UC Davis Department of Music
Choruses of UC Davis
Season of Migrations
Friday, December 6, 2024
7:00pm
Jackson Hall
Featuring a guest orchestra, the choruses of UC Davis — the Concert Choir and the Chamber Singers — join together to perform choral music with texts that often center on homeland and migration.
Where is home? Is it where you have been or where you are going? From India to China to Britain, Mexico, Africa, Syria and Iraq, the concert selections paint pictures of movement, faith and beauty across many cultures and time periods. The program ends with J.S. Bach’s uplifting Magnificat.
1 hour and 45 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission
Program List
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Noel
Brad Holmes
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Jubilate Deo
Mack Wilberg
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Veni Sancte Spiritus
Zanaida Robles
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Fōg Elnā Khel
Salim Bali (arr.)
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Way Over in Beulah Lan’
Stacey Gibbs (arr.)
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Carmina mei cordis
Abbie Betinis
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“¿Me quedo o me voy?” from The Immigrants
Sergio Barer
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月亮船 (Moonboat)
Yang Hong and Zhang Quanfu (arr. Saunder Choi)
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Balleilakka from the Tamil film Sivaji
A. R. Rahman (arr. Ethan Sperry)
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Homeland
Gustav Holst (arr. Z. Randall Stroope)
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Dixit
Michael Haydn
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Magnificat, BWV 243
J. S. Bach
Artists
Nicolás Dosman
Conductor
Nicolás Dosman
Nicolás Dosman is Director of Choirs at UC Davis. Previously, Dosman was the Director of Choral Studies and an associate professor of music at the University of Southern Maine. He was also the artistic director of the Community Chorus at South Berwick, the Chorus Master for the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Magic of Christmas series, and Opera Maine. He began his collegiate teaching career as the Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at Colby College and worked as an adjunct voice professor at Molloy University.
Under his leadership, his choirs have appeared in Carnegie Hall, Merrill Auditorium, Vietnam, performed for the Governor of Maine and have been invited as a feature group at the ACDA and NAfME music conferences. Additionally, his choirs have recorded for a motion picture that is currently a semi-finalist for the American Prize in Choral Performance. He frequently conducts honor choirs and All-State choirs and has been invited to guest conduct in Vienna and Salzburg in 2024. Dosman has served as a choral clinician at Latin America choral festivals. He has also presented his research at national and international conferences.
His research includes choral pedagogy, social justice and policy in music education, and the evolution of gender and male recruitment in choral programs. He is currently under contract with Rowman and Littlefield to publish a choral pedagogy text in the coming months.