Sunday, May 15, 2011
2:00-3:30 pm, Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center: Concert
4:00-6:00 pm, Menlo-Atherton High School classrooms: Workshop

Tickets: $10 general admission; FREE for students with ID and SUHSD staff.

Join us as virtuosic Bay Area sfSound members Christopher Jones and Kyle Bruckmann present an intimate glimpse into captivating works of the past 60 years for oboe, piano, and electronics through performances and a special moderated audience-interactive discussion. The programme will include works by twentieth and twenty-first century masters Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Earle Brown, Harrison Birtwistle, and Brian Ferneyhough, as well as an original improvisation.

The workshop will focus upon extended instrumental techniques, performer/electronics interaction, and indeterminate notation strategies.

Saturday, April 09, 2011
2:00-3:30 pm, Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center: Concert
4:00-6:00 pm, Menlo-Atherton High School classrooms: Workshop

Tickets: $10 general admission; $5 students with ID; free for Sequoia Union High School District students and staff.

Versatile and innovative Berkeley-based Italian composer, performer, and scholar Luciano Chessa presents an exciting and varied program in this unique Peninsula engagement.  The program will include Joan La Barbara’s Hear what I feel, the premiere of Sylvano Bussotti’s Variazioni Chessa (commissioned by the performer), and original works for piano and video, realized in collaboration with visual artist and Stanford professor Terry Berlier.

Workshop activities will include constructing/re-conceptualizing instruments and creating collaborative pieces that relate to the "syn-aesthetics" of Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art of Noises Manifesto and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1921 Manifesto of Tactilism.