2014
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Sun19Jan2014
Pre-concert talk before Richard Goode’s recital
2pmZellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Sarah gives the pre-concert talk before Richard Goode’s recital, which includes selections from Janacek’s “An Overgrown Path,” Schubert’s Sonata in A major, D. 95, and Debussy’s Preludes Book 1. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley. http://www.calperformances.org/performances/2013-14/recital/richard-goode.php
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Fri24Jan2014
Henry Cowell In San Quentin Prison
11am & 6:30pmSan Quentin Prison
In San Quentin Prison, Sarah performs a program of music Henry Cowell composed while incarcerated there between 1936 and 1940. In 1936, Cowell confessed to Redwood City police that he had engaged in one act of oral sex, and he was sent to San Quentin for fifteen years. After four years, because of the tireless advocacy of family members and friends, he was paroled into the care of composer Percy Grainger. During his four years in San Quentin, Cowell taught music classes to over a thousand inmates, conducted the band, started an orchestra, composed remarkable piano pieces and many chamber works, and experimented with form and rhythm and sound. Sarah’s program includes Cowell’s visionary Rhythmicana, Celtic Set, Hilarious Curtain Opener, High Color, sections of the Amerind Suite, and Songs on Mother Goose Rhymes. The Ives Quartet will also perform Cowell’s “United” Quartet. The public can attend, but must go through a screening process. Anyone interested in these Cowell performances at San Quentin should contact Laurie Brooks, executive director of the William James Association Prison Arts Project. Her e-mail is Laurie@WilliamJamesAssociation.org.
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Sat08Feb2014Sun09Feb2014
Piano Concerto with the La Jolla Symphony
7:30pm & 2pmMandeville Auditorium, UC San Diego
Sarah is soloist for Lou Harrison’s magnificent Piano Concerto with the La Jolla Symphony, conducted by Steven Schick. 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 Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival” Overture. Mandeville Auditorium, UC San Diego.
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Wed12Feb2014Sun16Feb2014
Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar
Creative Arts Building Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University 1756 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA
As part of the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar and Festival, Sarah has the great fortune of performing Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet with violinist Jacqueline Ross, violist Toby Appel, cellist David Requiro, and double bassist Shinji Eshima. Schubert is the featured composer this year of the seminar and festival, which also includes intensive coaching, public master classes, workshops, and lessons, all led by the Alexander String Quartet. Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University, 1756 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco. http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2014/02/12/6641
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Thu13Feb2014
Sarah speaks onstage with The Freddy McGuire Show—video artist Anne McGuire and Wobbly
7pmThe Exploratorium Pier 15, San Francisco. www.exploratorium.edu..
As part of the Resonance series at the Exploratorium, Sarah speaks onstage with The Freddy McGuire Show—video artist Anne McGuire and Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) before their performance. Combining the vocals and invasive surveillance cameras of renowned video artist Anne McGuire, and the familiar and simultaneous melodies of the collagist Wobbly, the Freddy McGuire Show will perform spontaneously improvised oldies accompanied by live and prerecorded camera feeds that both document and create. Part Hollywood musical, part documentary, part horror film, and part nature study, their performance will offer the challenging narrative that every audience likes to read about before it’s made into a movie; the fact that it will also be something that is actually happening might be less than the point.
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Fri28Feb2014
Other Minds Festival - Joseph Byrd’s 1961 Animals with the Del Sol Quartet
8pmSF Jazz, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco. www.otherminds.org
At the Other Minds Festival, Sarah performs Joseph Byrd’s 1961 Animals with the Del Sol Quartet and percussionist Alan Zimmerman. Keeping in tune with this spirit of firsts and celebrating the Bay Area’s strong heritage as a pioneering stronghold of arts and culture, OM presents, for the first time ever, an entirely Northern California cast of composers, including Mark Applebaum, John Bischoff, Donald Buchla, Joseph Byrd, Charles Celeste Hutchins, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchell, Wendy Reid, and John Schott.
