San Francisco Scene: June 19-26, 2015

From the Bay Improviser:

Friday, June 19

Fri 6/19 8:00 PM Old First Church [1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA 94109]
Sarah Cahill – A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80

Fri 6/19 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
“Play that Thing or Throw It Away” (Larry Ochs – Darren Johnston – Gino Robair)
Three Cats Making Magic Happen

Fri 6/19 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Orchestra Nostalgico Plays the Film Music of Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann, and more!

Saturday, June 20

Sat 6/20 9:30 PM Duende [468 19th Street Oakland]
Orchestra Nostalgico Plays the Film Music of Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann, and more!

Sunday, June 21

Sun 6/21 3:00 PM Musicians Union Hall, Local 6 [116 9th St, San Francisco, CA 94103]
David Leikam/zBug featuring Sheila Bosco & Sean Price | Afternoon / the concert series :: zBug is the premiere industrial jazz unit that presents structured improvisational compositional music sets, based on architecture.

Sun 6/21 5:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Ritual 50-70: conjunction
Performed by inkboat:Yuko Kaseki, Sten Rudstrøm, Heekyung Cho, Joshua Kohl, Crow Nishimura, Dohee Lee, Dana Iova-Koga, Suki O’Kane, Shinichi Iova-Koga
Guest performers: Kronos Quartet

Sun 6/21 5:00 PM Chapel of the Chimes [4499 Piedmont Ave Oakland]
Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes
At this popular solstice concert, the program features simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.

Wednesday, June 24

Wed 6/24 7:00 PM Finnish Kaleva Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
2015 Outsound Presents Fund Drive & The Seventh Annual Wednesday a little less than a month before Benefit Dinner
Nava Dunkelman and Jordan Glenn perform a dinner set in addition to a delicious variety of food for all preferences provided by Berkeley’s Slippery Fish Catering.

Wed 6/24 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
John Hanes plays Simon Hanes
14 piece band plays work of Simon Hanes

Thursday, June 25
Thu 6/25 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ZOFO: Rohde and Riley
ZOFO – GRAMMY- nominated one-piano-four-hand Steinway Artist Ensemble – will perform the World Premiere of Kurt Rohde’s new piano duet commissioned by them, “Altromondo”. This piece involves innovative inside-piano techniques and additional instruments including triangles, harmonicas, melodicas and Chinese paper accordions. The second half will feature selections from ZOFO’s newly-released album “ZOFO Plays Terry Riley”.

Thu 6/25 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [998 Market St. SF]
8pm Alex Cohen/Kim Nucci
9pm Britt Ciampa – drums/percussion

Thu 6/25 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
whrthsdwlknds jazz trio plus Karl 2000
Eli Wallace, piano
Giulio Cetto, bass
Jacob Richards, drums

Friday, June 26

Fri 6/26 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
KRONOS PRESENTS Terry Riley Festival
Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, Zakir Hussain

Fri 6/26 8:00 PM Turquoise Yantra Grotto [32 Turquoise Way SF]
Keys Without Locks
Join us for an evening of keyboard works in disparate genres
Matthew Goodheart (extended technique)
Thomas Dimuzio (electronics)
Katy Luo (classical pianist)

Fri 6/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Reed and Slide: François Houle & Samuel Blazer
Houle & Blazer will perform Gérard Grisey’s Solo pour deux, for clarinet and trombone, a new commission by Joëlle Léandre, and their own compositions