Faculty News and Accomplishments Professor Steven Gross featured at Crescendo Summer Institute in Tokaj, Hungary
Dr. Steven Gross, Professor of Horn and Head of the Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Area at UC Santa Barbara, was on the faculty and performed at the Crescendo Summer Institute in Tokaj, Hungary from July 21-August 2, 2021. Professor Gross presented the European premiere of a work he commissioned, Concerto for Horn, by Daniel Baldwin, during his time at the Crescendo Summer Institute. In addition, Professor Gross played George Frideric Handel’s Water Music in the Baroque Orchestra, taught horn, and conducted the Brass Ensemble in works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Jean-Joseph Mouret. He was the only non-Hungarian member of the orchestra, and delivered horn instruction in English and German.
Chamber music mentorship and residencies for string faculty members Jennifer Kloetzel and Ertan Torgul
Professor Jennifer Kloetzel and Lecturer Ertan Torgul had a few months full of performances, master classes, chamber music coachings, and educational workshops. As founding members of QuartetES, Kloetzel and Torgul traveled to Lake Dunmore, Vermont for a two-week residency at Point Counterpoint, working closely with young chamber musicians, giving private lessons, coachings, and performances with colleagues violinist Anton Miller and violist Rita Porfiris. The quartet traveled to Rock Island, Tennessee for a week-long residency at Bach at the Rock (BATR) chamber music workshop. Kloetzel and Torgul also joined their QuartetES colleagues for a residency at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford in early September.
Professor Jennifer Kloetzel featured in second interview for Creative Peacemeal Podcast
Professor Jennifer Kloetzel was featured on the Houston-based arts podcast, Creative Peacemeal, which marked her second appearance for the series this year. Following Kloetzel’s initial interview with Board Certified-Music and Neurologic Music Therapist and educator Tammy Takaishi in late March 2021, which focused on Kloetzel’s career as a performer and educator, Takaishi was eager to continue the conversation and promptly scheduled Kloetzel for a second interview. This second interview covered a wide range of topics including Kloetzel’s upcoming Beethoven CD release and her Bach commissioning project, the importance of live concerts and the special relationship between an audience and a performer, and much more.
Professor João Pedro Oliveira awarded Honorable Mention in 2021 Prix CIME Electroacoustic Music Competition
Corwin Chair of Composition João Pedro Oliveira was named a prize winner in the 2021 Prix CIME Electroacoustic Music Competition, hosted by the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music. In the Prix CIME category, Professor Oliveira was awarded Honorable Mention for his piece, Dark Energy (2018), for cello, double bass, electronics, and video, which was originally commissioned by Contracello Duo. “In astronomy and physical cosmology, dark energy is a form of energy still unknown and believed to fill the entire space of the universe, causing the acceleration of its expansion, from the initial Big Bang to the infinite future,” wrote Oliveira of his work. “Dark Energy aims to be a dark and energetic work.”
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