Performances start Thursday
Rhonda Rider is a much-honored cellist.
She was named artist-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park in 2010. Eleven pieces for solo cello were commissioned for her. The works were performed in 15 concerts across the U.S. in a wide variety of venues from Boston and Dallas to Wupatki National Monument and rural New York State. Rider鈥檚 chamber music and solo recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards and cited as Critic鈥檚 Choice in both the New York Times and Boston Globe.
And now, she will be at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis for three performances where her visit will include a lecture and two concerts where she will talk about and play music from her Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon project.
First is the free Shinkoskey noon concert on Thursday, where she will perform the work of student composers.
The noon concert at includes:
Beautiful Bones
untitled IV
latent
Reverie
Declamation; and
Jonathan Harvey, a British composer: Curve with Plateaux (1982)
Later that day, also at Pitzer, she lectures on her residency, 鈥淐reating the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon Projects,鈥 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. She created the Petrified Forest Project鈥攁 concert program of pieces by 10 living composers鈥攄uring a National Parks artist-in-residence program at the Petrified Forest National Park in 2015. The lecture will address, among other questions, How does one convey the landscape or history of the park through music? Why is the cello a good medium for this project? How can composers approach such a unique call for scores?
"My [Grand Canyon] project was to ask ten exceptional composers to write short pieces for solo cello inspired by some aspect of the area. The highly versatile sound of the cello is a wonderful medium for this project, singing at times like a human voice and at others like an ancient instrument from another world."鈥擱honda Rider
Finally, on Friday night, she brings the project to 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis, and she鈥檒l play her works again at the Pitzer Center. Tickets are $12 for students and $24 for adults and are available .
Compositions featured include:
- 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Professor of Music Laurie San Martin: Vast Steppe
- 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Professor of Music Kurt Rohde: credo petrified
- Raven Chacon: Invisible Arc
- Eric Moe: Verklaerte Holz
- Yu-Hui Chang: Rio del Tizon
- Mischa Salkind-Pearl: Pari
- Marti Epstein: So Near, So Far
- John Kennedy: Even the Stones Breathe
The Grand Canyon and 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis
澳门六合彩资料库 Davis, incidentally, has a lot of history in the Grand Canyon, taking students to explore the science there. None of those who have traveled to this beautiful part of the world would have any problem believing music and the Grand Canyon go together.
In this video, join 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis students and faculty on their journey of science, education and discovery down the Colorado River. It might inspire you to attend at least one of these three musical events.
Holding degrees from Oberlin and Yale, Rider is founding member of the Naumburg Award- winning Lydian Quartet, with whom she played for more than 20 years. She is now a member of the celebrated piano trio Triple Helix.
Don't miss her.
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