Local pianist Anne Rainwater has been referred to as both “a special kind of extraterrestrial” and a performer “not afraid to approach the music with boldly assertive rhetoric.” She proudly presents an evening of vocal and piano music by three friends including Ian Power’s hauntingly beautiful Ave Maria, based on a Scelsi theme, and Jude […]
CMASH: “Between Appear and Disappear” CD/Book Release Event
Between Appear and Disappear is a new hybrid of photographs and poetic texts on beauty and love by author/photographer Doug Rice. It has been released by Jaded Ibis Productions concurrently with a CD of music intended as a companion for the book, composed and performed by soprano Ann Moss. At this combination CD/Book release event, […]
Erik Jekabson Stringtet
Trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson brings together many different influences with his “Stringtet”; modern jazz, classical, New Orleans traditional jazz, funk, improvised music and latin jazz. With violin, viola, sax, trumpet, bass and drums doubling on vibes, the music can veer into many different sonic territories but always does so with an ear towards lyrical melodies and […]
Echo Wild with Geneva Jacuzzi – Live in the Tenderloin
Introducing John Grigo of Coco Remote from 1987. Coming from the bebop psychedelia of the Sunset Strip is now merging with the eccentric wild-at-heart Seahorse Liberation Army, John Grigo, coming from Chicago, Illinois combines flourishing cadenzas of Art Tatum and the R Stevie Moore kaleidoscope. What is house arrest to bedroom rock, what is to […]
Ted Allen and The Incendiary Cycle
The Incendiary Cycle is music about California. It is music about conflict, transformation, nostalgia and loss. Borrowing from free jazz, minimalism, and no wave, the music of The Incendiary Cycle is dynamic and energetic, sometimes evolving gradually, sometimes changing dramatically in a sudden tectonic displacement. In California we live in a metastasizing industrial civilization, yet […]
Oklnd-Bklyn Dble Bill: Battle Trance Sax Quartet (NYC) + Mark Clifford’s Dirty Snacks Ensemble
Battle Trance Mark Clifford Extreme New York tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, led by virtuoso sax experimentalist Travis LaPlante and including longtime Bay Area resident Matt Nelson, makes its Bay Area debut with a complete performance of its acclaimed new recording, Palace of Wind, out on New Amsterdam Records. Battle Trance explores densely layered sound […]
Piano Fitness Fundraiser
Join us for an evening of live piano performances featuring some of our most notable Bay Area pianists: composer and electronics innovator Chris Brown, the prolific and “passionately mercurial” (Village Voice) pianist Sarah Cahill, versatile and accomplished composer-performer-scholar Luciano Chessa, and the dynamic young artist Joseph M. Colombo. We’re kicking off our second full year of […]
Wild Rumpus: Darkness & Light
Wild Rumpus presents a program of opposites, juxtaposing harmony and noise, movement and stillness. Gritty, kinetic energy reigns supreme in our take on Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union and in the clattering theatrics of David Coll’s Position, Influence. Harmonious stillness characterizes Jacob Cooper’s serene haiku Silver Threads and Arvo Pärt’s modern-day classic Fratres. Delicately poised between […]
Michael Mizrahi’s The Bright Motion: New Piano Works for the 21st Century
Michael Mizrahi (Photo: Steven Taylor) (Artwork: David Stith) In the early years of a new century, composers are returning to the piano. For centuries the piano has been a popular sounding board for new compositional ideas and styles—the ingenious explorations of compositional technique in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the pathbreaking musical ideas set forth in Beethoven’s […]
Experimental Music from Mills College
Mills College graduate students composers enrolled in Guillermo Galindo’s “Composition Seminar” and John Bischoff’s “Seminar in Computer Music” will present new electronic and instrumental works. The concert will feature both solo and small ensemble pieces incorporating scored and improvised musical actions, computer-generated sound, and unique combinations of musical resources. The concert will be curated and […]