Thursday, March 7
Thu 3/07 6:00 PM sfsoundRadio [on the interwebs, right where you like it.]The best kind of gig = the one you don’t need to drag yourself out of the house for.
Tune in to sfSound Radio from 6pm to 10pm to hear radioDinner, a live performance by hanes/adams, the electronic project of drummer John Hanes and reed player
Steve Adams, followed by a tablecore improvisation with the Noodles (Michael Zelner,
Suki O'Kane).
We’ll post the recipes as we go.
More... Friday, March 8
Fri 3/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Gabriel Mindel Saloman, known widely for his work in seminal noise band Yellow Swans, joins Latitudes to present his ongoing investigations into music of the liberated body. Composer and instrument-builder Ashley Bellouin is joined by guitarist Ben Bracken to conjure a sound equal parts spiritual, mental, and physical—minimal by design, maximal in spirit.
More... Fri 3/08 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave
Berkeley]Elliott Levin: Fusion of Jazz and Words: Free Jazz, Priceless Words - free jazz sax and poetry are featured with a unique version of the New Olduvai Ensemble including Tom Rollison and the members of Harmolodic Folk Jazz ensemble Cartoon Justice. The evening will begin with the music of Underweather Kitten w/
Phillip Greenlief,
Brett Carson, Kazuto Seito, Jason Levis.
More... Saturday, March 9
Sat 3/09 3:30 PM St. John’s Presbyterian Church [2727 College Ave.
Berkeley, CA]Thomas Buckner (baritone) performs music by Roscoe Mitchell, Steed Cowart, Michael Byron, Christian Dachez, and James Ilgenfritz. With Joseph Kubera, Piano; William Winant, Percussion; Melanie Genin, Harp; James Ilgenfritz, Bass.
More... Sat 3/09 8:00 PM St. Mark's Lutheran Church [1111 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco]Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.
More... Sat 3/09 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]Pianist Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes
A Multi-Sensory Concert Featuring Works by Debussy, Durieux, Ravel, Messiaen, and a California Premiere by Jarosław Kapuściński using Antescofo Software
More... Sunday, March 10
Sun 3/10 4:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Church [600 Colorado Avenue
Palo Alto]Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.
More... Sun 3/10 8:00 PM Wind River [421 Wild Way, Santa Cruz]Composer/bassist James Ilgenfritz (NYC) leads an evening of solo and duo works, with a program stradding the worlds of composition and free improvisation, including an improvising duo with Bay Area oboist
Kyle Bruckmann. His program includes his own work, fellow New Yorkers Lucie Vitkova and Miya Masaoka, Anthony Donofrio, and Watsonville-based composer Jeffrey Treviño.
More... Sun 3/10 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Shapeshifters Cinema - Sung Kim
A live, improvised soundtrack will be performed by Theo Padouvas (trumpet), Shanna Sordahl (invented instruments and cello), Brian Pedersen (reeds), and Sung Kim (invented instruments).
More... Tuesday, March 12
Tue 3/12 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street
Berkeley]Way Out West Concert Series presents
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble presents "Side Three: New Work" CD release performance featuring Vinny Golia
Timothy Orr - drums/percussion, Safa Shokrai - double bass, Max Judelson - double bass
Mark Clifford - vibraphone,
Rent Romus - alto saxophone, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen - e-trumpet,
Joshua Marshall - tenor & soprano saxophone featuring special guest Vinny Golia, baritone saxophone, flutes
"Indeed, Romus and associates have reached a milestone with this top-notch outing that defies strict categorizations when considering bridges between free improvisation and modern progressive jazz. It's a seamless incorporation of the best of many worlds." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
Advance Tickets More... Tue 3/12 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St
SF]Resident is a monthly electronic music and visual open mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. The Laundry event space is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas. Come shows us what you got.
More... Tue 3/12 8:00 PM Freight & Salvage [2020 Addison St.
Berkeley]Sun of Goldfinger
"What at first sounded like an elegant chamber composition goes full-on surreal."
