Listen to this virtual performance presented by the UC Davis Shinkoskey Noon Concert Series, live streamed from the Ann E. Pitzer Center Recital Hall on November 12, 2020.
This program included:
- Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 by Zoltán Kodály
Performers
- Dagenais Smiley, violin
- Susan Lamb Cook, cello
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Susan Lamb Cook is Lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of California, Davis, a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, and director of the VITA Academy’s Great Composers Chamber Music Series at the Harris Center in Folsom. An active performer and educator both nationally and internationally, Susan has completed five concert and teaching tours of China, performs annually at festivals in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and performs regularly for the UCD Shinkoskey Noon Concert Series, the Westminster Music At Noon Series, and the Crocker Art Museum’s Classical Concert Series. As Director Emeritus of the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop, Susan spent 30 years developing this program and, in 2019, the Sacramento City Council awarded Susan a Resolution recognizing her work with young, local musicians. In July 2020, Susan developed Sacramento Summer Music, an educational program for young chamber musicians which focused on under-represented composers including women composers and composers of the African Diaspora. This program ultimately developed into the Sacramento Summer Music Virtual Festival of Concerts, which was produced by the Great Composers Chamber Music Series in collaboration with the Sacramento Baroque Soloists and the Sacramento Guitar Society, all partner organizations of the Harris Center.
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Dagenais Smiley, a Northern California native, earned her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory under the direction of Milan Vitek and her Master of Music from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, studying with Ms. Kathleen Winkler. An active orchestral musician, Ms. Smiley performs as Acting Associate Concertmaster with the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Assistant Concertmaster with the Modesto Symphony, and also performs with the Stockton Symphony, the Monterey Symphony, the Napa Symphony, the Reno Philharmonic, and other various Northern California and Bay Area orchestras. Dagenais currently teaches violin at UC Davis and maintains a private violin studio. In her spare time, Ms. Smiley enjoys hiking, watching and reading science fiction, playing Pokemon Go, and practicing yoga.