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California State University, Northridge Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication Department of Music presents CSUN University Chorus, Northridge Singers, and Symphony Orchestra
W.A. Mozart’s Requiem
Katherine Ramos Baker, conductor Jahyeong Koo, accompanist
featuring student soloists:
Cassidy Feskowitz, soprano Seohyun Dominic Lim, bass Egan Carroll, tenor Sophia Paz, alto Jeannine Allen, soprano Agnese Gallenzi, soprano Rose Kreider, alto Jeryd Word, tenor David Ingram, bass
Saturday, November 19, 2022 7:30 PM Plaza del Sol CONCERTS 2022 2023
PROGRAM
I. Introitus and Requiem
Lord, grant them eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine on them.
II. Kyrie eleison
Lord, have mercy on us, and grant us peace.
III. Sequenz
No. 1 Dies irae
Day of judgment, Day of wrath. . . No. 2 Tuba mirum
The sound of the last trumpet. . . No. 3 Rex tremendae
King of fearful majesty, save me. No. 4 Recordare
Remember the difficulty of life, and pardon me.
No. 5 Confutatis
When those who are sent to flames, count me among the blessed.
No. 6 Lacrimosa
A day of tears is the day of true judgment; spare this soul and grant eternal rest.
IV. Offertorium
No. 1 Domine Jesu
Deliver the souls of the faithful from the pains of hell, from the lion’s mouth: Bring them into holy light, which you promised to Abraham and his descendants.
No. 2 Hostias
Receive our sacrifices and prayers, and grant them to pass from death to life.
V. Sanctus
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts! Heaven and earth are filled with your glory. Hosanna in the highest!
VI. Benedictus
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
VII. Agnus Dei
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest.
VIII. Comunio and Lux aeterna
Because you are forgiving, grant eternal rest to them, and let perpetual light shine on them.
CSUN University Chorus
CSUN Symphony Orchestra
Hannah Abando
Riley Aki
Dayanara Aspeitia Marisa Beard
Oliva Boling
Wylan Burton Lexi Cantu
Josh Cartagena Maya Cervantes
Rolando Corona* Allen Der Stepanian
James Dillion Alyssa Exler
Travis Farrell Curtis Fralin Fantasia Guerra Rivera* Andrew Hadley Matthew Hall Shalom Headly Tatiana Henriquez
Sara Hornstein Jackson Humphrey Brad Ito Sam Jenkins Bowie Karr
Liz Knickerbocker Rose Kreider* Blake Lazo Shelly Lecaine Valdevia Sadie Longacre Carmen Lopez Esmeralda Lozada Alexa Macias Dianne Marquez Kristin McGinnis Hai Nguyen Kevin Nguyen Katherine Padden Janice Pang Seongho Park
Ayante Parker Randall Pineda Emilio Pozo* Kailey Queen Sarah Reyes Colin Rich Luke Rosa* Emory Schlanger Zachary Skovald Diego Schwarzbach Melodie Shousha* Michelle Stevens Jonathan Strand Shiv Tikarya Rylie Vantz Kaylie Velazquez* Anthony Villanueva Adriana Witte Jianqi Yu Xiaoqin Zhou
CSUN Northridge Singers
Jacob Alvarez Ruiz
Sophia Bakaev
Lily Berthold
Amber Buenaventura* Egan Carroll* Michael Cooper
Rolando Corona Garrett Cypher
Jonathan Engstrom* Valeria Fajardo
*section leaders
Cassidy Feskowitz Gabriel Granillo Ruby Herrera Xiaoshan Huang James Kerrigan* Yan Liang Madison McCurdy* Halie Milligan* Ayida Mkrtychyan Alicia Morgan*
Matt Morton Sophia Paz Emilio Pozo* Destiny Ramos Eddie Tavalin Roberts Diego Schwarzbach Rachel Spiegel-Brown Leilah Telon John Thompson Jeryd Word
Clarinet
Nancy Crisostomo Katelyn Sonny Keeley Bassoon Matthew Rasmussen* Tracey Siepser*
Trumpet Taraneh Pourmoradian Carlos Gonzalez Santiago
Trombone Thomas Monce Jordan Friedman Riley Baker Timpani Andrew Greenberg
Organ
Jahyeong Koo
Violin I. Nelly Guevara Alizah Chao Logan Sacino Daniel Herrnstein Abtin Farrokh Garret Wong
Violin II. Scott Johnson Cansu Ozyurek Min Shen Chiou Esteban Andrade Sahand Zare Jasmine Forooghi
Viola Luigi Ito Alisa Luera* Nic Lampert Karen Paz Cello Alec Glass Betsy Liu Isabella Argueta Milena Mardanyan*
Bass Jonathan Hoe Aidan Neuman
*guest performers
About University Chorus
The CSUN University Chorus is a non auditioned ensemble of university students, including freshmen and graduate students from many departments across the university. This Chorus is comprised of music majors and many other disciplines. The music majors include: media composition, composition, guitar, piano, winds, voice, breadth studies, music education, music therapy, and a large section from music industry studies. Singers from other disciplines include: art, biology, communication studies, criminology, CTVA, deaf studies, mathematics, mechanical engineering, sociology, and theatre.
