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In the COMMUNITY Series in the LABORATORY Series MASTERCLASS Series at the CROSSROADS Series How Music Is Made ONLINE 50Th Anniv DUDLEY SOREY LIM Z SHAW WILSON FURE REID ADAMS ATLADOTTIR 50th Anniversary Season SFCMP.org ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS San Francisco Contemporary Music Players is the West Coast’s most longstanding and largest new music ensemble, comprised of twenty-two highly skilled musicians. For 50 years, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players have created innovative and artistically excellent music and are one of the most active ensembles in the United States dedicated to contemporary music. Holding an important role in the regional and national cultural landscape, the Contemporary Music Players are a 2018 awardee of the esteemed Fromm Foundation Ensemble Prize, and a ten-time winner of the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. WELCOME TO OUR 2020-21 SEASON ERIC DUDLEY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Lineup THE CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS View Bios Tod Brody, flute Meredith Clark, harp Kyle Bruckmann, oboe Kate Campbell, piano Sarah Rathke, oboe David Tanenbaum, guitar Jeff Anderle, clarinet Hrabba Atladottir, violin Peter Josheff, clarinet Susan Freier, violin Adam Luftman, trumpet Roy Malan, violin Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone Meena Bhasin, viola Peter Wahrhaftig, tuba Nanci Severance, viola Chris Froh, percussion Hannah Addario-Berry, cello Haruka Fujii, percussion Stephen Harrison, cello Loren Mach, percussion Richard Worn, contrabass William Winant, percussion GUEST ARTISTS Allegra Chapman, piano Alicia Telford, horn Shawn Jones, bassoon Pamela Z, voice Jamael Smith, bassoon FEATURING THE WORK OF Aaron Jay Kernis John Adams Amadeus Regucera Jon Kulpa Andrew Norman Jon Yu Ash Fure Josiah Tayaq Catalan Caroline Shaw Liza Lim Christian Lindberg Maija Hynninen David Lang Olly Wilson DeVanté Winn Pamela Z Garrett Lucero Tomeka Reid Guillaume Connesson Tyshawn Sorey James Tenney PRODUCED BY Lisa Oman, Executive Director Eric Dudley, Artistic Director Amadeus Regucera, Artistic Production Director Greer McGettrick, Production Associate Zach Miley, Audio/Video Engineer Special thanks to Paul Dresher Studio Concerts and Events MASTERCLASS series encouraging the development of the next generation of contemporary music composers and musicians THUR, MAR 4, 2021 Performance and Masterclass in collaboration with SFCM String Department March 4 Webcast 7:30 pm Pacific FREE / RSVP Watch On Demand through April 4 In our ongoing MASTERCLASS series, we interact with some of the most talented Bay Area pre-professional musicians in a live performance and feedback session with one of our renowned ensemble members. Students bring selected works to the stage while being mentored in the techniques, Photo: James Knox skills, and myriad styles of contemporary Hrabba ATLADOTTIR music performance. This season’s masterclass focuses on contemporary repertoire for stringed instruments, coached by violinist Hrabba ATLADOTTIR. PROGRAM Bright Sheng, The Stream Flows Adrian Wu, violin Philip Glass, Partita for Solo Violin Solanch Sosa, violin Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvt I Ryan Cheng, violin Giacinto Scelsi, Manto Natalia Badziak, viola in the LABORATORY series exploring large-ensemble works that push the boundaries of the concert experience SAT, MAR 6, 2021 Overtones and Undercurrents March 6 Webcast 8 pm Pacific TICKETS Watch On Demand through April 6 Our 50th season in the LABORATORY series stretches the boundaries of sound generation in a program that explores the tensions between the natural and the artificial. Including interviews with the composers Ash FURE and performers that provide windows into their creative processes and behind-the-scenes insight, this fully electro- Garrett LUCERO acoustic concert features the world premieres of two new works by Garrett LUCERO and DeVanté WINN, both students of the SFCM Technology and Applied Composition Department. The brilliantly unconventional use of subwoofer cones as pulse generators defines the soundworld of an essay for solo percussion and electronics by Ash FURE, pulling apart the components of speakers DeVanté WINN for fascinating and unexpected musical results. PROGRAM Garrett Lucero, Onward for guitar and electronics David Tanenbaum, guitar DeVanté Winn, Yesterday Night for oboe and electronics Kyle Bruckmann, oboe Ash Fure, Shiver Lung 2 for percussion and electronics William Winant, percussion at the CROSSROADS series celebrating the work of legacy composers alongside cutting-edge voices from across generations SAT, APR 10 & SAT, JULY 10, 2021 PostScript to the Future - Parts 1 and 2 April 10 Webcast 8 pm Pacific Watch On Demand through May 10 July 10 Webcast 8 pm Pacific TICKETS Watch On Demand through August 10 This year’s at the CROSSROADS series reflects an ongoing exploration of music that exists in the innovative realms of cross-genre connectivity. The Contemporary Players join their trans-Atlantic compatriots at Ensemble Intercontemporain by co- commissioning a new work from NYC-based composer and multi- Tyshawn SOREY instrumentalist Tyshawn SOREY, whose fluency across stylistic streams has distinguished him as one of the most Olly WILSON compelling voices in contemporary music today. Connecting the threads to a figure that Sorey has long considered a key inspiration for his work, we spotlight the life and legacy of composer and longtime Bay Area resident Olly WILSON, a close friend and collaborator of the Contemporary Players for years. Jazz-trained cellist and composer Tomeka REID joins the conversation, along with the premiere of our annual SF Search for Scores winning composition, framing an emerging generation of composers whose work launches out on divergent paths along the Tomeka REID same cross-genre trajectories. PROGRAM 1 - APRIL 10, 2021 Josiah Tayaq Catalan, New Work* Allegra Chapman, piano * Winner, SF Search for Scores 2020 Olly Wilson, Echoes for clarinet and electronics Jeff Anderle, clarinet PROGRAM 2 - JULY 10, 2021 Tomeka Reid, Prospective Dwellers for string quartet Tyshawn Sorey, For Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (In Memoriam)* * U.S. premiere / SFCMP Commission Olly Wilson, A City Called Heaven in the COMMUNITY series encouraging the exploration of contemporary music in a festive community atmosphere SUN, MAY 23, 2021 Sound Encounters in collaboration with CNMAT, UC Berkeley May 23 Webcast 3 pm Pacific FREE / RSVP Watch On Demand through June 23 For this year’s in the COMMUNITY series event, we invite everyone to experience sound art in a virtual environment, as we explore a range of fascinating electro-acoustic works of Bay Area origins. SFCMP percussionist William WINANT kicks off the program with his uniquely personal interpretation of a famous work by James TENNEY, followed William WINANT by performances of pieces by three of the Bay Area’s leading sound artists from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at U.C. Berkeley: Jon Kulpa, Maija HYNNINEN, and Jon YU. PROGRAM James Tenney, Koan: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion William Winant, percussion Jon Kulpa, QuFoam John Kulpa, electronics Maija Hynninen, it is always today Radiophonic work for multi-channel audio Jon Yu, 15 eyes William Winant, percussion on STAGE series featuring large-ensemble works of the most influential and innovative composers of the 21st century FRI, JUNE 18, 2021 Voices in Reverberation June 18 Webcast 8 pm Pacific TICKETS Watch On Demand through July 18 In our on STAGE series, we shine a spotlight on West Coast composers to celebrate some of the brightest luminaries from the Bay Area. 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