Sarah Cahill – Friday, January 23 at 8 pm
Sarah Cahill – Friday, January 23 at 8 pm
Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, returns to Old First Concerts. Program details coming soon!
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Sarah Cahill, piano
program details coming soon
Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Julia Wolfe, Roscoe Mitchell, Annea Lockwood, and Ingram Marshall. She was named a 2018 Champion of New Music, awarded by the American Composers Forum (ACF) (in a ceremony at Old First Concerts). This year, Sarah will be performing at the National Gallery, the University of Washington, MIT, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Four Seasons Arts, and San Francisco Performances. She will also premiere Viet Cuong’s new piano concerto with the California Symphony. Recording projects include Arlene Sierra’s complete Birds and Insects for the Bridge label, and an album of Lou Harrison’s piano music, including unpublished works, for Other Minds. Sarah’s latest two albums, The Future is Female, Vol. 1, 2, & 3 were released last year on First Hand Records. Sarah’s radio show, Revolutions Per Minute, can be heard every Sunday evening from 6 to 8 pm on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory and is a regular pre-concert speaker with the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.