Composer Fellow Schedule for Music and Words
UC Davis Music Festival (Music and Words)
and UC Davis Composition Workshop
UC Davis, January 27–February 1, 2015
This is a rough schedule; details may change. If you have any questions please ask
Sam Nichols (ssnichols@ucdavis.edu, cell: 530 312–0478).
TUESDAY 1/27/2015
Arrival of Festival Composer Fellows
3:30 – 5 PM • location TBA
So Percussion coaches undergrads.
6:45 PM • Hallmark Inn Hotel
Van departs for dinner, see below.
7:00 PM – onwards • Sam and Laurie’s house: 412 Grande Ave., Davis, CA 95616
Informal dinner with So Percussion, Composer-in-Residence, Composer Fellows,
faculty, staff, grad students, Mondavi staff, visiting artists.
WEDNESDAY 1/28/2015
9:30–10:00 am • Mondavi Green Room
Coffee/bagel meet and greet.
10:00 am – 12 noon • Mondavi Green Room
composition seminar #1:
Composer Fellows present their music to Melinda Wagner. Some faculty and grad
students will attend (grad students auditing). Kurt Rohde will be at all of these
meetings.
evening concert TBA: David Coll curates.
THURSDAY 1/29/2015
10:00 am – 12 noon • Mondavi Green Room
Composition seminar #2.
12:05 – 1 PM • Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby
So Percussion and other festival artists perform during noon concert.
6 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Pre-concert talk.
7 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Empyrean Ensemble performs works by Melinda Wagner and two Composer
Fellows.
FRIDAY 1/30/2015
10:00 am – 12 noon • Mondavi Green Room
Composition seminar #3.
7 – 9 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
So Percussion concert no. 1
10 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Bob Ostertag performs his Sooner Or Later
SATURDAY 1/31/2015
10:00 am – 12 noon • Mondavi Green Room
Composition seminar #4.
3 – 6 PM • location TBA
So Percussion reading session: repertoire will include pieces by Composer Fellows.
7 – 9 PM • Jackson Hall
UCDSO concert.
9 – 10 PM • Yocha Dehe Lobby
Post-Symphony reception.
10 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
So Percussion concert no. 2: Steve Reich’s Drumming (in collaboration with Chris
Froh’s percussion studio)
SUNDAY 2/1/2015
11 AM – 2 PM • Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
So Percussion reading session: repertoire will include pieces by Composer Fellows.