InterMusicSF.org USIC AY CHEDULE SUNSFDAY, SEPTE MMBER 30, NOON D-8 PM 2018SF WAR MEM ORIALS VETERANS BUILDING FIRST SECOND FOURTH FOURTH 12:00–12:30 FLOOR p. 7 12:00–12:30 FLOOR p. 20 12:00–12:30 FLOOR FLOOR p. 49 JAZZ EARLY 12:15–12:45 Gold Coast p. 37 & Tiffany Austin Agave Baroque CLASSICAL SFJAZZ High School JAZZ Chamber Players 2nd floor balcony All-Stars Combo p. 21 12:40–1:10 p. 50 12:45–1:15 p. 8 1:00–1:30 Trio 180 CLASSICAL ZOFO Jeremy Cohen’s JAZZ CONTEMPORARY Violinjazz p. 38 1:15–1:45 p. 23 1:20–1:50 Luminance Ensemble p. 51 1:30–2:00 p. 9 1:40–2:10 CONTEMPORARY Delphi Trio CLASSICAL The Applebaum JAZZ Curium CLASSICAL Jazz Piano Duo 2:00–2:30 p. 24 2:20–2:50 The Musical Art Quintet p. 39 2:15–2:45 p. 11 CLASSICAL with Serene Han David James’ GPS JAZZ Circadian String Quartet CLASSICAL p. 52 2:30–3:00 George Brooks’ Aspada JAZZ p. 25 3:00–3:30 EARLY 3:30–4:00 MUSA p. 40 3:15–3:45 p. 55 JAZZ 3:30–4:00 JAZZ Motoko Honda’s p. 12 Brian Ho Trio Simple Excesses Mark Izu Ensemble JAZZ 3:40–4:10 with Brenda Wong Aoki p. 26 The Lee Trio CLASSICAL 4:15–4:45 p. 56 4:15–4:45 4:30–5:00 p. 28 4:20–4:50 p. 42 p. 13 JAZZ EARLY Quinteto Latino JAZZ Lisa Mezzacappa Six Jon Jangtet Liaison Ensemble CONTEMPORARY GREEN ROOM p. 29 5:00–5:30 p. 14 5:10–5:40 5:15–5:45 p. 43 Firesong CLASSICAL Stenberg | Cahill duo Ben Goldberg: JAZZ HERBST THEATRE CONTEMPORARY 5:30–6:00 In Memory of John Shifflett p. 57 EDUCATION STUDIO EDUCATION Myra Melford p. 15 5:50–6:20 & Ian Winters JAZZ / CONT. 6:10–6:40 CLASSICAL Ensemble San Francisco p. 31 6:15–6:45 THEATER ATRIUM TAUBE Musicians from Valley of p. 45 EARLY Rent Romus’ JAZZ the Moon Music Festival Life’s Blood Ensemble 6:30–7:00 p. 16 6:30–7:00 p. 58 Anne Sajdera Ensemble JAZZ Lieder Alive! CLASSICAL p. 34 6:50–7:20 p. 46 7:00–7:30 Ensemble for These Times CONTEMPORARY Splinter Reeds CONTEMPORARY 7:30–8:00 p. 19 7:30–8:00 p. 35 7:30–8:00 p. 47 7:30–8:00 p. 60 Edgar Pantoja JAZZ Redwood Tango Ensemble Earplay Nomad Session CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY & The Afro-Cuban Tribe 2 • SF Music Day 2018p. SF Music Day 2018 • 3 SF Music Day Marketplace Visit the SF Music Day Marketplace in the main lobby to meet representatives WELCOME TO SF MUSIC DAY! of the Bay Area’s music presenting and service organizations, and receive information about their upcoming seasons, events and programs. Learn Thank you for joining us at this eleventh edition of SF Music Day, InterMusic SF’s how their work contributes to the richness of our musical community. annual free music festival. We hope you enjoy listening to the wide range of music on the schedule, performed by some of the finest musicians in the Bay Area. I invite California Jazz Conservatory, p. 53 you to explore our diverse program of 39 local ensembles, sample the work of 2087 Addison St unfamiliar artists and genres, follow your curiosity, and and discover new musical Crowden Music Center, p. 6 practices and sounds during your visit. 1475 Rose Street, Berkeley This year’s theme, Colors of the Keyboard, highlights an assortment of ensembles with keyboard instruments placed front-and-center, exploring that instrument’s wide expressive range: refined classical piano trios; propulsive jazz combos; early Berkeley Chamber Performances, p. 17 music ensembles featuring harpsichord and pianoforte; contemporary groups Old First Concerts, p. 48 Berkeley City Club. 2315 Durant exploring non-traditional piano techniques; tango music played on the accordion- 1751 Sacramento Street like bandonéon; and electric organ-fueled groove music. Some chamber groups, such as Circadian String Quartet and Musical Art Quintet, will add pianists to Center for New Music, p. 54 their usual personnel, to perform special repertoire that specifically showcases the 55 Taylor Street, SF keyboard in their SF Music Day programs. In addition to groups programmed within our keyboard theme, there are two world SF Conservatory, p. 10 premieres today–Mark Izu’s Japanese American Home Movies to Light, and Ben 50 Oak St, SF Goldberg’s In Memory of John Shifflet–as well as two contrasting wind quintets, a brass/woodwind octet, and a unique performance of original music inspired by Roland Feller Violin Makers, p. 18 Noir novelists Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster, to highlight only a few. 551 Divisadero, SF Along with our scheduled performances, we invite you to visit the SF Music Day SF Community Music Center, p. 59 Marketplace, where you can speak with representatives from the Bay Area’s unique Mission & Richmond district locations musical ecosystem, including presenters, educational institutions, and support organizations. Noe Valley Chamber Music, p. 27 While in the lobby, we hope you visit