Cahill-Myers Duo :: 88+ Piano Series

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Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers open our 88+ Contemporary Piano Series (more information below) with five works that span forty years of music for piano duo. At the heart of the evening is Theresa Wong’s Bodywork, a new piece that brings the pianists together at one keyboard. Cahill and Myers previewed an excerpt at the Mendocino Music Festival this summer (Photo by Ellen Fullman). In Oakland, they give the world premiere of the complete work.

Meredith Monk’s percussive Folkdance opens the program, followed by Juan Sebastián Cardona-Ospina’s Canciones para el incendio and Eleanor Alberga’s Two-Piano Suite. After Bodywork, the evening closes with a familiar melody heard through fresh ears as David Borden revisits the Beatles’ The Fool on the Hill in a set of variations.

Sarah Cahill, piano
Sarah Cahill has commissioned and premiered more than seventy works for solo piano. Her project The Future Is Female brings together music by women composers from the Baroque era to the present, including new works she commissioned. Among them is Theresa Wong’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees. Sarah Cahill’s full biography

Regina Myers, piano
Regina Myers is a Bay Area pianist who founded New Keys in 2004 as a concert series for adventurous piano music. Now an ensemble, New Keys invites composers to explore what the piano can do. Myers has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the William Winant Percussion Group. With Sarah Cahill, she recorded Terry Riley’s four-hand piano music for Eighty Trips Around the Sun. Regina Myers’s full biography

Theresa Wong, composer
Theresa Wong is a Bay Area composer, cellist, and vocalist whose music brings composition and improvisation together. In her own performances, she explores how the sound of her voice can merge with the cello. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, Wong wrote Bodywork for Cahill and Myers, who jointly commissioned the piece. Theresa Wong’s biography

Photo by Ellen Fullman

88+ Contemporary Piano Series

Saturday, January 30, 2027
   Clara Yang performing works composed by Esmail – Weisert – Anderson – Yang — Ugay — Young — Glass — Cerrone
Saturday, March 20, 2027 and Sunday, March 21, 2027
   Hadley McCarroll performing Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano
Saturday, April 24, 2027
   Vicki Ray & Aron Kallay performing works composed by Mattingly – Dresher – Luther Adams
Saturday, May 22, 2027
   Keisuke Nakagoshi performing works composed by Bates – Feldman – S. Adams – Barber

Location: Dresher Ensemble Studio, 2201 Poplar Street Oakland, CA United States