Center for New Music – Past Concerts
Center for New Music: Piano Recital with Tin Yi Chelsea Wong
Saturday, November 13, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Tin Yi Chelsea Wong displays 20th-c. European & 21st-c. North American composers in conversation on this unique recital. Works by György Ligeti, Grażyna Bacewicz, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jonathan Bailey Holland, & more.
Free (Online: Free | In person: $20-$15)
Center for New Music: The Chromelodia Project Premiere of 'Occhio'
Saturday, September 11, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Online event
The Chromelodia Project – a trio blending just intonation, improvisation, & interactive computer music – premieres Chris Brown’s concert-length song cycle Occhio, set to poetry by Erika Dagnino.
Free (Donations accepted)
Beyond Borders: Birds – Improvisations – Environments
Saturday, August 14, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Concert featuring birds (yes, birds!) & musicians from Europe & the Americas, creating & performing COVID-inspired works via Zoom, video, & social distancing.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Feedback – Self vs. Other
Saturday, July 10, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Flutist Jessie Nucho & composer Brett Austin Eastman present the second of their three-part series exploring the nature of feedback in our lives. Works by Eastman, Chelsea Loew, Jen Wang, Phoebe Bognár, & Evan Williams.
$5-$15 suggested donation
SOLO BUT NOT ALONE: New Works By NACUSAsf Composers [LIVE]
Saturday, June 19, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Online event
The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA presents a concert of works written by its composer members. 5 outstanding Bay Area musicians will perform solo works for piano, clarinet, viola, harp, or percussion.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Emigres & Exiles – Series Finale
Saturday, June 12, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Exploration of rarely heard chamber works by film composers who fled Europe in the 1930s & ‘40s & went on to create the characteristic Hollywood sound. Also features music by Polish composers of that era.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Jane Rigler + Tessa Brinckman – 'Women in Parallel Empires'
Saturday, May 22, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Flutists Jane Rigler & Tessa Brinckman present the world premiere of their 22-minute acousmatic video, a “space opera”, in posthumous collaboration with Cécile Chaminade’s Sérénade aux étoiles.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Circadian String Quartet presents 'Vita Oscura' [LIVE]
Friday, May 21, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Davide Verotta – Vita Oscura(world premiere)
Davide Verotta – Vita Oscura(world premiere)
Free ($15 ($10 C4NM members))
The Cassandra Project: Women’s Prophetic Voices | E4TT [LIVE]
Saturday, April 17, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Concert of world premieres inspired by Cassandra, the priestess in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter the truth but never believed. Works by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Valerie Liu, David Garner, & more.
Free (Donations accepted)
Moments in Spring – featuring new works by NACUSAsf composers [LIVE]
Saturday, April 10, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Online event
The Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA presents a concert of new works written by its composer members & performed by a variety of chamber groups & soloists. Includes a performance by the Agnieszka Laska Dancers.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Phillip Greenlief Solo – Evelyn Davis Solo [LIVE]
Saturday, February 13, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Online event
Phillip Greenlief celebrates the release of his newest solo saxophone recording POLYPHONETIC FOR SUN RA TED BRINKLEY AND DAVID BOYCE with a rare solo concert, including a solo set from pianist Evelyn Davis.
$15 ($10 C4NM members & students)
Center for New Music: A February Musical Collage | NACUSA San Francisco [LIVE]
Friday, February 12, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Online event
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA presents a concert of 7 new chamber works for solo & duo combinations of voice and/or instruments.
$20, or pay what you can
Center for New Music: Rhapsody – Music by Women Composers [LIVE]
Saturday, January 30, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Online event
Elinor Armer – Matrix
Anna Clyne – Rest These Hands for solo violin
Jessie Montgomery – Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin
Tania León – Tumbao
Claudia Montero – Buenos Aires en Tres
Caroline Shaw – in manus tuas for solo cello
Jennifer Higdon – Echo Dash for violin & piano
Missy Mazzoli – Heartbreaker
Vivian Fung – Primitive Dance and Folksong
Grażyna Bacewicz – Mazovian Dance
Anna Clyne – Rest These Hands for solo violin
Jessie Montgomery – Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin
Tania León – Tumbao
Claudia Montero – Buenos Aires en Tres
Caroline Shaw – in manus tuas for solo cello
Jennifer Higdon – Echo Dash for violin & piano
Missy Mazzoli – Heartbreaker
Vivian Fung – Primitive Dance and Folksong
Grażyna Bacewicz – Mazovian Dance
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari – Prototypes II [LIVE]
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Online event
Join multi-instrumentalists/"sound tinkerers" Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari in a discussion & demonstration of their newly created instruments.
Free (Free)
Center for New Music: Composing in the Time of the Pandemic [NEWLY RECORDED]
Saturday, November 28, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Online event
Friction Quartet meets the challenge of COVID-19 with new works for strings designed to be rehearsed & performed remotely.
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: The Ives Collective – New Music for Strings & Piano
Saturday, November 21, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Online event
Adrienne Albert – Musescape
Davide Verotta – Asynchronous
John Beeman – Luminosity
Joanne Carey – Piano Trio No. 2
Sheli Nan – Awaken
Karl Schmidt – Interlude
Allan Crossman – Frequent Flyer
John Bilotta – Sass
Davide Verotta – Asynchronous
John Beeman – Luminosity
Joanne Carey – Piano Trio No. 2
Sheli Nan – Awaken
Karl Schmidt – Interlude
Allan Crossman – Frequent Flyer
John Bilotta – Sass
Free (Donations accepted)
Center for New Music: Christina Braun & Tom Nunn perform “What are the Chances” [LIVE]
Sunday, November 15, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Online event
Christina Braun performs 6 dances with the music of Tom Nunn, in this interdisciplinary concert exploring the idea of chaos & our human response to it.
Free ($10-$20 suggested donation)
Center for New Music: Meerenai Shim Solo Flute Recital [LIVE]
Friday, November 13, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Online event
Program for solo flute, including world premieres from Andrea Reinkemeyer & Meerenai Shim, as well as works by Alice Jones, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, & Adolphus Hailstork.
$15 ($1 C4NM members & students)
Center for New Music: Janis Mercer & William Sorenson, piano [LIVE]
Saturday, November 7, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Online event
Works by Brian Belet, Pablo Furman, Donovan Johnson, & Martha Stoddard; Roger Sessions’ rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1; Igor Stravinsky’s Piano-Rag-Music; & more.
$15 ($1 C4NM members & students)
Center for New Music: PianoBar [LIVE]
Sunday, October 25, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Chris Brown performs 2 of his compositions for piano & interactive computer using the Buchla PianoBar keyboard interface.
Free (Donations accepted)
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