PROGRAM NOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE HERE
In Carols and Hymns, Musae will explore vocal music spanning the centuries. From medieval chant, to early-Renaissance fauxbourdon, to religious songs, to contemporary compositions, this journey of a program is a way for us to celebrate the season through live music again.
NAC Premiere Concert for Piano and Multimedia
PROGRAM NOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE HERE
Pianist Ting Luo gives the World Premieres of a series of works for solo piano and immersive visuals by living composers in Bay Area and beyond, including Danny Clay, Chatori Shimizu, and Jean Ahn, in collaboration with visual artists including Charles Woodman and Jo Ho. “External and internal spaces began to blend, allowing dreams, memories, and fragments to be unearthed and brought into the light.” – Nicki Davis (NAC Visual Collaborator)
PROGRAM NOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE HERE
World Premiere of a new work by Alisa Rose integrating American fiddle idioms into classical concert forms celebrating the cultural change and inclusivity that Bluegrass Pride represents.
PROGRAM NOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE
The Ives Collective presents powerful live music experiences through fresh and informed interpretations of established masterworks and underappreciated gems, in this program featuring works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Erwin Schulhoff, and Johannes Brahms.
PROGRAM NOTES AVAILABLE ONLINE HERE
Karlton Hester’s expressive works engage in themes of creative freedom, Pythagorean theorems, string theory, the legacies and poly-mathematical work of trumpeter Donald Byrd, as well as an exploration of the philosophical/creative thought of the legendary progenitor of the Afrofuturist perspective, Sun Ra. Alongside these, works by Hwayoung Shon and Byungki Hwang drawing from traditional Korean music start a dialog with Hester’s work that leads to the transcontinental collaboration of Miseon Jeong’s Fusion Soul, which dramatizes the fusion of jazz and traditional Korean music into one soul.
