Come celebrate the life of Larry Polansky with us ~ including one of his last works for violin and cello
"five songs for kate and vanessa" (Kate Stenberg and Vanessa Ruotolo cello)

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The Earhart Trio in concert playing the piano trios by Auerbach, Brahms, Piazzolla and Clara Schumann at Music by the Mountain in Shasta CA.

Where: Seventh Day Adventist Church12 California 89Mount Shasta, CA, 96067

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20th Anniversary Celebration: Music by the Mountain ~ Opening Gala with the Earhart Trio (Kumiko Uyeda, Kate Stenberg and Mary Artmann)

Where: Axe & Rose Public House 424 Main Street, McCloud CA 96057

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Kate Stenberg performs with pianist Kumiko Ueyda and cellist Mary Artmann the music of Clara Schumann, Lera Aurbach and Regina Harris Baiocchi.

Kate Stenberg performs with the Earhart Trio with pianist Kumiko Ueyda and cellist Mary Artmann ~ the music of Clara Schumann, Lera Auerbach and Regina Harris Baiocchi.

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April in Santa Cruz concert:
Kate Stenberg performs “Eemulnori” by David Evan Jones with pianist Kumaran Arul

and “five songs for kate and vanessa” by Larry Polanksy with cellist Vanessa Ruotolo

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Kate performs at the Other Minds Festival again this year, this time as a member of the newly named Recenia Quartet including Hrabba Atladottir, Ellen Ruth Rose and Vanessa Ruotolo. Composer's from five countries will convene for the 27th Other Minds Festival November 14th - 19th. Recenia will be performing Armenian pianist/composer Artur Avanesov's piano quintet and Mary Kouyoumdjian's compelling work They Will Take My Island, a string octet (including the Friction Quartet) about the life of Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan.

Friday, November 17th
Discussion with composers 7:00 PM
Performance at 8:00 PM
San Francisco Taube Atrium Theater
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Night 3 opens with the first live performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s They Will Take My Island, a string octet about the life of Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan, world and American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov performed by the composer with Recenia Quartet, and a performance of works by American composer Carl Stone by Sarah Cahill, Paul Dresher, Ned Rothenberg, and the composer.

Kala Arts presents Not Apart, Together, an eco-art film screening by The Mycos Project with live original score by Irene Sazer and Kate Stenberg. The evening includes a panel discussion featuring esteemed Ohlone leaders Corrina Gould, Ruth Orta and Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods, along with environmental biologist Ravinder Sehgal and moderated by writer/educator Anna Lappé.

Not Apart, Together is an eco-art film created by Irene Sazer and Kate Stenberg and premiered in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on March 20, 2022 for InterMusic's SF Music Day with generous support from Kate Bermingham and The Civic Arts Commission. The film - a first for the duo - is a collection of photo stills, video footage, original art and original recorded and live music. It celebrates a diversity of voices sharing information, cultural practices and perspectives. Speaking and singing contributors are Mutsun-Ohlone artist and educator Kanyon Sayers-Roods whose focus is bridging the gap between Indigenous and contemporary value systems, Ravinder Sehgal a San Francisco State University research biologist whose research focuses on the ecology of diseases in birds and Cyril Kowo, a graduate student of ecological sciences in Camaroon. The film includes video, photo and art footage by Stenberg and Sazer along with Alan Freedman, Kirstan Price, Debbie Fier, Edwin Hacking.

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The Mycos Project is a collective of multi-media artists, educators and scientists founded by Kate Stenberg and Irene Sazer. Mycos, short for Mycorrhiza, is the symbiotic association between plant roots and fungi. We adopted this name as a metaphor for how all life is dependent on all other life.

Our mission is to expand climate change awareness through the arts, ecological sciences and Indigenous practice. Through the medium of fine arts, we are inspired to present information and encourage solutions.

AN ONLINE REAL-TIME TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE
88 MUSICIANS ON 6 CONTINENTS LIVE!

Performing Poppy@88, a collective composition based on Terry Riley’s Poppy Nogood.

On the occasion of Terry Riley’s 88th birthday, MIT Sounding and ContaQt are set to host a celebratory event that will truly reverberate across the globe. A community of 88 talented musicians hailing from six continents will assemble for an unforgettable virtual concert, paying homage to the legendary composer through a mesmerizing real-time performance of Poppy@88, a collective composition arranged by MIT Sounding curator Evan Ziporyn based on Riley’s 1967 masterpiece, Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band.

Saturday, June 24, 2023 / Midnight (12:00am EST / 4am GMT) Free and open to the public.

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Celebrate the solstice at the Garden of Memory ~ a columbarium walk-through event at the Chapel of the Chimes ~ June 21, 2023 from 5pm-9pm! Come hear dozens of musicians, composers, and sound artists at the annual Garden of Memory summer solstice celebration. 

