nicole PAIEMENT
conductor


Conducting of Commissioned Works

2012
John Harbison / Jacques Desjardins: The Great Gatsby (Chamber Version)
Neil Rolnick: Ansomia
2011
Manly Romero: Doppelgänger
2009
David Garner: Shards for Chamber Orchestra. NME
2008
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Transparent Walls for Chamber Ensemble.
Alden Jenks: The Soup for baritone and Ensemble, Ensemble Parallèle
2007
Ryan Brown: Thick Skin
Stella Sung: Guitar Concerto
Aleksandra Vrebalov: New Work for Large Ensemble
2006
François Rose: Le temps scintillé
Bruce Mather: Music for San Francisco
Jacques Desjardins: Volupté
2005
Laura Schwendinger: Lady Lazarus for Mezzo Soprano and Ensemble
 2002

Elinor Armer: API Games
Dusan Bogdanovic: Games
Alden Jenks: Sour Music
Alexandra Vrebalov: Sextet, 2002
Martha Horst: Elegy, 2002
Cindy Cox: Untitled, 2002

2001

Eric Sawyer: Under the Sudden Blue
Carolyn Yarnell: Smiling Madame Beudet
Mario Davidovsky: Recit Andy
John Harbison: Chaconne
Wayne Peterson: Inscape
William O. Smith: C.B. for Solo Cello
Hi Kyung Kim: Orange Pastel
Sunf-Jae Lee: Dalha Dalha
Lou Harrison: Mass for percussion and chorus
Dante De Silva: T.I.M.G.

Conducting of World Premières

2011

Manly Romero: Doppelgänger (World Premiere of commissioned piece)

2010

Noah Meites: Night Blooming (UCSC Orchestra)
Laura Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzuro: Concerto for violin and orchestra. Curtis Macomber, violin.
Conrad Susa: Final version opera: The Love of Don Perlimplin (NME)

2009
Laura Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzuro. Concerto for violin and orchestra. Lina Bahn violin. Madisson Symphonietta
Pierre Mercure: Cantate pour une joie (Premiere of Chamber Version)
2008
Laura Schwendinger: Esprimere.. Concerto for cello and orchestra. Matt Haimovitz, cello. Madisson Symphonietta
Philip Collins: Requies Ranarum for electronics, voice and ensemble. (Final version) NME
Luciano Chessa: Urlo di Pietra, Ensemble Parallèle
Youg-Shin Choi: YX Unsquared, UCSC Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Brown: Sailing to Bysantium
Nick Vasallo: Expand the Hive
2005
Hyun-ju Lee: Durée for Orchestra
Sunghi Hong: Kiklos a Choregraphic Symphony
Seunghee Suh: Ragnarök
Yanghee Kim: Accumulation in Dispersion for Orchestra
Gui Sook Lee: Rustlings
Hi Kyung Kim: Rituel III
2004
Abraham Fabella: L'Eau
2003
Ian Dickensen: I Fear the New American Century
Paul Mackenzie: Broken Glass
Ryan Brown: The Red Priest
Ruby Fulton: Dodecahedron
Fraser Smith: Wave Architecture
Chan-Hae Lee: Back to the Origins, Opera.
Richard Felciano: Cante Jondo
 2001

David Conte: The Return of the Magi
Lou Harrison: Mass for chorus and percussion (New Version)
Lou Harrison: Arias from Caesar

Conducting of American Premières

2011

Philippe Hersant: Musical Humors (Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra) NME
Philippe Hersant: Songlines NME
Michèle Reverdy: Which Dreamed It?

2007
Henze: L’heure Bleue
2006
Brian Cherney: Apparitions
Chan Hae-Lee: Rabbit Story
Chan Hae-Lee: Chunhyangga
Chan Hae-Lee: Heungboga
2005
Regis Campo: Popart
2004
Hanna Kulenty: Flute Concerto
2003
Chan-Hae Lee: To Hwong Seong for Ponsori
Melisa Hui: Still
2002

Michèle Reverdy: Concerto pour Orchestre

2001

Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata

Artistic Director of the BluePrint Project

2011-2012
Transcending Senses

2011 North and South
John Harbison: North and South
John Harbison: The Great Gatsby (sneak preview)
Erwin Schulhoff: Concerto for Piano

