Nov
17
7:00 PM19:00

Recenia Quartet performs @ Other Minds Festival 27

Kate performs at the Other Minds Festival again this year, this time as a member of the newly named Recenia Quartet including Hrabba Atladottir, Ellen Ruth Rose and Vanessa Ruotolo. Composer's from five countries will convene for the 27th Other Minds Festival November 14th - 19th. Recenia will be performing Armenian pianist/composer Artur Avanesov's piano quintet and Mary Kouyoumdjian's compelling work They Will Take My Island, a string octet (including the Friction Quartet) about the life of Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan.

Friday, November 17th
Discussion with composers 7:00 PM
Performance at 8:00 PM
San Francisco Taube Atrium Theater
For tickets click here.

Night 3 opens with the first live performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s They Will Take My Island, a string octet about the life of Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan, world and American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov performed by the composer with Recenia Quartet, and a performance of works by American composer Carl Stone by Sarah CahillPaul DresherNed Rothenberg, and the composer.

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Aug
2
to Aug 6

Adult Chamber Music Workshop (Crowden School)

This five-day intensive workshop directed by Phyllis Kamrin features daily coached rehearsals, as well as daily master classes and independent rehearsal time. 

Crowden’s renowned chamber music faculty share their passion and expertise as they guide students through a deepened development of ensemble playing skills and music appreciation, culminating in a concert for family and friends on the workshop’s final day. 

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Jun
23
9:00 PM21:00

Terry Riley ~ 88th Birthday Global Celebration / June 24, 2023 Midnight (12:00am EST / 4am GMT)

AN ONLINE REAL-TIME TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE
88 MUSICIANS ON 6 CONTINENTS LIVE!

Performing Poppy@88, a collective composition based on Terry Riley’s Poppy Nogood.

On the occasion of Terry Riley’s 88th birthday, MIT Sounding and ContaQt are set to host a celebratory event that will truly reverberate across the globe. A community of 88 talented musicians hailing from six continents will assemble for an unforgettable virtual concert, paying homage to the legendary composer through a mesmerizing real-time performance of Poppy@88, a collective composition arranged by MIT Sounding curator Evan Ziporyn based on Riley’s 1967 masterpiece, Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band.

For more information

Saturday, June 24, 2023 / Midnight (12:00am EST / 4am GMT)
Free and open to the public

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Jun
21
5:00 PM17:00

Garden of Memory Celebration with the Mycos Project

Celebrate the solstice at the Garden of Memory ~ a columbarium walk-through event at the Chapel of the Chimes ~ June 21, 2023 from 5pm-9pm! Come hear dozens of musicians, composers, and sound artists at the annual Garden of Memory summer solstice celebration. 

The Mycos Project is back at the Julia Morgan Chapel of the Chimes this year with Irene Sazer, Erik Pearson and Debbie Feir!

Details will be revealed in the coming months at the Garden of Memory

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Apr
22
7:00 PM19:00

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center - All Lou Harrison

Stenberg teams up with Sarah Cahill for this all Lou Harrison concert featuring an early and obscure work by Lou Harrison ~ Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936), solo piano, the Stenberg|Cahill Duo performing the Grand Duo and the Varied Trio featuring percussionist Matthew Richmond.

For more information click here.
120 College St., Asheville NC

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Apr
19
5:30 PM17:30

MIT celebrates Pamela Z with performance of "Presence"

MIT presents an evening of music celebrating composer Pamela Z’s MIT McDermott Award residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The concert will feature a selection of Z’s works for solo voice and electronics and chamber works, including Presence - a piece that the Stenberg|Cahill Duo commissioned with support from New Music USA and premiered in the Bay Area in 2022.

For more information click here

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Nov
15
7:00 PM19:00

Kala Arts presents "Not Apart, Together" Film Screening with Live Music & Panel Discussion

Kala Arts presents Not Apart, Together, an eco-art film screening by The Mycos Project with live original score by Irene Sazer and Kate Stenberg. The evening includes a panel discussion featuring esteemed Ohlone leaders Corrina Gould, Ruth Orta and Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods, along with environmental biologist Ravinder Sehgal and moderated by writer/educator Anna Lappé.

Not Apart, Together is an eco-art film created by Irene Sazer and Kate Stenberg and premiered in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on March 20, 2022 for InterMusic's SF Music Day with generous support from Kate Bermingham and The Civic Arts Commission. The film - a first for the duo - is a collection of photo stills, video footage, original art and original recorded and live music. It celebrates a diversity of voices sharing information, cultural practices and perspectives. Speaking and singing contributors are Mutsun-Ohlone artist and educator Kanyon Sayers-Roods whose focus is bridging the gap between Indigenous and contemporary value systems, Ravinder Sehgal a San Francisco State University research biologist whose research focuses on the ecology of diseases in birds and Cyril Kowo, a graduate student of ecological sciences in Camaroon. The film includes video, photo and art footage by Stenberg and Sazer along with Alan Freedman, Kirstan Price, Debbie Fier, Edwin Hacking.

