Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sun, Mar 20 2022 4:00 PM

Dresher Ensemble Studio
W Grand Ave and Poplar St Oakland
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Facets with Hafez Modirzadeh, Alex Peh, and Keshav Batish

Hafez Mordirzadeh: alto saxophone – Alex Peh: piano – Keshav Batish: drums

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Hafez Modirzadeh’s Grammy-nominated work is global in scope, highly collaborative in nature, with a shared company extending across generations, from Ornette Coleman to Tyshawn Sorey, and Zakir Hussein to Vijay Iyer, as well as many of the original AACM members. As a Pi Recordings artist and Professor of Creative Music at SF State University, Modirzadeh’s artistic scholarship encompasses innovative concepts such as chromodality, aural archetypes, and compost music, while his most recently acclaimed “Facets” (PI 87) takes explorations in resonance on retuned piano towards “an entirely new mode of expression” (Chicago Reader), with “a feeling of rich uncertainty” (New York Times) that serves as a “blueprint for pancultural parity” (Downbeat).