- Rolling Stone Magazine
Saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Ches Smith and guitarist David Torn push far beyond jazz’s known boundaries in Sun of Goldfinger. The mercurial trio explores the edges of the genre, infusing it with perspectives ranging from the minimalist to the cinematic to the metallic. The improvisation-based group effortlessly, seamlessly shifts from atmospheres into shattering mayhem to thrilling effect.
More... Wednesday, March 13
Wed 3/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St
SF]New Olduvai
https://www.elliottlevin.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0V0x0MmhQ
Matt Ingallshttp://sfsound.org/matt.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZuEoY1mkMQ
gabby fluke-mogulhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIbsUBGuSA
Substation 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbl9sa59go
More... Thursday, March 14
Thu 3/14 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd]JON LEIDECKER – Lecture: "United Feedback" – Leidecker traces a connecting line through the work of Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, the Sonic Arts Union and Eliane Radigue.
More... Thu 3/14 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Thomas Buckner: Songs Without Words
Songs Without Words, for voice (no text) and electronics presents work written for, and dedicated to Thomas Buckner by some of the most pioneering composers in experimental music: Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, and Phill Niblock.
More... Friday, March 15
Fri 3/15 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd]David Grubbs - Lecture - "Records Ruin the Landscape" -
Grubbs revisits arguments from his book of the same name while weaving in examples from his own career as a musician, recording artist, and participant in interdisciplinary collaborations.
More... Fri 3/15 9:30 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170
Oakland]Dina Maccabee Album Release Tour, featuring
Grex and
Minivan (NY)An evening of excitement and roving sonic whimsy, celebrating the release of experimental songstress Dina Maccabee’s brand new album, “The Sharpening Machine”, on Geomancy Records. Also featuring: a shattering new set from Oakland art rock duo Grex (
Karl Evangelista + Rei Scampavia), plus New York electronic/pop artist Minivan.
More... Saturday, March 16
Sat 3/16 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Barbara Ruzicka and Kumi Uyeda are in love with four-hand music–the communication, conversation, and bringing the entire keyboard to life in all its sonority—they have found much comradery–sometimes it can be lonely just being a solo pianist! Their collaboration began in 2000 with concerts at such venues as UCSC, Ohlone College, Berkeley Piano Club, All Saints’ Carmel, Monterey Center for Spiritual Living, Carmel Presbyterian and soirees for the Carmel Music Society. They enjoy playing a range of styles and repertoire- from the profundity of the Schubert Fantasie to the emotional heart-on-the sleeve Brahms’ dances, discovering new gems and transcriptions and are in the process of having an original four-hand piece written for them.
More... Sunday, March 17
Sun 3/17 4:00 PM St. Paul's Episcopal Church [114 Montecito Avenue
Oakland]Let’s go! We’re heading out into nature both tamed and wild with music of flowers, fields and forests, of birds and bees, of gentle garden creatures and lurking monsters! Featuring Britten, Schumann, Delius, Mechem, Stanford, Hensel, Crabtree, Nelhybel, Ligeti, Van Brink, and the winner of our New Voices Project.
More... Sun 3/17 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)
The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.
More... Saturday, March 23
Sat 3/23 6:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 1
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
More... Sat 3/23 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]The trio will perform selections from Laura Klein’s recently premiered “Point Reyes Suite”, as well as rarely heard gems by Bud Powell, Marian McPartland, Billy Strayhorn, and more.
More... Sat 3/23 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Chris Brown performs live electronics in duets with Soo Yeon Lyuh, amplified haegum (a Korean bowed two-string instrument); and
James Fei, analog electronics. This concert is the first in a new series at C4NM of music for live electronic ensembles that Brown will curate during the next two years. A week-long mini-festival is next, scheduled for June 18-23. A state-of-the-art sound system will be generously provided by Meyer Sound.
