FAS: David Conte, composition
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SFCM’s Faculty Artist Series is presented as an annual concert series featuring SFCM faculty in performance. This series showcases our world-class faculty to our community and audience members in personally curated repertoire.
Program
All works in this recital are composed by David Conte.
Two Settings of Donald Jeffrey Hayes (WORLD PREMIERE)
I. Benediction
II. Threnody
San Francisco Girls Chorus
Chesley Mok, piano
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, conductor
Sonatine for Piano (1975-78)
I. Moderately fast
II. Gently rocking
III. Fast, with energy
Daniel Strebulaev, piano
Three Settings of Ogden Nash (2018)
I. Tin Wedding Whistle
II. Pretty Halcyon Days
III. A Lady Who Thinks She is Thirty
Ellen Leslie, soprano
Kevin Korth, piano
The Young Mother (2023)
text by Paul Valery, translated by Louise Varèse
Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone
Friction String Quartet
Kevin Rogers & Otis Harrell, violins
Mitso Floor, viola
Doug Machiz, cello
String Quartet No. 3 (2024)
II. Scherzo
Friction String Quartet
Composition
David Conte
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Prize-winning faculty develop and refine the skills of the next generation of great composers. The composition department both honors tradition and encourages innovation. Our four versatile faculty members closely mentor students while maintaining high-profile composing careers. We strongly emphasize interdepartmental collaboration, matching composers with performers, as well as offer frequent concerts and readings of student works. Every year, SFCM hosts the Highsmith Competition, an internal composition contest that grants the winner a performance of the submitted work by the Conservatory Orchestra. You'll be able to take advantage of the extraordinarily rich musical life of San Francisco, home to some of the most groundbreaking musical activity of the past half-century.
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