2021
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Thu11Mar2021
San Francisco Symphony Soundbox
J.S. Bach: Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
Elizabeth Ogonek: In this uncontainable night, from ‘Orpheus Suite’ (after Rilke) -
Sat20Mar2021
Community School of Music & Arts
7:30pm PTCelebrated pianist Sarah Cahill presents her third concert at CSMA, featuring classical works from The Future is Female.
Hélène de Montgeroult ~ Sonata No. 9, Op. 5 No. 3
Clara Schumann ~ Variations Op. 20
Teresa Carreño ~ Un rêve en mer
Amy Beach ~ Dreaming
Vítězslava Kaprálová ~ April Preludes No. 1 and 3
Margaret Bonds ~ Troubled Water
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Sun09May2021
Hear | Together piano festival
10 am to 7 pmCrowden Music Center, 1475 Rose Street, Berkeley
Sarah is one of eight pianists in a free day-long outdoor piano festival, featuring a diverse range of genres and styles of piano music. Beginning at 10 am with students from the Crowden School, the day proceeds with two pianos at two outdoor locations, performed by Monica Chew, Elizabeth Dorman, Tammy Hall (with Leberta Lorál), Marcos Silva, Allegra Chapman, Dylan Mattingly, and then Sarah at 4 pm, performing selections from Frederic Rzewski’s new Humanitas, Margaret Bonds’ Troubled Water, Paul Dresher’s Two Entwined, Mary Watkins’ Summer Days, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Barcarola Latinoamericana, and unpublished works by Lou Harrison. The day concludes with Dylan Mattingly’s epic work Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field, performed by Robert Fleitz. Tickets, which are free but by reservation, are at eventbrite.com. The concert is presented by a consortium of non-profit arts organizations, including Alternating Currents, the Crowden Music Center, New Music Bay Area, the Ross McKee Foundation, and Contemporaneous.
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Fri14May2021
class at Dartmouth
10 am PSTSarah speaks to Kui Dong’s class “Music of Today,” remotely, about working with composers and performing new music, with some performances and score-sharing.
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Sun13Jun2021
Arium preview
2 pm PSTvirtual- on Groupmuse and AriumTV(arium.tv)
A preview of a feature about Sarah on Arium, a new online classical music platform which involves “musical storytelling” by classical musicians around the world. Launching in July, Arium pairs musicians and filmmakers and top-notch audio engineers in elegant locations and brings their stories to this new subscription platform.
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Sun13Jun2021
Theresa Wong and San Francisco Girls Chorus
8 pmKALW.FM, or KALW.org
On her radio show Revolutions Per Minute, Sarah speaks with composer Theresa Wong, music director Valérie Saint-Agathe, and singers from the San Francisco Girls Chorus about a remarkable new composition by Wong, composed for the chorus and Sarah. The new work, in several movements, uses texts and other material by the singers, about their experiences during the pandemic lockdown. The first movement will be broadcast on this program. It was recorded via JackTrip, with all the singers, Saint-Agathe, and Sarah in different locations. Revolutions Per Minute is 8 to 10 pm on Sunday evenings at KALW.
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Sun13Jun2021
Paul Dresher's Two Entwined
7 pm PSThttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/with-friends-like-these-tickets-156974443787
Sarah performs Paul Dresher’s Two Entwined as part of an evening of performances from the Dresher studio, including Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, and Rinde Eckert. More information at the Dresher Ensemble’s website.
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Sat26Jun2021
Sri Moonshine series
TBACamptonville Community Center
In celebration of Terry Riley’s birthday on June 24th, Sarah performs on Riley’s own historic Kingsbury upright outside the Camptonville Community Center as part of the Sri Moonshine summer series. Works by Riley on the program include Be Kind to One Another, The Walrus in Memoriam, Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, Venus in 94, and other works. This concert, for a small invited audience, will be livestreamed.
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Fri16Jul2021
Old First Concerts
8 pmOld First Church, Sacramento and Van Ness Sts., San Francisco
This is a hybrid event. Audiences can attend in person or watch the livestreamed performance at home.
