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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-14/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:THE STINSON TRIOMITCH STAHLMANN
DESCRIPTION:THE STINSON TRIO is the restless electric improvising union of drummer TIM BULKLEY\, guitarist DAVID DVORIN\, and reeds player RANDY MCKEAN. Using drum and cymbal\, amps and effects\, high and low saxes/clarinets\, they fashion instant jigsaw superstructures from composite layers of sound and rhythm. The Stinson project came about after trombonist and fellow Flounder band member Cliff Childers’ unexpected death in 2023\, which had a profound impact on the remaining members Bulkley\, Dvorin\, and McKean. Cancelling all upcoming engagements\, they entered a period of soul-searching and reflection\, ultimately spending a long weekend playing and recording in a cabin located in Marin County’s seaside community of Stinson Beach. The result is their collection Stinson\, a creative meditation on folding grief into the joy of communion and connection. They create a world of eclectic improvisation\, spontaneous composition\, and thoughtful rumination\, one in which clinks and clanks become swirls and sustenance\, thud and bluster become howl and lament. Through the act of making music\, the three reaffirm their collective bond\, which shines and fuels their debut release. Stinson will be released by Cure-All Records in November 2024. \nMITCH STAHLMANN does play around. His often frenetic music embraces chaos\, pulling radical joy out of the magician’s hat. In his solo practice\, Mitch primarily works with complex MIDI systems controlled by his adaptation of Michel Waisvisz’s crackle box circuit design. Additionally\, the flute is used as a vehicle for melodic and spiritual incantation through this fabric of noise. For this set at the West Oakland Sound Series\, Mitch will be pulling both material from his debut solo album\, Into the Wish\, as well as new musical material. As a collaborator\, Mitch’s sound can also be heard in projects such as RISA and Signal Quest.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-stinson-trio-mitch-stahlmann/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-10/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-09/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-08/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-07/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-03/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:RIC LOUCHARD (with Lisa Mezzacappa + Jordan Glenn + Joshua Marshall) BJLL DINGALLS (Tom Djll + Bill Hsu + Matt Ingalls)
DESCRIPTION:RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer\, pianist\, improviser\, writer and story teller. His stories strive to find the universal in the very personal. His music is emotive and\, well\, romantic\, or at least on the Dionysian side of the fence. It tends towards chromaticism\, atonality or quirky tonality. Motivic with sometimes complex rhythms. His musical roots are European classical tradition\, improvisation\, and all the music we’ve all been hearing the last 70 years. Ric is delighted – really delighted – to be playing with LISA MEZZACAPPA\, bass\, JORDAN GLENN\, drums\, and JOSHUA MARSHALL\, saxophones. Ric played these pieces with this same quartet 5 years ago and has always wanted to revisit the music\, make some revisions\, and play and record them again with these fantastic musicians. He is thrilled it is happening. \nIn the blur between acoustic and amplified\, synthetic and analog\, algorhythm and improvisation\, clarity is forged anew only if you look ahead. Swinging serious sonic sledgehammers for a threefold lifetime now\, BJLL DINGALLS [TOM DJLL (trumpet & electronics) + BILL HSU (electronics) + MATT INGALLS (clarinet & electronics)] lay the railroad into terra incognita.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ric-louchard-group-bjll-dingalls/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-02/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T193000
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-01/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T203000
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SUMMARY:Sangam: A Diwali Odissi Recital
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Diwali—The Festival of Lights—with an exceptional evening of Odissi\, one of India’s oldest and most sacred dance forms. \nWitness mesmerizing performances by Samir Panigrahi and Santosh Ram of India’s renowned Rudrakshya Foundation alongside the talented ensemble of Odissi Vilas from California. This Festival of Lights invites you on a journey through ancient rhythms and timeless traditions\, uniting religion\, philosophy\, and artistry in a deep immersion into the spirit of Diwali. \nSteeped in religion and philosophy\, Odissi is one of the oldest Indian dance forms\, dating back to the 1st and 2nd century BCE. This art form’s graceful and flowing movements have been captured in stone in many temple sculptures throughout Odisha\, the southeastern coastal state where it originated. \nThis evening’s performances will showcase two forms of dance within the Odissi repertoire — Nritta or pure dance\, usually a lyrical composition celebrating a season or a mood\, and Nritya or expressive dance where the dancers use movement and expression to narrate a story\, usually from Hindu mythology. \nSamir Kumar Panigrahi and Santosh Ram are award-winning principal dancers with the Bhubaneswar-based disciples of Guru Shree Bichitrananda Swain\, founder-director of Rudrakshya Foundation. This fall\, they are artists-in-residence with the Bay Area-based nonprofit dance school Odissi Vilas. \nThe duo will perform Guru Swain’s unique choreographies\, which honor the Odissi form and traditions but offer fresh executions of this exquisite and ancient Indian classical dance form. \nThe dancers from Odissi Vilas—Maureen Nandini Mitra\, Gireeja Ranade\, Aparna Krishnamoorthy\, and Manasi Padhi—are disciples of Guru Shri Vishnu Tattva Das\, founder and creative director of Odissi Vilas. While not full-time professional dancers\, they have been immersed in Odissi for more than a decade. \nThey will perform items from the traditional Odissi repertoire associated with the Diwali festival\, which signifies a movement from darkness to light. