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45th Annual President’s Concert

Brass, Large Ensembles, Percussion, Strings, Woodwinds Saturday February 3, 2018 - 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents the 45th annual President’s Concert on Friday, February 2, and Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition.

Featured on this 45th annual President’s Concert are soprano Emily Garcia performing Giacomo Puccini’s “Mi chiamano Mimí” from La bohème; percussionist Michael Pratt, performing movement number one of Emmanuel Séjourné’s Concerto for Vibraphone and String Orchestra; cellist Juan Mejía performing the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s Concerto for Violoncello in C Major; and pianist Tyler Ramos performing the first movement of Frédéric Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in E Minor.

The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Their performances will be conducted by doctoral students András Derecskei and Juan Montoya. The program will also include Prelude to “Les Vêpres Siciliennes” by Giuseppe Verdi and “Fontane di Roma” by Ottorino Respighi, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

About the soloists:

Emily Garcia, soprano

Emily García is a junior at the University of Arizona. She began classical training in voice at the age of 12 after playing the violin for eight years. She has performed in the UA Opera Theater’s productions of Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges” and Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love.” She has also participated in several competitions, such as the Amelia Rieman Opera Competition and Quest for the Best. She hopes to one day make a career singing on stage throughout the world.

Michael Pratt, vibraphone

Michael Pratt currently serves as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona while pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Creative Achievement Award in recognition for his outstanding academic success, continued research and creative activities, and performance excellence. Michael’s research and professional development has been supported through numerous awards, scholarships, and fellowships, including most recently grants from the Graduate and Professional Student Council, the Daveen Fox Fellowship, and a Carpenter Endowment Fellowship. Michael teaches percussion through the UpBeat music program sponsored by UA Presents, and serves as an advisor to the Interactive Drumming Committee of the Percussive Arts Society, the world’s largest percussion organization. Michael also freelances, teaching and performing in Southern Arizona.

Michael keeps an active and diverse schedule as a performer. As a commercial drum set player, he has toured with Yenisly, Augusta Vain, Madison Hardy, Lacey Black, Todd Ganovski, and many other commercial music artists. He currently performs with the jazz/R&B group Hello Doll Face. As an orchestral and chamber musician he has performed with the Belmont University Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra, Pulse [new music ensemble], Southwest Civic Winds, San Juan Symphony, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, and has appeared as soloist with the Fort Lewis Percussion Ensemble, Woodwork Mallet Ensemble, and the Fort Lewis Wind Ensemble. With over 30 musical recordings to date, he has performed in 20 states nationally, been a feature performer at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and has performed on national television for PBS’s production of Christmas at Belmont. Michael holds performance degrees from Fort Lewis College and Belmont University, where in 2005 and 2007 he was awarded the Sophomore Musicianship of the Year and Outstanding Graduate in Music awards.

Juan Mejía, cello

Cellist Juan Mejía hails from the city of Medellín, Colombia. His early musical studies were completed at Universidad Javeriana under the tutelage of Mintcho Badev. Upon moving to the United States at the age of seventeen, he was accepted into the prestigious preparatory program at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan before matriculating at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to complete his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees under the guidance of Jean Michel Fonteneau. From 2014 to 2016 Juan was the cello teacher for the Young Musician Choral Orchestra. This non-profit organization offers high-quality, intensive musical training, academic support, and personal guidance to improve the lives of talented, low-income students aged 9-18 from throughout the Bay Area. During this time he was also part of the San Francisco Symphony’s educational outreach program, Adventures In Music. The four members of his quartet gave approximately one hundred and fifty performances in many of San Francisco’s elementary schools. In 2016 he was the recipient of one of the prestigious graduate fellowship awards at the University of Arizona. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in cello performance at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, studying with Dr. Theodore Buchholz.

Tyler Ramos, piano

Pianist Tyler Ramos is pursuing a Master of Music degree at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music studying with Dr. John Milbauer and serving as a teaching assistant in the Class Piano Lab for Dr. Lisa Zdechlik. He recently completed a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Tyler’s earliest music teachers were Ellen Masaki (piano) and Nancy Masaki (cello), and from 2009 until moving to Arizona in 2017 he studied with Dr. Thomas Yee.

