Other Minds Festival 29
| Ticket Information Individual Nights: $23 - $66 (sliding scale) Festival Pass: $71 - $209 (sliding scale) Ticket prices include all fees. Nights 1-3 Run Time: 1 Hours, 30 Minutes Day 4 Run Time: 1 Hour General Admission |
A panoply of composers will assemble for the 29th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco at the Brava Theater Thursday–Sunday, October 16–19, 2025.
The Festival opens with a performance by Pamela Z of Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video. Also featured is composer Peter Garland's beguiling song cycle Songs of Exile and Wine, performed by vocalist Maria Tegzes and pianist Geoffrey Burleson.
On Night 2, composer Samuel Adams will present music performed by Friction Quartet, violinist Helen Kim, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and pianists Conor Hanick and Sarah Cahill. Adams' piece commissioned by Cahill, which will receive its world premiere, is a tribute to his mentor Ingram Marshall, who is represented on the program with a performance of Dark Waters for English horn by Libby Van Cleve.
Night 3 opens with the world premiere of a new choreographed work by Nancy Karp set to James Tenney's Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen will present Piano Piece, for piano, electronics, and live camera performed by pianist Ellen Ugelvik and visual artist Evelina Dembacke. To close the evening, composer/harpist Zeena Parkins and percussionist William Winant will perform Parkins' Modesty of the Magic Thing, based on the drawings of Jay DeFeo and Lou Harrison’s American Gamelan tuning.
To close the festival, Putu Septa, leader of the ensemble Nata Swara, will perform an intercultural set of music for gamelan instruments and piano with I Kadek Janurangga and ZOFO, the piano duo of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi.
The Festival opens with a performance by Pamela Z of Simultaneous, an intermedia composition for voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble, speech samples, gesture control, and projected video. Also featured is composer Peter Garland's beguiling song cycle Songs of Exile and Wine, performed by vocalist Maria Tegzes and pianist Geoffrey Burleson.
On Night 2, composer Samuel Adams will present music performed by Friction Quartet, violinist Helen Kim, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and pianists Conor Hanick and Sarah Cahill. Adams' piece commissioned by Cahill, which will receive its world premiere, is a tribute to his mentor Ingram Marshall, who is represented on the program with a performance of Dark Waters for English horn by Libby Van Cleve.
Night 3 opens with the world premiere of a new choreographed work by Nancy Karp set to James Tenney's Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen will present Piano Piece, for piano, electronics, and live camera performed by pianist Ellen Ugelvik and visual artist Evelina Dembacke. To close the evening, composer/harpist Zeena Parkins and percussionist William Winant will perform Parkins' Modesty of the Magic Thing, based on the drawings of Jay DeFeo and Lou Harrison’s American Gamelan tuning.
To close the festival, Putu Septa, leader of the ensemble Nata Swara, will perform an intercultural set of music for gamelan instruments and piano with I Kadek Janurangga and ZOFO, the piano duo of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi.
About Other Minds:
Founded in 1993, Other Minds is a leading proponent for new and experimental music in all its forms, bringing together artists and audiences of diverse traditions, generations, and cultural backgrounds. By fostering cross- cultural exchange and creative dialogue, and by encouraging exploration of areas in new music seldom touched upon by mainstream music institutions, OM is committed to expanding and reshaping the definition of what constitutes “serious music.” From festival concerts, weekly radio broadcasts, and the commissioning of new works, to producing and releasing CDs, to archival preservation of thousands of concerts and composer interviews (which OM distributes free on the internet), OM has become one of the world’s major conservators of new music’s ecology.
For more information, visit otherminds.org
