Santa Clara University

Spring 2008 Calendar of Events

Faculty Recital Series – Celebrating Living Composers - James Cohn
Friday April 11^th, 2008 at 8pm
SCU Recital Hall - Free Event
We celebrate James Cohn's 80th birthday with a program of all West Coast premiers. This concert showcases his chamber music: flute and bassoon sonatas, woodwind quintet, and the Concerto da Camera. Featured faculty musicians are Claudia Bloom (Violin), Mimi Carlson (Flute), Patricia Mitchell (Oboe), Scott Hartman (French Horn) & Peter Gelfand (Cello), with special guest artists  Madeline Bloom (Piano), Mark Brandenburg (Clarinet), and Carolyn Lockhart (Bassoon).

Opera-Cabaret – Till the Black Lady Sings Deborah Cheetham, soprano
Friday April 25^th, 2008 at 8pm
SCU Recital Hall – Free Event
Indigenous Australian Opera Singer, Deborah Cheetham comes to SCU to tell her story of overcoming racial stereotyping to become one of Australia’s artists whose mission is to bring opera to the people.  Music by Puccini, Bernstein, Bolcom, Vaughan Williams, Rogers & Hammerstein, Canteloube, Lerner & Loewe.

(Deborah will also perform at the Music at Noon Series in “Introducing Deborah Cheetham” on Wednesday, April 23^rd in the Recital Hall of the Music and Dance Facility.)

SCU Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert
Friday May 2^nd, 2008 at 8pm
SCU Recital Hall - Free Event
The SCU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo’s present an evening of swing & jazz favorites. Directed by John Russell.

Faculty Recital Series - Women in Music – Works for Voice and Piano
Sunday May 4^th, 2008 at 7pm
SCU Recital Hall – Free Event
Join the SCU vocal faculty as they explore music written by women composers from the medieval period through to the 21^st century. Featured SCU faculty artists include Liliane Cromer, Dan Cromeenes, Stephanie Haines, Joshua Elder, Kathy Ludowise, April McNeely, with Marie-Louise Catsalis on keyboards.

Special Event - Brahms Requiem
Friday May 16^th, 2008 at 8pm
Santa Clara Mission Church

For tickets and information go to www.scc.org or call the Santa Clara Chorale Hotline at 408-369-1289.
Don't miss the SCU Choirs as they join forces with the Santa Clara Chorale and the Symphony Silicon Valley for a performance of Brahms’ masterpiece, "Ein Deutches Requiem".

Faculty Recital Series - Women in Music –Works for Chamber Ensemble
Sunday May 18^th, 2008 at 7pm
SCU Recital Hall – Free Event
SCU music faculty continues their focus on women composers in this concert of chamber music from the baroque to the present day.  Featured composers highlighted in film and music are Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, Anna Bon, Amy Beach, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and SCU’s composer on faculty, Pamela Layman Quist.

SCU Guitar Ensemble – Spring Concert
Thursday May 29^th, 2008 at 7pm
SCU Recital Hall – Free Event
Join the SCU Guitar Ensemble under the direction of David Duenas in a concert featuring fresh new works by Darin Au, Andrew York, and Takahashi Ogawa, interspersed with smart new arrangements and transcriptions of classical and world music.

SCU Symphony Orchestra – Spring Concert
Friday May 30th, 2008 at 8pm
Santa Clara Mission Church
*Tickets $5 students, $10 Seniors/SCU Staff, $12 General*

The spring orchestra concert features a variety of works by Haydn, Mussorgsky, Sibelius, deFalla, and Saint-Saens, plus the California premiere of Matt Doran's "Memory of Marianne". Elisse LaBarre and Taylor Thorn return as guest conductors, while conductor Elena Zavala makes her debut appearance.