Bill Cunliffe jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director
Rodolfo Zuñiga* jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director
PIANO, ORGAN, PIANO PEDAGOGY
Bill Cunliffe jazz piano
Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano
Dr. Robert Watson piano
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Dr. Christopher Peterson choral
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore* instrumental
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Dr. John Koegel*
Dr. Katherine Reed
MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE
Dr. Vivianne Asturizaga musicology
Dr. John Koegel* musicology
Dr. Katherine Reed musicology
STRINGS
Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor
Bongshin Ko cello
Dr. Ernest Salem* violin
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Dr. Hesam Abedini composition, theory
Dr. Pamela Madsen composition, theory
Dr. Ken Walicki* composition, theory
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Dr. Robert Istad* Director of Choral Studies and University Singers conductor
Dr. Kerry Jennings* Director of Opera
Dr. Christopher Peterson CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor
Dr. Joni Y. Prado* voice, academic voice courses
Dr. Bri’Ann Wright general education
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Dr. Dustin Barr Director of Wind Band Studies, University Wind Symphony, University Band
Jean Ferrandis* flute
Sycil Mathai* trumpet
Ken McGrath* percussion
Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore
University Symphonic Winds conductor
Michael Yoshimi* clarinet
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Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator
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Welcome to the spring 2026 events season at Cal State Fullerton’s College of the Arts. We have been hard at work in every classroom, practice room, and studio across campus preparing to share new sounds and bold creativity with all of you. We are thrilled you are here.
Our students and their success form the core of our purpose in the College of the Arts but unlike their counterparts in other colleges, their paths are not solely formed through classroom learning; they are revealed in the moments when talent meets opportunity. Like when a dancer attends an intensive, or when a musician travels abroad on tour, or an actor or artist is mentored – this is where promise is transformed into possibility. The Dean’s Fund for Excellence gives students access to meaningful experiences like these and many more, including masterclasses, research opportunities, materials, and professional conferences. You can help ensure creativity isn’t limited by circumstance. Consider a gift of any amount to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence today.
This spring semester is brimming with performances and exhibitions for all to enjoy –some that will make you laugh and others that will make you think. In the School of Music, Sibarg Ensemble, featuring our own Hessam Abedini, explores the musical intersections of Iranian music and jazz on February 20. In April, Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring” follows the shy, virtuous title character as he rebels against his prudish upbringing. Join us in the Little Theatre beginning March 5 for the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” – an uproarious sendup of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale, “The Princess and the Pea.” If you’re craving something completely different, Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” opens March 19 to hold a mirror to the absurdity of mob mentality and the struggle to maintain individuality in the face of mass hysteria. And in late spring, our dancers and choreographers return to demonstrate their inimitable power and grace in “Spring Dance Theatre.”
Across the walkway from where you’re seated are the College of the Arts Galleries. You can still catch exhibitions from Soo Kim and Carol Caroompas until May, or stop by the galleries on Wednesdays for our bi-weekly Student Galleries opening receptions. They are always full of energy, and you might even find student artwork to purchase and take home!
Whether you’re returning to our venues or here for the first time, we are so excited to present another season to you. Thank you for joining us.
Sincerely,
Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts
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PROGRAM
En forêt, op. 40 (1941) ............................................................................. Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
Portrett for horn og klaver ..........................................................
Karl Kramer-Johansen
Notker
Karl Kramer-Johansen
Villanelle pour Cor et Piano (1906) ............................................................... Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
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PROGRAM NOTES
En forêt op. 40 (1941)
EUGÈNE BOZZA
We owe much gratitude to the Paris Conservatoire for commissioning new examination pieces which have greatly enhanced the recital repertoire for all wind and brass instruments. Eugene Bozza’s contribution is named En forêt which translates to “In the Forest.” Befitting an examination piece, it explores the full range of the horn and incorporates techniques such as hand-stopping, trills, glissandi and rapid tonguing. The connoisseur will recognize quotations from both Saint Hubert’s hunting call and the Easter Sequence.