For RSVP and Information click HERE

The Mycos Project is a collective of multi-media artists, educators and scientists founded by Kate Stenberg and Irene Sazer. Mycos, short for Mycorrhiza, is the symbiotic association between plant roots and fungi. We adopted this name as a metaphor for how all life is dependent on all other life.

Our mission is to expand climate change awareness through the arts, ecological sciences and Indigenous practice. Through the medium of fine arts, we are inspired to present information and encourage solutions.


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Oct
15
8:00 PM20:00

Other Minds Festival 26 ~ The Stenberg|Cahill Duo premieres Lars Petter Hagen

Other Minds Festival 26 ~Thursday, October 13 - Saturday, October 15, 2022

Our final night, October 15th will continue with the world premiere of a newly commissioned work for the duo of Kate Stenberg and Sarah Cahill by Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen and a piece for moving marimbas by Kui Dong. We’ll celebrate the conclusion of our festival with a US premiere of UK composer Dominic Murcott’s masterwork The Harmonic Canon, which will be performed by the Seattle-based arx duo on a half-ton bell designed specifically for the work.

Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA
Panel Discussions @ 7pm | Concerts @ 8pm
Tickets are here

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Sep
24
7:30 PM19:30

Pamela Z's new work: "Presence" with the Stenberg|Cahill Duo

Stenberg | Cahill Duo will perform a concert of works that will feature Pamela Z's Presence, a trio for violin (Kate Stenberg), piano (Sarah Cahill), voice & electronics (Pamela Z), and interactive media at the Dresher Ensemble Studio. The piece, which will explore presence (and absence) in its many senses – physical, incorporeal, demeanor, carriage, presence of mind, will work with the three women’s physical forms, focus and stage presence.

Works by Somei Satoh, Roscoe Mitchell and Pamela Z

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Sep
23
9:30 AM09:30

CD Release: Lou Harrison's Unaccompanied Sonata for Violin

This recording is a near-unheard early composition by legendary American Maverick composer Lou Harrison, Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936), performed by violinist Kate Stenberg. This short piece was written by the precocious composer when he was barely out of high school, still a teenager, but already a year deep into studies under Henry Cowell, studies that occurred during Cowell’s stint in San Quentin State Prison. The piece was entirely unheard from its composition until it was uncovered by violinist Gary Beswick, who gave the piece its premiere in 1963. It wallowed in the obscurity of juvenilia until composer and Frog Peak Music’s Larry Polansky transcribed the piece from its original manuscript, which found its way to Stenberg.

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Jun
21
5:00 PM17:00

The Garden of Memory - The Mycos Project (Sazer, Pearson, Stenberg, Feir)

Hear violinist Kate Stenberg along with Irene Sazer (5 string violin), Erik Pearson (electric guitar) and Debbie Feir (pan drums and percussion) for an evening of improvised music at the beautiful Julia Morgan Columbarium at the Garden of Memory.

Garden of Memory

Join us to celebrate the solstice again, June 21, 2022 from 5pm-9pm at Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes! Welcome back! This year’s concert will take into account concerns about covid and safety. TICKETS WILL BE CAPPED AT 2000 – less than half the previous concert in 2019. PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. There will be both fewer audience goers, and fewer performers spaced throughout the building in the large, more ventilated spaces. ONLINE SALES ONLY. NO SALES AT THE DOOR. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garden-of-memory-at-chapel-of-the-chimes-tickets-346886164857 The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, sound artists, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. The artists, many of whom are well-known to Bay Area audiences, to be featured at this event in 2022 include Kitka, Sarah Cahill, Pamela Z, Beth Custer with Will Bernard & Ellen Gronnigen, Dylan Mattingly, The Living Earth Show with Guillermo Gallindo, Carl Stone, John Benson, Paul Dresher, Randy Porter, Orchestra Nostalgico, Dan Plonsey & Friends, Robert Nance, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, Duo B, Theresa Wong, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, David Gibbons, Anne Hege, Kate Stenberg & Irene Sazer, and others. Check this website as the list of performers is updated. A map and some of the schedules will be posted here, as well.

For more information click HERE

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Jun
12
3:00 PM15:00

Maybeck Studio ~ Graber/Artmann/Stenberg Piano Trio

The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

For more information click here!

