Welcome to Pulse Art Club where tunes and visual Artists meet up to show audience members their works and how music moves the artist through their medium.

Welcome to Pulse Art Club where tunes and visual Artists meet up to show audience members their works and how music moves the artist through their medium.

Opera Santa Barbara will highlight its 20|21 Season Chrisman Studio Artists with a Spring Showcase with two performances Saturday, June 5 and Sunday, June 6 at 2:30PM at Center Stage Theater. 

Undergraduate vocalist Soohyun Ryu (soprano) will present a junior Bachelor of Music recital with pianist Pinshu Yu on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 4 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. The program will include Il pleure dans mon coeur and C'est l'extase from Claude Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées; "Du Gai Soleil" from Jules Massenet's Werther; Schwanenlied, Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass, and Gondellied from Fanny Mendelssohn's Sechs Lieder, Op. 1; “S’altro che lacrime” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito; Lullaby (Spi Ditya Mayo), Op. 16, No. 1 from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Six Romances; as well as The Year's at the Spring, Ah Love, But a Day, and I Send My Heart Up to Thee from Amy Beach's Three Browning Songs, Op. 44. Ryu is a student of UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2226

Directed by Victor Bell, the UCSB Gospel Choir will present a concert titled "Where Are They Now?" on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. Alumni and present members will speak on where they are now and the impact Gospel Choir has had on their lives infused with gospel music.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2228

On June 5th at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom, the Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild welcomes guest presenter, Lesley Roberts. Lesley will be talking about her art practice and the way she sees her work transforming the community in which she lives. Register at https://www.sbfiberarts.org/

The UCSB Chamber Orchestra will present the third audio-visual production of 2020-2021 under the direction of Dr. Maxim Kuzin on Monday, June 7, 2021, at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. Audience members will have a chance to hear one of the most dramatic overtures written by the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his overture to the opera Don Giovanni.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2224

CADA Announces First Annual Golf Classic, Join us June 7 at La Cumbre Country Club!

Graduate pianist Zhongxi Lin will present a Doctor of Musical Arts recital with violinist Lee Chia-ying on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 4 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube Channel. The program will include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304; Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 24; and Johannes Brahms' Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78. Lin is a student of UC Santa Barbara Professor Robert Koenig.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2238

Under the direction of Graduate Teaching Assistant David Lozano Torres, the UCSB Lumina Choir will present a concert, titled "We Are One," on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music's YouTube channel. The mini-concert will feature "Ubi Caritas" by composer Victor C. Johnson and "Sisi Ni Moja" by Jacob Narverud. As the choir underwent a name change this 2020-2021 school year from Women's Choir to Lumina, the intention and focus became one of unity, inclusivity, and light; being a light to the world through song. Come feel the power of unity as the members of Lumina join together in song to share the message of acceptance and love. Let us all love one another! "We all bruise, we all scar, we all fail but learn to fly. We are one world, one people. We are. ONE."

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio.

For more information and the direct link to the YouTube Premiere visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2234