Jared Redmond, composer/pianist

Jared Redmond is a pianist-composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seoul. He writes for new music soloists and ensembles, and develops experimental works and new notation systems for Korean traditional performers. Jared has appeared as a piano soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Korea. His repertoire stretches from music of the 16th […]

Nancy Zhou

Nancy Zhou is lauded as one of today’s probing musical voices infused with searing virtuosity. With a robust online presence that seeks to invigorate appreciation for the art and science of the violin, her thoughtful musicianship resonates with a global audience in such a way that brings her on stage with leading orchestras around the […]

Sam Reider

Sam Reider is a pianist, accordionist, composer, and educator from San Francisco, California. His work brings together various streams of American music, from jazz and folk tunes to popular song and contemporary composition. He has appeared as a bandleader and soloist at major festivals and venues around the world and his performances and original compositions […]

Kurt Erickson – Here, Bullet

HERE, BULLET is a musical short film, currently in pre-production, by Tony Nominated, award-winning director and actor Will Chase, and Bay Area, prize-winning composer Kurt Erickson. Based on Erickson’s critically acclaimed, award-winning song cycle of the same name, HERE, BULLET is a singular moment frozen in time, a 5-minute surreal snapshot of a man confronting […]

Paul Hanson, Bassoonist

Paul Hanson’s mission is to take the bassoon and electric bassoon to places it rarely if ever goes-playing electric and acoustic jazz and jazz fusion, rock, funk, world music and contemporary classical music as an improvising bassoonist. paulhansonmusic.com donate

The Bow and the Brush

Created by violinist/composer Dan Flanagan, The Bow and the Brush integrates the visual arts with new music.​Dan commissions and composes new works of music inspired by paintings and sculptures in his personal collection. thebowandthebrush.com Donate to The Bow and the Brush

Cornelius Boots – Woodwind Nature

After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock and experimental music activities (on multiple woodwinds with a focus on the bass clarinet), Boots has now positioned himself at the crossroads of personal expression and divine revelation, exclusively playing bamboo shakuhachi (jinashi/hotchiku) and its baritone brother, Taimu. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi […]

Piano @ The Palace

Piano at The Palace is a free, educational outdoor concert series. We aim to bring classical piano music outside of traditional concert halls. We help make qualify performances of classical music accessible to the general public. We let the individual audience decide how they move through the performance space. We create moments of beauty in […]

African American Composer Initiative

The African American Composer Initiative (AACI) presents the works of living and historical African American composers in concert, shares video of these live concerts online, and commissions new compositions. On our webpage you will find a catalog of the works we have performed, video links to the performances, composer/performer interviews, and information on obtaining scores. […]

Black Cedar

As a rare ensemble dedicated to music for flute, cello, and guitar, Black Cedar creates, discovers, and re-imagines works for this combination for the widest range of audiences possible.