:: concerts 2008
May 5, 2008 : 8p : free San Francisco State University
knuth hall, 1600 holloway ave, san francisco
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sfSound premieres new works by SFState graduate student composers. (bachetto, nilssen, shahab, & shamrock) |
May 6, 2008 : 8p : $6-10 21 Grand
416 25th St @ broadway (near 19th st BART) oakland
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Visiting from Cologne, Germany: tubist/percussionist/composer Carl Ludwig Hübsch. Following an improvised duo with local percussionist virtuoso Gino Robair, Mr. Hübsch will lead sfSound in two of his compositions for large ensemble, Language Types and Floating Fragments, featuring elements of improvisation combined with strict and graphic notation. Performers include: Heather Frasch - flute, Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, Matt Ingalls - clarinets, Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, John Ingle - alto saxophone, Tom Dambly - trumpet, John Shiurba - guitar, Kjell Nordeson - vibraphone, Gino Robair - percussion, Alexa Beattie - viola, Jorge Boehringer - viola, Monica Scott - cello, Dylan Mattingly - cello |
1751 sacramento st, san francisco
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Stefano Scodanibbio: Composer's Portrait as part of Primavera Italiana: The Spring Festival of Italian New Music 2008 Istituto Italiano di Cultura, collaborating with sfSound, presents for the first time in the United States, composer, improviser, and contrabass virtuoso Stefano Scodanibbio in an entire program of his compositions for solos, duos, and ensembles. In addition to a group improvisation led by Scodanibbio, the concert includes My New Address for solo violin performed by Graeme Jennings, Mas lugares, based on Monteverdi's madrigals and performed by the string quartet Graeme Jennings, Erik Ulman, Ellen Ruth Rose and Monica Scott, and the American premiere of Labore Navigacionis for two pianos performed by Christopher Jones and Ann Yi. The evening's program will conclude with the American premiere of And Roll for solo double bass, performed by the composer. - click here for more information - 
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Sunday, June 8, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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Renowned english saxophone virtuoso John Butcher performs solo and improvises with sfSoundGroup. "In the world of saxophone music, players using extended techniques to make unusual sounds with the horn are common, but few have established a voice as original as John Butcher's. His saxophone acts as an extension of his own voice as he employs such techniques as growling and flutter tonguing to make his saxophone talk, sing, cry, whisper and laugh. What is more impressive is how he has incorporated all of this into a musical language that is both complicated and accessible. One of the central figures in Europe's avant-garde music scene." - SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN The program also includes John Cage's Fourteen (1990), cellist Monica Scott performing Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons (2000), and Seis Vícios de Garlândia (2006) for clarinet, cello, and percussion by local brazilian composer Bruno Ruviaro. this performance of Fourteen is dedicated to the memory of Toyoji Tomita. - click here to listen to Toyoji "rapping" with Richard Miller about his run-ins with John Cage - Performers include: Diane Grubbe - bass flute/piccolo, Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, Matt Ingalls - clarinets, John Butcher - saxophones, John Ingle - alto saxophone, David Bithell - trumpet, Andy Strain - trombone, Loren Mach - percussion, Gino Robair - percussion, Christopher Jones - piano, Cynthia Mei - violin, Erik Ulman - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Monica Scott - cello, Richard Worn - contrabass. |
Sunday, July 13, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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Steve Reich's Four Organs (1970), Giacinto Scelsi's Kya (1959), Salvatore Sciarrino's Muro d'orizzonte (1997), Tom Dambly performing Mauricio Kagel's Atem (1970) for trumpet and tape, violist Alexa Beattie performing Alan Hilario's kibô (1997), and a new collaboratively-created piece by sfSoundGroup, directed by Matt Ingalls. Performers include: Heather Frasch - alto flute, Kyle Bruckmann - english horn/organ, Matt Ingalls - bass clarinet/organ, John Ingle - soprano saxophone, Tom Dambly - trumpet, Jen Baker - trombone, Andy Strain - trombone, Christopher Jones - piano/organ/conductor, Ann Yi - organ, Loren Mach - percussion, Alexa Beattie - viola, Leighton Fong - cello. - this concert is sponsored in part by The Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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:: sfSoundDoubleFeature :: A sampling of theatrical compositions from the 1960's San Francisco Tape Music Center by Pauline Oliveros (George Washington Slept Here, Too), Morton Subotnick (Play! No.1 for winds, piano, tape and a film by Tony Martin), Ramon Sender (In The Garden for clarinet, viola, tape, and visual projections), Robert Moran (Divertissment No.1), and others. !!! JUST ANNOUNCED !!! The recently-released book documenting the SFTMC, The San Francisco Tape Music Center 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde (UC Press - David W. Bernstein, editor) will be sold in the lobby during the concert. Brian Ferneyhough's In nomine a 3 (2001), Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Intercommunicazione (1967), and Christopher Burns's Double Negative (2007). Performers include: Diane Grubbe - flute/piccolo, Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, Matt Ingalls - clarinet, John Ingle - alto saxophone, Tom Dambly - trumpet, Andy Strain - trombone, Christopher Jones - bassoon/conductor, Hadley McCarroll - piano, Ann Yi - piano, Graeme Jennings - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Monica Scott - cello. Ramon Sender & Christopher Burns - visual projection. |
August 17, 2008 Meridian Gallery
Toyoji Tomita Memorial Concert - work(s) by John Cage, improvisations, and more.
