Upcoming
Past
Mendocino Music Festival – Preston Hall 44867 Main Street
Sarah and Regina Myers perform a duo program for the Mendocino Music Festival, with music by Eleanor Alberga, Elena Kats-Chernin, Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington, Mamoru Fujieda, Germaine Tailleferre, Lou Harrison, Meredith Monk, and the premiere of an excerpt of Theresa Wong’s new four-hand piece Bodywork.
Örly Museum of Hungarian Culture – 1720 ARCH ST., BERKELEY, CA 94709
Sarah performs Agi Jambor’s Sonata and works by Dora Pejačević and Zoltán Kodály.
The Towers – San Francisco
Sarah performs a recital at The Towers in San Francisco.
San Francisco Symphony
Sarah gives the Inside Music talks about Poulenc, Connesson, and Saint-Saens onstage after the Thursday matinee and one hour before the Friday and Saturday concerts. Free to all ticket holders.
Chapel of the Chimes – 4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
The annual Walk-Through Concert - Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes returns again to celebrate the summer solstice.
The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, sound artists, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
San Francisco Public Library, main branch – 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
To celebrate Terry Riley's ninetieth birthday year, Sarah performs a range of music by Terry Riley, including his 1964 Keyboard Studies, Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, Be Kind to One Another, as well as Samuel Adams' Shade Studies and Danny Clay's Circle Songs. This concert is free and open to the public.
Dresher Ensemble Studio – 2201 Poplar Street Oakland, CA
To celebrate Terry Riley's ninetieth birthday year, Sarah performs a range of music by Terry Riley, including his 1964 Keyboard Studies, Be Kind to One Another, The Walrus in Memoriam, Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, and The Great Beauty, along with Circle Songs by Danny Clay and Shade Studies by Sam Adams, both composed in honor of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday in 2015.
Amateur Music Network Fundraiser
Sarah joins tenor Nicholas Phan for a private fundraiser for Amateur Music Network, performing Errollyn Wallen’s “What Shall I Sing?” and Schubert’s “An die Musik.”
Backstage Pass
For the Backstage Pass series, Sarah speaks onstage with violinist Nathan Meltzer after his Chamber Music San Francisco concert, in a conversation presented by Amateur Music Network.
San Francisco Performance, Herbst Theatre
Sarah joins flutist Claire Chase for “Pulsing Liftors,” a movement of Terry Riley’s “The Holy Liftoff,” an epic work composed for Chase within the last few years.
Mendocino Music Festival, Preston Hall
Sarah joins mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen for songs by Kurt Weill after a special screening of pianist Susan Waterfall’s 2021 film about Weill. Songs include Surabaya Jonny, September Song, Complainte de la Seine, Lost in the Stars, and many more
San Francisco Symphony
Sarah is pre- and post-concert speaker for the San Francisco Symphony performances of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Egyptian”) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Debussy’s Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, conducted by Philippe Jordan. Sarah’s Inside Music Talks will be presented on stage immediately following the Thursday matinee, and one hour before the Friday and Saturday concerts. Free to all ticket holders.
Cal State Fullerton, Meng Concert Hall
For a residency at Cal State Fullerton, Sarah celebrates Terry Riley’s ninetieth birthday year and his long friendship with Pauline Oliveros with a recital spanning Riley’s keyboard works from 1964 to 2015. She also performs Riley’s iconic “Tread on the Trail” with the CSUF New Music Ensemble.
Backstage Pass, Chamber Music San Francisco
For the Backstage Pass series, Sarah speaks onstage with Stella Chen, Matthew Lipman, and Brannon Cho after their Chamber Music San Francisco concert, in a conversation presented by Amateur Music Network.
Otterbein University, Riley Auditorium
Sarah gives a guest recital of her The Woods So Wild program at Otterbein University.
Westerville Symphony, Fritsche Theatre
Sarah performs Lou Harrison Piano Concerto with the Westerville Symphony, conducted by Peter Stafford Wilson.
Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Ave
Sarah introduces a new project, No Ordinary Light, combining classical and new compositions on the theme of homage and loss. The title comes from Jawaharalal Nehru's eulogy after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: "The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light."
