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FundingSeventy-seven percent of our revenue comes from contributions. Donations are used to produce our concerts and programs, create new works, and train the next generation of contemporary music musicians. We humbly thank the thousands of individuals and institutions who have made our work possible. Thank you to our members, ticket-buyers, and season subscribers who fill the seats and provide momentum and excitement at every event. Thank you to our individual contributors whose gifts allow us to produce award-winning and thought-provoking, world-class, contemporary music. Thank you to the many generous Bay Area organizations and esteemed foundations who believe in the work that we do and who generously support the Arts in the Bay Area.

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THANK YOU TO THE MANY FOUNDATIONS WHO HAVE

GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED US NOW, AND IN THE RECENT PAST

American Music Project

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

Clarence E. Heller FoundationFromm Music Foundation

James Irvine Foundation

National Endowment for the ArtsPhyllis C. Wattis Foundation

San Francisco Grants for the ArtsThe Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia UniversityThe Amphion Foundation

The Bernard Osher FoundationThe Ross McKee Foundation

William and Flora Hewlett FoundationWells Fargo Foundation

Zellerbach Family Foundation

OUR HEROES

Fifty years is a venerable age for a group dedicated to creating and presenting contemporary music. Thanks to the vision of our founders, the talents of our musicians, the dedication of our board members, and the enthusiastic support of our audiences and supporters like you, the Contemporary Players continue to enrich the Bay Area and beyond with thought-provoking performances. San Francisco Contemporary Music Players gratefully acknowledge the following supporters who have made one or more donations within the last 12 months.

A note about the new structure of our donor listCommunity-centric fundraising is a fundraising practice that is grounded in equity; it calls on all non-profits to bring principles of racial and economic justice into our development strategies. As one small step towards aligning SFCMP with this model, we have removed giving levels from our donor list. We hope to celebrate and raise up all of our supporters no matter the size of their contribution and recognize the generosity of our community as a whole.

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THE HAROLD WOLLACK LEGACY CIRCLE

A former subscriber, Harold Wollack, left the first bequest to help underwrite the ensemble’s concerts and programs. Recently, the ensemble received generous bequests from the estates of Jane Roos and Victor and Esta Wolfram. All bequests help to ensure that our organization will remain vibrant and that

future generations will enjoy the music of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. We thank the following individuals who have arranged a legacy gift in support of our future:

LEGACY CIRCLE MEMBERS

A.Robin Orden, Adam Frey, Eunice Childs in memory of Dr. Alfred W. Childs, Anne Baldwin, Roy (Bud) and Fran Johns, *C. Michael Richards, Dr. Claire Harrison, Dianne J. Ellsworth, Donald Blais, *George Bosworth, *Harold Wollack, Holly Hartley, *Jacqueline S. Hoefer, *Jane Roos and Jean-Louis LeRoux, Margot Golding, Paul Griffin, Priscilla Brown, Renate Kay, Ruth Caron Jacobs, Susan and Harry Hartzell, Terry McKelvey, *Victor and Esta Wolfram

*realized

To leave your own legacy gift please contactLisa Oman, Executive Director (650) 525-6288 or

director@sfcmp.org

WITH APPRECIATION TO THESE DEDICATED LEADERS

Board of Directors PresidentsDonald Blais, Officer, President

Lita Reyes, Officer, Vice-PresidentKit Sharma, Officer, Treasurer

Michael Gilbertson, Officer, Secretary

Cathryn HrudickaKyle Bruckmann

Peter Witte

Richard Festinger

Steve Horowitz Tod Brody

Richard D. Lee (2009-2013) Susan Hartzell (2005-2009) Anne Baldwin (2002-2005)

Roy C. (Bud) Johns (2000-2001) T. William Melis (1996-2000) Paul R. Griffin (1986-1996)

Jane Roos (1978-1986) Jean-Louis LeRoux (1974-1978)