the InterMusic SF table and speak with Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St. Earplay, p. 35 members of our staff and board about our continuing efforts to support earplay.org professional musicians in the Bay Area through fiscal sponsorship, project grants, Music on the Hill Amateur Music Network and professional development. St. Aidan’s Church, Diamond Heights amateurmusic.org With thanks to our many generous supporters, SF Music Day continues to be free to the public, because at InterMusic SF, we believe that keeping high-quality Ross McKee Foundation Morrison Artist Series, p. 30 rossmckeefoundation.org live music accessible is central to building and maintaining a vibrant, diverse SF State University, McKenna Theatre community. Ensemble for These Times Thank you for celebrating the arts with us! e4tt.org • p. 34 Jazz in the Neighborhood, p. 41 Music at Kohl Mansion, p. 22 various locations 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame Cory Combs, SF Contemporary Music Players Executive Director, InterMusic SF p. 44 various locations 4 • SF Music Day 2018 SF Music Day 2018 • 5 HERBST THEATRE 12:00–12:30 PM TIFFANY AUSTIN photo by Billphoto Reitzel Tiffany Austin, voice • Rafa Postel, trumpet Lyle Link, sax • Joel Behrman, trombone Adam Shulman, piano • Marcus Shelby, bass • Leon Joyce Jr., drums Celebrating the release of the new album Unbroken Widely hailed as one of the best jazz debut albums of 2015, Tiffany Austin’s self-released “Nothing But Soul” made quite a splash, including sterling reviews in Downbeat and on NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Her eagerly awaited follow-up, “Unbroken,” confirms the Bay Area vocalist’s status as one of jazz’s elite singers and a formidable songwriter as well. Unbroken is both a timeless meditation on African-American culture’s extraordinary resilience and an all-too-timely response to the re-energized forces seeking to degrade and deny that legacy. Rather than separating African-American music into kindred tributaries, Austin plunges into the whole river of sound that’s sustained black life in America since before the nation’s founding. In many ways, she’s contesting what vocalist Gregory Porter has called “musical genocide” with a soul- steeped affirmation that embraces blues and swing, spirituals and R&B, bebop, post-bop, and her own Louisiana Creole heritage. This performance is sponsored by Mary Wildavsky 6 • SF Music Day 2018 tiffanyaustin.com SF Music Day 2018 • 7 HERBST THEATRE HERBST THEATRE 1:00–1:30 PM 1:40–2:10 PM THE APPLEBAUM JAZZ PIANO DUO EREMY OHEN S IOLINJAZZ by Davephoto Kerr J C ’ V courtesyphoto of artist Jeremy Cohen, violin • Dix Bruce, guitar • Larry Dunlap, piano • Jim Kerwin, bass Bob Applebaum, piano • Mark Applebaum, piano Jeremy Cohen’s electrifying jazz violin performances have earned him Performing jazz standards and original compositions. nationwide accolades. Classically-trained and a student of Itzhak Perlman and Anne Crowden, Cohen’s eclectic style reflects his respect for a wide range of violinists from Perlman and Fritz Kreisler to Joe Venuti and Performing together since 2000, the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo is a father/ Eddie South. Jazzviolin and Quartet San Francisco (founded by Cohen son ensemble performing jazz standards and original compositions. nearly two decades ago) embody Cohen’s passion for bringing multiple Bob Applebaum, for whom music has been a professional sideline, has genres to the string literature. composed, directed, and performed choral music for the Jewish liturgy, Dix Bruce is a composer, author and award-winning guitarist and has jazz combos, & klezmer groups. made music with Jeremy Cohen for over twenty-five years. Bruce also Mark Applebaum is a prolific and versatile composer, performer and performs and records with a variety of Bay Area-based musical groups in Stanford professor whose inventive and remarkably idiosyncratic work varied styles, from traditional American country and folk, to bluegrass, spans solo, chamber, orchestral & electro-acoustic music to invented swing and jazz. instruments, visual work, theatrical compositions and jazz piano. As a pianist, composer and arranger, Larry Dunlap has a multifaceted Finding an enormous artistic common ground and a mutual sense of career that includes extensive work in the fields of jazz, classical and swing, the duo has performed nationally and recorded a CD together, popular music. He regularly appears with his wife, vocalist Bobbe Norris, “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree” (Innova CD565). and as a collaborator with a variety of jazz vocalists and instrumentalists throughout the Bay Area and internationally.