$25 General Admission Doors at 7:30pm.
Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission
While some of the show’s music and poetry is prearranged and scripted, for half of the performance none of the performers know what's gonna happen until it's on the page—not even the poet herself! While the quartet plays, and the audience listens, Silvi types then reads the written on-the-spot poem. If you haven't seen this collaboration before, expect an absolutely original experience. The typewriter is another instrument, poetry another line of music.
In this collaboration, Phase 2 will continue to explore the relationship between creation and presence, inviting more audience participation than ever before.
The Lost Church is the collective’s biggest performance venue to date. This is performance 2 of 4 that will take place throughout this year.
performers:
@sweiserofficial
Sam Weiser, a member of the award-winning Del Sol String Quartet, has studied and performed chamber music with many of today’s greatest musicians and pedagogues. Sam is a graduate of Tufts University, the New England Conservatory, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Ian Swensen, Lucy Chapman, James Buswell, and Patinka Kopec.e
Sam regularly pioneers works by living composers, premiering hundreds of new works by composers such as Vijay Iyer, Huang Ruo, and Chen Yi. Past performances have included collaborations with legends such as Norman Fischer, Gil Kalish, David McCarroll, and Mark O'Connor. He has also served as concertmaster for the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, as well as the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra.
When he is not playing music, you can find Sam engaging his imagination by playing (and running) games of Dungeons & Dragons or honing his culinary skills with fresh ingredients from the farmers market.
French violinist Pauline Kempf recently moved to the Bay Area. She received her Doctorate in violin performance from Northwestern University in Chicago where she resided for four years.
A first-prize winner in various competitions in Europe, Pauline has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago since 2018 and performed as assistant concertmaster and section violinist in various Chicago-based symphony orchestras. An active chamber musician, Pauline performed as first violinist with the Leggio Quartet in Europe and in the USA. She has collaborated with the Amateurs Virtuoses Festival in France, Chile and Argentina. Since 2017, her collaboration with the American pianist Clare Longendyke has allowed them to perform both in France and in the USA with innovative and original duo programs. Pauline performed various concertos by Bach, Leclair, Mozart and Beethoven with the Northwestern orchestras. Pauline has just received a certificate in Baroque violin from Elizabeth Blumenstock’s studio at SFCM and she currently teaches at the Scherzo Music School in San Mateo.
@christinajsimpson
Christina Simpson is a professional violist, recruiter, educator, and the founder of Wave Chamber Collective. She has brought music to communities for over 10 years of professional performing throughout California, including with the Modesto, Merced, Stockton, Oakland, and Berkeley Symphonies, Island City Opera, and others. Christina is an active chamber musician and has performed over 40 chamber music house concerts in the Bay Area with Groupmuse, has participated in the St. Lawrence String Seminar at Stanford, and premiered new chamber music at Festival Napa Valley. She is a frequent performer with the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival and has toured through Northern California and Oregon with members of the festival. She has performed for the SF Friends of Chamber Music series, Noon Concerts at UC Berkeley, with the Benicia Chamber Players, and has performed with SF Contemporary Music Players, Hidden Valley String Orchestra, Elevate Ensemble, and One Found Sound. Her most recent project, Wave Chamber Collective, combines small chamber ensembles with other art forms building a collaborative language of co-creation between artists, musicians, and audiences. The project seeks to fairly compensate musicians and artists for making art by building a strong audience base and through private donations. Their last 7 performances have played to sold out audiences through San Francisco, with more exciting collaborations planned through the summer and fall, including working with a popular live drawing workshop featuring trans and non-binary bodies, a collaboration with Habitaat, a ecologically focused SF-based DJ who has been featured at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Christina is driven by a desire to understand and uplift people through storytelling, music, and community building. She has spent significant time over the last 5 years in Trinity County, performing, building, watching animals, learning poker at the local bar and playing Bach for a porch of old-timers and patrons. For her, music is the great connector, the best way to open to each other and the world around us. She has seen it change hearts and shift realities and believes it can make the seemingly impossible, real.
@stoopki
Saul Richmond-Rakerd is a San Francisco-based cellist and member of the SF Ballet Orchestra. Comfortable in a wide range of settings, he has played as a soloist with the Okemos Symphony Orchestra and the Brown University Orchestra, as well as in numerous solo and chamber music recitals, both in the US and abroad. His musical awards include First Prize at the Barbara Fritz Chamber Music Award (2016), First Prize at the Luigi Boccherini Chamber Music Competition in Lucca, Italy (2016), Second Prize at the Dorothy Van Waynen Competition for Strings (2016) Runner-up at the San Francisco Conservatory Concerto Competition (2016), Primo Arco Premio (2014), Weston Prize for the Arts (2013), and the Buxtehude Premium Prize in Music (2012). He currently serves as assistant principal cellist in the Santa Cruz Symphony, as a section cellist with the Monterey Symphony, as co-principal cellist of One Found Sound, and is a regular substitute with many other orchestras throughout the Bay Area. He also performs with Luminance, a cello-harp-trumpet trio drawing on latin, classical, and jazz roots, and he was a founding member of both the Capitoline Trio and Quattro alla Volta, a cello quartet with whom he performed during his years in Italy.
www.wavechambercollective.com
Knocking chamber music tradition off its pedestal by introducing risks, questions, instability, crowds, the unknown - healthy chaotic good. Founded by musicians, in collaboration with a community of artists, for audiences of everyone.
silvi alcivar, poet, @thepoetrystore
www.thepoetrystore.net
silvi's work lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter--the anonymity an invitation to speak, the typewriter keys a willing listener. the poetry is almost incidental. the real work is offering what we all want at the core of our humanness—to feel witnessed and connected, present and seen, spontaneous and at play. while best known as an event poet, she's currently collaborating with musicians, classrooms, conferences, and more.
thank you for supporting the livelihood of artists and musicians in san francisco! all proceeds go directly to the musicians and artists. to continue supporting art and the emergence of new experiences, become a patron: www.patreon.com/wavechambercollective and/or www.patreon.com/silvialcivar
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Event Venue
The Lost Church - San Francisco, 988 Columbus Avenue,San Francisco,CA,United States
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