Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Community Music Center
INCAN INSIGHTS: Workshop with composer Gabriela Lena Frank -
11 AM
544 Capp st.
San Francisco California 94102
Price: Free admission
An interactive musical exploration of the culture of the Latin American region covering the ancient Incan empire, featuring new works by composer Gabriela Lena Frank for mixed ensembles of classical strings and traditional Andean instruments. The musicians will perform and discuss with the composer and CMC students her efforts to create a modern fusion of classical and indigenous music in a collection she calls the Tawantinsuyu Songbook. These pieces, and others, will be performed by Del Sol and the Andean traditional ensemble, Chaskinakuy. Free and open to the public.
For more information: http://www.sfcmc.org/site/calendar/event-single?id=1433
Or call 415-647-6015
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Other Minds Festival of New Music
7 PM Lecture, 8 PM Concert
Kanbar Hall, 3200 California Street
San Francisco California
Price: $25-$45
Del Sol will perform composer Gloria Coates' String Quartet No. 5, an emotive masterpiece whose first movement is a double canon with the first violin and viola tuned a quarter-tone sharp.
Tickets: https://tickets.jccsf.org/public/show_events_list.asp
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Other Minds Festival of New Music
7 PM Lecture, 8 PM Concert
Kanbar Hall, 3200 California Street
San Francisco California
Price: $25-$45
Recent Rome Prize and Berlin Prize winner and UC Berkeley professor Ken Ueno presents the world premiere of Peradam, a new work for the Del Sol String Quartet with video, commissioned by Other Minds.
Tickets: https://tickets.jccsf.org/public/show_events_list.asp
Monday, March 26th, 2012
University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts
Ensemble in Residence - John Donald Robb Composer's Symposium -
7:30 PM
Albuquerque New Mexico
Del Sol will perform works by composers John Donald Robb (1892-1989) and Chris Shultis (b. 1957).
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts
Ensemble in Residence - John Donald Robb Composer's Symposium -
7:30 PM
Albuquerque New Mexico
Del Sol will perform works by composers Daniel Ward (b. 1966) and Barbara Monk Feldman (b. 1953).
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
North Fourth Art Center
GARDEN: Chapter One "Night" with Composer/Video Artist Chris Jonas -
7:00 PM
4904 Fourth Street NW
Albuquerque New Mexico
GARDEN is a full length, music-driven intermedia performance/installation that uses linear-immersive media (live original music, transparent screens and projected video) to explore expressive, atmospheric, metaphoric, psychological and cross-cultural realms of place, night time and the intersection of the human and natural environments.
DEL SOL is at the center of the action, positioned within a 20 foot square cube whose vertical walls are gauzy scrims that let viewers see the Quartet as they play, while changing images are projected onto the surrounding planes. Audience members may sit in rows of chairs outside the wispy walls, but are encouraged to to wander about the murky space to observe the work from various vantage points.
Musically, GARDEN works between textural/melodic soundscapes, virtuosic instrumentalism, extended instrumental techniques and a mixture of strategic improvisation and through-composition.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Intersection for the Arts
World Premiere of New Work by Gabriela Lena Frank -
7:00 PM
925 Mission Street
San Francisco California 94103
Del Sol continues its PresentSound series of informative, interactive concerts with the world premiere of a new work for string quartet and Andean instruments by brilliant composer Gabriela Lena Frank. The new work is titled “The Tawantinsuyu Songbook,” which means “the four corners of the Incan empire” in the Quechua native language. Del Sol will be joined by Andean music specialists the trio Chaskinakuy for this fascinating performance - http://www.chaskinakuy.com/
This event is made possible by generous support from the Fromm Music Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission (Cultural Equity Grants program), Grants for the Arts (San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund), the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through the Zellerbach Community Arts program, the Fleishhacker Foundation and the Meet the Composers MetLife Creative Connections program.
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
WORLD PREMIERE: Bagatelles for Amplified String Quartet and Electronica: composer Mason Bates -
8:00 PM
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street
Santa Cruz California 95060
Del Sol will perform the world premiere of its Chamber Music America commissioned piece for amplified string quartet and electronica by composer Mason Bates, along with other works to be announced.
Friday, August 17th, 2012
Hirzenberg Festival
European Premiere: Mason Bates "Bagatelles for Amplified String Quartet and Electronica"
Zofingen Switzerland
Del Sol will perform the European premiere of American composer Mason Bates' "Bagatelles for Amplified String Quartet and Electronica," which was commissioned with funding from Chamber Music America. The concert will also feature a preview of a new work by Chinese composer Kui Dong for string quartet, one-piano-four-hands and toy pianos, performed by Del Sol and ZOFO duet.
Saturday, August 18th, 2012
Hirzenberg Festival
EUROPEAN PREMIERE: StringWreck
Zofingen Switzerland
Take the Del Sol String Quartet and put it in the path of four dancers, blurring the boundary between music and dance, and you get "StringWreck" – an entertaining, often poignant, full length work created by Del Sol in collaboration with choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. This dance/theater production turns tradition on its head as dancers and musicians gleefully abandon their roles to search for new and unpredictable ways to coexist.
"A Wreck that soars! A deliciously entertaining, slightly wacky evening of music and dance." DanceViewTimes
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