Field Day is CMC’s annual extravaganza of music and community with a school-wide Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
Sponsor a performer or donate online here: https://give.classy.org/FieldDay2023
Field Day 2023’s Performathon will be hosted by our friends and neighborhood partners Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.
Saturday, June 3 from 11am–5pm
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Want another way to get involved? Be a Field Day Volunteer! Email us if you’re interested at mlee@sfcmc.org.
When you attend a CMC event, we encourage you to support local businesses. We’ve compiled a list of 80 recommendations with everything from fancy coffee drinks, to West African Cuisine, to bánh mì, to gelato, to book shops, and many others! GET RECOMMENDATIONS→
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Masks are encouraged but not required. Please be aware that events are subject to change to comply with these protocol. Thank you for helping us keep our communities safe!
CMC’s annual All–School Recital is an all-level student showcase featuring exceptional students from both our Mission and Richmond District Branches. Students are selected by audition based on their progress in relation to the amount of time they’ve been studying on their instrument. This is a CMC community favorite—come cheer on our hardworking students!
Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 4:00pm
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav
290 Dolores St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Free
Masks are strongly encouraged but not required for all attendees. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
When you attend a CMC event, we encourage you to support local businesses. We’ve compiled a list of 80 recommendations with everything from fancy coffee drinks, to West African Cuisine, to bánh mì, to gelato, to book shops, and many others! GET RECOMMENDATIONS→
Sha’ar Zahav is a fragrance-free environment. Please do your best to follow these guidelines when you visit our synagogue building:
For more information on this subject, including why it’s important and a list of Fragrance-Free products, visit eastbaymeditation.org
When you attend a CMC event, we encourage you to support local businesses. We’ve compiled a list of 80 recommendations with everything from from fancy coffee drinks, to West African Cuisine, to bánh mì, to gelato, to book shops, and many others! GET RECOMMENDATIONS→
Open registration for Summer Quarter begins on June 5. New students (or current students that missed the re-registration deadline) should make an appointment with a registrar to enroll in lessons or classes this summer (June 20–August 21, 2023) or fill out the Group class Interest Form online for applicable Classes. To schedule an appointment, please visit the enrollment page, or contact a registrar at (415) 647-6015 (Mission District Branch) or (415) 221-4515 (Richmond District Branch).
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Spark your musical imagination with CMC faculty as they delve into stories about the inspiration and influences that have guided them as professional musicians and teachers at CMC. CMC Sessions: Inspiration & Influences is an eight-part on-line series hosted by CMC Cultural Traditions and Winds/Brass Departments, providing up-close and personal stories about the potent influences and galvanizing experiences that make up the “musical life.” Told through compelling demonstrations, musical examples, and creative tips, the sessions will provide participants with inspiration on their musical journeys.
Meet these talented faculty members:
Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 7pm (PT)
Online via Zoom
FREE
The jazz tradition and its pioneers have greatly influenced Erick Peralta’s musical persona, improvisations, and expressions over the years—and continue to enrich and shape his musical journey. Erick will present a succinct exploration of various, iconic jazz pianists from the 20th century, observing different components of each pianist’s personal improvisational language. Erick will dive into specific artists’ improvisations, breaking down and demonstrating excerpts of their improvisational languages. He’ll share the elements you can draw from these musical pioneers, and how to implement the elements into your own musical language.
This event will be conducted online via video conferencing. REGISTER HERE to receive the link to join, emailed prior to the start of the discussion.
Erick Peralta is a versatile musician with a special appreciation for all styles of music, permitting him to keep open ears for the development of music, while still keeping in mind tradition and history. From an early age, Erick was exposed to various styles of music thanks to his father, such as Latin-Pop, Afro-Peruvian, and Afro Cuban music. Classically trained from 6 years old, he began playing professionally in the year 2005, at the age of 15, then branching out in the San Francisco Bay Area with various Jazz, Rock, Latin Jazz, and Salsa groups. Following his studies at Community Music Center and the Jazzschool in Berkeley, he’s had jazz studies with late pianist Ray Santisi, Laszlo Gardony, Danilo Perez, Tia Fuller, Ed Tomassi, David Santoro, as well as with Papo Lucca from Sonora Ponceña, and Oscar Hernandez of SHO. Now a graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Erick currently resides in the city of San Francisco. Past notable performances include having worked with multi-Grammy winners Alejandro Sanz, Luis Enrique, and Susana Baca; as well as working with artists such as Pedrito Martinez, John Santos, Juan Medrano “Cotito”, La India, Tito Nieves, Bayonics, and Grupo 5, and more.
Erick has taken part performing in various festivals and venues, such as San Jose Jazz Festival, Latin Grammy Awards, Fillmore Jazz Festival, the Independent, The Regency Ballroom, The Fillmore, the Blue Note Napa, San Francisco International Salsa Festival, Berklee Performance Center, Boston Convention Center, the Beantown Jazz Festival, and many more.
Along with performing, Erick works in composing and arranging in Jazz, Pop, and Latin music. Currently he is working on several projects, including his own project featuring original jazz compositions for various ensembles.
Always a strong advocate for music education, Erick forms part of the faculty at Community Music Center, as well as serves as a private music teacher in his home studio, teaching piano in styles such as Jazz, Latin, R&B, and Pop, as well as music theory, composition, and arranging.
People who are interested in this workshop can dive deeper by exploring private lessons and group classes and ensembles.
Last day of Spring Quarter. Make-up week is June 13–18 for instructors that have scheduled make-ups specifically.
Summer Quarter begins June 20, 2023.
A Song of Triumph II: The Diaspora of Black Music
Community Music Center (CMC), is proud to partner with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) to present A Song of Triumph II: The Diaspora of Black Music. This work is developed and co-produced by Maestro Curtis PhD, Department Head of CMC’s Black Music Studies Program. A Song of Triumph II is a celebration of American Black culture (descendants of Alkebulan/African slaves) that has impacted the world and crossed all ethnic and color lines. The musical suite will feature music written and composed by Maestro and The Curtis Family Cnotes and feature talented CMC faculty Michael Mohammed, Clif Payne, Rita Lackey, Ken Little, Jon Jang, Tregar Otton and others to be announced. A Song of Triumph II will share a musical collage of genres – drawing from The Black Church, an historical place of safe haven, where skills, ideals, and faith abounded despite the treachery of slavery. A Song of Triumph II will musically trace the path from Black spirituals developed in the church which gave birth to the blues, barbershop, gospel, jazz, country, early bluegrass, folk, rock and roll, R&B, and funk.
The concert will last approximately 50 minutes and be performed twice, once at 3pm and again at 4pm.
The concert is part of a free community day and Juneteenth celebration at the Museum of the African Diaspora.
We encourage reserving free museum tickets to attend this event. RESERVE HERE
CMC will be closed in observance of Juneteenth. No lessons or classes.
Welcome summer! Summer Quarter 2023 dates are June 20–August 21, 2023. Registration is ongoing.
When you visit a CMC campus, we encourage you to support local businesses. We’ve compiled a list of 80 recommendations with everything from fancy coffee drinks, to West African Cuisine, to bánh mì, to gelato, to book shops, and many others! GET RECOMMENDATIONS→
CMC will be closed on Sundays for the Summer:
6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
