UC Davis Music Department
Choruses of UC Davis: “An American Holiday”
Nicolás Dosman, director
Friday, December 8, 2023
7:00pm
Jackson Hall
Tickets from: $24.00
With the guest ensemble Alturas Duo, the Choruses of UC Davis and Nicolás Dosman bring the rhythms and holiday vocal traditions of the Americas (both Southern America and Northern America) to Davis. Works include Navidad Nuestra by Ariel Ramírez (an Andean influenced folk telling of the nativity story), Aaron Copland’s Zion’s Walls (drawn from Appalachian America’s hymnal traditions), and Abreme la Puerta (a traditional Christmastime song from Puerto Rico).
featuring Alturas Duo
Scott Hill, guitar
Carlos Boltes, churrango and viola
Gonzalo Cortés, Andean woodwinds
Program List
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Hold Out Your Light
Albert McNeil
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Gloria Fanfare
Jeffrey Ames
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Albricias Mortales
Manuel de Sumaya
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Abreme La Puerta
Cristian Grases
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In The Bleak Midwinter
Andrea Ramsey
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Adon Olam
Kenneth Lampl
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Zion’s Walls
Aaron Copland
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Alshlosha D’Varim
Allan Naplan
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Festejo de Navidad
Herbert Bittrich
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Navidad Nuestra
Ariel Ramirez
Artist Bios
Nicolás Dosman
Director
Nicolás Dosman
Nicolás Dosman is Director of Choirs at UC Davis. Previously, Dosman was the Director of Choral Studies and an associate professor of music at the University of Southern Maine. He was also the artistic director of the Community Chorus at South Berwick, the Chorus Master for the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Magic of Christmas series, and Opera Maine. He began his collegiate teaching career as the Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at Colby College and worked as an adjunct voice professor at Molloy University.
Under his leadership, his choirs have appeared in Carnegie Hall, Merrill Auditorium, Vietnam, performed for the Governor of Maine and have been invited as a feature group at the ACDA and NAfME music conferences. Additionally, his choirs have recorded for a motion picture that is currently a semi-finalist for the American Prize in Choral Performance. He frequently conducts honor choirs and All-State choirs and has been invited to guest conduct in Vienna and Salzburg in 2024. Dosman has served as a choral clinician at Latin America choral festivals. He has also presented his research at national and international conferences.
His research includes choral pedagogy, social justice and policy in music education, and the evolution of gender and male recruitment in choral programs. He is currently under contract with Rowman and Littlefield to publish a choral pedagogy text in the coming months.
Alturas Duo
Alturas Duo
The award-winning Alturas Duo (along with Andean flute and woodwind specialist Gonzalo Cortés) delight working with orchestras and choral ensembles, and collaborating with composers in creating new and interesting repertoire. Bringing together the worlds of South American folk, western classical, and contemporary music, guitarist Scott Hill and violist and charango player Carlos Boltes have performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as well as Central and South America to great acclaim. Praised by The Washington Post as playing with “marvelous virtuosity,” Alturas Duo takes its name from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s poem “Alturas de Macchu Picchu.” The English translation for Alturas means “heights.”