Crystal: 15th Anniversary Celebration
Mosaic: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers
POLISH EMIGRES & EXILES IN HOLLYWOOD
at the Krakow Culture Festival*
DARK UNIVERSE/ MYSTERIOUS SPACES*
Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
IN-PERSON
at the Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall, Bowes Center, SF Conservatory of Music, SF and also
live-streamed (both free)
Online viewing link
BELOW THE SURFACE: MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS*
Saturday, January 29, 2022, 7:30 p.m.SOLO PIANO RECITAL WITH GUEST PIANIST TIN YI CHELSEA WONG*
Saturday, November 13, 7:30 p.m.Special guest pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong performs a musical conversation between composers of the Old and New Worlds
Works by by György Ligeti (1923-2006), Graczyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), 2021 Heinz Award recipient and E4TT's #MeetTheArtist in June Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972), 1994 Academy of Arts & Letters recipient and E4TT's #MeetTheArtist in February Jonathan Bailey Holland (b. 1974), 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri (b. 1985), and 2022-23 California Symphony Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong (b. 1990). The concert will be available in-person and online. PURCHASE TICKETS OR RSVP (free online viewing at C4NM's YouTube channel, with donations gratefully accepted) and get program notes in advance.Guest coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow will join E4TT's Monroe and Halbig
Featuring the he World Premiere of two commissions, "The Unseen," to poetry by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) by emerging composer Brennan Stokes (b. 1990) and “Cello Solo for Abby,” by Mary Bianco (b. 1939) along with the World Premiere of "Etudinal Caprice" by Darian Donavan Thomas. Plus musical transformations by Chicago Philharmonic Composer-in-Residence, E4TT’s #MeetTheArtist in August, Marcus Norris (b. 1991), 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964), 1996 American Academy of Arts & Letters Charles Ives composer, Argentinean-born Pablo Ortiz (b. 1956), and works by 20th century Black composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson" (1932-2004), 1954 and 1956 Guggenheim Fellow Julia Perry, (1924-1979) and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner (the first to a Black composer) George Walker (1922-2018).
*This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation and the Dennis Schuman Charitable Foundation.
THE CASSANDRA PROJECT: Women's Prophetic Voices^
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Live-streamed by the Center for New Music, SF
Program notes
^"The Cassandra Project: Women's Prophetic Voices" is supported by funds from the San Francisco Arts Commission and is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Foundation and the Ross MMcKee Foundation.
RHAPSODY: MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS*
Saturday, January 30, 2021, 7:30 p.m.*This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.
McGuinness, Lerner and season guest pianist Halbig, with guest composer and pianist Dalit Warshaw, playing her own work from NYC.
Featuring two World Premieres of music by CA composer Mary Bianco; The California premiere of "Through the Guarded Gate" (2018), by 1989 Guggenheim Fellow and E4TT Call for Scores composer Juliana Hall a song cycle to poetry by Margaret Widdemer; "Winter Dream" by 2016 Guggenheim Fellow Dalit Warshaw. (Postponed from June 2020 due to COVID-19).
Plus music by 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Marti Epstein; John Musto; the Bay Area's Alden Jenks and E4TT co-founder David Garner; Russian-American composer Grigory Smirnov; SF Symphony's new Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen; renowned and much-loved 2005 Pulitzer Prize composer Steven Stucky (1949-2016); Academy-award-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun; and Argentinean Guggenheim Fellow and UC Davis professor Pablo Ortiz.
OLD FIRST CONCERTS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VIRTUAL GALA
Sunday, November 15, 2:00 p.m.Friday, June 26, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
Dreams of Distant Galas: CD Release Party
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Music from the new release by David Garner and Jared Redmond, from E4TT's first Call for Scores and more.
Interviews with Aleksandra Vrebalov, Vivian Fung, Chelsea Hollow, and David Garner.
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ONLINE on YouTube Live and Facebook Live
Live chat
Plus works by 9 more women composers:
Pulitzer-Prize (first in music to a woman) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize recipient Victoria Bond; American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi; Opera America Discovery Grant recipient Lori Laitman; Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov; Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman; theatre composer Ellen Mandel; 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Canadian composer Vivian Fung; and Audrey Call.
E4TT with guest violinist Ilana Blumberg
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m., San Francisco
Mothers & Daughters
Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco
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Admission: $30/$15/$5 Tickets and information
*"Mothers & Daughters" is made possible with funds from the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts and also by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Blooming Flowers: Music by Women Composers
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St., San Francisco
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Plus works by 9 more women composers:
Pulitzer-Prize (first in music to a woman) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize recipient Victoria Bond; American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi; Opera America Discovery Grant recipient Lori Laitman; Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov; Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman; theatre composer Ellen Mandel; 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Canadian composer Vivian Fung; and Audrey Call.
