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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 […]

3 Encounters

An evening of 3 short sets: Amanda Chaudhary (electronics) , Zachary Watkins (guitar and electronics), followed with a duo with Thea Farhadian (violin & electronics) with Silvia Matheus (electronics). Three 25-minute sets by three musicians/composers based in the Bay Area. Amanda Chaudhary opens the evening with her blend of experimental electronic sounds with jazz, funk, […]

Concetta Abbate: Sound and Memory

Violinist and Composer Concetta Abbate presents a program of music for solo violin and voice to showcase her new music and arts organization Sound & Memory. After completing her Death Doula certification in 2021 Concetta saw a need to incorporate music into contemporary rituals for both grief and death, as tradition evolves over time. She […]

Thomas Schultz Plays 40 Years of Hyo-shin Na’s Music for Piano

Thomas Schultz, pianist and Hyo-shin Na, composer have been collaborating since the mid-1980s. Schultz has played her music in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Ghent, Amsterdam, Seoul, Taipei, Kyoto, San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles. Na has twice been awarded the Korean Composer’s Prize and has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, […]

Nathan Clevenger Trio + Phillip Greenlief & Marié Abe

The Nathan Clevenger Trio, featuring Jordan Glenn & Cory Wright, celebrates the release of their new album, ‘Unsettled by the Ocean.’ For tonight’s performance, the trio is joined by Phillip Greenlief & Marié Abe. Oakland musicians Nathan Clevenger, Jordan Glenn, and Cory Wright share a long and entwined history of collaboration across various projects, including […]

Sarah Saviet

Sarah Saviet performs works that choreograph sound for the violin- the hands moving through space, the arc of an elbow, the resistance of fingers pulling threads and strings. This program includes a classic- Xenakis’ Miika, a new work by Saviet, and two recent works by Lisa Streich and Tim McCormack. Sarah Saviet is a violinist […]