Todd Barton
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, English horn
Andrew Conklin, electric guitar
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Thursday, October 9, 2025
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
OCTOBER 9, 2025, 7:30 PM
Solo improvisation
Todd Barton, Buchla music easel
Collective improvisation
Todd Barton, Buchla music easel
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, English horn
Andrew Conklin, electric guitar
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
University of the Pacific’s alumnus Todd Barton ’71 is a sonic adventurer, composer, educator and performer of abstract, freely improvised electronic music specializing in Buchla, Serge and Hordijk electronic musical instruments. For four decades he was composer-in-residence for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and also taught music composition and electronic and computer music at Southern Oregon University.
Besides electronic music, Barton has composed for the KRONOS Quartet, The Oregon Symphony, The Rogue Valley Symphony and San Jose Chamber Orchestra. His music can be heard on all major internet platforms. He widely shares his electronic music explorations, demos and tutorials via YouTube and Instagram as well as offering private online sessions for clients and students around the world.
Barton recently released his solo album Below this Time Does Not Exist. Learn more at Toddbarton.com.
Oboist Kyle Bruckmann is assistant professor of practice and program director of Varied Ensembles at University of the Pacific. Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and new music specialist. His creative output—extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground—can be heard on more than 100 recordings. Hist current ensemble affiliations include Splinter Reeds, SFCMP, Eco Ensemble, Quinteto Latino, and the Stockton Symphony; significant projects he has led or collaboratively founded include Degradient, EKG, Lozenge, and Wrack.
Hawai‘i-born bassist Kathryn Schulmeister is an assistant professor of practice in double bass at University of the Pacific.
Praised for her “expressive and captivating performance” (Grammy.com), she enjoys a creative music practice as a versatile performer, educator and researcher. Recent honors include a 2020 Grammy Award nomination as a collaborating artist featured on Susan Narucki’s The Edge of Silence, a contemporary classical album of chamber works by György Kurtág on AVIE Records (2019).
Schulmeister has appeared as a soloist with leading international contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, the ELISION Ensemble and Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. She has given solo performances at venues and festivals around the world including the Melbourne Recital Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, San Diego Museum of Making Music, soundSCAPE Festival, Vértice Festival and the Clive Davis Theater at the Grammy Museum. She is a member of the ELISION Ensemble, Fonema Consort, and Echoi Ensemble. She has performed as a guest artist with various adventurous ensembles including Delirium Musicum, Ensemble MusikFabrik, SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg, Wild Up! and Ensemble Dal Niente.
Andrew Conklin serves as associate professor and program director of composition and music theory at University of the Pacific.
Conklin creates music that traverses American vernacular idioms and contemporary classical practices. A Grammy Award-nominated musician, he has toured throughout the United States and Europe as a guitarist and bassist with indie rock bands, bluegrass groups, and improvising ensembles. His work as a composer and educator has appeared in outlets such as Pitchfork.com, the Florida State University Biennial New Music Festival, Music Theory Online, NewMusicBox, Pedagogy into Practice, and the Society of Composers National Conference. Conklin’s albums are on New Focus Recordings and Bot Cave Records.
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