CSUN Symphony Orchestra Concert 3/9/22

CSUN Symphony Orchestra Tomasz Golka, Conductor

THE SORAYA CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022 7:30 P.M.

Program Lyric for Strings

George Walker (1922-2018)

Theme, Variations and Finale

Miklós Rósza (1907-1995)

Intermission

Symphony No. 7

Infernal Dance, Berceuse and Finale from “Firebird Suite”

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Igor Stravinsky ( 1882-1971)

Tomasz Golka, Conductor Since winning 1st Prize at the 2003 Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition, conductor and composer Tomasz Golka has appeared with orchestras in North and South America and Europe to great critical acclaim.

As guest conductor, he has appeared with the symphony orchestras of Seattle, Fort Worth, Buffalo, Spoleto Festival USA, Warsaw Philharmonic, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, as well as numerous orchestras throughout Mexico, including those in Xalapa, Mérida, Queretaro, Guadalajara, Boca del Río, Guanajuato, Puebla, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Juarez, Monterrey, Saltillo, and the OFUNAM in Mexico City, as well as Puerto Rico Symphony in San Juan and in Concepción (Chile), where he was Principal Guest Conductor. He has collaborated with some of the world’s top soloists, including Susan Graham, Alisa Weilerstein, Gary Hoffman, Inon Barnatan, Miriam Fried, Yuval Yaron, Joseph Swensen, and his pianist-brother Adam Golka.

Past positions include Chief Conductor of Colombia National Symphony in Bogotá as well as Music Director of the Lubbock Symphony. He is currently in his 12th season as Music Director of Riverside Philharmonic, a virtuoso orchestra made up of the top studio musicians in Hollywood, and Artistic Director of Village Concerts. Golka has served as Cover Conductor for Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Solti International Conducting Competition and the 2005 Malko International Conducting competition, where he conducted the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Danish Radio Symphony, respectively.

A composer of both film and concert works, he was named Composer-in-residence of the 2018 Boulder International Chamber Music Competition, which commissioned his piece “True Green.” He composed scores for the films “Shaking Cup” (2019), “The Dare” (2018), and the web series “Pagan Holidays” (2019). His concert works have been performed by the symphony orchestras of California, El Paso, Williamsport, Boca del Río, and the Suffolk County Festival Orchestra. As violinist he appears as chamber musician and soloist throughout North America. As a conducting fellow at the 2006 Tanglewood Music Festival, Golka conducted a historic performance of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale with legendary composers Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, and John Harbison as narrators – a recording that is now available through the Boston Symphony. He has also recorded Ciranda das sete notas by Heitor Villa-Lobos for Melo Records. He was also a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival in 2002 and has conducted in masterclasses for such esteemed conductors as David Zinman, Yuri Temirkanov, and Daniel Lewis.

Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1975, Golka’s family emigrated to Mexico in 1980 and to the United States in 1982. His conducting teachers were Bernard Haitink, Gustav Meier (Peabody Conservatory), and David Effron (Indiana University). He has a Certificate in Film Scoring from the prestigious UCLA Extension Film Scoring Program where he was the recipient of the coveted BMI/Jerry Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship. He also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in violin performance from Rice University, where his teachers were Sergiu Luca and Kenneth Goldsmith. His other violin teachers included Tadeusz Wronski and Marina Yashvili. He is fluent in Polish, English, and Spanish.

CSUN Symphony Orchestra Violin I. Lina Saleh Logan Sacino Ruisi Gong Garret Wang Melanie Ooi Alizah Chao Jin Taguchi Esteban Andrade Abtin Farrokh Min—Shou Chiou Violin II. Daniel Herrnstein Michael Ayranian Zahra Arabshahi Casey Ignacio Myles Moreno Rachel Greenup Sarah Seltzer Samantha Carabay Karla Lopez Sahand Zare

Viola Simiao Xiao Kevin Massin Zachary Cruz Luigi Ito Rebekah Ramano Karen Paz Cello Alec Glass Clement Chow* Maksim Velichkin* Rachel Coosai* Betsy Liu Isabella Argueta Bass Jonathan Ho Ian Lindley Aiden Neumann Zachary Pickins

Flute Jonathan Rodriguez Marcos Ramirez Justin Thai Oboe Isaac Chyun* Abiah Padua Clarinet Eder Hernandez Nancy Crisostomo Bassoon Eric Johnson-Tamai* Tara Chase

Horn Drew Patterson Hayden Amendola Michele Cheaure Daniel Gallardo

Timpani Jared Davenport Percussion Andrew Greenberg Lucas Heininger Miranda Clark

Trumpet Carlos Gonzalez Santiago Piano/Celesta Brandon Douglas Ryan Buchanan Melissa Ooi Trombone Adrian Hawthorne Caitlynn Cooper Jordan Friedman Riley Baker

Harp Kenneth Pasewark

Tuba Shane Willey

Librarian Alec Glass

*Guest Performers

A very special thank you to Carey Christensen and the Soraya staff for helping us facilitate this performance!

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CSUN Theatre / Music - Into the Woods / Campus Theatre – April 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 CSUN Youth Orchestras 50th Anniversary Gala / Soraya - Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m.

CSUN Symphony Orchestra Season Finale / Plaza del Sol - Wednesday, May 11th, 7:30 p.m.

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