Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF
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In Celebration Memory of Toyoji Tomita
To Make a Donation click here(All proceeds will be donated to help with expenses for Toyoji's Family) ($10 - $100 donation no one turned away for lack of funds)

7:00 pm Chris Brown w/ Larry Ochs and Willie Winant
7:25 pm David Slusser
7:50 pm Karen Stackpole
8:15 pm Phillip Greenlief
8:45 pm Kathrynn Lyle & Marianne Macdonald
9:05 pm Brassiosaurus w/ Tom Djll, Ron Heglin, Jen Baker, Andy Strain performs "Three Blind Mice" and other tunes from their book
9:30 pm Lords of Outland w/ Rent Romus / Bill Noertker / Dave Mihaly

Friends and colleagues perform a plethera of improvisational, experimental, and genre spanning sounds reflecting the diverse sonic life of Toyoji Tomita.

Toyoji Peter Tomita 1951 - 2008
Born in Berkeley, CA; Died unexpectedly on April 17 at home.

Toyoji was an accomplished trombonist who studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1976 he won the First Prize in the Gaudeaumus International competition for Interpreters of Modern Music in Rotterdam, Holland. Living in Paris, France for the next three years, he toured Europe extensively both as a soloist and as a member of the Ensemble Musique Vivante, Diego Masson director. He received an M.F.A. in electronic composition from Mills College in 1986 and later became a music instructor at Mills. He performed with several ensembles in the Bay Area including the Mills College Didjeridu Ensemble which he founded. Toyoji was the owner and president of T.P.T. Gardener, Inc., one of the first sustainable gardening companies to be awarded public works contracts including the City of Oakland Frank Ogawa Plaza project and the Alameda County Juvenile Hall renovation project.
We will all miss him terribly. Please keep his widow, Marianne MacDonald and his mother, Mary Kimoto Tomita, in your hearts today.


Cost: $10 - $100 donation

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