2022
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Thu13Jan2022Mon17Jan2022
Upbeat Live with LA Phil
Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah is the pre-concert speaker for a program featuring pianist Emanuel Ax in Brahms’ Concerto No. 1, as well as Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra and Mahler’s Blumine, with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1360/2022-01-16/ax-plays-brahms
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Thu20Jan2022
Museum of Fine Arts
2-8 pmMuseum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Sarah performs a five-hour marathon of her project The Future is Female, centered around a Lee Krasner painting titled Re-Echo, at the Museum of Fine Arts. The day starts with a “blind listening” workshop, addressing our biases about gender and music.
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Thu27Jan2022Sun30Jan2022
Upbeat Live with LA Phil
Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah gives the pre-concert talks for the US premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek’s Cloudline, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Igor Levit, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”). Elim Chan conducts.
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1369/2022-01-30/beethoven-and-mendelssohn
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Thu03Feb2022Sun06Feb2022
Upbeat Live with LA Phil
Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah is the pre-concert speaker for the LA Phil’s performances of Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor, and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Yefim Bronfman. Philippe Jordan conducts.
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1373/2022-02-06/bronfman-plays-rachmaninoffs-third
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Sun13Feb2022
Revolutions Per Minute with Tania León and San Francisco Girls Chorus
6 to 8 pmKALW.org or 91.7 FM in the Bay Area
On her weekly radio show Revolutions Per Minute, Sarah interviews composer Tania León and also hosts the third of four special broadcasts about Theresa Wong’s new work for chorus and piano, In Stillness I Sing, with interviews with the teenaged singers and composer Theresa Wong.
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Sat05Mar2022
The Barbican presents The Future is Female
12:00pmThe Barbican, London, UK
Sarah Cahill performs The Future is Female in an eight-hour marathon in the Barbican’s multi-level Conservatory. Sarah will also collaborate on two-piano and four-hand works with piano students from the Guildhall School. The afternoon culminates in a panel talk with artists and curators celebrating, reflecting and discussing the themes of the day.
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Sun13Mar2022
San Francisco Girls Chorus premiere of Theresa Wong's "In Stillness I Sing"
Bayview Opera House, San Francisco
Sarah joins the San Francisco Girls Chorus for the premiere of Theresa Wong’s In Stillness I Sing, using texts and improvisations by the teenaged singers of the chorus in a pandemic collaboration. Also on the program are works by Tania León, Bobby McFerrin, and others.
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Sat19Mar2022
Women Now Festival
7 pmBox Factory, Queens, New York
Sarah performs in the WOMEN NOW Festival presented by the Extensity Concert Series.
Piano Poems (2020)* – Regina Harris Baiocchi
Mística (2003) – Tania León
Prelude and Etude No. 3 (2011) – Gabriela Ortiz
Summer Days (2020)* – Mary D. Watkins
Albumblatt (2017) – Aida Shirazi
The Homeless Wanderer (1951) – Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Gebrou
She Dance Naked Under Palm Trees (2019)* – Theresa Wong*Commissioned by Sarah Cahill
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Thu24Mar2022
Women Rising Exhibit: The Future is Female
6:00pm780 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Concert series featuring acclaimed women performers of the Bay Area at 780 Valencia during the Women Rising Exhibition begins with Sarah Cahill and her project “The Future is Female.”
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Thu21Apr2022
Roscoe Mitchell premiere
8 pmMills College Concert Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
Sarah and violinist Kate Stenberg premiere Roscoe Mitchell’s Cards in 3D Colors, commissioned by Sarah last year. This is part of “Music from the Fault Zone,” a festival of Mills faculty and alumni. Also on the program are other works by Roscoe Mitchell and Darius Milhaud.
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Sat23Apr2022
Annea Lockwood's Spirit Catchers
4 pmMills College Concert Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
Sarah performs Annea Lockwood’s Spirit Catchers with Brenda Hutchinson, Laetitia Sonami, and Pamela Z. This is part of the festival “Music from the Fault Zone,” celebrating Mills faculty and alumni. www.performingarts.mills.edu
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Thu05May2022Sun08May2022
pre-concert talks at San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall
Sarah gives the “Inside Music” pre-concert talks at the San Francisco Symphony, with a program including Florence Price’s Piano Concerto with soloist Aaron Diehl, Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message, and Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony (From the New World). Xian Zhang is the conductor. Sarah’s talks begin one hour before each concert. She also hosts an “Off the Podium” post-concert conversation on Saturday, May 7th, with Zhang, Diehl, and Ngwenyama.