Founding Directors Emeritus AdvisorsCharles Boone

Jean-Louis LeRoux

Marcella DeCray

Anne Baldwin Paul Griffin Richard Lee

Steven Schick

Susan York

Creative Advisors Organizational AdvisorsCaroline Shaw

Edward Simon

Pamela Z

Tyshawn Sorey

Gene Nakajima

Karen Gottlieb

Margot Golding

Susan Harzell Terry McKelvey

Timothy Bridge

Past Executive Directors Past Artistic DirectorsRozella Kennedy (2012-2015)

Carrie Blanding (2010-2012) Christopher Honett (2009-2010)

Adam Frey (1991-2009) Susan Munn (1988-1991)

Marcella DeCray (1974-1988)

Steven Schick (2009-2018) David Milnes (2002-2009)

Jean-Louis LeRoux (2001-2002)

Donald Palma (1998-2000) Stephen L. Mosko (1988-1997) Jean-Louis LeRoux (1974-1988)

Charles Boone (1971-1973)

Business PartnersHarmon Burstyn, CPA

Pamela Sanchez, Gary Preiser, Inc. Rafael Lantan, Buckley Patchen

Terry McKelvey, Investment OfficerTony Kay Design

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William WINANT

Ash FURE

DeVanté WINN

Garrett LUCERO

Hrabba ATLADOTTIR

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Tomeka REID

Olly WILSON

Tyshawn SOREY

Photo: Vern Evans

John ADAMS

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Caroline SHAW

THE CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS

View BiosTod Brody, flute Meredith Clark, harpKyle Bruckmann, oboe Kate Campbell, pianoSarah Rathke, oboe David Tanenbaum, guitar

Jeff Anderle, clarinet Hrabba Atladottir, violinPeter Josheff, clarinet Susan Freier, violin

Adam Luftman, trumpet Roy Malan, violin

Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone Meena Bhasin, violaPeter Wahrhaftig, tuba Nanci Severance, viola

Chris Froh, percussion Hannah Addario-Berry, celloHaruka Fujii, percussion Stephen Harrison, celloLoren Mach, percussion Richard Worn, contrabass

William Winant, percussion

GUEST ARTISTS

Allegra Chapman, piano Alicia Telford, horn

Shawn Jones, bassoon Pamela Z, voice

Jamael Smith, bassoon

FEATURING THE WORK OF

Aaron Jay Kernis John Adams

Amadeus Regucera Jon KulpaAndrew Norman Jon Yu

Ash Fure Josiah Tayaq CatalanCaroline Shaw Liza LimChristian Lindberg Maija HynninenDavid Lang Olly WilsonDeVanté Winn Pamela ZGarrett Lucero Tomeka ReidGuillaume Connesson Tyshawn SoreyJames Tenney

PRODUCED BY

Lisa Oman, Executive Director

Eric Dudley, Artistic Director

Amadeus Regucera, Artistic Production Director

Greer McGettrick, Production Associate

Zach Miley, Audio/Video EngineerSpecial thanks to Paul Dresher Studio

The Lineup

Concerts and Events

ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players is the West Coast’s most longstanding and largest new music ensemble, comprised of twenty-two highly skilled musicians. For 50 years, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players have created innovative and artistically excellent music and are one of the most active ensembles in the United States dedicated to contemporary music. Holding an important role in the regional and national cultural landscape, the Contemporary Music Players are a 2018 awardee of the esteemed Fromm Foundation Ensemble Prize, and a ten-time

winner of the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.

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50th Anniversary

Season

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WELCOME TO OUR 2020-21 SEASON

ERIC DUDLEY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

SUN, MAY 23, 2021

Sound Encounters in collaboration with CNMAT, UC BerkeleyMay 23 Webcast 3 pm Pacific

Watch On Demand through June 23

For this year’s in the COMMUNITY series

event, we invite everyone to experience sound art in a virtual environment, as we explore a range of fascinating electro-acoustic works of Bay Area origins. SFCMP percussionist William WINANT kicks off the program with his uniquely personal interpretation of a famous work by James TENNEY, followed by performances of pieces by three of the

Bay Area’s leading sound artists from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at U.C. Berkeley: Jon Kulpa, Maija

HYNNINEN, and Jon YU.

