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.

2006-2007
OPERA:
Mozart : Die Zauberflöte

2005-2006
UCSC Chamber Singers:
Dixit Dominus by Handel
Motets de Noël by Poulenc
Works by Isaac and Ockeghem

Opera:
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten

Orchestra:
"New World" Symphony By Dvorak
Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky, Rebecca Jackson, violin
Symphony no. 1 by Beethoven

2004-2005
UCSC Chamber Singers:
Le Roi David by Arthur Honegger with the UCSC Orchestra
A Cappella:
Huit chansons françaises by Françis Poulenc
Reincarnations by Samuel Barber
A.M.D.G. (Ad majorem Dei gloriam) by Benjamin Britten

Opera:
Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart

Orchestra:
Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite in the Olden Style by Efrem Zimbalist
Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov
Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo Eladio Sharrón, guitar