Post-Symposium
House Party

After the Symposium, join ADORNO in an intimate house concert on February 8th 3pm at the lovely home of Patty Page and Jeff Mogul in Menlo Park.

We’ll have lots of food and drink, and of course, some performances of selected works from the symposium as well as works from our past seasons. Read more

SF State Symposium Overview

Download detailed schedule here.

SF State Symposium

ADORNO at SF STATE

First Annual International Symposium on

Feb 6 & 7

ADORNO will join SF Sound members, the Afiara String Quartet, and other guest artists in a Richard Festinger Retrospective at 8p on February 6th, and a concert for winners from the Composition Competition at 1pm on February 7th. Read about the composers whose works we will be performing here at Pith Music. Check the schedule for the Symposium events.

The eventful two-day affair will also include a “Carter and Messaien at 100″ concert, and panel discussions “Expanding the Concert Hall in a Digital Age” and “Elliot Carter and Oliver Messaien at 100″.

Find ticketing info here:

http://musicdance.sfsu.edu/compsymposium#tickets

Sam Nichols

Sam Nichols

Sam Nichols is a composer who lives and works in Northern California. His music has been performed by eighth blackbird, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, among other groups. Recent projects include Monkey Fist for cellist David Russell, and Crank for pianist Amy Dissanayake. New projects include pieces for several Bay Area ensembles, including Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. He is also working on solo works for percussionist Chris Froh, cellist David Russell, and pianist Karen Rosenak. Currently, he’s working on a commission from Guerilla Opera for their 2009-10 season: Unnamed: or, the Unnamed.(Guerilla Opera is a collective of young Boston-based singers and instrumentalists dedicated to promoting a unique theatre-oriented brand of chamber opera featuring a repertoire of newly commissioned works.)

An ongoing collaboration with sculptor Robin Hill has produced two multi-media installations. One of these, Kardex, an interactive piece, was featured at Another Year in LA, the CSU Stanislaus Art Gallery, epicenter07 (the annual exposition of the University of California Digital Arts Research Network) and at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Davis, CA.

He attended Vassar College (BA, 1994) and Brandeis University (MA 1999; PhD 2006), where he studied composition and theory. His composition teachers include Ross Bauer, Eric Chasalow, Annea Lockwood, David Rakowski, Richard Wilson and Yehudi Wyner. For the past six years he has worked as a lecturer in the UC Davis Music Department; he also teaches in the Technocultural Studies Department.

For information visit:
Sam Nichols’ site

Painter Michael Tole: “Wealth and Class”

If you missed ADORNO’s “Elastic Band” concert at Cain Schulte, you can still see works of painter Michael Tole of Texas. Cain Schulte Gallery is located at 101 Townsend in San Francisco. Showing until February 21, Tole’s work revolves around “class and wealth” certainly something that is on people’s minds these days… Read more

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