10/15/22 Pacific Prism Concert

Welcome!

Pacific Prism is a breathlessly fast-paced concert highlighting the breadth and depth of Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in performance. The styles, tempos, lighting, performing forces, and even the locations of the musicians are juxtaposed throughout the hall for maximum contrast. The pieces move immediately one to the next for fifty minutes. You may want to clap after each piece—even so, we ask that you hold your enthusiasm until the end of the show. This will be difficult! Tonight more than 125 students, faculty, staff, and alumni take part in our annual Conservatory tradition of Pacific Prism. The Conservatory offers our performances today as a gift during homecoming and as a celebration of Pacific’s commitment to the arts.

STAGE DIRECTOR James Haffner

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Jonathan Latta ’00

PRODUCTION MANAGER

James Gonzales ’02

LIGHTING DESIGN

L B Production Center

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Filopatir Ebid

BM, Vocal Performance, ’23

PROGRAM I OCTOBER 15, 2022 I 7:00 PM

Allentown (1982) Billy Joel (b. 1949)

Eric Dudley, vocalist and piano

Peter Altamura ’22, bass

Jonathan Latta ’00, drums

Akadinda Trio (2002)

Percussion Ensemble

Emmanuel Séjourné (b. 1961)

Robin Bisho ’23, Jonathan Herbers ’23, Daniel Lopez ’27

Jonathan Latta ’00, coach

I’ll Be on My Way (2006) Shawn Kirchner (b. 1957)

Michael De Lashmutt ’23, vocalist Monica Adams ’91, piano University Choirs Yejee Choi, conductor

Swingin’ at the Hagen (1992) Ellis Marsalis (1934–2020)

Gianna Pedregon ’25, violin; Marwan Ghonima ’25, bass; Reyna Machado ’24, drums Jazz Ambassadors

Patrick Langham, alto saxophone and director Aaron Garner, piano

La plaza tiene una torre

Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875–1939)

Jorge Altamirano-Nunez ’24, narrator

Invisibles, op. 124 (2019)

Natsuki Fukasawa, piano

Three Pieces for Woodwind Trio (2018)

Miguel del Aguila (b. 1957)

Fred Onovwerosuoke III. Ayevwiomo Dance (b. 1960)

Brittany Trotter, flute Kyle Bruckmann, oboe

Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon

How Could I Forget (2020)

Jelani Brown ’22, rapper

Jelani Brown (b. 1991)

El Rey de la Huasteca (2004)

Mariachi Ocelotlán

Luis Talamantes ’24, director

Black Coffee (1949)

José Hernández (b. 1958)

Sonny Burke/Paul F. Webster (1941–1980/1909–1966)

Elaine Hanley ’23, vocalist

Carl Pantle ’22, piano

Peter Altamura ’22, bass

Jonathan Latta ’00, drums

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Pacific Wind Bands

Vu Nguyen ’00, conductor

Darshan-Charukeshi (2019)

Ann Miller, violin

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (b. 1965)

Reena Esmail (b. 1983)

This Is Me (2017)

Elaine Hanley ’23, vocalist

Opera Theatre Ensemble University Choirs

Benj Pasek/Justin Paul (b. 1985/b. 1985)

University Symphony Orchestra Eric Dudley, conductor

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Peter Altamura is a recent graduate and a lecturer at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in the music industry department. While earning his degree in composition at University of the Pacific, he founded Pacific Heavy Ensemble, a unique forty-piece ensemble performing metal music that connects with classical and jazz genres. During his directorship from 2018 to 2022, he raised $49,000 in donations to put on multiple large-scale concerts. After stepping down as director, he is now the group’s faculty advisor. During that period Altamura was also president of Composers Club, vice president of the Punk and Metal Club, and one of the Owen Hall Recording Studio 160 engineers. He has served as engineer and producer for numerous recording projects, most recently recording and mixing engineer for Pacific’s Music Industry Summer Institute.

Jelani Brown is a lecturer at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music and a recent graduate in music management where he studied violin under Ann Miller. Brown is an artist with a passion for creativity, songwriting, and education. While attending the University of the Pacific, he was the featured hiphop artist for Pac Ave Records and released his debut EP First Impression, the school’s first hip-hop project. He has since opened for artists such as Kiana Lede, P-Lo, and the Ohio Players.

