Hear Together: A Free Daylong Outdoor Piano Festival

Presented by Crowden Music Center

A RETURN TO LIVE MUSIC: DAY-LONG OUTDOOR PIANO CONCERT AT CROWDEN MUSIC CENTER

Featuring pianists Allegra Chapman, Tammy Hall with singer Leberta Loral, Marcos Silva, Dylan Mattingly, Elizabeth Dorman, Sarah Cahill, Monica Chew, and Robert Fleitz

HEAR | TOGETHER is a celebration of the return of live music safely, in the open air, and the diverse range of pianists and composers in the Bay Area. Presented by a consortium of non- profit performing arts organizations -- Alternating Currents, Crowden Music Center, Contemporaneous, New Music Bay Area, and Ross McKee Foundation -- the event will be an outdoor showcase for remarkable Bay Area pianists and composers and Crowden students, culminating in the brilliant Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field, a two-hour solo piano piece by Bay Area composer Dylan Mattingly.

HEAR | TOGETHER is a free, ticketed event with tickets to each of the five concert performances. Tickets must be reserved in advance; walk-ins will not be accepted. This event will adhere to all State and County guidelines for outdoor seated and live events, including required masks and social distancing. To ensure the safety of performers and audience members, proof of vaccination or negative results of Covid test within three days will be required.

HEAR | TOGETHER is an all-day piano extravaganza, from 10am to 7 pm, offering audiences a safe opportunity to hear concert performances in person. Each pianist will perform a 45-minute set, with 15-minute breaks (the exception being Mattingly's culminating two-hour piece, performed by pianist Robert Fleitz). Listeners, all socially distanced and masked, can hear a range of music, from Brazilian jazz, American songbook standards, and classical masterworks to recent music by Fred Onovwerosuoke, Frederic Rzewski, Reena Esmail, Mary Watkins, and many others.

Free; Tickets must be reserved in advance; walk-ins will not be accepted.

 

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Crowden Music Center

Crowden Music Center

1475 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
United States

Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, CA, serves more than 12,000 Bay Area music lovers of all ages each year with educational programming and concerts that emphasize the collaborative art of chamber music. Rich musical learning experiences are available through two educational divisions: The Crowden School, a coeducational private school for grades three through eight, and Crowden’s education offerings for the broader community, which provide music instruction to students of all ages and levels of experience, teaching over 1,400 community students each year. Crowden enhances and supports the musical life of the Bay Area in myriad ways, including free and low-cost concert series (always free for children), public master classes and talks by prominent guest artists, music education outreach programs in local public schools, a facility rental program for fellow music non-profits, and partnerships with numerous arts organizations.