“I have never heard any musician quite like him in terms of harmonic awareness and melodic power” – PETER ERSKINE Emerging jazz great Vardan Ovsepian makes his San Francisco debut performing his acclaimed solo piano works, along with several world premieres. Hailed by the likes of Peter Erskine, Brad Mehldau, Mick Goodrick, and Frank Carlberg […]
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The singular Kronos Quartet is joined by Mary Kouyoumdjian, recipient of the most recent Kronos: Under 30 Project commission, for an open rehearsal at c4nm. A New York City resident, Kouyoumdjian was chosen from a call for composers that yielded nearly 400 applicants in 43 countries on five continents, the largest response in the program’s […]
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Jack Wright’s “Limited Sedition” release, “Eight by Nine” (2000), featuring a large ensemble of local improvisers, has been hailed as “one of American reductionism’s landmark recordings” by Dan Warburton (Paris Transalantic). For this concert, Wright assembles an ensemble of like-minded bay-area improvisers in what should be a meeting of similar historic proportions. Musicians include Bob […]
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George Cremaschi works as a composer, performer, teacher and organizer. Using mostly contrabass and electronics, and working with free improvisation and a wide variety of non-idiomatic compositional approaches and techniques, his work attempts to dissolve the boundaries between music, sound art and noise, and extend their existing language, vocabulary and discourse.
He has worked with, […]
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Chris Newman (*1958 London) is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King’s College London, taking a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and started to translate Russian poets (Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov), […]
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