The program includes Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, Samuel Adams' Prelude: Hammer the Sky Bright, Robert Helps' Hommage a Fauré, Zenobia Powell Perry's Homage to William Dawson, Lou Harrison's Fugue to David Tudor and Hommage a Milhaud, Maggi Payne's Holding Pattern, and Danny Clay's Circle Songs.
Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento Street, SF, CA 94109
Sarah introduces a new project, No Ordinary Light, combining classical and new compositions on the theme of homage and loss. The title comes from Jawaharalal Nehru's eulogy after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: "The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light."
The program includes Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, Samuel Adams' Prelude: Hammer the Sky Bright, Robert Helps' Hommage a Fauré, Zenobia Powell Perry's Homage to William Dawson, Lou Harrison's Fugue to David Tudor and Hommage a Milhaud, Maggi Payne's Holding Pattern, and Danny Clay's Circle Songs.
North Dakota Museum of Art – 261 Centennial Dr Stop 7305, Grand Forks, ND 58202
Sarah performs at a memorial for Laurel Reuter, the visionary founder and longtime director of the North Dakota Museum of Art.
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue
Robert Ashley and “Blue” Gene Tyranny collaborated for decades, and both were iconic and beloved teachers at the Mills College music department. This concert celebrates their work with Tyranny’s two-piano gems Decertified Highway of Dreams and Letters from Home and Ashley’s Viva’s Boy, along with solo compositions. Joseph Kubera and Sarah Cahill worked on these scores with both composers, and will perform pieces that Tyranny dedicated to each of them, including The Drifter and Spirit.
San Francisco, CA
Sarah performs a private concert as a benefit for the San Francisco Girls Chorus.
Tickets & Details
Old First Concerts
Sarah performs Fanny Mendelssohn's Song for Piano Op. 8 No. 1, Adelaide Pereira da Silva's Valse Choro No. 2, and Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants Collection 7 Pattern B as part of a gala fundraiser for Old First Concerts. This event will be livestreamed.
Brava Theater
Sarah premieres a new composition by Samuel Adams, in memory of Ingram Marshall, at the Other Minds Festival. This new work is part of a commissioning project Sarah is doing on the theme of Homages.
Community School of Music and Arts
Sarah performs The Woods So Wild, a program of musical portraits of nature, presented by the Community School of Music and Arts.
Flower Piano, Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park
At this popular annual pastoral piano celebration, for which twelve grand pianos are positioned around the Botanical Gardens, Sarah and Regina Myers perform Eleanor Alberga's Two-Piano Suite, Amy Beach's Summer Dreams, Dance of the Paper Umbrellas by Elena Kats-Chernin, and Terry Riley's Cinco de Mayo.
Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Robert Ashley and “Blue” Gene Tyranny collaborated for decades, and both were iconic and beloved teachers at the Mills College music department. This concert celebrates their work with Tyranny’s two-piano gems Decertified Highway of Dreams and Letters from Home and Ashley’s Viva’s Boy, along with solo compositions, presented by Other Minds. Joseph Kubera and Sarah Cahill worked on these scores with both composers, and will perform pieces that Tyranny dedicated to each of them, including The Drifter and Spirit.
Point Reyes Dance Palace
Sarah performs works by Tania León, Gabriela Ortiz, Theresa Wong, Margaret Bonds, Mary Watkins, and others at this wonderful community center in Point Reyes Station.
Past
Mendocino Music Festival
Sarah joins Elizabeth Dorman in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Two Pianos for two performances at the Mendocino Music Festival.
Mendocino Music Festival
Sarah joins Elizabeth Dorman in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Two Pianos for two performances at the Mendocino Music Festival.
Chapel of the Chimes
At this beloved annual new music event celebrating the summer solstice, Sarah performs music by Terry Riley in honor of his ninetieth birthday which is June 24th.
Detroit Institute of Arts
For the Friday Night Live series, Sarah celebrated composer Lou Harrison in the Diego Rivera Court with a range of his solo piano music as well as his Varied Trio and movements of his Grand Duo with violinist Yvonne Lam and percussionist Doug Perkins.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Sarah performed a six-hour marathon from her project The Future is Female in the galleries, presented by MetLive Arts.