His love for music and education has led him to work with brands such as The O’Conner Method by Grammy-winning violinist Mark O’Conner, Little Kids Rock, Harmony Stockton, the Blackwing Foundation, and The CW broadcast network.

Brown is no stranger to the stage having performed the lead role in Othello at Modesto Community College and most recently Sam in the Gallo Center Repertory Company’s production of Holes. His passion for education has taken him on a unique journey, from elementary to higher education, putting on hip-hop workshops throughout the Central Valley and Bay Area. Outside the classroom, he works as a hip-hop expert and director for a nonprofit soul orchestra, Stockton Soul.

Kyle Bruckmann serves as the program director of chamber music and assistant professor of practice in oboe. Bruckmann earned undergraduate degrees in music and psychology at Rice University in Houston, studying oboe with Robert Atherholt, serving as music director of campus radio station KTRU, and achieving academic honor as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his Master of Music degree in 1996 at the University of Michigan, where he studied oboe performance with Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisation with Ed Sarath.

As an oboist and elctronic musician, Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging

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work as a composer/performer, educator, and new music specialist. His creative output—extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground—can be heard on more than 100 recordings. Three decades of chameleonic gigging have found him performing in settings including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Venice Biennale, CBGB, Berghain, a twelve-foot diameter bomb shelter, and dangling thirty feet in the air by a harness from a crane.

Bruckmann’s current affiliations include Splinter Reeds, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Quinteto Latino, Eco Ensemble, sfSound, and the Stockton Symphony. He has premiered dozens of works as a soloist and within these ensembles, working in particularly close collaboration with composers such as Olivia Block, Linda Bouchard, Gabriela Lena Frank, Michael Gordon, José-Luis Hurtado, Maija Hynninen, Sky Macklay, Paula Matthusen, Myra Melford, Amadeus Regucera, Theresa Wong, and Eric Wubbels. Thanks to his uncommon distinction as an improvising oboist, he has performed and/or recorded with Creative Music progenitors Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, and George Lewis, and has worked extensively for bandleaders such as Andrew Raffo Dewar and Lisa Mezzacappa.

Yejee Choi is director of choral studies and assistant professor of music at Pacific.

Prior to Pacific, Choi enjoyed performing as a conductor and ensemble musician in various venues in South Korea, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, and across the United State. The highlights of her performances include work with Marin Alsop, Helmuth Rilling, James Conlon, Simon Halsey, Osmo Vänskä, David Hill, and Grant Gershon. Choi also has appeared at major concert venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Opera House of National Grand Theatre Beijing (NCPA), and Orchestra Hall (MN).

As a composer, Choi’s works have been continually commissioned by choral and instrumental ensembles and soloists in Seoul, South Korea, since 2010.

Choi holds a bachelor’s degree in voice performance from University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and a master’s degree in choral conducting from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She completed her doctorate in conducting at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Eric Dudley is an associate professor of voice and conductor/ coach for Pacific’s Opera Theatre. He leads a multifaceted career as a conductor, composer, vocalist, and pianist engaged in the performance and creation of contemporary music. He was a founding member of the genre-defying vocal octet Roomful of Teeth since its founding in 2009 to 2021, touring worldwide and recording a wide array of newly

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commissioned works with the Grammy Award–winning ensemble.

Dudley, is the newly appointed artistic director for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and serves as the principal conductor for the Bendigo Festival of Exploratory Music in Australia. He also recently led Roomful of Teeth and Ensemble L’Instant Donné in a production with renowned director Peter Sellars at the Paris Festival d’Automne.

While living in New York, Dudley conducted and performed with organizations as diverse as the Ekmeles and Tenet vocal ensembles, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Talea Ensemble, the American Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Signal, and the New York Philharmonic. He was an assistant conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra under Rossen Milanov for several seasons. Some of his recent guest engagements include those with the Ojai Festival in California, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in New York and Finland, the Adelaide Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. He served on the faculty of the New School and Mannes College of Music in New York, where he directed the Mannes Prep Philharmonic and the New School Chorus. As a pianist and chamber musician, Dudley has performed with members of Novus New York and the Cincinnati and Princeton symphony orchestras. His own music has been premiered

and recorded by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Quey Percussion Duo, and by Roomful of Teeth.

