FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 AT 8:00PM
Music in the Now
Compositions and improvisations by Annie Lewandowski, Anagamin Ensemble, Zeina Nasr, Grex, Gretchen Jude, Lona Kozik and Julia MacDonald
From the sublime to the challenging, current and former graduate students from Mills College present a mix of primarily acoustic solo and group improvisations and compositions and everything in between. From prepared piano to extended vocal techniques to stories and songs created in the moment, these sonic explorations will create unique experiences. Highly skilled, multi-talented, and wonderfully creative, these improvisers and composers will take you on a journey unlike any other.
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Music in the Now
Compositions and improvisations by Annie Lewandowski, Anagamin Ensemble, Zeina Nasr, Grex, Gretchen Jude, Lona Kozik and Julia MacDonald
From the sublime to the challenging, current and former graduate students from Mills College present a mix of primarily acoustic solo and group improvisations and compositions and everything in between. From prepared piano to extended vocal techniques to stories and songs created in the moment, these sonic explorations will create unique experiences. Highly skilled, multi-talented, and wonderfully creative, these improvisers and composers will take you on a journey unlike any other.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 AT 8:00PM
Composers Inc.
Formed in 1984 to present the music of living American composers, Composers Inc. seeks to increase public awareness of contemporary American music. This concert will feature the first US performance of Seven Faces of the World by Joseph Kolkovich, winner of the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award. This rich and fascinating work for string trio will be performed by members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Composer Zibuokle Martinaityte returns this season with her new piece Inhabited Silences for violin, 'cello and piano. The New Pacific Trio will perform this sometimes reflective, sometimes whimsical work. Two more premieres on the program are Preludes for piano by Jeffrey Miller, performed by Eliane Lust, and Robert Greenberg’s song cycle So Let Us Live–Really Live! by baritone Allen Shearer and pianist Lino Rivera.
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Composers Inc.
Formed in 1984 to present the music of living American composers, Composers Inc. seeks to increase public awareness of contemporary American music. This concert will feature the first US performance of Seven Faces of the World by Joseph Kolkovich, winner of the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award. This rich and fascinating work for string trio will be performed by members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Composer Zibuokle Martinaityte returns this season with her new piece Inhabited Silences for violin, 'cello and piano. The New Pacific Trio will perform this sometimes reflective, sometimes whimsical work. Two more premieres on the program are Preludes for piano by Jeffrey Miller, performed by Eliane Lust, and Robert Greenberg’s song cycle So Let Us Live–Really Live! by baritone Allen Shearer and pianist Lino Rivera.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2010 AT 8:00PM
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Music for the people, by the people! SFCCO brings new music by living composers to the public like no one else! Since it's inception in 2002, The Composers Orchestra has premiered more new music than any other ensemble in the Bay Area with a surprising diversity of styles influenced by as much by pop and world as post-modernist and minimalist music. An eclectic catch-as-catch-can program of all new works by Bay Area composers featuring wildly different styles and instrumentation.
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San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Music for the people, by the people! SFCCO brings new music by living composers to the public like no one else! Since it's inception in 2002, The Composers Orchestra has premiered more new music than any other ensemble in the Bay Area with a surprising diversity of styles influenced by as much by pop and world as post-modernist and minimalist music. An eclectic catch-as-catch-can program of all new works by Bay Area composers featuring wildly different styles and instrumentation.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010 AT 4:00PM
The Annual Chopin Birthday Concert
Every year the Chopin Foundation celebrates Chopin's birthday with a concert by a distinguished pianist. In the past we have welcomed such pianists as Gabriela Montera (who played at President Obama's inauguration), Garrick Ohlsson, Kevin Kenner and many other artists from around the world. This year the prize-winning and internationally renowned pianist Esther Keel performs Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brilliante among other works.
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The Annual Chopin Birthday Concert
Every year the Chopin Foundation celebrates Chopin's birthday with a concert by a distinguished pianist. In the past we have welcomed such pianists as Gabriela Montera (who played at President Obama's inauguration), Garrick Ohlsson, Kevin Kenner and many other artists from around the world. This year the prize-winning and internationally renowned pianist Esther Keel performs Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brilliante among other works.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010 AT 8:00PM
The Pink Triangle Project
Stefan Heucke, composer; Susan Eischeid, oboe
The Pink Triangle Project, a multi-national collaboration, will feature the world premiere of a new composition commemorating the homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Written by noted German composer Stefan Heucke, who will also attend the premiere, the work will feature Holocaust scholar and professional oboist Susan Eischeid, pianist Maila Gutierrez-Springfield, and the select men’s chorus Zephyrus conducted by Paul Andrew Neal. Canadian poet and author Gina Roitman, herself a child of survivors, will read a new poem written in memory of the Pink Triangle prisoners. The program will additionally feature the Bridge Players performing a string quartet by Czech composer Viktor Ullmann, who died in the Nazi camp of Theresienstadt, and Zephyrus performing other works for men’s chorus from the Holocaust period plus complimentary programming. The concert will be dedicated to the memory of those thousands of homosexual victims murdered by the Nazi regime and to the struggles still faced by many persons in our own society who continue to deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice, be it towards gender, sexual orientation, or simply for being different.
