Amy X Neuburg
AMY X NEUBURG (Oakland, California) has been developing her own brand of irreverently genre-crossing works for voice, live electronics and chamber ensembles for over 25 years, known for her innovative use of live looping technology with electronic percussion, her 4-octave vocal range and her colorful — often humorous — lyrics. www.amyxneuburg.com
Chordless
Sara LeMesh and Allegra Chapman seek to illuminate contemporary works by underrepresented and marginalized composers, most notably women and composers of color. The duo is passionate about creating welcoming spaces to explore and appreciate this music that has historically been ignored. It is their belief that these works deserve not only to be heard, but […]
Curium
Curium: the 96th element in the periodic table. Discovered in the Bay Area in 1944 and named after the pioneering female scientist, Marie Curie, the element is a symbol of the innovations of female minds, past and present. Founded in the summer of 2017, the women of Curium piano trio have gained reputations as performers […]
Farallon Quintet
Farallon Quintet, founded in the summer of 2012, is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the repertoire for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet. In addition to playing the classics, the quintet seeks to perform rarely heard works, innovative arrangements, and new music by living composers. With […]
Kyle Bruckmann
Formed in Chicago in 2002, Wrack is the vehicle for Bruckmann’s compositions teetering at the intersection of the jazz and classical avant-gardes. While the melodic and contrapuntal content often invokes European modernism, the open structures, improvisational procedures, and slapstick streak are equally indebted to the African-American Creative Music tradition and Bruckmann’s parallel history in post-punk […]
Sonic Harvest
Sonic Harvest delivers vital new works combining music, poetry, and drama as well as instrumental chamber music. Contributing Directors Ann Callaway, Peter Josheff, Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens present new and recent work to be performed in the annual fall festival, in which they themselves often appear as performers along with some of the finest […]
Terrence Brewer
Multiple-Award winning guitarist Terrence Brewer is a 2016 inductee into the Pittsburg Arts and Entertainment Hall of Fame and was recently proclaimed by long-time music scribe, David Becker (SF Examiner/AXS.com), as the San Francisco Bay areas #1 Jazz Guitarist. Brewer is a first-call and in-demand bandleader, record producer, concert performer, studio musician, and one of […]
Vitamin Em
Vitamin Em puts a new spin on funk, jazz, R&B, Soul and fiddle music. This group of strings, accordion, bassoon and percussion gets DOWN! If you like to have fun, be exhilarated, enjoy life and love to groove, this band is for you. www.vitaminemmusic.com
ZOFO
Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists EVA-MARIA ZIMMERMANN and KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI – ZOFO – have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo Japan with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands. www.zofoduet.com
Alcyone Ensemble
The Alcyone Ensemble is not your average two-flute-and-piano ensemble. They truly think outside the box and try to push creative boundaries all the time.