Dear Friends and Neighbors,
You are warmly and cordially invited to attend Sketches Of Summer Nights, a concert of duo piano music by ARc duET on Sunday September 21, at 4PM at the Forte House located at 1498 24th Avenue / cross street Kirkham (just remember 24K) in San Francisco's Sunset District.
$30 donation at the door includes wine and gourmet buffet.
They will be performing the West Coast premiere of my composition, Swale Pond. What an honor!
RSVP to this email or call 415-627-8436.
See you there!
JJ and Alem
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ARc duET Program for September 21st at Forte House
ARc duET is proud to present Sketches of Summer Nights, an energetic and jazzy tribute to the warmest time of the year, performed on September 21st - the last official day of summer and also the annually-observed International Day of Peace. Nicholas Pavkovic's Träumerei and JJ Hollingsworth's Swale Pond will guide you on a meditative journey, while Chick Corea's Spain and Astor Piazzolla's Libertango inspire dancing and celebration. ARc duET will also be playing works by Nikolai Kapustin, William Grant Still, George Gershwin and Claude Debussy. Join us!
***Biographies of the Performers***
ARc duET is pianists Anne Rainwater and Emily Tian. They are both interested in and primarily perform contemporary and jazz-inspired works for piano 4-hands and 2 pianos. ARc duET is committed to programming composers with diverse voices and backgrounds. Friend and colleague Leslie La Barre wrote them a piece in 2018, and they have also worked with Bay Area composer Ryan Brown. Anne and Emily recorded Steve Reich’s Eight Lines at Tiny Telephone Oakland in March of 2019 as part of a new, sanctioned-by-the-composer version of the piece which also involves handmade synthesizers on the other instrument parts. Recent concerts include a lecture recital at Cal State East Bay University and performances at the Berkeley Piano Club, the Music at Old St. Hilary's Series in Tiburon, and the Vernon Salon Series. When not at the piano, they both enjoy hanging out with their cats and teaching.
Concert pianist Anne Rainwater is a dexterous musician known for her vibrant interpretations of works from J.S. Bach to John Zorn. Recognized for her "boldly assertive rhetoric" (San Francisco Examiner) and "sensitivity to performance and interpretation" (TEMPO Magazine), she engages audiences as a soloist, chamber musician and lecture artist around the country. Anne has performed in venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, the Donau Festival in Austria, Kampnagel in Germany, Severance Hall, Cal Performances, Princeton University, Roulette, Stanford University, and Le Poisson Rouge. Diverse appearances include chamber music performances at Mass MOCA and Bargemusic, concerto performances at UC San Diego and Mendocino College, and radio interviews on KWMR, KZYX, KALW, and KALX. She curates a monthly musical gathering called the Vernon Salon Series, which she founded in 2016. Anne has released 3 solo albums: J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations (2018), Anywhere But Here (2020), featuring electronic keyboard works by Jude Traxler, and Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giancinto Scelsi (2023), a vocal and piano work by Ian Power out on Carrier Records. That album was reviewed by Alex Huddleston at TEMPO Magazine, who write that it was "without a doubt the best music I've yet reviewed for TEMPO." Anne is a 2019 recipient of an InterMusic SF Grant. Inspired by an early interest in the writings of Noam Chomsky and Fritjof Capra, she is working on a series of long-form essays which explore the intersection of cognition, movement and ecosystems with the processes responsible for understanding and performing music. When not at the piano or writing, she is reading, running or obsessively watching baseball. Anne is a member of Beyond Artists, an organization who members pledge to donate portions of their performance fees to organizations they support and care about.
Emily Tian is a Bay Area pianist and educator. She is known for her fine playing and diverse repertory. Emily was raised in a musical family. Beginning at the age of six, she received awards for piano, vocals and dancing. At age 12, The Affiliated High School of Gui Zhou Music & Arts in China made an early admission for Emily’s professional piano study. Later on she went on to Gui Zhou University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 2005. She received the “Best Musician Award” every year at both high school and university. Recognizing her talent, the Gui Zhou Province Symphony invited her to be a lifetime piano soloist. Emily earned her advanced study diploma at Stuttgart Music Conservatory under the direction of Ms. Huang Wan Ying. The following year she entered the music performance program at California State East Bay University, where she completed her master’s degree and became employed as vocal/instrumental coach. Emily collaborates regularly with emerging and established composers and musicians such as Jack Van Geem, Leslie La Barre, Nick Vasalo, and Anne Rainwater. She was also the pianist and music director for Savage Jazz Dance Company “Sketches of Oakland” dance and contemporary music concert, all while maintaining a full-time position as the Instrumental Music Department Chair and the piano program director at Oakland School for the Arts.cc
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