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Sat08Mar2014
100 30-Second Pieces for Two Pianos with Regina Schaffer
7pmPiedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo, Oakland. www.piedmontpiano.com.
Sarah joins her duo partner Regina Schaffer in selections from the first fifty of Evan Ziporyn’s 100 30-Second Pieces for Two Pianos, as well as David Borden’s Double Portrait and other music for two pianos.
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Mon17Mar2014
Cal Arts Performance Forum
California Institute of the Arts. 24700 McBean Pkwy, Los Angeles (Valencia). www.calarts.edu.
Sarah performs for the Performance Forum.
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Wed26Mar2014Fri28Mar2014
Recording sessions for A Sweeter Music
Recording sessions in Santa Cruz for A Sweeter Music, to be released later this year by Other Minds.
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Sat05Apr2014
Sarah joins the Alexander String Quartet at SF Jazz
10amSF Jazz, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco. www.sfperformances.org.
Sarah joins the Alexander String Quartet for Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 and Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493. For two decades, the Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg have brought together a devoted crowd of chamber music enthusiasts on Saturday mornings for events which are part concert, part lecture, part humor and all entertainment. Followers on both sides of the Bay indulge in deep exploration of composers, their works, times and impacts in one of San Francisco Performances’ most popular and enduring series. These enlightening two-hour sessions, designed and written by Robert Greenberg, open with Mr. Greenberg’s musical and historical insights about the composers and their work, liberally peppered with his incisive wit and expansive insights, and conclude with complete performances of the repertoire.
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Thu10Apr2014
An onstage conversation with Jem Finer
7pmExploratorium, Pier 15, San Francisco. www.exploratorium.edu
As part of the Resonance series at the Exploratorium, Sarah has an onstage conversation with Jem Finer, a UK-based artist, musician, and composer. Finer has worked in film, photography, installation, and experimental and popular music since studying computer science in the 1970s. Much of his work explores systems and processes playing out over extremes of time and space.
For this event, he’ll offer two performances. In an inversion of the usual supporting role of the soundtrack, Finer gathered sound using a video camera, then draws upon this raw material to compose improvisational films whose visual component is a byproduct of these sound juxtapositions in “Original Soundtracks #5,” which will also include new material recorded in San Francisco. In addition, he’ll perform “Starfield.” Each star shines with a unique spectrum of light frequencies. By translating these into sound, Finer generated the raw material for this celestial composition. -
Wed23Apr2014Thu24Apr2014
Recording Jerome Kitzke’s There is a Field
New York City
Recording sessions for Jerome Kitzke’s There is a Field.
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Tue06May2014
Honoring the Past- Celebrating the Future
6pmBerkeley Art Museum, Bancroft Way below College Avenue, Berkeley. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/members/annualgala/2014
The Berkeley Art Museum presents its gala entitled “Honoring the Past- Celebrating the Future,” and Sarah performs selections from Thomas Ades’ Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face and Henry Cowell’s Trumpet of Angus Og.
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Fri09May2014
Berkeley Symphony Tenth Annual Benefit Gala
6pmThe Berkeley Symphony presents its Tenth Annual ??Benefit Gala, and Sarah performs selections from Thomas Ades’ Concert Prokofiev with violinist Stuart Canin and other musicians. Piedmont Paraphrase on Powder Her Face. http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/concerts/gala/
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Sat31May2014
Private House Concert
4pmAt a private house concert, Sarah performs Bach’s English Suite No. 3, Beethoven’s Sonata opus 109, Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin, and Three Fantasies by Leo Ornstein. 4 pm.
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Thu12Jun2014
Onstage with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
7pmKanbar Forum at the Exploratorium, Pier 15, San Francisco. www.exploratorium.edu/resonance
As part of the ResOnance series, Sarah speaks onstage with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, an artist and multi-instrumentalist who works with voice to create spontaneous and ecstatic musical compositions. Under the moniker Lichens, Lowe uses effects boxes to loop guitars, percussion, and vocals into a reverberating drone. In 2005, Lichens released The Psychic Nature of Being, followed in 2007 by the album OMNS. His most recent performances and recordings have combined his voice with modular synthesizer patch compositions.
