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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