HOCKET is a cutting edge piano duo based in Los Angeles. Brought together by their passion for sharing exciting and eclectic chamber music with the world, members Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff are both pianist-composers dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary music. They have both been featured performers of University of Southern California’s Thornton Edge […]
Workshop: San Francisco SuperCollider Meeting
Do you already use SuperCollider, or would you like to learn more about it? Are you a Pd or Max/MSP user considering to add SuperCollider to your sonic toolbox? This informal meet-up is free and open to anyone interested in SuperCollider. It’s a space for people to present their work, ask questions, discuss topics of […]
Seasons Of Love – Broadway & Opera Favorites Album Launch
Australian virtuoso concert pianist, producer, recording artist and composer Van-Anh Nguyen leads an intense global touring schedule. She most recently became a TV host for Discovery Channel Asia. American-Vietnamese singer Bich-Van Nguyen is a Musical Theater graduate of New York University and has recorded 7 albums. This album, Seasons Of Love is a crowd-funded initiative […]
Angels and Watermarks: Flight into the Unknown
This concert explores a variety of new music for solo harpsichord, providing the audience with insight into the age defying beauty of this instrument. The juxtaposition of old and new in this unique instrument provides a wealth of opportunities for today’s composers in exploring sounds, tonal colorations, and textures. Some pieces explore the use of […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Black Cedar (sponsored by SFFCM)
Black Cedar is the winner of a 2014 Musical Grant from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and an affiliate ensemble with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. It is the only ensemble entirely devoted to creating, discovering, and re-imagining chamber music for flute, cello, and guitar. Their debut album will be released later this […]
Karl Cronin & the Americana Orchestra
Karl Cronin presents an evening of stories, quiet loves songs, and sonic landscapes with the Americana Orchestra. Karl’s music blends wistful, witty songs reminiscent of the American songbook with spacious orchestrations, with evenings woven together by stories. This performance is made possibly with the support of the Zellerbach Community Arts Grant. […]
Wired Breath/Strung Waves: Christian Pincock & Florent Collautti (sfSoundSalonSeries)
Florent Colautti Christian Pincock Florent Colautti moves between the sound and numeric arts, from instrumental/acoustic music to electronic music through sound installations. He wears only one cap while working on these different links: that of an insatiable researcher who handles both sound-creation software and the soldering iron. In this spirit, in 2010, he developed the […]
Songs for the Ancestors: Poetry & Music in Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide
Charming Hostess Jewlia Eisenberg’s Charming Hostess has been a groundbreaking mainstay of the avant-ethnic music scene for over two decades. The group is known to feature “voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. Their work grows from diaspora consciousness: both Jewish, Mid-Eastern, and African. Stylistically, Charming Hostess incorporates doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan […]
Composer Meetup & Member Party
C4NM hosts a two-part day of community fun: the kick-off of a new series of composer meetups from 3 to 5 PM, followed by a reception for current and prospective members. The composer meetup is open to anyone! We will have three presenters offer their work for discussion from 3 to 5 PM. Space […]
C4NM @ Market Street Prototyping Festival: Helen Newby
On April 9 and 10, C4NM curates special free outdoor performances on Market Street, in front of The Hall (between 6th Street and 7th Street). Friday’s 1pm show features up and coming cellist Helen Newby, who will offer a sneak preview of her upcoming concert at C4NM. Newby will perform streetside in a special “Show […]