PROGRAM

James Tenney, Koan: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion

William Winant, percussion

Jon Kulpa, QuFoam

John Kulpa, electronics

Maija Hynninen, it is always today

Radiophonic work for multi-channel audio

Jon Yu, 15 eyes

William Winant, percussion

in the COMMUNITY seriesencouraging the exploration of contemporary music in a festive community atmosphere

SAT, MAR 6, 2021

Overtones and UndercurrentsMarch 6 Webcast 8 pm Pacific Watch On Demand through April 6

Our 50th season in the LABORATORY series

stretches the boundaries of sound generation in a program that explores the tensions between the natural

and the artificial. Including interviews with the composers and performers that provide

windows into their creative processes and behind-the-scenes insight, this fully electro-acoustic concert features the world premieres of two new works by Garrett LUCERO and DeVanté WINN, both students of the SFCM Technology and Applied Composition Department. The brilliantly unconventional use of subwoofer cones as pulse generators defines the soundworld of an essay for solo percussion and electronics by Ash FURE, pulling apart the components of speakers for fascinating and unexpected musical results.

PROGRAM

Garrett Lucero, Onward for guitar and electronicsDavid Tanenbaum, guitar

DeVanté Winn, Yesterday Night for oboe and electronics Kyle Bruckmann, oboe

Ash Fure, Shiver Lung 2 for percussion and electronics William Winant, percussion

in the LABORATORY seriesexploring large-ensemble works that push the boundaries of the concert experience

THUR, MAR 4, 2021

Performance and Masterclassin collaboration with SFCM String DepartmentMarch 4 Webcast 7:30 pm Pacific Watch On Demand through April 4

In our ongoing MASTERCLASS series, we

interact with some of the most talented Bay Area pre-professional musicians in a live performance and feedback session with one of our renowned ensemble members. Students bring selected works to the stage

while being mentored in the techniques,

skills, and myriad styles of contemporary music performance. This season’s masterclass focuses on contemporary repertoire for stringed instruments, coached by violinist Hrabba ATLADOTTIR.

PROGRAM

Bright Sheng, The Stream Flows

Adrian Wu, violin

Philip Glass, Partita for Solo Violin

Solanch Sosa, violin

Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvt I

Ryan Cheng, violin

Giacinto Scelsi, Manto

Natalia Badziak, viola

MASTERCLASS seriesencouraging the development of the next generation of contemporary music composers and musicians

SAT, APR 10 & SAT, JULY 10, 2021

PostScript to the Future - Parts 1 and 2April 10 Webcast 8 pm Pacific

Watch On Demand through May 10

July 10 Webcast 8 pm Pacific

Watch On Demand through August 10

This year’s at the CROSSROADS series

reflects an ongoing exploration of music that exists in the innovative realms of cross-genre connectivity. The Contemporary Players join their trans-Atlantic compatriots at Ensemble Intercontemporain by co-commissioning a new

work from NYC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn

SOREY, whose fluency across stylistic streams

has distinguished him

as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary music today. Connecting the threads to a figure that Sorey has long considered a key inspiration for his work, we spotlight the life and legacy of composer and longtime Bay Area resident Olly WILSON, a close friend and collaborator of the Contemporary Players for years. Jazz-trained cellist and composer Tomeka REID joins the conversation, along with the

premiere of our annual SF Search for Scores

winning composition, framing an emerging generation of composers whose work launches out on divergent paths along the same cross-genre trajectories.