E4TT with guest violinist Ilana Blumberg
Admission: $15/$10 Tickets and information
Thursday, October 31, 7 p.m., Paso Robles
No-host buffet dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a no-host wine recption at 6:30 p.m.
Paderewski Festival, Cass Winery, 7550 Linne Rd, Paso Robles
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Saturday, October 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Berkeley
Dracula Rising: Ghosts of Hollywood PastAdmission $30/$15/$5 Tickets and information
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 2:30 p.m., San Francisco
SF Music Day "Elegy for David Raksin"" by David Garner, "Duo" by Lennie Moore, music by Alexandre Tansman, other selections from E4TT's "Dracula Rising: Ghosts from Hollywood Past"
McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guest pianist Karen Rosenak
Admission free
Friday, September 13, 2019, 7:30, San Rafael
56x54: Solo Cello A solo cello recital performed by E4TT cellist Anne Lerner-Wright, with the Final three Call for Scores works by Syrian-American Kareem Roustom, Oregonian Greg Steinke, and Brazilian Andersen Viana, plus music by David Garner and J.S. Bach
Lerner-Wright
Admission free: Reserve seats
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 12 p.m. Mill Valley
Music for Spain (from The "Guernica" Project)
Throckmorton Concerts, 142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley
Selections from E4TT's exciting call-and-response 2017 "Guernica" Project, featuring works by Spanish and American Call for Scores composers Mercedes Zavala, Mario Carro, and Jeffrey Hoover, as well as by E4TT's award-winning composer, David Garner PLUS selected songs from "Siete canciones populares espanoles" by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946).
McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and Tsang
Admission: FREE
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 7:30 p.m., San Francisco
The Film Noir ProjectGarner and Brzytwa will speak, with a special surprise guest appearance.
McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and Tsang
Admission FREE: Reservations and information
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
56x54: But Wait! There's More!7 by women composers:
McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guests soprano Chelsea Hollow, violist Julie Michael, and pianist Taylor Chan
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Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood on Tour
Saturday, November 17, 4 p.m.
Lecture-Recital at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Sunday, November 18, 2 p.m.
Concert and panel discussion at UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles, CA
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Friday, October 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m., San Francisco
Emigres & Exiles in HollywoodKorngold, Previn, Tansman, Toch, and Schoenberg.
McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guest pianist Xin Zhao
#Emigres&Exiles #E4TTGoestotheMoviesAdmission: $20. Space is limited. RSVP/ purchase tickets.
McGuinness, Lerner-Wright and guest pianist Xin Zaho
Saturday, October 20, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and guest pianist, Xin Zhao
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Sunday, September 30, 2018, Time 6:50-7:20 p.m., San Francisco
SF Music Day "Die eichne Tuer" by David Garner and a mazurka by Alexandre Tansman
McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guests Laura Reynolds, English horn Ilana Blumberg, violin, and Xin Zhao, piano
Admission free
Friday, June 29, 2018 8:00 p.m.
56x54: Focus on the Cello: a concert of Call for Scores works with cello
World Premieres:by Lawrence Kramer, David Luna, Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz and
R. Michael Daugherty
U.S. Premieres by Frederick Schipizky(Canada), and George Hatzimichelakis(Greece)
West Coast Premiere by Gene Pritsker
Also Call for Scores music by Tom Flaherty.
Plus: "Capriccio for Cello" by E4TT's own David Garner and "Fig" by SF composer JJ Hollingsworth.
Pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 with Lawrence Kramer and Frederick Schipizky.
Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Tickets ($5-23) and information: 415-474-1608 or Old First Concerts
This concert is supported in part by the Ross McKee Foundation.
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 4:00 p.m., San Francisco
Subscription Concert #4
Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francsico
Admission: $30/$15/$5 Tickets and information or 510-646-7000
Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan is supported in part by grants from InterMusic SF's MGP program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Ross McKee Foundation.
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 3:00 p.m. Berkeley
Subscription Concert #3
A Special Solo Recital with E4TT Pianist Dale Tsang
Dale Tsang, piano
Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St., Berkeley
Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.
Sunday, February 4, 2018, 4:00 p.m. San Francisco
Subscription Concert #2
56x54+Gorecki: strings & things
Pre-concert composer talk with Weiwei Miao
With guests violinist Ilana Blumberg Thomas and violist Julie Michael
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell St.
Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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Some free parking is available in the church parking lot directly in front of the building off Gough, just south of the intersection with O'Farrell.
This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.
