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Bertoncini & Lehn | Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
Tiziana Bertoncini (Italy) and Thomas Lehn (Germany), violin and analogue synthesizer, move in an abstract territory, their approach to sound is contemporary. Nevertheless their consideration to music is quite classical insofar as based principally on tension/release, rupture, intensity and expressivity in all its facets.
The concert concludes with the duo joining THE OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA in an improvised set. A supergroup of local musicians with a predilection for lowercase/fricative/reductionist acoustic improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic, this ensemble grows out of a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that flourished in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
Performers:
Hallie Smith, violin
Danishta Rivero, voice
Cody Putman, bassoon
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Kevin CK Lo, violin/flute/piano
Cheryl E. Leonard, natural-object instruments
John Ingle, saxophones
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Ron Heglin, tuba
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
Chris Cooper, objects, electronics
Sunday, September 29, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Wendy Reid’s Ambient Bird
A performance with Wendy Reid and ensemble, including live and pre-recorded African grey parrot, blue parrotlet and green parrotlet.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Live Oak Park
1301 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA
6pm
FREE
Celebrating Elliott Carter
Join sfSoundGroup for a rare evening celebrating the music of Elliott Carter, featuring sextets, trios, and duos that span 70 years of his career. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the creativity and innovation of one of the 20th century’s most remarkable composers.
Performers:
Sam Weiser, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
John Ingle, alto saxophone, conductor
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Sunday, September 22, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Quinteto Latino in Edmonds
QL travels to Washington state to perform at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The performance will feature works of D’Rivera, Piazzolla, Frank, Ponce and others!
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
2pm
Edmonds Center for the Arts
410 4th Ave. N
Edmonds, WA
QL at Yerba Buena
Quinteto Latino performs for the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. This delightful, free, lunchtime series is perfect for the quintet’s blend of folk, contemporary and playful music by Latin-American composers.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
12:30pm
FREE!
Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission Street (bet 3rd & 4th Streets)
San Francisco
Merry Wives of Windsor
Pocket Opera presents Otto Nicolai’s playful setting of Shakespeare’s comedy.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, June 23, 2024
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 30, 2024
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
globokar, braxton, carter, sciarrino, ferneyhough, hauben
sfSound performs a program covering half a century of composed, semi-composed, and improvised music by Anthony Braxton, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Eva-Maria Hauben, and Salvatore Sciarrino. From craggy complexity to sexy extended instrumental techniques including graphic notation and free jazz, the whole gamut of sfSound’s musical skill and interest is presented here in a single concert!
Sunday, July 7, 2024
7pm
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
More details here.
Pacific Pythagorean Music Festival
Music of Larry Polanski, Mat Muntz, Juri Sen, Hwayoung Shon, Taylor Brook, Andrew McIntosh and Matt Ingalls. The program includes performances by Giacomo Fiore, the Del Sol String Quartet, the Paul Dresher/Joel Dave Invented Instrument Duo, the sfSound Orchestra and more!
Sunday, May 26, 2024
7pm
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
More details here.
QL in Sebastopol
Quinteto Latino performs for the Redwood Arts Council’s concert series. This full-length, formal program will include works of Paquito d’Rivera, Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Desenne, Marcus Siqueira, Victor Márquez-Barrios, Eugenio Toussaint and Astor Piazzolla.
Friday, May 17, 2024
7pm
Sebastopol Community Church
1000 Gravenstein Highway N.
Sebastopol, CA
More information here.
¡Chicanísima!
Commissioned and performed by Quinteto Latino, composer Carla Lucero‘s opera chronicles the life and work of legendary Chicanx leader and LGBTQ+ activist, Olga Talamante. The opera explores her journey from working the garlic fields as a child in Gilroy, California, to her decades of activism in the US, Mexico, and in Argentina, where she became a political prisoner. Ultimately, Olga frees herself from the psychological hold of her captors and releases her heart from 40 years of suppressing the memories of violence perpetrated against her. She finally finds peace, and in the process of healing, the love of her life, Vola. Soprano Aléxa Anderson, tenor Eric Levintow, and mezzo-soprano Jessica Gonzalez-Rodriguez make up the cast for the premiere of this important work.
Diane Grubbe has appeared as a soloist with the Siena Music Festival in Italy, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Notre Dame in San Francisco and the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra in Southern California, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto for their CD The Baroque Concerto.