Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble

  • MEERANAI SHIM + DIANE GRUBBE
    THE HOLY MARTINS (KASEY KNUDSEN + LORIN BENEDICT + ERIC VOGLER)

    Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Bay Area flutists DIANE GRUBBE and MEERANAI SHIM perform solo and duo works by Robert Dick, Mario Davidovsky, Dai Fujikura, Alyssa Aska, and The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker. THE HOLY MARTINS is KASEY KNUDSEN (alto saxophone), LORIN BENEDICT (voice), and ERIC VOGLER (guitar). They have been playing in this configuration for over 15 years, during which time the group has explored a broad range of […]

    $10 – $23.18
  • Sangam: A Diwali Odissi Recital

    Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Celebrate Diwali—The Festival of Lights—with an exceptional evening of Odissi, one of India’s oldest and most sacred dance forms. Witness mesmerizing performances by Samir Panigrahi and Santosh Ram of India’s renowned Rudrakshya Foundation alongside the talented ensemble of Odissi Vilas from California. This Festival of Lights invites you on a journey through ancient rhythms and […]

    $33.85
  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • RIC LOUCHARD (with Lisa Mezzacappa + Jordan Glenn + Joshua Marshall)
    BJLL DINGALLS (Tom Djll + Bill Hsu + Matt Ingalls)

    Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer, pianist, improviser, writer and story teller. His stories strive to find the universal in the very personal. His music is emotive and, well, romantic, or at least on the Dionysian side of the fence. It tends towards chromaticism, atonality or quirky tonality. Motivic with sometimes complex rhythms. His musical […]

    $10 – $25
  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday

  • THE STINSON TRIO
    MITCH STAHLMANN

    Dresher Ensemble Studio 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    THE STINSON TRIO is the restless electric improvising union of drummer TIM BULKLEY, guitarist DAVID DVORIN, and reeds player RANDY MCKEAN. Using drum and cymbal, amps and effects, high and low saxes/clarinets, they fashion instant jigsaw superstructures from composite layers of sound and rhythm. The Stinson project came about after trombonist and fellow Flounder band member Cliff Childers’ unexpected […]

    $10 – $25
  • Ghost Quartet

    Ghost Quartet

    Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    Our first co-production with the Oakland Theater Project in Oakland from November 1 to 24, 2024, and in San Francisco from December 5 to 8, 2024
    7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 PM on Sunday