2011
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Tue08Feb2011
Performance of Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Schubert’s Drei Klavierstucke
7:30pmMayville State University, 330 Third Street. NE, Mayville, ND https://www.mayvillestate.edu/CalendarEvents
Sarah performs a classical program including Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Schubert’s Drei Klavierstucke.
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Sun27Feb2011
NDMOA Concert Series - The Mystical Tone
2pmNorth Dakota Museum of Art, 261 Centennial Drive Stop 7305, Grand Forks, North Dakota. www.ndmoa.com
Sarah returns to this beautiful, innovative, and inspiring museum to perform The Mystical Tone, a program of spiritual music including Scriabin’s Five Preludes opus 74 and Vers la flamme, Dane Rudhyar’s Granites, preludes by Ruth Crawford, and Rosemary Brown’s “transcriptions” of Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt.
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Sat05Mar2011
Other Minds Festival - Performance of Gann's Time Does Not Exist
8pmJewish Community Center, 3200 California Street, San Francisco. www.otherminds.org.
As part of the 16th Other Minds Festival, Sarah performs Kyle Gann’s Time Does Not Exist. This year’s festival features a stellar roster of composers from around the globe, including Louis Andriessen, Janice Giteck, Han Bennink, Jason Moran, Agata Zubel, I Wayan Balawan, David Jaffe, and Kyle Gann.
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Sun13Mar2011
Performance of works by Riley, Kitzke and Reagon
4pmChrist Church Episcopal in Los Altos. 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, CA. http://www.ccla.us/announcements/evensongoctober17th4pm
Sarah performs music by Terry Riley, Jerome Kitzke, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and others from her commissioning project A Sweeter Music.
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Fri22Apr2011
New Keys Concert Series - Two duos by Terry Riley
8pmSan Francisco Community Music Center, 544 Capp St. San Francisco. www.newkeysconcert.org
Sarah and Regina Schaffer perform two of Terry Riley’s four-hand duos– Etude from the Old Country and Waltz for Charismas, both commissioned by Sarah—as part of the New Keys concert series. The evening also includes works by Michael Dale, Hilda Paredes, Damon Waitkus, Joby Talbot, and Mark Clifford.
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Sun15May2011
Ravel, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy at Pt. Reyes Dance Palace
4pmPoint Reyes Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes. www.dancepalace.org.
Sarah performs at one of the most blissful places on earth, at the edge of the little town of Point Reyes Station. The program includes Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin, Schubert’s Drei Klavierstucke, Chopin’s Barcarolle, and Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse.
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Thu02Jun2011
Spoleto Festival USA - Selections from A Sweeter Music
Charleston, South Carolina. www.spoletousa.org.
At the Spoleto Festival USA, Sarah performs selections from her ongoing project A Sweeter Music, for which she has commissioned eighteen new works for solo piano on the theme of peace and war. The title is from Martin Luther King Jr’s Nobel Lecture: “We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.” London’s Financial Times calls it “a unique commissioning programme that unites artistic aspirations with moral philosophy,” and the San Francisco Chronicle says that “the music, helped along by the impassioned force of Cahill’s playing, amounted to a persuasive and varied investigation of the subject.” Sarah’s concert features the premiere of Paul Dresher’s Two, Entwined as well as compositions by Frederic Rzewski, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, Mamoru Fujieda, and Jerome Kitzke, with video for each work by John Sanborn.
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Tue21Jun2011
Garden of Memory
5pmChapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland. www.gardenofmemory.com.
New Music Bay Area presents Garden of Memory, the annual summer solstice concert at the Chapel of the Chimes, a beautiful columbarium and mausoleum designed by Julia Morgan. Sarah performs Terry Riley’s four-hand Etude from the Old Country with Regina Schaffer. Performers you can hear during this popular event include Kitka, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Miya Masaoka, Amy X Neuburg, the William Winant Percussion Group, the Del Sol Quartet, Monique Buzzarte, Gyan Riley, and many more. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Garden of Memory “a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor.”
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Tue12Jul2011
Berkeley Arts Festival - Cowell, Crawford, Rudhyar, et al.
8pm2133 University Avenue, Bekeley. www.berkeleyartsfestival.com.
Tuesday, July 12, 8 pm – Sarah performs the opening concert for The Berkeley Arts Festival at its new home, a former bike shop on University Avenue right above Shattuck. Sarah performs music by Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, Dane Rudhyar, Frederic Rzewski, Paul Dresher, and Tomas Svoboda, with wine and homemade cookies afterwards. The month-long Berkeley Arts Festival features a stellar line-up including Jerry Kuderna, Dan Plonsey, Luciano Chessa, Theresa Wong, Adam Tendler, and many others.
