Saturday I September 24, 2022 I 7:30 pm Faye Spanos Concert Hall 8th Performance I 2022 23 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific University Symphony Orchestra Jeffery Meyer, conductor-in-residence
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Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (2014; 2016)
Allegro con brio
University Symphony Orchestra
PROGRAM I SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 I 7:30 PM
AllegrettoAdagio grazioso
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.
Allegro ma non troppo
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Rissolty Rossolty (1939)
Symphony No. 8 in G major, op. 88 (1889)
Passionate about working with young musicians and music education, Meyer has led the orchestra program since 2016 at Arizona State University, one of the top schools of music in the United States, and is an active adjudicator, guest clinician, and masterclass teacher. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he was the director of orchestras at Ithaca College for over a decade. He has given masterclasses throughout the United States as well as Canada and Asia, and he recently led conducting masterclasses at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Tianjin Conservatory, the Jacobs School at Indiana University, the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St.
CONDUCTOR-IN-RESIDENCE
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degrees in piano as well as composition and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Jeffery Meyer has developed a career as an accomplished conductor, pianist, and educator throughout North America, Europe, Russia, and Asia with a reputation for championing contemporary orchestral music and innovative collaborations. His programming has been awarded multiple prizes including three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming and two Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Awards in Orchestral MeyerProgramming.isthedirector
Meyer’s recent projects and appearances include a newly developed multimedia performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Petrushka with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Graffiti performed and recorded alongside internationally renowned graffiti artists, a theatrical symphonic concert focused on themes of social justice developed in collaboration with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the world premiere recording of Laura Kaminsky’s Piano Concerto with pianist Ursula Oppens, nearly one dozen world premieres of new works, and return engagements with the Sichuan Symphony and Xalapa Symphony Orchestra.
of orchestras at the Arizona State University as well as artistic partner with the Northwest Sinfonietta, one of the Northwest United States’s most dynamic orchestras. Meyer’s work as the artistic director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic for two decades was noted for its breadth and innovation; he was praised as “one of the most interesting and creatively productive conductors working in St. Petersburg” by Sergei Slonimsky. The three performances comprising the orchestra’s American debut at Symphony Space’s Wall-to-Wall Festival in New York City were described by the New York Times as “impressive,” “powerful,” “splendid,” and “blazing.”
Timpani Jonathan Herbers
Phoenix Farris‡ Logan NatalieFeece*Kowalski†
Flutes
Tuba Amanda Cardwell§
Bassoons Ella JustinHebrard‡Silva*†
Emma Young
Basses
Maisie Stollard
Horns Edgar Leyva Jada SkylarBraydonReeseRamos*†Romero‡RossWarren
Trombones
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
Jamie Lue, principal Caroline Burke-Baker Isabelle Knittle
Cellos
Noah Gonzales, principal Joshua MiguelJuliannaGutierrezMenesesVelarde
Elizabeth Aquino, concertmaster Maya MarcellaLiamLaurenCharlotteBalachandranHanHuenShaughnessyStone-Fox
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Jonathan Herbers, principal Mallory Norman Piano Judy Kim
Trumpets
Second Violins
Hasina Torres, principal Jane NicolasBaileyDanielJordanFrancesDamonFlorentinoHendricksonHuiLaBrieTrobaugh
First Violins
Percussion
Violas
Samantha Tse, principal Gavin KylieEvelynDowningCierraTrenhaile
Oboes Glenn ApolloHannahAdcock†Estrella*ParishMitchell‡ Clarinets Edgard AbigailVanessaGonzales‡Lopez*†Miller
Brooke SethMatthewFarrarMiramontes*†‡Neves
Parker Deems‡ Kevin Hee*†
Thomas Derthick: Basses
Brittany Trotter: Flutes
Sadie Glass: Horns
Bruce Chrisp: Trombones
Igor Veligan: Violas
Patricia Shands: Clarinets
Nicolasa Kuster: Bassoons
Jonathan Latta: Ensembles Program Director
Jonathan Latta: Timpani and Percussion
PACIFIC FACULTY AND GUEST COACHES
Gabrielle Wunsch, Guest Coach: Violins
Vicky Wang: Cellos
Leonard Ott: Trumpets
Kyle Bruckmann: Oboes
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