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Apr
30
8:00 PM20:00

405 Shrader Concerts ~ Graber/Artmann/Stenberg Trio

The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

More information

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Apr
29
8:00 PM20:00

405 Shrader Concerts ~ Graber/Artmann/Stenberg Trio

The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

More information


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Apr
22
8:00 PM20:00

Old First Concerts ~ Graber/Artmann/Stenberg Trio

The piano trios of Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Dmitri Shostakovich were composed within a ten-year period surrounding WWI and express the deeply emotional currents that reflect this transformative time. Kate Stenberg, Mary Artmann and Miles Graber come together through their blend of passion for chamber music and friendship.

This is a hybrid concert - Old First seating is limited to 100 tickets, General Admission: $25
No Senior or Student priced tickets for this event.
To donate and watch live stream of this event, please select View Live Stream Only.

For more information click here!

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Apr
21
8:00 PM20:00

Roscoe Mitchell's premiere of CARDs in 3D Colors, The Stenberg|Cahill Duo

Music from the Fault Zone 

Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present)

Presented by Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

A four-day festival of concerts celebrating the Music Department's extraordinary musical legacy and bringing together musical luminaries from Mills’ past, present and future includes work by: Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Daniel Schmidt, Darius Milhaud, Roscoe Mitchell, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Henry Cowell, Steed Cowart, and more.

NICOLE PAIEMENT conducts Darius Milhaud's La création du monde & L'homme et son désir,conducted by

SARAH CAHILL & KATE STENBERG perform Roscoe Mitchell's Cards in 3D Colors (World Premiere)

STEED COWART conducts Roscoe Mitchell's Distant Radio Tranmission & Sustain and Run. ROSCOE MITCHELL, soloist

For more information click here

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Mar
20
5:00 PM17:00

The Mycos Project ~ Stenberg and Sazer @ SF Music Day

The Mycos Project makes it debut @ SF Music Day - Herbst Theater

The Mycos Project is a collective of multi-media artists, educators and scientists founded by Kate Stenberg and Irene Sazer. Mycos, short for Mycorrhiza, is the magical symbiotic association between plant roots and fungi. We adopted this name as a metaphor for how all life is dependent on all other life.

Our mission is to expand awareness about climate change through the arts, ecological sciences and indigenous wisdom. Through the medium of fine arts, we are inspired to present information and encourage solutions.

In this project Sazer and Stenberg have created a 30 minute multimedia work with film and live music including artist and educator Kanyon Sayers-Roods, whose focus is bridging the gap between Indigenous and contemporary value systems and Ravinder Sehgal, a San Francisco State University biologist who’s research focuses on the ecology of diseases in birds.

War Memorial Performing Arts Center - Herbst Theater, SF Music Day, Free.
For more information and RSVP click here! 

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Sep
24
8:00 PM20:00

Darius Milhaud Concert at Mills College

The great, influential, and prolific French composer, Darius Milhaud, taught at Mills College from 1940 to 1971. The Mills Music Department presents an annual concert honoring Milhaud’s music in programs including works by related composers.

This year’s Darius Milhaud Concert on September 24 focuses on these pieces by Milhaud: Ségoviana, op.366, guitar; Sonatine pastorale, op.383, violin; Sonata, op.437, harp; Quatre romances sans paroles, op.129, piano; and is augmented by these works for solo percussion by former Mills faculty composers: Roscoe Mitchell’s Bells for New Orleans; excerpt from Theme Park, by Alvin Curran; Solo to Anthony Cirone, by Lou Harrison; and Epimoric Quiverings by Chris Brown. Performers are pianist Belle Bulwinkle, harpist Jennifer Ellis, violinist Kate Stenberg, guitarist David Tanenbaum, and percussionist William Winant.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

The Concert will be hosted IN-PERSON and via LIVE STREAM.
Registration is required. In-Person Capacity is limited.
Masks are required of all guests, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status, indoors on the Mills College campus.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darius-milhaud-concert-mills-music-now-tickets-166362963101

For more information, please visit:
https://performingarts.mills.edu/programs/mills-music-now/index.php

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Jun
13
5:00 PM17:00

Music on the Hill Concerts has been rescheduled for June 13th @ 5PM, PST

Due to an unresolvable internet connection issue, we could not present this concert truly live, as we intended. We are terribly sorry about this, but we hope you join us June 13th for a YouTube premiere of the concert. The performers restarted the concert and recorded it in its entirely for your viewing and listening pleasure! — Music on the Hill

Music on the Hill concert series: a live streamed event

Kate Stenberg joins pianist Ava Soifer along with cellist Monica Scott playing works by Piazzolla, Shostakovich and Dvorak.

For this concert go to the Music on the Hill website here

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