Anna Bon ~ Sonata No. 6 (1757)
Leokadiya Kashperova ~ selections from Au sein de la Nature (1910)
Agi Jambor ~ Sonata (1949)
Zenobia Powell Perry ~ Rhapsody (1960)
Madeleine Dring ~ excerpts from Colour Suite (1963)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh ~ Music for Piano (1989/1997)
Hannah Kendall ~ On the Chequer’d Field Array’d (2013)Sarah Cahill returns to Old First Concerts to perform rarely-heard works by Baroque composer Anna Bon, Leokadiya Kashperova (best known as Stravinsky’s piano teacher), Ajerbaijani composer Frangiz Ali-Zadeh, American composer and civil rights activist Zenobia Powell Perry, and Hungarian composer-pianist Agi Jambor, who survived a harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied Europe and dedicated her Piano Sonata to the victims of Auschwitz. Also on Sarah’s program are selections from Madeleine Dring’s Colour Suite and Hannah Kendall’s On the Chequer’d Field Array’d, a musical depiction of a chess game.
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Sun15Aug2021Sat28Aug2021
recording
St.Stephen's Church, Belvedere
Working with engineer Matt Carr, Sarah is recording music from her project The Future is Female for three upcoming albums.
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Fri17Sep2021
Old First Concerts & The Ross McKee Foundation
8 pmOld First Church, Sacramento and Van Ness Sts., San Francisco
This is a hybrid event. Audiences can attend in person or watch the livestreamed performance at home.
Featuring pianists Gloria Cheng, Monica Chew, Jerry Kuderna, Regina Myers, and Allegra Chapman
Fred Onovwerosuoke ~ Twelve Studies in African Rhythm, Book I
Eleanor Alberga ~ Three-Day Mix (Sarah and Regina)
Terry Riley ~ Etude from the Old Country (Sarah and Regina)
Adolphus Hailstork ~ Scherzo No. 1
Grażyna Bacewicz ~ selections from Ten Concert Etudes for Piano
Wang Lu & Anthony Cheung ~ Recombinant
James Newton ~ Looking Above, The Faith of Joseph
R. Nathaniel Dett ~ BottomsSarah Cahill returns to Old First Concerts to perform 2 four-hand works with Regina Myers: Eleanor Alberga’s Three-Day Mix and Terry Riley’s Etude from the Old Country. This is the first in-person meeting of the California contingent of these artists’ weekly piano group, which has been meeting on Zoom for over a year during the pandemic.
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Tue21Sep2021
Flower Piano
4 pmZellerbach Garden, San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden and Sunset Piano are excited to present one of the most unique, creative, and innovative events in the Bay Area. After five successful years, and a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, we are excited to bring back Flower Piano to transform San Francisco Botanical Garden once again into the city’s own alfresco concert hall where everyone is invited to play and listen.
Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers Eleanor Alberga’s Three Day Mix, Terry Riley’s Etude from the Old Country (which Sarah commissioned and she and Regina recorded), and more!
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Sat02Oct2021
San Francisco Symphony pre-concert talk
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Sarah gives the pre-concert talk for the San Francisco Symphony’s season opener, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, featuring John Adams’ Slonimsky’s Earbox, Ginastera’s Estancia Suite with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, songs by Wayne Shorter with vocalist/bassist esperanza spalding, and Noche de encantamiento from La noche de los Mayas by Silvestre Revueltas.
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Sun10Oct2021
This Same Temple
4pmDresher Studio, Oakland
Sarah joins Regina Myers in a two-piano recital:
Meredith Monk ~ Ellis Island
Paul Dresher ~ This Same Temple
Eleanor Alberga ~ Three-Day Mix
Lou Harrison ~ Festival Dance (West Coast premiere)
Frederic Rzewski ~ Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (two-piano version) -
Wed20Oct2021Sun24Oct2021
post- concert talks for PIVOT
Herbst Theatre and Taub Atrium Theater, San Francisco
Sarah hosts five post-concert talks with the featured artists in this season’s PIVOT series, including Theo Bleckmann, Brooklyn Rider with Nicholas Phan, The Living Earth Show with Post:Ballet, and Jennifer Koh with Missy Mazzoli. More information at sfperformances.org.
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Thu28Oct2021
The Ross McKee Foundation - Halloween Concert
7pmthis is a virtual event
Sarah performs “Le Gibet” from Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit for The Ross McKee’s Foundation Halloween Concert.
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Sat30Oct2021
Mills College Music Now Concert Series
8 pmMills College, Oakland
Sarah Cahill performs her ongoing project, The Future is Female, featuring works composed by women who have a connection to Mills College as a student or teacher.