Musical Humors: Discover Philippe Hersant
Philippe Hersant: Musical Humors, Songlines, Psaume 130, Wanderung, Sonate pour violoncelle, 11 Caprices

2012 John Harbison: The Great Gatsby
World premiere opera production of Jacques Desjardins' chamber orchestra version of Harbison's The Great Gatsby

Anosmia
Neil Rolnick: Anosmia
Stefan Cwik: Eight Miniatures for Chamber Ensemble
Philip Glass: Harpsichord Concerto
2010-2011
Between the Lines

2010 Riding the Elivator Into the Sky
Laura Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzuro
Philip Glass: Selections from Orphée Suite for Piano
David Conte: Sexton Songs. With Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Lux Aeterna
André Previn and Tom Stoppard: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. With ACT Actors. Directed by Giles Havergal.

2011 Which Dreamed It?
Paul Bowles: The Dancer, Romantic Suite, Three Pastoral Songs
Michele Reverdy: Which Dreamed It?
Maurice Ohana: Wamba

Shades of Time
Manly Romero: Doppelgänger (Hoefer-prize winner)
Andrew Imbrie: From Time to Time
Hi Kyung Kim: Secret Wine

Homage to Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Imbrie: From Time to Time, String Quartet No. 5, Chicago Bells
Gunther Schuller: String Quartet No. 4 (With the Borromeo Quartet)
2008-2009
The Urgency of Now

2009 The Light Within
George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
David Garner: Shards (Commissioned work)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Concordanza
Terry Riley: Y Bolanzero
Stephen Hartke: The Rose of the Winds

2008 Transparent Walls
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Transparent Walls (Commissioned work)
Phil Colins: Requies Ranarum (World Premiere of final version)
Giya Kancheli: Midday Prayers
Young-Shin Choi: YX Unsquared

Coming Together
John Harbison: Abu Ghraib
Bright Sheng: Postcards (West Coast Première)
Rzewski: Coming Together
John Halle: Homage

2006-2007
Fertile Sounds

2006 Volupté
Bruce Mather: Music for San Francisco (commissioned work)
Jacques Desjardins: Volupté (commissioned work)
Dimitri Yanov-Yanovski: Lux Aeterna
Gavin Bryars; The Adnan Songbook

Fertility Rites
George Crumb: Quest
Henze: L’heure Bleue
François Rose: Le temps scintillé (commissioned work)
Hatzis: Fertiliy Rites
Robert Cogan: Polyutterances

 

