San Francisco Performances' PIVOT Festival is driven by a philosophy of innovation, creativity, and artistic excellence that pushes the boundaries of the traditional concert experience.
For the ninth year of PIVOT, guest curator Gabriel Kahane and friends dig deep into music that asks enduring and enlightening questions about our ever-changing world and seeks the uplift of answers rooted in shared experience.
Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller whose work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, and "his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony...he is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day" (The New Yorker). "We're living in a golden age of string quartets...It's hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York's Attacca Quartet" (NPR). Grammy-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth can seemingly make anything cool, "From death metal to throat singing to alpine yodeling, the experimental group is changing what it means to harmonize" (The New Yorker).
The program will be announced from the stage.