Composing Together
Since 2008, Composing Together has brought professional composers, musicians and guest experts from fields like astronomy, botany, math and poetry directly into classrooms to collaborate with young people in creating and performing their own music inspired by a wide range of study and experience, empowering them with the knowledge that their ideas have meaning, value […]
Guerrilla Composers Guild
The Guerrilla Composers Guild hosts listening parties, music forums, and performances where musicians and Guerrilla Groupies get together to make good stuff happen. Their true love is their ongoing commissioning project where they work directly with performers to curate a concert of new works by young Bay Area composers.
Helia Music Collective
Co-founded by musician/composers, Emma Logan and Julie Barwick, Helia Music Collective supports the creative endeavors of women in music throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Helia Music seeks to enrich the community and expand the engagement of women artists through educational outreach and collaborations, with performances and workshops taking place in unique and diverse spaces. […]
Meerenai Shim
Meerenai has performed all over the United States as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent performances include those at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, and the National Flute Association’s Annual Conventions in Las Vegas and New Orleans. In addition to regular broadcast of her recordings on […]
Musical Art Quintet
The Musical Art Quintet was formed in 2008 in the Mission district of San Francisco during chamber music jam sessions every Sunday night at Cafe Revolution. Each week a new piece of music was written by MAQ band leader Sascha Jacobsen to be performed at Classical Revolution, and ink still wet, we would read through […]
Quartet San Francisco
Grammy nominees for their last three CD releases (2009, 2007, and 2006) and International Tango competition winners (New York, 2004), Quartet San Francisco expresses itself in its agility and standout virtuosic playing. www.quartetsanfrancisco.com
Real Vocal String Quartet
RVSQ’s surprisingly broad repertoire embraces the diverse influences of all four players, from classical, jazz, and rock, to songs and styles from West Africa, Brazil, and rural America. Yet while four distinct voices can be heard, in seven years of performing together, the Quartet has achieved a true group sound. www.rvsq.com
Rent Romus
Rent Romus is a saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, music producer, and community leader hailed by Downbeat as having “…a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction”. Romus currently leads the Lords of Outland a free improvisation unit since 1994, the Life’s Blood Ensemble a compositional contemporary ensemble, and the Finnish/American group Otherworld Ensemble. He is the founder […]
sfSound
Drawing on an extraordinary roster of Bay Area musicians, sfSound Group is the main performing group of the sfSoundSeries. Our virtuoso instrumentalists are all composers in their own right — offering a diverse range of talents including skilled improvisation, performance art, computer audio programming, university-level music scholarship, instrument making, didjeridu playing, and styrofoam bowing. www.sfsound.org
Sierra Ensemble
Sierra Ensemble, a San Francisco Bay Area-based violin, horn and piano trio, was founded in 1998 by horn player Janis Lieberman and two fellow Bay Area musicians. Sierra has performed extensively in communities throughout northern California, and has also toured the east coast and recently performed in Istanbul, Turkey. Sierra Ensemble has been recorded on […]
