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Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge
The Folly of Desire Calling jazz pianist, arranger and composer Brad Mehldau eclectic is an understatement. Trained at the New School and influenced by McCoy Tyner’s piano jazz, Mehldau has done it all: he has his own trio, created art songs for Renée Fleming, riffed on show tunes, and even delved into German lieder. Join us at the Bing to experience Mehldau’s new song cycle The Folly of Desire, created with tenor Ian Bostridge. The evening’s program will also include…
Find out more »Ens Ekt
The ENS EKT trio features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) in dialogue with the circular breathed multi-phonics and harmonic textures of David Bud (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Mad Pulse Maybe (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation.
Find out more »Chucho Valdés
Jazz Batá One of the most important exponents of Afro-Cuban jazz, Chucho Valdés is spending his 70s touring the world. His father, famed pianist and bandleader Bebo Valdés, left Cuba in 1960. Father and son had little contact until shortly before Bebo’s death at age 94 in Stockholm. Valdés’ album, Jazz Batá 2, features piano and batá, an hourglass-shaped Yoruban drum, and a song called “100 years of Bebo”—a salute to Chucho’s father’s centenary this year.
Find out more »Terry Riley and Gyan Riley
California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. Its impact changed the course of 20th-century music and its influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams and in the music of rock groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air…
Find out more »Terry Riley and Gyan Riley
California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. Its impact changed the course of 20th-century music and its influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams and in the music of rock groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air…
Find out more »Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert
Steve Reich “Daniel Variations” & “Different Trains” This annual concert honors the life and memory of Stanford alumnus Daniel Pearl, the violin-playing Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in 2002. The program will feature Steve Reich’s “Daniel Variations,” which quotes the Book of Daniel as well as Pearl himself, as well as the Grammy winning “Different Trains,” a work that reflects on the plight of the European Jewish community during World War II.
Find out more »Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: In Search of Lost Beauty
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė is a New York-based Lithuanian composer whose works explore the tensions and longings of identity and place. “In Search Of Lost Beauty” is a sequence of audiovisual novellas for violin, cello, piano, electronics, and video
Find out more »NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Alexandra Hawley and Melody Holmes
Flute students are featured in this noontime concert. Program Victoria DingBach – Sonata in G minor Dante DullasTaktakishvili – Sonata: Aria Noah BrazerDoppler – Airs Valaques Admission Info Free
Find out more »CBD 2019: Sound Based Contemplative Concert with Mirabai and Friends
This concert focuses on calming the mind and creating an experience of deep connection with the musicians, the other audience members and yourself. The leader will sing a Sanskirt word as a mantra, and the audience sings it back. This is known as Kirtan, the ancient contemplative practice of singing the names of the divine. Kirtan is a form of Bhakti Yoga, a spiritual path and practices within Hinduism focused on loving devotion towards a personal god. So often, our…
Find out more »Timothy Weaver: HYLAEA ReSpoken
Timothy Weaver‘s HYLAEA ReSpoken is a collection of live cinema (sound/moving image) movements that seeks to reanimate the residues of lost ecological memory. The project enriches the transcoding of bio- and ecoinformatic data to soundscape thru the re-witnessing of endangered and extinct habitats and uncertain biodiversity. The compendium of works interlaces lifecycles to the afterlife, through sonic and visual immersion, to recollect the complex imagined distance between genomic and ecoacoustic expression. HYLAEA ReSpoken folds and refolds the digital/visual residues from emergent extremophiles into…
Find out more »Halloween Concert: Stanford Wind Symphony and Stanford Symphony Orchestra
The annual Halloween Concert by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Phillips, and the Stanford Wind Symphony, conducted by Russell Gavin, will include everything from chills to thrills. And the annual Costume Competition confirms this as a concert you won’t want to miss! Program Stanford Symphony Orchestra Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld Overture George Gershwin: An American in Paris Stanford Wind Symphony Hans Zimmer: At the Movies with Hans Zimmer Danny Elfman: The Nightmare Before Christmas Eric Whitacre:…
Find out more »CBD 2019: Shuttle to Carillon Concert from and to SRWC for the Contemplation by Design Summit
If you work at SRWC, you can easily enjoy the Contemplation By Design Carillon Concert and Community-wide Pause at Hoover Tower and Meyer Green by taking this free shuttle from SRWC and back to SRWC. REGISTER here for the FREE SHUTTLE from and back to SRWC or through the Stanford Ticket Office: tickets.stanford.edu. Space is limited and granted to SRWC faculty/staff who register until the shuttles are full. Registration opens September 10th. The Hoover carillon bells ring again this year…
Find out more »CBD 2019: Carillon Concert & Community-Wide Contemplative Pause
The Hoover carillon bells ring again this year to signal the University’s commitment to emotional well-being. All members of the Stanford community are encouraged to pause, reflect and take time to unwind. Gather in Dohrmann Grove, the Oval Ear, Hoover Lawn or Meyer Green to share the concert and contemplative pause together as a community. You may also enjoy the experience by pausing wherever you are on or off campus. Concert by Tim Zerlang, Stanford Carilloneur. Bring a picnic if…
Find out more »Nothing Wrong: Jeff Sanford’s Jazz Orchestra Plays the Music of Lenny Carlson
Lenny Carlson has been composer-in-residence for Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Septet & Orchestra for ten years. Sanford is a highly regarded woodwind artist who formed this ensemble to perform the eclectic and challenging music of Raymond Scott, who provided the musical background for 120 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1940s and 50s. The Cartoon Jazz Orchestra’s premiere performance was at the 2003 Stanford Jazz Festival. The musicians in the orchestra are among the top freelance musicians in the…
Find out more »Joshua Bell, violin Alessio Bax, piano
Acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell returns to Bing Concert Hall with Italian pianist Alessio Bax. With over 30 years as a soloist under his belt, Bell is the current director of the renowned Academy of St. Martins in the Fields chamber ensemble. Bax is an award-winning pianist who has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and more.