More... Sat 3/23 8:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 2
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
More... Sat 3/23 8:00 PM Taube Atrium Theater [Veterans Building 4th floor
401 Van Ness Ave
SF]Join us on Saturday, March 23rd at the Taube Atrium Theater for the inaugural event of our 24th festival season: Concert 1 – Arditti Quartet Plays Wyschnegradsky & Haas
Other Minds Festival 24 More... Sat 3/23 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Kukangendai
This marks Japanese three-piece band Kukangendai's first appearance in U.S. In spring of 2019, the band's new album will be released from Ideologic Organ curated by Stephen O'Malley from SUNN O))). http://editionsmego.com/release/SOMA032
More... Sunday, March 24
Sun 3/24 4:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [643 Chenery St. San Francisco CA 94131]Rob Sudduth Trio with Rob Sudduth, Saxophone; Dahveed Behroozi, piano; Jason Lewis, drums. The Trio has been an ongoing project since Rob's return from NYC in 2015. The collective nature of the group encourages spontaneous composition weaving in and through tunes by Sudduth and others.
More... Sun 3/24 6:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 3
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
More... Sun 3/24 8:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 4
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
More... Monday, March 25
Mon 3/25 8:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2019: Concert 5
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
More... Wednesday, March 27
Wed 3/27 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Amnon Wolman: Barrier, Stop for inspection
"Barrier, Stop for inspection" was commissioned for the 2018 Warsaw Autumn Festival, and employs sounds, texts and images. The text, about the activity of remembering, was written in June 2018, and was translated to Polish by Halina Cieplińska. It appears both in English and in Polish orally and visually in fixed times during the piece. Most other materials, musical and visual, are performed and controlled during the live performance.
More... Friday, March 29
Fri 3/29 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Friction Commissioning Initiative brings six new works to life premiering quartets by Sarang Kim and Nick Benavides. Also on the concert will be Geoffrey Gordon's ABACISCUS.
More... Fri 3/29 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Ostap Manulyak: sounds from behind the (absent) walls
Ostap Manulyak presents a program of works by contemporary Ukrainian composers and asks a question about real/imaginative/forgotten walls: Do they (still) mark
our internal and external space?
More... Saturday, March 30
Sat 3/30 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Clare Longendyke is a passionate soloist and chamber musician recognized for her colorful musicality, technical fluency, and ability to interpret repertoires across the musical spectrum. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals across Europe and North America and has won 1st place prizes in the Philharmonic Society of Arlington’s Young Artist Competition, the Schubert Club of Minnesota’s Scholarship Competition, the National Society of Arts & Letters Instrumental Competition, and 2nd place in the SIYAO Instrumental Competition. She made her orchestral debut in 2012 performing Bartók’s 3rd Piano Concerto as the winner of the Indiana University Piano Concerto Competition and in 2017, she performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor with the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra (Massachusetts) and Orlando Cela, conductor.
More... Sat 3/30 10:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Russell Haswell + Pita
Russell Haswell is a restlessly forward-thinking, genre-defying artist, performer and curator born in Coventry and currently based in London, England.
Pita is the pseudonym of Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg. Born in London Rehberg has resided in Vienna for term his adult life.
More... Sunday, March 31
Sun 3/31 12:30 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St
SF]San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet presents San Francisco’s first festival to return to the world of pure intervals often called “just intonation.”
The four-hour festival will take place in the soaring Yud Gallery at The Contemporary Jewish Museum. In this light-filled space built with acoustic resonance in mind, audiences can experience a whole range of music that can be made with keeping “rational numbers” in mind, from soulful variations of “Amazing Grace” to highly calculated avant-garde compositions to the improvised world of extended wind techniques.
Performers include composers/performers: Ellen Fullman (long string and autoharp),
Theresa Wong (cello and vocals),
Matt Ingalls (clarinet),
Kyle Bruckmann (oboe),
Chris Brown of Mills College (tuned piano), Larry Polansky of UC Santa Cruz (guitar), Arjun Verma (sitar), as well as the
Del Sol String Quartet.
