*** LIVE STREAM LINK HERE ***Beyond Boundaries and Brie: A Post Performance Fundraising After-Party!
Join Earplay for its first-ever mid-season fundraising party, where we’ll toast the musicians and composers, provide insights into our 40th anniversary season in 2025, and celebrate our past, present, and future with you! There will be delicious appetizers and beverages, as well as a silent auction with many delectable and fun items to choose from. All proceeds will support Earplay’s mission to nurture the finest new chamber music of our time, and link audiences, performers, and composers through concerts, commissions, and recordings. Entrance to the after-party requires special performance+gala ticket.
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Conspiracy of Venus vocal ensemble will present a program featuring mostly a cappella original arrangements of songs by iconic artists such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, PJ Harvey, and many more, including a new series featuring Bay Area artists.
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Join the Ali Akbar College of Music in an evening of Indian Classical music, where some of the world’s brightest talents will come together in celebration of world-renowned sarod maestro, Ali Akbar Khan. Experience the vocal sensibilities of Pandit Uday Bhawalkar, as well as an energetic performance by our very own AACM Tabla Ensemble. This moving tribute event will conclude with a performance by Maestro Khan’s two sons, Alam and Manik Khan, on sarod, alongside his long-time tabla accompanist, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.
Theresa Wong performs music from her recent album Practicing Sands and talks about her approach to composing and improvising on cello and other instruments. The conversation will focus on "creativity and form": exploration as a compositional tool, just intonation, queerness in music, and composing for oneself and others. Sarah will also perform Theresa's She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, inspired by Nina Simone.
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Exploring the influence of gamelan music on Western composers, as well as how our music perception changes depending on the context, with works by Debussy, Godowski, Holst, Crumb, Baumbusch, and Srayamurtikanti, as well as piano four-hands transcriptions of Balinese ceremonial music.
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Presenting powerful live music experiences through fresh and informed interpretations of established masterworks and under-appreciated gems, the Ives Collective's spring set builds on last season’s commitment to presenting lesser heard works by women composers, with works by Germaine Tailleferre and Emilie Mayer alongside W. A. Mozart.
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Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premieres of a new work for voice and sextet by composer/singer Erin Gee and an ensemble work by Byron Au Yong, as well as works by Sami Seif and George Walker.
Invest in the arts! Become our partner in presenting approximately 60 amazing concerts each year - featuring new music and music by women and BIPOC composers played by the best performers from the Bay Area and beyond - in a historic venue at affordable prices!