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Other Minds works year-round to bring the best composers and performers of non-commercial music to the attention of the world. Support from people like you is essential to this valuable work.
OM Festival 26 was a ringing success, bringing together an international cast of composers for a series of world and US premieres. Highlights included the American premiere of Dominic Murcott’s The Harmonic Canon, composed for a custom-made half-ton double bell shipped all the way from London, and the world premiere of Lars Petter Hagen’s Coda, commissioned by Other Minds and performed by Kate Stenberg and Sarah Cahill. Meanwhile, our series The Nature of Music has presented artists from a variety of disciplines whose work combines environmentalism and the arts and our Latitudes series featured a performance by New York’s Ghost Ensemble. Our Special Events included the American premiere of Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund’s The Exotica Album by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and a 30th anniversary celebration of Other Minds featuring Marc-André Hamelin’s performance of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata.
OM 27 brought together composers from around the world for six nights of music, topped off with the world premiere of Eivind Buene’s Other Minds-commissioned string quartet Chorales.
New York’s Ghost Ensemble joined us at St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco to present new works commissioned for the 2022-23 season by composers Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, and Catherine Lamb.
For Other Minds’s 30th anniversary, pianist Marc-André Hamelin performed Charles Ives’s legendary Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” with commentary by composer Kyle Gann, author of Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays after a Sonata.
OM Records continues to release new and exciting works on a regular basis. We’ve made our entire catalog available on Bandcamp as well as on our webstore, so be sure to check back frequently to see what we’re up to. Recent releases include CD releases by Samuel Adams, Anthony Braxton and James Fei, and Cheryl Leonard, an LP by Raven Chacon, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Carlos Santistevan, and a special DVD release by Carol Law and Charles Amirkhanian.
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Music From Other Minds is a weekly two-hour radio program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced and presented by Other Minds staff members and associates Liam Herb, Mark Abramson, Ed Herrmann, Joseph Bohigian, and Charles Amirkhanian. Air time is 8pm Sunday evenings on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.
