Saturday, November 9th, 2013 @ Old First Concerts

Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ Old First Concerts

Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ Old First Concerts

SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra.

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:

“MOVING DAY”

Saturday May 4th, 2012 at 8 pm Lick- Wilmerding High School Auditorium
755 Ocean Ave  San Francisco, CA 94112

$20 General, $5-15  on sliding scale for Seniors (65 and older) and Full Time Students

Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (707-474-7273).

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4, 2013 —- Spring has sprung, change is in the air, and it’s Moving Day, as The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra travels across town to Lick-Wilmerding Auditorium (744 Ocean Avenue), 8pm, May 4, to present a program that’s guaranteed to move, appropriately beginning with Harry Bernstein’s evocative sextet, Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You.  Next, a yin-yang of toes tapping and not, in Davide Verotta‘s imaginative and infectious Dances for Orchestra, followed by Michael Kimbell’s beautifully paradoxical Die Zeit Geht Nicht (Time Does Not Move), inspired by the poem of Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) and a far-flung 1821 Alpine melody from Wilhelm Müller.  Keeping in a phantasmagorical realm, John Beeman‘s Sprites will electrify in its depiction of meteorological phenomenon, while Michael Cooke‘s Incomplete Thoughts: A Passacaglia engages in fantastic improvisational and notational adventurings.

The program concludes in Martha Stoddard‘s ever-changing Gait Changes, a study in how to musically meander and modulate over space and time, featuring pianistic travels and travails under the wandering fingers of soloist Allan Crossman.  Cross-town, cross-country, ‘cross the universe… it’s Moving Day.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Lick- Wilmerding High School Auditorium 755 Ocean Ave San Francisco, CA 94112
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May 4th, 2013
TICKETS: $20 General, $5-15  on sliding scale for Seniors (65 and older) and Full Time Students

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:

“ADVENTURES AROUND THE LAKE WITH A UNICORN”

Saturday October 20th, 2012 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109

$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2012 —-  Fall is upon us, and The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra invites you on a scenic/sonic autumnal tour to places mystical and phantasmagorical, in advance of All Soul’s Day.  At 8pm, October 20, 2012, in Old First Church, the ensemble will present Adventures Around the Lake with a Unicorn, featuring the premieres of Lisa Scola Prosek‘s Overture to “L’Avventura”, Allan Crossman‘s Two Walks (Lake Merced and Lake Merritt), and John Bilotta’s Thurber Country, where mythical animals run rampant.  Also electrifying the scene will be Rondo a la Pole Dance, concluding a performance of Mark Alburger‘s Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp (for the Garvey Family Musicians) and Davide Verotta‘s exotic Dances to Mytilini.  Rounding out this surreal harvest outing will be that strange eight-petal flower Octandre, by Edgar Varese — the 1923 shocker that still is guaranteed to raise the hairs on many a Halloween head.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday October 20th, 2012
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Saturday, October 20th, 2012 @ Old First Concerts

Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ Lick- Wilmerding High School Auditorium

SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra.

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:

“10TH-ANNIVERSARY GALA”

Saturday June 9th, 2012 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109

$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 9, 2012 —- The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra is the only orchestra in the world founded and directed by, as well as centered on the works of, living composers. At 8pm, June 9, 2012, the ensemble will present its 10th-Anniversary Gala, featuring the San Francisco and world premieres of Mark Alburger‘s Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp (written for the Garvey Family Musicians), John Beeman‘s Collage (Garden and Fire Ribbon, on texts of Carla Brooke), Michael Kimbell’s Concertino for Clarinet (with the composer as soloist), Sheli Nan’s “Saga” Overture, Samuel Ostroff’s Academy, William Severson’s The Mystic Trumpeter (Walt Whitman), Martha Stoddard‘s Points of Reference, and Davide Verotta‘s Solar Wind II. Also on the program will be two other birthday homages: Igor Stravinsky’s Greeting Prelude and the first movement of John Cage’s notorious 4’33″, celebrating the 130th and 100th birthdays of their respective composers.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday June 9th, 2012
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:

“THE DARK SERENADE”

Saturday October 15th, 2011 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
and
Sunday October 16th, 2011 at 8 pm Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA

$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office and at the door for Chapel of the Chimes

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2011 —- The days are growing shorter, the economy is not improving, and it’s time for The Dark Serenade. Join the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, on either side of the Bay — at 8pm, October 15 (Old First Church, San Francisco) or 16 (Chapel of the Chimes) — in a haunted landscape of works by Philip Freihofner, David Graves, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, Davide Verotta and Mark Alburger.

