Pianist Sarah Cahill will perform on the final day of Grand Piano Weekend, the three-day season finale of the second annual Sri Moonshine Music Series, curated by composer Terry Riley on Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 3pm at the Camptonville Performing Arts Center (15333 Cleveland Ave). Cahill will perform works by Riley including Fandango on the […]
In celebration of composer Lou Harrison’s 2017 centennial, pianist Sarah Cahill will perform concerts of his music spanning half a century, as well as music by his close friends and colleagues, in a nationwide tour to cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Cleveland, Orlando, Maui, Chicago, and more. Her concerts will range from […]
Pianist Sarah Cahill is featured in The San Diego Union Tribune ahead of her concert at the Fresh Sound Music Series, which takes place Friday, November 4, 7:30pm at Bread & Salt. The San Diego Union Tribune writes, “She brings an inviting eloquence and visceral impact to anything she performs. She also digs as deep as necessary to […]
Sarah Cahill: A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 New works composed in celebration of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday by Samuel Carl Adams, Pauline Oliveros, Gyan Riley, Evan Ziporyn, Christine Southworth, Danny Clay, Dylan Mattingly, Luciano Chessa, Elena Ruehr, and Keeril Makan. June 24, 2015 is the eightieth birthday year […]
Sarah Cahill: A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 New works composed in celebration of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday by Samuel Carl Adams, Pauline Oliveros, Gyan Riley, Evan Ziporyn, Christine Southworth, Danny Clay, Dylan Mattingly, Luciano Chessa, Elena Ruehr, and Keeril Makan. June 24, 2015 is the eightieth birthday year […]
Sarah Cahill: A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 New works composed in celebration of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday by Samuel Carl Adams, Pauline Oliveros, Gyan Riley, Evan Ziporyn, Christine Southworth, Danny Clay, Dylan Mattingly, Luciano Chessa, Elena Ruehr, and Keeril Makan. June 24, 2015 is the eightieth birthday year […]
Sarah Cahill: A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 New works composed in celebration of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday by Samuel Carl Adams, Pauline Oliveros, Gyan Riley, Evan Ziporyn, Christine Southworth, Danny Clay, Dylan Mattingly, Luciano Chessa, Elena Ruehr, and Keeril Makan. June 24, 2015 is the eightieth birthday year […]
Sarah performing at Soundbox. Photo: Charles Redding.
The San Francisco Orchestra has come up with a Vegas-like way to attract a younger audience: a nightclub built underneath the orchestra’s main concert hall with a state-of-the-art sound system, high-tech lighting and artistic video images. (April 23) AP Watch the Video at USA Today
SoundBox, the San Francisco Symphony’s attempt to draw in a younger crowd with late-evening, monthly concerts in a nightclub style setting, has been successful on a scale that probably nobody ever imagined. The Meyer Sound System has transformed an acoustically dead rehearsal stage at the back of Davies Hall into a reverberant concert hall, the […]
“a brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers”
Cahill has researched and recorded music by the important early 20th-century American modernists Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford, and has commissioned a number of new pieces in tribute to their enduring influence. She enjoys working closely with composers, musicologists, and scholars to prepare scores for performance.
Sarah Cahill’s discography includes over twenty albums on the New Albion, CRI, New World, Tzadik, Albany, Innova, Cold Blue, Other Minds, and Pinna labels. Her 2013 release A Sweeter Music (Other Minds) featured musical reflections on war by eighteen composer/activists, commissioned especially for the album. In 2015, Pinna Records released her two-CD set of Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants, a fusion of nature and technology created by identifying the musical patterns in the electrical impulses of plants. Cahill recently finished recording a four-CD set of Terry Riley’s solo and four-hand music with pianist Regina Schaffer for release in fall 2017 on the Irritable Hedgehog label.
Her radio show, Revolutions Per Minute, can be heard every Sunday evening from 8 to 10 pm on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory and curates a monthly series of new music concerts at the new Berkeley Art Museum.
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Sarah and Regina Myers perform "Blue" Gene Tyranny's The Decertified Highway of Dreams for a concert celebrating the 51st anniversary of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills.
Institute of Contemporary Art, 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA 02210
Sarah performs Lou Harrison's Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan with Gamelan Galak Tika and, with violinist Johnny Gandelsman, a new work by Evan Ziporyn for violin and piano.
Music Concert Hall, San Jose State University, 1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192
Sarah performs Lou Harrison's Piano Concerto with the San Jose State University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fred Cohen.
Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106
Sarah performs Lou Harrison's Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan with Gamelan Galak Tika performing on a gamelan built by Lou Harrison.
Zion Lutheran Church & School, 495 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 South Summerlin, Orlando, FL 32806
Accidental Music Festival presents Sarah in a program celebrating maverick composer Lou Harrison's centennial year, featuring music by Harrison and other composers in his circle.
If you go to your local record store, you’ll find Meredith Monk and Björk in completely separate categories, but as you’re about to hear, they’ve got a lot in common. Born a generation apart, both women have gained a reputation for creating adventurous music for the human voice, work that has taken them beyond the concert stage and into the realms of theater, film, visual art, dance, and performance art. Over the course of this hour-long program, these two artists share personal stories and trade ideas about music alongside illustrative samples drawn from their extensive recorded catalogues.
Curious how Elliott Carter, one of our most venerable composers of music for the concert hall, and Phil Lesh, best known as the bass player for the Grateful Dead, ever crossed paths? Though you might not ordinarily connect these two composers, there are some surprising musical links between them, supported by a friendship of many years.
Hear them speak with Sarah Cahill about their shared influences and the personal connections they’ve made through music.
