Saturday I February 4, 2023 I 7:30 pm
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Laura Jackson, conductor-in-residence
61st Performance I 2022–23 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
University Symphony Orchestra
University Symphony Orchestra
Fiesta! (2007)
IV. Techno
Tales: A Folklore Symphony (2021)
II. Flying Africans
IV. John Henry
Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1931–32)
Allegro, ma non troppo
Largo: Maestoso
Juba Dance
Finale
PROGRAM I FEBRUARY 4, 2023 I 7:30 PM
Pause
Jimmy López Bellido (b. 1978)
Carlos Simon (b. 1986)
Florence Price (1887–1953)
Laura Jackson serves as music director and conductor of Nevada’s Reno Philharmonic Orchestra. She wins praise for her passionate artistry, creative leadership, and commitment to community engagement. Laura is known nationally and internationally for both her innovative composer-in-residence projects and vibrant performances of traditional repertoire. She has cemented the Reno Philharmonic’s place in the hearts of northern Nevadans while also raising the institution to new musical heights and national visibility.
In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic, Jackson guest-conducts nationally and internationally. She has performed with the symphonies of Alabama, Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Charlottesville, Detroit, Hartford, Hawaii, Orlando, the Philippines, Phoenix, Richmond, San Antonio, Toledo, Toronto, Windsor, and Winnipeg in addition to concerts with the Philly Pops and L’Orchestre symphonique de Bretagne in France. Jackson recorded Michael Daugherty’s Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop, and in 2013 she became the first American to guest-conduct the Algerian National Orchestra.
Jackson served as the first female assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2007. Prior to her appointment in Atlanta, she studied conducting at the University of Michigan and spent summers as the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003.
Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age eleven to Plattsburgh, New York, where she grew up waterskiing, swimming, and sailing on Lake Champlain. She fell in love with the violin in public school, later attending the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school. She pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
CONDUCTOR-IN-RESIDENCE
ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
Pacific’s University Symphony Orchestra (USO) performs an inclusive range of contemporary and historically significant symphonic works, performs annually with Pacific’s Opera Theatre in fully staged productions and partners frequently with Pacific Singers in choral orchestral works. Pacific faculty, students, and guest artists perform with USO as concerto and aria soloists and as guest conductors. Pacific’s Conservatory faculty serve as coaches as USO prepares each concert cycle. Participation is open to all Pacific students by audition.
Violins I
Charlotte Han, concertmaster
Ellie Aquino
Lauren Huen
Emma Northcutt
Liam Shaughnessy
Violins II
Maya Balachandran, principal
Jamie Lue
Mereth Niemoeller
Marcella Stone-Fox
Emma Young
Violas
Samantha Tse, principal
Gavin Downing
Evelyn Cierra
Kylie Trenhaile
Abby Van de Water
Cellos
Hasina Torres, principal
Jane Damon
Frances Florentino
Jordan Hendrickson
Daniel Hui
Bailey LaBrie
Nicholas Trobaugh
Basses
Logan Adams, principal
Joshua Gutierrez
Miguel Velarde
Flutes
Phoenix Farris^
Logan Feece
Natalie Kowalski+
Athena Paz*
Oboes
Glenn Adcock^
Jenna Bosnick*+
Clarinets
Edgard Gonzales*^+
Maggie Juarez
Bassoons
Ealaph Tabbaa+
Jordan Wier*^
Horns
Jada Ramos
Braydon Ross*^
Owen Sheridan+
Skylar Warren
Trumpets
Parker Deems*^
Kevin Hee+
Trombones
Matthew Miramontes*^+
Seth Neves
Jayden Laumeister
Tuba
Amanda Cardwell%
Timpani
Robin Bisho
Percussion
Jonathan Herbers*^+
Matthew Kulm
Mallory Norman
*principal on the López Bellido
^principal on the Simon
+principal on the Price
%community member
PACIFIC FACULTY COACHES
Brittany Trotter: Flutes
Kyle Bruckmann: Oboes
Patricia Shands: Clarinets
Nicolasa Kuster: Bassoons
Leonard Ott: Trumpets
Sadie Glass: Horns
Bruce Chrisp: Trombones
Jonathan Latta: Timpani and Percussion
Ann Miller: Violins
Igor Veligan: Violas
Vicky Wang: Cellos
Thomas Derthick: Basses
Jonathan Latta: Ensembles Program Director
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Feb. 5 | 10:00 am
Pacific Piano Day
Registration is required.
Recital Hall
Feb. 5 | 2:30 pm
Friends of Chamber Music
Dover Quartet
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Feb. 6 | 7:30 pm
Guest Artist Series
Hayato Ikegaya and Ricardo
Martinez, saxophones
Recital Hall
Feb. 10 | 7:30 pm
Choir Concert
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
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