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Event
Resounding Compassion: A Concert for Peace
Program:
*Shinji Eshima Premieres Original Piece "All's Farrow"
Featuring New Bell Sculpted by Al Farrow
Performed by Nion McEvoy with SF Ballet's Principal Dancer Pascal Molat
*"Chaconne" by JS Bach
Performed by Violist Chihiro Fukuda
*Butoh Dance Performance
By Famed Butoh Dancer Judith Kajiwara
Koto Virtuoso Shoko Hikage
*Dance Performance
By Brenda Wong Aoki
Emmy-Award Winner Mark Izu (Bass, Sho)
*"Il Fazzoletto" Concert Aria
By Shinji Eshima with text from Award-Winning Author Jerome Oremland MD
Performed by SF Opera Chorus member Sally Munro (Mezzo), and Olga Rakitchenkov (Principal Harp, SF Opera)
*"Circle, Triangle, Square"
World Premiere by Shinji Eshima with Text by Celebrated Poet Jane Hirshfield
Performed by Zen Center Abbott Steve Stucky, Members of the SF Zen Center Community,
Olga Rakitchenkov (Principal Harp, SF Opera), and Percussionists Todd Manley and Brandi Brandes
*"Clarinet Quintet" by Mozart
Performed by José Gonzalez Granero (Principal Clarinet, SF Opera Orchestra), Violinists Asuka Annie Yano (SF Opera), Beni Shinohara (SF Opera), Violist Chihiro Fukuda (SF Ballet), and Eric Sung (Principal Cellist, SF Ballet Orchestra)
This benefit concert celebrating San Francisco Zen Center's 50th anniversary features original music by composer Shinji Eshima and will debut a sculpted peace bell by distinguished artist Al Farrow, played during a dance performance by SF Ballet's Principal Dancer Pascal Molat.
For the concluding "Clarinet Quintet" by Mozart, violinist Asuka Annie Yano (SF Opera) will perform on a newly designed violin built by craftsman Muneyuki Nakazawa, utilizing wood from the uprooted trees and loose beams washed away by the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
The evening also includes a Butoh dance performance and classical works by Mozart and Bach.
For more information, please visit ZC50: A Concert for Peace.
Shinji Eshima
Shinji Eshima, born in Berkeley, a graduate of Stanford University and of the Juilliard School, is a double-bassist in the San Francisco Ballet (Associate Principal) and San Francisco Opera Orchestras. He is on the faculty at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His instrument is the Plumerel bass (1843) featured in the painting by Degas, The Orchestra of the Opera. An award-winning composer, he has written for a variety of venues including theater, documentary film, chamber music, and opera. His most recent commission RAkU, was for San Francisco Ballet, choreographed by Yuri Possokhov. It premiered February 3, 2011.
Al Farrow
Sculptor Al Farrow has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1970, and is currently represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. His work has been in group shows at the Oakland Art Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Falkirk Cultural Center in Marin, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, among many others. He has over 20 years of bronze casting experience. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other collections in New York, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong.
Pascal Molat
A native of Paris, France, Pascal Molat trained at Paris Opéra Ballet School and danced with Royal Ballet of Flanders and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo before joining San Francisco Ballet as a soloist in 2002. He was promoted to principal dancer the following year. Molat has performed featured roles in many of the full-length classics, including Mercutio in Tomasson's Romeo & Juliet and the Snow King in Tomasson's Nutcracker.
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LocationSan Francisco Conservatory of Music (View)
50 Oak Street
San Francisco , CA 94102
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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