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Tue17May2022
post-concert discussion: History's Persistent Voice
9 pmDavies Symphony Hall
Sarah hosts a discussion with Julia Bullock, Christian Reif, Pamela Z, Allison Loggins-Hull, Carolyn Yarnell, and Hana Kim after Bullock’s “History’s Persistent Voice” presented by the San Francisco Symphony.
https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2021-22/Julia-Bullock-Historys-Persistent-Voice
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Thu02Jun2022Sun05Jun2022
Inside Music at the San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Sarah presents pre-concert “Inside Music” talks about the program featuring Mason Bates’ new Piano Concerto with soloist Daniil Trifonov, Om fotspår och ljus (Of Footprints and Light)—Helsinki Variations by Lotta Wennäkoski, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 5. Each lecture begins an hour before the concert.
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Tue07Jun2022
Upbeat Live at LA Phil
7 pmWalt Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah is the Upbeat Live speaker for Ted Hearne’s Place, a modern-day oratorio exploring the essence of place, and part of the Power to the People Festival.
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1446/2022-06-07/place
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Tue21Jun2022
Garden of Memory
5-9pmChapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
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. Performers you can hear during this popular event include Kitka, Pamela Z, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Dylan Mattingly, Theresa Wong, Randy Porter, Orchestra Nostalgico, Gautam Ganeshan, and many more. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Garden of Memory “a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor.” Pick up a map with performer locations, or just wander freely, discovering a variety of acoustic and electronic music in the four hours before twilight. Proof of vaccination and masks are required. -
Thu23Jun2022Sat25Jun2022
Inside Music talks at San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Sarah presents the Upbeat Live talks before San Francisco Symphony concerts featuring John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with soloist Víkingur Ólafsson; Steven Stucky’s Radical Light; and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting. Each lecture begins an hour before the concert.
https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2021-22/STUCKY,-ADAMS-SIBELIUS-or
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Tue05Jul2022
Newport Classical: The Future is Female
3:00pmNewport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Sarah Cahill performs a 4-hour marathon of her project, The Future is Female, celebrating women composers from the Americas:
Hour one:
Romanza (1894) Clara Kathleen Rogers
Rang de Basant (2012) Reena Esmail
Sonata in E minor (first mvt.) (1932) Florence Price
Piano Poems (2020) Regina Harris Baiocchi
Thaw (1975) Elinor Armer
Birds at Dawn (1917) Fannie Charles Dillon
Canyon Wren and Lovely Fairywren (2022) Arlene Sierra
Hour two:
Dreaming (1892) Amy Beach
Troubled Water (1967) Margaret Bonds
Valse Choro No. 2 (1965) Adelaide Pereira da Silva
Guessing (1989) Chen Yi
Sonata (1949) Agi Jambor
In C Too (2015) Elena Ruehr
Albumblatt (2017) Aida Shirazi
Hour three:
Mistica (2003) Tania León
Prelude (1914) Helen Hopekirk
Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword (2002) Janice Giteck
Preludes # 6, 7, and 9 (1928) Ruth Crawford
Quintuplets Play Pen (2001) Pauline Oliveros
Un rêve en mer (1868) Teresa Carreño
Rhapsody (1960) Zenobia Powell Perry
She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019) Theresa Wong
Hour four:
RCSC (2001) Annea Lockwood
Adagio in D Flat (1922) Evelyn Benham
Holding Pattern (2001) Maggi Payne
Dusty, A Rag (1908) May Aufderheide
Billie’s Song (1976) Valerie Capers
Summer Days (2020) Mary Watkins
Prelude and Etude No. 3 (2011) Gabriela Ortiz
A Mother’s Sacrifice (1908) Viola Kinney
St. Petersburg Waltz (1997) Meredith Monk
Syncope (1930) Marion Bauer
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Sat16Jul2022
Center for New Music
7:30 pmCenter for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco
Sarah performs Aida Shirazi’s Albumblatt (2017) and pieces that she’s commissioned in recent years, including Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Piano Poems (2020), , Mary Watkins’ Summer Days (2020), and Theresa Wong’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019). This is a joint concert with soprano Rose Hegele, who will perform music for voice and electronics.