Tyler’s numerous accolades include winning the Hawai’i State Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) competition on five occasions, and the MTNA Southwest Division competition in three different categories (piano solo, piano duet, and chamber music). Tyler placed third in the National MTNA competition in San Antonio, Texas in April 2016, and third in the American Prize Piano Competition in the college division. More recently, Tyler won the Arizona MTNA Young Artist Competition and will represent the state in the Division competition in Nevada in January 2018.

As a winner of the Aloha International Piano Competition, Tyler performed Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Hawai’i Youth Symphony. He also performed Liszt’s “Totentanz” with the University of Hawai’i Wind Ensemble, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with the Windward Festival Orchestra, and the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Moanalua High School Symphony Orchestra.

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Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we have hit our scholarship fundraising goal of $10,000! The crowdfunding campaign which directly supports students, ends on March 15, 2021. Let’s see how many more students we can support!



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University of Arizona students are invited to Take-A-Break on Reading Day!

Join us on the UA Mall for some sunshine and a relaxing break from your studies. There will be a free outdoor Yoga class offered by Campus Recreation, and grab-and-go fruit smoothies and healthy snacks.

Schedule:
4:30 PM - Registration Check-in opens in front of the Koffler Building
5:15 PM - Free Outdoor Yoga Class on the Mall (1 hr)
6:30 PM - Event Ends - be sure to grab your free smoothie and snacks to go!

Pre-registration is required and capacity is limited.

What to Bring:
Your own Yoga mat or towel
Mobile phone for QR Code check-in and Wildcat Wellcheck Completion
Face Mask - required at all times in all UA buildings and outdoor spaces
FYI … Reading Day- No classes
2021 Spring Break has been replaced with a series of Reading Days spread throughout the Spring 2021 semester.

The following days will be designated as Reading Days and will allow students and instructors to take needed breaks during the academic term:

• Thursday, February 25, 2021
• Tuesday, March 9, 2021
• Wednesday, March 10, 2021
• Friday, April 2, 2021
• Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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University of Arizona students are invited to Take-A-Break on Reading Day!

Join us on the UA Mall for some sunshine and a relaxing break from your studies. There will be a free outdoor Yoga class offered by Campus Recreation, and grab-and-go fruit smoothies and healthy snacks.

Schedule:
4:30 PM - Registration Check-in opens in front of the Koffler Building
5:15 PM - Free Outdoor Yoga Class on the Mall (1 hr)
6:30 PM - Event Ends - be sure to grab your free smoothie and snacks to go!

Pre-registration is required and capacity is limited.

What to Bring:
Your own Yoga mat or towel
Mobile phone for QR Code check-in and Wildcat Wellcheck Completion
Face Mask - required at all times in all UA buildings and outdoor spaces
FYI … Reading Day- No classes
2021 Spring Break has been replaced with a series of Reading Days spread throughout the Spring 2021 semester.  

The following days will be designated as Reading Days and will allow students and instructors to take needed breaks during the academic term:

• Thursday, February 25, 2021
• Tuesday, March 9, 2021
• Wednesday, March 10, 2021
• Friday, April 2, 2021
• Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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Dr. Immanuel T. Abraham, D.M.A." graduated from the Fred Fox School of Music in 2018, with his doctorate in Violin Performance, summa cum laude. He authored the dissertation titled “J.S. Bach’s Chaconne: A Performer-Composer’s Approach to Interpretation”. During his degree studies, he served simultaneously as the Concertmaster of the University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Thomas Cockrell, and the Arizona Contemporary Ensemble under Dr. Daniel Asia, who was also his composition professor.

Throughout this time, and dating back to 2010, he worked to complete a masterpiece— a book of advanced violin repertoire reflecting the musical globalism and diversity of the 21st century.
By the last day of 2020, he finally published his “24 Caprices for Solo Violin”. The book is now available on his website, . Here are his words about this exciting contribution to the string world.

"This 68-page compilation of advanced solo violin repertoire I have worked for more than 1/3 of my life.

