Other Minds Festival 25

Heralded by NPR as a "Who's Who of the avant-garde" and The Wire as "a forum for forward-thinking composers and an opportunity to hear performances of a uniformly challenging and rigorous nature," San Francisco's only international festival of avant-garde music returns to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary!

Other Minds Festival 25: "Moment's Notice" will bring to the stage twenty-six of the greatest living artists working in the field of improvised music. Across four nights, OM 25 features a rare convergence of pioneering icons of free improvised music side-by-side with the emerging artists whose work is at once a continuance and an expansion of the jazz avant-garde.

Festival artists include MacArthur Genius Award winners Mary Halvorson and Tyshawn Sorey; Guggenheim Fellows Jen Shyu and Zeena Parkins; Doris Duke Performing Artist Award winners William Parker and Myra Melford; NEA Jazz Masters Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell; Berlin Prize Awardee Elliott Sharp; and several additional performers whose music is a vital expression of the traditions of improvisation.

Performances will cross disciplines to include dance, theater, and video including pianist/composer Myra Melford who will partner with Butoh dancer Oguri; William Parker's dance/theater work, The Sky is Trembling featuring dancer Patricia Nicholson; and Jen Shyu's luminous Nine Doors, a theatrical work heralded by the New York Times as a "dizzying," "imaginative ritual" sung in multiple languages and performed by Shyu on a variety of instruments.

Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/907856-2?pid=5072

Price:
General Admission: USD 55.00

Category: Live Music | Festivals