CALENDAR
Recording @ Oktaven audiO in NYC
December 4, 2017
Recording Robert Honstein's Middle Ground ~ music for violin and electronics commissioned by Nancy Karp + Dancers and Kate Stenberg for Memory/Place on February 12, 2017.
Oktaven audiO in New York City. Future release date TBD.
Carleton Street Studio Fundraising Concerts
November 18, 2017
In concert with violinist extraordinaire, Irene Sazer. This concert will also include a concert version of the recently premiered "Middle Ground" written for Kate Stenberg and Nancy Karp + Dancers by Robert Honstein.
We support organizations working on behalf of human rights for all citizens in our democracy. Enjoy a monthly hour of acoustic music by gorgeous artists and contribute at the same time.
De Young Museum with Roscoe Mitchell & Leonardo Drew
September 8, 2017
This special performance will pair the orchestral works of Roscoe Mitchell with Leonardo Drew’s site-specific installation Number 197 as backdrop, engaging similar ideas of the interplay between structure and improvisation in composition. An iconoclastic figure in contemporary music whose work ranges from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music, Mitchell is an internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator dubbed one of the most important musicians in jazz by The New York Times.
Crowden Adult Chamber Music Summer Workshop
Kate Stenberg coaches at the Crowden Chamber Music for Adults
Director and violist with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Phyllis Kamrin
This five-day intensive workshop features daily coached rehearsals, as well as daily master classes and independent rehearsal time. Each participant plays in two ensembles, delving into chamber music’s most beloved pieces. Crowden’s renowned chamber music faculty share their passion and expertise as they guide students through a deepened development of ensemble playing skills and music appreciation, culminating in a concert for family and friends on the workshop’s final day. Group placement is based on audition. Pre-formed groups are welcome and encouraged to apply.
Nirmita Composer's Institute in Bangkok, Thailand
Student composer's concert and discussion at the Nirmita Composer's Workshop
Nirmita Composer's Insitute at the Silparkon University in Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/our-work/projects/nirmita-composers-workshop/
Nirmita Composer's Institute in Bangkok, Thailand
July 19, 2017
Faculty Performance at the Nirmita Composer's Workshop
at the Nirmita Composer's Insitute at the Silparkon University in Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/our-work/projects/nirmita-composers-workshop/
Mendocino Music Festival: Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison
July 11, 2017
The Mendocino Music Festival celebrates Lou Harrison!
Stenberg, Cahill and Winant team up to play the Varied Trio and along with other music by maverick composer, Lou Harrison including the famed Grand Duo for violin and piano.
Preston Hall
44867 Main Street
Mendocino, CA 95460
For more information go here
Old First Concerts
July 7, 2017
The Stenberg/Cahill Duo plays the Grand Duo of Lou Harrison and Sarah Cahill performs the West Coast premiere of Luciano Chessa's Green Sea as well as the premiere of Ricky Crews' 40 Years After China Gates, Kyle Hovatter's track, , Tania Leon's Ritual, and Ann Southam's Glass Houses No. 5.
1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Composer Mazdak Khamda at the Center for New Music
June 25, 2017
This concert will feature original works by Mazdak Khamda, who will joined by noted Bay Area performers in presenting a variety of chamber, solo and electronic music. The program will cover some of Mazdak’s earlier works such as “Moods” for solo piano, along with recent pieces such as “A Soul’s Journey” (world premiere) - dedicated to Stenberg for piano and violin and “Tied Up” for oboe and electronics. Noted performers on the program include violinist Kate Stenberg, oboist Glenda Bates, cellist Vanessa Ruotolo, and Friction Quartet which will premiere Kahmda’s newest string quartet. The program will also include works for solo piano by composers Garret Shatzer and Lucas Floyd.
Center for New Music is located at 55 Taylor Street, about half a block north of where Golden Gave Avenue meets Market Street.
Garden of Memory with Real Vocal String Quartet
June 21, 2017
Garden of Memory at the Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland CA
Join me once again at this fantastic event as I sit in with the Real Vocal String Quartet following our week as finalists in the Savvy Chamber Competition. We will play a selection of our favorite tunes and improvisations!
New Music Bay Area presents Garden of Memory, the annual summer solstice concert at the Chapel of the Chimes, a beautiful columbarium and mausoleum designed by Julia Morgan. Performers you can hear during this popular event include the Real Vocal String Quartet, Henry Kaiser, Robin Petrie, Zachary James Watkins, Gyan Riley, Samuel Adams and Helen Kim, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Amy X Neuburg, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Dylan Mattingly, Laura Inserra, Maggi Payne, Pamela Z, Juraj Kojs and Paula Mathusen, Sarah Cahill and many more. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Garden of Memory "a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor." Pick up a map with performer locations, or just wander freely, discovering a variety of acoustic and electronic music in the four hours before twilight. This year will feature a musical memorial to the legendary Don Buchla. www.gardenofmemory.com
Savvy Chamber Competition with Real Vocal String Quartet
I will be joining the Real Vocal String Quartet at the Savvy Chamber Competition
University of South Carolina
"String quartet, string band, vocal quartet, jaw-dropping improvising world-music collective….pick a box and Real Vocal String Quartet will think outside it, with style. RVSQ plays original songs and unique arrangements that pay tribute to music from Appalachia to Kenya to Brazil, with sparkling improvisation that impresses and moves."
