Schedule

Primavera: UCSB’s Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media
April 17-21, 2007

For more information on lectures and workshops, contact Leslie Hogan, (805) 893-2660, or email leslie.hogan@ccs.ucsb.edu.

For concert information, please call (805) 893-7001.

CONCERT: 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

LECTURE: Wednesday 18 April, 2:30 - 4:00 PM, Music 2215.
Pascal Fendrich and Bernd Härpfer will give a lecture explaining some aspects of the things heard and seen in their concert April 17.
Open to the public. Admission FREE

CONCERT: 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, UCSB’s prodigious Philip Richardsen in the Konzertetüde of Jenö Takacs, and—to lighten matters--the premiere of Bobby Halvorson’s Not a Circus, Not a Carnival. Jeremy Haladyna is Director.
$12/General, $7/Students - Tickets at the door

CONCERT: 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

WORKSHOP: Friday 20 April, 3:00-4:30 PM, Old Little Theater.
Seth Josel will conduct a workshop on writing for guitar, illustrated with extracts drawn from his extensive repertory of contemporary guitar music. Composition students are invited to bring finished works or works in progress for guitar, for input from Mr. Josel.
Open to the public. Admission FREE.

CONCERT: 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

DANCE CONCERT: 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