ModernMedieval Voices
Saturday, February 14th, 8PM
Meng Concert Hall, CSUF School of Music 

Program
Music from Hildegard von Bingen, Caroline Shaw, Caleb Burhans, and Pamela Madsen.

Modern Medieval Voices is all-female ensemble created by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek to present programs that combine medieval chant and polyphony with new commissions and music from later eras. She is joined by singers drawn from some of the country’s leading early and new music ensembles, including Roomful of Teeth , Pomerium, and Trinity Wall Street Choir.

Here is the premiere of the sinfonietta version of Melting Away: Gravity with the League of Composers/ISCM Orchestra, featuring Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano:

Thursday | May 22, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY

In this wonderful program, David discusses my work in a pre-concert lecture and the concert itself starts at the 58:30 mark.

Full program here: https://issuu.com/csuf_cota/docs/molly_pease_and_david_bergstedt

Longing (Tesknota) Song Cycle by Pamela Madsen
(from In America: Modjeska (2025))
(World Premiere)

I. Lost Father
II. Hymn to the Earth
III. A Tree Ascended There
IV. Arden
V. Parallel Disasters-Loss and Gain

***** Intermission *****

Which Side Are You On? (from North American Ballads) by Fredric Rzewski

Proof and Disproof (an opera for one alone) by Pamela Madsen
Movements V-VII

Recovery Family by Molly Pease

From I to We by Molly Pease

The Singing of the Waves: Nereid’s Lyre by Pamela Madsen

Approaches and Departures (from Four Meditations for Orchestra) by Pauline Oliveros

Molly Pease, voice
David Bergstedt, piano
CSUF New Music Ensemble

Molly Pease, mezzo-soprano, & David Bergstedt, piano

Friday, September 19, 2025 8:00pm
Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton

Program

Pamela Madsen, “Longing (Tesknota) Song Cycle from In America: Modjeska”

Fredric Rzewski, “Which Side Are You On?” from North American Ballads

Pamela Madsen, “Neried’s Lyre: the Singing of the Waves”

Pamela Madsen, “Proof and Disproof (an opera for one alone)…”
Movement V -VII

Molly Pease, “Recovery Family”

Pauline Oliveros, from “Four Meditations-Approaches and Departures”

About In America: Modjeska

In America: Modjeska for voice and piano focuses on immigration in America. The work follows the complex story of Helena Modjeska, a Polish immigrant and renowned Shakespearean actress who emigrated to the United States in the late 19th century for personal and political reasons. She settled in Southern California to establish the Bohemian artist community "Arden" in what is now Modjeska Canyon, near my home in Laguna Beach.

From June 11-21, No Exit will perform The Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour.

No Exit brings their 2024-25 season to a close with a presentation of music from The Collective – an international consortium of composers who represent some of the most individual and poetic voices in new music today. This eclectic program will be performed throughout Europe by No Exit during the first 2 weeks of June. The concert will feature works by Agata Zubel, Mathew Rosenblum, Douglas Knehans, Spiros Mazis, Amy Kaplan, Constantine Koukias, Edward Smalldone, Timothy Beyer, Cindy Cox, Pamela Madsen and Jack Vees.

Full Tour Schedule

June 11, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Athens, Greece
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Black Box Theater at The American College of Greece. More info here.

June 13, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Peruggia, Italy
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be at the Morlacchi Conservatory. More info here.

June 15, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Wrocław, Poland
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Akademii Muzycznej concert hall. More info here.

June 21, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Amsterdam
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Vondelkerk Amsterdam. More info here.

On Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, at 7:30 PM in the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall, the League of Composers/ISCM presents a concert of innovative and expressive new works featuring premieres by Justin Weiss, Pamela Madsen, Paul Salerni, and Roger Reynolds. The Orchestra of the League of Composers will be conducted by Louis Karchin and David Fulmer.

Thursday | May 22, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY

Program

Justin Weiss: through depths and shadows (NY Premiere)
Winner, 2024 League-ISCM Competition for New Works

Pamela Madsen: Melting Away: Gravity (Premiere of the version for Sinfonietta)
featuring Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano

Paul Salerni: The Oak and the Reed (NY Premiere)
featuring Domenic Salerni, violin

Roger Reynolds: JOURNEY (U.S. premiere)
featuring Jacqueline Leclair, oboe

Tickets: $25 Advance | $35 Doors | $15 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors open: 7:00 PM

The Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother from Oratorio for the Earth on March 21st and 22nd in Greece. Performances feature works by the international composer group — The Collective — at The American College of Greece and Ionian Academy.

March 21, 2025 | The Consecrating Mother in Athens, Greece
Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother for voice, cello, and piano at The American College of Greece.

March 22, 2025 | The Consecrating Mother on Corfu, Greece
Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother for voice, cello, and piano at Ionian Academy.

2025 Grammy Award winners SO Percussion are coming to CSUF!

Shaw and So Percussion won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album “Rectangles and Circumstance”.

Keep an eye out for CSUF events:
Feb. 19th-Percussion Room 119
Workshop/Masterclass 7:30-8:30PM
Open Rehearsal with So Percussion and CSUF New Music Ensemble 8:30-9:30PM

Feb. 20th, Concert 8PM Meng Hall works by SŌ AT FULLERTON!
MENG AUDITORIUM

Works by Nathalie Joachim, Pamela Madsen, Jason Treuting, Olivier Tarpaga, and Pauline Oliveros.

CSUF New Music Ensemble Performing works by Jason Treuting and Pamela Madsen with So Percussion.