Blog – Page 33 – Center for New Music

John Halle & Friends Obliterate Standards

Composer/pianist/scholar/activist John Halle, the Mana Sax Quartet and Friction String Quartet perform two decades of Halle’s obliterations and reconfigurations of jazz standards by Monk, Rodgers and others. Activist/pianist/scholar/composer John Halle began his musical career as a jazz musician in San Francisco in the early 1980s performing with Mark Levine, Eddie Henderson, Sonny Stitt and Freddy […]

MANA Makes Sense!

MANA Quartet returns to the Bay Area premiering several new works from their recent collaboration with the Common Sense Composer Collective! Featuring west coast premieres of works by Belinda Reynolds, John Halle and Randy Woolf also featuring works by Kevin Villalta and Philip Glass and others. […]

SANS; duo

SANS; duo is a new music duo seeking to expound upon the saxophone-guitar duet format. In their inaugural concert, they explore open form, improvisational, and performance art piece in tandem with traditionally notated and electronically augmented works. Jonathan Hostottle and Brian Ellis will be presenting music, sans baggage. […]

Ochs – Merkey – Perkis with special guest Francois Houle

Larry Ochs + Madalyn Merkey + Tim Perkis with special guest François Houle François Houle – Bb clarinet Larry Ochs – saxophones Madalyn Merkey – electronics Tim Perkis – electronics François Houle’s solo tour of the West Coast continues with his special-guest appearance here, playing for the first time with this now ongoing-trio of Bay […]

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir: Portraits

As much as a painter and subject are both represented in a visual portrait, composers and performers often mix in fascinating ways in music. Icelandic-American cellist, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs a program that explores contemporary works for solo cello that she feels a close connection. From Jane Antonia Cornish’s aptly named “Portrait” from 2015 to a […]

Eldad Tarmu & Glenda Bates: Winter Migrant

Crossing Over Series presents an evening of contemporary chamber music by vibraphonist-composer Dr. Eldad Tarmu for vibraphone and oboe. Exploring the roles of classical and jazz performance practices, and the hybridization of the two, Tarmu’s compositions entrance the listener with jazz harmonies and grooving rhythms, while singing with classical phrasing and formal structure. This concert […]

Areon Flutes and Siroko Duo: Current Winds

Areon Flutes and Siroko Duo join forces for this recital of new music for flutes. Siroko Duo will perform works by Izabel Austin, Michael Kropf, and Chelsea Loew. Speed of Darkness by Izabel Austin is inspired by the second stanza of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Speed of Darkness”, which is about the interplay and transformation between […]

The Living Earth Show: Hyphen CANCELED

This event has been canceled. We are currently working on rescheduling with the artists and will announce further details later this year. Curated by Farnood HaghaniPour, Hyphen showcases new works written for The Living Earth Show by composers representing different generations of the Iranian electroacoustic music. The concert serves as a celebration of the 80th […]

Surround Sound Salon Series (SSSS)

Announcing … the Surround Sound Salon Series (SSSS) A new monthly, informal show at CNM in which local electronic music composers present their fixed media and/or live electronic music through the 8-channel surround system, generously provided by Meyer Sound. The composers mix their sounds from the center of the space, and the audience is free […]

Trio Electrique + Glenda Bates/OboeTronics

Trio Electrique features Michele Wather on electric violin and loops and effects; Edo Castro Woodhouse on 7 & 9 string basses and loops; E. “Doc” Smith on zendrum, loops and samples. Their self-titled album was just released on Edgetone Records and features music composed and arranged by the trio. OboeTronics is an ongoing performance project […]