Lowe believes that the sensitivity of analogue modular systems echoes the organic nature of vocal expression, and that the two can be used together to induce a trancelike state and promote deeper listening. Lowe is currently working with video artist Patrick Smith on a live performance with animated projections—a work entitled Clouds.
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Sat14Jun2014
Stravinsky’s Les Noces in a two-piano reduction by Kanoko Nishi
8pmNourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco. http://www.sfgirlschorus.org/june14
With the San Francisco Girls Chorus and pianist Kanoko Nishi, Sarah performs Scenes I and III of Stravinsky’s Les Noces in a two-piano reduction by Kanoko Nishi. The program, conducted by Valérie Sainte-Agathe, will also feature Bartók’s Three Village Scenes performed as a suite with original dance interpolations created by Joe Goode and performed by members of his acclaimed Joe Goode Performance Group. The Chorus will be joined by Sarah and Kanoko for Scenes I and III from Stravinsky’s Les Noces and will go a cappella for Stravinsky’s Four Russian Peasant Songs. Completing the program will be Smetana’s Three Choruses for Female Voice.
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Sat21Jun2014
Garden of Memory
5-9pmChapel 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 Patterns of Plants by Mamoru Fujieda to celebrate her release of Fujieda’s music on Pinna Records. Other performers you can hear during this popular event include Henry Kaiser, the William Winant Percussion Group, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Amy X Neuburg, Carl Stone, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Laura Inserra, Maggi Payne, Pamela Z, Wayne Grim, Luciano Chessa, Juraj Kojs and Adrian Knight, the Del Sol Quartet, 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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Thu10Jul2014
The ROOM series hosted by Pamela Z. Royce Gallery
8pmPamela Z. Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison and Alabama), San Francisco. http://www.pamelaz.com/room.html#labrosones
Sarah takes turns with pianists Luciano Chessa and Joe Lasqo on an upright piano for an evening of adventurous music in the intimate ROOM series hosted by Pamela Z. Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison and Alabama), San Francisco.
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Sun21Sep2014
Art in Nature Festival
11am-5pmRedwood Regional Park, Oakland, California. http://www.samavesha.org/productions/art-in-nature-festival/
11 am to 5 pm Sunday, September 21- Sarah performs in the glorious Art in Nature Festival in a redwood grove, in an outdoor immersive artistic experience featuring music, dance, sculpture, painting, martial arts, poetry, body painting, circus arts, theater, visual arts, storytelling, arts & crafts, and kids events. This free festival is produced by Samavesha. Sarah premieres nature-themed works by Pauline Oliveros and Danny Clay, meant to be performed outdoors, along with pieces about nature by Takemitsu, Messiaen, Mamoru Fujieda, and others.
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Sun21Sep2014
Berkeley Symphony’s Chamber Music Series
5pmPiedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA. http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/concerts/concert-i/
As part of the Berkeley Symphony’s chamber music series, Sarah performs music by Beethoven and Prokofiev with violinist Stuart Canin and other musicians.
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Sun05Oct2014
Piano Concert Series Featuring Sarah Cahill, Violinist Stuart Canin and Cellist Gianna Abondolo
4pm503 B Street, P.O. Box 217, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 www.dancepalace.org.
Sarah Cahill—recently called “fiercely gifted” by the New York Times and “as tenacious and committed an advocate as any composer could dream of” by the San Francisco Chronicle—has performed recently at Merkin Hall in New York and at Cal Performances in Berkeley. Composers who have dedicated works to her include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, and Pauline Oliveros. The trio will perform Schubert’s B-flat major Trio. Mr. Canin and Ms. Cahill will perform Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata in F major, op. 24 and Mozart’s Sonata in E minor, K. 304 and Ms. Cahill will also play some solo pieces by Francois Couperin and Thomas Ades.
Stuart Canin has served as the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, and major Hollywood studios. A graduate of Juilliard, he won the Paganini International Violin Competition, taught at Oberlin, the University of Iowa, the San Francisco Conservatory, and was a founding member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra.