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/sangam-a-diwali-odissi-recital/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTAMP:20260427T131856
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SUMMARY:MEERANAI SHIM + DIANE GRUBBE THE HOLY MARTINS (KASEY KNUDSEN + LORIN BENEDICT + ERIC VOGLER)
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area flutists DIANE GRUBBE and MEERANAI SHIM perform solo and duo works by Robert Dick\, Mario Davidovsky\, Dai Fujikura\, Alyssa Aska\, and The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker. \nTHE HOLY MARTINS is KASEY KNUDSEN (alto saxophone)\, LORIN BENEDICT (voice)\, and ERIC VOGLER (guitar). They have been playing in this configuration for over 15 years\, during which time the group has explored a broad range of composed music (written by them and by others)\, improvised game pieces\, and collective free improvisation. The nucleus of their approach is rooted in the jazz idiom\, writ large\, but the conspicuous absence of a “rhythm section” pushes the team in directions bordering on the altogether unfamiliar. \nPart of the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES collection
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/meeranai-shim-diane-grubbe-the-holy-martins/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241020T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T131856
CREATED:20241011T221937Z
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SUMMARY:SILVIA MATHEUS with RIC LOUCHARD LISA MEZZACAPPA: MUSIC FOR MORE THAN A FEW OF US
DESCRIPTION:SILVIA MATHEUS (computer and electronic music composer\, sound artist\, and improviser) teams up with RIC LOUCHARD (pianist\, composer\, and improviser) to create The VisitoR\, a performance where electronics and acoustics meet and interact. \nLISA MEZZACAPPA: MUSIC FOR MORE THAN A FEW OF US \nBassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA presents a set of new and newly-arranged works for improvising large ensemble\, featuring members of sfSound\, the oakland reductionist orchestra\, and special guests. \nSarah Grace Graves\, voice\nHallie Smith\, violin\nDiane Grubbe\, flutes\nTom Dambly\, trumpet\nMatt Ingalls\, clarinets\nJoshua Marshall\, tenor saxophone\nRon Heglin\, trombone\nRob Ewing\, trombone\nMonica Scott\, cello\nKathryn Schulmeister\, double bass\nLisa Mezzacappa\, double bass\nBrett Carson\, piano\nChris Cooper\, electronics\nKjell Nordeson\, drums
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/silvia-matheus-lisa-mezzacappa-music-for-more-than-a-few-of-us/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T223000
DTSTAMP:20260427T131856
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SUMMARY:JOANA HOLANDA + FÁBIO PRESGRAVE / KANOKO NISHI-SMITH + AINE NAKAMURA
DESCRIPTION:Recognized as one the foremost Brazilian musicians of their generation\, FÁBIO PRESGRAVE (cello) and JOANA HOLANDA have been performing versatile and captivating programs with a wide range of aesthetic affiliations. Both musicians are faculty members at Federal University of Natal (UFRN) in Brazil. \nThe duo performs Brazillian-born\, Oakland composer BRUNO RUVIARIO’S Beatriz Suite(2024)\, a 13-movement work written for the duo. Using one the country’s most beloved songs\, Beatriz written by Edu Lobo and Chico Buarque in 1983 for the ballet O Grande Circo Místico (The Great Mystical Circus) as source material\, the work rips apart the original song\, expanding its imagery and emotional landscapes\, cleanly quoting the song as well as transforming it beyond recognition. In addition\, themes from other composers find their way into the work. The duo will also present PAULO CÉSAR VITOR’S short arrangemnt of Beatriz. The concert concludes with Portuguese-born composer JOÃO PEDRO OLIVEIRA’S Enigma (2018)\, a work confronting crossroads\, indecisions and moments of stagnation. To surpass these moments where the creative process seems to “freeze\,” Olivera adds new material based on intuition and chance without logical or rational explanation. It is this mystery\, which is part of composing\, that often revives creative life and makes new ideas flourish. \nThe concert begins with a debut duo performance by AINE NAKAMURA and KANOKO NISHI-SMITH. The two artists recently met in the Bay Area\, and quickly found a shared mission in channeling\, processing and ultimately accepting the complexity and contradictions observed in human nature: the urge to expose and to disguise\, to construct and deconstruct\, to abandon and to protect…seeking and reaching\, through sounding and moving\, beyond language and meanings\, and the physical boundaries of objects and skin\, breaking\, and then mending them. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/joana-holanda-fabio-presgrave-kanoko-nishi-smith-aine-nakamura/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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