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 […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Vocallective (sponsored by SFFCM)
Vocallective brings together a roster of singers and instrumentalists who share a passion for vocal chamber music. Led by founder Indre Viskontas (www.indreviskontas.com), the collective organizes and curates concert programs both inside the concert hall and in unconventional spaces with the goal of presenting vocal chamber music at the highest artistic level and reaching the […]
Rova Quartet NOW (New Original Wow)
New pieces by Larry Ochs, Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams and Jon Raskin for Rova. Over the past few years, sequential collaborations, and other side projects, plus the fact that the group’s improvising skills have been getting more and more magical on their own, led to there being less time for individual compositions. Except from the […]
Open Salon with Wild Rumpus
Wild Rumpus and the Center for New Music are partnering to offer a free, open reading session and salon! Composers can sign up for spots to have their works read by the ensemble, and Wild Rumpus will also share works-in-progress, including new commissions! Have a drink and some snacks and hear some new music get […]