Peak FreQuency Creative Arts 
UCCS VAPA Music Program
Glen Whitehead, artistic director 

With KCME Classical Music Radio

 The 2015/2016 season co/presented by KCME Classical Music Radio and will be heavy on innovative collaborations including the Colorado Symphony Youth Symphony, the Colorado Springs Brass Ensemble, the Colorado Springs Conservatory, Colorado College and the Playground Ensemble from Denver.  Featuring a lineup of international scope guest artists include world-renowned trumpet soloist Timothy Morrison as conductor, from Mexico guitarist Pablo Gomez and A Love Electric. Guitarist Roberto Limon, Jane Rigler’s Air to Air: Building a Global Community, Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments,” pianist Chris Bakriges, and new UCCS Vocal faculty Haleh Abghari among others.

September 25
Peak FreQuency with KCME Classical Music Radio
The World Guitar, part I
Pablo Gomez from Mexico, UCCS Music Faculty Colin McAllister
Curator, Colin McAllister

Pablo Gómez’s guitar is one of the most remarkable sounds of today’s music scene. His repertoire includes various aesthetic tendencies: from classics of the twentieth century and contemporary pieces to works written expressly for him by renowned Mexican and international composers

October 1
Peak FreQuency with KCME Classical Music Radio and the Colorado Springs Conservatory
UCCS at the Mezzanine

A Love Electric – from Mexico City
Curator – Glen Whitehead

An explosive trio of three nationalities, A Love Electric, hailed as the tomorrow of creative rock by Mexico City’s leading newspaper, La Jornada, performs at some of the world’s finest rock festivals, jazz clubs, and cultural landmarks.

Peak FreQuency with the Mezzanine

“When you listen to his music, the funk and rock keep you on your toes. And the beauty of it is all the songs have melodies that stick” Vintage Guitar Magazine / USA

“(A Love Electric serves) a catchy amalgam of retro soul and jazz-rock experimentalism a hardcore jazzelement also crops up” Jazz Times / USA

October 16
Violin Faculty Martha Morrison Muehleisen, Megan Ignen – mezzo-soprano, Karen Yaskinsky – video artist
Curator – Glen Whitehead

UCCS welcomes mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen and faculty member, violinist Martha Morrison Muehleisen to perform composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments,” An exploration of Gyorgy Kurtag’s Kafka-Fragmente through video and sound An

Take a deeply spiritual journey through the life and writings of Franz Kafka

November 13th
Air to Air: Building a Global Community
Peak FreQuency with KCME featuring Steven Gorn/Curtis Bahn/Thomas Ciufo/Darwin Grosse + Ichiyanagi
Curator – Jane Rigler

November 21
Resonance of the Bell
Peak FreQuency mega-collaborative with KCME Classical Music Radio, Colorado Springs Youth Symphony (CSYS) and the Colorado Springs Brass Ensemble (CSBE)
Timothy Morrison – conductor in residence
Glen Whitehead – trumpet soloist
Sean Hennessy – trumpet soloist

Renowned Hollywood trumpet recording artist, conductor Timothy Morrison directs these regional signature ensembles in a celebration of famous repertoire he’s recorded the past three decades including Apollo 13, JFK, Amistad and Born on 4^th of July – featuring trumpet artist, UCCS VAPA Music Program Director Glen Whitehead with the CSBE with the Colorado and trumpet artist / Film Composer faculty Sean Hennessy performing the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto with the CSYS.

A Peak FreQuency Mega-Collaborative, withfeaturing World-renowned Hollywood trumpet recording artist, conductor and educator Timothy Morrison

Timothy Morrison – conductor in residence

Glen Whitehead – trumpet soloist

Sean Hennessy – trumpet soloist

February 25
Peak FreQuency Creatve Arts and KCME
The World Guitar (Part II) Featuring Roberto Limon
Curator – Colin McAllister

March 3
Peak Frequency with Colorado College – student compositions, faculty performances – March or Festival

The Second Annual Peak FreQuency Music Festival

April 7 – 10
With KCME and the Colorado Springs Conservatory

Expanding the flute: Baroque, Shakuhachi and Contemporary flute tradition Nancy Andrew, David “Kansuke II” Wheeler and Jane Rigler

UCCS Vocal Faculty

Haleh Abghari and Solveig Olsen recital (KCME)

Peak FreQuency meets the Playground Ensemble?