The Chorus meets twice each week and performs: major choral works, such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and Handel’s Messiah; dramatic choruses from opera, oratorio, musicals, and film; and multicultural works from the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In Fall 2021, we performed beautiful folk songs from China, Japan, and Korea. In Spring 2022, we performed epic, enchanting, and enduring works from cinema. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, we are excited to present a major choral work with orchestra and student soloists, collaborating with CSUN Northridge Singers and with the CSUN Symphony Orchestra, in this performance Mozart’s Requiem.
We welcome all students from the campus community to consider the opportunity to sing in this Chorus!
About Northridge Singers
The CSUN Northridge Singers is a select ensemble, open to all university students who meet the audition requirements. Northridge Singers is known for its standards of excellence, its commissions of special works for performance, touring internationally, and garnering several prestigious performance awards. Northridge Singers usually presents four live concerts each academic year, participates in at least one collegiate choral festival, and often hosts a high school or junior college choral festival. During the pandemic lockdown, there were several changes due to the coronavirus: Zoom rehearsals, for large
group and small group; the use of collaborative media tools for peer and instructor review of individual recordings; and virtual choir audio and video recordings mastered by Soundhouse, a professional musical educational tech company. Northridge Singers is featured twice on their page: https://edtech.ccsoundhouse.com/recent projects
In Spring 2021 there was a virtual choral concert shared with University Chorus, with a final work that included both choirs. In Spring 2022 Northridge Singers and University Chorus had a live shared concert that featured choral music from the movies and musicals. Looking forward in this semester, on December 10, 2022, Northridge Singers will present a concert of Spanish music: Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Romances) by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, featuring CSUN faculty guest guitarist Dr. Bryan Fasola. Thank you for being here this evening to enjoy this concert, and we hope to see you later this year at our upcoming concerts!
About the conductor
Katherine Ramos Baker, Professor, Department of Music, CSU Northridge, earned the Doctor of Education in Music Education degree from the University of Illinois, the Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree from CSU Fullerton and holds a Life Teaching Credential in Music from the State of California.
Dr. Baker has an array of professional experience teaching in higher education, high school, and middle school. Prior to coming to CSU Northridge, she was Director of Choral Activities at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, where she was received the “Excellence in Teaching” award for the School of Arts and Sciences, 1996. Her choirs have performed internationally in the Benedictinus 2000 Festival in Rome and the Innsbruck International Choral Festival in Austria. Her CSU Northridge Women’s Chorale performed in 2007 and 2011 at universities and cultural centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. She has been a board member of CSU Northridge’s China Institute and its International Education Committee, working groups dealing with educational international issues and agreements among various institutions of higher education. In August 2010, Dr. Baker made presentations at the International
Society for Music Education’s conference held in Beijing, and then presented lectures and workshops to teachers and graduate students in Shanghai. During her sabbatical in spring 2012, she was a guest scholar at six universities in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. In October 2018 she was a featured guest panelist and one of the six keynote speakers for the First International Seminar on Evaluations Systems for Primary and Secondary Music Education, Shanghai, China. She has received two awards for her contributions to international education: The China Institute Outstanding Contributions Award (2012) and the Phi Beta Delta Outstanding Faculty Award (2011).
While at CSU Northridge, her work has continued in conducting/performing, music education and music technology, and assessment. The CSU Northridge’s Women's Chorale, under her direction, premiered works by California composers at CMEA conference, performed Holst's The Planets with the San Fernando Valley Symphony and the CSUN Symphony Orchestra, recorded music for the documentary film, That All May Be One, and has performed on two tours of China (2007 and 2011). Dr. Baker also has served as an adjudicator/clinician and as an honor choir conductor for state and regional ACDA, MENC, and SCVA festivals, as well as “Music in the Parks” festivals and “Festivals at Sea.” In October 2010 she presented workshops on and a solo recital of the music of Hildegard von Bingen for the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho.
