2023
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Fri06Jan2023
Old First Concerts recital
8 pmOld First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Sarah premieres Humanitas by Frederic Rzewski, composed for Terry Riley’s 85th birthday, as well as selections from Robert Pollock’s Enneagram, Book 3 of Arlene Sierra’s Birds and Insects, and Carolyn Yarnell’s Nocturne. This program also features Peter Garland’s Walk in Beauty and Rebecca Saunders’ shadow.
oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sat21Jan2023
benefit for Solano Land Trust
6 pmVacaville Museum, Vacaville, California
Sarah performs a classical program to benefit the Solano Land Trust, with wine and hors d’oeuvres before the concert, and a wine and chocolate pairing at intermission. The Solano Land Trust works to preserve land and help people find value in the common ground of Solano County.
https://solanolandtrust.org/events/an-elegant-evening-of-music
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Fri27Jan2023Sun29Jan2023
Upbeat Live at the LA Phil
Disney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah gives pre-concert talks before performances of John Adams’ opera Girls of the Golden West.
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Sat28Jan2023
discussion with John Adams and Jon Else at REDCAT
REDCAT Theater, CalArts
Sarah moderates a conversation with composer John Adams and director Jon Else after a screening of the documentary Land of Gold, about the making of the opera Girls of the Golden West.
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Wed08Feb2023
residency at University of Washington
University of Washington School of Music
Sarah performs a recital at the University of Washington School of Music, featuring music by Annea Lockwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Vivian Fung, Arlene Sierra, and other composers.
https://music.washington.edu/events/2023-02-09/guest-pianist-master-class-sarah-cahill
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Thu09Feb2023
University of Washington master class
University of Washington School of Music
Sarah gives a master class at the University of Washington School of Music.
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Tue21Feb2023Thu23Feb2023
PIVOT Preludes
6:30 pmHerbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sarah presents three “Preludes” before performances of the Catalyst Quartet. Each 45-minute Prelude focuses on three composers from the Quartet’s program that night, with spoken commentary and performances at the piano. Featured composers include Amy Beach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Teresa Carreño, Antonio Carlos Gomes, Germaine Tailleferre, Fanny Mendelssohn, Miguel Bernal, and others. Sarah also hosts post-concert talks with the Catalyst Quartet after each performance.
www.sfperformances.org
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Thu23Feb2023
pre-rehearsal talk for San Francisco Symphony
9 amDavies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Sarah talks with Samuel Adams before the rehearsal for his No Such Spring, a new work for pianist Conor Hanick and the San Francisco Symphony, and also speaks about Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6.
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Sun05Mar2023
Upbeat Live
6:30 pmDisney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah is the Upbeat Live speaker for a program by organist Alcee Chriss, featuring his own arrangements of music by Art Tatum, Bill Evans, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, along with works by Leo Sowersby, Max Reger, and others.
https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1864/2023-03-05/alcee-chriss
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Wed08Mar2023
National Gallery of Art
12 noon to 4:45 pmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Sarah performs two two-hour sets of music by women composers, from the Baroque to the present day, as part of her The Future is Female project. From noon to 2 pm will be in one gallery, and then 2:45 to 4:45 in another gallery.
https://www.nga.gov/calendar/concerts/womens-history-month/pianist-sarah-cahill-future-is-female.html/2023/03/08/1200
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Sat18Mar2023
Four Seasons Arts
3 pmSt. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Sarah performs music by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc, Maria Szymanowska, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Margaret Bonds.
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Sat15Apr2023
tribute to Ingram Marshall
7:30 pmHerbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sarah joins a stellar group of musicians in a tribute to beloved composer Ingram Marshall, who spent his formative years in San Francisco. Sarah performs Authentic Presence, which Ingram wrote for her in 2001. Other musicians include Libby Van Cleve, Ben Verdery, Timo Andres, and conductors John Adams and Edwin Outwater. Presented by San Francisco Performances.
https://sfperformances.org/performances/2223/IngramMarshall.html
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Wed19Apr2023
Presence by Pamela Z
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah joins composer/performer Pamela Z and violinist Kate Stenberg for Pamela Z’s Presence, a new work for trio, as part of Z’s residency at Arts at MIT.
