Join your fellow Center for New Music enthusiasts, members, staff, and volunteers for holiday fun! We’ll share a drink and a bite, indulge in our FOURTH annual collaborative performance of “Jingle Bells In C,” and toast/commiserate to the holidays, the end of 2017, and whatever other occasion you might like to recognize. Bring an instrument […]
Holiday Happy Hour
Join your fellow Center for New Music enthusiasts, members, staff, and volunteers for holiday fun! We’ll share a drink and a bite, indulge in our FOURTH annual collaborative performance of “Jingle Bells In C,” and toast/commiserate to the holidays, the end of 2017, and whatever other occasion you might like to recognize. Bring an instrument […]
SF State Composition Studio: New Works
The SFSU composition studio teams up with chamber ensembles coached by the Alexander String Quartet to present an all-SFSU evening of new music. Hear the next generation of bay area composers and performers present new works by Forrest Balman, Carlos Gonzalez, Mark Jang, Tasuku Osaka, Aaron Star, Joshua Susic, Sean Thompson and Lauren Tougas. […]
SF State Composition Studio: New Works
The SFSU composition studio teams up with chamber ensembles coached by the Alexander String Quartet to present an all-SFSU evening of new music. Hear the next generation of bay area composers and performers present new works by Forrest Balman, Carlos Gonzalez, Mark Jang, Tasuku Osaka, Aaron Star, Joshua Susic, Sean Thompson and Lauren Tougas. […]
Ilana Walder-Biesanz: Trousers and Tragediennes
Ilana Walder-Biesanz (mezzo-soprano) and collaborative pianist Daniel Alley present a recital of arias in five languages, ranging from Baroque laments to drinking songs. The program includes “trouser role” arias by Mozart, Gluck, Gounod, Handel, and J. Strauss, as well as “tragedienne” arias by Massenet, Bizet, Purcell, Tchaikovsky, and Cavalli. Bonus features include a kitschy alliterative […]
Ilana Walder-Biesanz: Trousers and Tragediennes
Ilana Walder-Biesanz (mezzo-soprano) and collaborative pianist Daniel Alley present a recital of arias in five languages, ranging from Baroque laments to drinking songs. The program includes “trouser role” arias by Mozart, Gluck, Gounod, Handel, and J. Strauss, as well as “tragedienne” arias by Massenet, Bizet, Purcell, Tchaikovsky, and Cavalli. Bonus features include a kitschy alliterative […]
Doorways: Thingamajigs Performance Group with Rae Diamond
Thingamajigs Performance Group convenes with Rae Diamond, founder of the Long Tone Choir, to perform small scores and structured improvisations. The work traverses shared territories and provides doorways into each artist’s practice. The matinee purposefully takes place as the winter sun sets, underscoring liminal time with creative concepts of entrance and exit. Dylan Bolles, voice, […]
Doorways: Thingamajigs Performance Group with Rae Diamond
Thingamajigs Performance Group convenes with Rae Diamond, founder of the Long Tone Choir, to perform small scores and structured improvisations. The work traverses shared territories and provides doorways into each artist’s practice. The matinee purposefully takes place as the winter sun sets, underscoring liminal time with creative concepts of entrance and exit. Dylan Bolles, voice, […]
Andrew Jamieson: Holidays Deconstructed
Our culture may expect us to be “jolly” around the holidays, but the reality of our lives is much more complex than that. Indeed, holidays can be some of the most difficult times of the year for many people. How do we acknowledge the dissonance, confusion, and cacophony that this time of year brings? On […]
Andrew Jamieson: Holidays Deconstructed
Our culture may expect us to be “jolly” around the holidays, but the reality of our lives is much more complex than that. Indeed, holidays can be some of the most difficult times of the year for many people. How do we acknowledge the dissonance, confusion, and cacophony that this time of year brings? On […]