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2019

  • Thu
    10
    Jan
    2019
    Sun
    13
    Jan
    2019

    LA Phil Pre-Concert Talks

    7 pm

    Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

    Sarah gives pre-concert talks about John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music, Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails, and the premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 12 (“Lodger”), before each of three performances conducted by John Adams.  The talks will include interviews with Adams and pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin.

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  • Sat
    19
    Jan
    2019

    The Future is Female - Point Reyes Dance Palace

    7 pm

    Dance Palace Community & Cultural Center, Point Reyes Station, CA

    Sarah performs her new program The Future is Female, featuring works by women composers from around the world, including Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Frangiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijan), Chen Yi (China), Vítzslava Kaprálová (Czechoslovakia), and Florence Price (United States). The evening includes post-concert discussion with the audience.

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  • Sun
    27
    Jan
    2019

    onstage talk with Nicola Benedetti

    2 pm

    Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley

    Sarah interviews violinist Nicola Benedetti onstage before her recital with pianist Alexei Grynyuk on the Cal Performances series.

    https://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/recital/nicola-benedetti-violin-alexei-grynyuk-piano.php

  • Wed
    30
    Jan
    2019

    talk with Hannah Kendall

    3 pm

    Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley

    Sarah speaks with composer Hannah Kendall on Facebook live.  A new work by Kendall is being premiered this week by the Berkeley Symphony, and Sarah is performing her three-movement piano work On the Chequer’d Field Arrayed at Bowling Green State University in March.

  • Thu
    31
    Jan
    2019

    Women Composers and Gender Equity

    7-8:30 pm

    Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco.  

    Sarah speaks on a panel discussing gender equity in contemporary music, with fellow panelists Elinor Armer, Pamela Z, Daria Novo, Maggi Payne, Aubrey Bergauer, and Mya Byrne. This discussion is free and open to all who are interested in discussing both the current artistic and economic conditions for women in music, and future paths to increasing equality.

    https://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/tracking-series-3-women-composers-and-gender-equity/

  • Sat
    02
    Feb
    2019

    An Evening with Terry Riley and NewMusicWorks

    7:30 pm

    Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, CA

    Featuring music by Frederic Rzewski, Terry Riley and Philip Collins performed by Terry Riley, piano and voice; Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers, piano; and NewMusicWorks Ensemble.

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  • Fri
    08
    Feb
    2019

    Benefit Concert

    8 pm

    Zion Lutheran Church, San Francisco

    Sarah joins violinist Kate Stenberg in works by Kaija Saariaho, Gabriela Lena Frank, Henry Cowell, and others in a benefit for The Dirty Girls of Lesvos, a humanitarian and environmental organization helping refugees in Greece.

  • Fri
    22
    Feb
    2019
    Sat
    23
    Feb
    2019

    New Music Festival at CSUF

    Cal State Fullerton School of Music

    Sarah and Kate Stenberg perform and participate in this annual new music festival, directed by Pamela Madsen, with student workshops and panel discussions and concerts.  

  • Thu
    28
    Feb
    2019
    Sat
    02
    Mar
    2019

    Grieg Lyric Pieces with Jessica Lang Dance

    7:30 pm

    YBCA Theater, San Francisco, CA

    Sarah performs selections from Grieg’s 66 Lyric Pieces for Jessica Lang Dance, presented by San Francisco Performances.

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  • Fri
    22
    Mar
    2019

    The Future is Female - Detroit Institute of Arts

    7 pm and 8:30 pm

    Rivera Court at Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

    Sarah performs two separate programs from her project The Future is Female, one at 7 pm and one at 8:30 pm:

     

    Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, op. 20 (1853)   Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

    Etude No. 1, op. 16 (1938)                                                      Nina Makarova (1908-1976)

    Music for Piano (1989/1997)                                               Frangiz Ali-Zadeh (b. 1947)

    Chaconne “L’Inconstante” (1707)                    Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre  (1665-1729)

    Sonata in E minor, first movement (1932)                                 Florence Price (1887-1953)

