CMC Presents! features outstanding music and educational events such as “Concerts with Conversation” with internationally acclaimed artists (in partnership with SF Performances), concerts by our award-winning faculty, master classes, clinics, and special CMC productions such as our annual Performathon, “Field Day at CMC.”
Come dance, listen, hang out and experience smoking Cuban charanga music at Community Music Center – it’s free! CMC’s own Cuban Charanga Ensemble will be performing as part of the Mission Arts Performance and Project (MAPP). There will be two sets of swinging Cuban dance music, from Danzón to Timba.
6:30 pm – 7:00pm Salsa Dance Class
7:00 pm – 9:30pm CMC Cuban Charanga Ensemble (Afro Cuban Dance Music)
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Praised for his rich tone and powerfully thrilling voice, bass-baritone Dashon Burton has proven himself to be a voice to be reckoned with, winning international competitions and performing with opera companies and orchestras across the country and in Europe. His talents make him equally at home performing Bach and Mozart to Stockhausen, as well as touring with the Grammy Award-winning contemporary vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. Burton’s repertoire includes classical and sacred music as well as programming with deeper political meaning.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
SCHEDULE:
8-9pm: All level class with CMC Faculty Sonja Riket
9pm-12am: Milonga Tango social dance – Live music TBA
Please, bring snacks and refreshments to share! This is a fragrance-free event.
Every 2nd Saturday of the month, CMC and Tango dance faculty member Sonja Riket host a monthly Milonga (Argentine Tango social dance gathering) with a drop-in class and dancing to Tango music from the Golden Era and beyond. This Milonga series will include live music and dance workshops/performances by local and international Tango guests.
Enjoy dancing in the beautiful Victorian concert hall with smooth wooden floor and outdoor patio! Come to listen and watch or join in the dance. All ages are welcome!
More info: Sonja Riket 415.661.1852; www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar (flute faculty, voice faculty, and choir conductor) presents It Takes a Village with The Bernal Hill Players, which is comprised of Jennifer Peringer, piano; Rachel Condry, clarinet; Annelise Zamula, saxophone; Matylda Rotkiewicz, piano; and Sharon Wayne, guitar. It Takes a Village is a concert of chamber music from duos to quintets by North and South American composers in diverse styles, including classical, folk, tango, contemporary, and experimental. The emphasis of the program is on multiculturalism, women’s empowerment, and celebrating our vibrant local musical community.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
2019-2020 marks the 25th Anniversary season of the Shenson Faculty Concert Series at Community Music Center. This series was established by the Shenson Foundation to support CMC Faculty as performing artists and ensure their work on stage is shared and celebrated in our community. Each year, the Shenson Foundation sponsors four free community concerts for CMC faculty music projects.
It Takes a Village
Sunday, February 23 at 4:00pm
PROGRAM:
Zina’s Circle (Pauline Oliveros)
Compón Cortito (Eduardo Gamboa)
“Adagio” from Sonata No. 1 (Russell Peterson)
Blue Third Pieces (Libby Larsen)
Selections from Souvenirs Op. 28 (Samuel Barber)
“Scherzo” from Postcards of San Francisco (Erik Pearson)
(intermission)
From Unknown Silences
Divergence Heading Towards Unison (Pauline Oliveros)
Mountain Songs (Robert Beaser)
Zarabandeo (Arturo Márquez)
La Muerte del Angel (Astor Piazzolla)
The Bernal Hill Players and friends:
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, flute
Rachel Condry, clarinet
Annelise Zamula, saxophone
Sharon Wayne, guitar
Jennifer Peringer and Matylda Rotkiewicz, piano
The Bernal Hill Players started out in 2008 as a flute, clarinet, and piano trio. Over the years we have invited different people to join us on viola, cello, violin, percussion, guitar and saxophone. We play classical chamber music, and music infused with flavors of other genres such as jazz, Latin, experimental, and folk. We often play newly composed music, and sometimes commission new works from both Californian and Mexican composers. www.bernalhillplayers.com.