Sunday, November 19, 2017, 4:00 p.m. Berkeley
Subscription Concert #1
56x54+Armer+Garner: ...the beat goes on
Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St., Berkeley
Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.
Free lunchtime preview of program selections at Cafe Europa, JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley, on November 17, 2017 at 12:30 p.m.
October 16-21, 2017
The "Guernica" Project on Tour in Madrid
October 17, 12-1:30 p.m.: Open Rehearsal, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza
October 18, 7:00 p.m.: Concert American Space Madrid, Calle Miguel Ángel 8, FREE
October 19, 7:30 p.m.: Concert, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza, Calle del Palmípedo 3, FREE
With guest violinist Alejandro Saiz Emeterio
October 20, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza, Masterclass
Sunday, September 24, 2017, Time TBD, San Francisco
SF Music DayWith guest violinist Ilana Blumberg Thomas
Admission free
Sunday, June 11, 2017, 3:00 p.m. Los Altos
The Jewish Music & Poetry Project
Works by Derek Bermel, Erich Korngold Kurt Weill, David Garner, Gyorgy Justus, Lajos Delej, Sandor Vandor, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Information: 650 493-5661
Sunday, June 4, 2017, 4:00 p.m., San Francisco
Old First Concerts 1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco56x54 Redux: The Second Call For Scores Concert
One World Premiere: by Justin Henry Rubin
Four U.S. Premieres:Eden Lonsdale, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Alexander Skripko, and Martyna Kosecka's "Nepheles,"commissioned & premiered by E4TT in Krakow in 2016
Three West Coast Premieres: Molly Joyce, Stephen Mitton and Christopher Wicks
Works by Grace Xu Schott, and San Francisco composer Alden Jenks
Pre-concert composer talk at 3:30 by composers Alden Jenks, Grace Xu Schott and Christopher Wicks.
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Tickets ($5-23): 415-474-1608 or Old First Concerts
Saturday, April 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco
Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez, San Francisco
The "Guernica" Project
WORLD PREMIERE of an exciting new call-and-response commission by E4TT 2016 Call for Score composer Jeffrey Hoover, “Guernica,” along with 2016 Call for Scores works by Spanish composers Mario Carro and Mercedes Zavala,as well as a second work by Hoover ("Burning Giraffe"), plus “Death with Interruptions,” by Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel and "Albeniz" (from "Cinq Hommages") by E4TT's award-winning composer, David Garner, with images provided by the Museo de la Paz de Gernika and traditional Basque dance by the Zazpiak Bat Dance Group .
This concert is supported in part by a grant from the the Ross McKee Foundation
Guest violinist Dawn Harms, McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Admission $25/$15 in advance; $30/$20 at the door
Maybeck Studio, 1537 Euclid Ave., Berkeley
The "Guernica" Project: Preview
PREVIEW of an exciting new call-and-response commission by E4TT 2016 Call for Scores composer Jeffrey Hoover, “Guernica,” along with 2016 Call for Scores works by spanish composers Mario Carro and Mercedes Zavala as well as a second work by Hoover ("Burning Giraffe"), plus “Death with Interruptions,” by Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel.
This concert is supported in part by a grant from the the Ross McKee Foundation
Guest violinist Dawn Harms, McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Suggested donation $20
Friday, January 27, 2017, 6:00-7:30 p.m. San Francisco
Presidio Officer's Club, 50 Moraga Ave., San Francisco
Selections from E4TT’s 2016 award-winning CD “Surviving: Women’s Words,” submitted for the 59th Grammy Awards, new arrangements from Franz Waxman's "The Song of Terezin," and works by Holocaust-era composers Erich Korngold, Lajos Delej, Hans Winterberg, Sandor Vandor, Gyorgy Justus, Edwin Geist, and Henriette Bosmans
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Admission Free. Reservations recommended
Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 12:30 p.m., San Francisco
Old St. Mary's Cathedral, 660 California Street, San Francisco
International/Modern: Music by 21st century international composers from E4TT's 2016 Call for Scores--Klaus Miehling (Germany) and Polina Nazaykinskaya (Russia)--plus 20th century international composers Henriette Bosmans (Netherlands), Erich Korngold (Czech Republic), Lajos Delej (Hungary), and Franz Waxman (Germany)
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Admission Free
Thursday, October 30, 2016, 3:00 p.m. Berkeley
Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St., Berkeley
56x54: Call for Scores Concert #1
Music by Roger Ames, Craig Carnahan, Emily Doolittle,Christopher Hopkins, Justin Merritt, Naftali Schindler, Bob Siebert, Bartos Smoragiewicz + David Garner’s “Mein blaues Klavier,” from E4TT’s new CD “Surviving: Women’s Words,” plus the world premiere of Bay Area composer Bruce Nalezny's Toccata for piano, dedicated to Dale TsangMcGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Admission: $20/$15
Tickets: info@E4TT.org
Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00 p.m. Oakland
Laney College Music Department, Room G189, 900 Fallon St., Oakland
56x54: Call for Scores Concert #1, Preview
Music by Roger Ames, Craig Carnahan, Emily Doolittle, Christopher Hopkins, Justin Merritt, Naftali Schindler, Bob Siebert, and Bartos Smoragiewicz + David Garner’s “Mein blaues Klavier,” from E4TT’s new CD “Surviving: Women’s Words”McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Admission Free
June 26-28, Krakow, Poland
Sunday, June 26, Galicia Jewish Museum, Jewish Music & Poetry Project in Concert. Post-concert discussion with Dr. Teryl Dobbs
Monday, June 27 6:30 p.m., JCC Krakow, Jewish Music & Poetry Project, Lecture-recital, with Dr. Teryl Dobbs: Music & the Diaspora: Three Luminous Musical Lives
Tuesday, June 28, 3:30 p.m., JCC Krakow, Jewish Music & Poetry Project, workshop/masterclass with the JCC Krakow Choir
Dr. Dobbs' appearance is courtesy of the Performing the Jewish Archive AHRC Large Grant (United Kingdom).