Dudley holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music and both master’s and doctoral degrees in orchestral conducting from Yale, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize.

Natsuki Fukasawa is lecturer in piano at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music and has earned degrees from the Juilliard School and the University of Maryland.

As a Steinway Artist, Fukasawa’s music career has taken her throughout U.S. cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa earned rave reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. She has recorded for the Classico and Da Capo labels, and her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Music and Who’s Who in America. In 2012 she was added to the distinguished roster of International Steinway Artists. She joined the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music as Lecturer in Piano in 2021.

Fukasawa serves on the artist faculty of the Talis Festival and Academy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,

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and the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps. She has taught at American River College, California State University Sacramento, Saint Mary’s College of Moraga. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her private studio. Her students are winners of state, national and international competitions—and honored with the invitation to appear on NPR’s From the Top.

James Haffner is a professor of opera at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing and an Artist’s Diploma in opera stage directing. He is also a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov acting technique and an artistic associate with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.

Haffner’s production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola took first place in the 2001 National Opera Association Production Competition and was a finalist both at the regional and national levels in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). La Cenerentola holds the distinction of being the first opera to be invited to perform in the KCACTF national festival. Haffner’s work has been further recognized by the KCACTF with encore productions of his reworking of Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and the West Coast premiere of Glen Roven’s musical Heart’s Desire. The National Opera Association has also recognized his productions of Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. His additional significant credits include the German premiere of Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day; Das Mahagonny Songspiel, which was presented as part of the premiere Brecht Fest at the Berliner Ensemble; and Dido and Aeneas with the first annual Museumsinsel Fest, Berlin.

Haffner has served as producing artistic director of the Stockton Opera Association since 2007 and has worked with both the Bay View and Bear Valley Music Festivals. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab–West and has served as an adjudicator for the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition (Opera San Jose). A Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the Technische Universität, Berlin, as well as the University of Kentucky–Lexington, Miami University (Ohio, Webster University, and California State University–Fullerton.

At the Conservatory of Music, Haffner teaches Opera Theatre Workshop (beginning and advanced sections), Introduction to Lyric Diction, Opera Literature, and Opera Production. He also produces and directs the Pacific Opera Theatre productions.

Elaine Hanley is originally from the UK, and is currently working toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in music with an emphasis on voice. With over fifteen years of vocal and choral experience, she has been a featured soprano soloist for Delta Singers Chamber chorale, Delta Vocal Jazz ensemble, and the University of the Pacific Singers.

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She has worked under the tutelage of Bruce Southard at Delta College and Virginia Kelsey at Pacific. As a recording artist she has toured the UK, Europe, America, and South Africa.

Nicolasa Kuster serves as associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor of bassoon at the University of the Pacific. She enjoys a rich orchestral, chamber, and solo performing life around northern California and beyond. She launched and leads the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, a biennial competition for young women bassoonists from the Americas. This competition awards more than $30,000 in prizes at the Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium, which is open to all.

Kuster is principal bassoon of the Stockton Symphony and New Hampshire Music Festival orchestras, second bassoon (acting principal) of the Monterey Symphony, and performs regularly with the San Diego Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, and others. Her previous positions include the Wichita Symphony (also serving on the faculty of Wichita State University), the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the Virginia Symphony. She spent six summer seasons performing and recording with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy and can be heard on the Chandos label playing principal bassoon on Gian Carlo Menotti’s operas and other works. Kuster’s solo appearances with

orchestra include performing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Bassoon Concerto in the opening gala performance of the International Double Reed Society in 2013, Peter Schickele’s Bassoon Concerto with the Stockton Symphony in 2015, multiple-city tours of Kazakhstan, as well as televised performances in Italy and Panama. She is the winner of the 1995 Chicago Musicians Club of Women’s Solo Competition Farwell Award, which she won while a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago studying with the late Bruce Grainger, assistant principal bassoon of the Chicago Symphony. She is a double-degree graduate from Oberlin College and Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music degree in bassoon performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion. She was a student of George Sakakeeny and taught at Oberlin as his sabbatical replacement in the fall of 2002. Her solo album, Metamorphosis, can be found at NicolasaKuster.com.

