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Musical Grant Program is made possible through the contributions of San Francisco Grants for the Arts | Hotel Tax Fund, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
san francisco friends of chamber musicMGP The Musical Grant Program is designed to support outstanding projects of San Francisco Bay Area professional chamber music ensembles, ensembles with composers, presenters, and individuals with chamber music projects.
21 Grand Arts Group Inc. to present a 60-minute work-in-progress for a 10- Through a competitive process, the program awards grants to creative, well- piece chamber group by Oakland composer Weasel Walter. The performance planned projects that seek to further the artistic, educational, and adminis- will take place at The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland, as part of a new monthly avant-garde series curated and co-presented by 21 Grand.
Adorno Ensemble to present the Gallery Sessions Radio Show, a live radio broadcast concert series with talks by artists, bringing live performances The program is open to applicants with budgets that do not exceed of new music to a broader audience. Presented primarily at art galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, performers present their music in Applicants must reside and/or work in the nine counties of the a larger artistic context, making connections between music, art, literature, Greater San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma) Amy X Neuburg & the Cello ChiXtet to perform a special one-time concert at All applicants must be at least 18 years of age to participate, and be the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco to celebrate their CD release U.S. citizens or hold legal resident permit status.
of The Secret Language of Subways—a song cycle by Neuburg for voice, three A minimum history of at least two public performances over the last two years, and declare a plan for/or a schedule of upcoming perfor-mances.
Ben Goldberg Quintet to commission Ben Goldberg to compose a quintet, Orphic Machine, based on Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Applications may be made in one of four categories: Speculative Poetics, by Allen Grossman. Summa Lyrica is an illumination of the existential and philosophical workings of poetic structure in relation to the development of consciousness through the interaction of art, language, PresenterIndividual with a chamber music project ChamberMix to perform its New and Unusual Music Concert as part of the Grace Lutheran Church Concert Series in Palo Alto and at the Christian Sci- The SFFCM Musical Grant Program is made possible through the contribu- ence Organization at the University in Berkeley. The concert will feature guest tions of San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund, the Clarence E. soprano Christa Pfeiffer in the legendary Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoen- Heller Charitable Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and berg, as well as new works by Bay Area composers Janis Mercer, John Bilotta, Clarinet Thing to commission Beth Custer to compose a suite of new music entitled Buckminsterfullerene for the jazz quartet Clarinet Thing, a chamber 3701 Sacramento Street, PMB 357 - San Francisco, CA, 94118-1705 quartet of jazz clarinetists featuring Sheldon Brown, Beth Custer, Ben Gold- Telephone: (415) 710-0551 Fax: (415) 820-1530 - www.sffcm.org berg, Harvey Wainapel. Each movement will feature a disparate clarinet and will reflect upon Buckminster Fuller’s philosophies and inventions. The work will be premiered and recorded in San Francisco in 2009.
Classical Revolution to present a concert series featuring independent art-ists at alternative venues such as bars, clubs, cafes, and art galleries.
Music at the Mission to present two concerts exploring themes of environ- Composers Inc. to present a concert of the winning compositions of their ment and war. “Music and the Spoken Word” closely weaves drama, speech annual Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award, as well as a 20th-century classic and and music. “WAR” explores works by 21st Century composers borne out of two unusual works featuring saxophones. This performance will include the the horrors and conflicts of WWI and WWII, including Messiaen’s “Quartet eminent Stanford Woodwind Quintet as their guest ensemble.
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet to create high-quality audio and Musica Pacifica to develop a strategic marketing plan in order to support video recordings of a substantial portion of the current original Edmund Welles repertoire over the course of one weekend of performances.
San Francisco Guitar Quartet to support a three-part career development Gojogo to perform live scores to films from the compilation Masters of Rus- platform comprising a fund-raiser, a five-year business plan with a hired con- sian Animation. The music will be collaboratively composed by Gojogo quar- sultant, and the revisionof promotional materials with a new CD.
tet and guitarist Roger Reidlbauer. Additional musicians include Patrick Far-rell on accordion, Tim Strand on drums, and Aaron Novik on bass clarinet.
San Jose Chamber Music Society to present San Francisco-based Tilden Piano Trio (Peter Wyrick cello, June Choi Oh piano, Sarn Oliver violin) and Hemispheres, a World-infused Jazz quintet led by percussionist Ian Dogole, featuring the Northern California premiere of Sean Oliver’s new Piano Trio.
to present a tribute concert, honoring the musical legacy of trumpeter/com-poser Woody Shaw. This special event will take place at the historic Hill- sfSound to celebrate its 10th Anniversary with Small Packages Two: commis- side Club in Berkeley. Musicians include Ian Dogole on global percussion, sioning 10 local composers to write short works inspired by and performed Sheldon Brown on woodwinds, Frank Martin on piano, and Sam Bevan on alongside György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto (1969-1970) at the San Francisco Kyle Bruckmann-Wrack to perform three concerts and lead two free work- Sqwonk to produce its second full length CD, including recent commissions shops for music students with Wrack—an ongoing project in the Creative by composers Dan Becker, Ryan Brown, Ken Thomson, Marc Mellits, Aaron Music tradition, at the intersection between the classical and the jazz avant- Novik, James Holt and Cornelius Boots.
garde. One concert will feature a large-scale new work developed in collabo-ration with local ensemble and new music pioneers ROVA Switchboard Music Festival to present an 8-hour marathon festival bring-ing together an eclectic group of experimentalists and innovators, presenting martha & monica to produce a PR and marketing package including a CD Bay Area composers, musicians, and ensembles, whose music pushes the recorded at Skywalker Ranch. The music will include repertoire from their first boundaries of genre, in a casual “come and go” concert .
three seasons including Beethoven, Carter, Poulenc and Boulanger.
