2024
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Sun07Jan2024
Old First Concerts
2 pmOld First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco
To start the new year, Sarah performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Forest Scenes, Amy Beach’s The Hermit Thrust at Eve, Evan Ziporyn’s You Are Getting Sleepy, Preludes 5,6,7, and 9 by Ruth Crawford, Terry Riley’s The Walrus in Memoriam, and Ann Southam’s Rivers Series 1 Number 1 and Commotion Creek, presented by Old First Concerts.
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Sun21Jan2024
Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts
4 pmGrace Church, Hot Springs, CA
Sarah performs selections from her project, The Future is Female, with works by Louise Farrenc, Fanny Mendelssohn, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Margaret Bonds, Theresa Wong, and Regina Harris Baiocchi at this free concert.
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Mon22Jan2024
Sarah Cahill's Backstage Pass
7 pmOld First Church, Sacramento and Van Ness Avenues, San Francisco
amateurmusic.org
oldfirstconcerts.org
The Amateur Music Network and Old First Concerts present Sarah Cahill’s Backstage Pass, inviting the audience into a welcoming space for active listening, a glimpse into diverse artistic processes and engaging music-making, with special guest Jason Vieaux, described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” Jason is known for his arrangements of pop music for the classical guitar, using its almost orchestral capacities to build texture and characterization. We’ll explore the process with him and find out what inspires these cross-genre explorations.
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Thu25Jan2024
pre-concert talk for San Francisco Symphony
9 amDavies Hall, San Francisco
Before an open rehearsal by the San Francisco Symphony, Sarah gives a pre-concert talk about Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra.
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Fri09Feb2024Sat10Feb2024
Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Sarah joins eleven other pianists at twelve pianos in a repeat performance of “Fall and Fly” by Benjamin Gribble, after the remarkable premiere at Flower Piano in the Botanical Gardens at Golden Gate Park. This indoor performance promises a very different acoustic experience in the splendor of Grace Cathedral.
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Fri05Apr2024
405 Shrader concert
7 pm405 Shrader, San Francisco
Sarah premieres When the Sunrise Lies by Juan Sebastian Cordona Ospina and also performs works by Evan Ziporyn, Adelaide Pereira da Silva, Ann Southam, and Lou Harrison, in a fifty-minute program with refreshments afterwards.
https://www.405shrader.com/
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Sat13Apr2024
WoCo Fest
6 pmThe Mansion at Strathmore
For this special festival hosted by the Boulanger Initiative, Sarah performs music by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc, Leokadiya Kashperova, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Adelaide Pereira da Silva, Margaret Bonds, and Theresa Wong.
https://www.strathmore.org/community-education/our-partners/woco-fest/woco-fest-2024-evolve-saturday-at-the-mansion/
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Tue16Apr2024
Upbeat Live at Green Umbrella
7 pmDisney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah gives the Upbeat Live pre-concert talk before a premiere by Zosha di Castri and Anthony Davis’ You Have the Right to Remain Silent, with John Adams conducting the LA Phil New Music Group, joined by clarinetist Anthony McGill and organist Earl Howard.
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Mon22Apr2024
Backstage Pass
7 pmOld First Church, Sacramento and Van Ness Avenues, San Francisco
In this special series hosted by Amateur Music Network and Old First Concerts, Sarah speaks with the luminous composer, cellist, and vocalist Theresa Wong , who performs music from her recent album Practicing Sands and talks about her approach to composing and improvising on cello and other instruments. The conversation will focus on “creativity and form:” exploration as a compositional tool, just intonation, queerness in music, and composing for oneself and others. Sarah will also perform Theresa’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, inspired by Nina Simone.
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Fri26Apr2024
Detroit Institute of Arts
7 pmDetroit Institute of Arts, Rivera Court (with Diego Rivera's mural titled Industry)
Sarah performs a ninety-minute program from her project The Future is Female, featuring music composed by women, from the Baroque to the present day.
https://dia.org/events/saturday-night-live-sarah-cahill-future-female
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Tue30Apr2024
Upbeat Live
7 pmDisney Hall, Los Angeles
Sarah gives the Upbeat Live pre-concert talk before a performance of Pan-American New Music, highlighting the music of Costa Rica and Mexico, curated by Gabriela Ortiz. The program features Ileana Perez Velázquez’s Columnas de luz, the premiere of Alejandro Cardona’s Hacha de trueno, the premiere of a new work by Francisco Cortés-Álvarez, and Alejandro Viñao’s Cuaderno del Ritmo.