Jonathan Latta serves as a program director of ensembles and associate professor of practice in percussion. Since 2014, Latta has served in leadership roles in the Conservatory of Music, Office of the President, and Enrollment Management. He has also maintains an active performing career as a percussionist, having performed with the Stockton Symphony, Modesto Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Stockton Concert Band, and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra

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in Durango, Colorado. He is a member of the Stockton Friends of Chamber Music Board and the Stockton Scholars Advisory and Impact Board.

Prior to Pacific, Latta was the director of percussion studies for six years at Fort Lewis College in Durango, teaching applied percussion, percussion ensemble, non-Western music, orchestration, and jazz. He taught percussion at the University of the Pacific from 2016 to 2017 while serving in his role as assistant dean. Latta was chair of the University Pedagogy Committee for the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) for six years and a member of the PAS Education Committee.

Prior to returning to school for his doctorate, Latta was a member of the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West. During that time he performed in over 300 performances as percussion/ timpani for the Concert Band, drum set for the Commanders Jazz Ensemble, marching percussion for the Ceremonial Band, and drum set for the Golden West Dixie Ramblers. Their performances included the 2003 Tournament of Roses Parade, the 2004 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and the interment of former President Ronald W. Reagan.

Latta has performed as a chamber musician in the Durango Chamber Music Festival, the Animas Music Festival, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference.

In 2019 he performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall as a soloist with the University of the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Ann Miller serves as program director of strings and associate professor of violin. Miller has appeared in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. At home performing music spanning the Baroque era to the present day, she enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator.

A proponent of new music, Miller made her New York debut as a soloist with the New Juilliard Ensemble in Alice Tully Hall in the North American premiere of David Matthews’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She has performed with the ensemble Continuum in Mongolia and Ukraine as well as New York City. Miller also participated in an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Lucerne Festival Academy that culminated in performances in Switzerland and New York under the direction of Pierre Boulez.

Miller’s recent solo appearances include performances of Tartini’s Devil’s Trill with the Zion Chamber Orchestra, the Brahms Violin Concerto with the University of the Pacific’s Symphony Orchestra, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the St. John’s Chamber Orchestra, and Brahms’s Double Concerto with cellist Ira Lehn and the Mariposa Symphony in Yosemite National Park. As a recitalist Miller frequently

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collaborates with pianist Sonia Leong and has appeared on Old First Concerts in San Francisco and the University of the Pacific’s Faculty Recital Series. Their debut album, Perspectives on Light and Shadow: Sonatas by Beaser, Ysaÿe, and Bartók, was released in December 2015.

An avid chamber musician, Miller is a member of Trio 180, the piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific. In addition to performing in Canada, Mexico, Maryland, Oregon, and Nevada, the Trio has concertized throughout California in such venues as the Mondavi Center, Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University, and the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Trio 180 has also performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the St. John’s Chamber Orchestra. The Trio released its first album, featuring trios by Dvořák, Suk, and Schumann, in 2015.

Miller earned degrees from the Juilliard School and Rice University. Her teachers include Ronald Copes and Kathleen Winkler.

Her chamber music coaches include Jerome Lowenthal, Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Norman Fischer, James Dunham, Paul Katz, and members of the Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. Ms. Miller participated in the York String Orchestra Seminar and spent summers at Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Vu Nguyen is an associate professor of music and director of bands at the University of the Pacific. He conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, and he teaches courses in conducting and music education. Nguyen maintains an active schedule as a clinician and has served as guest conductor with the United States Air Force Bands of the Golden West and Mid-America as well as honor bands across the country. Ensembles under his direction have performed at state music educator conferences, at the Midwest Clinic, and at the College Band Directors National Association Conference.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Nguyen holds degrees in conducting from the University of Washington and the University of Oregon, and he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of the Pacific.

Prior to his appointment at Pacific, he served in similar roles at the University of Connecticut, University of Indianapolis, and Washington University in St. Louis in addition to being a visiting conductor with the Indiana University Concert Band. He began his teaching career in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.

In addition to his academic career, Nguyen recently retired as an officer in the Air National Guard (ANG) where he was the commander and conductor of the ANG Band of the West Coast.

