The Bay Area debut of the Dresher Ensemble's newest chamber music grouping—the Double Duo—features a program of challenging and exciting contemporary acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instrument compositions by Paul Dresher, Sam Adams, and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features Dresher performing on electric guitar and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the Quadrachord, long-time Ensemble percussionist Joel Davel on the miraculous Marimba Lumina, virtuoso violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and pianist Lisa Moore, the noted contemporary music soloist and founding and long-time member of the Bang on A Can All Stars. Performing in various combinations of duo, trio and quartet, the Double Duo's repertory highlights very recent works by Martin Bresnick (Bird As Prophet) and Sam Adams (John Adams' very talented young son) composed specifically for Bentley Pollick and Moore, Dresher and Davel, performing their invented instrument duo Glimpsed From Afar (recently performed twice with the Los Angeles Philharmonic) as well long-time favorite Dresher compositions such as the trio Double Ikat, the duo Elapsed Time and a new quartet version of Chorale Times Two.
- Venue: Old First Church
- Date: Fri June 4, 2010 8:00pm
- City: San Francisco
- Price Range: $14 to $17
- Tickets: (415) 474 1608
Sun June 6, 2010 4:00pm
Old First Church
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Program
Performers
Karen Bentley Pollick
violin
Lisa Moore
piano & electric keyboard
Joel Davel
percussion & marimba lumina
Paul Dresher
quadrachord & electric guitar
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SFCV Previews
May 24, 2010
This is not your grandmother’s chamber music.
Sure, there are some similarities. When the Double Duo, the newest chamber music grouping of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, takes the stage at Old First Concerts on June 4 and 6, you’ll see concerts designed to explore both the range of conventional instruments doing unconventional pieces and the combination of conventional and unconventional instruments.
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