Night Muse: Lou's Centennial Continues...
May 14, 2027
Night Muse: Lou's Centennial Continues...
At the Peace United Church of Christ in Santa Cruz CA
New Music Works presents a program of Lou Harrison works including the famed Varied Trio (1987) for Violin, Piano and Percussion. Kate Stenberg joins with pianist, Sarah Cahill and percussionist, William Winant.
Other works include: Solstice, Incidental Music for Corneille's Cinna, works for guitar and percussion and choral works (White Ashes, Haiku and In Praise of Orpheus. Other musicians to play: Linda Burman-Hall, Larry Reed, John Schneider, Cid Pearlman Performance dance, Ariose Singers, nMw Ensemble and Philip Collins.
For more Information click here
Full: Harrison @ BAMFA
May 10, 2027
May 2017 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lou Harrison. Please join us for an evening of music by the groundbreaking American composer, including several of his gorgeous works for gamelan, presented by an all-star gathering of local performers and ensembles.
The phenomenal bass vocalist Richard Mix returns to BAMPFA to sing Harrison's rarely-performed Political Primer. Violin virtuoso Kate Stenberg is soloist in a performance of the globe-spanning Music for Violin and Various Instruments, European, Asian, and African. And Gamelan Encinal plays several of Harrison's celebrated gamelan works, plus a new piece by composer Daniel Schmidt.
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/full-harrison
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA
Pamela Z & Donald Swearingen's "Pascal's Triangle"
Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen ~ performing a 4-night run of
Pascal’s Triangle
with Kate Stenberg and cellist, Hannah Addario-Berry
Royce Gallery @ 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
A new work of electroacoustic music and live interactive media inspired by the beauty, ubiquity, and indispensability of mathematics – Pascal’s Triangle uses sampled text and sounds, voice & electronics, spatialized multi-channel audio, and interactive video. The movements of this evening-length work will employ numbers, patterns, and structures derived from mathematical principles – vignettes that evoke the poetic elegance of numbers.
Stenberg | Cahill Duo @ The Presidio Sessions
March 24, 2017
The Presidio Sessions through the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and the Presidio Trust present the Stenberg | Cahill Duo in concert at the Presidio Officer's Club.
Friday Night @ 6:00PM
50 Moraga Ave., San Francisco
Free of charge, seating reservations with Eventbrite
For more information go to The Presidio Sessions
West Edge Opera "Snapshot"
February 26, 2017
Appearing with West Edge Opera in their new series Snapshot February.
"Snapshot is your chance to hear excerpts from new operas by both emerging and established Northern California composers in intimate concert settings. After an overwhelming response to our call for scores, eight composers' works were selected for Snapshot's inaugural year."
Each program will be performed once in Berkeley at the David Brower Center 2/26 and once in San Francisco (at the Bayview Opera House 2/26).
for tickets go here
West Edge Opera "Snapshot"
February 25, 2017
Appearing with West Edge Opera in their new series Snapshot February.
"Snapshot is your chance to hear excerpts from new operas by both emerging and established Northern California composers in intimate concert settings. After an overwhelming response to our call for scores, eight composers' works were selected for Snapshot's inaugural year."
Each program will be performed once in Berkeley at the David Brower Center 2/26 and once in San Francisco (at the Bayview Opera House 2/26).
for tickets go here
"Memory/Place" Nancy Karp + Dancers
February 12, 2017
Kate Stenberg joins forces with Nancy Karp + Dancers along with cellist Gianna Abondolo and pianist Sarah Cahill
Performing two world premieres by Robert Honstein and Kui Dong
Including music from the Grand Duo by Lou Harrison
At the Center for Dance - ODC Dance Theater in San Francisco.
For tickets: go here
"Memory/Place" Nancy Karp + Dancers
February 11, 2017
Kate Stenberg joins forces with Nancy Karp + Dancers along with cellist Gianna Abondolo and pianist Sarah Cahill
Performing two world premieres by Robert Honstein and Kui Dong
Including music from the Grand Duo by Lou Harrison
At the Center for Dance - ODC Dance Theater in San Francisco.
For tickets: go here
"Memory/Place" Nancy Karp + Dancers
February 10, 2017
Kate Stenberg joins forces with Nancy Karp + Dancers along with cellist Gianna Abondolo and pianist Sarah Cahill
Inspired by the current era of human mass migration, Artistic Director Nancy Karp is making a full evening work in three parts, the first two movements set to newly commissioned scores by composers Kui Dong and Robert Honstein, respectively, and the third to the late Lou Harrison’s " Grand Duo" for piano and violin. Six dancers will be accompanied by three Bay Area musicians to include cellist Gianna Abondolo, pianist Sarah Cahill and violinist Kate Stenberg. MEMORY/PLACE matches the music of the 3 composers with the work of Bay Area artist Thekla Hammond, one of whose large-format abstract paintings will serve as a primary element in the evening’s scenic design combined with stage decor and lighting by designer Jack Carpenter.
At the Center for Dance - ODC Dance Theater in San Francisco.
For tickets: go here