2007: Thick Skin
Luciano Berio: Point on a Curb to Find
Ryan Brown: Thick Skin (commissioned work)
Chou Wen-chung: Windswept Peaks (1990)
Toru Takemitsu: Tree Line
Frank Zappa: A Stranger at the Door
2005-2006
New Viennese
Perspective
(Sponsor for the season: Austrian Embassy)
Nicole Paiement, Artistic Director
Schönberg: Insights (14-15 October 2005)
Arnold Schönberg: Kammersymphonie opus 9
Olga Neuwirth: Spleen, Jeffrey Anderle, bass clarinet
John Cagz: Construction III
Leon Kirchner: Trio II
Laura Schwendinger, Lady Lazarus (commission)
Webern: Sturm und Klang (11 Novembre 2005)
Anton Webern: Funf Sätze fur Streichquartett
Olga Neuwirth: Torsion, Jonathan Stehney, bassoon
Schnitteke: Hymns for Chamber Ensemble
Anton Webern: Quartet opus 28
Joseph Schwantner:Canticle of the evening bells
Berg: Lyrical Modernism (10 March 2005)
Alban Berg: Sieben Frühe Lieder
Brian Cherney: Apparitions, Hannah Addario-Berry, cello
Olga Neuwirth: Marsyas, Mack McCray, piano
Frank Martin: Ballade for viola solo, Jodi Levitz, viola
2004-2005
Gÿorgy Ligeti: To the Edge of Sound
Gubaidulina: Concoranza
Ligeti: Piano Etudes, Steve Drury, piano
Ligeti: Continuum pour clavecin, Corey Jamason, harpsichord
Ligeti: Hungarian rock, Chaconne pour clavecin, Corey Jamason, harpsichord
Lutoslawski: Chain I
Bartok: String quartet No. 3
Kurt Weill: International Soundscape
Kurt Weill: Cabaret Songs
Weill: Concerto for violin and Wind Instruments Op. 12, Bettina Mussumeli
Hi Kyung Kim: At the Edge of the Ocean
Jorge Lidermann: Swirling streams, David Tanenbaum, guitar
Henri Dutilleux: Master Craftsman of Color
Henri Dutilleux: Les Citations
Henri Dutilleux: Trois Strophes pour Paul Sacher, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello
Maurice Ohana: Suite de ballet "Sundown Dance"
Regis Campo: Popart
Ensemble Parallèle@OtherMinds 10
Hanna Kulenty: Flute Concerto
Lyric Sets From Coast to Coast
Allan Crossman: Millennium Overture Dance
Jonathan Russell: Concertino for Chamber Ensemble
Lee Hyla: String Quartet No. 3
John Harbison: Mirabai Songs
Abraham Fabella: L'Eau
 2003-2004
World Women in Music Today – Forum
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Young-ja Lee: Elegy (Manga) for Kayakeum Solo Betsy Jolas: Musique pour Delphine
Melissa Hui: Still
Kaija Saariaho: Spins and Spells
Chan-Hae Lee: To Hwang Seong for Pansori and Chamber Ensemble
Shulamit Ran: Concerto da Camera II
Celebration of Chou Wen-chung's 80th Birthday
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Isang Yun: Piri
Joji Yuasa: Projection for String Trio (American première)
Chou Wen-chung: Octet (Co-commissioned by BluePrint and Speculum Musicae)
Chinary Ung: Grand Alap
Hi Kyung Kim: Trio Sori for Clarinet, Violin and Daekum
Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
Milhaud's America-Mills Year
Old First Church, San Francisco
Darius Milhaud: Violin and Harpsichord Sonata
Suite de Sonnets, Op. 40
Cantate de la guerre
Cantate pour l'inauguration du Muséé de l'Homme
Elinor Armer: API (BluePrint commission)
Milhaud's America
Old First Church, San Francisco
William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost
Darius Milhaud: Quatrième Quintette, Op. 350, Aspen Serenade, Op. 361
William O. Smith: C.B. for Solo Cello
Richard Felciano: Cante Jondo for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Minimalism and Beyond
Arvo Part: Spiegel im Spiegel
Belinda Reynolds: Dust
Terry Riley: Y Bolanzero
Steve Reich: Nagoya Guitars
John Adams: Chamber Symphony
Lou Harrison: A Life's Celebration
May Rain
Pied Beauty
Scenes from Nek Chand
Marriage at the Eiffel Tower
Elegy for Harpo Marx
Solstice
 2002-2003
Strings at the Shrine
St. Dominic Shrine, San Francisco
Dusan Bogdanovic: Games (BluePrint commission)
Lou Harrison: Suite for Cello and Harp
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
Dimitri Yanov-Yanoski: Lacrymosa, pour soprano et quatuor à cordes
Henze: An eine Äolsharfe
City Composers
St. Mark's Church, San Francisco
David Conte: Songs of Consolation
Dan Becker: Vanishing Point
Alden Jenks: Sour Music
Conrad Susa: Fantasy Tango
David Garner: Seven Nocturnes
Messiaen and His Legacy (Part I)
Old First Church, San Francisco
Jean-Louis Florentz: Second Chant de Nyandarua, Litanies pour douze violoncelles, Op. 11
Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques, pour piano solo et petit orchestre
Gilles Tremblay: Quatuor à cordes
Michèle Reverdy: Concerto pour Orchestre

Messiaen and His Legacy (Part II)
Old First Church, San Francisco
Qigang Chen: Instants d'un opéra de Pékin
Tristan Murail: Attracteurs étranges
George Benjamin: Upon Silence
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