Tennessee Sonata
KARL KRAMER-JOHANSEN
The great state of Tennessee caused some trauma in the composer/ performer’s life and going through the common stages of anger, grief and acceptance seemed easier with the aid of music. The first movement is in strict sonata form as formalized by Joseph Haydn. The second movement is an “ambulatory passacaglia”—to underscore the sadness, the horn and piano parts have nothing in common, and while there is pretense of functionality, that is really all there is. The final acceptance comes as a country/ western honky-tonk release. The middle part contains lyrics that are not audible but are shared here in the notes: “And I was so sad when my horse died…”
Jo & Lillian
KARL KRAMER-JOHANSEN
When my brother got married, it was expected of me to give a speech—one of several predictably boring speeches to be given during the dinner. My brilliant plan to avoid this duty consisted of performing this little celebratory unaccompanied piece instead. The lyrics translate as follows: Jo is going to marry Lillian and I am invited Yes, it is my brother
who is going to marry Lillian, Lilli-Lilli-Lilli Lillian and it’s going to be a great party! But when they get older… It’s still going to be Jo og Lillian
(My brother is still happily married and the original scribbled score for this piece hangs framed in their living room.)
Berceuse, op. 19
JEAN-MICHEL DAMASE
While Damase’s Berceuse is too simple to serve as an examination piece, he did write other works that were used for this purpose. This absolutely gorgeous little piece was the very first original recital piece I learned more than 40 years ago, and it has remained one of my favorites. The melodic material is sparse and refined and the harmonization exquisitely perfumed. While we travel through many tonal centers, there’s never a feeling of losing one’s way, as Gallic refinement and restraint are on full display.
Portrett for horn og klaver
KARL KRAMER-JOHANSEN
The story behind my Portrett for horn og klaver is both comical and heartbreaking and will be shared from the stage for optimal effect. The piece itself is a youthful attempt at “French Music.”
Notker
KARL KRAMER-JOHANSEN
Notker Balbulus was a Swiss monk who lived in the 9th century (c. 840-912). He is sometimes credited with being among the very first musicians to write down music in symbols that preceded our current notation system. He is also known for his stutter (Balbulus translates to “The Stammerer”) and for his largely fictitious biography of Charlemagne. Reaching backwards in time to memories that are hazy, unreliable and most likely mixed with inventions and other pollutants still serves a purpose. Perhaps we can find some common
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ground with our distant forebears and erase some of the obstacles of time, just as we need to see past obstacles of space and culture in order to coexist and enrich each other’s lives in the present day.
Villanelle pour Cor et Piano PAUL DUKAS
Paul Dukas was notoriously critical of his own compositional output. Most of what he wrote, he destroyed. This means that everything we have from his hand is absolutely masterful. While I lament the works that he did not deem worthy of posterity, I am very grateful that we have this gem for horn and piano—also written as an examination piece for Paris Conservatoire in 1906. Villanelle was originally intended to be performed partially on the natural, valveless horn. In addition, Dukas inserts technical elements such as muted and stopped passages as well as multiple tonguing —all contributing to its suitability for examination, yet applied with such elegance that they in no way detract from the pure enjoyment of the music.
Karl Kramer-Johansen
Norwegian horn player Karl Kramer-Johansen is a much sought-after chamber musician, soloist, and recitalist. As a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and the Dorian Wind Quintet, he performs regularly in New York City as well as touring across the country. A champion of new music, he is a member of Ensemble PI, and a guest with Parnassus, Sequitur and Argento. He has premiered works by MarcAntonio Consoli, Kile Smith, Wolfgang Plagge, Eric Moe, Billy Childs, David del Tredici, Amanda Harberg, and others. As principal horn of the Jupiter Symphony for four seasons, he soloed in the well-known concerti by Strauss and Mozart as well as in rarities by Dubois, Reinecke, Chabrier, and Saint-Saëns. His most recent solo engagements include Mozart concerti in Moscow, Schumann’s Konzertstück in New Jersey and Tennessee (first horn part), Strauss’ Second Concerto in New York City, Bozza’s En Foret with Rowan University
Wind Ensemble (in his own orchestration), and Ligeti’s Hamburgisches Konzert in Norway. He is a winner of many prizes and awards, including the American Horn Competition (twice), the George and Elizabeth Gregory Award for Excellence in Performance, and the American Scandinavian Society Cultural Award,
“...most notably, it has a prominent, perilously chromatic horn line, which Karl Kramer played beautifully…”
“…horn-lines played with a rich tone by Karl Kramer.”
