Concerts

Tuesday 17 April, 8:00 PM, MultiCultural Center
Composer Bernd Härpfer and Video Artist Pascal Fendrich present cutting edge works fresh from Europe. In addition to their own work, they’ll present work by composers and video artists including Alan Fabian, Christof Seibert, Daniel Burkhardt, Mattias Neuenhofer, Siegfried Koepf, and Tessa Knapp.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

Wednesday 18 April, 8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Virtuosity (human and mechanical) is front and center in this program by UCSB’s Ensemble for Contemporary Music, which builds a bridge from Europe to America. The centerpiece is Clarence Barlow’s Variazioni e un pianoforte meccanico, in which Barlow’s automatic piano takes his performance of Beethoven’s last sonata “out of his hands.” Other featured work includes Hindemith’s solo viola sonata Op. 25/1 played by Hillary Schoap; Hans Werner Henze’s Fünf Nachtstücke for violin and piano, with David Ruest and Jeremy Haladyna; stellar young cellist Hilary Clark in Ligeti’s solo sonata for that instrument, and UCSB’s prodigious Philip Richardsen in the Konzertetüde of Jenö Takacs. Jeremy Haladyna is Director.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

Thursday 19 April, 8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
British clarinet virtuoso Gareth Davis is the sensational talent at the core of this exciting evening. Clarence Barlow has requested of Davis a program spotlighting UCSB’s composition faculty, including his own “until” (version 6) for clarinet; [version 7 for guitar unfolds in Friday’s concert]. Count also in the mix: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin’s Concerto for Clarinet and Clarinets, for clarinet and digital tape; Leslie Hogan’s Etude, Elegy and Tarantelle for clarinet alone; Joel Feigin’s First Tragedy featuring soprano Katharine Arthur; and Jeremy Haladyna’s Ring of Fire III, scored for Eb clarinet, piccolo, piano—and anvil.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

Friday 20 April, 8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
This is a different sort of ECM concert with the intimacy of classical guitar and video shaping the whole. Guest guitarist Seth Josel comes all the way from Europe to offer Clarence Barlow’s “until” (version 7) as well as music by Christopher Fox; we hear the ethereal bowed piano in the premiere of Devin Burke’s Free Variations; and there are three art videos: two by Clarence Barlow--his Estudio Siete (mating Barlow’s music to Oskar Fischinger’s animation), and his groundbreaking Kuri Suti Bekar. From UCSB’s Stefanie Ku, we’ll take in Ophidian Haruspex, one of the works bringing her acclaim in Taipei, Shanghai, and the U.S.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

Saturday 21 April, 8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB Dance Company, directed by Delila Mosely, brings the Lehmann Stage to life in works by UCSB faculty members Valerie Huston, Stephanie Nugent, Christopher Pilafian, and Tonia Shimin, as well as works by Janna Diamond, award winning choreographer Keith Johnson, and the late Jane Dudley.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

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