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ARIZONA CHOIR & CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Large Ensembles, Vocal Sunday April 29, 2018 - 4:30p.m. to 6:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall, 1017 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

The Fred Fox School of Music presents the Arizona Choir, Bruce Chamberlain, conductor, in his final UA concert. The performance will take place at 4:30 in Crowder Hall on Sunday, April 29, 2018. The program includes “Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52” by Johannes Brahms and text by Georg Friedrich Daumer, in a world premiere orchestration by Jay Kowarsky, as well as “Serenade to Music” by Ralph Vaughan Williams with text by William Shakespeare. Dr. Bruce Chamberlain, director of choral activities at the University of Arizona, is retiring at the end of this spring semester, making this his final concert as conductor of the Arizona Choir.

 

Brahms’ beloved Liebeslieder Walzer were originally conceived as chamber music for vocal quartet and piano four-hands in 1868. Due to their popularity, he orchestrated several of them in 1870. In 2017, composer/theorist Jay Kowarsky has created a wonderful new chamber orchestration for the entire set. The Arizona Choir is thrilled to present this “world premiere” and to create the subsequent CD recording.

 

The Arizona Choir is the premier graduate choral ensemble at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. Internationally, the Arizona Choir has performed with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra at the famed Liszt Academy, the City of Prague Philharmonic in Vienna’s Musikverein and Prague’s Dvořák Hall. Convention appearances include ACDA, AGO, and AMEA. The Arizona Choir has partnered with professional touring groups including the Kronos Quartet and Ethel for performances on UA Presents concerts, with Tucson’s own Artifact Dance Project for a Tucson premiere of Menotti’s “The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore” and with True Concord for a performance of the Frank Martin Mass for Double Chorus, as well as Stravinsky’s “Les Noces” with the University of Arizona School of Dance.

 

Dr. Bruce Chamberlain is director of choral activities and associate director of the Fred Fox School of Music and founding director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, bringing to these positions 40 years of professional experience. Recent guest appearances have included the Dvořák “Stabat Mater” with the Plovdiv Philharmonic in Vienna’s Musikverein, the City of Prague Philharmonic in The Dvořák Hall in Prague, the Duruflé Requiem in Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, the International Conducting Institute at Westminster Choir College, the Daegu City Choir in South Korea, adjudicator for the Chongshin University International Conducting Competition, and guest clinician/conductor for the Sarang Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South Korea. During the summer of 2016 Chamberlain led an international faculty at the Varna International Conducting Academy in Bulgaria, preparing students from around the world for concerts featuring choral/orchestral literature. Guest conducting engagements in 2016 included a return engagement in Carnegie Hall conducting the New York City Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem and the Gulfshore Opera’s fully staged production of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” In 2017 the Arizona Choir partnered with True Concord for performances of “Elijah” and with the UA School of Dance for fully choreographed performances of Stravinsky’s “Les Noces,” commemorating the ballet’s 100th anniversary. During the 2017-2018 season Chamberlain conducted “Messiah” with the TSO, Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” in a collaborative performance with True Concord and his Arizona Choir on the UA Presents concert series, and guest conducted the Gunsan City Choir in South Korea. In addition he prepared Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish” for the Tucson Desert Song Festival and Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Adams’ “On the Transmigration of Souls” for the TSO Classics Series. A presentation at the ACDA conference in Pasadena, titled “K. 626: Requiem But No Rest” and a performance of Haydn’s “Creation” in Carnegie Hall rounded out the year. Chamberlain has also appeared with symphony orchestras in Russia, South Korea, Hungary, Czech Republic and numerous American orchestras.

 

A summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with bachelor’s, master’s and DMus degrees, Chamberlain studied conducting with Julius Herford, Margaret Hillis and John Nelson, piano with Menachem Pressler, Wallace Hornibrook and Nicholas Zumbro, and continued choral/orchestral conducting studies with Helmut Rilling and Sir Andrew Davis. Bruce and his wife, Peggy, enjoy traveling but always look forward to returning to their home in Tucson.

 

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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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Tune in on Friday nights at 7:00 p.m. for livestream performances


This week features the UA Studio Jazz Ensemble and the UA Concert Jazz Band!

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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:
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