"Quest: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers" Saturday, January 20, 2024, 7:30 p.m. in person at the Center for New Music and online on YouTube. BUY TICKETS for in-person attendance or RSVP to watch (free) livestream
Pre-concert composer talk at 7 p.m.
The latest edition of E4TT's annual favorite, featuring:
WORLD PREMIERE:
"Spent," a commissioned piano trio about the climate crisis by emerging Ukrainian-American composer Tamara McLeod. Listen to her "Beton Brut. C'est Formidable!" for string quartet:
2023 CALL FOR SCORES:
Works chosen from E4TT's latest Call for Scores forLuna Composition Lab alums: Madeline Clara Cheng, Sage Shurman, and Isabelle Tseng.
PLUS
"Blue Hills of Mist" (2006) for violin and piano by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962):
"Elegia a Paul Robeson" (1987) for piano trio by Cuban-American Pulitzer Prize composer Tania Leon" (b. 1943). Listen to E4TT play her "Tumbao":
"Fulgurance" (2021) by E4TT 2022 Call for Scores composer Jessica Mao (b. 1998). Listen to E4TT perform her "Tarantisms":
"Soy" (2018), for soprano and piano by Argentinian Latin Grammy composer Claudia Montero (1962-2021). Listen to E4TT perform her "Buenos Aires en tres":
"Quest" (2013) for piano by 2019 OPERA American Discovery Grant for Female Composers recipient Niloufar Nourbakhsh (b. 1992). Listen to it arranged for harp:
"Imaginary Pancake" (2020) for piano by Bay Area-native Gabriella Smith (b. 1991):
"An April Day" (1949) for soprano and piano by Black composer Florence Price (1887-1953). Listen to her
"Microphages" (1999/2019) for piano by Arizona State Univ professor Alex Temple (b. 1983):
E4TT with violinist Jennifer Redondas
E4TT musicians and composers will be going to Cityscape San Francisco after the concert. Stop by and say hello!
E4TT's 2023/24 season is sponsored, in part, by grants from the Ross McKee Foundation and SF Grants for the Arts. E4TT's UPLIFT project and 2023/24 season are supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.