The JMPP's appearance in Krakow is made possible in part by a grant from the San Francisco-Krakow Sister Cities Association.
Saturday, June 11, 2016, 8:00 p.m.
Trinity Chamber Concerts, 2320 Dana St., Berkeley
"Women's Love and Loss"
Celebrating the release of Surviving: Women's Words on Centaur Records (Jewish Music & Poetry Project) with selections from the new CD, plus new commissions by Emma Logan (Songs from the Book of Light), Judith Shatin (A Line-Storm Song), and Martha Stoddard (Hurt Hawks), and with works by Melinda Wagner and Sarah Kirkland Snyder. Judith Shatin's song co-sponsored by a grant from the JMCLA."Women's Love and Loss" is supported in part by a generous grant from Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts. With Anne Lerner-Wright, cello.
$20/$15 No one turned away for lack of funds. MORE INFO
Ticket Reservations: 510-549-3864
Thursday, June 2, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Cafe Europa
Tour Preview and New CD
McGuinness and Tsang
Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Noontime Concerts, Old St Mary's Cathedral, 660 California Street, San Francisco
Tour Preview and New CD
McGuinness, Tsang, and guest cellist Anne Lerner-Wright
Monday, April 4, 2016, 8:00 p.m.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak St., San Francisco
David Garner, Faculty Artist Series,
Mein blaues Klavier, texts by Else Lasker-Schueler
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Laura Gaynon
Also arias and ensembles from David Garner's new opera, "Mary Pleasant at Land's End", libretto by Mark Hernandez and a new song cycle for mezzo, cornet, harp and contrabass, on poems by Berkeley poet Judith Masur, featuring mezzo-soprano Crystal Philippi with SFCM faculty.
Watch the concert via livestream.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 12:30 p.m., San Francisco
Noontime Concerts , Old St. Mary's Cathedral, 660 California Street, San Francisco
French Festival. Music by Germaine Taillerferre, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Debussy,Nadia and Lili Boulanger.
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Laura Gaynon
Admission Free
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 3:00 p.m. Foster City
Peninsula JCC, 800 Foster City Blvd, Foster City. See a map.
Celebrating PJCC Gallery artist Marcia Falk with Winter Solstice Songs (2013), the setting of 3 of her poems by Elena Ruehr for the JMPP, along with Kay Ryan Songs (2014) by Laura Schwendinger, Capriccio for cello and piano by David Garner, Duo by Miklos Rosza, folk settings (in Hungarian) by Bartok and solo piano music by Sarah Kirkland Snider
McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Laura Gaynon
Call 650-212-PJCC for information.
Admission free
Monday, November 2, 2015, 2:00 p.m. Foster City
JCC Peninsula, 800 Foster City Blvd, Foster City.
Lecture/recital on artistic collaboration for the Food for Thought Series at the Peninula JCC. With Garner, McGuinness, and Tsang.
Part of an exhibition of poetry and art by Marcia Falk
MORE INFO or call 650-212-PJCC
Free to PJCC Members/$5 for non-members
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 12:00 p.m. Oakland
Laney College Music Department, Room G189, 900 Fallon St., Oakland
New Music by Bay Area/U.S. composers: Sarah Kirkland Snider, Elena Ruehr, Melinda Wagner, John Harbison, Kurt Erickson, John Reager, James Primosch, and David Garner
Admission Free
Archived EVENTS before the 2015/16 season to be added.