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Fri15Jul2011
Portland Piano Festival - Cowell, Crawford and others
3:30pmPortland Piano Festival www.portlandpiano.org.
At the Portland Piano Festival, Sarah performs works from the American experimental tradition by Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, and others, as well as two Etudes in Fugue Style by Czech-American composer Tomas Svoboda. Sarah also has the privilege of joining Svoboda himself on the piano bench for his Suite for four hands.
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Sat16Jul2011
Portland Piano Festival - Selections from A Sweeter Music
10:45amPortland Piano Festival www.portlandpiano.org.
At the Portland Piano Festival, Sarah performs works from her project A Sweeter Music, including the West Coast premiere of Paul Dresher’s new Two, Entwined as well as music by Terry Riley, Mamoru Fujieda, and others.
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Wed20Jul2011
Mendocino Music Festival - Selections from A Sweeter Music
3pmMendocino Music Festival www.mendocinomusic.com.
As part of the Mendocino Music Festival, Sarah performs new work from her project A Sweeter Music, including Paul Dresher’s Two, Entwined and music by Meredith Monk and The Residents, with video by John Sanborn.
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Mon25Jul2011
Berkeley Arts Festival - Dresher's Two, Intwined and music by Fujieda
8pm2133 University Avenue, Bekeley. www.berkeleyartsfestival.com.
Sarah performs Paul Dresher’s Two, Entwined and music by Mamoru Fujieda at the Berkeley Arts Festival.
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Fri29Jul2011
NY Premiere of Paul Dresher's Two, Intwined
8pmThe Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, New York City. www.thestonenyc.com.
Sarah performs the New York premiere of Paul Dresher’s Two, Entwined and other recent pieces as part of a series curated by New Albion Records. Maverick composer Carl Stone has the 10 pm set.
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Sun25Sep2011
Cal Performances’ Fall Free For All - The Mystical Tone
5pmHertz Hall, UC Berkeley. http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
Sarah performs in Cal Performances’ Fall Free For All, a day of free performances around the UC Berkeley campus. Sarah’s 45-minute program is The Mystical Tone, featuring spiritually inspired works by Scriabin, Satie, Dane Rudhyar, Cowell, Ruth Crawford, and Rosemary Brown. Also appearing around campus are the American Bach Soloists, Kitka, Jane Lynch, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Berkeley Symphony Wind Ensemble, and more.
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Fri30Sep2011
Berkeley Arts Festival - Fujieda's Patterns of Plants
8pmBerkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Avenue (above Shattuck), Berkeley. www.berkeleyartsfestival.com.
The Berkeley Arts Festival, under the intrepid leadership of Bonnie Hughes, continues through October in its new space, a former bike shop, now graced with paintings by local artists and a nine-foot Baldwin, with stellar concerts almost every night of the week. Sarah plays a program of Patterns of Plants by Mamoru Fujieda, a Japanese composer who has spent decades exploring the voices of plants in his work for keyboard and for traditional Japanese and Western instruments. Fujieda will be in attendance.
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Sun02Oct2011Wed05Oct2011
Recording of Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants
Sarah records an album of Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants for the Tzadik label at the UC Santa Cruz recital hall.
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Fri11Nov2011
Performance of works by Marshall, Shatin, Ziporyn and others
8pmOld First Church. 1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco. (415) 474-1608 and www.oldfirstconcerts.org.
Sarah performs a program of recent piano music by Ingram Marshall, Judith Shatin, Evan Ziporyn, and others, including a few of Terry Riley’s four-hand pieces with fellow pianist Regina Schaffer.
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Thu08Dec2011
Lou Harrison's Piano Concerto with the Berkeley Symphony
8pmZellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley (near Bancroft and Telegraph), Berkeley. www.berkeleysymphony.org.
Sarah is soloist for Lou Harrison’s magnificent Piano Concerto with the Berkeley Symphony, with guest conductor Jayce Ogren. The epic sweep of Lou Harrison’s four-movement concerto encompasses gamelan, the California landscape, romantic 19th century concertos, and the medieval estampie: in the second Stampede movement, at breakneck speed, the pianist uses a “cluster bar” for octave clusters, joined by a battery of percussion. Also on the program are the West Coast premiere of Lei Liang’s Verge and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. Pre-concert lecture at 7:10 pm.