Gianna Abondolo was the top prizewinner of the 1988 Young Musician’s Foundation Debut Competition, she gave her New York solo debut performance in 1991 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she started playing the cello at age eight and subsequently began concertizing, including at the age of 15 a performance of Vivaldi’s double concerto with Yo-Yo Ma and the Crossroads School Orchestra of which Terry McQuilkin of the LA. Times wrote, “clearly a musician of exceptional talent”.
Tickets are available in advance at www.dancepalace.org and at the door. The Dance Palace is located at the corner of 5th and B Streets in Point Reyes Station. For more information, contact (415) 663-1075, dance@horizoncable.com, or www.dancepalace.org.
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Wed15Oct2014
Sarah Cahill piano at the Sol Joseph Recital Hall
8pmthe Sol Joseph Recital Hall
50 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94131
Email: cramos@sfcm.edu Phone: 415-503-6275Program
Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 99 Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring” Mozart
Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304 and solo piano works TBAPerformers
Sarah Cahill, piano
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Wed15Oct2014
Sarah Cahill piano at the Sol Joseph Recital Hall
8pmthe Sol Joseph Recital Hall
50 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94131
Email: cramos@sfcm.edu Phone: 415-503-6275Program
Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 99 Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring” Mozart
Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304 and solo piano works TBAPerformers
Sarah Cahill, piano
Stuart Canin, violin
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Wed22Oct2014
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 gorgeous columbarium and mausoleum designed by Julia Morgan. Sarah performs music by Marc Blitzstein, James Tenney, Jim Fox, and Leo Ornstein. Performers you can hear during this popular event include Charles Amirkhanian, Paul Dresher, Amy X. Neuburg, Walter Kitundu, Ed Campion, Brenda Hutchinson, Pamela Z, Willie Winant, Aaron Ximm, Laura Inserra, the Del Sol Quartet, John Bischoff, Maggi Payne, and many others.
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Sun26Oct2014
Pre-concert talk before Richard Goode’s Recital
2pmZellerbach Hall
UC BerkeleySarah gives the pre-concert talk before Richard Goode’s recital, which features the last three Schubert sonatas. Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley. www.calperformances.org
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Mon10Nov2014Fri14Nov2014
Artist in Residence at Dickinson College
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Sarah and her husband John Sanborn are in residence at Dickinson College, where they perform the piano/video version of A Sweeter Music (Sarah will perform other programs as well) and give master classes and workshops, teach seminars, read student compositions, and work with young pianists, video artists, composers, dancers, and musicians among the student population. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. www.dickinson.edu/departments/music
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Sun16Nov2014
MIT Sounding: Sarah Cahill
4pmMIT Killian Hall, 14W
160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA www.mit.eduSarah performs several compositions from her “Sweeter Music” project, including Frederic Rzewski’s Peace Dances, excerpts from Meredith Monk’s Steppe Music, Terry Riley’s Be Kind to One Another, Phil Kline’s Long Winter, and Mamoru Fujieda’s The Olive Branch Speaks, as well as Evan Ziporyn’s Fragrant Forest from Pondok.
E-mail: cast@mit.edu
URL: Arts at MIT 2014-15 Sounding
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Wed10Dec2014
Berio in NYC
7pmThe Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
Tel (212) 854-2306
Fax (212) 854-8479
The Italian Academy WebsiteAdam Tendler and Sarah perform a program of Luciano Berio, focusing on the works he composed while living in New York, including Touch (1991) for piano four-hands, Erdenklavier (1969), Cinque Variazione (1952/3, rev. 1966), Canzonetta (1991), for piano four-hands, Rounds (1967), Memory (1969/73) for electric piano and electric harpsichord, Sequenza IV (1965/66), Wasserklavier (1965), and Feuerklavier (1989).
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Fri19Dec2014
New Recording
8pm Los Angeles, CA.Sarah records Peter Garland’s four-movement After the Wars (part of her Sweeter Music commissioning project) for the Cold Blue label.