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 […]
Switchboard Presents: Solo Cellists
Switchboard Presents: Solo Cellists, featuring three different treatments of the same instrumentation: Crystal Pascucci – original improvised music for solo cello and electronics Theresa Wong – original music for cello, voice, and electronics Shawn Alpay – original songs for solo cello, electronics, and voice […]
Switchboard Presents: Redshift and Aaron Novik’s Cosimo Lissy
Switchboard Presents, a monthly concert series that features split bills of innovative and eclectic music from the Bay Area and beyond, continues its fall season with Redshift and Aaron Novik’s Cosimo Lissy at 7:30 pm on October 10. Redshift, a bicoastal chamber quintet, is Jeff Anderle, Kate Campbell, Rose Bellini, Andi Springer, and Jill Heinke. […]
Friendly Galaxies: An Evening of Celebrating Sun Ra at 100
Reconnaissance Fly Electropoetic Coffee Joe LasqoPhoto by Carly Hoopes — Set 1: Reconnaissance Fly (Amanda Chaudhary: keyboard/electronics; Rich Lesnik: reeds; Polly Moller: voice, flutes, guitar; Larry the O: drums, and Tim Walters: bass/electronics) perform a mixture of Sun Ra tunes & originals — Set 2: Techno-griots Electropoetic Coffee (poet NSAA + guitarist Ross Hammond) continue […]
SFMusic Thursdays: Jewish Music & Poetry Project (sponsored by SFFCM)
Jewish Music & Poetry Project Laura Schwendinger Kurt Erickson David Garner Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Dale Tsang, piano, and Adaiha MacAdam-Somer (the Jewish Music & Poetry Project) return from their Hungarian tour to perform the world premiere of newly commissioned works by Guggenheim Fellow Laura Schwendinger (Kay Ryan Songs), Bay Area rising composer Kurt Erickson (The […]
SFMusic Thursdays: An evening of scattered thoughts with the Darren Johnston/Kyle Bruckmann Duo and Darren Johnston's Troubled Trio (sponsored by SFFCM)
Trumpeter/composer Darren Johnston returns to CNM with both a duo and trio project. The focus of the evening will be on collective, spontaneous compositions, some of which to be based on a collection of short musical ideas that have occurred to Johnston over the last several months. The first set will feature Johnston in a […]