Week of Events
Fields of Wonder
"Fields of Wonder" features a newly rediscovered song cycle by Margaret Bonds set to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Cantus will perform the concert without an audience at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and it will be available online on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7:40pm to Saturday, April 11, 2021 at 7:30pm. […]
TUES@7: From Scratch
TUES@7 “From Scratch” focuses on new collaborations with recordings/performances taking place from the Ensemble’s studio/office space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. The program includes a world premiere of a new quartet work by Josh Modney (violin/composition), written for and performed alongside acclaimed creative musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Cory Smythe (piano), and Mariel Roberts (cello). The […]
Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses Album Release
Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer) and Jade Tougue celebrate their deeply personal album Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses on Pi Records with an evening of music at Roulette. The album and subsequent performance marks the long-awaited return of Jade Tongue, an ensemble made up of musical innovators—Ambrose Akinmusire, Mat Maneri, Thomas Morgan, and Dan Weiss—with whom Shyu has created […]
KATE CAMPBELL
Join SFCMP Pianist, Kate Campbell for Piano Break, a program of the The Ross McKee Foundation. Campbell will present a recital of fun, quirky, and deeply personal works in a program that celebrates Bay Area Composers and the diversity in contemporary classical music. This program is released on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7pm CT | 5pm PT, and is then available […]
New Voice Festival – Past/Present/Future
BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY'S inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This first festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look toward the future SATURDAY, APRIL […]
2021 VIRTUAL SPRING BENEFIT CONCERT and SILENT AUCTION
Join on Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET as Geneva Music Festival will present its 2021 Spring Benefit virtual concert, “An Evening of Romance”. This virtual evening of world-class music will feature violinists Geoffrey Herd and Clara Lyon, cellists Hannah Collins and Clive Greensmith, and pianist Esther Park. The artists will […]
New Music for Piano
A video show featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow, and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow). Performed by Nanyi Qiang Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021, 7:30PM CST The FREE Livestream will occur on 113 Composer Collective's YouTube channel. Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description. Join […]
New Music for Piano
A video show Featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow (a McKnight fellow), and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow). Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7:30PM CST, FREE The Livestream will occur on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/I8V4iSB-4ww Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description. Join […]
Sounds From Home
This program, rescheduled from this fall, centers around our complex and ever-evolving sense of home. It opens with the world premiere of Elegy for Solo Oboe by composer Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), who was born in Guangzhou, China and settled in the United States, where she is a Professor of Composition at […]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ 50th Season
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players' 50th Season Online is in full swing, and at the end of the week, Program 1 will launch with at the CROSSROADS series with the world premiere of Unravel–a new work for solo piano by SF Search for Scores winner Josiah Catalan–alongside Jeff Anderle's brilliant performance of Echoes for clarinet and electronics by Contemporary Players' friend and […]
Sharon Isbin: Live in Concert
American Public Television’s presentation of the acclaimed one-hour documentary Sharon Isbin: Troubadour has been seen by millions on over 200 PBS stations across the U.S. and abroad. She performed at Ground Zero for the first internationally televised 9/11 memorial, in concert at the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical […]
A Tour of Iran – Symphony Concert presented by Michael Christie and New West Symphony
A Tour of Iran is a four-day festival of events culminating in a symphony concert featuring the New West Symphony led by Music and Artistic Director Michael Christie. Exploring centuries old traditions of Iranian poetic and musical cultural influences on the western world, award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and Iranian instrumentalists Pejman Hadadi (tombak and daf) […]