Her work in technology includes participation in federal and state technology programs, web enhanced and distance learning courses, presentations at national MENC conventions, and the publication of interactive multimedia software for Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Mozart’s Requiem by Educational Courseware Systems.
Her experience in assessment in music includes: presentations for AssessNet consortium, for CMEA, IUPUI, and at the International Society for Music Education (in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China). She is currently the Assessment Liaison for the Music Department and has been a member of the CSUN eLearning Community, collaborating with other faculty in the department on
improving student achievement. She was the primary author of the CSUN Music Subject Matter Waiver Program document and was also a Field Reviewer of the Draft Standards for Programs in Music for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
About the accompanist
Jahyeong Koo is a staff accompanist for the California State University, Northridge. Ms. Koo is a member of the LA Trio, as well as the founder of the Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. Originally a graduate of the Sun Hwa Performing Arts School in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Koo received B.M. and M.M. Degrees from the University of Northern Iowa in piano performance, along with an enrollment as a doctoral candidate at USC with an Accompanying Assistantship. Ms. Koo has won numerous piano competitions and awards both as a solo artist and as an accompanist throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Having been invited to perform with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia and the Razgrad Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Ms. Koo also performed with the LA TRIO and taught Master Classes in China, as well as performing for the International Clarinet Festival in Japan and serving as resident accompanist for the International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival in Beijing, China. California State University, Los Angeles, Adjunct Professor of Music from 2004-2009, Ms. Koo is a member of the MTNA and SYMF, and currently accompanies the Pasadena City College Opera Workshop, Los Angeles Children Chorus, and the Youth Choirs at All Saints Church in Pasadena.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to:
Jahyeong Koo, our wonderful accompanist, for all her work throughout the semester and her flexibility and support of the University Chorus, the Northridge Singers, and the vocal area.
Dr. John Roscigno, for providing the orchestral personnel and the space and organization for our combined ensembles collaboration.
Nita Sinaga and Vanessa Jimenez
Alec Glass, our orchestra student assistant, for providing support and organization of rehearsals and the performance.
The University Chorus’ and Northridge Singers’ Section Leaders, for their time and work to make rehearsals and performances extra special.
The Voice Faculty: Dr. Hugo Vera, Professor Shigemi Matsumoto, Professor Diane Ketchie, Professor Erika Davis, and Dr. Joshua Wentz, for their support of University Chorus and Northridge Singers and the entire vocal area.
The VPAC and Plaza del Sol administration, Carey Christensen, and Beto Sistos and his stage crew, and Shawn Kolb and his stage crew, for their work on this concert.
Phil Calvert, Recording Engineer, for his recording of all of our concerts.
Professor Andrew Surmani, Music Industry Administration, and Professor Jeffrey Izzo, Music Industry Studies, for their support and their areas’ financial support of the matadormusicvideos.com site that provides live streaming of concerts as well as concerts on demand.
Vice-President Diane Stephens, AS Executive Director Patrick Bailey, and the members of the Instructionally-Related Activities Board, for their continuing support of the University Chorus and Northridge Singers.
Dean Dan Hosken, Interim Associate Dean Samantha Fields, and Department Chair John Roscigno, for their support of our music program.
The CSUN Music Department is thankful for generous donations of support from the following individuals and foundations
Planned Gifts
Linda S. Anderson
Sandra J. Bostrom Aguado and Donald E. Bostrom
Nancy Fierro
Deanna M. Gorman (dec.)
Sherry Lapides
Shigemi E. Matsumoto and Martin Stark Carson E. Schreiber
Richard J. Wiegand (dec.)
$25k+ $500 $999
The Herb Alpert Foundation Jonathan Braun
The Colburn Foundation
Nancy Fierro
Michael Gintz
Sherry Lapides
$10k $24,999
Rising Star Music Fund
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Jane Brockman
Brian Driscoll
Joseph Gardner
Diane Ketchie Saar and Raymond Saar Michael McClish
The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
Rosa Maria Belli
Synne Hansen Miller
David (dec.) and Gita Kronen
$5k $9,999
Marilyn N. Hankins
Shigemi E. Matsumoto and Martin Stark
$1k $4,999
Linda Anderson
Aurelio De la Vega (dec.)
The Benny Golbin Foundation
Joe Goodman
Eden Miller
Michael Ryan and Kenneth Howard
Michael Sandler
David W. and Judith G. Scott Revocable Trust