1/18/23 Faculty Recital

Faculty Recital

Faculty Recital

Thomas Derthick, double bass with

Patricia Shands, clarinet

John Cozza, piano

Logan Adams, Noah Gonzales, double basses

PROGRAM I JANUARY 18, 2023 I 7:30 PM

FromThe Limpid Stream, op. 39 (1934–35) Dmitri Shostakovich Adagio (1906–75)

arr. Eugene Levinson

Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14 (1912) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Valse minature, op. 1, no. 2 (c. 1900) Serge Koussevitzky Chanson triste, op. 2 (c. 1900) (1874–1951) Humoresque, op. 4 (c. 1900)

John Cozza, piano

Intermission

To Be Determined (2022)

Logan Adams, Noah Gonzales, double basses

Thomas Derthick (b. 1959)

Benny’s Gig: Eight Duos for Clarinet and Double Bass Morton Gould (1962; 1979) (1913–1996) Slow and Nostalgic (Celebrating Benny’s 1962 Russian Tour) Brisk, with drive Very slow and hesitant Brisk Slowly

Calypso Serenade: Moderately Moving Lazily moving Jaunty (For Benny’s 70th Birthday, May 1979)

Patricia Shands, clarinet

Thomas Derthick, professor of practice in double bass, joined the faculty at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in 1988. The long-time principal bass of the Sacramento Symphony, Derthick is currently principal bass of the Sacramento Philharmonic, Opera, Ballet and Choral Society, and for twenty-five years was principal of the Cabrillo Festival, America’s foremost contemporary music festival. He frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento. Other performances include those with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Symphony, and Oregon Symphony, as well as recording work and Broadway shows. He continues as lecturer in double bass at Sacramento State, a position he has held since 1982.

Derthick retired in 2020 after twenty seasons as music director of the Pacific Youth Symphony, where he expanded performances, enrollment and community outreach as the Youth Symphony transitioned to joining the Pacific Conservatory family in 2018. He has recently guest-conducted 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.

Derthick was recently reelected to a second term as president of the Professional Musicians of Central California, AFM Local 12. He spent much of the past three years in negotiations with professional symphony orchestras and theater companies on COVID safety protocols as well as new collective bargaining agreements, and he helped raise many thousands of dollars in musician relief, pandemic unemployment, and pandemic grant monies for his colleagues.

Clarinetist Patricia Shands has appeared to popular and critical acclaim throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. Her performances have been applauded by the critics of such publications as the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Il Giornale (Milan), Fanfare, and the American Record Guide.

In 1994 Patricia Shands was a featured soloist for composer Luciano Berio’s presentation of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. She has appeared at the music festivals of Interharmony and Spoleto (Italy), the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Música no Museu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Round Top, Chautauqua, Bear Valley, Bellingham, and the National Repertory Orchestra, as well as the Wellesley

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Composers Conference, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the April in Santa Cruz New Music Festival.

A prizewinner in the 1987 Concert Artists Guild Competition, Shands has collaborated in chamber music performances with many of the finest musicians of today. She currently is a member of the Trois Bois Wind Trio and the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and she was a founding member of the award-winning Block Ensemble. With these groups she has toured throughout the United States. Her vast orchestral experience has included serving as principal clarinet of the Sacramento Philharmonic, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, Stockton Symphony, Portland Symphony Orchestra, YMF Orchestra, and National Repertory Orchestra, along with substitute work with the Houston Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

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 fur Musik in Vienna, Austria, Cozza was named director of accompanying at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) in 1994 to design and implement the Master 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 at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, from 2004 to 2018. Collaborating with singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, Cozza has performed internationally as soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician in such European cities as Vienna, Bologna, Milan, Cologne, and Budapest.

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 the University of Southern California, where he was named valedictorian of the School of Music. His principal teachers have been Daniel Pollack in Los Angeles, David Kaiserman in Chicago, and Hans Graf (solo piano performance) and Georg Ebert (chamber music) in Vienna. He originally attended Vienna’s prestigious Hochschule fur Musik as a Rotary Foundation Scholar in 1986–87, then returned for further study from 1988 to 1991 when he received the coveted Diplom in both piano performance and chamber music.

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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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