David Garner, composition
Faculty Artist Series
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 Garner.
Aria: “Food”
from Mary Pleasant at Land's End
Crystal Philippi*, mezzo-soprano
Dale Tsang, piano
Jump. I will catch you. A song-cycle on poems by Berkeley poet Judith Masur
1. Under my feet, my toes
2. Numbers, ah numbers
3. Jump. I will catch you.
4. As a child, out of fear
5. She likes to shimmy
Crystal Philippi, mezzo-soprano
Aaron Priskorn*, trumpet and cornet
Kristin Lloyd, harp
Stephen Tramontozzi**, double bass
Sonata for Piano (World Premiere)
I. Decisive and Rhythmically Strict
II. Freely
III. Energetically (An homage to Keith Jarrett)
Dale Tsang, piano
Cavatina and Aria: “Winds of the Future”/”Alight”
from Mary Pleasant at Land's End
Crystal Philippi*, mezzo-soprano
Dale Tsang, piano
*SFCM Alum
**SFCM Faculty and SFS Assistant Principle Bassist
Composition
David Garner
About SFCM’s Composition Department
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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