On a recent trip to the Bay Area, New Music USA President and CEO Ed Harsh visited the Center for New Music as part of a roundtable discussion on “Support for New Music.” Harsh joined fellow grantmakers Margot Melcon from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Dominique Pelletey from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music […]
Coming Out in San Francisco: An Artistic Journey
Center for New Music Executive Director Adam Fong sat down recently with cellist, composer, and arts producer Siobhán (née Karl) Cronin. This post is the second in a series following Cronin’s recording process and what it means to be transgender (read Karl’s 1st post here). Adam Fong: What does it mean for you to be […]
Writing for Alternate Tunings
When I first became a curator at the Center for New Music, I reached out to some of my favorite Bay Area artists and asked them: “What’s one project you’ve always wanted to do, but have never had the opportunity to realize?” Among the first to respond was composer Edward Schocker. I knew Edward as […]
Call for Proposals: Curators 2016-18
The Center for New Music is seeking curators for two-year terms beginning in 2016. Please consider sharing your artistic vision with the Center! For information on how to apply, download the Call for Proposals. Deadline to submit is Tuesday, December 1, at 9:00 AM PST. Each year, the Center invites proposals from any individual who […]
Interview with Lisa Mezzacappa, Chameleon Hunter
Bassist, composer, and former C4NM curator Lisa Mezzacappa premiered her free jazz song cycle Glorious Ravage last weekend at REDCAT in Los Angeles as part of the Angel City Jazz Festival. The ambitious piece is inspired by the writings of lady explorers of the 19th century, and features a large ensemble of improvisers from across […]
Kaija Saariaho’s Fall 2015 Residency
…and the reassertion of the SF Bay Area as an international new music hub For the second time in three years, the UC Berkeley Department of Music will be hosting a high-profile and widely admired composer. Beginning this month, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho will be in residence at UC Berkeley, together with her husband, the […]
Composing While Female
My thoughts might have been the same as yours, upon reading this headline: Really? Do we really need another article about how under-programmed female composers are? A composer who’s a woman just won the Pulitzer, and haven’t we been over this already? Wasn’t that flurry of “female composer” articles a few years ago, by Kristin […]
A Musical Awakening
This entry is the first in a series that will follow a composer’s recording process and what it means to be transgender. Siobhán (neé Karl) Cronin (b. 1980, USA/UK) is a cellist, composer, movement artist and arts producer. I am a cellist-composer. I am also transgender. Where I grew up in the Central Plains, being […]
C4NM Co-Founder Adam Fong on Techdirt Podcast, “Musicians Making Money”
Check out this wide-ranging conversation on business models and the music industry in the internet era, featuring our very own co-founder and Executive Director, Adam Fong. Our friends at Techdirt have been tracking the twists in copyright law for years, with an eye on the music industry as a harbinger for more widespread changes to […]
Listening is the Mother of Innovation: People Before Technology
This is a guest post by Clark Buckner, who interviewed C4NM’s co-founder and Executive Director Adam Fong for the TechnologyAdvice podcast. Technology itself is not the goal but a means to an end. That is the perspective driving technology decisions at the Center for New Music, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. According to […]