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"New and Traditional" - Pacific Rim Music Festival 2003
(Concerts & Symposia)
April 2 - April 30, 2003
Hi Kyung Kim, Artistic Director
Harry Mack, Production Manager
Top: Aeri Ji, Chou Wen-Chung, Eun-Ha Park. Bottom: Shulamit Ran, Eve Egoyan, Seungmi Suh.

From the Director:

The UC Santa Cruz Department of Music proudly presents the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival, a truly international celebration of contemporary music of the Pacific Rim. This month-long festival features concert, symposia, and lectures focussing on the rich traditions and vast new musical directions from the Pacific Rim.

We begin with a very special occasion: the 80th birthday of distinguished Chinese composer Chou Wen-Chung in a concert of works by his close friends, colleagues, and students. The festival then wends its way through deep and varied offerings, and closes with a spectacular program for solo piano by Canadia artist Eve Egoyan.

This year also marks the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States, and the festival also honors the Korean Immigration Centennial Celebration whose goal is to increase cross0cultural understanding and to promote greater appreciation for the contributions of Koreans to American culture. The festival will feature ten Korean composers and artists, and collaborate with the International Women Composers' Festival in Seoul, Korea and the Korean Society for Women Composers to present a special concert on "World Women in Music Today."

I hope you will join me and a distinguished array of performing artists and composers from around the Pacific Rim.

Hi Kyung Kim
Professor of Music
University of California, Santa Cruz
Festival Artistic Director

The Events:

1. Celebration of Chou, Wen-Chung's 80th Birthday
2. Tribute to Chou, Wen-Chung by his distinguished disciples
3. Chamber Music Concert/ Premiere Concert
4. "April in New Music Works"
5. Percussion Ensemble and Chamber Works
6. "2003 World Women in Music Today"
7. Northwest Passages: Eve Egoyan, piano

1. Celebration of Chou, Wen-Chung's 80th Birthday

Performers: New Music Ensemble, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Conductor: Nicole Paiement
Guest Artist: Seungmi Suh (Korean Daekeum)
Co-Presenters: BluePrint Festival American Composers Forum (San Francisco Chapter)
Program: Works by Chou, Wen-Chung; Edgard Varese; Isang Yun; Joji Yuasa; Chinay Ung; Hi Kyung Kim

I. Concerts:

  • April 2, 2003 (Wednesday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
  • April 3, 2003 (Thursday), Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco

II. Symposia at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley

2. Tribute to Chou, Wen-Chung by his distinguished disciples

Performers: Empyrean Ensemble, University of California, Davis
Co-Directors: Yu-Hui Chang and Laurie Martin
Conductor: Karla Lemon
Co-Presenters: UC Davis Department of Music and UC Berkeley Department of Music
Program: Works by James Tenny; Tan Dun; Chen Yi; Bright Sheng; Zhou Long; Pablo Ortiz; Edmund Campion

I. Concerts:

  • April 4, 2003 (Friday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
  • April 6, 2003 (Sunday), Studio Theatre of Mondvi Center for Performing Arts, UC Davis
  • April 8, 2003 (Tuesday), Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley

II. Symposia: "Music Influenced by Asian Culture Today" at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis

3. Chamber Music Concert/ Premiere Concert

Performers: William Barbini (violin), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), John Sackett (clarinet / bass clarinet), Gyan Riley (guitar), Sarah Cahill (piano)
Program: Andrew Imbrie; Terry Riley; Tristan Murail; David Evan Jones; Kui Dong; Evan Ziporyn; Byung-Dong Paik

Concert: April 9, 2003 (Wednesday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz

4. "April in New Music Works"

Performers: New Music Works, Santa Cruz
Conductor: Philip Collins
Program: Henry Bryant; Paul Nauert; Peter Elsea; Eun-Kyung Kim; Lou Harrison; Jack Body; Phil Collins

Concert: April 11, 2003 (Friday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz

5. Percussion Ensemble and Chamber Works

Director: William Winant
Program: Alvan Curran; James Tenney; David Cope; John Sackett; Marian Borkowski



Concert: April 16, 2003 (Wednesday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz

6. "2003 World Women in Music Today"

In collaboration with the International Women Composers' Festival in Seoul, Korea
Presented by International Alliance of Women Composers and The Korean Society of Woman Composers

Performers: Ensemble Parallele (Faculty Ensemble at San Francisco Conservatory)
Conductor: Nicole Paiement
Guest Artists: Aeri Ji (Korean kayakeum),Yoo-Kyung Kim (Korean pansori singer), Eun-Ha Park
Co-Presenters: BluePrint Festival, American Composers Forum (San Francisco Chapter), UC Davis Department of Music
Program: Shulamit Ran; Betsy Jolas; Chan-Hae Lee; Young-Ja Lee; Melissa Hui; Kaja Saaraiho

I. Concerts:

  • April 23, 2003 (Wednesday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
  • April 24, 2003 (Thursday), Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco
  • April 25, 2003 (Friday), Studio Theatre of Mondvi Center for Performing Arts, UC Davis

II. Panel Discussion

7. Northwest Passages: Eve Egoyan, piano

Comissioned by the Japan-Canada Fund

Performers: Eve Egoyan, piano
Program: U.S. premieres of works by Jo Kondo, Maoru Fujieda, James Tenney; works by John Cage, Judith Weir, Erik Satie, and Karen Tanaka.

Concert: April 30 (Wednesday), Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz

 

Hi Kyung Kim, Artistic Director and You Kyong Kim, Pansori Singer

Presented by the UCSC Music Department in collaboration with BluePrint Festival, American Composer's Forum (San Francisco Bay Area Chapter), the Music Departments of UC Davis and Berkeley, and New Music Works.
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