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10 aBoUt the artists michael spiro is an internationally recognized percussionist, recording artist, and educator, known specifically for his work in the Latin music field. He has performed on thousands of records, co-produced and played on several instructional videos for Warner Bros. Publications (including Talking Drums, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Ignacio Berroa), and produced seminal recordings in the Latin music genre, including Orquesta Batachanga, Grupo Bata-Ketu, Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge, and Grupo Ilu-Aña. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he is an integral part of the Bay Area music scene. He records and produces with groups throughout the West Coast and still tours worldwide with the percussion trio Talking Drums, which he co-leads with David Garibaldi and Jesus Diaz. A champion of contemporary music in the U.S. and abroad, violist ellen ruth rose currently is a member of Empyrean Ensemble, the new music ensemble in residence at UC Davis, and Earplay, the San Francisco-based contemporary ensemble, and performs regularly with other California ensembles such as the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz New Music Works, Left Coast Ensemble, and the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. She has worked extensively with Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern and the experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen Ensemble, appearing at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg Zeitfluß, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Biennial, Budapest Autumn, and Kuhmo (Finland) festivals. She has performed as soloist with the West German Radio Chorus, Empyrean Ensemble, Thürmchen Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz New Music Works, and the symphony orchestras of UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and at the San Francisco Other Minds and Ojai Music festivals. She has appeared on numerous recordings, including a Wergo CD of the chamber music of German composer Caspar Johannes Walter—featuring several pieces written for her—which won the German Recording Critics’ new music prize in 1998. In 2003 she created, organized, and directed Violafest!, a four-concert festival at UC Davis celebrating the viola in solos and chamber music new and old, including solos from the recently published anthology The American Viola (JB Elkus & Son, 2003) and premieres of pieces for four violas by Yu-Hui Chang and Laurie San Martin. Rose has premiered several works by Northern California composers, including Kurt Rohde (Double Trouble double viola chamber concerto, 2002), Pablo Ortiz (Le vrai tango argentin for solo viola, 2001), Miguel Galperin (Projections for solo viola, 2004), Steed Cowart (Zephyr for solo viola, 1989/2001), Edmund Campion (Melt me with thy delicious numbers for viola and live electronics, 2003), Aaron Einbond (Self Similarity for viola and live electronics, 2008), William Beck (Aquarium for viola, theremin, and tape, 2002), and Robert Coburn (Fragile Horizons for viola, video, voice, and computer, 2007). Recent projects include performances of Rohde’s Double Trouble at the Ojai Festival, San Francisco, and Los Angeles; a world premiere recording of Thomas Stiegler’s Unisono for two solo violas and ensemble; the West Coast premiere of Frances White’s A Veil Barely Seen for viola and tape; and performances of Campion’s Melt me with thy delicious numbers and Ortiz’s Le vrai tango argentin in Stockholm, Sweden. Rose holds degrees in performance from the Juilliard School and the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold, Germany, as well as a bachelor’s degree with honors in English and American history and literature from Harvard University. Her teachers have included Heidi Castleman, Nobuko Imai, Marcus Thompson, and Karen Tuttle. She is on the instrumental faculty at UC Davis and UC Berkeley and has also taught at the University of the Pacific.
April 16 & 17, 8 pM Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco Information: www.ciis.edu/publicprograms Tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com or 415-392-4400 April 19, 3 pM Fresno State New Music Festival Concert Hall, Fresno State University Information and tickets: www.csufresno.edu/music April 21, 7:30 pM Fresno State Percussion Ensemble Concert Hall, Fresno State University Information and tickets: www.csufresno.edu/music April 23, 8 pM Evelyn Glennie, percussion, and Fred Frith, guitar Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University Information and tickets: livelyarts.stanford.edu or 650-725-ARTS April 24, 8 pM Student Recital: Kristen Campbell, percussion Music Recital Hall, Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University Information and tickets: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm April 25, 12:30 pM Master Class: Evelyn Glennie Concert Hall, Fresno State University Information: matthewd@csufresno.edu Tickets: www.csufresno.edu/music April 25, 4 pM Student Recital: Quetzal E. Andrade-Garza and Dylan Locke, percussion Wahlberg Recital Hall, Fresno State University Information: www.csufresno.edu/music April 25, 4 pM Student Recital: Jason Domonkos, percussion Room 151, Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University Information and tickets: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm April 30, 7:30 pM Sac State Percussion Group Room 151, Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University Information: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm MAy 5, 8 pM Student Recital: Marilyn Clark, percussion Music Recital Hall, Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University Information and tickets: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm MAy 8, 12:05 pM UC Davis Gamelan Ensemble Room 115, Music Building, UC Davis Information: music.ucdavis.edu/events. Free. BaY area/CentraL vaLLeY perCUssion events CaLenDar MAy 12, 7:30 pM Sac State Percussion Group Music Recital Hall, Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University Information and tickets: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm MAy 14, 3:30 pM Student Recital: Derek Kwan, percussion Room 115, Music Building, UC Davis Information: music.ucdavis.edu/events. Free. MAy 15, 12:05 pM Empyrean Ensemble with UC Davis Percussion Ensemble Room 115, Music Building, UC Davis Information: music.ucdavis.edu/events. Free. MAy 21, 8 pM Scott Amendola: Beats, Sounds, Sticks, and Wires The Marsh, San Francisco Information and tickets: www.themarsh.org MAy 28, 8 pM Scott Amendola with ROVA/Nels Cline Celestial septet Yoshi’s, San Francisco Information and tickets: www.yoshis.com MAy 30, 8 pM Scott Amendola with ROVA/Nels Cline Celestial septet Palms Playhouse, Winters Information and tickets: www.palmsplayhouse.com MAy 31, 3 pM Student Recital: Megan Shieh, percussion Room 115, Music Building, UC Davis Information: music.ucdavis.edu/events. Free. JuNe 3 Michael Spiro with Wayne Wallace Quintet Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Healdsburg Information and tickets: www.healdsburgjazzfestival.com/ JuNe 8, 2 pM Omar Sosa Sextet (Cuba/Spain) with John Santos (San Francisco) and special guests; DJ: Third World Liberation Music Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco Information: www.sfiaf.org. Free. JuNe 8-10 NEXUS Ojai Music Festival, Ojai Information and tickets: www.ojaifestival.org 11
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