    St. Petersburg Waltz (1997)                                                 Meredith Monk (b. 1942)

    Heights and Depths of Love (2009)                                      Žibuoklé Martinaityté

    Guessing                                                                                      Chen Yi  (b. 1953)

    Un reve en mer                                                                    Teresa Carreño  (1853-1917)

     

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    April Preludes No. 1 and 3 (1937)                                   Vítězslava Kaprálová  (1915-1940)

    She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019)                         Theresa Wong (b. 1976)

    Sonata No. 9, opus 5 no. 3 (1811)                              Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836)

    Ear-Walking Woman (1996)                                         Annea Lockwood   (b.1939)

    Peggy’s Rag (1996)                                                          Elena Kats-Chernin   (b. 1957)

    Glass Houses No. 7 (1981)                                                   Ann Southam (1937-2010)

    Birds at Dawn (1919)                                                      Fannie Charles Dillon (1881-1947)

     

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  • Mon
    25
    Mar
    2019

    The Future is Female - Bowling Green New Music Festival

    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

    Sarah performs the U.S. premiere of Deirdre Gribbin’s Unseen (2018), Theresa Wong’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019), Hannah Kendall’s On the Chequer’d Field Array’d (2013),  Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s Heights and Depths of Love (2009), Annea Lockwood’s Ear-Walking Woman (1996), Frangiz Ali-Zadeh’s Music for Piano (1989/1997), Elena Kats-Chernin’s Peggy’s Rag (1996), and Tania León’s Ritual (1987).  

  • Sat
    30
    Mar
    2019

    Cabrillo College: Night of the Living Composer

    7:30pm

    Samper Recital Hall, Cabrillo College
    6500 Soquel Drive
    Aptos, CA

    Sarah performs Phil Collins’ Going Places

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  • Fri
    17
    May
    2019

    Sarah Cahill & Regina Myers - Old First Concerts

    8pm

    Old First Church

    1751 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness)
    SF, CA 94109

    Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers perform a program focused on the theme of social justice including Elinor Armer’s Mirror, Mirror, Ruby Fulton’s All Night, All Day (joined by Monica Chew and Riley Nicholson), Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, Pauline Oliveros’s A New Indigo Peace (with audience singalong), Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island, and a premiere by Sharmi Basu (with Regina as soloist).  Sarah also performs the West Coast premiere of Theresa Wong’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees.

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  • Sun
    09
    Jun
    2019

    Avant Garden Party

    2:00pm

    The Garden, 2701 Monterey Avenue, Soquel, CA

    Avant Garden Party is a benefit for NewMusicWorks. Sarah and pianist Michael McGushin will perform Erik Satie’s Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear for four-hand piano.

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  • Fri
    21
    Jun
    2019

    Garden of Memory

    5 to 9 pm

    Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA

    The annual summer solstice event, Garden of Memory, returns to the magical Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, with more than forty musicians performing a wide range of music around the building simultaneously.  Sarah performs Terry Riley’s “The Walrus in Memoriam” and other works.

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  • Sun
    14
    Jul
    2019

    Flower Piano

    11:00am

    Botanical Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA

    Sarah will perform works from her ongoing project The Future is Female- music by Hélène de Montgeroult, Florence Price, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Vítězslava Kaprálová

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  • Thu
    18
    Jul
    2019

    Flower Piano

    8:00pm

    Botanical Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA

    Sarah will perform works from her ongoing project The Future is Female- music by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Germaine Tailleferre, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Frangiz Ali-Zadeh.

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  • Fri
    02
    Aug
    2019
    Sun
    04
    Aug
    2019

    Carlsbad Music Festival

    St Michael's by-the-Sea 2775 Carlsbad Blvd., Carlsbad, CA

    Sarah performs three concerts during the three days of the festival: two encompassing programs from her The Future is Female project, and one devoted to the music of Terry Riley.

