Tracing Paths

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Personal and cultural paths converge in this concert featuring voices familiar to the Bay Area music scene. Jonathan Bingham, on faculty at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, pays homage to the trend of visual artists—from Pablo Picasso to Jean-Michel Basquiat—in creating an Untitled piece of art, leaving the listener to draw their own conclusions. Former Contemporary Music Players Artistic Director Steven Schick returns as percussion soloist for the West Coast premiere of Zosha Di Castri’s Touch/Trace, exploring the importance of intimacy and human contact in an increasingly isolated world. The poignant No More, a setting by Bay Area luminary Olly Wilson which first premiered with the Contemporary Music Players in 1985, draws together texts by four South African poets who fought against apartheid for freedom and human dignity. SFCM student musicians will join forces with the ensemble in a side-by-side performance for Thomas Adès’s vivacious and rhythmic Chamber Symphony. This captivating celebration of music and heritage is not to be missed!

Guest Artists: Steven Schick, percussionist; and Frederick A. Peterbark, tenor

Jonathan Bingham - Untitled (2015) - Bay area premiere

Ian Kaneko* - Shaping Mist (2025) - world premiere

Olly Wilson - No More (1985) - originally commissioned and premiered by SFCMP

INTERMISSION

Zosha Di Castri- Touch/Trace (2025) - West Coast premiere - featuring virtuoso percussionist Steve Schick

Manuel Martínez* - Devastated (2025) - world premiere

Thomas Adès - Chamber Symphony, Op. 2 (1990)

* Student in the SFCM Technology & Applied Composition Program