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In this position, he was responsible for all activities of this forty-member squadron, including participation in ceremonies, parades, concerts, and other public performances. Festival, and at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference.

Carl Pantle is a lecturer and collaborative pianist at the University of the Pacific and a recent graduate earning his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. As a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, he brings to life dozens of operatic and musical theater scores, and his collaborations include those with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti.

As a pianist, arranger, and orchestrator in affiliation with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, he performed and recorded commissioned works by Stephen Schwartz and Jake Heggie. Pantle maintains a successful voice studio in Oakley, California, and is enthusiastically involved in the arts and arts education in his community.

Luis “Tito” Talamantes is a lecturer for Mariachi Chamber Ensemble and a current graduate student at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music. Talamantes has been a mariachi educator for the Stockton Unified School District for over five years. Since joining SUSD, his ensembles have been invited to the White House (2016), performed at the Kennedy Center (2018), and have placed in many national competitions.

Prior to teaching, Talamantes performed and recorded as a professional studio musician with El Regimen Sinaloense under the Sinacal Records label, with some of his tracks used on FX network’s The Bridge. While a member of El Regimen Sinaloense, he toured with top Regional Mexicano acts such as Banda MS and Chuy Lizarraga.

In order to promote culturally responsive educational materials and make them accessible, Talamantes created titosmusic. com where he shares all of his arrangements and transcriptions for music educators at no cost. Since the launch, his arrangements have been played by numerous ensembles in the Midwest and Colorado, and even by Cornell University’s Big Red Marching Band.

Prizewinning flutist Brittany Trotter leads a diverse career as an educator, soloist, and collaborator. She is the assistant professor of flute and program director of woodwinds at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in Stockton, California.

Equally versed in post-classical contemporary music, Trotter has performed contemporary works and presented workshops at festivals and conventions including the New Jersey Flute Fair, Kentucky Flute Fair, Florida Flute Association Convention, Rochester Flute Fair, Mid-Atlantic Flute

Convention, and National Flute Association (NFA) Convention, where she was a featured soloist in the 2020 virtual summer series celebration concert series.

In demand as a clinician, Trotter frequently performs, teaches, and serves as a guest lecturer at universities across California and the United States. Her recent appearances include those at Bowling Green State University, Tennessee Tech University, Virginia Tech University, University of North Carolina–Greensboro, Southwestern Oklahoma University, and Missouri Southern State University.

A recipient of the NFA’s 2020 Graduate Research Competition for her dissertation entitled Examining Music Hybridity and Cultural Influences in Valerie Coleman’s Wish Sonatine and Fanmi Imen, Trotter continues to actively study the merging of Western classical music, diverse culture, and modern popular music. She recently presented a lecture recital entitled “Flute & HipHop” as part of her artist residency with Unisound of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and at the 2022 NFA Convention in Chicago.

ENSEMBLES

Ensembles in order of appearance; personnel in alphabetical order

The Pacific Percussion Ensemble is open to students of every major at University of the Pacific. The ensemble presents a wide range of percussion literature that excites and challenges even the most experienced musicians.

Robin Bisho Jonathan Herbers Daniel Lopez

The Pacific Choral Ensembles have had a long and distinguished tradition at University of the Pacific. They are a rich and vital component of Pacific life and a platform for the fundamentals of ensemble collaboration, musicianship, and musicality, providing the students with an opportunity to learn a myriad of styles and genres while singing with others.

One of the major focuses of the choral curriculum at the Pacific Conservatory is to provide undergraduate-level conducting students with practical training opportunities to prepare them for the next chapter of their musical journey. In recent years Pacific choral students have been admitted to the nation’s leading masterclasses including the Yale Summer School of Music–Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the National American Choral Directors Association undergraduate conducting masterclass. Graduates are actively involved in the regional and national choral music scene through their careers as music educators, while others pursue further degrees in graduate programs with a strong choral legacy.

Students from Pacific Choirs had an opportunity to participate in the masterclass with members of Roomful of Teeth. Pacific Choirs also regularly collaborate with the Stockton Symphony in concerts.

