nicole PAIEMENT
conductor
UCSC
Nicole Paiement is Director of Large Ensembles at the University of California where she conducts the Orchestra, the full productions of Opera and the Chamber Singers. Under her baton, the Orchestra has developed into a quality ensemble that performs music from all period. The Chamber Singers have won the Louise Goucher Award and have been recognized by the Aaron Copland Foundation. Both Ensembles can be heard on professional recordings. Her collaboration with Opera Director Brian Staufenbiel has helped the Opera Theater become one of the major event of the year in the Music Department.

2010
Opera Theater: (June)
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

2009
UCSC Chamber Singers, Concerto Choir and Orchestra: (November)
Mozart: Requiem and Sinfonia concertante. Roy Malan violin and Darcy Rindt, viola

Opera Theater: (May/June)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

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

Opera Theater: (June)
Menotti: The Consul

UCSC Chamber Singers: (February)
Poetry and Music in Bloom
Conrad Susa: Serenade (West Coast Première)
Morten Lauridsen: Les Chansons des Roses & Sa nuit d’été
Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb

2007
Opera Theater: (June)
Mozart : Die Zauberflöte

UCSC Chamber Singers: (December)
Jephtha (semi-staged version)

2006
UCSC Chamber Singers: (December)
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Poulenc: Motets de Noël
Works by Isaac and Ockeghem

Opera Theater: (June)
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

UCSC Orchestra: (February)
Dvorak: "New World" Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rebecca Jackson, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

2005
UCSC Chamber Singers and Orchestra: (December)
Honegger: Le Roi David

Opera Theater: (June)
Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart

UCSC Orchestra: (February)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Eladio Sharrón, guitar