E4TT

The clear highlight of E4TT’s 2022/24 season will be Women in Transit, our annual commissions concert and our fifth multimedia collaboration with the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. This concert will also be the first presentation in our new two-year project, “Women Crossing/Liminality,” an innovative exploration of women’s immigration and identity. The program will feature three commissioned World Premieres—“Cavities” a new piano trio by Opera America Discovery Grant recipient, Iranian-American Niloufar Nourbakhsh to a new film by Iranian-American filmmaker Pegah Pasalar; a dance suite for piano trio and dancer focusing on the conventions of identity and gender, composed and danced by Han Lash; “Sappho Fragments” by Tamara McLeod for speaker, cello, tape, and piano—along with ko’u inoa (2017) for solo cello by Leilehua Lanzilotti, “Vertical Fields” (2014) for piano trio by Emma O’Halloran, “A Crown for Sonia” (2008) for soprano, cello, and piano by Zhou Thian, and the winning score from the E4TT/TAC student composition competition with the San Francisco Conservatory’s Technical and Applied Composition Department. E4TT soprano Nanette McGuinness will be joined by guests dancer Han Lash, violinist Lylia Guion, cellist Megan Chartier, and pianist Taylor Chan. The concert is free to attend at Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall in the Bowes Center at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (RSVPs strongly recommended); it will also be livestreamed at no charge on SFCM’s Vimeo channel.