For the first installment of the 2016-2017 Composer's in Performance Series we are excited to present a quartet featuring
Kristina Dutton, Adria Otte, Kanoko Nishi and
Nava Dunkelman *and* Trois Chapeaux (Kevin Corcoron /
Tania Chen / Jaroba).
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA
$5 - $10
Kristina Dutton & Adria Otte, violins
Kanoko Nishi, koto
Nava Dunkelman, percussion
Violinist/composer
Kristina Dutton works in a wide range of musical settings, moving freely between improvisation, new music, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Conservatory trained, she has performed on more than 30 albums of various genres, appeared with numerous orchestras, and a handful of internationally acclaimed rock groups.
kristinadutton.bandcamp.com
kristina-dutton.com
Kanoko Nishi-Smith is a performer currently based in SF/Bay Area. Though classically trained on piano, receiving a BA in Classical Music Performance from Mills College, her recent interest has primarily been in performing 20th century and contemporary musical compositions for piano as well as for koto (Japanese 13-string zither), and free-improvisation in various different contexts, with musicians, as well as dancers, poets, and visual artists.
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied withWilliam Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein.
Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat,The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
She also formed the improvisational trio Dapplegray, as well as electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA, and improvisational duo DunkelpeK.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
www.navadunkelman.com/
Adria Otte is a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work falls in and between a wide range of idioms. Trained in the western classical tradition on violin and bad early 90s alt-rock on guitar, her musical projects include sound design for dance and video, rock bands, electro-acoustic chamber ensembles, and Korean drumming.
soundcloud.com/ariotte
Trois Chapeaux:
Tania Chen, toys & electronics
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
Jaroba, saxophone & invented instruments
Cost: 5 / 10
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Fred Frith and Nava Dunkelman