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The Pink Triangle Project
Stefan Heucke, composer; Susan Eischeid, oboe
The Pink Triangle Project, a multi-national collaboration, will feature the world premiere of a new composition commemorating the homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Written by noted German composer Stefan Heucke, who will also attend the premiere, the work will feature Holocaust scholar and professional oboist Susan Eischeid, pianist Maila Gutierrez-Springfield, and the select men’s chorus Zephyrus conducted by Paul Andrew Neal. Canadian poet and author Gina Roitman, herself a child of survivors, will read a new poem written in memory of the Pink Triangle prisoners. The program will additionally feature the Bridge Players performing a string quartet by Czech composer Viktor Ullmann, who died in the Nazi camp of Theresienstadt, and Zephyrus performing other works for men’s chorus from the Holocaust period plus complimentary programming. The concert will be dedicated to the memory of those thousands of homosexual victims murdered by the Nazi regime and to the struggles still faced by many persons in our own society who continue to deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice, be it towards gender, sexual orientation, or simply for being different.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010 AT 4:00PM
Wooden Fish Ensemble
celebrates the music of Hyo-shin Na
Shoko Hikage, koto; Noriko Tsuboi, koto; Kanoko Nishi, koto; Thomas Schultz, piano; Peter Josheff, clarinet; Terrie Baune, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Daniel Reiter, 'cello
Koto Ninano, Koto Music, Night Procession of the Hundred Demons, Ocean/Shore 2 and Walking, Walking by Hyo-shin Na
The Wooden Fish Ensemble celebrates the music of Hyo-shin Na with performances of a selection of her works for mixed instruments. After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the US in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate. After moving to San Francisco in 1988, she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow. At the same time, she made return trips to Korea to hear and study traditional Korean music while also taking a broad interest in the music of other regions of Asia. Her writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.
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Wooden Fish Ensemble
celebrates the music of Hyo-shin Na
Shoko Hikage, koto; Noriko Tsuboi, koto; Kanoko Nishi, koto; Thomas Schultz, piano; Peter Josheff, clarinet; Terrie Baune, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Daniel Reiter, 'cello
Koto Ninano, Koto Music, Night Procession of the Hundred Demons, Ocean/Shore 2 and Walking, Walking by Hyo-shin Na
The Wooden Fish Ensemble celebrates the music of Hyo-shin Na with performances of a selection of her works for mixed instruments. After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the US in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate. After moving to San Francisco in 1988, she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow. At the same time, she made return trips to Korea to hear and study traditional Korean music while also taking a broad interest in the music of other regions of Asia. Her writing for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010 AT 8:00PM
An Evening of Copland and Friends
Jennifer Beattie, mezzo-soprano; Adam Marks, piano
Hailed by Opera News Online for her "exuberant voice and personality," mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie is a versatile and dynamic performer in styles ranging from opera to chamber music and musical theater to cabaret. Ms. Beattie is a sought-after recitalist dedicated to the performance of art song, appearing in concert in NYC at such venues as The National Arts Club, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center and Riverside Church. Pianist Adam Marks is known for his innovative and impassioned performances, earning him praise as a soloist, collaborator and instructor. Frequent collaborators, they will perform Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson by Copland along with works by Debussy, Gershwin, Bolcom and more.