Enjoy a day of music and community at Field Day! Field Day is CMC’s annual open house and Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
The festivities include the two-day Performathon featuring CMC students and faculty, and open house with lesson demos, instrument petting zoo & more!
Registration is now open. Register HERE.
Saturday, March 21, 2020 from 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Performathon with performances by CMC students, faculty, staff, and friends
Free
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
Sunday, March 22, 2020 from 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Performathon with performances by CMC students, faculty, staff, and friends
Free
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
Sunday, March 22, 2020 from 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Open house with free classes, lesson demos, and the Instrument Petting Zoo.
Faculty Concert TBA
Learn more about Field Day, and how you can participate here.
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
Enjoy a day of music and community at Field Day! Field Day is CMC’s annual open house and Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
The festivities include the two-day Performathon featuring CMC students and faculty, and open house with lesson demos, instrument petting zoo & more!
Registration is now open. Register HERE.
Saturday, March 21, 2020 from 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Performathon with performances by CMC students, faculty, staff, and friends
Free
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
Sunday, March 22, 2020 from 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Performathon with performances by CMC students, faculty, staff, and friends
Free
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
Sunday, March 22, 2020 from 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Open house with free classes, lesson demos, and the Instrument Petting Zoo.
Faculty Concert TBA
Learn more about Field Day, and how you can participate here.
Performers will be raising money for tuition assistance. Donations are gratefully accepted to support CMC scholarships and programs.
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Cuban pianist and composer Alfredo Rodríguez has become a globally recognized Grammy nominee with multiple critically acclaimed releases on Mack Avenue Records since being discovered and produced by the great Quincy Jones. Rodríguez is leading the way for the new wave of Cuban musicians, including past collaborators Ibeyi and Pedrito Martinez, and exposing the rich musical history of Cuba to a wider audience.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
Guitar and songwriting faculty member Larry Dunn is putting together a concert celebrating four of CMC’s own singer/songwriters performing their original compositions in folk, country, blues, R&B, and bluegrass styles. They will be performing songs solo (individually) in a round-robin fashion, much like a Nashville singer/songwriter circle. Each artist will play four songs. Expect backstories, anecdotes, and even a bit about the songwriting process as relates to the song an artist performs. In addition to music by Dunn, Erik Pearson, Maestro Curtis, and Anne Carol Mitchell will be performing original music.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
2019-2020 marks the 25th Anniversary season of the Shenson Faculty Concert Series at Community Music Center. This series was established by the Shenson Foundation to support CMC Faculty as performing artists and ensure their work on stage is shared and celebrated in our community. Each year, the Shenson Foundation sponsors four free community concerts for CMC faculty music projects.
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Described by the Boston Globe as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” American tenor Nicholas Phan is increasingly recognized as an artist of distinction. Praised for his keen intelligence, captivating stage presence and natural musicianship, he performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies.
Over the last decade, Gabriel Kahane has quietly established himself as a songwriter all his own, grafting a deep interest in storytelling to a keen sense of harmony and rhythm. His major label debut, The Ambassador, a study of Los Angeles seen through the lens of ten street addresses, was hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the year’s very best albums”.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
Michael Long, violin faculty member—along with guest performers Eiko Mitani, piano and Ben-han Sung, piano—will be performing Music in Times of Resistance. This classical music concert highlights music written in or about extreme political circumstances and oppression. This program includes composers who not only dealt with dictators and political tumult, but who also used their compositions to confront or address this in some way, such as Poulenc, Shostakovich, and Schulhoff.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
2019-2020 marks the 25th Anniversary season of the Shenson Faculty Concert Series at Community Music Center. This series was established by the Shenson Foundation to support CMC Faculty as performing artists and ensure their work on stage is shared and celebrated in our community. Each year, the Shenson Foundation sponsors four free community concerts for CMC faculty music projects.
