Free Multimedia Concert, “Women in Transit,” feat. Four World Premieres (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) in a multimedia chamber music concert exploring women’s immigration and identity.

The program will feature four World Premieres by today’s composers:

• “Cavities,” a new piano trio by Iranian-American Niloufar Nourbakhsh with a new film by Pegah Pasalar;
• “Orchesography,” composed and danced by Han Lash;
• “Okean” by Tamara McLeod;
• “Who Are You now,” by Clark Evans, the winning piece from the E4TT/TAC student competition, voiced by Haitian-American Melissa Dufort.

Plus music by Leilehua Lanzilotti and Emma O’Halloran. Performed by E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, narrator) with Han Lash, dancer, Lylia Guion, violin, Megan Chartier, cello, and Taylor Chan, piano. In collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department.

Pre-concert talk at 7pm with composers Han Lash, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Tamara McLeod (SFCM graduate) and filmmaker Pegah Pasalar.

Women in Transit
Friday, April 4, 2025 | 7:30p
1st Floor Bowes Center, 200 Van Ness Ave, Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall, SF
FREE – Reserve a Seat

PROGRAM:

E4TT’s fifth multimedia collaboration with SFCM/TAC explores women’s immigration and identity, with four World Premieres and two additional works:

• Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Cavities (2024) World Premiere
  Video by Pegah Pasalar
  for piano trio
• Han Lash: Orchesography (2024) World Premiere
  for piano trio, narrator, and dancer
• Tamara McLeod: Okean (2025) World Premiere
  for cello and fixed media
• Clark Evans: Who Are You Now? (2025) World Premiere
  for solo piano
• Leilehua Lanzilotti: ko’u inoa (2017)
  for solo cello
• Emma O’Halloran: Vertical Fields (2014)
  for piano trio

PERFORMERS:

• E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano/narrator)
• Lash, dancer
• Lylia Guion, violin
• Megan Chartier, cello
• Taylor Chan, piano

 

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