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  • Sun
    06
    Apr
    2025

    Backstage Pass with Yefim Bronfman

    5 pm

    Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

    Sarah Cahill’s “Backstage Pass” w. Yefim Bronfman in San Francisco
    in partnership with Amateur Music Network
    Have you ever wondered how artists prepare and create their performances? In this series we break down the barriers of genre and style with performing artists, revealing the secret processes behind their music. This conversation will take place at the conclusion of Mr. Bronfman’s recital at Herbst Theater and is available free to all ticket-holders. To attend the conversation, you must have a ticket to the concert.

    https://chambermusicsf.org/
  • Wed
    09
    Apr
    2025

    Backstage Pass with Marin Alsop and Gabriela Montero

    7 pm

    Wattis Room, Davies Hall, San Francisco

    Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00pm, Amateur Music Network presents Sarah Cahill’s Backstage Pass with special guest, conductor Marin Alsop. In a live conversation in Davies Symphony Hall’s Wattis Room and streamed online, Cahill and Alsop offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the artistic process. Tickets are available for purchase through Amateur Music Network. LEARN MORE

  • Thu
    15
    May
    2025

    pre-rehearsal talk

    9 am

    Davies Hall, San Francisco

    Before an open rehearsal, Sarah interviews composer Anna Thorvalsdottir onstage about her new cello concerto, which Johannes Moser will premiere with the San Francisco Symphony during these concerts, with Dalia Stasevska conducting.  Sarah also talks about Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony.

     

    https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/Stasevska-OR

  • Fri
    16
    May
    2025

    Terry Riley 90th celebration

    7 pm

    405 Shrader, San Francisco

    https://www.405shrader.com/

    Sarah performs a program celebrating Terry Riley’s ninetieth birthday year, with his own music ranging from his 1964 Keyboard Studies to his 2008 Be Kind to One Another, along with works composed in his honor by Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Danny Clay, and others.

  • Sat
    21
    Jun
    2025

    Garden of Memory

    5 to 9 pm

    Chapel of the Chimes, Piedmont Avenue, Oakland

    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.

  • Tue
    22
    Jul
    2025
    Wed
    23
    Jul
    2025

    Stravinsky in Mendocino

    Mendocino Music Festival

    Sarah joins Allegra Chapman in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Two Pianos for two performances at the Mendocino Music Festival.

  • Sat
    16
    Aug
    2025

    Point Reyes Dance Palace

    afternoon

     Point Reyes Dance Palace

     

    dancepalace.org

    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

  • Sun
    07
    Sep
    2025

    Blue/Bob

    Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland

    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.

  • Fri
    19
    Sep
    2025

    concert at CSMA

    Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View

    Sarah performs a recital in the series at the Community School of Music and Arts

  • Fri
    17
    Oct
    2025

    Other Minds Festival

    Brava Theater, San Francisco

    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. 

     

    otherminds.org

  • Thu
    20
    Nov
    2025

    Blue/Bob

    Roulette, Brooklyn, New York

    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.

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

– San Francisco Chronicle