Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

                 
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St
San Francisco CA 94102  
415-275-2466

The Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc. is a community center for participants of new music in San Francisco. The Center serves the practitioners of creative, non-commercial music by providing the resources they need, including space to work, rehearse, and perform, access to a like-minded community, and access to media resources. Through these services, the Center seeks to support and build the community of new music to encourage its efficiency, growth, integration, and excellence.
https://centerfornewmusic.com/

Upcoming Events:
Saturday, April 26 2025 8:00 PM
The Accidental Composers Collective returns to the C4NM with music for trio (clarinet, violin, and cello), and trio and soprano. Join us for an evening of new music premieres! Allan Crossman, "soirtrios", Alden Jenks "Tanka", Vance Maverick, "The Garden", Davide Verotta, "Nel Tardo Mezzo", and Shawne Workman, "Second Thoughts". With Hailey Gutowski, soprano, Stephen Zielinski, clarinet, Maki Ishii Sowash, violin, Vicky Ehrlich, cello.
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Sunday, April 27 2025 2:00 PM
The San Francisco Chapter of NACUSA returns to San Francisco’s Center for New Music for a Spring afternoon concert of new music written by members of NACUSA/SF. The program will feature new works by John Bilotta (Songs for a Modern Child, soprano and piano), Allan Crossman (Five Various Songs, soprano and piano), James W. Cook (Episodes for Solo Violin), Robert Fleisher (Five Songs from Carl Sandburg's "Prairie", soprano and piano), John MacKey (Foray No.3 and 11, solo piano), Soheil Shirangi (NAVAYE MAHZOON, solo piano), and Davide Verotta (Lagrangian Point, soprano and percussion).
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Friday, May 9 2025 7:30 PM
A vocal universe constructed by composers from China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Iran, and United Kingdom. These compositions are selected from 40 submissions from 16 countries in the 2025 Vocalverse Open Call. The founder and the co-artistic directors of Vocalverse will perform these groundbreaking compositions all at once.

Tonight's repertoire is immense, though the instrumentation is mostly for only one vocal artist. We are exploring the extremes, and looking forward to breaking more extremes of vocal music:
the extremes of timbral possibilities and maximalizations with about vocalverse by Yifan Shao (b.2003, CHN)
the extremes of fluidity between subvocalization and vocalization with Unvoiced by Gloria Xia (b.2004, CHN)
the extremes of lyricism in a xenharmonic and multiphonic singing world with The Horizon Melted into the Sea by Chang Ge (b.1999, CHN)
the extremes of dramaturgic diversity in words or even syllables with When Words Alive by Soheil Shirangi (b.1987, IRN)
the extremes of playful manipulation with p(M) by Kari Väkevä (b.1957, FIN)
the extremes of vocal range and imagery with Notes by Daria Baiocchi (b.1978, ITA)
the extremes of the power under simplicity and space sensation with Gloria by Volker Ignaz Schmidt (b.1971, GER)
and of course, the special duet between the Yifan and Lauren (b.2000, GBR)…

Get ready for an unparalleled journey in the oldest instrument, voice.
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Saturday, May 17 2025 12:00 PM
25 years of mainly showcasing the explosive experimental world of California sounds, with gourmet pancakes!! Bring an appetite, your glassorium blankets, motorhem crashlights, plaid sock rays, & SPACE: 200 B.C.mycosynths. It's a enlightening parade of haybaker yeti scalpiscopes learning to go full nature-thighclops!!
Heartworm
Jordan Blankenship (Modesto)
Kwisp
Adam Shaw & Lori Varga
Zona Zanjeros (WA)
Cop Funeral (L.A.)
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