September 3-7, 2008 Theater Artaud
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sfSound is resident ensemble in this year's San Francisco Electronic Music Festival |
Sunday, September 14, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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Morton Feldman's 80+ minute composition, For John Cage (1982) performed by violinist Graeme Jennings, and pianist Christopher Jones. |
September 25-28, 2008 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
sfSoundResidency #1
Sunday, October 12, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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Local percussionist Gino Robair performs Potluck Percussion (You bring anything, & he'll "play" it - GUARANTEED!) and presents a realization of his improv-opera I, Norton with sfSound augmented by laptops and voices. The program also includes two giant works from the 1980's: Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986) and the U.S. premiere of Mathias Spahlinger's Aussageverweigerung / Gegendarstellung: Zwei Kontra-Kontexte für Doppelquartett (1981) in addition to and the premiere of a new work written for sfSound by local composer Erik Ulman.
Performers include: Stacey Pelinka - flutes, Matt Ingalls - clarinets, Jonathan Russell - clarinets, John Ingle - saxophones, Jon Raskin - bari saxophone, Andy Strain - trombone, Loren Mach - percussion, Gino Robair - percussion, Matthew Goodheart - piano, Christopher Jones - piano/bassoon/conductor, Hadley McCarroll - piano/voice, Erik Ulman - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Karlyn DeSteno - viola, Monica Scott - cello, Richard Worn - contrabass, Tom Duff - voice, Aurora Josephson - voice, Chris Brown - computer, Kristin Miltner - computer , and Wobbly - electronics. |
October 19, 2008 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco
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San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents a "Day of Chamber Music". sfSound performs works by Anton Webern, Kyle Bruckmann, and sfSound. |
<Sunday, November 9, 2008 : 8p : $5 ODC Dance Commons
:: sfSoundSeries :: 351 shotwell st, san francisco
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Featuring sfSound's saxophonist John Ingle in a recital of new solo and ensemble compositions, improvisations, and Clear Sky, a concerto by local composer Josh Levine. Plus, NYC-based percussion duo Hunter-Gatherer (Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio) perform David Bithell's Whistle From Above for percussion and robotics, the West coast premiere of Table of Contents, a new work by 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, and Gérard Grisey's Stele for 2 bass drums.
Performers include: Diane Grubbe - flute, Matt Ingalls - clarinets, John Ingle - saxophones, Andy Strain - trombone, Loren Mach - percussion, Kjell Nordeson - percussion, Christopher Jones - piano/conductor, Hadley McCarroll - piano/voice, Erik Ulman - violin, Alexa Beattie - viola, Monica Scott - cello, George Cremaschi - contrabass, Richard Worn - contrabass. |
Saturday, November 15, 2008 : 5:30p Old First Concerts
1751 sacramento st, san francisco
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Gérard Grisey's Talea (1986). Part of ChamberBridge's Messiaen Illuminated Festival |
December 7, 2008 Stanford University
New Works by Graduate Composers