Kronos Performing Arts Association Presents KRONOS FESTIVAL

The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Affiliation presents Kronos Competition, Kronos’ seventh annual music pageant, at SFJAZZ Heart on April 7-9, 2022.

This 12 months’s pageant highlights Kronos’ dedication to inventive collaboration, an inclusive repertoire, and to deep, longstanding relationships with artists from across the globe. The three-day celebration options 5 world premieres; signature works from Kronos’ far-reaching repertoire; an anniversary celebration; and three compositions commissioned as a part of Kronos’ groundbreaking Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Studying Repertoire undertaking. Composer, arranger, and trombonist Jacob Garchik, who has a protracted and fruitful creative relationship with the ensemble, is that this 12 months’s Artist-in-Residence.

This 12 months’s world premiere works are by Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Jonathan Berger, inti figgis-vizueta, Mahsa Vahdat, and Soo Yeon Lyuh. Particular company embody author and performer Rinde Eckert, multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, haegeum grasp Lyuh, vocalist Vahdat, and pipa virtuoso Wu Man.

“Kronos Competition celebrates increasing creativity,” says Kronos’ Founder and Inventive Director David Harrington. “We honor those that have a strengthened resolve to assist form our musical future despite any odds. Surrounded by associates, we hope the pageant energizes our viewers. Dwell music generally is a microcosm as we take heed to the longer term unfolding.”

“I’ve had the super privilege to work with Kronos Quartet for the final 16 years,” stated Garchik. “Collectively we have created over 110 works of music from everywhere in the world. I’ve at all times cherished working behind the scenes and collaborating with an enormous vary of artists however am thrilled to have my very own probability to step into the highlight with Kronos Competition.”

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a free, GPS-enabled work of public artwork in Golden Gate Park that launched in 2021 as a part of Kronos Competition, can even be ongoing at Golden Gate Park. And the pageant’s intimate collection Kronos Labs returns on Saturday afternoon.

Thursday, April 7, 2022, Program #1, 7:30pm

Kronos Quartet with particular visitor Jacob Garchik

Kronos Competition 2022 kicks off on Thursday, April 7 with the world premiere of Janety, a joyful work by Malian Griot singer Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté written for the fortieth Anniversary of KPAA Govt Director and Kronos Supervisor Janet Cowperthwaite. A member of famend ensemble Trio Da Kali, Diabaté’s work is impressed by the tegere tulon-a custom of handclapping songs and dances created spontaneously by women in nation villages of southern Mali. Janety includes a visitor group of younger musicians, and pays tribute to Kronos’ steadfast chief and advocate. Artist-in-Residence Jacob Garchik joins the quartet on trombone and tuba for Upon a Star, a set organized by Garchik primarily based on the music of Steven Spielberg movies. This system concludes with Cadenza on the Evening Plain, a 13-movement work written for Kronos by one of many ensemble’s most prolific and inventive collaborators, Terry Riley. Music critic Kyle Gann known as Cadenza on the Evening Plain “the archetypal Kronos piece.”

Friday, April 8, 2022, 7:30pm, Program #2, 7:30pm

Kronos Quartet with particular company Rinde Eckert and Vân-Ânh Võ

On Friday, April 8, at 7:30pm Kronos unveils two of the newest works launched as a part of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Studying Repertoire, an unprecedented string quartet commissioning, efficiency, schooling, and legacy undertaking that has been designed and developed below Cowperthwaite’s management. The works embody Indonesian Gamelan composer and vocalist Peni Candra Rini’s Maduswara, and Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo’s YanYanKliYan Senamido #2. Additionally on this system are Oasis, a one-movement composition by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and one in all Kronos’ signature works, and Circulate, a haunting work by Laurie Anderson organized by Jacob.

Concluding this system is the world premiere of My Lai Suite, tailored from composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman’s acclaimed opera about Hugh Thompson, the Military helicopter pilot within the Vietnam Struggle who courageously intervened within the U.S. Military bloodbath of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. Particular visitor vocalist Rinde Eckert and grasp instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ carry out.

Saturday, April 9, 2022, Program #3, 7:30pm

Kronos Quartet with particular company Soo Yeon Lyuh, Mahsa Vahdat, and Wu Man

Program #3 closes Kronos Competition 2022 with three world premieres written for Kronos. inti figgis-vizueta’s music by your self is a bit about “connecting to people who find themselves and are not nonetheless right here.” Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat performs in The place Is Your Voice, a brand new, authentic track organized by Aftab Darvishi. Korean-American composer and grasp of the haegeum Soo Yeon Lyuh takes the stage in Tattoo (Prolonged Model), the artist’s highly effective response to a harrowing incident in Berkeley, California during which somebody fired a gun at her automotive. Philip Glass‘ Orion: China, written on the event of the Athens Cultural Olympiad in Summer time 2004, contemplates the Earth’s relationship to the constellations as interpreted by the world’s many cultures, and options pipa virtuoso Wu Man.

