May 23rd, 8 P.M.Nicolee Kuester, Eric Starr, Todd Moellenberg
& the Experimental Voices Ensemble
Space4Art
$5 suggested donation
Horn player and text musician Nicolee Kuester joins with special guests Eric Starr, trombone, Todd Moellenberg, piano, and the Experimental Voices Ensemble to present an evening of musics spanning the past millennium. What is the connection between medieval Organum and sculptures that speak? Between the romantic Robert Schumann and American drone music? Between bird poems and brass instruments? Kuester weaves all of these into a single, uninterrupted narrative of sound experiences that first contradict and then inform each other.
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previous performances
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May 15, 8:00 PM
redfishbluefish Experimental Theater Conrad Prebys Music Center |
Leslie Leytham will performed with renown percussion ensemble, redfishbluefish, the role of "actress" in Kenneth Gaburo's Maledetto (Composition for 7 virtuoso speakers), led by Steven Schick.
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May 7, 12:00 PM
First Monday Concert Series Concert Hall Conrad Prebys Music Center |
Pianist, Todd Moellenberg, and Leslie Leytham present in its entirety, Arnold Schoenberg's "Book of the Hanging Gardens" as part of the First Monday concert series at UCSD's Music Department.
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April 24, 8:00 PM
DNA is in our Experimentation Experimental Theater Conrad Prebys Music Center |
This show kicks off the 2012 UCSD Music Department SpringFest, and will feature works by Deyoe/Leytham, Spielberg, and McCallum/Pierzak.
There will be look alikes. There will be beauty queens. There will be death. There will be some sweet ass basketballing. There probably won't be blood. There will be cloning and mosquitoes in petrified amber. |
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April 13, 6:00 PM
Seven Tragedies of Space Travel Concert Hall (7PM) Experimental Theatre (9PM) Conrad Prebys Music Center 
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Pianist, Brendan Nguyen, confronts heritage and identity as both an American-born descendant of Vietnamese refugees as well as a classical pianist torn between the old and the new. The program will feature works by Rameau and Schubert, as well as premieres by Aaron Helgeson, Nick Deyoe and Clinton McCallum.
Concept by Brendan Nguyen Electronics, projection and construction by Jason Ponce Costumes, movement and stage management by Leslie Ann Leytham |
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February 28, 8:00 PM
Twinzies Experimental Theater UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center |
Flautist and performance artist, Berglind Maria Tomasdottir, presents her second DMA recital on which and she and Ms. Leytham will be premiering a collaborative work by composer Clinton McCallum.
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February 15, 8:00 PM
Chaya Czernowin Residency Concert Hall Conrad Prebys Music Center |
Ms. Leytham, along with soprano Stephanie Aston and flutist Rachel Beetz, will perform Manoalchadia as part of the Chaya Czernowin Residency.
Also on the program are performances of Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song, Drift, and Afatsim by members of the UCSD Music Graduate department. |
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February 11, 7:30 PM
February 12, 2PM Still Getting Rid Of by Nicholas Deyoe La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Mandeville Auditorium |
THE POPULIST
Steven Schick conducts Giuseppe Verdi Overture to La Forza del Destino Nicholas Deyoe still getting rid of (world premiere) guest artists Stephanie Aston, soprano and Leslie Ann Leytham, mezzo-soprano John Adams The Wound Dresser (local premiere) guest artist Michael Blinco, baritone Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor A program of stark – and very beautiful – drama. We open with Verdi’s searing overture to a tale of bloody revenge, and we conclude with a classic: Brahms’ mighty First Symphony. Between them comes John Adams’ setting of Walt Whitman’s poems about tending the wounded of the Civil War, and this season’s Thomas Nee Commission, Nicholas Deyoe’s still getting rid of. Visit www.lajollasymphony.com for ticket and concert information. |
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January 13, 8:00 PM
Two Monodramas Experimental Theater UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center 
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Leslie Ann Leytham presents, Two Monodramas: the American premiere of Martin Hiendl's Erwartung und Traumverlust and the world premiere of Robert Pierzak's Endangered Banana #4: Waywards (revised).
