Upcoming Concerts

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Moving easily from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist and composer, Stephen Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground and relationships in the music of all cultures and languages. In this concert he pairs music of J.S. Bach with piano transcriptions of Progressive Rock classics.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Ninth Planet returns with a program exploring themes of realism and surrealism, featuring the world premiere of a work by Bay Area resident Assaf Shatil, plus works by Shelley Washington, Yaz Lancaster, and Amy Beth Kirsten.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK 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.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** The award-winning E4TT performs World Premieres by Brennan Stokes and Mary Bianco alongside works focusing on identity and transformation by Marcus Norris, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Lisa Bielawa, Darian Donovan Thomas, Julia Perry, George Walker, and more!

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Dorisiya Yosifova performs a World Premiere based entirely on Bulgarian folklore tradition by Jillian Honorof, plus works by Dora Pejacevid & Amy Beach.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** 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.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** San Francisco’s Conspiracy of Beards is a choir of men that performs dynamic, original, a cappella arrangements of the poetic songs of Leonard Cohen.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** An evening of Leonard Cohen songs presented by Madeline Tasquin & Friends and Smitty & Julija. These dynamic musicians have been part of many Leonard Cohen tributes around the Bay Area over the years.

NAC Premiere Concert for Piano and Multimedia *** LIVE STREAM LINK 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)

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Three Schubert Lieder overflowing with yearning and heartache, the World Premiere of Peter Quince at the Clavier by Michael Robert Smith, and songs of innocence and gratitude by Brahms, N. Boulanger and Copland.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** Premieres, compositions, solos, duos and a sacred Coltrane transcription. This is animistic woodwind music. Avant-garde nature music: soothingly feral new music at the intersection of Zen nature meditation, rural blues, jubilee gospel and lost paleolithic cave rituals.

*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE *** 'Raga & Jazz pianist" Utsav Lal returns to O1C presenting new work and raga interpretations on solo piano, and will be joined in an exciting collaboration featuring sarod and tabla.