Upcoming Events

Since 1993, Other Minds has brought the Bay Area revelationary new music with our annual Other Minds Festival and our environmental concert series The Nature of Music. We also produce Special Events focusing on a variety of unique musical presentations, including Latitudes, focusing on improv, rock & other experimental forms. On this page you’ll find a chronological list of our upcoming extravaganzas, along with ticket links plus audio and video links so you can preview our artists. Join us as to discover more about fine innovative composers spanning the globe.

How does one play music with animals in a way that respects their nature and agency? Other Minds welcomes musician and philosopher David Rothenberg to answer this question in the West Coast Premiere of his work Eleven Paths to Animal Music (2025). This event takes place on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at Goldman Theater, David Brower Center.

Other Minds is besot with excitement for the white-hot pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa to perform A Lotta Sonatas in their first appearance with Other Minds since we brought them for 2024’s celebration of Davies’ 80th birthday. This concert is part of Other Minds’s PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.

Part of Maverick 250, our celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, Other Minds welcomes pianist Guy Livingston to perform works by George Antheil (1900–1959). This concert features a selection of rarely heard works for solo piano from Antheil’s “Bad Boy” period in Paris, circa 1923, as well as a version of Ballet Mécanique—Antheil’s raucous score for 16 pianolas, 2 regular pianos, 3 xylophones, at least 7 electric bells, 3 propellers, siren, 4 bass drums, and 1 tam-tam—performed by Livingston on piano with an acousmonium of seven loudspeakers in surround sound by Paul Lehrman.

Part of Maverick 250, our celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, Other Minds welcomes pianist Stephen Siek to perform the works of Alexander Reinagle (1750–1809), the most accomplished pianist of the New World and piano teacher of George Washington’s granddaughter.

The 30th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, an international annual showcase for composers will be held at the Brava Theater Thursday–Sunday, October 8–11, 2026.