Other Minds New Music Festival 16

Other Minds (OM), the global new music community based in San Francisco,
has announced the schedule for its 16th annual Festival, to take place between
the 3rd and the 5th of March 2011 at the Jewish Community Center in San
Francisco. Each year OM invites composers of differing nationalities, ages and
styles to bring their music to the Festival and a prior four-day private residency in the South Bay
hills, where they exchange music and ideas. “This year we are thrilled to welcome Louis
Andriessen (Netherlands), I Wayan Balawan (Indonesia), Han Bennink (Netherlands), Kyle
Gann (U.S.), Janice Giteck (U.S.), David A. Jaffe (U.S.), Jason Moran (U.S.), and Agata
Zubel (Poland) - eight composers whose work we deeply admire and who, we expect, will have
a great deal to say to one another and to our audiences,” reports Charles Amirkhanian,
Executive and Artistic Director of Other Minds. “We will also enjoy the participation of a stellar
group of performing artists for the 16th Festival - Bandwagon (+ special guests), Sarah Cahill,
the Del Sol String Quartet, Fred Frith, Monica Germino, Andrew Schloss, the Seattle
Chamber Players, Trimpin, and Cristina Zavalloni. Each concert (8pm) will be preceded by a
panel discussion (7pm).