Sopranos

Gabby Baluyot

Emma Bradley

Molly Bolewski

Lilia Casaro

Hailey Cating

Kyra Comstock

Rose Dickson

Kailey Diggs

Juliette Frediere

Nicole Ikeda

Zoie Macapanpan

Ria Patel

Samantha Perrego

Charlize Price

Raquel Reginato

Jordan Souza

Vanessa VasquezBartolo

Jordan Yang

Sydney Zucco

Altos

Miranda Albertoni

Alexis Bondoc

Huey Chan

Charlotte Han Elaine Hanley

Mia Janosik

Isabella Knittle

Krystle Kong

Bailey LaBrie

Grace Liaw

Stella Mahnke

Rebecca Mahon

Mallory Norman

Tenors

Jorge Altamirano-Nunez

Riley Brearton

Leo Hearl

Matthew Hui Michael De Lashmutt

Michael Megenney

Davis Robinson

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Basses

Mateus Barioni

Henry Bao

Joshua Gutierrez

Daniel Hui

Davis Mahoney

Tristan McMichael

Seth Neves

Ian Orejana

Christopher Penn

Michael Robertson

Iker Rodriguez

Jake Scallan

James Scott

Ryan Vang

Pacific Jazz Ambassadors is a jazz combo comprised of students pursuing a three-year accelerated Bachelor of Music honors degree in jazz studies at the Conservatory of Music. This opportunity is open to five high school graduates who are exceptionally talented and motivated jazz musicians. Members of the Pacific Jazz Ambassadors study with Pacific’s jazz studies faculty, visiting jazz educators, artists, clinicians, and other music professionals while working towards obtaining their undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. The combo performs extensively locally as well as throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Gianna Pedregon, violin Marwan Ghonima, bass Reyna Machado, drums

Patrick Langham, alto saxophone

Aaron Garner, piano

Mariachi Ocelotlán was established in the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in 2019 and is open to all students regardless of their major. The ensemble recently performed at Pacific’s Latino Heritage Month signature event, An Evening with Dolores Huerta.

Trumpets

Julia Murillo, featured vocalist

Sarah Burke-Baker

Kylie Ward

Violins

Ellie Aquino

Caroline Burke-Baker

Irina Hernandez

Gissely Figueroa

Guitarron

Oscar Garcia Aldana

Guitar Danny Guerrero

Vihuela

Celestino Mederos

ENSEMBLES

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble at the Pacific Conservatory of Music comprises students who represent a majority of music degree programs in the Conservatory. The ensemble performs at least four concerts each academic year. The Ensemble provides students the opportunity to play a broad range of music for winds, brass, percussion, and keyboards drawn from a repertoire that honors the rich history of the past and looks to the future. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed at Carnegie Hall, recorded at Skywalker Sound, and performed at the California All-State Music Educators Conference and the Western International Band Clinic. The Ensemble’s recent collaborations with composers include those with Viet Cuong, Jennifer Jolley, Giovanni Santos, Alex Shapiro, Ingrid Stölzel, and James Syler.

Horns

Olivia Gideon

Edgar Leyva

Don Parker

Jada Ramos

Reese Romero

Braydon Ross

Owen Sheridan Skylar Warren

Trumpets

Ainsley Berryhill

Julia Murillo

Yoshiki Shimokawa

Kylie Ward

Trombones

Victor Alcaraz

William Giancaterino

Matthew Miramontes

Seth Neves

Tuba

Alejandro Villalobos

Timpani

Leonard Cox

Pacific Opera Theatre is the resident student opera ensemble at University of the Pacific. The program boasts a long history of successfully training singers for the professional arena. The ensemble is open to all Pacific students by audition.

Sopranos

Kailey Diggs

Juliette Frediere

Nicole Ikeda

Ria Patel

Charlize Price

Bell Souza

Vanessa VazquezBartolo

Jordan Yang

Mezzo-Sopranos/ Altos

Gabby Baluyot

Alexis Bondoc

Rose Dickson

Brylan Finley

Hanna Grossenbacher

Elaine Hanley

Mia Janosik

Izzy Martinez

Andie Reposa

Tenors

Riley Brearton

Filopatir Ebid

Michael Megenney

Ian Orejana

Bass-Baritones

Gerado Lopez

Ryan Vang

Michael Robertson

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Pacific’s University Symphony Orchestra (USO) performs an inclusive range of contemporary and historically significant symphonic works, collaborating annually with Pacific’s Opera Theatre in fully staged productions, and partners frequently with Pacific Singers in choralorchestral works. Pacific faculty, students, and guest artists perform with the USO as concerto and aria soloists and as guest conductors. Pacific’s Conservatory faculty serve as coaches as the USO prepares each concert cycle. Participation is open to all Pacific students by audition.