Freihofner sets the mood in Carmilla, a beautiful post-minimalist setting of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu’s short story of vampires and women, featuring Lisa Scola Prosek.    This talented soprano-composer will then showcase her own luminous Night at the Kremlin excerpt entitled The Goldfish Pond, where world-renowned tenor John Duykers will hold forth as Winston Churchill on Stalinesque situations.

Keeping to matters historically ominous, Verotta’s Facing Chaos illuminates a passage from Seneca the Younger’s Thyestes (“Trembling are our hearts, lest all things fall shattered in fatal ruin . . .”) in a juxtaposition of aggressive Indian talas with plangent basal melodies.  Such contrasts are perhaps even more extreme in the grave Graves Amaranthine Silence, where animated contrapuntal complexities are counterpoised with various pre-recorded “silences” from gardens, restaurants, and parking garages.

Alburger’s Regime Change takes the terror of Ancient and Contemporary civilizations through a kaleidoscope of found musics, sung by Scola Prosek and contralto Olivia Flanigan, as a prelude to Jones’s signature over-the-top outpourings in Graveyard, where the orchestra will be augmented by bouzouki and tombstones.  In the spirit of Erling Wold’s In the Stomachs of Fleas, resoundingly presented a few concerts back, be prepared for Haloweenic smoke-and-mirrors. Fog.  Strobe lights.  Maybe even a small explosion….

Be afraid.  Be amazed.  And prepare for The Dark Serenade.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday October 15th, 2011
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students
UPCOMING SFCCO CONCERTS: Saturday June 9th, 2011 at Old First Church & Sunday June 10th at Chapel of the Chimes

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 @ Old First Concerts

Sunday, October 16th, 2011 @ Chapel of the Chimes

Saturday, June 9th, 2012  @ Old First Concerts

SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra.

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:

“LOST THINGS FOUND”

Saturday June 25th, 2011 at 8 pm
Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2011 —- The remote you misplaced, the tune you can’t quite remember, the life you may have lived.   You never know what you might find at the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra’s Lost Things Found, 8pm, Saturday, June 25, at Old First Church, San Francisco — in musical items by John Beeman, Allan Crossman, Bernard Herrmann, Loren Jones, Sam Ostroff, Lisa Scola Prosek, William Severson, Martha Stoddard, and Davide Verotta.

Among the places where lost objects will be found are the Mt. Eytan Gabriel Caves, where Jones will guide two young pianists through beautiful and treacherous treasures, and perhaps even A Simple Trifle, as offered in a string trio by Severson. A cached Collage of Beeman (with soprano Maria Mikheyenko) will usher in will usher in the Twilight Zone of Bernard Herrmann’s score to Little Girl Lost, featuring viola d’amorist Roland Kato accompanied by quartets of flutes and harps, conducted by John Kendall Bailey.

Verotta will pianistically explore in Imaginations, while Stoddard leads other musical search parties in Ostroff’s earnest Before You Read, Scola Prosek’s intriguing Churchill in the Bath (showcasing tenor John Duykers), and her own diverting Windsong Variations.  The final excursion of the evening will take listeners and vocalists searchingly across an ocean of the avant and traditional in Crossman’s sing-along Loch Lomond, conducted by Mark Alburger.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday June 25th, 2011
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students
UPCOMING SFCCO CONCERTS: Saturday October 15th, 2011 at Old First Church

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:

“ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL“

Saturday September 25th, 2010 at 8 pm
Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students

Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 20, 2010 —-  What is reality?  Sentient beings clamoring for existence, the wind whistling through leafy vegetation, the silence and noise of this stony planet.  Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral — a tour of the Earth’s scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek and Mark Alburger.

The latter’s Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations is a dark, Orwellian spin on creatures great and small, including a visual presentation of surrealistically-altered YouTube videos.  In biological distinction, Jones will offer Banyan: an aural giving-tree of multicultural musical delights.  Answering this will be a revival of Riley’s celebrated minimalist-improvisatory anthem In C, in all of its crystalline and granitic splendor.

Also along for the journey are Michael Cooke’s deeply-felt Love Letters; Lisa Scola Prosek’s vibrant Piano Sonata; a retrospective work of the late, great Jorge Liderman.  John Kendall Bailey will join Alburger in the zoomusicological tour-guiding responsibilities.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday September 25th, 2010
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students
UPCOMING SFCCO CONCERTS: Saturday June TBD, 2010 at Old First Church

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 @ Old First Concerts

Saturday, June 25th, 2011 Season Finale @ Old First Concerts

SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra.