The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Nok-du-klot" by Eun Young Le. Performed by Ellen Ruth Rose, solo viola, Tod Brody, flute, Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Thalia Moore, cello, Michael Seth Orland, piano, and Loren Mach, percussion.

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Young Le: Nok-du-klot (2010)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Ciao, Manhattan" by Lee Hyla, Tod Brody on flute, Ellen Ruth Rose on viola, Thalia Moore on cello, and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

Hyla: Ciao, Manhattan (1990)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: IV Lebhaft, sehr markirt" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, and Michael Seth Orland, piano.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: IV Lebhaft, sehr markirt (1853)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: III Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, and Michael Seth Orland, piano.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: III Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck (1853)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: II Lebhaft und sehr markirt" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff on clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose on viola, and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: II Lebhaft und sehr markirt (1853)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: I Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell" by Robert Schumann. Peter Josheff performs on clarinet, with Ellen Ruth Rose on viola and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: I Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell (1853)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Scritch" by Melinda Wagner with Tom Nugent on oboe, Anna Pressler and Hrabba Atladottir on violin, Phyllis Kamrin on viola, and Leighton Fong on cello.

Wagner: Scritch (2010)

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "The Island" by Moon Young Ha with Peter Josheff on clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir on violin, and Thalia Moore on cello.

Young Ha: The Island (2009)

Written by Ben Irwin, this piece, Synecdoche, is played by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Leighton Fong, cello, and Michael Orland, piano.

Irwin: Synecdoche

Almetus' Transitoire expresses the gradual transition from time into eternity that people, buried under the rubble in locations inaccessible to rescuers, experienced after the devastating earthquake leveled the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Although the piece is not descriptive of the concepts of time and eternity, the perceptual effect of a sustained sonority and the seemingly unrelated gestures allude to a non-temporal and temporal dichotomy in the piece.

Almetus: Transitoire

The piece by Scott Perry, Psycho-crypto-ornithology, is a sonic portrait of a peppy but reclusive bird that looks and sounds something like a pigeon-tucan-turkey-hawk. The landscape in which this bird dwells is mostly depicted by the viola and piccolo. However, it isn’t totally clear where the bird’s body-call-song begins and the synaesthetic description of its environment ends.

Perry: Ouacka

This is a 10-minute excerpt from a psychedelic rock opera called "Über Wildemann and the Dandy" by Liam Wade. The instrumentation is piccolo/flute, viola (played with chopsticks) and percussion (mostly mallet percussion and beer bottles also played with chopsticks).

Wade: Ballet from Über Wildemann and the Dandy

Wang's Beyond the Sound, There is... was inspired by classical Chinese landscape painting. In the classical Chinese art world, everything is related to two essential ideas: Xu and Shi. Xu translates literally as void and represents such qualities as softness and lightness; Shi represents fullness and solidness.

Wang: Beyond the Sound, There is...

Written by graduate student composer Garrett Shatzer, the following perform his The Shift & The Break: Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Leighton Fong, cello, and Michael Orland, piano.

Shatzer: The Shift & The Break

Michelle Maruyama, violin, and Chris Froh, percussion, perform Jesper Nordin's In the Midst of Trespassing.

Nordin: In the Midst of Trespassing

This professional ensemble in residence at UC Davis is co-directed by professors (and composers) Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde. Its performances are dedicated to contemporary chamber music, often incorporating new media elements and experimental performance practices.

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