UC Davis Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble

is an undergraduate course, Music 122, offered by Professor Kurt Rohde at the University of California, Davis. Throughout the semester students engage with the concept of improvisation in a contemporary classical context looking at the works for Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Julius Eastman, and living composers. Students write their own and group compose improvisatory works that are performed at the end of the semester. Within the course students form the UC DAVIS Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble and perform a concert at the end of the semester featuring their works, the works of emerging composers, and canonical staples (like Oliveros and Eastman).

Performances

Idioms and Episode 8 performance

March 10, 2022