THOMAS DERTHICK RECITAL Wednesday I September 25, 2019 I 7:30 pm Conservatory Recital Hall
THOMAS DERTHICK double bass Guest artist DR. JOHN COZZA piano
5th Performance I 2019-2020 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
CONCERT PROGRAM I SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 I 7:30 PM Third Suite for Violoncello Alone, BWV 1009 Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Bourees Gigue
Prayer from “A Jewish Life”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Intermission
A Step in Time for Double Bass and Piano (2019)
Arie et Rondeau (1957)
Hendel Almetus (b. 1974)
Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971)
Thomas Derthick, Associate Professor of Practice in Double Bass, joined the faculty at University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in 1988. The long-time Principal Bassist of the Sacramento Symphony, Mr. Derthick is currently Principal Bassist of the Sacramento Philharmonic, Opera, Ballet and Choral Society, and for 25 years was Principal of the Cabrillo Festival, America’s foremost Contemporary Music Festival. He frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento and the Empyrean Ensemble, with whom he has recorded and toured. Other performances include the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Symphony and Oregon Symphony, as well as recording work and Broadway shows. Mr. Derthick is now in his twentieth season as Music Director of the Central Valley Youth Symphony (CVYS) at Pacific, where he has helped expand performances, enrollment and community outreach as CVYS transitioned to joining the Pacific Conservatory family in 2018. Recent guest conducting appearances included Link Up concerts given by the Sacramento Philharmonic, concerto concerts sponsored by the American Guild of Organists in Sacramento, and the Honor Orchestras of San Joaquin County, CMEA Capital Section, and Tracy Unified Schools, as well as many clinics for local high school orchestras both on and off the Pacific campus. Mr. Derthick holds the Bachelor of Music degree in performance and the Masters of Music degree in instrumental conducting from Sacramento State University. His bass teachers include Abe Luboff, Stuart Sankey, Murray Grodner and Dennis Trembly; his conducting studies were with Leo Eylar and Peter Jaffe. Mr. Derthick currently serves as Vice President of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 12, and is a member of the American String Teachers Association, International Society of Bassists, Northern California Bass Club, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lambda. In 2014 he was honored for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Education for Music by the Stockton Arts Commission. At Pacific, Mr. Derthick teaches applied studies in double bass, coaches Chamber Music, and leads a class in Orchestral Repertoire and Audition Techniques for all orchestral performance majors. His university and private studios have helped launch many students into major graduate conservatory programs and major professional orchestras. Mr. Derthick formerly served as Applied Music Coordinator for Strings and has appeared with the University Symphony Orchestra both as a soloist and guest conductor. John Cozza is in demand throughout California as teacher, coach/accompanist, chamber musician, adjudicator and clinician. He has been the Staff Accompanist at Sacramento State University since 2004, and took over as Music Director and Pianist/ Organist at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Carmichael in January of 2018. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Northwestern University and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, Dr. Cozza was named Director of Accompanying at Baylor University (Waco, TX) in 1994 to design and implement
the Masters of Music degree program in Piano Accompanying. Graduates of the program he administrated from 1994 to 2001 hold teaching and accompanying positions regionally, nationally and internationally. He taught Accompanying and Secondary Piano in the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific from 2004 to 2018. Collaborating with singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, Dr. Cozza’s international engagements have included performances as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician in such European cities as Vienna, Bologna, Milan, Cologne and Budapest. Dr. Cozza holds a Doctor of Music degree in Piano Performance, Vocal Accompanying and Chamber Music from Northwestern University. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at USC, where he was named Valedictorian of the School of Music. His principal teachers have been Daniel Pollack in Los Angeles, Dr. David Kaiserman in Chicago, and Professors Hans Graf (solo piano performance) and Georg Ebert (chamber music) in Vienna. He originally attended Vienna’s prestigious Hochschule für Musik as a Rotary Foundation Scholar in 1986-87, then returned for further study from 1988-1991 when he received the coveted Diplom in both Piano Performance and Chamber Music. Dr. Cozza is the current President of the Sacramento Saturday Club, the oldest musical organization in Sacramento, and one of the oldest west of the Rockies. As stated in its Constitution of 1893, the aims of the organization are: “the musical improvement of its members and the stimulation of musical interests in Sacramento.”
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