Chris Bakriges & Glen Whitehead

BIOS / INFO

World Guitar, part I

Pablo Gómez
guitar

Original, distinctive, and unconventional, Pablo Gómez’s guitar is one of the most remarkable sounds of today’s music scene. Decidedly different and away from all conventions, his repertoire includes various aesthetic tendencies: from classics of the twentieth century and contemporary pieces to works written expressly for him by renowned Mexican and international composers. His repertoire includes solo guitar; electro-acoustic music; duets with vocalist, percussion, and violin; and concerts with chamber ensembles and orchestras. This a musical diversity that has taken him to performances in concerts in the United States, Sweden, France, London, Germany, Austria, Spain , Canada, Latin America Chile, Venezuela, Iceland and in several cities in Mexico.

He has shared the stage with world class performers, such as Susan Narucki, Christophe Desjardins, Steve Schick, Magnus Andersson, among others. He has been soloist with the Camerata de Las Americas, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, the Orchestra of the University of Cincinnati, Carlos Chavez Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Fine Arts in Mexico City to name a few and has participated in various ensembles: The Contemporary Ensemble of Montreal (ECM)and the Kore Ensemble of Canada, the Ibero-American Ensemble of Madrid, the Latin American Quartet,  Onix, Palimpsest Ensamble among others.

He has performed in the Cervantino Festivals, Festival de México, Festival Internacional de Morelia as well as other dedicated to new music, including the Ferien Kurse für Neue Musik Darmsatadt, Radar, the Manuel Enriquez New Music Forum, the V Search Event in San Diego, and the Festival A Tempo in Caracas and Paris, among others.
Pablo Gómez began his musical studies at the (Ollin Yoliztli) School Introduction to Music and Dance with maestro Gerardo Carrillo. He received his professional education at the National School of Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he graduated with honors. He also had private studies with Federico Bañuelos. With the support of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), he attended a two-year specialization program in contemporary music in Stockholm, Sweden, with Magnus Andersson. He produced a CD Tañendo Recio, under the Quindecim label and has participated in various other professional recordings. Recently the label World Records produced the CD Miliou that includes a solo work perfumed by Gomez.

In 2012 he received the “Interpreters with relevant Career” grant from Mexico’s National Fund for the Arts.  He currently teaches at UNAM’s National School of Music and is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of California

A Love Electric

An explosive trio of three nationalities, A Love Electric, hailed as the tomorrow of creative rock by Mexico City’s leading newspaper, La Jornada, performs at some of the world’s finest rock festivals, jazz clubs, and cultural landmarks. Led by guitarist and vocalist Todd Clouser, a voice recognized as at the forefront of a new generation of genre redefining artists, A Love Electric carries the sonic legacies of psychedelic rock, New York City’s downtown scene, and introspective song into new territories. Having performed over 150 concerts in 2013 across three continents, ALE has gained praise from critics and fans of rock, jazz, and experimental musics alike.

The Prague Post calls ALE’s sound “blistering”. Time Out Barcelona writes the A Love Electric experience is “illuminating”. NPR calls Clouser “fascinating”. For its fourth record, the band brings legendary organist, pianist, keyboardist John Medeski into the mix on the Ropeadope Records release “Son of A Hero” (August 2014). Recorded in Clouser’s birthplace of Minneapolis, Minnesota with stops in Woodstock, NY and back to the band’s home of Mexico City, “Son of A Hero” was mixed by Grammy Award winner Patrick Dillett (Soul Coughing, David Bryne and St. Vincent) and produced by Latin Grammy winner Hernan Hecht.

A Love Electric is Todd Clouser (guitar and vocals), Aaron Cruz (bass), and Hernan Hecht (drums), Hecht a Latin Grammy winner for his work as drummer and producer.  The three musicians have performed with  Steven Bernstein, Anton Fier, Billy Martin, Cyro Baptista, members of Dire Straits, Keb Mo, Tim Berne, Ely Guerra, and more. In there years of aggressive touring throughout the United States, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and Argentina, A Love Electric have documented their evolution into creative rock supergroup on three records from Brooklyn, NY’s The Royal Potato Family and a solo Clouser album Billy Martin’s label, Amulet Records.

A Love Electric now sits with a sound and approach all its own, defying category and inspiring audiences with their impassioned and prolific approach to creating. A new generation of idea is here.

– Read more about Todd Clouser’s music

Gyorgy Kurtag’s Kafka-Fragmente

An exploration of Gyorgy Kurtag’s Kafka-Fragmente through video and sound

Take a deeply spiritual journey through the life and writings of Franz Kafka, as UCCS welcomes mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen and violinist Martha Morrison Muehleisen, to the stage performing composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments.” Inspired by the life of Kafka and his many works, the Jewish-Hungarian composer of Europena music ties composer and writer together with “alliterative grace” taking listeners through “a century of modernism and a gasping for personal expression through violently impersonal time” in one of his longest and most celebrated works. This performance will feature live animations during the performance by Rome Prize fellow Karen Yasinsky.

