Come for an exciting night with members of the Splinter Reeds ensemble in a continuation of their co-operative residency with CNMAT and UC Berkeley Graduate composers.
Program:
Points Against Fields (tombeau de Bernard Parmegiani) by Sam Pluta (world premiere)
De Profundis (2000) - Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976)
Fireflies in Winter by Peter V. Swendsen (world premiere)
Sour Helix (2015) - S. Howard Rubin (b. 1989)
of an implacable subtraction by Paula Matthusen
Dorian Reeds by Terry Riley
Praised for her diverse talents, bassoonist Dana Jessen is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and new music specialist. Dana is the founder of Splinter Reeds, a San Francisco-based reed quintet, and has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Dal Niente, Pamela Z, Lucky Dragons, Rushes Ensemble, Calefax Quintet, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Orchestra, Amsterdam Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort and Harvard Group for New Music, among others. As the founder and artistic director of the New Music Bassoon Fund, Dana spearheaded the commission of Rushes, an hour-long composition for seven bassoons by composer Michael Gordon. Her recordings can be heard on Cantaloupe, RIOJA, Evil Rabbit, Oberlin Music and the New World record labels. Dana holds a M.M. in bassoon performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a M.M. in improvisation from the Artez Hogeschool voor de Kunst. She lived in Amsterdam for three years as the recipient of a J. William Fulbright Fellowship and a HSP Huygens Fellowship where she researched contemporary and improvised music. She is currently the Director for Conservatory Professional Development at Oberlin.
David Wegehaupt is a saxophonist committed to the performance and promotion of contemporary music. As a soloist and as a founding member of Anubis Quartet (Chicago-based saxophone quartet), Splinter Reeds (San Francisco-based reed quintet), David has been active in commissioning new music for saxophone, participating in over fifty world premieres, along with numerous North American premieres. He has played recitals as a soloist and a chamber musician around the United States, in Mexico, Canada, Belgium, Greece, Germany, France, Italy, and Thailand.
David earned his Master’s degree in Music Performance from Arizona State University while studying with Timothy McAllister. He also holds a BM from Bowling Green State University where he studied with Dr. John Sampen and spent a year at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt studying with Jean-Michel Goury with the support of a Fulbright grant. Other primary teachers have included Kelland Thomas and Anita Handelsman. He is a new resident to the Bay Area, but has visited to perform regularly since 2010, including numerous solo recitals at CNMAT and CCRMA, as well as regular performances with Eco Ensemble and Splinter Reeds. His newest project is called ATHLETICS, a wide-ranging collaboration with Eric Wubbels (piano), Weston Olencki (trombone) and Nick Woodbury (percussion).
Clarinetist/bass clarinetist Jeff Anderle enjoys an extremely diverse musical life. He is a pioneer in the world of low reeds, from Sqwonk’s tongue-in-cheek ferocity to Edmund Welles’ “heavy chamber music” to the complex buzzings of the reed quintet Splinter. An exponent of contemporary classical music, Jeff is a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Paul Dresher Electro/Acoustic Band and the bi-coastal ensemble REDSHIFT. In addition, Jeff is a founding co-director of Switchboard Music, which presents music that fuses different genres and styles. Jeff is on the faculty of the S.F. Conservatory of Music where he teaches clarinet, chamber music, and music business. Jeff holds a M.M. from SFCM and a B.A. from the University of California-Los Angeles. www.jeffanderle.com
Cost: $10 general/$5 Student