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Opening Reception: Peter Whitehead’s “Difficult Listening for Beginners”

Join us for the opening reception for Peter Whitehead’s “Difficult Listening for Beginners” the latest Window Gallery Exhibit! Peter will give a demonstration of his invented instruments. Reception with light refreshments at 6pm followed by artist talk/demo at 7pm. RSVP for this FREE event!! Artist Statement: Two of my earliest memories are of listening […]

Gachapon with dancer Christina Braun

Gachapon: A quartet featuring Nancy Beckman, Cindy Webster, Tom Bickley and Dean Santomieri; playing a variety of instruments including: shakuhachi, lyre, EWI (electronic wind instrument), bowed, amplified saw, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, taishogoto, percussion and voice. Collaborating, for this performance, with dancer Christina Braun. A Gachapon is a Japanese vending machine that dispenses small toys in capsules. […]

SFSU Composition Studio Recital

Composers from SFSU will present a variety of music, newly composed and improvised. […]

Yifan Shao: Colors of the Wind

This is the first solo concert of Yifan Shao. He will be premiering his latest work Colors of the Wind and Love Letter. Get ready to embark on a spiritual journey. Artist Bio: Yifan Shao (b.2003) is a Chinese composer, vocalist, photographer, painter, poet, and performance artist. Yifan Shao’s music is fluid, relational, and nonlinear. […]

Paul Kogut & Niko Umar Durr

NYC jazz guitarist Paul Kogut presents selections from his ongoing project of reimagining classic Grateful Dead tunes through new harmonic lenses. He will be joined by violinst & composer Niko Omar Durr performing music by Saariaho and Corigliano. For the past 25 years, Paul Kogut has been steadily building an international reputation as a […]

DIMUZIO – GREENLIEF – WOBBLY

THIS S#^T IS UGLY Thomas Dimuzio – live electronics Phillip Greenlief – tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet Wobbly – live electronics, sampling, all the other things TSIU Is a trio sound bath of fire and ice in rainbow colors – the kind of music that leaves light stains on the soles of your feet. Tt […]

Fire at the Plantation House Album Release Show

Fire at the Plantation House (FatPH) celebrates the release of their debut album “Southampton Insurrection”. An afternoon of memorable melodies and mosh-inducing riffs! Fire at the Plantation House is a one-person project based on occupied Ohlone land (otherwise known as San Francisco) FatPH lyrically wrestles with the injustices that shape our world and pushes the […]

Opus 4

Please join us for the last installment of The Opus Project in the 2023-2024 season, Opus 4! We have an exciting program, featuring composers Marie Herrington, Mark Alburger, Ravel, Gounod (in a world-premiere arrangement by Jonny Incipido), Hindemith, Nadia Boulanger, Sarasate, and Copland! Playing and singing on this concert we have newcomers Paul Dab on […]

A Night of Silents: Films by David Michalak & George Méliès

EYE-FULL FILMS presents A NIGHT OF SILENTS, Pt. 1 A NIGHT OF SILENTS, Pt. 1 features two rarely seen progressive “silent films” by David Michalak: Not Quite Right and the “poetic and hypnotic…” Face of a Stranger. “My idea was to allow gesture and expression to reveal the characters inner feelings and relay the narrative.” […]

Nonetheless Spring Returns

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental chamber music of beauty, searching, hope, written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 13, 2023, 8:00PM. The […]