Music to be performed includes the world premiere of new quartet work by Michael Harrison and works by Ben Johnston, Ellen Fullman,
Chris Brown, Larry Polansky,
Matt Ingalls, Arjun Verma,
Theresa Wong, and more. This first festival also launches a new commissioning arm of Del Sol Performing Arts Organization to produce future works in just intonation, including works to be premiered in 2020.
More... Monday, April 1
Mon 4/01 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]OAKLAND FREEDOM JAZZ SOCIETY PRESENTS....
Cranky
(Sean Keenan, Jake Parker-Scott, Mitch Stahlmann)
+
Noah Phillips
Show starts around 9:30PM
More... Thursday, April 4
Thu 4/04 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]"Oedipus: Sex with Mum was Blinding"
a hybrid opera libretto and direction by Elli Papakonstantinou, music composition by Julia Kent and Tilemachos Moussas
The piece draws from cognitive science and the myth of “Oedipus Rex” and was developed during the director’s visit at CCRMA. Originally designed for a cast of seven, this is an abbreviated version featuring a mix of live actors that are folded into an array of surreal cinematic environments. Through a series of scientific experiments, audience engagement plays an essential role in the execution of the piece. Atonal, electroacoustic compositions weave throughout the opera while Grammy nominee, Julia Kent, performs cello on stage in a constant stream of visuals and live action. A full production of the piece will take place in Athens at the Old National Opera House in September 2019 with the participation of cognitive scientists from the Warburg Institute, University of London.
More... Friday, April 5
Fri 4/05 12:30 PM Cadillac Hotel [380 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102]Zendrummer E. Doctor Smith joins flautist Laura Austin Wiley and her electric quartet featuring 7 string bassist Edo Castro, guitarist David McFarland and keyboardist Jim Lang.
More... Fri 4/05 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street
Berkeley]Drummers Alan Hall, Jeremy Steinkoler and Dillon Vado will bring in their unique bands of stellar musicians to present a night of passionate and groove-driven original music and improvisations.
More... Fri 4/05 8:30 PM MilkBar [241 South 1st Street, Unit A.
Richmond CA 94804]MilkBar Salon #47
Doors: 8 PM
Performance starts: 8:30 PM
FEATURING:
DANCE:
Talli Jackson
MUSIC:
Playing Field: Clear (
Kattt Atchley and
Suki O'Kane)
VIDEO: Jenny Stulberg, Sebastian Alvarez, Allison Holt with Thollem McDonas
PERFORMANCE: Krista Denio
More... Saturday, April 6
Sat 4/06 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Bay Area based Circadian String Quartet was founded in 2013 to promote the classical and contemporary string quartet repertoire, in particular music of cultural and folkloric significance. Since then, the group has been featured through Mt. Shasta’s Music By the Mountain, Sunset Music | Arts Chamber Music Series in San Francisco, and the Merced Symphony Association. In 2014, the CSQ were invited to collaborate with the St. Petersburg-based Rimsky Korsakov String Quartet during their North American tour. They have also given U.S. premieres of pieces by world-renowned British composer Ian Venables in collaboration with mezzo-soprano Sally Munro of the San Francisco Opera and Natalie Parker, Principal Clarinetist of the San Francisco Ballet.
More... Sat 4/06 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]The California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (CEMEC) are a series of events designed to strengthen the connections between the various California educational institutions that maintain computer and electronic music programs. Run and curated by the graduate students and faculty at each participating institution, the 2019 CEMEC will be held at the campuses of CalArts, Mills, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, and Stanford throughout April. At CCRMA, we will present works composed and performed by Rodrigo Barriga, Jaehoon Choi, Danielle Dahl, Stewart Engart, Stephanie Fischer, Nathaniel Haering, Mason Hock, Amina Kirby, Douglas McCausland, Matthew Perez, and Yiyang Shi.
More... Sat 4/06 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]DUO GELLAND & 113 COMPOSERS
Duo Gelland, joined by members of the 113 Composers Collective will present an evening of adventurous new music as part of their California tour.