The choice to write “24” is a tribute to four violinists, revered from the 18th century through today:

• Pierre Gaviniès (1728-1800)
• Pierre Rode (1774-1830)
• Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
• Jakob Dont (1815-1888)

All of them wrote 24 caprices for solo violin, and each set evolved the art of violin performance forevermore. After Dont, the 24-caprice tradition abruptly stopped for over 170 years, until now!

Mine are are performance pieces — not études like Gaviniès, Rodes, or Dont — and more akin to Paganini’s, in this way.

My set started from always seeking out very diverse audiences, and always writing my own music for them whenever possible. These included large rock-concert amphitheaters, juried doctoral-recitals, yoga summits, American String Teacher’s Association (ASTA) conferences, a livestream series in Nigeria, university commencements, solo soundtracking for theaters and film festivals, and much more.

Over the years, my twenty-four favorites from those performances became my “24 Caprices for Solo Violin”. This multi-genre collection contains clear influences of the baroque (three fugues), romanticism, impressionism, jazz, American fiddle, rock, tango, and more. They are all new, tonal, and eclectic compositions that purposefully fill the gaps I experienced in the extant solo violin repertoire.

Most importantly, this collection reflects musical globalism and diversity that is appropriate, and due, to the 21st century. Distribution has already reached Mexico, Egypt, and Russia.

Over the years several of these have been distributed individually. I have enjoyed many brilliant performances by colleagues, professors, students, and other artists. Here, for the first time, all twenty-four are presented together. I enthusiastically look forward to every performance following this edition!”

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Dr. Immanuel Abraham, Violinist 🌸 Congrats! I still have my copy of “Caprice No 1” from Yehonatan’s studio freshman year! 😍 💕

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We are delighted to announce this week's lecture within the UA Bolton Guitar Studies Virtual Series, this one featuring Cuban virtuoso Marco Tamayo in a conversation about an effortless performance.

This event is scheduled for Friday, February 26th at 11:00 a.m. (MST). The meeting will last one hour and a half with a Q & A segment towards the end and it will be live streamed on the University of Arizona Guitar Studies Facebook page, where audience can submit their questions through chat.

To access the meeting simply go to the Bolton Guitar Studies website and click on the link for the Zoom meeting, found below the flyer:


The password to enter this virtual class will be sent by email to all interested parties. If you would like to be a part of this virtual class please email Ana Maria Iordache (anamariaiordache@email.arizona.edu) and let her know your name and affiliation.

In the case you have missed the fall season featuring great artists such as David Russell, María Jesús Rodriguez, Sérgio Assad, Dennis Tolz, Antonius Müller, Douglas James, Joaquín Clerch, Stephen Goss, Xianji Liu, Stephan Connor, Berta Rojas, Misael Barraza Díaz, Judicaël Perroy, they are now available on the Bolton Guitar Studies official website:
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We are delighted to announce this weeks lecture within the UA Bolton Guitar Studies Virtual Series, this one featuring Cuban virtuoso Marco Tamayo in a conversation about an effortless performance.

This event is scheduled for Friday, February 26th at 11:00 a.m. (MST). The meeting will last one hour and a half with a Q & A segment towards the end and it will be live streamed on the University of Arizona Guitar Studies Facebook page, where audience can submit their questions through chat.

To access the meeting simply go to the Bolton Guitar Studies website and click on the link for the Zoom meeting, found below the flyer:
https://bddy.me/3bwDr0P

The password to enter this virtual class will be sent by email to all interested parties. If you would like to be a part of this virtual class please email Ana Maria Iordache (anamariaiordache@email.arizona.edu) and let her know your name and affiliation.

In the case you have missed the fall season featuring great artists such as David Russell, María Jesús Rodriguez, Sérgio Assad, Dennis Tolz, Antonius Müller, Douglas James, Joaquín Clerch, Stephen Goss, Xianji Liu, Stephan Connor, Berta Rojas, Misael Barraza Díaz, Judicaël Perroy, they are now available on the Bolton Guitar Studies official website:
https://bddy.me/3bvXxrP
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