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Brandon Rolle
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Brandon Rolle Presents 'Life After Cal Poly: Building an Interdisciplinary Career'
Thursday, April 25, 2024
11:10 a.m., Davidson Music Center, Room 218
Alumnus Brandon Rolle (Political Science and Music, '10) will give a free talk at 11:10 a.m. April 25, in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center about his career since graduating, and how political science research, gigging as a jazz guitarist and working for a video game firm coalesced into his career as a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor. There will be audio and video examples of his music, how networking, expertise and curiosity play a role in his career, and what he wishes he had known. A Q&A will follow the talk.
Free admission, parking permit required
W. Terrence Spiller: Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle VIII
Friday, May 10, 2024
7:30 p.m., Pavilion, Performing Arts Center
Pianist and Cal Poly Professor Emeritus W. Terrence Spiller will conclude his survey of Beethoven piano sonatas in this eighth and final recital. The program will open with the early, buoyant "Sonata in E-flat Major," Op. 7; followed by the compact and less-frequently heard sonatas Op. 27, No. 1; and Op. 54. He will conclude the recital and cycle with the triumphant masterpiece Op. 53, "The Waldstein."
Tickets ($20 general, $10 students)
Sarah Saviet
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Sarah Saviet Presentations
Chamber Music Master Class
Thursday, May 16, 2024
11:10 a.m., Davidson Music Center, Room 218
Violin Concert
Thursday, May 16, 2024
5:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center, Room 218
Guest violinist Sarah Saviet, who performs extensively as a soloist and ensemble player of contemporary classical music in Europe, will present a master class and recital on Thursday, May 16, in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center (No. 45).
At 11:10 a.m., Saviet, originally from Washington, D.C., will coach students active in the Music Department’s string chamber music program, then at 5:30 p.m., she will give a solo recital.
For the recital, she will perform new music for solo violin, including works by avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis, Swedish composer Lisa Streich, Timothy McCormack of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, plus Saviet’s own compositions.
The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, for a show in February, described Saviet as one of “contemporary music’s most inventive and searching performers, (who) explores shifting limits: between interpreter and author, idea and body, virtuosity and failure, periphery and interior.”
Based in Berlin and on a 10-day trek through California featuring master classes and solo concerts, she is dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and is a member of the Saviet/Houston Duo that is known for its challenging, relevant and wide-ranging programs and Berlin’s Ensemble Mosaik, which performs versatile and experimental contemporary music.
Saviet’s debut solo modern classical album “Spun” (released last August by Coviello Contemporary) was recently nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award for new music. Her recording on HCR/NMC records of Liza Lim’s 2015 violin concerto “Speak, Be Silent” with the Riot Ensemble, which includes some of the top European soloists in new music, was selected as one of The New Yorker’s best recordings of 2019.
Recent performances include duo concerts at Ultraschall and AFEKT festivals in Europe, as a soloist with Austrian chamber orchestra Klangforum Wien as part of MaerzMusik in the Berliner Philharmonie, and the premiere of Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe’s duo “taste” at Witten Festival 2022.
Saviet has held visiting artist positions in the composition departments of Berlin University of the Arts, England’s Huddersfield University, at Goldsmiths, University London with London-based Riot Ensemble and at Harvard University with ELISION Ensemble.
She has given workshops on contemporary violin technique at Berlin University of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music and Germany’s Academy of Music in Darmstadt, and held artist residencies at Aldeburgh Music, an international performance center about 90 miles northeast of London, with composers Lawrence Dunn, Jack Sheen and artist Rowland Hill.
Free admission, parking permit required