More... Sat 4/06 8:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Do Over Music Series #4: duo B Experimental Band +
Kjell Nordeson, solo percussion
Polly Moller Springhorn, flutes
Kyle Bruckmann, oboes
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Henry Hung, trumpet
Rob Ewing, trombone
gabby fluke-mogul, violin
John Finkbeiner, guitar
Lee Hodel, bass
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Jason Levis, drums
plus guest percussionists:
Suki O'KaneRobert Lopez More... Sat 4/06 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Universal Eyes (Wolf Eyes with Gretchen Gonzales & Aaron Dilloway) and Red Culebra (Guillermo Galindo & Cristóbal Martínez)
More... Sunday, April 7
Sun 4/07 7:00 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Sing Sistah Sing! is the first work conceived and written by internationally renowned Mezzo Soprano Andrea Baker. Andrea began her operatic career with the San Francisco Opera, and now resides in Scotland. The show is both a celebration of the sound and extraordinary breadth of the African American female voice, and a heartfelt retelling of some of their most incredible life stories.
Sing Sistah Sing! brilliantly weaves together these women’s brave struggles both in the civil rights movement and in their fight for artistic freedom both at home and abroad. Some have chosen opera, jazz or blues to express themselves. Celebrated artists include Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, Donna Summer, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.
More... Sun 4/07 7:00 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Duo Gelland & 113 Composers
Duo Gelland joined by members of the 113 Composers Collective will present an evening of adventurous new music as part of their California tour.
More... Sun 4/07 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission
SF]7:30 Kaiser/Looney
Henry Kaiser - guitar/electronics,
Scott R. Looney - piano
8:30
Rent Romus'
Lords of OutlandPhilip Everett - drums, Ray Schaeffer - bass, Alex Cohen - guitar
Rent Romus - alto, soprano, c-melody saxophones, flutes
"Romus' fiery romp is a no-holds barred exposition. He slices through steel with accuracy and ease, equating to a jovial soundscape, scraped with intensifying solos and Everett's colorific cymbals hits. They galvanize your neural system from start to finish, while projecting a take no prisoners approach throughout." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
More... Wednesday, April 10
Wed 4/10 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd]Severine Neff - Lecture - Point/Counterpoint: John Cage Studies with Arnold Schoenberg --
Neff discusses Cage's Second Construction in Metal in the context of his studies with Arnold Schoenberg in the mid–1930s.
More... Wed 4/10 6:00 PM sfSoundRadio [[on the interwebs, right where you like it]]The best kind of gig = the one you don’t need to drag yourself out of the house for.
Tune in to sfSoundRadio from 6pm to 9pm to hear tablecore improvisations by
Matt Davignon, Michael Zelner, and
Suki O'Kane. Meticulously designed to accompany rinsing, chopping, sauteing and consuming, radioDinner promotes home-cooked meals throughout the experimental music community.
More... Wed 4/10 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]Linda Bouchard with
Kyle Bruckmann and
Jacob Felix HeuleOne composer. Two improvisers. The players face in opposite directions, each one viewing a projection of a unique graphical score generated in response to the other’s playing. Each performer reacts to the images in the score and decodes the other’s performance, which has been processed in real-time by the composer using a series of presets and filters to create a “Live Structure” – a composition which unfolds as a collaborative improvisation and committed interpretation of a musical code.
More... Thursday, April 11
Thu 4/11 4:00 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [Mills College Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd]ECLIPSE QUARTET - Master-class -- Collaborative Techniques for Players and Composers --
The Quartet will do a master-class using examples from their current repertoire including pieces by Gabriela Ortiz, Kajia Saariaho, and Philip Glass.
More... Thu 4/11 8:00 PM VAMP music • art • consignment [331 19th Street
Oakland]Live@VAMP presents
Ben Goldberg & Mike McGinnis
Clarinetist
Ben Goldberg has worked in the avant-garde world with heavies like John Zorn, Nels Cline and Myra Melford.