Hiendl's monodrama was written as part of a project with the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and was premiered on October 22nd in the Bockenheimer Depot with members of the International Ensemble Modern Academy and students of the University in Frankfurt. This opera is based on the short story Kesa and Morito by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, written in 1918 (and was later adapted for film by Akiro Kurosawa as Roshomon). To quote Hiendl, "The novel is a ruthless psuchological story about the fatalistic relationship between Kesa and Morito, [who] cannot live out their love, leading them to perversity and extreme violation and humiliation." The story can be found here on page 25: Kesa and Morito The first edition of Robert Pierzak's work was originally premiered while a student at the Eastman School of Music, and has recently been revised for this upcoming premiere with Ms. Leytham. The work is a tale of societal belonging and destruction, with a woman slowly coming to realize her relationship to time and space, and ultimately, the annihilation of both. |
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June 2, 2011, 8PM: FREE
An Index of Metals Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater |
"An Index of Metals presents a violent, abstract narrative, denuded of all operatic artifice, providing an initiation rite of immersion and a trance of light and sound." -Fausto Romitelli
A collective of graduate students presents Fausto Romitelli's opera, An Index of Metals for female voice, ensemble, multimedia projection and electronics. |
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April 21, 2011, 8PM: FREE
Brown/Deyoe/Haubenstock-Ramati/Hiendl Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall |
Composers Martin Hiendl and Nicholas Deyoe present new works of their own as well as Haubenstock-Ramati's Credentials and Earle Brown's Novara. Leslie will be singing the part of Lucky (from Waiting for Godot) on the Haubenstock-Ramati.
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April 20, 2011, 8PM: FREE
Doctors and Masters: very serious, seriouslyConrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater |
This event, curated by Leslie, will feature works by composer/performers Nicholas Deyoe, Clinton McCallum, Bonnie Whiting-Smith, Adam Goodwin, as well as works of parody and dance.
Ms. Leytham will be appearing with her movement band, ladyladyladyladylady, in its premiere performance piece called, "Careless Whispers". |
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April 12, 2011, 8PM: FREERe-Re-EnactmentsConrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
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Second installment of re-enactment performances by UCSD Music graduate students. Leslie will perform a live re-enactment of Marylin Minter's short film "Green Pink Caviar" in collaboration with Alice Detroit and Stephanie Aston, and with music by Clinton McCallum. Ms. Leytham will also perform on McCallum's vocal quartet, Final Girl, as well as reprise her role in Whale Whale by composers Robert Pierzak and Paul Feyertag.
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California State University, Fullerton presents its 10th Annual New Music Festival which features performances by the Jack Quartet and 8th Blackbird as well as CSUF's resident New Music Ensembles led by composer, Pamela Madsen.
In its final performance of the festival, Ms. Leytham will be appearing with CSUF's Symphony Orchestra in a premiere performance of Pamela Madsen's work, Gravity, which features photography by award-winning artist, Camille Seaman. |
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January 22, 2011, 10:30AM: FREE
UCSD Sonic Diasporas Alumni Festival Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall |
Multi-concert event featuring works of UCSD's most prominant alumni. Leslie will be performing Manoalchadia for two female voices and bass flute by Chaya Czernowin with Stephanie Aston, soprano, and Lisa Cella, flute.
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January 11, 2011, 8PM: FREE
Smearings, Screamings, Warblings and Drownings Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater |
Ms. Leytham presents silent, sung and spoken works on her first doctoral recital, Anticathexis. The program will feature works by Carolyn Chen, Samuel Beckett, Claudio Monteverdi, Luciano Berio and Benjamin Britten.
Staging and design by Leslie Leytham. |
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November 13, 2010, 8PM: FREE
Grad Forum #2: Text Pieces Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater |
Ms. Leytham will give her first performance of Samuel Beckett's Not I for solo actor on the second concert of the Graduate Forum concert series. Program includes works by Frederic Rzewski, Nicolee Kuester, Bob Pierzak and San Diego's renown noise duo, Aquapuke.
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May 3, 2010, 8PM: FREE
Re-enactments Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theatre |
Ms. Leytham will premiere a collaborative work called Foley. In this piece, Leslie Leytham, Ian Carroll, Clinton McCallum and Clint Davis have each composed vignettes which involve sound effects using instruments, electronics, toys, mouths, bodies and any other sound-producing devices.
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May 3, 2010, 12PM: FREE
First Monday Concert Series Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall |
World Premiere of Shore Grass, trio for voice, guitar and percussion by composer Ryan Welsh. Other pieces on the program include works by Chinary Ung, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nick Deyoe.
Note from the composer: "The decisions of [the vocal] content were based entirely on a sequential motion through [Amy Lowell's] poetry. I am interested in the way the repeating vowel and consonant sounds change in different contexts and the way we can associate a musical sound (vowels, etc) with an object." |
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January 22, 2010: FREE
Concert of First-Year Graduate Composers and Performers Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall |
Leslie Leytham will premiere a work for three voices by Robert Pierzak with sopranos Tiffany DuMouchelle and Meghann Welsh, as well as a work for solo voice by Martin Hiendl.
NOTE: Recording of this performance will be included on an upcoming UCSD Department of Music CD release. To view video of this performance, click here. |