 
Guest Conducting

2012
Dallas Opera. The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies. Featured in the new Dallas Opera Chamber Opera Series.
2010
Madiscon Chamber Orchestra. Works by Laura Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzuro for violin and chamber orchestra. Lina Bahn, violin.
2009
Inaugural Concert: Mills College, Oakland. Milhaud Orchestra. All Milhaud concert: Concerto pour percussion Op. 109; Cinq études op. 63 for piano and orchestra; Le boeuf sur le toit op. 58; Cantate pour l’Inauguration du Musée de l’Homme op. 164 ; and Le Carnaval d’Aix Op. 83b
Stravinsky-Milhaud: Mills College, Oakland. Milhaud Orchestra.
Stravinsky: Soldier's Tale; Milhaud: La mort d'un Tyran and Concerto pour 2 piano and percussion
2008
Madisson Symphonietta Works by Laura Schwendigner. : Chiaroscuro Azzuro for violin and sinfonietta & Esprimere for cello and orchestra.
2005
Korea: Suwon Philarmonic Orchestra on the 14th of September in the World Premiere of five symphonic works: Durée by Hyun-ju Lee; Kiklos by Sunghi Hong; Accumulationin Dispersion by Yanghee Kim; Ragnarök by Seunghee Suh; Rustlings by Gui Sook Lee
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra on August 17th in an Hommage to Jobim, featuring world famous musicians that include Oscar Castro Neves, Gal Costa, Eliane Elias, Ivan Lins, Diane Reeves Listen, Luciana Souza, Paulinho Jobim, Daniel Jobim, Gretchen Parlato.
 2004
Other Minds New Music Festival: Hanna Kulenty: Flute Concerto (March)
Korea:Paiement conducts the Korean premiere of Bardos, by composer David Jones and the reprise of Chan Hae Lee's Back To The Origin.
 2003
Tribute to Wayne Shorter. Music by Wayne Shorter for jazz ensemble and orchestra. Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (August)
Work by Janice Mitsrull: Women's Philharmonic Orchestra (June)
University of Sherbrooke professional conducting program. Music by Mozart, Milhaud, Hindemith (May)
International Festival of Women in Music Today. Conducted world première opera by Chan Hae Lee: Back to the Origin, and Nicola Lefanus' The Old Woman of Beare, Ensembles Kochi (Japan). Seoul Contemporary Opera Company, Seoul, South Korea (April)
Milhaud and the Past. Milhaud: Suite de sonnets, Cantate de la guerre, Cantate pour l'inauguration du Musée de l'homme, Renaissance works on poetry by Ronsard, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival (February)
 2002
University of Sherbrooke professional conducting program. Music by Purcell, Duruflé, Daley, Britten (September)
Québec Summer Choral Institute. Mozart, Requiem (July)
 2001
UCSC Women in Film Festival, Carolyn Yarnell: Smiling Madame Beudet (October)
University of Sherbrooke professional conducting program. Music by Britten (Rejoice in the Lamb), Orff (Carmina Burana), Montréal, Québec (May)
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, UCSC Recital Hall: Bach to the Future (May)
Arts and Lectures Series (UCSC), UCSC Recital Hall. Tribute to Andrew Imbrie (April)

University of Sherbrooke professional conducting program. Music by Bach (Magnificat),
Brahms (J. Worum ist das Licht gegeben), Montréal, Québec (February)

Conducting at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

 2004-2005
Student Composition concert ( 12 April)
Works by Andrew Cadima, Theodore Hine, Erik Jekabson, Darren Jones, JooWan Kim, Brian Mark
BluePrint season
 2003-2004
Hellman student composers' works (May)
Music by Russell, Dicke
Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco (April)
Chung Wen-chung: Windswept Peaks
Varèse: Intégrales
Hellman Hall (March)
Milhaud: Aspen Serenade
Felciano: Taro
 2002
New works by student composers (December)
St. Mark Lutheran Church, San Francisco (November)
Alden Jenks: Sour Music - commissioned work
Conrad Susa: Tango (West Coast première)
David Garner: Seven Nocturnes
Old First Church, San Francisco (October)
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Michèle Reverdy: Concerto pour orchestre
Jean-Louis Florentz: Chants
Hellman Hall (April)
Varèse: Octandre
Wolpe: Chamber piece no. 2
New works by student composers
Hellman Hall (March)
Martha Horst, commissioned world première
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Sextet (world première)
Cynthia Cox, commissioned world première
Sofia Gubaidulina: Dascensio
 2001
Hellman Hall (December)
New works by student composers
Hellman Hall, and University of California, Davis Concert Hall (November)
Ed Bauer: Octet
Donatoni: Refrain
Eric Sawyer: Under the Sudden Blue
George Crumb: Ancient Voices
Hellman Hall (October)
Yarnell: Smiling Madame Beudet (commissioned work)
Takemitsu: three film scores
Copland: Music for the Theater
Hellman Hall (April)
Student composition concert
A Musical Festschrift to Andrew Imbrie. Hellman Hall, and UCSC Recital Hall (April)
Mario Davidovsky: Recit Andy
John Harbison: Chaconne
Wayne Peterson: Inscape
William O. Smith: Offanta
Hi Kyung Kim: Orange Pastel
Sung-Jae Lee: Dalha Dalha
Andrew Imbrie: Spring Fever and Reminiscence

