Other Minds 17 Festival of New Music

Concert Three
Saturday, March 3

featuring the Magik*Magik Orchestra

On the final evening of OM 17, John Kennedy and Finland's Lotta Wennäkoski offer new takes on the chamber ensemble: Kennedy, who each spring conducts the Spoleto Festival's contemporary music programs, presents the world premiere of a new work for mixed chamber quartet, plus a percussion duo for recycled materials. He also appears onstage conducting the Bay Area's collective Magik*Magik Orchestra in Wennäkoski's touching Nosztalgiaim for chamber orchestra.

Tyshawn Sorey returns to the stage for a solo set on both drumset and percussion. His skills as both a composer and performer have led to collaborations with Steve Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, Joey Baron, Butch Morris, Vijay Iyer, Dave Douglas, and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, all by the age of 30, to studies with Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan, and now to the PhD program at Columbia University in New York.

Recent Rome Prize and Berlin Prize winner and UC Berkeley professor Ken Ueno presents the premiere of Peradam, a new work for Del Sol String Quartet with video, commissioned by Other Minds. Ueno's stated mission is "to champion sounds that have been overlooked or denied so that audiences reevaluate their musical potential." His remarkable vocabulary of beatings and overtones combines here with scratches, whispering bow scrapes, and vocalizations by the quartet members, to evoke the eponymous stone—first used in the French Surrealist novel Mount Analogue, a curved crystal so clear that it is only revealed to those who seek it "with sincere desire and true need."

A panel discussion will take place at 7pm, followed by the concert at 8pm. A reception will follow the concert.

About the Festival
Now in its 17th year, the annual Other Minds Festival of New Music invites nine of the most innovative artists from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area for a four-day residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, and three days of concerts, panel discussions, and symposia in San Francisco. Known for featuring illustrious guest performers, a significant number of world premieres, and productions that incorporate new technologies and multidisciplinary collaborations, the Festival brings together composers who represent all points of the musical spectrum and push the creative possibilities of their respective disciplines. The Festival has also recently added a Fellowship program and concert for emerging composers, helping to nurture the most promising "other minds" of the future. The Los Angeles Times has called the OM Festival “the premier new music festival on the West Coast.”

• Venue: Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
• Date: Sat March 3, 2012 8:00pm
• City: San Francisco
• Email: otherminds@otherminds.org
• Price Range: Standard Seating: Single Concerts $35 General, $30 JCCSF Members, $25 Students; 3-Concert Pass $89 General, $77 JCCSF Members, $64 Students. Premium Seating: Single Concerts $45 General, $40 JCCSF Members; 3-Concert Pass $115 General, $102 JCCSF Members
• Tickets: JCCSF Box Office, (415) 292-1233. Box Office hours M-F 12-7pm, Sat. 12-5 pm.

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