Admission: FREE.As part of their week-long residency at the University of California Riverside, 9 Horses will premiere 12 new compositions for mandolin, violin, & double bass by UCR Department of Music graduate & undergraduate student composers.More information
Admission: $25-$75.SONiC & Mannes/The New School co-present three new interactive works developed through ACO’s EarShot CoLABoratory composer residency program. Inspired by the African-American history of resilience, healing, & awakening post-trauma, Grammy-winner Marcus Gilmore’s Pulse, developed with ACO through the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative with his mentor, world-renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain, is scored for drums, jazz ensemble, spoken word, & orchestra. Pulse will feature spoken word by Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States & a Pulitzer Prize winner. Trevor New’s Cohere Touch connects artists across continents using the composer’s own augmented reality environment & performance on viola. Mendi + Keith Obadike’s DreamTrain is an immersive sound installation & performance that encourages audiences to dream collectively as a means of social transformation. The American Composers Orchestra will be led by David Bloom.Buy TicketsMore information
Vocalist Mary Foster Conklin returns to Mezzrow’s to celebrate the release of her fifth recording THESE PRECIOUS DAYS (MockTurtle Music) w/ John Di Martino (piano), Sara Caswell (violin), & Ed Howard (bass)More information
Admission: Club Pass or $30 at the door.Part of the 2023 Rochester International Jazz Festival. Helen Sung (piano), John Ellis (tenor saxophone), Sara Caswell (violin), David Wong (bass), Adam Cruz (drums). 2 sets: 6 & 10pm.More information
Founded in 1991 by Warren Wilson College President Emeritus Douglas M. Orr, Jr., under the leadership of Director Jim Magill, The Swannanoa Gathering is an educational program of the college, consisting of a series of week-long workshops in various folk arts held in July and August on the campus of Warren Wilson College just east of Asheville in the heart of North Carolina’s beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Sara will be participating in Fiddle Week leading classes in Jazz Improvisation and Music Theory.More information