Through Music: An Interconnecting Global Community

The Peak Frequency Creative Arts Collective seeks to use music as a means to foster community, dialogue and cultural diversity with a five-day electro-acoustic chamber ensemble residency on the UCCS campus. This unique ensemble consists of Bansuri (ancient Indian flute) master Steve Gorn, Curtis Bahn on Shagird (sitar) and interactive gestural electronics, Thomas Ciufo on percussion and live electronics, Darwin Grosse on interactive video and Jane Rigler on flute (Western) and electronics. This residency will allow the artists to interact with various UCCS student groups on campus, invite UCCS faculty from the departments of Philosophy, VAPA and community leaders in a panel discussion about the growth of digital humanities and culminate with a telematic performance which will present the artist’s compositions as well as feature student works in a simultaneous interactive telematic concert with Toshi Ichiyanagi (electronics and ancient Japanese musical instruments), performing in Ohito, Japan.

Resonance of the Bell (for the Future)  

The excitement around the new ENT Center of the Arts is already fostering collaborative vision across the regions most vital musical organizations. Join us as we welcome one of the world’s most prolific expressive voices in recent classical brass music history – Hollywood trumpet recording artist, renowned soloist, and conductor Timothy Morrison. In his premiere visit to Colorado Timothy Morrison will conduct a joint concert with the Colorado Springs Brass and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony. This concert will feature trumpet artist Glen Whitehead (a former student of Morrison) performing solos from film scores arranged for brass ensemble and originally recorded by Morrison including Apollo 13, JFK, Amistad and Born on 4^th of July.   The Colorado Springs Youth Symphony will feature trumpeter / film composer Sean Hennessy and literature by John Williams. Timothy Morrison will be in residence with the UCCS Music Program and will work with the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony and area brass students and will also give a master class on the UCCS campus.

Timothy Morrison
Conductor / trumpet soloist

For over two decades, Tim Morrison has been captivating audiences with his singing, lyrical sound, purity of tone and has become particularly sought after as a conductor and educator. Following his tenure as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Boston Symphony and faculty appointment at the New England Conservatory Morrison pursued a career as a recording artist in major film scores, as a soloist with orchestras world-wide and as a conductor and educator at an international level. He has appeared with orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, the Caracas Philharmonic, the Taipei Sinfonetta, the Stavanger Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Pacific Symphony and recently finished a solo concert tour of Taiwan and Japan where he was featured as soloist and conductor with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra and the Yokohama Chamber Orchestra. At the invitation of Seiji Ozawa, Tim regularly performed with Ozawa’s famed Saito Kinen Orchestra and Opera Nomori Orchestra and is presently a visiting professor at the Shobi Music School in Tokyo. Having recently retired as performing artist, Morrison is now able to devote his time and energies to his passion for conducting and teaching.

Tim served as the Principal Trumpet of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1987-1997 and appeared frequently with the orchestra as a soloist for concerts, television broadcasts and recordings. He was a favorite soloist of Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams, who has said, “he has an American sound and his sound is very touching, very beautiful. There is real serenity in his playing…” This appreciation has led John Williams and other noted Hollywood composers to feature Tim on their filmscores. To date, he has been credited as soloist on the following filmscores…Born on the 4th of July, JFK, Apollo 13, Panther, Nixon, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, Bobby and Lions to Lambs. That same appreciation also led John Williams to dedicate “Summon the Heroes” to Tim, written by Williams for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

ROBERTO LIMON
Guitar

Mr. Limón is a Mexican guitarist who has carried out an intense activity as
a concert performer in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Korea, the Czech
Republic, Russia, Lithuania, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, the US and Mexico. He
has also performed as a soloist with the main orchestras of his country, as
well as the San Antonio, Pensacola, Florida, Pacific Symphony and San Diego Symphony Orchestras,the Leningrad State Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lithuania and Czech Republic National Symphony Orchestras.
Several composers have dedicated works to Mr. Limón: Leo Brouwer, Jorge Morel, Joaquin Clerch, Manuel Enriquez, Joaquin Gutierrez Heras, Leonardo Velazquez, Eugenio Toussaint,William Ortíz, Alberto Nuñez Palacio, Ernesto Cordero, Manuel de Elías, Meyer Kupferman and Simone Iannarelli.

Mr. Limón has also been a member of the Angel Romero Quartet, under the
direction of the distinguished Spanish musician whose name honors the group. His latest recording for guitar and orchestra, Tango Mata Danzón Mata Tango, was nominated in the 2^nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Classical Album category. In 2009 The Jack Straw Foundation awarded him for his work with soprano Cherie Hughes.

Aside from his extensive concert activity, Maestro Limón was the General Director of the Orquesta de Baja California for 10 years and is the director of the Festival Hispanoamericano de Guitarra, which recently celebrated its 19^th edition at the Tijuana Cultural Center.