January 29th - 31st
Philip Gelb 3-Day Residency

Thu, Jan 29 · 7:30 PM (PST)
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 1
Solo Shakuhachi & Buchla
Philip Gelb’s first solo shakuhachi performance in the Bay Area in over a decade, blending traditional and modern works with Buchla modular synthesizer.
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Fri, Jan 30 · 7:30 PM (PST)
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 2
Kra Pao
An improvisational ensemble exploring the dynamic interplay between modular synthesis and acoustic instruments, featuring an all-star lineup of creative musicians.
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Sat, Jan 31 · 7:30 PM (PST)
Philip Gelb Residency — Day 3
Pauline Oliveros Tribute
An all-star cast of Bay Area musicians honors the visionary composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros.
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Philip Gelb Residency — Day 2

Kra Pao

Philip Gelb's residency continues with his improvisational music ensemble Kra Pa. These modern electronic and acoustic sonic explorations by Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn; Thomas Dimuzio - synthesizer; Philip Gelb - shakuhachi, buchla synthesizer; Motoko Honda - piano; Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello; Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto, reflect genuine listening and interation between modular synths and acoustic instruments.

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Philip Gelb Residency — Day 3

Pauline Oliveros Tribute

An all-star cast of Bay Area musicians honors the visionary composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros.
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The Supplicants

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Saxophonists David Boyce, Richard Howell, bassist David Ewell, and drummer Sameer Gupta start from scratch for each performance, channeling their inspiration into freely improvised musical moments. The Supplicants have been sculpting their unique sound for over 25 years, starting in 1999 in San Francisco. Their concerts have been consistently unforgettable musical experiences.

Richard Howell: winds, percussion
David Boyce: winds
David Ewell: bass
Sameer Gupta: drums

“The Supplicants has left me radiant, fulfilled in the way only the most profound spiritual encounters can. Composed of some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished jazz musicians…the band soars with the fiery grace of A Love Supreme-era Coltrane.” – Jonathan Zwickel, SF Bay Guardian

“The level of emotion with which they play is so deep, so personal, and the energy so pure that it is almost as if existence, or being itself, creeps most surprisingly yet receptively into our souls.” —Drew Foxman, All About Jazz
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Gautam Tejas Ganeshan Residency

Feb 12, 13, 14

Gautam Tejas Ganeshan is on a fascinating, in-depth musical journey - one which continues until this very moment, and whose nature is well described by a name, from nearly twenty years ago, of an installation he once sang for: *Enter the Center* ( … which somebody watched from a bathtub, and while unloading the instruments for which he also had to change a flat tire.) Since then, he has brought "new music from an old tradition" (SFJAZZ) to the SF Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum (SF), the UC Berkeley Art Museum, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and much more - and has been called upon to guest-lecture and teach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford Jazz Workshop, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and elsewhere.

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