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On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023 at 2 p.m., the La Jolla Symphony presents Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian's "Walking with Ghosts" for bass clarinet solo and orchestra at UC San Diego, featuring bass clarinetist Jeff Anderle and conducted by Music Director Emeritus Steven Schick. Described as “politically fearless” by New York Music Daily, Mary Kouyoumdjian will return to her alma mater as the 2023 Brenda and Steven Schick Commission Honoree. The orchestra will also present American operatic soprano and UCSD faculty member Susan Narucki in Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Varèse’s Octandre, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. On May 21, 2022, "Walking with Ghosts" premiered at the One Found Sound Gala in San Francisco with Jeff Anderle, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) Woodwinds Chair. On June 6, 2022, Anderle and the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra performed the piece in St. Paul, Minn. "Walking with Ghosts" is inspired by Kouyoumdjian’s experience as a first generation American, and delves into what we carry with us from our heritage and our ancestors. Speaking on her rich working relationship with Anderle, Kouyoumdjian shared, “'Walking with Ghosts' is a reflection on the people, experiences, and histories that follow us throughout our lives – whether we walk with their support or carry the burden of their weight. This piece is dedicated to Jeff Anderle, whom I walk with, in creativity and in friendship.” Following this show in UC San Diego, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, will present the world premiere of Mary Kouyoumdjian and South African-American director and writer Nigel Maister’s "Paper Pianos" on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. Performance DetailsSaturday, Feb. 11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023 at 2 p.m. UCSD Mandeville Auditorium | San Diego Tickets: Starting at $32- 41 (+ fees); $19 student tickets available Link: https://www.ljsc.org/events/october-29-30-2022-powerful-nature-921-873/ Program: Mary Kouyoumdjian – "Walking with Ghosts" [Brenda and Steven Schick Commission] Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet Strauss – Four Last Songs Susan Narucki, soprano – Intermission – Varèse – Octandre Stravinsky – Firebird Suite About Mary Kouyoumdjian: Kouyoumdjian is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, she uses a sonic palette that draws on her heritage, interest in music as documentary, and background in experimental composition to progressively blend the old with the new. A strong believer in freedom of speech and the arts as an amplifier of expression, her compositional work often integrates recorded testimonies with resilient individuals and field recordings of place to invite empathy by humanizing complex experiences around social and political conflict. Kouyoumdjian has received commissions for such organizations as the New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beth Morrison Projects/OPERA America, Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a Can, International Contemporary Ensemble, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the American Composers Forum, Roomful of Teeth, WQXR, REDSHIFT, Experiments in Opera, Helen Simoneau Danse, the Nouveau Classical Project, Music of Remembrance, Friction Quartet, Ensemble Oktoplus, and the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble among others. Her work has been performed internationally at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, the Barbican Centre, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Millennium Park, Benaroya Hall, Prototype Festival, the New York Philharmonic Biennial, Cabrillo Festival, Big Ears Festival, 21C Music Festival, and Cal Performances. Her residencies include those with EMPAC, Buffalo String Works, Alarm Will Sound/The Mizzou International Composers Festival, Roulette/The Jerome Foundation, Montalvo Arts Center, and Exploring the Metropolis. Her music has been described as “eloquently scripted" and "emotionally wracking” by The New York Times and as "politically fearless" and "the most harrowing moments on stage at any New York performance" by New York Music Daily. In her work as a composer, orchestrator, and music editor for film, she has collaborated on a diverse array of motion pictures including orchestrating on the soundtracks to "The Place Beyond the Pines" (Focus Features) and "Demonic" (Dimension Films). Kouyoumdjian holds a D.M.A and M.A. in composition from Columbia University, where she studied primarily with Zosha Di Castri, Georg Friedrich Haas, Fred Lerdahl, and George Lewis; an M.A. in Scoring for Film & Multimedia from New York University; and a B.A. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied with Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Anthony Davis, Steven Schick, and Chinary Ung. Dedicated to new music advocacy, Kouyoumdjian is a Co-Founder of the annual new music conference New Music Gathering, served as the founding Executive Director of contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant, and served as Co-Artistic Director of Alaska's new music festival Wild Shore New Music. As an avid educator, Kouyoumdjian is Assistant Professor of Composition at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is a Lecturer at Columbia University; she has previously been on faculty at The New School, Brooklyn College's Feirstein School of Cinema, Mannes Prep, and the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers program. Kouyoumdjian is proud to be on the board of the American Composers Forum and is published by Schott's PSNY. Learn more at www.marykouyoumdjian.com.

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From the organizers: Campana Studios x HSCC present: Native Plants Printmaking Workshop 🌱 Date: October 16, 2021 Time: 12-2 p.m. Location: 530 S Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA Cost: Donation-based/pay what you wish (Participation includes lino cutting tools, a linoleum block per student, ink, as many prints as the participant would like to roll!) Register now: bit.ly/campanastudios ❀ About the Workshop ❀ Through the creation of regional, drought tolerant, and indigenous plants themed relief prints, participants will gain a hands on understanding on linocut printmaking and learn about the role indigenous plants play in our ecosystem. Workshop provided by @campanastudios and taught by artist Daisy Camacho ( @daydreambydaisy ). ❀ About the Artist ❀ Daisy Camacho is a designer as well as a mixed media visual artist based in San Diego, CA. Her creative work ranges from digital to traditional art, more specifically working with graphic design, illustration, and printmaking. Passionate about visual communication, her work focuses on aesthetic forms and unconventional design which touch on topics such as environmental, social, and mental health issues. Become an effective steward of our local ecology by creating art that reflects California Natives.

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The Russell Lecture is presented by UC San Diego's Department of Visual Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. We are happy to announce that next year's Russell Lecture will highlight the work of mixed-media artist Shizu Saldamando. Saldamando's work functions as celebration and homage to peers and loved ones. Her mother’s family is Japanese American, by way of Boyle Heights/Sawtelle areas of L.A., and a survivor of the Japanese American Internment camps. Her father is Chicano (Mexican American) from Nogales, AZ. Her work is primarily concerned with portraiture, craft and drawing. She experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials from wood panels to bed sheets. Her practice also employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The Russell Foundation was established in the will of Betty Russell, one of MCASD's founding docents and a long-time supporter of UC San Diego. She specified that funds from the foundation should help "foster the appreciation and study of the modern visual arts and creativity of young artists" through support for the Museum and the University.