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
Tickets are here.

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.

For more information click here.

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.

For more information click here!

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.

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.

For more information click here!

Music from the Fault Zone 

Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present)

Presented by Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

A four-day festival of concerts celebrating the Music Department's extraordinary musical legacy and bringing together musical luminaries from Mills’ past, present and future includes work by: Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Daniel Schmidt, Darius Milhaud, Roscoe Mitchell, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Henry Cowell, Steed Cowart, and more.

NICOLE PAIEMENT conducts Darius Milhaud's La création du monde & L'homme et son désir,conducted by

SARAH CAHILL & KATE STENBERG perform Roscoe Mitchell's Cards in 3D Colors (World Premiere)

STEED COWART conducts Roscoe Mitchell's Distant Radio Tranmission & Sustain and Run. ROSCOE MITCHELL, soloist

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Sunday, March 20, 2022

The Mycos Project makes it debut @ SF Music Day - Herbst Theater

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 magical 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 awareness about climate change through the arts, ecological sciences and indigenous wisdom. Through the medium of fine arts, we are inspired to present information and encourage solutions.

In this project Sazer and Stenberg have created a 30 minute multimedia work with film and live music including artist and educator Kanyon Sayers-Roods, whose focus is bridging the gap between Indigenous and contemporary value systems and Ravinder Sehgal, a San Francisco State University biologist who’s research focuses on the ecology of diseases in birds.

War Memorial Performing Arts Center - Herbst Theater, SF Music Day, Free.
For more information and RSVP click here.

Composer/Improviser Nicole Mitchell is the Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence 2021-2022. Her week long residency will culminate in this concert of her work.

Nicole Mitchell

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Violinist Kate Stenberg, cellist Mary Artmann and pianist Miles Graber team up to play the extraordinary piano trios of Maurice Ravel and Rebecca Clark.

More info soon!

The Mycos Project
includes violinists Kate Stenberg and Irene Sazer who perform together with pre-recorded video and tape.

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