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Sat22Apr2023
Lou Harrison celebration
7 pmBlack Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina
Sarah joins Kate Stenberg for a Lou Harrison celebration including his Varied Trio, with percussionist Matthew Richmond, and selections from his Grand Duo. Sarah also performs solo works ranging from the 1930s to 1990s.
https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/the-music-of-lou-harrison/
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Sat20May2023Sun21May2023
premiere of Viet Cuong's Stargazer
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Sarah is soloist with the California Symphony for the premiere of Viet Cuong’s Stargazer, a beautiful new piano concerto, conducted by Donata Cabrera. Viet Cuong has been composer in residence with the orchestra for the 2020-2023 seasons. About the name Stargazer: “I like the idea that the pianist is the Stargazer, with the piano as your telescope. You’re looking out and hearing the orchestra twinkle around you and they’re taking the sounds from you. Each one of the notes echoes itself, so it snowballs and creates this very lustrous texture.”
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Thu25May2023
San Francisco Symphony pre-rehearsal talk with Julia Wolfe
9 amDavies Symphony Hall
Sarah speaks with composer Julia Wolfe about her new work Her Story co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, and also discusses Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade before a 10 am open rehearsal by the San Francisco Symphony.
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Sun28May2023
concert at Piedmont Gardens
3 pmPiedmont Gardens, Oakland
Sarah performs a piano recital for the residents at Piedmont Gardens in Oakland.
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Sat10Jun2023
Five Centuries of Chaconnes
7:30 pmTateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View
Sarah traces the life cycle of the Chaconne, a musical form originating in the Baroque period, from its origins up to the present day, including works by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Georg Friedrich Handel, Henry Purcell, Cecile Chaminade, Carl Nielsen, Stefan Wolpe, Sofia Gubaidulina and San Francisco composer Danny Clay. Free admission.
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Wed21Jun2023
Garden of Memory
5 to 9 pmChapel of the Chimes, Oakland
Sarah joins dozens of musicians, composers, and sound artists in the annual summer solstice celebration at the Chapel of the Chimes. More information coming soon!
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Thu31Aug2023
teaching at SFCM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Sarah starts teaching 20th and 21st Century Keyboard Literature at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the Fall semester.
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Tue05Sep2023Thu07Sep2023
recording Arlene Sierra's Birds & Insects
Katonah, New York
Sarah records all three books of Arlene Sierra’s Birds and Insects for the Bridge label
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Sat09Sep2023
Flower Piano
1-2 pmBotanical Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Sarah joins Regina Myers for a two-piano and four-hand program including Meredith Monk’s Phantom Waltz, “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s The Decertified Highway of Dreams, the US premiere of Mamoru Fujieda’s Sprites in the Large Camphor Tree, Billy Strayhorn’s and Duke Ellington’s Tonk! arranged by Jed Distler, and, joined by pianists Monica Chew and Allegra Chapman, the eight-hand version of Errolyn Wallen’s The Girl in My Alphabet. Flower Piano, for which twelve pianos are positioned around the Botanical Gardens, is very popular, so allow plenty of time for parking!
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Mon16Oct2023
Backstage Pass at Amateur Music Network
7 pmOld First Church, San Francisco
Sarah moderates a discussion with Dashon Burton, offering a glimpse into diverse artistic processes and engaging music-making.
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Sun12Nov2023
Stravinsky pre-concert talk
1 pmDavies Hall
Sarah speaks about Stravinsky in California in a special pre-concert talk before the San Francisco Symphony performs Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements along with works by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jens Ibsen.
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Wed15Nov2023
CSMA Master Class
6 pmCommunity School of Music and Arts in Mount View
Sarah returns to CSMA to give a master class to students at the school.
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Fri17Nov2023
Sonamu at Other Minds Festival
8 pmTaube Atrium Theater, San Francisco
Sarah performs Carl Stone’s Sonamu for pianist and electronics, in duet with Stone himself. The Other Minds Festival has a terrific lineup of composers and musicians:
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Mon20Nov2023
Backstage Pass at Amateur Music Network
7 pmOld First Church, San Francisco
Sarah moderates a discussion with Lisa Mezzacappa, offering a glimpse into diverse artistic processes and engaging music-making.
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Fri01Dec2023Sun03Dec2023
Upbeat Live
7 pmDisney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah gives the Upbeat Live pre-concert talk before the LA Phil performs Ravel’s complete Daphnis and Chloe and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Karawane, with the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
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Sat09Dec2023
Ann Southam concert
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
Sarah joins pianists Adam Sherkin and Adrienne Kim in a concert of music by Ann Southam.