From time immemorial humans have raised their voices together in song, an act that transforms disparate groups into purposeful organisms. Directed by Reuben Zellman and accompanied by Sid Quinsaat, the Community Music Center's New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus is a mixed-voice choral ensemble for singers who self-identify as transgender, intersex or gender-queer. Since debuting at […]
Update as of May 12: Due to an urgent family matter that has prevented the artist’s ability to travel to the United States, Mariana Sadovska will not perform as a guest in this concert. We appreciate your understanding. Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble’s performance will still include Ukrainian songs, continuing their efforts to raise funds and […]
Bay Area jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin appeared suddenly on the national scene with the release of 2015’s Nothing But Soul, one of the decade’s most widely hailed debut albums. The fact that she’d just graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Law made her emergence that much more spectacular. With her second album, 2018’s Unbroken, […]
Within months of moving to the United States in 2000 from Denmark to study at Boston’s Berklee College of Music with a full scholarship violinist Mads Tolling started making waves. Championed by electric violin legend Jean-Luc Ponty, he soon hit the road with bass maestro Stanley Clarke. By the time he graduated with top honors […]