The Mivos Quartet premieres new works for string quartet by UC Berkeley graduate composers: Tableau (2009, rev. 2016) by Lily Chen DEFINE // DEFILE (2016) by Scott Rubin (with movement artist SanSan Kwan) Fabulist (2015) by James Stone Mellarium #1 (2017) by Jeremy Wexler O reche modo (2017) by Jon Yu The Mivos Quartet, “one […]
Signals & Intersections: Poet Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Musician Tessa Brinckman, & Friends
Writer/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads an afternoon of poetic contemplation, in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman and other artists: writers Javier Huerta, Evan Karp, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and musicians Gael Alcock, Jean Robertson and Miles Karp. Signals & Intersections is an exploration of our bodies in communication, from within, to one another, in stillness, in motion, within […]
Signals & Intersections: Poet Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Musician Tessa Brinckman, & Friends
Writer/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads an afternoon of poetic contemplation, in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman and other artists: writers Javier Huerta, Evan Karp, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and musicians Gael Alcock, Jean Robertson and Miles Karp. Signals & Intersections is an exploration of our bodies in communication, from within, to one another, in stillness, in motion, within […]
C4NM @ Asian Art Museum: Music for the Afterlife
This performance is taking place at the Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco. During the special exhibition Tomb Treasures, local instrument inventor group Pet the Tiger will team up with Gamelan Encinal, a musical ensemble, for a presentation featuring three centuries of instrument building. Custom-built instruments by musician Bart Hopkin, designed with the […]
C4NM @ Asian Art Museum: Music for the Afterlife
This performance is taking place at the Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco. During the special exhibition Tomb Treasures, local instrument inventor group Pet the Tiger will team up with Gamelan Encinal, a musical ensemble, for a presentation featuring three centuries of instrument building. Custom-built instruments by musician Bart Hopkin, designed with the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents loadbang
New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents loadbang
New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the […]
bass2bass: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Michelle Lou & Scott Worthington
Bass2Bass is an electric bass duo comprised of SoCal bassist/composers Scott Worthington and Michelle Lou. Seeing a dearth in new music written for the instrument, the duo decided to form in 2016 and commission new pieces that feature the expressive range of the electric bass in contemporary music. Their inaugural west coast tour presents three […]
bass2bass: sfSoundSalonSeries presents Michelle Lou & Scott Worthington
Bass2Bass is an electric bass duo comprised of SoCal bassist/composers Scott Worthington and Michelle Lou. Seeing a dearth in new music written for the instrument, the duo decided to form in 2016 and commission new pieces that feature the expressive range of the electric bass in contemporary music. Their inaugural west coast tour presents three […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents John Krausbauer, C. Spencer Yeh, & Bill Orcutt
John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles. He has performed his music in a multitude of settings – from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of his work have been released on independent labels in both the US and Europe. In recent years his focus has […]