PROGRAM 1 - APRIL 10, 2021

Josiah Tayaq Catalan, New Work*

Allegra Chapman, piano

* Winner, SF Search for Scores 2020

Olly Wilson, Echoes for clarinet and electronics

Jeff Anderle, clarinet

PROGRAM 2 - JULY 10, 2021

Tomeka Reid, Prospective Dwellers for string quartet

Tyshawn Sorey, For Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (In Memoriam)*

* U.S. premiere / SFCMP Commission

Olly Wilson, A City Called Heaven

at the CROSSROADS seriescelebrating the work of legacy composers alongside cutting-edge voices from across generations

SEPT, OCT & NOV 2020

YouTube Online Premieres @ youtube.com/c/SanFranciscoContemporaryMusicPlayers

In our How Music is Made ONLINE series, our hosts—some of contemporary music’s most inspired personalities—share their insight into a personal favorite piece of music with you, followed by a performance by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

ONLINE RELEASES

Myra MELFORD, Homogeneous Infiltration featuring Myra Melford as improvising soloist. Hosts, Amadeus Regucera and Kyle Bruckmann

Julius EASTMAN, Gay Guerilla featuring Kate Campbell and Allegra Chapman, soloists. Hosts Allegra Chapman, Kate Campbell, and Artistic Director Eric Dudley

Ted HEARNE, The Cage Variations featuring Ted Hearne, composer, guest performer. Hosts, Hrabba Atladottir and Artistic Director Eric Dudley

How Music is Made ONLINEa SFCMP Education Program

JOIN THE PLAYERS FOR OUR 50TH SEASON!

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This milestone season offers the work of 26 composers with 7 from California, 2 large-scale commissioning projects, 7 distinct world, U.S. or West Coast premieres with a spotlight on large-ensemble works, and several special events and community engagement activities. The momentum and air of excitement is palpable as we head into our 50th season. We hope you will join us in this celebratory and landmark year by

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SUN, JUNE 26, 2021

50th Celebration Concert

June 26 Webcast 8 pm Pacific

Watch On Demand until July 26

For five decades, the Contemporary Players’ activities have helped to define and advance the new music scene in the city of San Francisco and beyond. We celebrate that legacy with an intimate concert highlighting the solo and chamber music artistry of players from SFCMP’s roster of virtuosi, sharing works by celebrated living composers that are among their personal favorite ‘party pieces,’ and in some cases were written specifically for them. This exclusive evening with the Contemporary Players, in commemoration of the 50th season and in support of many more ahead, is an historic, one-of-a-kind event that you won’t want to miss.

PROGRAM

David Lang, Press Release

Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet

Aaron Jay Kernis, Soliloquy

David Tanenbaum, guitar

Liza Lim, Gyfu

Kyle Bruckmann, oboe

Christian Lindberg, Joe Jack Binglebandit

Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone

Guillaume Connesson, Disco Toccata

Clarinet and cello duo

Jeff Anderle and Hannah Addario-Berry

50th Anniversary Celebration

FRI, JUNE 18, 2021

Voices in ReverberationJune 18 Webcast 8 pm Pacific

Watch On Demand through July 18

In our on STAGE series, we shine a spotlight on West Coast composers to celebrate some of the brightest luminaries from the Bay Area. Resident rockstar John ADAMS

demonstrates his technical prowess in the riveting, large-ensemble work Son of Chamber Symphony. We present a new work by Caroline SHAW commissioned

exclusively by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, written for instrumental quartet and celebrated Bay Area sound artist and vocalist PAMELA Z . The inexpressible Amadeus REGUCERA thrills us with textual

utterances and deep breaths and Los Angeles’ Andrew NORMAN takes us on a

sonic journey through the interior light of the Basilica of Saint Sabina.

PROGRAM

Amadeus Regucera, Inexpressible v.2

Andrew Norman, Sabina

Hrabba Atladottir, violin

Pamela Z, Breathing (from Carbon Song Cycle)Pamela Z, voice and electronics

Caroline Shaw, New Work*

*World premiere/SFCMP Commission

John Adams, Son of Chamber Symphony

on STAGE seriesfeaturing large-ensemble works of the most influential and innovative composers of the 21st century

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