An evening of contemporary music with composer Davide Verotta

Sat May 06 2023 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

Episcopal Church of the Incarnation | San Francisco

Sunset Music and Arts
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An evening of contemporary music with composer Davide Verotta
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Davide Verotta studied music and piano at the Milano and San Francisco Conservatories and privately.
About this Event
  • Date & Time: Saturday May 6, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
  • Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors/Students

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Program

To be announced

HEALTH AND SAFETY

In accordance with the recommended health and safety guidelines from the Episcopal Diocese of California and the City and County of San Francisco, a face covering is required for all concerts at Incarnation Episcopal church and must be worn at all times. Face masks must completely cover nose and mouth and have ear loops or similar to hold in place. Gaiters and bandanas are not acceptable. Please visit https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com for full details.

About the Artists

Davide Verotta was born in an Italian town close to Milano and moved to San Francisco in his late twenties. Davide studied music and piano at the Milano and San Francisco Conservatories and privately.

“My dearest memories: Ernesto Esposito, my music theory teacher (I miss him so much), Isabella Zielonka, who opened the piano for me, Giacinto Salvetti, so dedicated and who believed so strongly in my capabilities, and later Bob Helps, the king of piano technique, and Julian White who taught me much of what needs to be known about the piano and music. I studied composition at the San Francisco State University (where I got a Master) and at the University of California at Davis (where I never finished my PhD due to … the commute … way too long from San Francisco and I was getting a bit too old to move to go school!).

For many years my musical activities were intertwined with a parallel-track academic life in mathematics as a professor of Bioengineering and Biostatistics at the University of California at San Francisco. I got a PhD in science! and I was doing research in mathematical applications to Biology for a long time. This, being somewhat versed in mathematics and musics, often generates the familiar reaction: Ah! Musicians and Math! But I must admit that the relationship of music and mathematics still eludes me, although some simple mathematical relationships pop up, mostly hidden, in my compositions.

I have now been a full time musician for many years, which is quite a relief, and I am actively involved in the new music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area (as soloist, chamber player, board member of the SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, and NACUSA SF, co-organizer of the Festival of Contemporary Music in San Francisco, founder of the composers’ group Irregular Resolutions). I teach piano and composition privately and at the Community Music Center in San Francisco. Recent compositions include works for orchestra, chamber opera, piano and violin solo, two pianos, percussion, and a variety of chamber ensembles. My writing is a mix: alternating lyricism, dreaming and sometimes surreal landscapes, lots of rhythmic variety, and more anxious musical motions. My idiom is a 21st century mix of neo-tonality, extended counterpoint, modern techniques, classical structures and experimentation with musical forms

I am recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus, Zellerbach foundation, and international composition competition awards … and many NIH (National Institute of Health) grants. A lot of those actually … all trying to make some sense of stiff biological realities using some mathematics … but that was another life.

The future? Desires for what time is left of this quick life? Not very much. I would like to write some good music and to be good.”http://www.davideverotta.com/


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, United States

Tickets

USD 20.00 to USD 25.00

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