VOICES ON THE EDGE
Fifth Annual

Women in New Music Festival

Cal State Fullerton

March 9-12th, 2006

Pamela Z, voice and electronics

ETHEL, string quartet

Chen Yi, composer in residence

plus other guest composers, performers and scholars

International Women's Electro acoustic Listening Room

Masterclasses, Workshops, Open Rehearsals TBA

Help or Questions (714) 278-3371

www.fullerton.edu/arts/events

SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 9, 2006:

MUSIC ON THE EDGE: New Music by Women Composers

Guest Artist Shiau-uen Ding, pianist from the neXt ensemble with composer Madelyne Bryne, contrabassonist Carolyn Beck with composer Alex Shapiro; and Erroneous Funk, free imporvisation electroacoustic experience that pushes the envelope of sound with composer Renee Coulombe, plus Cal State Fullerton New Music Ensemble and guest pianist, Fureya Unal performing works by Chen Yi

8 p.m. Thursday, March 9, 2006
Recital Hall, CSUF Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton CA

FREE

Friday, March 10, 2006:

Workshop with Chen Yi Guest Composer in Residence and University Symphony Orchestra

and CSUF New Music Ensemble

1PM, Friday, March 10th CSUF Performing Arts Center

FREE

Lecture/Demo with Pamela Z, voice, electronics, video

Friday, March 10th, 2006 TBA

Meng Hall, CSUF Performing Arts Center

Pamela Z, works for voice, electronics, and video

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds and The Body SynthTM gesture controller. Her audio works have been presented at the Whitney Museum in New York and throughout the US, Europe and Japan. As a compsoer of film, dance and chamber music hse has received numerous award including the Guggenheim, and NEA/USFC fellowships the CalArts Alpert and ASCAP awards.

Saturday, March 11 2006:
Women's Electro-acoustic Listening Room

Features 6 hours of non-stop playback of new electroacoustic works by women composers from around the globe. Featuring new works by Anne LeBaron, Elainie Lillios, Judith Shatin, Pamela Z and others

Ethel, String Quartet

Cornelius Dufallo, violin, Mary Rowell, violin, Ralph Farris, viola, Dorothy Lawson, cello

8 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 2006
Meng Hall, CSUF Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton CA
Tickets: $20 ($12 with advance Titan discount & $9 with advance CSUF student discount)

This Juilliard-trained, all-star foursome has stretched itself past the limits of convention, genre and style to embrace a music that arises from the context of our time.The New York Times hails Ethel as "extraordinarily skilled, passionate musicians." According to the LA Times, "they're breaking down the traditional lines between composer and performer and between performer and technology.Their use of amplification takes them outside the polite, carefully balanced sound world of traditional chamber music. They own their music, and when they want it to roar, they roar," Featuring guest composer/performer in residence, Pamelz Z's new work: "Ethel Dreams of Temporaral Disturbances" plus works by Bang on a Can composer, Julia Wolfe andCSUF faculty composers Pamela Madsen and Ken Walicki.

Sunday, March 12, 2006:

Composer/Performer Workshop with ETHEL, String Quartet in residence and Pamela Z

11-1PM, Sunday, March 12, 2006

CSUF Performing Arts Center

FREE

University Symphony Orchestra

Kimo Furumoto, director
Pre-concert lecture by guest composer in residence, Chen Yi at 3 PM Free with ticket to 4PM concert
4 p.m. Sunday, March 12, 2006
Meng Hall, CSUF Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton CA
Tickets: $15 ($10 with advance Titan discount & $6 with advance CSUF student discount)
Presents Chen Yi's "Duo Ye ", Ellen Taafe Zwillich's "Jubilation Overture"and Mozart's Symphonies No. 1 & 39, both composed in celebration of special women in his life.