As a curator at C4NM, I am focusing my energies on presenting programs featuring women as primary creators. I recently connected with Luna Pearl Woolf, the Composer-in-Residence for this year’s Bard Music West Festival. Woolf was commissioned to compose music for Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words I, which will be premiered as part of this […]
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Flight – Interview with Brian Staufenbiel, Creative Director of Opera Parallèle
This weekend, February 10-12, Opera Parallèle is performing Jonathan Dove’s 1998 operatic comedy Flight. The work was inspired by the true story of the forced residence, from 1988 to 2006, of Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri at Charles de Gaulle airport. Composer Joseph M. Colombo had a chance to ask a few questions to Brian […]
Award Recipients 2016
Award Recipients 2016 A combination of unrestricted grants, commissioning grants, residency programs, cash awards, and various honors, the following list includes important recognitions awarded to composers and musicians in 2016. While the list is lengthy, it is not exhaustive, so if you feel we missed something or someone, feel free to comment and let us […]
Post-Election Letter to C4NM Members
Earlier this week, the C4NM staff shared its thoughts and concerns on the Nov. 8 election results with members by e-mail. Perhaps most critical for our community is clearly identifying the threats to our work, and what we can do to promote our values. In summary, we fear the following: Cultural exclusion based on religion, […]
C4NM welcomes The Living Earth Show as Ensemble in Residence for 2016-17
We are proud to announce that the 2016-17 Ensemble in Residence at the Center for New Music will be: 2016-17 Ensemble in Residence at the Center for New Music Called “a vanguard effort of new chamber music” by the San Francisco Examiner, “transcendent” by the Charleston City Paper, and “a fully distorted perpetual […]
Play Hear: Spontaneous Musical Collaborations at San Francisco’s 6th and Market
The Center for New Music is participating in the Market Street Prototyping Festival, a collaborative effort to make the public space of San Francisco’s Market Street more active, vibrant, and engaging. C4NM’s project, Play Hear, is an invented instrument installation that aims to create space for spontaneous musical collaborations with friends and strangers of all […]
Play Hear Preview from Tenderloin Sunday Streets
The Center for New Music’s Play Hear team shared progress this summer at Tenderloin Sunday Streets. See how our neighbors enjoyed the flutes (not called stomp-flutes) and bell trees: The flutes are long plastic pipes with a fipple near the bottom, like a whistle. The pipes sing overtones when you step on the bellows attached […]
Call for Proposals: Curators 2017-19
The Center for New Music is now accepting proposals from curators for two-year terms beginning in 2017. Please consider sharing your artistic vision through C4NM! For information on how to apply, download the Call for Proposals. Deadline to submit is Monday, November 21, at 9:00 AM PST. C4NM welcomes proposals […]
Introducing Play Hear: a project for the Market Street Prototyping Festival
The Center for New Music is participating in the Market Street Prototyping Festival, a collaborative effort to make the public space of San Francisco’s Market Street more active, vibrant, and engaging. C4NM’s project, Play Hear, is an invented instrument installation that aims to create space for spontaneous musical collaborations with friends and strangers of all […]
Interview with Maja S. K. Ratkje
Norwegian vocalist and composer Maja S. K. Ratkje is coming back to San Francisco this week to perform a solo set on the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Maja graciously answered a few questions about her life and work, while en route to the US. Adam Fong: It’s great that you’re coming back to San […]