The Mycos Project is back at the Julia Morgan Chapel of the Chimes this year with Irene Sazer, Erik Pearson and Debbie Feir!

Details will be revealed in the coming months at the Garden of Memory.

Kate completes the recording of David Evan Jones’ Hyperbolic Variations, variation II ~ at UC Santa Cruz.

Stenberg joins Sarah Cahill for this concert at 405 Shrader in San Francisco ~ an All Lou Harrison concert. This concert will include Harrison’s early work Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936).

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Stenberg teams up with Sarah Cahill for this all Lou Harrison concert featuring an early and obscure work by Lou Harrison ~ Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936), solo piano, the Stenberg|Cahill Duo performing the Grand Duo and the Varied Trio featuring percussionist Matthew Richmond.

120 College St., Asheville NC

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MIT presents an evening of music celebrating composer Pamela Z’s MIT McDermott Award residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The concert will feature a selection of Z’s works for solo voice and electronics and chamber works, including Presence - a piece that the Stenberg|Cahill Duo commissioned with support from New Music USA and premiered in the Bay Area in 2022.

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Kate Stenberg will premiere the final variation - recently completed - to complete his work Hyperbolic Variations by David Evan Jones. Hyperbolic Variations was composed for Stenberg for Violin and Disklavier.

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Join the piano trio of Miles Graber, Evan Kahn and Kate Stenberg at the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series in San Francisco.

660 California St., San Francisco CA 94108.

Other Minds Festival 26 ~Thursday, October 13 - Saturday, October 15, 2022

Our final night, October 15th will continue with the world premiere of a newly commissioned work for the duo of Kate Stenberg and Sarah Cahill by Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen and a piece for moving marimbas by Kui Dong. We’ll celebrate the conclusion of our festival with a US premiere of UK composer Dominic Murcott’s masterwork The Harmonic Canon, which will be performed by the Seattle-based arx duo on a half-ton bell designed specifically for the work.

Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA
Panel Discussions @ 7pm | Concerts @ 8pm
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Stenberg | Cahill Duo will perform a concert of works that will feature Pamela Z's Presence, a trio for violin (Kate Stenberg), piano (Sarah Cahill), voice & electronics (Pamela Z), and interactive media at the Dresher Ensemble Studio. The piece, which will explore presence (and absence) in its many senses – physical, incorporeal, demeanor, carriage, presence of mind, will work with the three women’s physical forms, focus and stage presence.

Works by Somei Satoh, Roscoe Mitchell and Pamela Z.

This recording is a near-unheard early composition by legendary American Maverick composer Lou Harrison, Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936), performed by violinist Kate Stenberg. This short piece was written by the precocious composer when he was barely out of high school, still a teenager, but already a year deep into studies under Henry Cowell, studies that occurred during Cowell’s stint in San Quentin State Prison. The piece was entirely unheard from its composition until it was uncovered by violinist Gary Beswick, who gave the piece its premiere in 1963. It wallowed in the obscurity of juvenilia until composer and Frog Peak Music’s Larry Polansky transcribed the piece from its original manuscript, which found its way to Stenberg.

Hear violinist Kate Stenberg along with Irene Sazer (5 string violin), Erik Pearson (electric guitar) and Debbie Feir (pan drums and percussion) for an evening of improvised music at the beautiful Julia Morgan Columbarium at the Garden of Memory.

Garden of Memory

Join us to celebrate the solstice again, June 21, 2022 from 5pm-9pm at Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes! Welcome back! This year’s concert will take into account concerns about covid and safety. TICKETS WILL BE CAPPED AT 2000 – less than half the previous concert in 2019. PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. There will be both fewer audience goers, and fewer performers spaced throughout the building in the large, more ventilated spaces. ONLINE SALES ONLY. NO SALES AT THE DOOR. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garden-of-memory-at-chapel-of-the-chimes-tickets-346886164857 The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, sound artists, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. The artists, many of whom are well-known to Bay Area audiences, to be featured at this event in 2022 include Kitka, Sarah Cahill, Pamela Z, Beth Custer with Will Bernard & Ellen Gronnigen, Dylan Mattingly, The Living Earth Show with Guillermo Gallindo, Carl Stone, John Benson, Paul Dresher, Randy Porter, Orchestra Nostalgico, Dan Plonsey & Friends, Robert Nance, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, Duo B, Theresa Wong, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, David Gibbons, Anne Hege, Kate Stenberg & Irene Sazer, and others. Check this website as the list of performers is updated. A map and some of the schedules will be posted here, as well.

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The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

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The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

More information.

The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

More information.