“…is essentially a stand-up routine for a virtuoso soloist, excellently communicated by Karl Kramer.”
The New York Times
“...Especially impressive was the soloist Karl Kramer.” Verdens Gang
as well as a 2010 working grant from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. He has appeared as guest principal horn with orchestras across the world, including St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Norwegian Opera Orchestra, New York Pops, New Jersey Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony, and others.
Kramer-Johansen is active as a lecturer, conductor, and composer. In June 2010, he conducted the world premiere of John Eaton’s opera Benjamin Button at Manhattan’s Symphony Space, and, as music director for the Pocket Opera Players, he has lead world premieres of four operas as well as several cantatas and song cycles in New York City. For three seasons he has been composerin-residence for Concerts in the Heights, the chamber music series in upper Manhattan/ Bronx. He has recorded chamber music for the Philips, Summit, Aurora, and Polygram labels as well as for several major motion picture soundtracks.
“…moving horn solos by Karl Kramer.” concertonet.com
“… proceeded to flawlessly play this technically challenging
In addition to giving masterclasses worldwide, he was a faculty member at Rowan University in New Jersey, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Akron as well as at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas; Siena Summer Music in Siena, Italy; and the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington, Vermont.
Alison Edwards
Alison Edwards, Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy, has performed nationally and internationally as soloist and chamber musician, including engagements in the United States and China. She has been a featured concerto soloist with orchestras including the Peninsula Symphony, the Marina-del-Rey Westchester Symphony, the Rio Hondo Symphony and others. With long-time duo partner, Ernest Salem, Professor of Violin at the CSUF School of Music, she completed residencies for music programs including the Shenandoah Conservatory, Blair School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Florida State University, Central Michigan University and Hope University.
As leader of the Piano Pedagogy Program in the School of Music, Edwards has been passionate and active as a piano pedagogy lecturer and clinician. In this capacity, she completed residencies for the piano pedagogy programs at Southern Methodist University and the University of Arizona, appeared at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and presented various topics in pedagogy and performance for the various branches of the Music Teachers’ Association of California. As masterclass clinician, she has taught for the Sara Compinsky Masterclass Series, the Orange County School of the Arts, and college/university programs.
A former long-time student of Earle Voorhies, Edwards completed her undergraduate studies at California State University, Fullerton, and her graduate studies at the University of Southern California with Daniel Pollock and Dr. Stewart Gordon.
Currently, Edwards serves as Piano and Organ Coordinator in the School of Music, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 2007.
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The College of the Arts at Cal State Fullerton is one of the largest comprehensive arts campuses in the CSU system. We proudly serve as an academic institution of regional focus with national impact that combines rigorous arts training with cross-disciplinary exploration to encourage the artistic expression and individual achievement of thousands of students throughout the arts every day.
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Carole Caroompas: Mytstical Unions Through May 2
COTA Galleries (Atrium Gallery)
Soo Kim: Charlie sings in the quietest voice Through May 16
COTA Galleries (Begovich Gallery)
Sarah Cahill, piano*
March 18, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Rhinoceros
March 19–28, 2026
Young Theatre
University Singers & Concert Choir
March 21, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Paul Galbraith, guitar
March 22, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble feat. Ralph Alessi Quartet
March 24, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Talich Quartet
March 27, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra feat. Joe La Barbera, drums
March 28, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra with Talich Quartet
March 29, 2026, at 3 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Nicholas Isherwood, bass/baritone*
April 7, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
X-out
April 9–18, 2026
Hallberg Theatre
High School Honor Band & CSUF Wind Chamber Ensembles
April 11, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Albert Herring
April 10–12, 2026
Recital Hall
CSU Brass Exchange: CSUF/SDSU
April 20, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble & Fullerton Latin Ensemble
April 21, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Cello Choir
April 22, 2026, at 6 PM
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Woodwind Chamber Recital
April 24, 2026, at 8 PM
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University Symphonic Winds & University Wind Symphony
April 26, 2026, at 8 PM
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Mariachi Titans
April 28 at 8 PM
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University Band
April 29, 2026, at 8 PM
Meng Concert Hall
Spring Dance Theatre
April 30 – May 9, 2026
Little Theatre
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra feat. Dave Binney, saxophone