Hellman Hall (February)
Hommage à Stravinsky - Concerto for Piano and Winds, Ebony
Concerto, Four Russian Songs, Concerto in D, Concertino

Conducting at UCSC

2008-2009

2009 Opera Theater: Le Nozze di Figaro, full production (May/June) UCSC Chamber Singers & Chamber Orchestra: Pierre Mercure: Cantate pour une joie (Premiere of Chamber Version).

2008 UCSC Chamber Singers, Concert Choir and Orchestra: Carmina Burana (Semi-staged)

2006-2007

Opera :

Mozart : Die Zauberflöte, complete production

2005-2006

UCSC Chamber Singers:
G.F. Handel: Dixit Dominus
Francis Poulenc: Motets de Noël

UCSC Orchesta:
Dvorak: "New World" Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto , Rebecca Jackson, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No.

UCSC Opera:
Benjamin Britten: A Misummer Night's Dream

 2004-2005

UCSC Chamber Singers:
Arthur Honegger: Le Roi David with the UCSC Orchestra

A Capella:
Francis Poulenc: Huit chansons françaises
Samuel Barber: Reincarnations
Benjamin Britten: A.M.D.G (Ad majorem Dei gloriam)

UCSC Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capricio Espagnol
Efrem Zimbalist: Suite in the Olden Style
Joaquin Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez, Eladio Scharron, guitar

UCSC Opera
W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni

 2003-2004

UCSC Chamber Singers:
In Memoriam: Jyoti and Lou (November)
Harrison: Mass for Saint Cecilia's Day
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, UCSC Orchestra

The Choral Tradition (February)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe des Morts
Works by Morley, Wilbye and others

UCSC Orchestra:
The Classical Tradition (November)
.....Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
.....Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491, C Minor
.....Mozart: Requiem K 626, with UCSC Chamber Singers

UCSC Opera:
Kurt Weill: Street Scene

 2002-2003

UCSC Chamber Singers
(November)
Duruflé: Requiem
Brahms: Songs op. 30, 62, 92
(February, UCSC & March at Old First Church, San Francisco)
Milhaud' America: Reverence for the Past,
.....Cantate pour l'inauguration du Musée de l'Homme
.....Cantate de la guerre
.....Suite de Sonnets, Op. 401
.....L'Apothéose de Molière

UCSC Orchestra
(November)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
Schumann: Piano Concerto

(March)
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Weber: Clarinet Concerto no. 1

UCSC Opera:
W.A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

 2001-2002

UCSC Chamber Singers
(December)
G.F. Handel: Messiah (complete)

UCSC Orchestra
The Classical Forms Through Times, (November)
.....Beethoven: Egmont Overture
.....Dvorak: Cello Concerto
.....Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

UCSC Opera:
Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Gian Carlo Menotti: The Medium

 2000-2001

UCSC Chamber Singers:
Steps in Eastern Europe (March)
.....Szymanowski: Stabat Mater

UCSC Orchestra:
Young Talents Concerts (April)
.....Mozart: Exsultate jubilate
.....Milhaud: Concerto pour percussion
.....Dante DeSilva: world première
Steps in Eastern Europe (March)
.....Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
.....Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
.....Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

UCSC Opera:
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore