de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118

Friday Nights at the De Young: Lisa Mezzacappa

www.gloriousravage.com


San Francisco composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents a preview of her new music and film work “Glorious Ravage” as part of the free Friday Nights at the de Young series. Mezzacappa leads a wind quartet featuring Vinny Golia, Kyle Bruckmann, Darren Johnston and Cory Wright, in a series of site-specific performances in the museum's scenic Hamon Observation Tower.

Friday August 21, 7-8:30pm
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and English horn
Cory Wright, clarinet and saxophone
Vinny Golia, flutes, clarinets, saxophones
Darren Johnson, trumpet
Dina Maccabee, violin and viola
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

Presented in collaboration with Headlands Center for the Arts.

Lisa Mezzacappa, “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” (San Jose Mercury News), is a bassist, composer, and music curator and producer. An active collaborator in the Bay Area music community for more than a dozen years, her music spans avant-garde jazz to ethereal chamber music, scores for experimental film and immersive sound installations. Mezzacappa was voted “Rising Star” bassist in the Downbeat 2013 and 2014 critics polls, and leads her own groups Bait & Switch, Nightshade, the Lisa Mezzacappa Trio, Eartheaters and the Interlopers, and co-leads the ensembles duo B., Cylinder, BODABODA, LMNOP, and Les Gwan Jupons. She has released her music on the Clean Feed, NoBusiness, Leo, NotTwo, Evander and Edgetone record labels, and has recorded as a sideperson for the Tzadik, Kadima and Porto Franco labels. Her own label, Queen Bee Records, was launched in 2013 to disseminate the work of her West Coast creative musician peers. Lisa organizes concerts for jazz and experimental music in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and collaborates frequently on cross-disciplinary projects in sound installation, experimental film, and visual art. This fall she premieres Glorious Ravage, a multi-media song cycle for large ensemble with commissioned films, inspired by the writings of Victorian lady adventurers, in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Lisa Mezzacappa’s Glorious Ravage is supported by the Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Headlands Center for the Arts.

Cost: Free

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