Always fascinated by the instrument which symbolizes the ultimate saxophone, (John Coltrane’s voice) the choice of tenor saxophone corresponds to the passion for a unique mode of expression and a medium for uncompromising experimental music at the crossroads of multiple influences. This recital presents some of the major existing works for tenor saxophone which allow […]
Mark Helias' Open Loose
Open Loose Fact Sheet: • Open Loose was established in 1996 with Ellery Eskelin and Tom Rainey as a smaller offshoot of my quintet, Attack The Future. • In 1999, Ellery Eskelin, being too busy with his own group, gave way to Tony Malaby as the tenor player in the band. • To this day […]
Reed and Slide: François Houle & Samuel Blazer
Canadian clarinetist François Houle and Berlin-based trombonist Samuel Blazer have been collaborating for a few years on developing a repertoire for this unique combination of instruments. Taking as a point of departure Gérard Grisey’s classic Solo pour deux, Houle and Blazer are blurring the aesthetic boundaries between new music and improvisation. […]
Rituals, Wires, and Magic
1. A duet between founders of two experimental labels: Curt Brown and Fletcher Pratt. Curt Brown is a multimedia artist and writer from Akron, Ohio currently residing in Oakland. He is a co-founder of the Akron-based arts collective Rubber City Noise and has released music and performed with a variety of projects and groups: Black […]
My Blue Piano and Beautiful Wonders (New Music with the Jewish Music & Poetry Project)
Nanette McGuinness, Dale Tsang, and Adaiha Macadam-Somer David Garner Kurt Erickson Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Dale Tsang, piano, and Adaiha Macadam-Somer (the Jewish Music & Poetry Project) perform the world premiere of newly commissioned works by JMPP composer David Garner (Mein Blaues Klavier with texts by Elsa Lasker-Schueler) and Kurt Erickson (Beautiful Wonders to poetry by […]
Andrew Jamieson: Talking With Spirituals
Music talks to me. It may offer visions of hope, renewal, peace or comfort. It may point me to new ways of thinking, living, feeling or being. And I talk back. I share my own visions. I check if I’ve grasped the message, and try to say it back again. A conversation starts. My current […]
Rova String Quartet + Rova Sax Quartet
Most every year, Rova:Arts produces a major concert featuring music composed by Rova members or commissioned by Rova:Arts. In 2015, the special concert features three works by Rova, by Larry Ochs, and by Steve Adams + Jon Raskin together, all written for creative orchestra consisting of string quartet, sax quartet and power trio (el gtr, […]
New Music Open Mic
On this show, we will have a wide variety of performers and styles including solo French horn music, fixed media pieces, and live multimedia pieces. The final lineup will be announced on June 11, 2015 at http://meerenai.com/nmom If you are interested in performing at the Open Mic, please check out http://meerenai.com/nmom or contact Meerenai Shim […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Salon Classique (sponsored by SFFCM)
From Europe to the New World – String Quartets by Jewish Composers Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 13 in A minor Ernst Bloch: Prelude for String Quartet (1925) Darius Milhaud: String Quartet No. 1 (1912) Matthew Szemela and Karsten Windt, violin Darcy Rindt, viola; Avery Waite, cello This concert will be portraying Jewish string quartet […]
DUOPO-J
Organized by clarinetist Michiko Ogawa, this concert program aims to highlight a diverse range of new musical works for clarinets and cellos. The program charts a move from the quasi-unison, to the polyphonic: from the austerity of Tashi Wada’s cello duets, which explore the idea of unison gesture as the “doubling of constant change,” towards […]