Paul Dresher Ensemble Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors (2016-2017)

Paul Dresher, President (Founder)
Artistic Director, Musical Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble – San Francisco, CA
Mary K. Austin (Since 2006)
Founder, Center for the Book – San Francisco, CA
Ellen Hahn (Since 2017)
Singer, Community Activist –
Berkeley, CA
Karin Hibma (Since 2016)
Strategic Identity Consultant and Owner, :: CRONAN :: – Berkeley, CA
Keith McMillen (Since 2002)
Owner, Keith McMillen Instruments –
Berkeley,CA
Helen Meyer (Since 2011)
Owner, Meyer Sound –
Berkeley, CA
Dean Suzuki (Since 1992)
Associate Professor of Music, San Francisco State University
Radio Programmer, Music Journalist & Critic, KPFA – San Leandro, CA
Tim Ware, Treasurer (Since 2013)
Owner, HyperArts (website design and development company) –
Oakland, CA 94607

Dresher/Davel Invented Instrument Duo

June 14 & 15, 2019; 8 PM
ODC Theater
3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

The duo of renowned composer, performer & instrument inventor Paul Dresher and virtuoso percussionist Joel Davel, consistently generates excitement and wonder with concert programs performed entirely on their large-scale invented musical instruments.

Performing on three extraordinary inventions - the four stringed 15-foot long Quadrachord, the seven stringed 10-foot long Hurdy Grande and the Marimba Lumina - Don Buchla’s electronic percussion invention - Dresher and Davel create lush textures and rhythmically propulsive grooves that fascinate both the ear and the eye.

These concerts will be the Duo’s first complete Bay Area concert programs since 2011 and the first ever in San Francisco. The program will include the premiere of a new work by Dresher as well as classic duo works such as Glimpsed From Afar, Moving Parts and Joel Davel’s Out of Thin Air.