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SUMMARY:Merlin Coleman and Amy X Neuburg present multi-channel audio works
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URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/merlin-coleman-and-amy-x-neuburg-present-multi-channel-audio-works/2026-05-01/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T200000
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SUMMARY:Merlin Coleman and Amy X Neuburg present multi-channel audio works
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URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/merlin-coleman-and-amy-x-neuburg-present-multi-channel-audio-works/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Morning Ragas performed byIndradeep Ghosh (violin)Sudhakar Vaidyanathan (tabla)
DESCRIPTION:Where the Bow Meets the Soul – A rare concert Morning Ragas performed by virtuoso North Indian violinist Indradeep Ghosh with Sudhakar Vaidyanathan on tabla. \nJoin us for a unique opportunity to hear an intimate recital of Hindustani morning ragas in the Dhrupad [devotional vocal music] Style\, Baaj\, from the Maihar tradition. This is the tradition that gave us such revered artists as maestros Ustad Allaudin Khan\, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan\, Pandit Ravi Shankar\, and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. \nIndradeep Ghosh has performed and been celebrated worldwide. He is one of only a few musicians who play Hindustani (North Indian) classical music on the violin. Indradeep performs on a unique custom five-string violin/viola with eight sympathetic/resonating strings (modeled after other traditional Indian instruments like the sitar and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle)\, which gives a richer tone and reverberant effect. \nThis concert offers the rare opportunity to hear morning ragas at the appropriate time of day and in an intimate setting that replicates the long tradition of baithak (sitting) where ragas were traditionally performed in private at the home of a patron or in the royal court to an audience passionate about the music. In recent years\, particularly since the rise in global popularity of Indian music in the 1970s\, many performers have shifted the focus of the music from a leisurely exposition of melodic aesthetics to more rhythm-heavy performances aimed at general audiences. With this recital\, Indradeep will highlight the more traditional melodic\, improvisational\, and meditative aesthetics that are at the spiritual core of the music. \nThe program offers both a full raga performance (beginning with an extended alap or non-rhythmic exposition) and concludes with several shorter semi-classical forms that typically draw on traditional folk melodies from diverse rural Indian traditions. We hope to introduce this centuries-old tradition to new listeners and to delight those already familiar with it. Of course\, chai will be served along with Indian snacks and sweets. \nBiographies \nIndradeep Ghosh has performed throughout the world at venues including the 10th Asia Festival in Barcelona\, SXSW music festival at Austin\, USA\, Learn Quest Music Festival\, Boston\, USA\, Tansen-Tyagaraja Music and Dance Festival\, Rajahmundry\, India Festival Du Bout Du Monde\, France\, the YOMAD Festival in Croatia\, Yoga-Vidya Music Festival in Germany\, to name a few. He has performed throughout Europe\, including Germany\, France\, Austria\, Luxembourg\, Spain\, Denmark\, Croatia\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, Switzerland\, and has toured all over the USA. \nHe has collaborated with several Western musicians such as Grammy-winning Kora player Mama Dou Diabate\, world-famous rock band drummer Steve Smith\, Jazz Organ Monster Tony Monaco\, and versatile Flutist Pedro Eustache\, to name a few. \nHe has to his credit many Classical and Fusion Music albums. He is the only Indian Violinist to release the first-ever commercial VIOLA (Bass Violin) album titled “Tribute to Miyan Tansen on Viola”. He has also contributed to the album\, Melodic Intersect: One Vision\, which won the Akademia Music Award in January 2016 from Los Angeles. \nHe has also composed new ragas such as Ganapati\, Indradhanush\, and Hamsavahini\, which have gained enormous appreciation and popularity from both Indian and global listeners. \nSudhakar Vaidyanathan began his training in tabla under Shri Satish Tare at the age of 8. He has been continuing his training with Padma Shri Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri for the past 10+ years. He is a well established accompanist and soloist in the Bay Area. He has had the fortune of performing at many prestigious venues and festivals such as Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco)\, BRM Ragas Live Festival\, Festival of Tabla\, and is a regular performer at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael\, CA and across the Bay Area. He has also collaborated closely with the Chitresh Das Institute\, playing multiple shows with their dance company across America \n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/morning-ragas-by-indradeep-ghosh-violin-and-eman-hashimi-tabla/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sarah Cahill celebrating Terry Riley"Ninety Trips Around the Sun"
