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 […]
Il Prete Rosso
This concert features new music specialist Sarah Plum in an exciting program of music for violin alone and with electronics by Kurt Rohde, Mari Takano, Sidney Corbett, Jeff Herriot, Andrew List and Mark Engebretson. This program feautures Il Prete Rosso, a piece written for her by Charles Nichols for violin, live electronics and motion sensor […]
Reception & Artist Talk: "Felt Has Feelings" by Bryan Day
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New Music Gathering
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Orlando Cela: Flute Classics of the 20th Century
An evening of unaccompanied flute music spanning the most significant influences of the 20th century. Orlando Cela will perform works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Heinz Holliger, Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa, Luciano Berio and Robert Dick. Before a work is performed, there will be a short explanation of the techniques, notation, and influences of each of the […]
sfSoundSalonSeries: Séverine Ballon
French cellist Séverine Ballon performs new solo works written by local composers Franck Bedrossian, Erik Ulman, and Stanford Graduate Composers. PROGRAM Erik Ulman Permission for solo Cello 2014 Franck Bedrossian The spider as an artist 2014 — interval — Constantin Basica FROMFORMS for solo cello, electronics and video 2014 Andrew A. Watts FEEDBACK SHIFT II […]
Premiere of All Caps No Space by Linda Bouchard in collaboration with Addleds
Come hear the culmination of a two-week collaboration and residency at The MilkBar between composer Linda Bouchard and the talented and unique Addleds musicians Kyle Bruckmann, oboe/english horn; Tony Dryer, double bass; and Jacob Felix Heule, percussion, in an unusual trio combination*. Known for timbral and textural extremes of distended instrumental technique, Addleds, in its […]
CANCELLED: Duck Baker
*Unfortunately Mr. Baker has been forced to cancel this performance. We hope to host him at a later date. Baker will concentrate on the more modern side of his vast repertoire in this concert, highlighting his own jazz-oriented compositional style and his long experience with free jazz / free improvised music since the late. Several […]
Del Sol String Quartet: Soundings 2.1
For its Home Season 2014-15 the Del Sol String Quartet continues its “Soundings” Project with a series of three unique concerts in January, April and June exploring the interface between new music and visual art. The series will present music by three living composers paired with new artworks commissioned from visual artists working in a […]