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An Evening of Copland and Friends
Jennifer Beattie, mezzo-soprano; Adam Marks, piano
Hailed by Opera News Online for her "exuberant voice and personality," mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie is a versatile and dynamic performer in styles ranging from opera to chamber music and musical theater to cabaret. Ms. Beattie is a sought-after recitalist dedicated to the performance of art song, appearing in concert in NYC at such venues as The National Arts Club, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center and Riverside Church. Pianist Adam Marks is known for his innovative and impassioned performances, earning him praise as a soloist, collaborator and instructor. Frequent collaborators, they will perform Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson by Copland along with works by Debussy, Gershwin, Bolcom and more.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2010 AT 4:00PM
Thomas Schultz
Thomas Schultz, piano
Dream, Music for Marcel Duchamp, One, Prelude for Meditation and Etudes Australes XXIII, XXX and XXXII by John Cage; Walking, Walking by Hyo-shin Na; Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues and Piano Piece No. 4 by Frederic Rzewski
Praised by San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman for his "strong, fearless execution," "depth of feeling," and "fiery elegance and formal command", Thomas Schultz has established an international reputation both as an interpreter of music from the classical tradition—particularly Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt—and as one of the leading exponents of the music of our time. He has worked closely with such eminent composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, Earle Brown, Jonathan Harvey and Elliott Carter (in performances of the Double Concerto at the Colorado Music Festival and at Alice Tully Hall in New York). For this concert he focuses solely on music of the 20th century, with works by Cage, Rzewski and Hyo-shin Na.
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Thomas Schultz
Thomas Schultz, piano
Dream, Music for Marcel Duchamp, One, Prelude for Meditation and Etudes Australes XXIII, XXX and XXXII by John Cage; Walking, Walking by Hyo-shin Na; Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues and Piano Piece No. 4 by Frederic Rzewski
Praised by San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman for his "strong, fearless execution," "depth of feeling," and "fiery elegance and formal command", Thomas Schultz has established an international reputation both as an interpreter of music from the classical tradition—particularly Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt—and as one of the leading exponents of the music of our time. He has worked closely with such eminent composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, Earle Brown, Jonathan Harvey and Elliott Carter (in performances of the Double Concerto at the Colorado Music Festival and at Alice Tully Hall in New York). For this concert he focuses solely on music of the 20th century, with works by Cage, Rzewski and Hyo-shin Na.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010 AT 4:00PM
ZOFO
Mosh Pit — American Dances for Piano Duet
Keisuke Nakagoshi; Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Cuban Overture by George Gershwin; Three Dance Portraits by Allen Shawn; Souvenirs, Op. 28 by Samuel Barber; Four for Shiva by David Garner; Gazebo Dances by John Corigliano
As one of only a few ensembles worldwide focusing on piano duets, ZOFO is reviving hidden gems of the one-piano-four-hands repertoire along with a strong emphasis on performing 20th and 21st Century music. By also playing arrangements of famous orchestral pieces, ZOFO explores the realm that many composers first experienced their symphonic works. ZOFO believes that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with the two performers playing synchronized interwoven lines on one instrument. The choreography of the four hands is as beautiful to watch as the rich tapestry of sounds dancing out of the piano. ZOFO is deeply committed to enrich the piano duet repertoire by commissioning new works each year. Mosh Pit is a program of piano duet pieces written by all American composers of the 20th and 21st century – a total mix of different styles ranging from George Gershwin’s own crystal-clear piano four-hand arrangement of his exuberant Cuban Overture to Samuel Barber’s nostalgic ballet suite Souvenirs. Other pieces in the program include John Corigliano’s circussy Gazebo Dances, Allen Shawn’s rhythmically tricky Dance Portraits influenced by rock music, and Bay-Area composer David Garner’s jazzy Four for Shiva.
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ZOFO
Mosh Pit — American Dances for Piano Duet
Keisuke Nakagoshi; Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Cuban Overture by George Gershwin; Three Dance Portraits by Allen Shawn; Souvenirs, Op. 28 by Samuel Barber; Four for Shiva by David Garner; Gazebo Dances by John Corigliano
As one of only a few ensembles worldwide focusing on piano duets, ZOFO is reviving hidden gems of the one-piano-four-hands repertoire along with a strong emphasis on performing 20th and 21st Century music. By also playing arrangements of famous orchestral pieces, ZOFO explores the realm that many composers first experienced their symphonic works. ZOFO believes that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with the two performers playing synchronized interwoven lines on one instrument. The choreography of the four hands is as beautiful to watch as the rich tapestry of sounds dancing out of the piano. ZOFO is deeply committed to enrich the piano duet repertoire by commissioning new works each year. Mosh Pit is a program of piano duet pieces written by all American composers of the 20th and 21st century – a total mix of different styles ranging from George Gershwin’s own crystal-clear piano four-hand arrangement of his exuberant Cuban Overture to Samuel Barber’s nostalgic ballet suite Souvenirs. Other pieces in the program include John Corigliano’s circussy Gazebo Dances, Allen Shawn’s rhythmically tricky Dance Portraits influenced by rock music, and Bay-Area composer David Garner’s jazzy Four for Shiva.
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