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Sat10Sep2022
Santa Cruz New Music Works
Santa Cruz
For this special New Music Works program, Sarah performs music from her project The Future is Female:
Janice Giteck- Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword (2002)
Frangiz Ali-Zadeh- Music for Piano (1989/1997)
Mary Watkins- Summer Days (2020)
Rebecca Saunders- Shadow (2013)
Adelaide Pereira da Silva- Valse Choro No. 2 (1965)
Intermission
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou- The Homeless Wanderer (1951)
Regina Harris Baiocchi- Piano Poems (2020)
Hyo-shin Na- Small Noise (2018)
Maggi Payne- Holding Pattern (2001)
Reena Esmail- Rang de Basant (2012)
Margaret Bonds- Troubled Water (1967)
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Mon12Sep2022
faculty concert with Regina Myers
7:30 pmSan Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
Sarah and Regina Myers premiere “Up,” an epic four-movement work by Riley Nicholson. He says: “Up‘s one unifying theme is simply that, ‘up.’ The piece moves ‘up’ in so many directions: literally, opening with a upward motif that gets pinged between pianos in a groovy, dizzying counterpoint; gradually with increasing frequency moving up the circle of fifths; with upbeat syncopations and tempi; constantly one upping itself with a burgeoning energy that trips over itself with virtuosic fits; and many other upward motions and themes. Loosely akin to a theme and variations, each movement is a different interpretation of the theme ‘up,’ and given the frenetic energy of every moment, tranquil interludes provide a necessary buffer the movements, and give the performers a chance to catch their breath. Even with the addition of these palate cleansing interludes, the entirety of the work is a manic trip that both explores joyous energy and that darker underbelly of positivity when energy and motion become simply too much to be contained.”
Sarah and Regina are joined by Allegra Chapman and Monica Chew for The Girl in My Alphabet by Errollyn Wallen. This is the original version for eight hands at two pianos. Sarah and Regina also perform Dance of the Paper Umbrellas by Elena Kats-Chernin and Ellis Island by Meredith Monk.
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Wed14Sep2022
Flower Piano
Botanical Gardens, San Francisco
Sarah joins eleven other pianists in the Twelve Piano Extravaganza at Flower Piano, in which grand pianos are placed around the Botanical Gardens to be played by visitors and in concert. The Twelve Piano Extravaganza is tailored for a new piece by composer Benjamin Gribble, involving all twelve pianos at once.
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Fri16Sep2022
house concert
8 pmprivate home
Sarah performs Agi Jambor’s Sonata “To the Victims of Auschwitz” (1949), Terry Riley’s Be Kind to One Another (2008/2014) and Fandango on the Heaven Ladder (1994), selected movements of Lou Harrison’s Suite (1943), selections from Arlene Sierra’s Birds & Insects Book 3 (2022), and selections from Frederic Rzewski’s Humanitas (2020). For information, write to harry@fullplatemedia.com.
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Sat17Sep2022
Flower Piano
1 pmBotanical Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Sarah and Regina Myers premiere “Up,” an epic four-movement work by Riley Nicholson. He says: “Up‘s one unifying theme is simply that, ‘up.’ The piece moves ‘up’ in so many directions: literally, opening with a upward motif that gets pinged between pianos in a groovy, dizzying counterpoint; gradually with increasing frequency moving up the circle of fifths; with upbeat syncopations and tempi; constantly one upping itself with a burgeoning energy that trips over itself with virtuosic fits; and many other upward motions and themes. Loosely akin to a theme and variations, each movement is a different interpretation of the theme ‘up,’ and given the frenetic energy of every moment, tranquil interludes provide a necessary buffer the movements, and give the performers a chance to catch their breath. Even with the addition of these palate cleansing interludes, the entirety of the work is a manic trip that both explores joyous energy and that darker underbelly of positivity when energy and motion become simply too much to be contained.”
Sarah and Regina are joined by Allegra Chapman and Monica Chew for The Girl in My Alphabet by Errollyn Wallen. This is the original version for eight hands at two pianos. Sarah and Regina also perform Dance of the Paper Umbrellas by Elena Kats-Chernin and Ellis Island by Meredith Monk.
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Sat24Sep2022
premiere of Pamela Z's "Presence"
Dresher Studio, Oakland
Sarah joins Pamela Z and Kate Stenberg in the premiere of Pamela Z’s Presence, written as a trio for these three performers. Sarah and Kate also perform works by Roscoe Mitchell, Somei Satoh, and others.
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Sat15Oct2022
Other Minds Festival
Great Star Theater, San Francisco
Sarah and violinist Kate Stenberg play selected works by Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen, including a world premiere, during the 26th Other Minds Festival.
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Fri21Oct2022
Ingram Marshall Memorial Concert
7 pmThe Greene Space, New York City
Sarah joins pianist Timo Andres in Ingram Marshall’s Five Easy Pieces in a concert of his music hosted by John Schaefer. The program features many of Ingram’s friends and collaborators.
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Sat05Nov2022Sun06Nov2022
Upbeat Live with LA Phil
7 pm, 1 pmDisney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah moderates a discussion with artists from the Rock My Soul Festival, featuring compositions by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. Musicians in the discussion include Lidiya Yankovskaya, Janina Norpoth, and Michael-Thomas Foumai.
https://www.laphil.com/concerts-and-events/festivals/rock-my-soul-festival
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Sat12Nov2022
Elinor Armer recording
25th Street Studios, Oakland, CA
Sarah joins the Friction Quartet for a video recording of Elinor Armer’s Quintet, and also records Armer’s solo piece Thaw. This is a project of 3232 Music.