Bay Area bassist/bandleader and arts organizer Lisa Mezzacappa leads an introductory workshop on grants for independent musicians. This is the pre-K, absolute beginner’s guide to finding and writing grants to support your work. Learn what opportunities are available for musicians, composers and ensembles in the Bay Area; how to prepare your materials and navigate applications; […]
Grant Writing Basics: Beginner's Guide to Grants for Independent Musicians
Bay Area bassist/bandleader and arts organizer Lisa Mezzacappa leads an introductory workshop on grants for independent musicians. This is the pre-K, absolute beginner’s guide to finding and writing grants to support your work. Learn what opportunities are available for musicians, composers and ensembles in the Bay Area; how to prepare your materials and navigate applications; […]
HUSH Series — summer 1: insects
summer 1: insects is the second in a five-part series of durational (two-hour) performance installations, based on the seasons. The soundscape of summer 1 is inspired by insect stimuli and agreements that create clouds of sound that emerge, grow, move, diminish and shift on a non-human timescale around and within the audience. The overall effect […]
HUSH Series — summer 1: insects
summer 1: insects is the second in a five-part series of durational (two-hour) performance installations, based on the seasons. The soundscape of summer 1 is inspired by insect stimuli and agreements that create clouds of sound that emerge, grow, move, diminish and shift on a non-human timescale around and within the audience. The overall effect […]
Sven Edward Olbash, baritone & Kevin Korth, piano: The New Music
Caccini’s Le Nuove Musiche was one of the first publications to codify the dazzling vocal ornamentation typically improvised by singers of the pre-Baroque and which paved the way for Monteverdi’s groundbreaking opera L’orfeo. In the 20th century, Benjamin Britten turned to the Renaissance poetry of Michelangelo for inspiration and set seven of his sonnets for […]
Sven Edward Olbash, baritone & Kevin Korth, piano: The New Music
Caccini’s Le Nuove Musiche was one of the first publications to codify the dazzling vocal ornamentation typically improvised by singers of the pre-Baroque and which paved the way for Monteverdi’s groundbreaking opera L’orfeo. In the 20th century, Benjamin Britten turned to the Renaissance poetry of Michelangelo for inspiration and set seven of his sonnets for […]
Composer Meetup
The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Adam Fong if you would like to attend and/or present. […]
Composer Meetup
The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 7 to 9 PM. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Adam Fong if you would like to attend and/or present. […]
Out by Five & Friends Remembering Bill Horvitz
Bill Horvitz is probably best known as a guitarist who loved to push boundaries, an improviser who artfully melded traditional and extended techniques to coax a vast array of sounds and textures out of his instrument. As jazz critic Chris Kelsey wrote in his liner notes, “The art of northern California-based guitarist/composer Bill Horvitz acknowledges […]
Out by Five & Friends Remembering Bill Horvitz
Bill Horvitz is probably best known as a guitarist who loved to push boundaries, an improviser who artfully melded traditional and extended techniques to coax a vast array of sounds and textures out of his instrument. As jazz critic Chris Kelsey wrote in his liner notes, “The art of northern California-based guitarist/composer Bill Horvitz acknowledges […]