On Friday, July 31st at 8pm at Old First Church in San Francisco, CA, cellist Hannah Addario-Berry premieres four new works by young composers commissioned in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. This performance launches a tour of the US and Canada which includes venues in California, Oregon, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, and New Mexico.
Hannah Addario-Berry is a San Francisco-based cellist passionate about bringing music to audiences in a wide array of mediums and venues. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Zoltán Kodály’s monumental Sonata for Solo Cello, one of the most important works in the solo cello repertoire, Hannah has created a program that showcases the 1915 Sonata alongside newly commissioned works by the dynamic young composers Lisa Renée Coons, Brent Miller, Eric KM Clark, and Alisa Rose. The program, entitled Scordatura, will be presented this summer and fall in a solo concert tour around the United States and Canada. For full tour details, visit scordaturacello.com.
The four diversely talented composers have created new solo cello works inspired by Kodály’s Sonata and written for Hannah. The composers use the same altered tuning as Kodály, lowering the cello’s lower strings to deepen the tone. This deliberately altered tuning, or scordatura, enables rich harmonic possibilities. All four composers will participate in a pre-concert lecture at 7:30pm on July 31st. The works will also be recorded in early 2016 by San Francisco-based producer Jason O’Connell.
Cost: $20 General, $17 Seniors, $5 Students. Available o