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
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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 Cahill, Paul Dresher, Ned Rothenberg, and the composer.