Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
Other Minds presents scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by American composer Joseph Bohigian, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. The free workshop performance will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025, at 7:30 pm at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in […]
ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS ERNST KAREL presents his multichannel, ongoing iterative work, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles, releasing heavy rain in high wind, particularly in the western U.S, and […]
Ambient Bird - Shorebird Park (premiere) with sfSOUND, bird ensemble & the dailybell* at sunset musicians: Lulu, african grey parrot Wendy Reid, violin Brenda Hutchinson, long tube Krys Bobrowski, glisglass Aurora Josephson, voice Ron Heglin, tuba David Samas, percussion Kanoko Nishi, koto Ben Davis, cello Matt Ingalls, clarinet Kyle Bruckmann, oboe John Ingle, saxophone […]
Splinter Reeds Works by Zachary James Watkins and Karola Obermüller, and new commission Brume by Jean Carla Rodea Commissioned by Splinter Reeds with support from a Musical Grant Program award by Intermusic SF, Brume is an immersive multimedia performance created by Jean Carla Rodea during her Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. Drawing inspiration from breath in […]
In the perfect environment for close listening, the two cellos and saxophone TRIO BEN DAVIS - FRED LONBERG-HOLM - LARRY OCHS invite you, the avid listeners, to join the musicians in enjoying their spontaneous but carefully sculpted music as it happens, in real time. Through repeated performances, musical discussions after shows and rehearsals, this music […]
THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC COLLECTIVE presents their summer east bay festival of fixed media works projected live over a 16-channel Meyer Sound System. Featuring a wide range of works by international composers and collective members.
This ReOpening Fest showcases a vibrant mix of artists who have made our space their creative home through regular rehearsals, fiscal sponsorships, or as awardees of the Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. Events will take place in the Dresher Ensemble Studio, the large lobby on the second floor, and an impromptu viewing theater on the loading […]
SILVIA MATHEUS, composer and sound artist, presents Recycling — a solo performance with Kyma, Eurorack, and Buchla systems. Past works are dismantled and rebuilt live, their fragments reshaped by algorithmic processes and hands-on control. The result is a constantly shifting sonic environment where memory and invention collide, creating an experience that is irreproducible and shared […]
FRED LONBERG-HOLM is trying to make sense of this world while making sounds on the cello and just about anything else he can get his hands on. He performs a duo of improvised music with Grammy-nominated percussionist WILLIAM WINANT, internationally regarded as a leading performer of avant-garde music. Bassist KATHRYN SCHULMEISTER—praised for her “expressive and […]