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the ninetieth birthday year of Terry Riley\, Sarah Cahill performs some of his remarkable music. \nThe program will include Keyboard Studies\, Be Kind to One Another\, The Walrus in Memoriam\,Fandango on the Heaven Ladder\, and The Great Beauty\, along with Circle Songs by Danny Clay and Shade Studies by Sam Adams\, both composed in honor of Terry Riley’s eightieth birthday in 2015. \nSarah Cahill’s concert is the debut of our new “88+” concert series\, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century piano repertoire and world premieres\, and is supported by the Amphion Foundation and individual donors. Next on the series is Clara Yang [Saturday\, May 16]. \nSarah Cahill\, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times\, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. She has recently performed at the Metropolitan Museum\, at the Detroit Institute of Arts\, and an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. She has worked with Terry Riley for more than thirty years and has recorded his music\, with Regina Myers\, on a boxed set of albums titled “Eighty Trips Around the Sun.” \nCahill’s latest project is The Future is Female\, an investigation and reframing of the piano literature featuring more than seventy compositions by women around the globe\, from the Baroque to the present day\, including new commissioned works. Recent and upcoming performances of The Future is Female include concerts at The Barbican\, Metropolitan Museum\, Carolina Performing Arts\, National Gallery of Art\, Carlsbad Music Festival\, Detroit Institute of Arts\, University of Iowa\, Bowling Green New Music Festival\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, North Dakota Museum of Art\, Mayville State University\, the EXTENSITY Concert Series’ Women Now Festival in New York\, and the Newport Classical Music Festival. Cahill also performed music from The Future is Female for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series. \nSarah Cahill’s discography includes more than twenty albums on the New Albion\, CRI\, New World\, Tzadik\, Albany\, Innova\, Cold Blue\, Other Minds\, Irritable Hedgehog\, and Pinna labels. Her three-album series\, The Future is Female\, was released on First Hand Records between March 2022 and April 2023. These albums encompass 30 compositions by women from around the globe\, spanning the 17th century to the present day\, and include many world-premiere recordings. \nCahill’s radio show\, Revolutions Per Minute\, can be heard every Sunday evening from 6 to 8 pm on KALW\, 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory and is a regular pre-concert speaker with the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. \nTickets\nGeneral Admission : $25\nPWYC : $10
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/sarah-cahill-celebrating-terry-riley-ninety-trips-around-the-sun/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Clara Yang : Ex Machina (piano and projected media)
DESCRIPTION:Centered around the piano—a machine of sound and expression—it reflects on how technology shapes both artistic experience and human identity. The project invites audiences to rethink the boundaries between human and machine\, using music to explore the machine as both an artistic medium and a philosophical idea. \nVisual art for Ex Machina was created by acclaimed new media artist Xuan. Renowned composers Philip Glass\, Reena Esmail and Christopher Cerrone’s ground breaking works are presented alongside innovative commissioned works by Liliya Ugay\, Allen Anderson\, Stephen Anderson\, Lee Weisert\, and Phil Young\, and Clara Yang. One of America’s top rock guitarists Yvette Young and Clara Yang created a new work titled Conception\, vividly portraying the emergence of AI consciousness. \nEx Machina will be presented on May 11\, 2026 as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival! \nClara Yang’s concert is the second in our new “88+” series\, which focuses on 20th- and 21st-century piano repertoire and world premieres\, and is supported by the Amphion Foundation and individual donors. Sarah Cahill opens the series on May 9. \n \nChinese-American pianist Clara Yang has been praised for her “breathtaking technical prowess” and “probing emotional depth.” She has performed at leading venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall\, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing\, and Madrid’s National Auditorium. She has appeared on major series such as Carolina Performing Arts and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. \nShe has performed as a soloist with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy and Long Yu\, and with orchestras such as the European Union Youth Orchestra\, Pacific Symphony\, and the North Carolina Symphony. \nEqually at home in classical\, contemporary\, and interdisciplinary work\, Yang has collaborated with artists across genres and premiered Chen Yi’s Piano Concerto Four Spirits\, written for her. She has also performed in The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes and developed interdisciplinary projects\, including Ex Machina. \nHer recordings have received international acclaim\, including a Global Music Awards Gold Medal for her album Folding Time. She has been featured in major media outlets and served as a reviewer for YoungArts and a panelist for New Music USA. \nYang is Head of Keyboard Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds degrees from Eastman\, Yale\, and USC Thornton.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/clara-yang-ex-machina-piano-and-projected-media/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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