Kronos Quartet: Women's Voices

San Francisco’s own Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet continues its multi-year partnership and residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with a program featuring the artistic voices of several contemporary women composers and performers. "Women's Voices" features works written or arranged specifically for the Quartet including the world premiere of "All Clear", a new piece written and performed by multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ (born in Vietnam, residing in Fremont); the world premiere of "Mosaic (from music of Delia Derbyshire): in memory of Connie Sterne", an exploration of musical themes by the late Delia Derbyshire (arranged by SF Conservatory grad student Danny Clay with David Harrington); as well as three Bay Area premieres: Laurie Anderson’s "Flow", Nicole Lizée’s "Death to Kosmische", and Derek Charke’s "Tundra Songs" featuring Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.