Multi-reedist and composer Mike McGinnis is a musical explorer unbound by stylistic barriers, unwaveringly individual, curious, and open-minded.
More... Saturday, April 13
Sat 4/13 4:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118]Bruce Ackley, of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, presents a brief and informal survey of the history of the soprano saxophone, starting with a short slideshow discussion, and then a live performance of works by John Coltrane, Steve Lacy, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Hodges, and Ackley originals.
More... Sat 4/13 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]Known for their powerful sound and profound unity of ensemble, Ensemble Illume is dedicated to sharing the rich character of the viola, cello, and piano trio with audiences of all ages. With its unconventional instrumentation, Illume’s mission is to nurture and expand the repertoire for the ensemble by identifying rarely-heard work and working with contemporary composers, while also pursuing collaborations with fellow musicians to perform quartets, quintets, and larger chamber ensembles. The ensemble was formed with an inaugural concert in San Francisco in 2018, which featured works by Kaija Saariaho and Johannes Brahms.
The musicians of Ensemble Illume have made their passion for chamber music the core of their varied and busy performing careers, which have included performances on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Walt Disney Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, the New York City Center, the National Theater and Concert Hall of Taiwan, Auditori Teulada-Moraira in Spain, and through the airwaves of American Public Media, WNYC, WHYY, WQXR, WFMT, WAMC, and KALW.
More... Sat 4/13 7:30 PM David Brower Center [2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704]Composer Matthew Burtner makes music with glaciers, a business fraught with the hazards of calving, melting and, on occasion, over-modulating. His recent impressive CD release, Glacier Music, will be the subject of his interview concert with OM Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian.
More... Sunday, April 14
Sun 4/14 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Amaranth Quartet premieres D. Riley Nicholson's most recent work, Break, alongside a new quartet version of Nicholson's Bend, and selections from Philip Glass's Bent. The evening will include music by the winner of Amaranth's young composer's initiative, Alyssa Weinberg, Ryan Brown, and Sahba Aminikia.
More... Sun 4/14 7:00 PM Pro Arts [The Forum at Frank H Ogawa Plaza
Oakland]Wendy Reid, LULU AND FRIENDS: AMBIENT BIRD 433
An hour-long interspecies sonic landscape/ambient environment featuring Lulu, African Grey Parrot, with
Wendy Reid, violin; Brenda Hutchinson, long tube instrument;
Aurora Josephson, voice;
Ron Heglin, tuba; The Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble; and Musicians of Frog Pond 433.
More... Sun 4/14 7:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus
near corner of College and Bancroft
Berkeley]BERKELEY NEW MUSIC PROJECT PRESENTS QUINCE ENSEMBLE/ECO ENSEMBLE
More... Thursday, April 18
Thu 4/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Oakland's Grex and Brooklyn's Book of Hours share the stage for an evening of art rock, jazz, and improvisation. Grex will convene in an expanded configuration and Book of Hours will be on tour in support of its record release.
More... Thu 4/18 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305]Barbara Lüneburg & Marko Ciciliani: Drifts in Power
In this program, Barbara Lüneburg & Marko Ciciliani will perform works that directly emerged from two different larger projects in the field of artistic research. "Slices of Life" (2014-17) emerged from Barbara’s artistic-research project Transcoding, in which she developed a multimedia work in collaboration with an online community over the period of several years. Marko’s compositions "Kilgore" and "Formula minus One" resulted from the investigation of the artistic potential of elements from computer games in the context of audiovisual composition, which is the focus of the research project GAPPP (Gamified Audiovisual Performance and Performance Practice).
More... Thu 4/18 8:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170
Oakland]Naomi Moon Siegel – “a trombonist and composer of great style and distinction” (Earshot Jazz) – presents her original music in celebration of her new release Live At Earshot on Slow & Steady Records. Sharing the bill will be the Rice Kings, an original electronic jazz duo featuring Eli Maliwan (EWI/vocals) and Erika Oba (keyboards).
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