Bruce Ackley Tania Chen Matches Over two nights, Rova members will team up with long-time associates and first-time co-conspirators to present 4 sets of duo performances. Hear the Rovas work outside their ‘comfort’ zones to investigate new possibilities with their fellow travelers. Sunday, March 22:Larry Ochs, with Jordan Glenn, drumsBruce Ackley, with Tania Chen, piano, […]
Switchboard Presents: David Wegehaupt & The Athletics and Big Butter & the Eggmen
On Second Fridays at the Center for New Music, the Switchboard Presents concert series features split bills drawn from a roster of Switchboard alumni, Festival artists, and other acts who fall between genre lines. […]
PFL Traject
PFL Traject, an improvisation trio based in France, is on tour performing, presenting workshops, and giving lectures through the United States from February 11 to February 27. Jean-Charles François has performed as soloist throughout Europe at Domaine musical, Ensemble Ars Nova, Ensemble Musique Vivante, SüdWestfunk, Hessische Rundfunk, West Deutsche Rundfunk, Palermo Festival, Venice Festival, Zagreb […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Duo Camaraderie (sponsored by SFFCM)
San Francisco Bay Area-based flute and piano ensemble, Duo Camaraderie, is pleased to perform Bay Area award-winning composer Omid Zoufonoun’s piece, “By Shadow, By Light”. Clarinetist Rebecca D’Alessio collaborates with Duo Camaraderie to perform two trios: Lowell Liebermann’s haunting, “Night Music” and Libby Larsen’s energetic, “Barn Dances”. The program ends with one of Duo Camaraderie’s […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Joana Holanda & Ignaz Schick
Joana Holanda Ignaz Schick Brazilian pianist Joana Holanda presents a program of new music for piano solo and with electronics by composers born in Brazil. Its music illustrates the diversity and richness of contemporary Brazilian music, encompassing a large variety of aesthetics and presenting composers of different generations. P R O G R A M […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Mazen Kerbaj
Beirut improviser Mazen Kerbaj performs a trumpet duo with local Tom Djll and ensemble improvisations with Gino Robair, Matt Ingalls, and Kyle Bruckmann. Mazen Kerbaj, born in 1975, lives and works in Beirut. His main activities are comics, paintings and music. Kerbaj published more than 15 books and many short stories and drawings in anthologies, […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Sierra Ensemble: Persian Premier and European Gems (sponsored by SFFCM)
Sierra Ensemble blends violin, horn and piano to create a most exciting mixed trio. Performing European gems as well as music of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sierra brings a unique combination of chamber expertise and solo artistry to the concert stage. Tonight’s program presents the North American premier performance of Aida Shirazi’s “Trio for […]
The Plath Project
The Plath Project is the debut concert of the Firesong ensemble’s commission project supported by the 2014 SFFCM Musical Grant Program. The concert presents the work of five living composers whose music features the poetry of Sylvia Plath. In particular, the Plath Project features two world premieres of chamber music pieces for soprano, clarinet and […]
Double or Nothing: Double Reeds of the Bay
Featuring double reeds in solo and chamber contexts, this concert includes new music on all four primary double reed instruments: oboe, English horn, bassoon, and contrabassoon. Kicking off the concert is David Schneider’s memorizingly fluid bassoon trio Living Clay. Bay Area composer/oboist then performs Mary Jane Leach’s Xanthippe’s Rebuke, a piece for oboe and prerecorded […]
The Guerrilla Composers Guild presents: Ignition Duo
The Guerrilla Composers Guild is joining forces with the Ignition Duo to explore, examine, and exponentially expand the repertoire for two electric guitars at the Center for New Music. Forged in 2011 by David Gonzales and Ramon Fermin, Ignition Duo has set out to create a new and vital repertoire for two guitars. As part […]