Tessa Seymour is a New York City-based cellist. Accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 16, she studied with Carter Brey, principal cello of the New York Philharmonic and Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet. Ms. Seymour held the Jack Kent Cooke Fellowship at Curtis. Ms. Seymour made her televised Carnegie Hall debut […]
Vernacular Visions #22
The second installment in a series of screenings that Vernacular Visions* will be doing as part of a 3 month residency at the Center for New Music (September – November), co-curated by Justin Rhody and Tania Chen. At each performance a 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical […]
Vernacular Visions #22
The second installment in a series of screenings that Vernacular Visions* will be doing as part of a 3 month residency at the Center for New Music (September – November), co-curated by Justin Rhody and Tania Chen. At each performance a 35mm slideshow of found photographs will be projected while two small groupings of musical […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: Splinter Reeds / sfSoundGroup dual CD release party (!)
More than a decade and barely two years into their respective wars on sonic apathy, sfSoundGroup and Splinter Reeds are simultaneously releasing debut CDs. With distinct but complementary takes on contemporary composition and performance, their combined repertoire bridges post-minimalism, improvisation, indie-whatever, and flat-out fugly fun. The evening will feature select repertoire from the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries presents: Splinter Reeds / sfSoundGroup dual CD release party (!)
More than a decade and barely two years into their respective wars on sonic apathy, sfSoundGroup and Splinter Reeds are simultaneously releasing debut CDs. With distinct but complementary takes on contemporary composition and performance, their combined repertoire bridges post-minimalism, improvisation, indie-whatever, and flat-out fugly fun. The evening will feature select repertoire from the […]
Endangered Temperaments: Bertamo Trio / Edward Schocker / Dennis Aman [don't be a stranger #4]
Endangered Temperaments seeks to examine new and old perspectives on a tuning system that is rarely heard in the modern concert setting. Centuries ago, meantone temperament was among the most widely used tuning systems in western art music. Since the advent of equal temperament, however, it is rarely heard in live practice. With this […]
Endangered Temperaments: Bertamo Trio / Edward Schocker / Dennis Aman [don't be a stranger #4]
Endangered Temperaments seeks to examine new and old perspectives on a tuning system that is rarely heard in the modern concert setting. Centuries ago, meantone temperament was among the most widely used tuning systems in western art music. Since the advent of equal temperament, however, it is rarely heard in live practice. With this […]
New Music Open Mic
Do you have a piece or two that could be ready for performance but don’t have a chance to add it to a recital or other program? Do you have a work in progress that you want to try out in front of an audience? Now you can perform those works at the New Music […]
New Music Open Mic
Do you have a piece or two that could be ready for performance but don’t have a chance to add it to a recital or other program? Do you have a work in progress that you want to try out in front of an audience? Now you can perform those works at the New Music […]
QUEBEC WINDFEST: Lori Freedman + Quasar + Guest Nava Dunkelman
“Freedman is an intensely curious musical animal… who acknowledges no boundaries for what her instrument and her music can do.”—The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Quasar are poets as much as virtuosos of their instruments.”—La Presse (Montreal) Boasting five of North America’s most adventurous exponents of new music for woodwinds, this double-bill unites, for the first time, livewire clarinet soloist Lori […]