latest local ensemble, Brightwork Newmusic (a “Pierrot-plus” sextet), is currently at work commissioning new works and performing throughout the region. He is a five-year alumnus of the Lucerne Festival Academy, where he worked extensively alongside members of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, and Fritz Hauser. Terry is a graduate of the University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, and Eastern Illinois University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music.
The Audience Choice Award-winning CSUF New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Pamela Madsen and Eric Dries, with New Music Assistant, Lorna Katz, Media Director, 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
CAL STATE FULLERTON NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
A member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida from 1998-2001, Ms. Vijayan served as concertmaster for Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams, Reinbert de Leeuw and Oliver Knussen. She was also concertmaster for the world premiere performances and recording of Steven Mackey’s Tuck and Roll for RCA records in 2000. In Los Angeles, Ms. Vijayan is a member of the Lyris Quartet, resident ensemble of the famed Jacaranda Series in Santa Monica. She is featured regularly with Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music and can be heard on their Grammy-nominated “Complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chávez, Vol. 3.” Most recently, she has been a featured soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Chinary Ung’s Spiral XII and Tan Dun’s Water Passion. Ms. Vijayan is on the performance faculty of the Nirmita Composers Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
As a solo artist known for tackling virtuosic, demanding works and collaborating with composers, Walters has been the dedicatee of significant additions to the cello repertoire and has appeared on concert series and venues throughout the United States, including Walt Disney Concert Hall, Spectrum (NYC), Center for New Music (San Francisco), Continuum Music Festival (Memphis), Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, San Fransisco State University, Southern Utah University, San Diego New Music soundON Festival, Nief-Norf (Knoxville), Tuesdays @ Monk Space (Los Angeles), wild Up’s WORK series (Los Angeles), REDCAT (Los Angeles), the wulf (Los Angeles), People Inside Electronics (Los Angeles), Equal Sound (Los Angeles), the Outhaus (Los Angeles), and wasteLAnd music (Los Angeles).
Violinist Shalini Vijayan, deemed “a vibrant violinist” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, is an established performer and collaborator on both coasts. Always an advocate for modern music, . Vijayan was a founding member and Principal Second Violin of Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble, having recorded several albums with them including 2001 Grammy nominee, Absolution. As a part of Absolute, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe, most notably in London’s Barbican Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Shalini Vijayan, violin
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ashley Walters, cellist Cellist Ashley Walters has been described as performing “with the kind of brilliance that beckons a major new performer on the new music scene” (Mark Swed, L.A. Times). She has been praised for her “imposing talents” (Sequenza 21) and “impressive” (Pitchfork) and “beautiful playing” (All About Jazz). Walters maintains a uniquely diverse career, performing music that blurs the boundaries between classical, avant-garde, and jazz, breaking new ground in repertoire with microtonality, extended techniques, alternative tunings, and improvisation.
PAMELA MADSEN, composer, librettist
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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.
Hailed as “heady, euphoric, singular, surprising” by Publisher’s Weekly, “beautiful, horrifying, passionate, and bold,” by Jeff VanderMeer in The Millions, “Rilke’s lost female shadow,” by Conjunctions, and “universal and personal, comforting and jarring, ethereal and earthy,” by Electric Literature, QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO has long been active in the collusion and collision of transdisciplinary art and human rights. They are recognized for innovative hybrid works that integrate their fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry and essay with their original photography, performance, audio, and video installation. These projects interrupt sites and trajectories of human rights infractions, hate crime organizing, and global and local networks of the far right.
Pamela Madsen is a composer, performer, theorist and curator of new music. From massive landscape inspired projects, intimate chamber music creations to multi-media opera collaborations and immersive deep listening works her work focuses on image, music, text and the environment. With a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCSD, Mellon Foundation Doctoral Research Award at Yale University, Post-Doctoral researcher at IRCAM, Paris, and Deep Listening Certificate with Pauline Oliveros, her works have been commissioned and premiered world-wide by such ensembles as Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Brightwork newmusic, 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. Selected as an Alpert Award Panelist, Creative Capital artist “on the radar” with awards from Opera America, National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Scandinavian Foundation, Fellowships from MacDowell, UCross, Women’s International Studies Center, Santa Fe, and Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, she is a frequent guest lecturer, composer-performer-improviser and at festivals and universities. She is curator of the Annual New Music Festival, Director of the New Music Ensemble and InterArts Collaborative Projects at Cal State Fullerton where she is Professor of Music Composition.
QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO, librettist, text, video
This work is guided by the multifacted—and often secret or unspoken—legacies of human, ecological and anthropocene history that inform contemporary behaviors, beliefs, and systems of power and control. Her final projects create interruptive, disruptive sites for investigation and discourse around existential questions about humanity, our societies, and how we can navigate beyond the limited boundaries that we are taught contain us. Her forty major projects and commissions are published, exhibited, performed, presented, collected, and archived at institutions and centers throughout the world.
