PROGRAM:

Matthew Schultheis (b. 1997): Avifauna (2024), world premiere
Commissioned by Jacob Skiles.
I. Hunting Behaviors
song 1
II. Solomon’s Gift
song 2
III. Burning/Clearing

Jacob Skiles, piano
with a conversation with David Tilson, UGA Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources

The creation of this work commissioned by Jacob Skiles (DMA ‘25) is supported by a Graduate Research Award from the Willson Center for the Humanities & Arts at the University of Georgia.

Anya Yermakova: respire (2024), world premiere
Co-commissioned by the Gabriela Frank Creative Academy of Music and Liza Stepanova.
The sound world of this work uses words by Mandy Joye, UGA Marine Sciences.

Liza Stepanova, piano

intermission

Angela Elizabeth Slater: Dispersions in Watercolor (2023), world premiere

Maggie Snyder, viola
with projections of watercolor artwork from the collections of the Georgia Museum of Art

Alistair Coleman (b. 1998): Notebook Fragments (2022), Georgia premiere
Commissioned by Amy Yang. Based on a poem by Ocean Vuong.

Amy Yang, piano

with a reading of the Ocean Vuong poem by George Contini, actor, UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies
and an introduction by Ngoc My (Michelle) Tran (MM ‘24), UGA World Language Education