Find out more »Minorities
by Company Red Virgo Minorities (少數民族)—a work by “boy wonder” choreographer Yang Zhen (楊朕)—includes a cast of actors, dancers, and a singer who hail from Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Europe. It is the final installment of Zhen’s trilogy of works that examine society roles and class divisions in China. A coproduction of the Taipei Arts Festival and Dance Munich, Minorities explores how minority identities in China fit (or don’t fit) in the narrative of a harmonious One China. Admission Info $40
Find out more »VOICES OF THE EARTH: FROM SOPHOCLES TO RACHEL CARSON AND BEYOND
Compiled by Rush Rehm and Charles Junkerman, Voices of the Earth deals with the troubled relationship between humans and the natural world. Along with powerful wilderness images and soundscapes, the staged reading features environmental pioneers (Muir, Carson, Stegner), great nature writers (Thoreau, Snyder, Abbey), playwrights who turn to the environment for inspiration (Sophocles, Chekhov, O’Neill), native American voices (Crowfoot, Chief Luther Standing Bear, Walking Buffalo), poets who honor the earth (Li Po, Rumi, Neruda, Levertov, Oliver, Lorde), environmental activists (Mendes,…
Find out more »Jon Batiste
Born into a long lineage of Louisiana musicians, Jon Batiste is a globally celebrated musician, educator, bandleader and television personality whose musical skill, artistic vision and exuberant charisma has made him a triple threat and the newly “crowned prince of jazz.” Jon delicately balances a demanding schedule on screen and on stage —which includes his role as Bandleader and Musical Director with the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Jon released his first solo album, Hollywood Africans in 2018 which was…
Find out more »NOON CONCERT: Cello Students of Stephen Harrison
Stephen Harrison’s cello students perform in this noontime recital. Admission Info Free
Find out more »CBD 2019: Shuttle to Bing Concert from SRWC, and back to SRWC for the Contemplation by Design Summit
If you work at SRWC, you can easily enjoy the Contemplation By Design concert in Bing Concert Hall by taking this free shuttle from SRWC and back to SRWC. This P.E.A.C.E. concert is created by members of the Stanford communiy for members of the Stanford community. Through music and song experience PEACE: Pause, Exhale, Attend mindfully, Connect with nature/yourself/others and Express. The concert includes performances by: cellists Provost Persis Drell, Dean Lloyd Minor, and students Jeffrey Kwong, Henry Bair, Danna…
Find out more »CBD 2019: Contemplative Concert in Bing Concert Hall
Through music and song experience PEACE: Pause, Exhale, Attend mindfully, Connect with nature/yourself/others and Express. The concert includes performances by: cellists Provost Persis Drell, Dean Lloyd Minor, and students Jeffrey Kwong, Henry Bair, Danna Xue, Tracy Lang, Evan Kim and Erik Roise; pianist medical student Kevin Sun; a cappella singers Talisman; soprano Kari Kirk; baritone Prof. Steve Goodman; oboist alumnus Benjamin Lloyd; and other members of the Stanford community. SPECIAL REGISTRATION REQUIRED Tickets for this FREE event will be available…
Find out more »NASSIM
by Nassim Soleimanpour From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour comes an audacious new theatrical experience. Each night a different performer joins the playwright on stage, while the script waits unseen in a sealed box. But will they understand each other? Touchingly autobiographical yet powerfully universal, NASSIM is a striking theatrical demonstration of how language can both divide and unite us. NASSIM follows Soleimanpour’s globally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, which has been translated into over 25 different languages and performed over…
Find out more »BROCKHAMPTON with special guests Slowthai and 100 Gecs
BROCKHAMPTON is not your usual boy band—the 13 member hip-hop group includes singers, rappers, producers, visual artists, and songwriters. Formed on the online forum KanyeToThe, BROCKHAMPTON fuses visual aesthetics with a collection of hip-hop and R&B sounds.
Find out more »Stanford Philharmonia: Fall Concert
Paul Phillips conducts the Philharmonia’s Fall program: W.A. Mozart Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183 Carl Maria von Weber Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Op. 75Andrea Chung, bassoon (2019 Concerto Competition Winner) Georges Bizet Symphony in C Major Admission Info Advance tickets: GENERAL $23 | STUDENTS $13 | SENIORS $18 (Now on sale!) At the door: GENERAL $28 | STUDENTS $18 (Free for Stanford students with SUID) | SENIORS $23
Find out more »The King’s Singers
Finding Harmony Soul music, as we think we know it, was born in 1950s America. It was music with passion and with a purpose beyond just entertainment or worship—it represented the unwavering spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, it gave a people a voice. The same has been true of music throughout history and around the world. At the Bing, the renowned King’s Singers will highlight music from the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, to the rise and fall of…
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