You’ve spent hours in rehearsals refining your music… how can you make sure your performance complements what you’re doing? Take a long lunch with award-winning lighting designer Clyde Sheets to explore lighting design for music. Sheets, who is himself a musician, and has designed for operas, musical theater, and top new music ensembles like Bang […]
Kyle Motl: Transmogrifications – Solo Contrabass
At the heart of my solo music is an ongoing interest in exploring the limits of the contrabass. In solo improvisation, I am free to plumb the instrument’s wealth of sonorities, pushing sound to its breaking point and revealing the extremities of technique, timbre, and dynamic envelope. Solo performance also presents a platform for the […]
Kyle Motl: Transmogrifications – Solo Contrabass
At the heart of my solo music is an ongoing interest in exploring the limits of the contrabass. In solo improvisation, I am free to plumb the instrument’s wealth of sonorities, pushing sound to its breaking point and revealing the extremities of technique, timbre, and dynamic envelope. Solo performance also presents a platform for the […]
Phil Pierick, saxophone: memories in gray
memories in gray stitches together works for saxophone with and without electronics from the 21st century. In works by Lei Liang, Kati Agócs, David Reminick, Stefano Gervasoni, and Javier Quislant, saxophonist Phil Pierick obscures the lines between silence and sound, real and imagined, and gray and in color. A staunch advocate for new music, saxophonist […]
Phil Pierick, saxophone: memories in gray
memories in gray stitches together works for saxophone with and without electronics from the 21st century. In works by Lei Liang, Kati Agócs, David Reminick, Stefano Gervasoni, and Javier Quislant, saxophonist Phil Pierick obscures the lines between silence and sound, real and imagined, and gray and in color. A staunch advocate for new music, saxophonist […]
Public Speaking Workshop
From stage banter to gig pursuits, public speaking skills are an important tool for musicians to better engage their listeners. Today’s performers and composers are expected to address audiences, students, booking reps, potential supporters, and a host of others. Work with an expert artistic and nonprofit leader to hone your public speaking skills. With decades […]
Public Speaking Workshop
From stage banter to gig pursuits, public speaking skills are an important tool for musicians to better engage their listeners. Today’s performers and composers are expected to address audiences, students, booking reps, potential supporters, and a host of others. Work with an expert artistic and nonprofit leader to hone your public speaking skills. With decades […]
Project Development Workshop
How can you take your musical idea and bring it to fruition? Independent musicians and ensembles must balance the scope of their ambitions with ambiguities around gig income, marketing costs, recording costs, ever-shifting timelines, and fundraising possibilities. Not to mention finding the right collaborators and venues! This workshop will begin with experienced project leaders Terrence […]
Project Development Workshop
How can you take your musical idea and bring it to fruition? Independent musicians and ensembles must balance the scope of their ambitions with ambiguities around gig income, marketing costs, recording costs, ever-shifting timelines, and fundraising possibilities. Not to mention finding the right collaborators and venues! This workshop will begin with experienced project leaders Terrence […]
PRISM Series — Ensemble MISE-EN Visits from NYC
Join contemporary music collective ENSEMBLE MISE-EN for an evening of performance and discussion as they visit San Francisco for one night only. The night will showcase works written specifically for the ensemble by young composers as well as Frederic Rzewski’s masterwork “Moonrise with Memories” for bass trombone and ensemble. We will conclude with a conversation […]