Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sat, Feb 1 2025 8:00 PM

Hertz Hall
UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley
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CalPerformances presents Eco Ensemble

Eldar, “l’Eau la Colonne Le Fer”, for fixed electronics

Coskunseven, Dawn Chorus, for two percussion and electronics

Hynninen, Sicut Aurora Procedit, for solo violin and live electronics

Boneh, Her Majesty the Fool, accordion and fixed electronics

Lopez, Warped Symmetry, solo flute

Bates, Digital Loom, for organ and electronics

Makan, Mercury Songbirds, chamber ensemble

Campion, Le Sillage (WAKE), for improvising cellist with ensemble and live electronics

David Milnes, conductor

The UC Berkeley Music Department’s ensemble in residence devotes its winter concert to works by alumni of the university’s prestigious composition program, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a constant source of challenging and arresting new compositions.”

This season, director David Milnes leads the group through acoustic and electroacoustic works by recent and distant graduates, including Jimmy López, Sivan Eldar, Mason Bates, Didem Coskunseven, Oren Boneh, Maija Hynninen, Keeril Makan, and Professor Edmund Campion.