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Sat18May2024
two pianos and four hands
Paul Dresher Studio, Oakland
Sarah joins Regina Myers in a duo program featuring Van by Hanna Kulenty, Tonk by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (transcribed by Jed Distler), Sprites in a Large Camphor Tree by Mamoru Fujieda, Moon Whispers, Cloud Shimmies by Janice Giteck, Up by Riley Nicholson, and Balinese Ceremonial Music by Colin McPhee.
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Thu13Jun2024
pre-rehearsal talk
9 amDavies Hall, Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Sarah gives a talk before an open rehearsal of the San Francisco Symphony, speaking about a program including Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto with soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem, and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2023-24/SALONEN-KANNEH-MASON-OR
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Thu13Jun2024
Larry Bensky memorial
4 pmTBA
Sarah performs music by Schubert, Mozart, Bach, and Debussy at a memorial for Larry Bensky, and also performs with Suzy Thompson and with Vuka Kaukimoala.
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Fri21Jun2024
Garden of Memory
5 to 9 pmChapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
The annual summer solstice event, Garden of Memory, returns to the magical Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, with more than forty musicians performing a wide range of music around the building simultaneously. Sarah performs excerpts from b’midbar in memory of its composer, Larry Polansky, as well as Peter Garland’s Walk in Beauty, a few of Ann Southam’s Rivers, and Mamoru Fujieda’s The Olive Branch Speaks. www.gardenofmemory.com.
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Thu11Jul2024
Fountaingrove Lodge- private concert
Fountaingrove Lodge, Santa Rosa, CA
Sarah performs “The Woods So Wild,” a program about the natural world featuring music by William Byrd, Leokadiya Kashperova, Claude Debussy, Leo Ornstein, and more.
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Sat20Jul2024
Point Reyes Dance Palace
Point Reyes Dance Palace, Point Reyes, CA
Sarah returns to this beautiful community space to perform a program called “The Woods So Wild,” featuring music about the natural world by William Byrd, Mary D Watkins, Claude Debussy, Leo Ornstein, Leokadiya Kashperova, and more.
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Sun04Aug2024
Gretna Music
7:30 pmMt. Gretna Playhouse, 200 Pennsylvania Ave, Mt Gretna, PA
Sarah performs music from her project “The Future is Female,” including works by women composers from 1675 to 2024, and featuring a new composition by Tina Davidson and music by Maria Corley. Both composers will be in attendance. https://www.gretnamusic.org/
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Thu12Sep2024
Catharine Clark Gallery
6:00pmCatharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Sarah Cahill performs music in response to Amy Trachtenberg’s solo exhibition, “Listening Chamber.”
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Sun15Sep2024
Flower Piano
11:00amGardens of Golden Gate Park, 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, California 94118
Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers perform a program of piano music for four hands.
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Sat28Sep2024
Other Minds Festival
Brava Theater, 2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Sarah Cahill performs the music of New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
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Wed16Oct2024
The Lab
7:00pmIn a memorial for Larry Polansky, Sarah performs his ivt (2000) and selections from b’midbar (2008), both written for her, as part of Simple Actions: The Music of Larry Polansky.
https://www.thelab.org/projects/2024/10/16/simple-actions-the-music-of-larry-polansky
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Thu31Oct2024
Halloween at The Mansion at Strathmore
7:30pmStrathmore Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
At the historic Mansion at Strathmore, Sarah performs a Halloween concert, including Frederic Rzewski’s Humanitas, Henry Cowell’s The Banshee, Aida Shirazi’s Albumblatt, Samuel Adams’ Shade Studies, Vítězslava Kaprálová’s April Preludes, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Forest Scenes, and Deirdre Gribbin’s Unseen.
https://www.strathmore.org/events-tickets/what-s-on-in-the-mansion/sarah-cahill/
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Sun10Nov2024
Wave Hill
2:00pmWave Hill - Mark Twain Room, 4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471
Sarah presents a program entitled The Woods So Wild in conjunction with Wave Hill’s Fall Foliage weekend, with music by William Byrd, Mamoru Fujieda, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Leo Ornstein, Errki Melartin, Amy Beach, and Leokadiya Kashperova.
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Wed11Dec2024
Night of Remembrance
7 pmChapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
Sarah performs classical works at this special annual event to honor the lives of our loved ones.
https://oakland.chapelofthechimes.com/about-us/news-and-events/event-detail/59027-night-of-remembrance
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Sun22Dec2024
Piedmont Gardens concert
3 pmPiedmont Gardens, Oakland, CA
Sarah performs works by James Cleghorn at this afternoon concert.