Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Content

Don Roth on the ‘Recovered Voices’ Project

Soterios J Johnson — May 16, 2023 - 12:31am

Mondavi Center Executive Director Don Roth discusses the “Recovered Voices” project highlighting composers and works derailed by the Nazi regime.

Weekender: Concerts, Free and Low-Priced, Highlight the Schedule

Karen Michele Nikos — December 06, 2023 - 10:58am

This week, you will see concerts offered, both holiday and not, by everything from student choruses to Lincoln Center ... all available at UC Davis. We also highlight our arts gifts.

Karen Nikos-Rose, Arts Blog Editor

Standing Ovations for Hernández at Chancellor’s Colloquium

Jose Antonio Vadi — December 05, 2023 - 2:00pm

In the scene, future NASA flight engineer José Hernández is a 7-year-old boy sitting with his siblings in the backseat of the family car circa 1969. They’re staring at their young hands and fingers, bandaged and dirty from hours spent working in the fields.

Weekender and Beyond: Be Thankful for UC Davis and Regional Arts with Theatre, Festival, Music

Karen Michele Nikos — November 16, 2023 - 10:52am

This Thanksgiving, gives thanks for the arts in our community. Many of this weekend’s events were covered in last week’s Arts Blog, but we link to them again and hope you look forward too to the holiday and other concerts and events on the horizon. The Arts Blog will take Thanksgiving off next Thursday (our normal publishing day), so we preview some concerts you won’t want to miss when you come back super-stuffed. Don't forget to enjoy Thursday's noon concert featuring a little-known string instrument. Read on.

Weekender: Enjoy Piano Solo, Ongoing Exhibitions, Save the Date for Shakespeare

Karen Michele Nikos — November 07, 2023 - 12:21pm

Raul Razo and Morgan Liu, both university staff members, work on putting up yellow ribbons during the tying of the yellow ribbons on the trees on the Quad for Veterans' Day celebrations this week.

Weekender: Flute Concerts, AI in Art, Free Film in Davis

Karen Michele Nikos — November 02, 2023 - 11:06am

With concerts, talks and exhibitions, there is much to do now through the weekend at UC Davis and the region.

New Executive Director Selected for the Mondavi Center

Karen Michele Nikos — October 30, 2023 - 1:05pm

Jeremy Ganter has been selected as the new executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan announced today. His first day in the role is Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Weekender: Music, Art, Performance and Halloween-a-plenty

Karen Michele Nikos — October 25, 2023 - 9:01am

'A Cello's Birthday: Music for a Very Old Friend' is noon concert Thursday

Oct. 26, 12:05 p.m. to 1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

Alexandra Roedder, Baroque cello, and
Faythe Vollrath, keyboard and UC Davis lecturer in music

Weekender: Alum Artist Butterfield Speaks; Poetry, Chamber Music Quartet

Karen Michele Nikos — October 19, 2023 - 10:40am

Telegraph quartet performs noon concert

Thursday, Oct. 19, 12:05 p.m. to 1 p.m. UC Davis Music Department, Recital Hall, Ann E.

Mondavi Season Starting, Gorman Museum Grand Opening Preview

Karen Michele Nikos — September 01, 2023 - 2:35pm

This weekend

Music on the lawn at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24

On the courtyard lawn Sunday afternoons at di Rosa in Napa in September listen to live music beginning at 1 p.m. This series is included with general admission tickets and membership, kids are free.