Elinor Armer ~ Thaw
Maggi Payne ~ Holding Pattern
Janice Giteck ~ Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword
Pauline Oliveros ~ Quintuplets Play Pen
Theresa Wong ~ She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees
Mary Watkins ~ Summer Days -
Sat20Nov2021
Fountaingrove Lodge *Private Event*
3:00pmThis is a private event.
Leo Ornstein ~ Morning in the Woods
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre ~ Keyboard Suite in D minor
Hélène de Montgeroult ~ Sonata No. 9, Op. 5 No. 3
Fanny Mendelssohn ~ Lieder Op. 8, Nos. 1 & 3
Vítězslava Kaprálová ~ April Preludes
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Sat18Dec2021
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2 to 9 pm2155 Center St.
Sarah performs a special seven-hour marathon performance of The Future is Female in the Crane Forum of BAMPFA.
Hour One (2pm)
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre ~ Keyboard Suite in D minor (1687)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh ~ Music for Piano (1989/1997)
Fanny Mendelssohn ~ Lieder Op. 8, Nos. 1 and 3 (1846)
Maria de Alvear ~ excerpt from Intenso (1995)
Zenobia Powell Perry ~ Rhapsody (1960)
Grażyna Bacewicz ~ Scherzo (1934)
Elena Kats-Chernin ~ Peggy’s Rag (1996)Hour Two (3pm)
Hélène de Montgeroult ~ Sonata No. 9, Op. 5 No. 3 (1811)
Kaija Saariaho ~ Ballade (2005)
Regina Harris Baiocchi ~ Piano Poems (2020)
Gabriela Ortiz ~ Prelude and Etude No. 3 (2011)
Adelaide Pereira da Silva ~ Valse Choro No. 2 (1965)
Clara Schumann ~ Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20 (1853)Hour Three (4pm)
Vítězslava Kaprálová ~ Dubnová Preludia (April Preludes) Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1937)
Deirdre Gribbin ~ Unseen (2018)
Florence Price ~ Sonata in E minor, first mvt. (1932)
Ruth Crawford Seeger ~ Preludes Nos. 6, 7, and 9 (1928)
Eve Beglarian ~ Fireside (2001)
Anna Bon ~ Sonata Op. 2, No. 6 (1757)
Mary Watkins ~ Summer Days (2020)Hour Four (5pm)
Ann Southam ~ Glass Houses, No. 7 (1981)
Hannah Kendall ~ On the Chequer’d Field Array’d (2013)
Teresa Carreño ~ Un rêve en mer, Op. 28 (1868)
Elinor Armer ~ Thaw (1976)
Germaine Tailleferre ~ Partita (1957)
Chen Yi ~ Guessing (1989)
Maggi Payne ~ Holding Pattern (2001)
Sofia Gubaidulina ~ Chaconne (1962)Hour Five (6pm)
Žibuoklé Martinaityté ~ Heights and Depths of Love, first mvt. (2009)
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ~ The Homeless Wanderer (1951)
Leokadiya Kashperova ~ two pieces from Au sein de la Nature (1910)
Johanna Beyer ~ from Gebrauchsmusik (1934)
Cecile Chaminade ~ Theme and Variations (1895)
Theresa Wong ~ She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019)
Fannie Charles Dillon ~ Birds at Dawn (1917)
Meredith Monk ~ St. Petersburg Waltz (1994)Hour Six (7pm)
Eleanor Alberga ~ Three-Day Mix (1991) for four hands (with Regina Myers)
Madeleine Dring ~ excerpts from Colour Suite (1963)
Reena Esmail ~ Rang de Basant (2012)
Maria Szymanowska ~ Nocturne in B-flat Major (1819)
Pauline Oliveros ~ Quintuplets Play Pen (2001)
Margaret Bonds ~ Troubled Water (1967)
Amy Beach ~ Dreaming (1892)Hour Seven (8pm)
Janice Giteck ~ Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword (2002)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks ~ Prelude for a Pensive Pupil (1958)
Nina Makarova ~ Etude No. 1 (1938)
Elena Ruehr ~ In C Too (2015)
Julia Perry ~ Prelude (1946)
Annea Lockwood ~ RCSC (2001)
Betsy Jolas ~ Tango Si (1984)
Linda Catlin Smith ~ A Nocturne (1995)