Please join us in celebrating the memory of Andrew Speight's life on Saturday, April 8, 2023 in Knuth Hall at 2pm. Watch this space for more details on performances and guest speakers. Want to participate? Please reach out to music@sfsu.edu with questions and for a survey link to sign up with.
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San Francisco State University students, faculty and alumni are coming together for several events this month supporting women’s rights in Iran. Admission is free.
Professor Persis Karim, director of the San Francisco State Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, organized the events with Music Professor Hafez Modirzadeh. Karim says the events are a tribute to the “brave women, girls and youth of Iran and, more importantly, students, who continue to fight for their rights even in the midst of severe state violence.”
Masters recital includes works by living composers Bernard Andres, Brandee Younger and Alannah Thornburgh, as well as original works by Amelia Romano, featuring her chamber ensemble, Luminance.
Hallowe'en themed works for two pianos performed by Inara Morgenstern and Victoria Neve.
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Sponsored by the School of Music.
Guitar department recital with members from the teaching studio of Larry Ferrara.
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Sponsored by the School of Music.
Jeonghyeon Joo explores aesthetics and the world beyond the action of bowing, questioning what is beyond the body, sound, and movement of herself and her instrument. It first draws the aesthetic meaning of the bowing itself by putting a microscopic lens to the physicality of the haegeum and the performing body. It then captures the moment of connection and disconnection between them and expands its perspective to the environment and socio-cultural context surrounding the haegeum and body.
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Sponsored by the School of Music.
Bacchetto/Sabey duo present the final versions of their new works for piano and electronics and Jeonghyeon Joo performs new works for haegeum by Ben Sabey.
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Sponsored by the School of Music.
San Francisco premiere of George Crumb's Metamorphoses Book I, Ten Fantasy-Pieces (after celebrated paintings), for amplified piano. Performed by SF State piano professor, Dr. Victoria Neve.
The set features various extended piano techniques, including direct strumming and plucking of strings, the use of harmonics, and special pedal effects.
George Crumb (1929-2022) cites Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition as inspiration, "the idea of transforming visual art into sound. . .I sometimes wonder if this sort of artistic reincarnation would even be possible without the application of a kind of musical 'black magic.
Anthony Peña recital. Classical Music: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms intertwined with Afro-Cuban repertoire. Anthony will also debut three original pieces.
The School of Music presents the Uta Suzuki BM Flute Recital.