California Summer Music is a unique program in the West, offering chamber music for young string players, pianists and composers. Every July since 1995, CSM has offered music with such focus, with such immersion and such attention to its students, that its young musicians achieve an exciting level of artistic excellence. For the first time, […]
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US Premieres of Dreamscape by Karen Gourlay, Elegia by Philip Czaplowski and Bereft Adrift by Michael Oliva, along with works by John Bilotta, John Thow, Dan Kessner, Tim Benjamin, Toru Takemitsu and Bruce MacCombie Since 2003, rarescale have been actively promoting the alto flute repertoire around the world. Led by Carla Rees, who has commissioned […]
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OOGOG is a quartet of composer/performers who combine their formal conservatory training with a love of improvisation to create music of intricate rhythms, off-kilter grooves, and strangely beautiful melodies. Opening up for them is ‘cellist, composer, and vocalist Jody Redhage, performing new music for her voice, ‘cello, and electronics, blurring the boundaries between art song, […]
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Music by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Josquin and RameauAfter hearing a performance of Mozart’s piano sonatas on a fortepiano as a graduate student, Trevor Stephenson began an exhaustive exploration of the different expressive and tonal possibilities of historical keyboard instruments. Working with Norman Sheppard, he began building and customizing his own historical instruments. His program features […]
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