A human rights worker since 1988, Wikswo’s methodology is deeply grounded in collaborative and coalition-based organizing principles, long-term project fieldwork commitments, autobiography, forensic ecology, and intersectionality. Wikswo’s practice involves multi-year personal habitations of occluded sites with complex histories at the intersection of sexuality/gender, science/technology, othering/belonging, dis/ability, race and white supremacy, mythologies/shamanism, and military studies, with a special focus on human rights aftermath issues and crimes against humanity.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
KELLEY ROURKE is a librettist, translator, and dramaturg. Libretti include Lucy, Natural Systems, Stay, and Eat the Document (with composer John Glover); The Beekeeper (with Wang Lu); Wilde Tales and And Still We Dream (with Laura Karpman); The Jungle Book (with Kamala Sankaram); and Odyssey and Robin Hood (with Ben Moore). Her English adaptations of standard and not-so-standard operas have been hailed as “crackingly witty” (The Independent, London) and “remarkably well wedded to the music” (New York Times). Kelley’s work has been commissioned and performed by Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Metropolitan Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Parallèle, Boston Lyric Opera, Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Carnegie Hall, Urban Arias, Met LiveArts, Houston Grand Opera’s HGOco, San Francisco Conservatory, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Nautilus Music-Theater, among others. Kelley has been engaged as a guest lecturer at Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and University of Maryland College Park; and as librettist mentor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative and Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab. Kelley is resident dramaturg for The Glimmerglass Festival, and has served as founding editor of Opera America magazine and a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. She holds degrees in piano performance and arts management.
JEN KUTLER, electronics
Eric Dries is a pianist, improviser, composer, music director and educator who explores the innovative fields between traditional jazz, free improvisation, music technology and contemporary classical music. His work explores a wide range of stylistic practices from jazz and contemporary music worlds in diverse performance situations. He is interested in expanding experimental ideas while honoring the fundamental tenets of the jazz tradition. He 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 currently is an Instructor in Music composition, theory, jazz, and music technology at California State University Fullerton School of Music where he co-directs the CSUF New Music Ensemble.
Jen Kutler is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. She modifies found objects that are cultural signifiers of power, gender, queerness and intimacy to create atypical instruments and sculptures. Kutler is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Her performances feature many of her instruments incorporated with immersive field recordings to explore common and discrepant experiences of familiar social tones.
Terri Niccum’s full-length collection, The Knife Thrower’s Daughter, was released in June from Moon Tide Press. She is also the author of the chapbooks Dead Letter Box (Moon Tide Press) and Looking Snow in the Eye (Finishing Line Press). Niccum was a finalist and runner-up for the 2020-2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist in the 2021 Knightville Poetry Contest. Her work has recently appeared in A Moon of One’s Own, an online journal from Picture Show Press; Nimrod International Journal; Golden Streetcar; The Maine Review; Oberon Poetry; and 2020 Forever, Redshift 5, She is married to singer-songwriter Bob Niccum and they are part of an eclectic music group called The Others.
TERRI NICCUM, texts
ERIC DRIES, technical director
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$5,000+
The Blackbaud Giving Fund Marilyn D. Carlson Darryl DwightCurranRichard Odle
$1,000+ Judy L. Atwell Betsy and Eric Azariah Lucina and John Brennan Janet & Allen Bridgford Irene StephenChinnW. Collier and Joann Driggers William S. Cornyn CEC Artslink D. Barry Schmitt Revocable SusanTrust and Richard Dolnick Lisa M. Draskovich-Long Lucetta A. Dunn Shawna and Greg Ellis Dr. Anne Fingal Evelyn K. Francuz Fullerton Families and Friends Jacquelyn Garrabrant Annette L. and Leon J. Gilbert Susan-Ellen Gilmont Dr. Mark J. Goodrich Dr. Margaret F. Gordon Theresa Harvey James L. Henriques Trevor E. Illingworth Michelle Jordan Gladys M. GwendolynKaresandCarlos C. Leija John M. Martelli and Paul Coluzzi Karen and George Mast Thelma and Earl Mellott Sylvia Megerdichian Mary E. Moore Patricia and Carl Miller Betty Murphy Ann and Douglas Myles Yoshino and Ujinobu Niwa Debra L. Noble L. KerryPalinand John Phelps The Presser Foundation Deanna and Arie Passchier
Art AffordableAllianceHousing Access Inc.
$1,000,000 + Anonymous
$10,000+
Terri and Bob Niccum Douglas G. Stewart
Very special care has been given to the preparation of this donor listing. Please contact Ann Steichen at (657) 278-7124 with questions or concerns.
$100,000+ Chapman University
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.
Sandy & Norm Johnson Marti & Bill Kurschat Karen & George Mast
*deceased
Betty Everett Carol J. Geisbauer & John* Geisbauer Sophia & Charles Gray MaryLouise & Ed Hlavac Gretchen Kanne
Ann & Thad Sandford Dodo V. Standring Carolyn & Tom Toby John Van Wey
MORE INFORMATION: Erika Garcia • 657-278-8683
Dr. June Pollak & Mr. George Pollak*
Dr. Stephen M. Rochford Mary K. & William Sampson Douglas G. Stewart
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:
Drs. Voiza & Joe Arnold Ebell Club of Fullerton
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* Sherry & Dr. Gordon Paine
Special support and event underwriting
Special support and event underwriting
Thelma & Earl Mellott Bettina Murphy Grace & Ujinobu Niwa Kerry & John Phelps Mary & Jerry Reinhart
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.
Marilyn Carlson Evelyn K. Francuz
Fay JohnColmarDeLoof
Dr. Margaret Faulwell Gordon Norma Morris Richard Odle Estate
Joann Driggers
Lee & Dr. Nicholas A.* Begovich Gail & Michael Cochran Marc R. Dickey
Andrea J. & Jeffrey E. Sward Richard J. Taylor Verne RichardWagnerWulff
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.
Joann Driggers & Steve Collier Loraine Walkington
Special support and event underwriting
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
JohnAnonymousAlexander
Kerry & John Phelps JeanieVerneStockwellWagner
The College of the Arts Proudly Recognizes the 300+ Members of Our VOLUNTEER SUPPORT GROUPS
Judy Atwell
GET INVOLVED GIVING.FULLERTON.EDU
Dr. James D. & Dottie Young*
ONTIVEROS SOCIETY
music.fullerton.edu
