23rd Annual New Music Series:
(within) new works for chamber music
featuring guest artists, Hub New Music, Amy Williams, Brightwork newmusic,
loadbang,Nicholas Isherwood, Galan Trio,CSUF New Music Ensemble,
with performances, workshops, masterclasses and readings of CSUF Student Composer Works
Dr. Pamela Madsen, Artistic Director
Select dates: October, 2023 - May, 2024
Hub New Music
RESIDENCY: OCTOBER 11TH-13TH (WITH UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY)
HUB New Music reading of CSUF Student works
Wednesday, October 11 at 5pm
CPAC 119
HUB New Music with CSUF New Music Ensemble
Thursday, October 12 at 8pm
Meng Concert Hall
Tickets: $10 / $8 Titan price
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy (to be performed with the New Music Ensemble)
Jessica Meyer: Spirits and Sinew
Angélica Negrón: Pedazos intermitentes de un lugar ya fragmentado
Nina C. Young: to hear the things we cannot see
HUB New Music with the University Wind Symphony
Friday, October 13 at 8pm
Meng Concert Hall
Tickets: $10 / $8 Titan price
"American Landscapes"
Aaron Copland:
An Outdoor Overture
Mark Camphouse:
Yosemite Autumn
Daniel Castellanos, graduate student conductor
Gala Flagello:
The Bird-While
Featuring Hub New Music
Viet Cuong: Deciduous
Donald Grantham: Southern Harmony
Amy Williams
Guest Composer-Pianist Workshop-Masterclass-Lecture
Friday, October 27 at 3pm
Recital Hall
Free and open to the public.
Featuring a workshop on composing for Piano, Prepared Piano, and masterclass of works for piano:
Jessica Lewis: Impediments (2021) performed by Luke Templeman
Ronald Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy (1971)
performed by Daniel Meyers and other works.
Brightwork newmusic Residency:
Wednesday, November 8 & DECEMBER 13
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
5 PM Workshop, Masterclass
Via Zoom
More information coming soon
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Postponed. Stay tuned for an updated performance date in the Spring.
Free and open to the public.
Featuring Brightwork septet: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, Stacey Fraser , soprano) performing a full concert:
D.J. Sparr: Glam Seduction
Madsen: Prayer for my Daughter
Rajna Swaminathan:
The Illusion of Permanence (15)
(New Commission with voice)
Naidoo: Ararat
Borecki: Scorpio
Ung: Still Live after Death
Stacey Fraser, soprano
Composer's Forum
Thursday, November 30 at 8pm
Recital Hall
Free and open to the public.
CSUF New Music Ensemble
Wednesday, December 6 at 8pm
CPAC 119
Julius Eastman-Joy Boy (1974) - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Emerson Kimble-Love and Vibes (2023) - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Christian Wolff-Edges (1968) - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Kevin Barba-La Guerrera y Su Camino (2023) - Ivan Parga Renterias- electric guitar, Esther Ridsdale-electric bass, Kevin Barba- percussion/electronics
Jessica P. Lewis-Ripples (2023) - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Julia Craft-What If You Came Home and Saw a Goldfish On Your Table and Were Filled With the Divine Knowledge That It Was Somehow Dr. Dries (2023) - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Wilfredo Terrazas-Mosquito War Grooves (2009) For a mixed ensemble of improvising musicians - CSUF New Music Ensemble
Free and open to the public.
Spring, 2024 events
Brightwork newmusic
February 22 at 8 p.m.
Meng Concert Hall
Featuring Brightwork septet: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, Stacey Fraser, soprano
Jonathon Grasse: The Garden Song (2023)
Pamela Madsen: I Mary, Mary By Herself (2024)
Rajna Swaminathan: The Illusion of Permanence (2020, arr. 2023)
Adam Borecki: Scorpio (2016)
Pamela Madsen: A Prayer For My Daughter (2022)
D.J. Sparr: The Glam Seduction (2001)
Tickets: $10 / $8 Titan Price
All orders subject to a $3 processing fee
All CSUF students receive one (1) complimentary ticket to all music, theatre & dance performances. More information
Loadbang Ensemble
Tuesday, February 27 at 8 p.m
Meng Concert Hall
Christina George: >>liminal songs>>
Raven Chacon: Reckoning
Pamela Madsen: Fragments from the Wasteland (WORLD PREMIERE)
Laura Cetilia: Breath of Cinder Depth of Moss
Oscar Bettison: I Am A Garden Adorned
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Bag of Bones
Tickets: $10 /
$8 Titan Price
All orders subject to a $3 processing fee
All CSUF students receive one (1) complimentary ticket to all music, theatre & dance performances. More information
Loadbang Ensemble
Workshop with CSUF New Music Ensemble: Reading of Student Works
Wednesday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m
CPAC 119 (orchestra room)
Free admission
Note: Please check this page prior to the event. If this performance is canceled or postponed, it will be noted here.
Brightwork newmusic Quartet featuring CSUF student award-winning work
Tuesday, March 26 at 8 p.m.
4:00-5:30pm student readings/workshops (CPAC 254)
8 p.m. concert by quartet, to include at least one CSUF student piece
Meng Concert Hall
Brightwork quartet (Stacey Fraser, soprano; Aron Kallay, piano; Brian Walsh, clarinet, and Nick Terry, percussion)
Tom Flaherty: Wagon-Wheeling (2012)
A.J. McCaffery: Murmurations (2017)
Kareem Roustom: Xarja (2017)
Pamela Madsen: Lost Borders (2024)
Libby Larson: Corker (1977)
Bill Alves: A Sonatina
Chris Cerrone: I Will Learn to Love a Person (2013)
Tickets: $10 /
$8 Titan Price
All orders subject to a $3 processing fee
All CSUF students receive one (1) complimentary ticket to all music, theatre & dance performances. More information
Nicholas Isherwood, The Electric Voice- bass-baritone/electronics
Tuesday, April 9 at 8 p.m.
Meng Concert Hall
(April 10, workshop: CPAC 119)
Florence Baschet:
Béréchit
Alexandra Bilinska: TBD
Pamela Madsen: TBD
Karlheinz Stockhausen:
Capricorn with 8 channel WAV files
Tickets: $10 / $8 Titan Priceopens in a new window
All CSUF students receive one (1) complimentary ticket to all music, theatre & dance performances. More Information
Galantrio: violin, cello, piano- performance/workshop
Wednesday, April 24 at 8 p.m.
CPAC 119
Performance of works by California Composers:
Biola University - Robert Denham, Loyola Marymount University - David Carter. UC, Irvine - Christopher Dobrian, CSU, San Bernardino - Kevin Zhang,CSU, Fullerton - Pamela Madsen, UC, Santa Barbara - Joao Pedro Oliveira, CSU, Stanislaus - Deborah Kavasch, CSU, East bay - Ines Thiebaut, Stanford University - Patricia Alessandrini, UC Berkeley - Cindy Cox
Free admission
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New Music Ensemble
Wednesday, May 1 at 8pm
CPAC 119
Free admission
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Composers Forum
Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m.
Recital Hall
Free admission
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InterArts Collaborative Projects: The Art of Song
Tuesday, May 14 at 6 p.m.
Recital Hall
Featuring HEX Vocal Ensemble
Free admission
Note: Please check this page prior to the event. If this performance is canceled or postponed, it will be noted here.