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Brandon Seabrook (NYC) SOLO + Jason Hoopes Ensemble
Brandon Seabrook, solo guitar and banjo Jason Hoopes Ensemble Jason Hoopes, electric bass Nava Dunkelman, percussion Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics Bill Baird, electric bass/electronics Shredding NYC improvising guitarist and banjo player Brandon Seabrook visits the Bay Area for a special solo concert bridging the sonic realms of extreme rock, improvised music and the classical avant-garde. Recognized […]
New Year Koto Concert
Three Koto (Japanese zither) players residing in San Francisco Bay Area, Shoko Hikagei, Tomohiro Tanaka, and Kayo Toki hold the New Year Koto Concert. They will perform a traditional koto & shamisen music, Japanese folk songs arranged for koto and bass koto. They will also perform new music works by Shinigo Edo, Hyo-shin Na, Katsuhiko […]
Animals and Giraffes: "July" Release Party
Animals and Giraffes, a collaboration between Poet/Critic Claudia La Rocco and Composer/Musician Phillip Greenlief, celebrates the debut release of JULY with a performance at the Center for New Music involving many of the finest SF Bay Improvisers. The recording features poetry by La Rocco combined with improvisations and re-imagined in the recording studio. The result […]
Jenny Q Chai: Piano Steampunk
Jenny Q Chai’s “Piano Steampunk” program explores the relationships between piano and electronics, beginning with the earliest development of music for this pairing. Computers and electronics have interested and influenced composers for as long as they have existed. This long-term relationship with technology has also changed many composers’ approach to writing solo piano music, even […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Alcyone Ensemble (sponsored by SFFCM)
Alcyone Ensemble, a two flute and piano trio, is made up of Oakland East Bay Symphony flutists Rena Urso-Trapani and Amy Likar, and Bay Area pianist extraordinaire Miles Graber. Alcyone is delighted to be a part of the Center for New Music Thursday evening concert series. Their program will include Maya, a workd for two […]
Teleformation
The Guerrilla Composers Guild presents Teleformation: the symbiosis of early and new musical styles and ideas. Following a long tradition of transforming baroque ideas by pioneers like Mozart and Halvorsen, the Guerrillas are putting their own spin on reimagining baroque forms and styles. The composers are collaborating with dynamic Bay Area performers Vijay Chalasani (viola), […]
Rova Sax Quartet: “Garden of Memory Redux”
Rova Sax Quartet (Steve Adams, Bruce Ackley, Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs) returns to CNM reprising and evolving its 3+ hours of music performed at the Garden of Memory in Oakland from June 21, 2014. At the garden of Memory, the band used simple structures created out of its “Radar” music vocabulary to perform extended “structured […]
Satoko Inoue: New Piano Music from Tokyo
Pianist Satoko Inoue is renowned throughout Japan, Europe and the US as a leading interpreter of contemporary solo piano music. She has premiered works by some of Japan’s foremost composers including Jo Kondo, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Satoshi Tanaka, Yuji Itoh. She is also known for performing works of other contemporary composers including Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, […]
Switchboard Presents: Splinter Reeds + Wiener Kids
Switchboard continues its series Switchboard Presents. On the second Friday of every month this fall, the Switchboard Presents concert series features split bills drawn from a roster of Switchboard alumni, 2015 Festival artists, and other acts who fall between musical lines. Splinter Reeds – Reed quintet featuring Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Bill Kalinkos (clarinet), Jeff Anderle […]