This system additionally consists of Russian nonagenarian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s Quartet No. 4, one in all Kronos’ signature works its huge physique of commissions; and Jacob Garchik’s Storyteller, a 16-minute work that includes archival recordings of the legendary Pete Seeger singing, talking, and taking part in his banjo. Storyteller was one of many works within the 2020 recording Lengthy Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Associates Have a good time Pete Seeger, a tribute to the late people musician and activist.

Saturday, April 9: Kronos Labs, 2pm and 5pm

Kronos Labs includes a free efficiency at 2pm with pupil musicians from across the Bay Space performing works from Fifty for the Future, together with a number of of Garchik’s preparations. At 5pm, Garchik is joined by an all-star group composed of the Bay Space’s premier brass gamers for The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Choir, a nine-part suite for trombones, tuba, and drums.

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK in Golden Gate Park, Ongoing, Free

SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public artwork that makes use of music, composed by Reid and carried out by Kronos and others, to light up the pure setting. SOUNDWALK is custom-tailored to its setting, and has been created to encourage a deeper connection to nature and exploration of iconic areas. Listeners entry the work through a free smartphone app, and expertise a dynamic sonic panorama meticulously mapped to the park’s panorama and sights.

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

Thursday, April 7

PROGRAM #1, 7:30pm, Miner Auditorium

Kronos Quartet with particular visitor Jacob Garchik

Jacob Garchik / Upon A Star * Bay Space premiere with Jacob Garchik, trombone, tuba

Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Tegere Tulon: V. Janety **

world premiere with Jacob Garchik and pupil musicians

Terry Riley / Cadenza on the Evening Plain * Introduction

Cadenza: Violin I

The place Was Knowledge When We Went West?

Cadenza: Viola

March of the Outdated Timers Reefer Division; The Outdated Timers Throw a Spring Competition;

Marching Off to Extra Critical Issues

Cadenza: Violin II

Tuning to Rolling Thunder

The Evening Cry of Black Buffalo Lady

Cadenza: Cello

Gathering of the Spiral Clan; Captain Jack Has the Final Phrase

Friday, April 8

PROGRAM #2, 7:30pm, Miner Auditorium

Kronos Quartet with particular company Rinde Eckert and Vân-Ânh Vanessa Võ

Peni Candra Rini (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Maduswara **

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Oasis *

Angélique Kidjo (arr. Jacob Garchik) / YanYanKliYan Senamido #2 **

Laurie Anderson (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Circulate +

My Lai Suite * world premiere

Tailored from My Lai: An opera for tenor, string quartet and Vietnamese devices

Jonathan Berger, composer

Harriet Scott Chessman, librettist

Rinde Eckert, vocals

Vân-Ánh Võ, t’rưng, ?’àn ba??u, ?’àn tranh

Saturday, April 9

KRONOS LABS

2:00pm, Joe Henderson Lab

Kronos Lab / Kronos’ Fifty for the Future with Jacob Garchik

Performances by pupil musicians from a number of Bay Space colleges, moderated by Jacob Garchik

5:00pm, Joe Henderson Lab

Kronos Lab / Jacob Garchik’s The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Choir

From the thoughts of Jacob Garchik comes an astonishing and astounding testomony to the ability of cause. Garchik leads an all-star group composed of the Bay Space’s premier brass gamers performing a nine-part suite for trombones, tuba, and drums.

PROGRAM #3, 7:30pm, Miner Auditorium

Kronos Quartet with particular company Soo Yeon Lyuh, Mahsa Vahdat, and Wu Man

Soo Yeon Lyuh / Tattoo (Prolonged Model) * world premiere

with particular visitor Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum

Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Aftab Darvishi) / The place Is Your Voice * world premiere

with particular visitor Mahsa Vahdat, vocals

Philip Glass (arr. Michael Riesman) / Orion: China +

with particular visitor Wu Man, pipa

inti figgis-vizueta / music by your self * world premiere

Sofia Gubaidulina / Quartet No. 4*

Jacob Garchik / Storyteller *

Extra programming to be introduced. Program topic to vary.