SFSU Bay Area Composers Festival

SFSU Bay Area Composers Festival
 

Thursday, November 13th
Thursday Afternoon Workshops – Choral Rehearsal Room
3:00 – 5:00
Carla Lucero…. https://carlalucero.com/ with Kate Sachen, soprano, Kristi Schenk, mezzo
and the SFSU woodwind quintet: Nicholas Widdoss, clarinet – Jordan Terry, bassoon – James Respicio, oboe – Jocelyn Hernandez, flute – Ben Johnson, french horn
Focusing on her opera ¡Chicanísima!
 

5:00 – 6:00
Bill Walker, jazz pianist and streamer, talks about how to stream your music, live on YouTube.
Bill has been doing “Friday Jazz Happy Hour” on YouTube every Friday since COVID.
 

5:00 – 7:00 Knuth Hall open for ensemble rehearsals
 

Evening Concert 7:30 in Knuth Hall
---Thursday Evening program.
 

--Introductory YouTube video, John Cage talks about Henry Cowell
--Henry Cowell: Tides of Mananaum and The Banshee; Evgeniia Leshchinskaia, piano
--Matt Ingalls; unaccompanied clarinet
 

--Intermission--
 

--Terry Riley: "Dorian Reeds" for processed clarinet/saxophone: Bill Walker, electronics, Alan Hebert,
clarinet
--Lou Harrison String Quartet: Z Quartet: Chris Yeh, Kim Williams, violins - Evan Young, viola -Amy
Brooks, cello (https://zquartet.com/)
-- Two arias/duets by Carla Lucero, from “¡Chicanísima!” – SFSU woodwind quintet and singers – Kate
Sachen and Kristi Schenk
 

Friday, November 14th
--Friday Afternoon Workshops; Music Department Studio B-48 (90 minutes each, 30 minutes between
each)
1. Kev Choice and string quartet 12:00 – 1:30
2. “What’s New at SFSU” - SFSU student and faculty compositions. 2:00 – 3:30
      1. Masha Aleskovski: “Bell Dance” for String Trio
      2. Alan Hebert: String Quartet #1,
      3. Nigel Amankra-Bonsu– electronic music for a video game
4. Steve Horowitz; String Quartet and Trumpet - video
5. Noah Shin – Sound design and creation of electronic music within a DAW
3. Mauricio Rodriguez (San Francisco Conservatory faculty, CSM faculty) two part workshop A.) His
experiences with algorithm-driven composition, and B) Notation for unaccompanied clarinet 4:00 –5:30
 

6:00 – 7:00 joint rehearsal of Harmonia California players with SFSU orchestra strings, Harmonia California
Strings and strings from the SFUSD arts magnet school (Ruth Asawa School for the Arts)
 

--Friday Night Concert: 7:30
--Ernest Bloch and Darius Milhaud String Quartets: Hygge Quartet : Joe Hintz, Mari Ormiston, violins,
Brooke Mickelson, viola, Annabelle Chan, cello --
--John Cage: Six Melodies for violin and piano with Zacharias Grafilo and Aaron Nee
 

--Intermission--
 

-- Nick Bacchetto: “Ratios” for piano and synthesizer, with Benjamin Sabey, electronics
-- Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon (recording)
--SFSU orchestra, with members of Harmonia California and Ruth Asawa School for the Arts orchestra
members
Henry Cowell: "Hymn and Fuguing Tune #8” for String Orchestra”