Violins I

Charlotte Han, concertmaster

Ellie Aquino

Maya Balachandran Lauren Huen Liam Shaughnessy Marcella Stone-Fox

Violins II

Jamie Lue, principal Caroline Burke-Baker Isabelle Knittle

Maisie Stollard Emma Young

Violas

Samantha Tse, principal

Gavin Downing Cierra Evelyn Kylie Trenhaile

Cellos

Hasina Torres, principal Jane Damon

Frances Florentino Jordan Hendrickson

Daniel Hui Bailey LaBrie Nicolas Trobaugh Basses

Noah Gonzales, principal Josh Gutierrez Juliana (Yana) Meneses

Miguel Velarde

Flute Natalie Kowalski

Oboe Glenn Adcock

Tenor Saxophone

Tristan McMichael

Bassoon

Ella Hebrard Horn

Jada Ramos

Trumpet Parker Deems

Drum Set

Jonathan Latta

Piano

Carl Pantle

Electric Bass

Peter Altamura

THANK YOU

Pacific Prism was made possible through generous support of the following partners:

Christopher Callahan, President

Maria Pallavicini, Provost James Gonzales

Stage and Technical Director, Conservatory of Music

James Haffner

Director of Pacific Opera Theatre, Conservatory of Music

Jane Jaffe

Associate Professor of Practice & Coordinator of Concert Publications, Conservatory of Music

Jonathan Latta

Program Director of Ensembles, Conservatory of Music

Janine Lau

Bachelor of Science, Psychology, ’23

Yvette Khan

Executive Assistant, Conservatory of Music

Marty Weiner Weiner Piano Service

Peter Witte

Dean, Conservatory of Music

SPECIAL THANKS TO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC FACULTY AND STAFF

FACULTY

Monica Adams

Hendel Almetus

Sarah Almetus

Jelani Brown Kyle Bruckmann Ruth Brittin

Alice Chiang

Yejee Choi Bruce Chrisp Andrew Conklin

Jeffrey Crawford Thomas Derthick

James Dubberly Eric Dudley Daniel Ebbers Barry Finnerty Natsuki Fukasawa Melissa Fulkerson Aaron Garner Sadie Glass James Gonzales

STAFF

Kim Girardi

James Gonzales Veronica Henderson

Yvette Khan

Jonathan Latta Melissa Riley Jessica Siena Tyler Van

AFFILIATED STAFF

Eric Griffin

Patricia Grimm

James Haffner

Fei-Lin Hsiao

Jane Jaffe Elizabeth Keithcart

Virginia Kelsey

Brian Kendrick Yvette Khan

Sabine Klein

Nicolasa Kuster

Patrick Langham

Jonathan Latta Sonia Leong

Casie Little Ricardo Martinez Joe Mazzaferro

Ann Miller Karen Moran Vu Nguyen Leonard Ott

Carl Pantle

Margaret Perry

Gerry Pineda

Benom Plumb

Guy Powell Alexander Reyes

Vienna Sa

Alicen Schneider Patricia Shands

Luis Talamantes Brittany Trotter Kumiko Uyeda Igor Veligan

Nicolas Waldvogel Sarah Waltz Eric Waldon

Vicky Wang Peter Witte Eric Wood Maya Zebley

Veronica Wells, University Libraries

UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS

Oct. 19 | 7:30 pm

Kyle Bruckmann, oboe

Patricia Grimm, piano

Recital Hall

Oct. 20 | 7:30 pm

Guest Artist Series

Scott Holden, piano

Recital Hall

Oct. 23 | 9:15 am

Pacific String Day

Registration is required.

Faye Spanos Concert Hall

Oct. 23 | 2:30 pm

Friends of Chamber Music: Cuarteto Latinamericano

Faye Spanos Concert Hall

Music.Pacific.edu

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Please contact the Assistant Dean for Developmentat 209.946.2864 to make a gift today. You may also send a check payable to University of the Pacific:

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