New Carnatic Music with Gautam Tejas Ganeshan


Gautam Tejas Ganeshan's authentic voice and intelligent approach breathe new life into an old tradition. Delivered in chamber ensembles, his concerts reflect a traditional aesthetic, transforming a highly cultured musical heritage through the creation of an ongoing body of original works based in love and understanding of Carnatic music - its elaborate structures, extensive improvisations, and the utmost sincerity that distinguishes its greatest practitioners. His performances express authenticity more than ethnicity, immediacy more than nostalgia, and allow listeners the unprecedented experience of having a natural linguistic purchase on the complex song forms of a rich oral tradition.

Gautam Tejas Ganeshan has performed widely in the SF Bay Area since 2004, including at the SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, SFJAZZ, Asian Art Museum (SF), Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley, and more, as well as having given workshops at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Stanford Jazz Workshop, and guest-lectures for music courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. He is the founder and director of the Sangati Center, a non-profit chamber music concert series in San Francisco that has hosted more than 400 public chamber concerts in SF, Oakland, and Berkeley since 2006, and has earned support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and more.

Gautam Tejas Ganeshan at the Maybeck
Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission



Artmann/Graber Duo


Program:
Bach Gamba Sonata No. 3, in g minor
Beethoven Sonata No. 1, in F major
Rachmaninoff Sonata in g minor

The Artmann/Graber musical partnership began 35 years ago and has included many adventures: a world premiere, Miles running an electronic tape accompaniment, and many memorable recitals. The duo is especially excited to share some of their favorite works by Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff in the intimate Maybeck Studio.
Cellist Mary Artmann enjoys a varied career as both a performer and teacher. She spent numerous years living in upstate New York performing with many chamber and orchestral groups, in addition to being an active recitalist. Moving westward, she joined the award-winning Veronika String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Artmann/Graber Duo at the Maybeck
Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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Meredith Axelrod, Jacob Rex Zimmerman, and Craig Ventresco Play Early Jazz



We will play pop tunes, mostly from the 1920s, and turn them into jazz!

Part of the allure of old time music, indeed any music throughout the history of recorded music, is hearing the original recordings as played and sung by the original performers in their heyday, loving what they’re doing and doing it because it means something to them in that moment; Axelrod, Zimmerman, and Ventresco bring the same unbridled passion, earnest devotion and candid vitality to all of the songs they perform, improvising constantly.

Axelrod, Zimmerman and Ventresco at the Maybeck
Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

The NUVO Chamber Quartet: Re-imagining Faure, Gershwin, & Rachmaninoff


The NUVO Chamber Quartet features expansive jazz re-arrangements and re-constructions of late-Romantic romantic repertoire (Gershwin, Faure, & Rachmaninoff), Ladino & Israeli works, plus original Turkish and Brazilian compositions. A vocal blues suite with original Beat-Era lyrics by Ornette Coleman, Thelonius Monk, and McCoy Tyner rounds out the program.

The group is lead by composer/arranger Michael Smolens, who has been fascinated with the intersection of with jazz and classical music with improvisation as a bridge for over five decades. Each band member has toured and recorded extensively, and is a composer, teacher, and bandleader in their own right. Their collaborations include: Grammy-winning chamber ensembles (Turtle Island & Ying Quartets, New Century Chamber Orch.), vocal ensembles (Chanticleer, SF Girls' Chorus, Voicestra), gypsy jazz (Hot Club of SF), 'nuevo flamenco' (Jason McGuire "El Robio"), North Indian (Pandit Zakir Hussain), jazz legends Kenny Barron, Stephane Grapelli, John Handy, Stefon Harris, Stanley Jordon, Nguyen Le, Paul McCandless, Paquito D'Rivera and vocalists Jacqui Naylor, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Washington, and Rhiannon.

The NUVO Chamber Quartet at the Maybeck
Sunday, November 05, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission 
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