Grad Recital - Part I / Fall 2023

 


Grad Recital / Fall 2023

 

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PROGRAM
 
 
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 Ame Amu Darya 
 
Performer: Irina Antsiferova

Music "Uyghur folk song" Mitzi Meshrep
 
My connection with my instrument started in Uzbekistan,from my childhood. That's why l am using the Uzbek music in my performance. I wanted to show during my performance how my journey started, how it goes. Mostly l am happy to perform/share music with others but also it is very hard work!
 
 
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 One day at a time
 
Performer: Lia Bujosa

This piece is about healing and learning how to be present in the moment and flow through life in a way that brings me joy. It is a piece about being brave and stepping out of my comfort zone. It is about trusting myself and learning how to rely on my strengths to get through difficult times. It is about letting go and believing in myself. 


 
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 Two New Blue Balloons
 
Performer: Richard Carrillo
 
Music: Excerpts of songs sung
 
The story of the development of a young boy who discovers his voice in singing, and the difficulties and joys it creates throughout his life. 


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 Growing Up 
 
Performer: Jingen Chen
 
My piece describes a person' s process of growing up then, someday, gradually disappearing in the world.

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 “Lucy conoce la Alhambra y su Albayzín” – Nono.
 
Performer: Antonio Diaz Fernandez 
 
Pizzicato bass and voice drone. 
 
Almost since I remember I have been dragging a bass where I walked. The cold London and its dirty streets brought me to Lucy’s broken wood, she has seen and experienced the beauty and pain of this human world already for longer than I will.
 
I offered her my meat and blood so she could walk, in exchange she shared with me stories of time, rosin and varnish. Days went by while conversating, to the point of forgetting time and space. Then she accepted me as her companion for a lifetime, curious about my
Granada and her sun.

- No more rain! – she shouted.

My Albayzin with its slopes, tight streets and infinite stairs received her with joy and wood. The old house was surprised about our old bass. I stretched, Rinat slept. 


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Feel alive

Haixiang Ge
 
 
 I want to connect my body to the world and the universe through this dance. to feel the power of life
 
 
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Transformation
 
Performer:  Kyra Stahr
 
 My piece is about my discovery of self as a musician; transforming from a singer, full of performance anxiety, to a conductor, filled with confidence and joy, fueled by creating music with others.
 
 
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 Work in Progress
 
Performer: Abby Guido
 
This piece is the conversation between my voice and my mind. I have always felt like my voice, my instrument, was an almost separate entity from my mind. Thinking and singing are almost two different actions that happen simultaneously. This piece emphasizes my journey and progress being made both intellectually and vocally as an artist and the struggle to grow them both simultaneously.
 

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A song of my body 

David Lee

Performer: David D. Lee
 
I want to portray the inner voice with my body, expressing the deep connection between my physical self and my voice as a vocalist. This piece is a song that is sung with my body.

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