The UC Davis Department of Music offers many free community events. Spring performances include a Noon Concert with the Empyrean Ensemble along with multiple opportunities to hear the department’s own student chamber ensembles.

For complete events information, to receive a Department of Music season brochure, or to join the department mailing list, call 530-752-7896 or visit music.ucdavis.edu/events.

•    Mon, March 30, 3:10 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Open Forum: Early music pioneer Eva Legéne, professor of music in the Early Music Institute at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

•    Tue, March 31, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Eva Legéne, recorder, with Wieland Kuijken and Lynn Tetenbaum, viols; David Granger, bassoon; and Phebe Craig, harpsichord. Works by Couperin, Locke, Vivaldi and others.

•    Wed, April 1, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Justine Chadly, mezzo-soprano, and Amy Harris, soprano, with ChiaWei Lin, piano. Works by Brahms, Chausson, Durante, Offenbach, Pergolesi, Schubert, Vivaldi and others.

•    Thu, April 2, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Karen Rosenak, piano. Works by Olivier Messiaen, Laurie San Martin and Pablo Ortiz. 

•    Fri, April 3, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Amanda Wu, double bass. Works by Marcello, Bottesini, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Schubert.

•    Thu, April 9, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Kathryn Peisert and Ai Goldsmith, flute, with Miles Graber, piano. Works by Boehm, Doppler, Feld, Roussel and Viotti.

•    Fri, April 10, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Farrah Fong, piano. Works by Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Schubert.

•    Wed, April 15, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Voice Studio Recital: Students of Zoila Muñoz and Jonathan Nadel.

•    Thu, April 16, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Duo X (2008–09 artist-in-residence). Laura Carmichael (clarinet, electronics) and Naomi Sato (saxophones, sho, electronics) perform contemporary experimental music and improvisation.

•    Fri, April 17, 6 pm, Dance Studio, University Club

UC Davis Gamelan Ensemble, Henry Spiller, director. Gamelan salendro (percussion ensemble) and jaipongan (modern Sundanese dance), with guest artists from Bandung, Indonesia: drummer Wahyu Roche and dancer Ening Rumbini. Co-sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance.

•    Sat, April 18, 12 pm, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: Picnic Day Concert. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, with John Abdallah, violin; Beethoven: Septet. Also selections from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” David Moschler conducting.

•    Sat, April 18, 2 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Chamber Music Ensembles: Picnic Day Concert. Works include Beethoven’s Septet.

•    Wed, April 22, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Al Bona and David Kashevaroff, clarinet, with Chet Chwalik and Helen Kashevaroff, piano. Works by Carter, Copland, Lutoslawski, Poulenc and Weber.

•    Thu, April 23, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: UC Davis Graduate Student Composers. Works by Hendel Almetus, An Tan, Ching-Yi Wang, Ben Irwin, Sue-Hye Kim and Garrett Schatzer, with Igor Veligan and Sarah Almetus, violin; Ann Miller, viola; Anne Marie Noble, cello; and Susan Lamb Cook, piano.

•    Fri, April 24, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Rachel Howerton, horn, and Jaclyn Howerton, oboe, with Chet Chwalik and Farrah Fong, piano. Works by Bozza, Dukas, Herzogenberg, Marais, Mozart and Vaughan Williams.

•    Sat, April 25, 1 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Kevin Koo, percussion, with percussionists Chris Froh and Dan Eisenberg.

•    Sat, April 25, 3 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Alexandra Engen, flute, with Phebe Craig, harpsichord; Milena Schaller, cello; and Cedric Long, piano. Works by Bach, Debussy, Poulenc and Varèse.

•    Sat, April 25, 5 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Emma Gavenda, harpsichord, with Susanna Peeples, mezzo-soprano; Natasha Vocelka, flute; and Kate Mackenzie, bassoon. Works by Bach, Couperin, Purcell, Scarlatti and UC Davis music alumnus Phillip Front.

•    Tue, April 28, 12:05 pm, Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center

Noon Concert: UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director. Works by Berkeley composers from the 1930s to today: Brian Current, Robin Estrada, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and Randall Thompson.

•    Wed, April 29, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: John Abdallah, violin, with Robert Bowman, piano. Works by Brahms and Mendelssohn.

•    Thu, April 30, 12:05 pm, Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center

Noon Concert: Empyrean Ensemble, Laurie San Martin, and Mika Pelo, directors. Program comprises septets by Mario Davidovsky, Mika Pelo and Petros Ovsepyan (rescheduled from the March 15 concert) and a percussion ensemble piece by Iannis Xenakis directed by Chris Froh.

•    Fri, May 1, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Student Recital: Dan Eisenberg, percussion.

•    Sun, May 3, 1 pm, Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center

Dramaturgical Talk: John Rossini on Oklahoma! Free for ticket-holders to any performance of “Oklahoma!” (running May 2–10 in the Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall).

•    Wed, May 6, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Vanessa Chen, piano, with Alexandra Engen, flute, and Kate MacKenzie, bassoon. Solo works by Bach, Bartók, Beethoven and Chopin and a chamber piece by Beethoven.

•    Thu, May 7, 12:05 pm, Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center

Noon Concert: Elizabeth Coronata, flute, and Beverly Wesner-Hoehn, harp. Works by Bloch, Fauré, Ibert, Persichetti and Villa-Lobos.

•    Fri, May 8, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Graduate Student Recital: Katerina Frank and Peter Hill, piano. Works by Bach, Mozart, Piazzolla, Poulenc and Rachmaninov.

•    Wed, May 13, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Amanda Perry, violin. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Kreisler and Mozart.

•    Thu, May 14, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Cello students of Susan Lamb Cook.

•    Fri, May 15, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Susanna Peeples, mezzo-soprano. Works by Brahms, Debussy, Elgar, Fauré, Handel, Purcell, Ravel, Sauget and Schubert and three Irish songs set by Herbert Hughes.

•    Sat, May 16, 11 am, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Jenny Mun, trombone. Works by Hindemith, Larsson, Sulek and others.

•    Sat, May 16, 2 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Christopher Gee, baritone, with Farrah Fong, piano, and Richard Chowenhill, guitar. Works by Brahms, Chausson, de Falla and Purcell (Britten).

•    Sat, May 16, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Isabel To, soprano, with Megumi Chen, piano. Works by Beethoven, Bellini, Thomas Croft, Dowland, Duparc, Handel, Mozart, Purcell, Schumann and Tchaikovsky.

•    Sat, May 16, 5:00 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Student Recital: Jon Anderson and friends. Solo works by Bozza, Burdick, and Strauss and chamber works by Brahms and Strauss.

•    Mon, May 18, 3:10 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Hannah Choi, cello. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Popper.

•    Wed, May 20, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Josh Sawyer, tenor. Works by Caldara, Cesti, Dowland, Falconieri, Morley, Purcell, Schubert and Schumann. 

•    Thu, May 21, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Scott Macomber, trumpet. Works by Hansen, Françaix and Mahler.

•    Fri, May 22, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Undergraduate Composers Concert.

•    Wed, May 27, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Wyatt Harmon, percussion.

•    Thu, May 28, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Piano Students of Lois Brandwynne.

•    Fri, May 29, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Junior Recital: Richard Chowenhill, guitar.

•    Tue, June 2, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Noon Concert: Student Chamber Ensembles.

•    Tue, June 2, 4:10 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Student Chamber Ensembles.

•    Wed, June 3, 3:30 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Senior Recital: Tyra Dennis, soprano.

•    Thu, June 4, 12:05 pm, Room 115, Music Building

Student Chamber Ensembles.