The bi-coastal A/B Duo (flutist Meerenai Shim from the SF Bay and percussionist Chris Jones from Rochester, NY) will premiere new works commissioned from Drew Baker, Ivan Trevino and Matthew Joseph Payne in a cabaret-style setting. Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks while you listen to the new and surprising works. The program will […]
The Memory Table
As part of the San Francisco Center for New Music’s incubation agenda, C4NM and curator Linda Bouchard present new incubating work by Ian Winters, Evelyn Ficarra, & paige starling sorvillo / blindsight. In The Memory Table (v2): Mnemonics devise character-A (yellow) with a side of chance,Winters, Ficarra, and sorvillo are slowly reverse-engineering Character A from fragmentary evidence found within […]
Music for Flute/Viola/Harp from the 20th/21st Century
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SFCMP Salon Series: David Tanenbaum
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) launches a new, occasional series of musical events with the inaugural SFCMP Players Show, featuring SFCMP guitarist David Tanenbaum with local ensembles Mobius Trio and The Living Earth Show. The Players Show is a new project that casts a spotlight on our ensemble members and their various musical activities […]
Panel Discussion: Crissy Broadcast, Participatory Music Making, and New Musical Collaborations
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Best Coast Jazz Composer Series #1: Jordan Glenn
Drummer/percussionist/composer Jordan Glenn presents works for his ensemble Mindless Thing, a unique chamber configuration that combines strings and percussion with the surreal, haunting spoken poetry and flute improvisations of fellow Oakland improviser Jim Ryan. Glenn’s music, for his stellar groups Wiener Kids, Mama Long Legs, Host Family, and most recently, the gloriously sprawling Wiener Kids […]
Dances, Lullabies and Visions of the Sea
Dances, Lullabies and Visions of the Sea is a program designed especially for the Center for New Music. It includes compositions by established American composers Elliott Carter and Alan Fletcher, as well as younger composers Kevin Siegfried and Jim Dalton. The second half of the program introduces my latest endeavor of performing music by Japanese […]
Chamber Jazz Double Bill: Erik Jekabson String-tet + Matt Renzi Cello Quartet
Matt Renzi Erik Jekabson Bay Area trumpet player Erik Jekabson and Rome-based reed player Matt Renzi present an evening of artful jazz composition featuring a cast of stellar local string players and one of the most creative, hard swinging rhythm sections around. Both bandleaders combine composition rooted in jazz and chamber music with collective improvisation, […]
Light Traps: LONGLEASH performs piano trios from Germany, Austria and the US
LONGLEASH’s Light Traps program is a musical display of the fascination, draw, and allure of light. The program is a collection of pieces evoking light in many forms and stages: blinding, refracted, dim, illusory. Light Traps draws on today’s vanguard of Austrian composers; Bay Area-based composer Ken Ueno; and New York-based composer Reiko Füting. Klaus […]
Free Workshop: Publicity for Independent Musicians
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