Author Archives: Rick Bahto

Poetic Move – Ting Luo – Sunday, November 7 at 4 pm

NAC Premiere Concert for Piano and Multimedia

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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)

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Fusion Soul – Sunday, October 3 at 4 pm

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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.

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