ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile began playing together 15 years ago, and began performing live as a duo in 2003. The duo recently released a second album titled Bass & Mandolin.

Thile says, “We have grown a lot as a collaborative entity between our fi rst recording and now, at least partially due to our work together on The Goat Rodeo Sessions collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Stuart Duncan. As collaborators, we’ve found a warmer voice to share.”

Meyer adds, “Chris is comfortable with all kinds of improvising, with lots of diff erent musical feelings and rhythmic feelings. With him I can do anything I want. I can just be a bass player or I can play the melody. There are not many people with whom I have so much common ground. We can get to the bottom of things very quickly.”

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sat, Sep 20Royce Hall

8pm

Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer

RUNNING TIME: Approximately 2 hours;

One intermission

Pick Your Brains Out: String Jam Session with UCLA

Bluegrass BandFree Pre-Show Concert and

Jam Session on the Royce Terrace - 6:30 pm

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MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: Welcome to the first performance of the CAP UCLA 2014-2015 season.

It’s been a long hot summer and we couldn’t be more delighted that the time has come to once again gather with you, our audience to witness another extraordinary moment in the art of performance.

Tonight we come together to experience the craft of two MacArthur Geniuses, a pair of master performers and composers who have each, throughout their expansive careers, irrevocably and delightfully re-framed the ways in which music lovers get to experience the potential of their chosen instruments.

The ongoing creative intersection between Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile is a testament to the power of collaboration. Their appetite for exploring the possibilities of the language of the bass and mandolin has resulted in an utterly unique musical vernacular. And tonight, we get to sit back and enjoy witnessing one of the most compelling conversations in instrumental music, a meeting of hearts and minds through the strings and keys and hands of these two astonishing artists.

It’s a powerful thing, this sense of music as a dialogue, a means of communicating and connecting with one another. It’s also an extremely fitting way to begin our season program, which at its core, is a profound means of conveying thoughts and ideas from artists and audiences.

We are proud to kick off our season tonight in collaboration with some talented instrumentalists from our immediate community. Thank you to the artists from the UCLA Bluegrass Band for hosting a rousing pre-show concert and jam session on the Royce Terrace this evening.

We will gather in such a way often as the season progresses and we hope you will join us often as we celebrate the great artistry of the performers on our upcoming season, in ways that weave us together as a community of cultural omnivores. We’re committed to creating moments that instigate dialogue, provoke curiosity and enhance the art-filled potential of us all.

Thank you for being here tonight. Enjoy.

Edgar Meyer (Bass)Throughout a lifetime of performing and composing, Edgar Meyer has turned the double bass into a modern virtuoso instrument that is equally at home in classical music and in the American vernacular. In 1994, Meyer became the first bassist to win the Avery Fisher Prize. He is also a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award and four Grammy Awards. Meyer has found devoted audiences through a vast range of projects, from his own double bass concertos that he continues to perform regularly to recital collaborations with Emanuel Ax and Amy Dorfman and performance and recording projects with artists including Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Mark O’Connor, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Mike Marshall, and many others. The New Yorker calls him “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument.”

Collaborations are a central part of Mr. Meyer’s work. His previous performing and recording projects including a duo with Béla Fleck; a quartet with Joshua Bell, Sam Bush and Mike Marshall; a trio with Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall; and a trio with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor have been widely acclaimed. The latter trio collaborated for Appalachia Waltz, which was released in 1996, soared to the top of the charts and remained there for 16 weeks. Appalachia Waltz toured extensively in the U.S., and the trio was featured both on the David Letterman Show and the televised 1997 Inaugural Gala. Joining with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor for a second time, Appalachian Journey, the follow-up to Appalachia Waltz, was released in March 2000. This time, their tour took them not only to major venues across the U.S. but also to Europe and parts of Asia. Appalachian Journey won the Grammy Award that season. In the 2006-2007 season, Mr. Meyer premiered a piece for double bass and piano that he performed with Emanuel Ax. Mr. Meyer also works with pianist Amy Dorfman, his longtime collaborator for solo recitals, featuring both classical repertoire and his own compositions.

Chris Thile (Mandolin)MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile is the founding member of Punch Brothers, which a Boston Globe reviewer recently called “the tightest, most impressive live band I have ever seen.” The group’s three Nonesuch releases are Punch, Antifogmatic, and Who’s Feeling Young Now? and a fourth is slated for an early 2015 release. Thile’s other Nonesuch releases include a duet album of traditional bluegrass songs with guitarist Michael Daves--Sleep with One Eye Open, and a prominent role in the T Bone Burnett–produced soundtrack to the Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis. Thile recently collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma and Meyer for the double Grammy Award–winning album The Goat Rodeo Sessions. As a soloist, he has released five albums—most recently the highly praised Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1—and performed extensively as a duo with fellow eminent mandolinist Mike Marshall. He spent 15 years as a member of the Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum selling Nickel Creek, which reunited this year for its highest-charting album to date, A Dotted Line (Nonesuch), and has been touring North America this spring and summer. Thile has also collaborated with such bluegrass innovators as Béla Fleck, Dolly Parton, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush.

Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté and Rokia TraoréSat, Sep 27 at 8 pmRoyce Hall

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Fri, Oct 24 at 8 pmRoyce Hall

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GUARDIANBaret Fink

CHAMPIONThe Feintech FamilyDr. Audree FowlerFariba Gha� ariDeborah IrmasDiane KesslerRenee & Meyer LuskinGinny ManciniKathleen & John QuisenberryMaxine & Gene RosenfeldDr. Richard RossShirley & Ralph ShapiroDr. Allan Swartz & Roslyn Holt-SwartzDiane Levine & Robert WassRon WatsonMimi & Werner Wolfen

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The boards of CAP UCLA and Design for Sharing would like to thank all the members who have made a choice to join them in supporting arts education and the art of performance at UCLA.

This listing represents memberships from July 1, 2013-September 1, 2014. If you have questions or would like further information on how you can support CAP UCLA please contact Yvonne Wehrmann at membership@cap.ucla.edu or (310) 794-4033.

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