BERNAL HILL PLAYERS
HADLEY MCCARROLL: MATTHEW WELCH
Pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL performs several selections from MATTHEW WELCH'S piano music, including many West Coast premieres from his 12 Etudes for Piano (2015). Concluding is Orion (1998), an early piece of Matthew’s in response to Morton Feldman‘s style.
San Francisco’s beloved women’s chamber music ensemble BERNAL HILL PLAYERS performs “Forces of Nature”, a wildly varied program referencing Italian volcanoes, Brazilian rainforests, Japanese seas, English forests, and Californian canyons. The program features three newly composed pieces by Bay Area composers Davide Verotta, Jennifer Peringer, and Sarah Stiles, and also includes nature-themed pieces by Pauline Oliveros, Sally Davies and Toru Takemitsu.
P R O G R A M
Toru Takemitsu: Moby Dick and The Night from Toward the Sea
Jennifer Peringer and the Bernal Hill Players: The Canyon Wakes Up
Davide Verotta: Sulle Aridi Pendici
Pauline Oliveros: Environmental Dialogue
Sarah Stiles: A Dança da Sobrevivencia
Sally Davies: Restore the Earth
sfSound's pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL is a well-known San Francisco Bay Area-based collaborative and solo pianist. She has performed in the United States, and internationally with, among others: Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in Paris and New York, the Festival del Sole in the Napa Valley, Composer’s Inc., Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and most recently in recital with KRONOS Quartet violist Hank Dutt in San Francisco. For the past fifteen years she has performed as the pianist of the cello/piano duo martha & monica. Hadley has also worked at the Royal Danish Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, West Edge Opera and as accompanist for the James Toland Vocal Arts International Competition for the past 6 years. Equally at home as a soloist, Hadley has given wide-ranging performances, including the Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and programs featuring Carter, Beethoven, Ligeti, Liszt and Schumann. She frequently premieres new piano works. Ms. McCarroll received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin.
The BERNAL HILL PLAYERS is a mixed instrument ensemble formed in 2009 that performs classical, contemporary, and experimental chamber music from around the world, with a particular focus on Bay Area and women composers. They love performing in intimate neighborhood venues, where they can enjoy chatting with the audience, experimenting with new creative ventures, and celebrating the joy of playing music together. Performers: MARTHA RODRÍGUEZ-SALAZAR, flutes; ANNELISE ZAMULA, saxophones and flute; LEAH DI TULLIO , clarinets; SHARON WAYNE, guitar; and JENNIFER PERINGER, piano.