Inclusive Voices: Healing the Divide

As the seventh season of Cal State Fullerton’s new music festival unfolds, director Pamela Madsen shares a bold change in the festival. She has moved from one that focused on music by females, to one that includes works performed by men. Madsen states of her change, “my goal for the festival this year is to heighten awareness and engagement about issues of identity in new music, while examining the importance of respecting differences based on race, ethnicity and gender.”

The festival consists of concerts, lectures, master classes and workshops. In addition, Madsen continues with her international electro-acoustic listening room, which will feature works themed on healing by female composers from over 50 countries.

Featured festival artists include:
So Percussion, percussion quartet
Miya Masaoka, composer/performer, koto and electronics
Lisa Moore, piano
Martin Bresnick, composer-in-residence
Bora Korkmaz, flute andFüreya Ünal, piano

Thursday, Feb. 28
4 p.m. Lecture/Workshop: Martin Bresnick,
8 p.m. Concert: Bora Korkmaz and Füreya Ünal
Friday, Feb. 29
10 a.m. Flute/Piano Workshop: Bora Korkmaz and Füreya Ünal
1:30 p.m. Rehearsal/Workshop: Martin Bresnick and CSUF Orchestra
8 p.m. Concert: Miya Masaoka and So Percussion
Saturday, March 1
9 a.m. International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project
2 p.m. Multi-media Lecture/Demo: Miya Masaoka
4 p.m. Lecture/Panel: Miya Masaoka, Martin Bresnick and others
8 p.m. Concert: Lisa Moore with So Percussion
Sunday, March 2
11 a.m. Workshop: Miya Masaoka, SoPercussion, Lisa Moore, Martin Bresnick
1:30 p.m. Piano master class: Lisa Moore
3 p.m. Pre-concert Lecture: Martin Bresnick
4 p.m. Concert: CSUF Symphony Orchestra with violinist Jamie Laredo

Bora Korkmaz and Füreya Ünal, flute/piano duo
8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28
Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$5 (with Titan Discount)
This Turkish duo has performed around the world, and returns to participate in Cal State Fullerton’s New Music Festival. They’ll perform works by Mucynski, Feld, Corigliano, Scelsi and CSUF faculty composer Ken Walicki.

Miya Masaoka, composer/performer and So Percussion
8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29
Meng Concert Hall
Tickets: $20/$15 (with Titan Discount)
Musician, composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka’s varied contexts of sound, music, multi-media and nature incorporates koto and electronics stretching the language of music beyond the norm. Joining her is the “astonishing and entrancing” (Billboard) So Percussion. Energetic and thrilling, their performances have earned them the title of “one of the grooviest new groups to come along in a while. They are terrific!” (George Steel, Columbia University). Their program includes new works by Miya Masaoka for laser koto and electronics, Paul Lansky's Threads, and Jason Treuting’s Amid the Noise for percussion and video.

Lisa Moore, piano with So Percussion
8 p.m. Saturday, March 1
Meng Concert Hall
Tickets: $20/$15 (with Titan Discount)
"Phenomenal pianist," hails The Village Voice, “dazzling pianism” writes Sydney Morning Herald.  Lisa Moore has developed a unique and unforgettable repertoire combining powerful technique with vivid theatricality. With Moore is the “innovative” (New York Times) So Percussion cited by Billboard as “a must-hear” group! They’ll give the West Coast premiere of Martin Bresnick’s Caprichos Enfaticos for percussion and piano, plus Bresnick’s For the Sexes for piano and video, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Purple Prelude and Steve Reich’s Drumming.

CSUF University Symphony Orchestra with Jamie Laredo, violin
Sunday, March 2
3 p.m. pre-concert lecture with Martin Bresnick
4 p.m. concert
Meng Concert Hall
Tickets: $20/$15 (with Titan Discount)
Grammy-winning Jaime Laredo has been acclaimed as “A violinist whose art goes deeper than virtuosity” (Miami Herald). One of the master musicians of our time, he has performed throughout the world stunning audiences and critics alike with his musicianship. He joins the University Symphony Orchestra in Barber’s virtuosic Concerto for Violin. Also on the program is Bresnick’s Encore, Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony, No. 6 and Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Variations on a Shaker Tune.