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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.

Dennis Russell Davies playing piano

Dennis Russell Davies 80th Birthday
Keyboard Benefit Concert
Friday, March 22, 2024 Reception 7:00, Concert 8:00 pm
Bell-McCarthy Studio, San Francisco

Other Minds is pleased to welcome back Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies for a benefit recital of solo and piano four-hands music to celebrate Davies’ 80th birthday at the Bell-McCarthy Studio in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday, March 22, 2024. The performance will be preceded by a reception in honor of Davies’ milestone birthday.

For their fifth appearance with Other Minds, the duo will perform a set of solo and four-hands pieces by Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and John Cage. Rounding out the program is a piano four-hands arrangement of selections from Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s monumental work Má vlast (My Fatherland), a set of symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879.

Adam Tendler playing piano in front of a projector.

Adam Tendler: Inheritances
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Brava Theater, San Francisco

After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.

New works by commissioned composers Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres, and John Glover.

Brava Theater interior

Other Minds Festival 28
Wednesday–Saturday, September 25–28, 2024
Panels at 7:00 pm, Concerts at 8:00 pm
Brava Theater, San Francisco

Other Minds’s annual gathering of composers from around the world. Lineup will be announced soon!

Galina Ustvolskaya black and white headshot from the 1950s

Piano Sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya with Conor Hanick
Monday, October 28, 2024 at 7:30 pm
The Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Other Minds welcomes Conor Hanick for a performance of the complete piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) at The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Monday, October 28, 2024. The performance will be preceded by a talk on Ustvolskaya’s music by musicologist and 20th Century Russian and Soviet music specialist Simon Morrison.

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