  • Thu
    15
    Aug
    2019

    National Relaxation Day

    11 am to 6:50 pm

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

    Sarah speaks with artist Lisa Cralle as part of National Relaxation Day at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  This is part of YBCA’s Artist to Artist talks, which involve a lively exchange of thoughts and ideas about being an artist today.  The entire day of activities (guided meditation, cocktails, dance classes, access to the gallery, etc.) is free, with advance registration.  https://ybca.org/event/national-relaxation-day/

     

  • Fri
    16
    Aug
    2019

    Premiere with Friction Quartet

    8 pm

    Old First Church, San Francisco

    Sarah joins the Friction Quartet for the premiere of a new quintet by Max Stoffregen.

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  • Sun
    08
    Sep
    2019

    Grainger-Cowell-Harrison-Collins

    3 pm

    TBA- Santa Cruz area

    Sarah performs music by the four owners of a historic Steinway.  Percy Grainger gave the piano to Henry Cowell, who gave it to Lou Harrison, who gave it to Phil Collins, the current owner.  Since the Steinway still holds the memory of those four composers, Sarah returns that music to the piano on which it was created.  Another performance is scheduled for the Bay Area soon after this one.

  • Thu
    19
    Sep
    2019
    Sat
    21
    Sep
    2019

    Pre-concert talks for San Francisco Symphony

    Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA

    Sarah gives pre-concert talks before each of three performances by the San Francisco Symphony: 1-1:30 pm on Thursday, and 7-7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday.  The program features the premiere of John Adams’ salute to Michael Tilson Thomas, I Still Dance, as well as Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Daniil Trifonov and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3.  Adams joins Sarah in conversation for the last ten or fifteen minutes of each talk.

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  • Sun
    06
    Oct
    2019

    SF Music Day: Rebels & Renegades

    1:30pm

    SF War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA

    The Stenberg | Cahill Duo performs for SF Music Day, alongside other distinguished musicians. Free admission.

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  • Sun
    13
    Oct
    2019

    Lou Harrison Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan

    5:30 & 7:30pm

    Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA

    Sarah performs Lou Harrison’s exuberant Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan with Gamelan Sari Raras, founded and co-directed by Midiyanto and Ben Brinner.

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  • Tue
    15
    Oct
    2019

    Berkeley Chamber Performances

    7:30pm

    Berkeley City Club, Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA

    Sarah and violinist Kate Stenberg perform Cowell’s Sonata from 1945, Brahms’ Sonata in A major, Debussy’s Sonata, and Lou Harrison’s Grand Duo.

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  • Wed
    06
    Nov
    2019

    conversation with Meredith Monk

    7:30 pm

    Holland Theater, Lisser Hall, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland

    Sarah speaks with Meredith Monk onstage after a screening of the remastered version of her work “Quarry.”  

  • Fri
    08
    Nov
    2019

    Lou Harrison Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan

    8:00pm

    Hertz Concert Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

    Sarah performs Lou Harrison’s exuberant Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan with Gamelan Sari Raras, founded and co-directed by Midiyanto and Ben Brinner.

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  • Sat
    16
    Nov
    2019

    Carolina Performing Arts

    5:00pm

    CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, 123 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC

    Sarah performs her program The Future is Female, a ritual installation and communal feminist immersive listening experience.

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  • Mon
    18
    Nov
    2019

    University of Iowa

    2 pm

    Voxman Music Building, 93 East Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA

    Sarah Cahill presents The Future Is Female, a ritual installation and communal feminist immersive listening experience, featuring piano works by women composers from the 18th century to the present day. Listeners are free to come and go as they please. Performance from 2-5PM.

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  • Tue
    10
    Dec
    2019

    Women's Faculty Club celebration

    6 pm

    Women's Faculty Club, UC Berkeley

    To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Women’s Faculty Club, Sarah Cahill performs a program of music by women through the centuries, including Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Clara Schumann, Helene de Montgeroult, Florence Price, and Vítězslava Kaprálová.  Please call the Women’s Faculty Club for tickets, or check their website.

“as tenacious and committed an advocate as
any composer could dream of”

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