Utsav Lal & George Brooks – Sunday, March 9 at 4 pm
Pianist Utsav Lal and Saxophonist George Brooks fuse Indian classical music and American jazz with contemporary minimalism, crafting innovative new sounds.
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Sarah Cahill – Sunday, January 5 at 2 pm
Celebrating the composer James Cleghorn, best known as music librarian for 25 years at the San Francisco Public Library, with a selection from his dazzling range of piano music, including sets of variations intricate fugues, neoclassical suites, modal experiments, and much more, all with a special focus on melodic invention—many never heard before.
Continue readingN Blanco y Negro Piano Duo – Friday, September 20 at 8 pm
Award-winning duo N Blanco Y Negro are joined by violinist Jennifer Redondas in an eclectic program including a US Premiere by Carlota Garriga alongside works by José White Lafitte, Jason McCauley, Dvořák, Schubert, Fauré, Say, Rachmaninoff, and Piazzolla.
Continue readingWooden Fish Ensemble plays Women Composers! – Sunday, March 10 at 4 pm
Program notes for this performance are viewable online here.
Wooden Fish Ensemble celebrates International Women’s Day with performances of works by Hyo-shin Na, Galina Ustvolsakaya, Ruth Crawford, and Clara Schumann.
Continue readingEarplay – The Poetry of Physics – Monday, February 5 at 7:30 pm
Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premiere of stellar Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui’s Ad Hoc, West Coast Premieres by Suzanne Sorkin and Yotam Haber, and works by Kaija Saariaho and Ines Thiebaut.
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