The Glenn Glasow Fellowship Concert Cal State East Bay recital hall, mb 1055 – tuesday, May 13, 2025

The Glenn Glasow Fellowship is supported by the Glenn Glasow and Yoshiko Kakudo Endowment in the Music Department of CSUEB. It annually supports one student in music composition, providing support for student fees as well as the performance of a commissioned work on the Glenn Glasow Fellowship Concert, a series established in 2003 to honor Dr. Glasow’s memory.

PROGRAM

Original artwork by David Mao (4 sketches from An Artist in Composer's Workshop)

Artist Biographies

Monica Chew (she/her) is an Oakland composer and pianist who celebrates presenting rarely performed music and new works from around the world. A “gifted player with an affinity for deeply sensitive expression” (Whole Note, June/July/August 2018), her playing is “wonderfully delicate, like tissue” (International Pianist, July/August 2018). She has been a featured artist on radio stations across the world. She started composing in 2017 and couldn’t be happier about it. Her work has been commissioned by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Community Women’s Orchestra of Oakland, Masterworks Chorale, and as part of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Creative Academy for Music’s VAPP program. Her work has been featured as part of the Darkwater Festival, Verdant Vibes, Hot Air Music Festival, Sonic Harvest, and Vox Novus. Her first string quartet, Delayed Send, was premiered by Friction Quartet in November 2020 and reviewed as “monumental” and “stunning” by San Francisco Classical Voice. Prior to 2015, she neglected piano for nearly a decade to work as a principal software engineer on security and privacy at Mozilla and Google after receiving her Master of Music from SF Conservatory of Music and a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her husband, their cat, an 1899 Steinway B, a clavichord, and a disused violin.

Stuart Langsam is a multi-faceted percussionist and music educator originally from Southern California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from San Jose State University, a Master of Music Degree from Oklahoma State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Oklahoma. As an avid supporter of new music, he has commissioned and premiered works for a variety of instrumentations including solo marimba, snare drum with electronics, and percussion with voice. He has toured internationally and across the United States as a member of the professional percussion ensemble Orphic Percussion. In addition to his role as Principal Percussion of the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose, he plays regularly with a variety of orchestra and chamber groups across the Bay Area. He has presented a marching percussion exhibition at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and instructional clinics at the Oklahoma Music Educators Association and the Oklahoma Day of Percussion. Dr. Langsam has been an Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa. He currently holds the office of Vice President of the Northern California Region of the California Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. He is endorsed by Innovative Percussion and alongside his percussion colleagues in Orphic, he is an ensemble artist for Marimba One. He works with the percussion program at Saratoga High School, gives private lessons out of the Rhythm Academy of San Jose, is on faculty at West Valley College, and is a full-time instrumental music teacher at Sylvandale Middle School. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, playing strategy games, and spending time with his wife, three children, and their seven and a half pound mini-pincher/chihuahua mix, Shadow.

Dazzling audiences with her easy coloratura, storytelling, and passionate performances, Chelsea Hollow loves finding new ways of connecting her art to the world around her. She “shows how it’s done” with her “fun and effortless” performances curated to welcome audiences into the intimacy of recital seamlessly weaving together music from all eras and genres. Recent operatic performances include Birds and Balls with Opera Parallèle, Dolores with West Edge Opera, and Albert Herring with Pocket Opera. Known for her “soaring high range” and “stage panache,” favorite traditional roles include Die Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte / Mozart), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos / Strauss), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Mozart), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann / Offenbach), Lakmé (Lakmé / Delibes), and Marie (La Fille du régiment / Donizetti). Concert appearances include Concerto for Two Orchestras (Gubaidulina) with the Berkeley Symphony, Carmina Burana (Orff) and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Judas Maccabaeus by Handel with the San Francisco City Chorus. Chelsea Hollow “has rewritten the book on the potential of musical activism” creating art that invites her audiences to think collectively and gain perspective. In 2023, she released her debut album, Cycles of Resistance, including 22 commissions in 8 languages chronicling international stories of human resilience. In recognition of this project, Chelsea presented on a panel hosted by the United Nations’ Office of Human Rights to discuss Art and Activism. Hollow cherishes her mission as an artist to build capacity for empathy, harness a venue for community healing, and amplify marginalized voices. In addition to her solo work, Hollow created Allowed to be Loud (2021) for the students of San Francisco Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (RASOTA) Vocal Department, commissioning song repertoire for young voices using texts by Bay Area high school students, The Kids and Art Foundation, and other anonymous community members. Highlights from the 21 commissioned songs include, “Being a Student in 2020” (Emily Shisko), “The Future Holds Water in a Wicker Basket” (Joel Chapman), and “I am Growing” (JooWan Kim).

Eduard Hrmushyan is from the beautiful mountainous country of Armenia. He started playing guitar at age 8 and after exploring jazz and blues idioms he discovered and fell in love with the classical guitar. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yerevan State Conservatory. He is currently studying under David Tannenbaum at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Eduard showed up at SFCM without a guitar and used a loaner from the conservatories collection. He is an accomplished and talented player, winning multiple awards in competitions in Europe. He looks forward to a long and accomplished career in music.

As members of the Cal State East Bay community on the Hayward campus, we acknowledge that we are guests on the unceded land of the First People of this region, the present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area (formerly Verona Band of Alameda County). We support the sovereignty of this Chochenyo-Ohlone-speaking tribal group and other indigenous peoples. This acknowledgment was created by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe with the support of the CSUEB Indigenous Acknowledgement Collective and is a living document.