Sounds New to perform Herb Bielawa’s works at a concert honoring his 80th Musae to produce a 5th anniversary celebration concert that redefines the birthday, with the goal to perform new music for a diverse audience.
art of vocal chamber music and reengages audiences with the expressive, multifaceted nature of women’s voices in performance. During this concert, Sunset Concerts to present the Laurel Ensemble as part of the winter/spring the group will premier three original works and will debut six new arrange- 2010 season of Sunset Chamber Music Concerts at Saint Luke’s Church in ments for chamber voices and a bossa nova quintet.
New Esterhazy Quartet to record, edit, produce, and distribute a studio- trumpetsupergroup to hire a publicist and develop promotional materials quality CD recording of Haydn string quartets using original 18th-century including a website with new photos, and video.
handwritten and print sources found in North America. Featured works will include quartets from opus 2, opus 17, opus 20, and opus 77.
Voices of Music to fund one concert set in their annual series–now in its third year–with performances in San Francicso and the East Bay.
Picasso Quartet to coach with local artists and fund concerts in the great-er Bay Area in order to further the artistic development and career of this emerging ensemble.
Quinteto Latino to record, produce, and promote a full-length CD Musica Mexicana Ayer & Ahora: Mexican Music Yesterday and Today of classical music by composers of Mexican origin. With the completion of this project, Quinteto Latino will build on its seven-year track record of performance, pre-sentation, and advocacy of Latin American classical music.
Berkeley Chamber Performances to present intimate chamber music concerts in the East Bay, through programming a diverse range of classical sfSound to invite three well-known international ensembles (the interna- and contemporary works that expand the boundaries of chamber music.
tional nothing, the Le Quan Ninh & Michael Doneda Duo, and the Domenico Sciajno/Gene Coleman/Marina Peterson Trio) to present their own reper- Cançonièr to record the acclaimed ensemble’s medieval concert program, toire, as well as collaborating and creating improvisatory works with sfSound “Brumas est mort,” which delves into the darker aspects of medieval history, on the 2008 sfSound microFestival: New and Improvised Music from San bringing rarely-heard music to life.
Charming Hostess to present Café Salonika, a cycle of modern chamber Sunset Concerts to increase visibility for their chamber music series, by classical compositions based on the folk music of Salonika, honoring the presenting the St. Lawrence String Quartet, during the 2009 season at Saint 85% of Greek Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Luke’s Church in downtown Los Gatos.
Classical Revolution to present the Independent Concert Artist Series, with Teslim to produce Project Tarab: Old and New Music for Folk String Quartet performances by the best musicians from our local music community in featuring violinist/composer Kaila Flexer and multi-instrumentalist/compos- alternative venues such as bars, cafes, and art galleries, venues which are er Gari Hegedus performing new works by Teslim as well as Greek and Turkish accessible to all. Concerts are all free of charge to the public.
repertoire, including compositions by Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma who reside in Greece.
Clerestory to present a program called “Spirit Song.” These concerts, performed in San Francisco and Berkeley, will explore the spiritual, and med- The Lee Trio to complete the commissioning of a piano trio by San Franciscan itative qualitites of music through pieces from the 13th century to the present composer Nathaniel Stookey and present its world premier in San Francisco day (including multiple world premieres). before touring the work internationally.
Composers, Inc. to present a concert of contemporary chamber music featur- The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble to perform two concerts of Schubert’s ing the world premieres of three new works by Bay Area composers Robert Trout Quintet and two commissioned pieces by Yu-Hui Chang and Eric Greenberg, Jeff Miller and Zibouklé Martinaityté.
Wrubble continuing the ensemble’s mission of presenting new music along-side familiar masterworks to demonstrate the connection between old and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble to present “Harpsichord Redux,” a varied pro- new chamber music. This project includes a pre-concert radio broadcast and gram featuring landmark works for harpsichord and chamber ensemble by a composer-led seminar in San Francisco for composers and the public.
Bach and De Falla alongside new chamber works with harpsichord by noted composers Eric Zivian and Dan Becker. The project includes a series of broad- The Nice Guy Trio to present a second season of the Root Exchange concert series. Each concert is a collaborative effort between the Nice Guy Trio and a diverse collection of guest artists from contrasting musical backgrounds. The Les grâces to record and produce their first full length CD with works by three series, which will include many new, original compositions, will culminate composers born in 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, and in a final concert at the De Young Museum featuring all the guest artists to- Liza Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch to support publicity efforts to secure na-tional press coverage for the debut recording by her original jazz ensemble, Bait & Switch.
Musae to release a third album of diverse and compelling vocal music featur-ing unique arrangements, collaborations, and newly commissioned works by Bay Area Composers.

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