Amy Sedan, alto flute
Sophie Huet, bass clarinet, 
Ed Garcia, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Cassie Bequary, violin
Joanne DeMars, cello

John Luther Adams: The Light Within

Sophie Huet, bass clarinet,
Matt Striplen, trombone 
Ed Garcia, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Megan McDevitt, bass

Joshua Carro: Spectral Fields in Time

In concert 5/3/2014 at Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Joanne de Mars, cello
Ed Garcia, percussion

David Lang — Stuttered Chant

Philip Glass's "Music in Similar Motion" for chamber ensemble, performed by Wild Rumpus. Recorded live in concert at Old First Chamber Series in San Francisco on September 5, 2014.

Performers: Amy Sedan, flute; Sophie Huet, clarinet; Weston Olencki, trombone; Mckenzie Camp, percussion; Margaret Halbig, piano; Dan VanHassel, electric guitar; Eugene Theriault, bass

Philip Glass: Music In Similar Motion

Excerpt from György Kurtág's "Kafka Fragments" for soprano and violin, performed by Wild Rumpus. Recorded live in concert at Old First Chamber Series in San Francisco on September 5, 2014.

Vanessa Langer, soprano
Joseph Maile, violin (guest)

György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments—The Moonlit Night Dazzled Us

Wild Rumpus performs "Workers Union", by Louis Andriessen, on 2/28/15 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Weston Olencki, prepared piano
Mckenzie Camp, percussion (guest)
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Eugene Theriault, bass

Louis Andriessen: Workers Union

Wild Rumpus' performs "Balance of Power", by Dan VanHassel, on 2/28/15 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Sophie Huet, bass clarinet
Mckenzie Camp, percussion (guest)
Margaret Halbig, piano
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Joanne de Mars, cello
Eugene Theriault, bass

Dan VanHassel: Balance Of Power

Wild Rumpus performs "Position, Influence", by David Coll, on 2/28/15 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Vanessa Langer, soprano
David Coll, sound sculpture/electronics

David Coll: Position, Influence

Wild Rumpus' world premiere of "DreamPlay", commissioned from Ioannis Angelakis, on 2/28/15 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Jessie Nucho, flute/alto flute
Sophie Huet, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet
Weston Olencki, trombone
Mckenzie Camp, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Eugene Theriault, bass
Nathaniel Berman, conductor


Ioannis Angelakis: DreamPlay

Wild Rumpus' world premiere of "(switch)", commissioned from David Bird, on 2/28/15 at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

Jessie Nucho, alto flute
Sophie Huet, bass clarinet
Joanne de Mars, cello

David Bird: (switch)

Jen Wang: Adrogué
for soprano, piccolo, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, trombone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, cello, and double bass
May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Vanessa Langer, soprano
Bethanne Walker, piccolo
Sophie Huet, bass clarinet
Weston Olencki, trombone
David Wegehaupt, baritone saxophone
Mckenzie Camp, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Mia Nardi-Huffman, violin
Joanne de Mars, cello
Eugene Theriault, bass
Nathaniel Berman, conductor

Jen Wang: Adrogué

Steve Mackey: Fusion Tune 
for electric guitar and cello
May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Wild Rumpus:
Joanne de Mars, cello
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar

Steve Mackey: Fusion Tune

Christopher Cerrone: I Will Learn To Love A Person
for soprano, clarinet, percussion, and piano
I.	That Night With The Green Sky
II.	Eleven Page Poem Part III
III.	I Will Learn to Love a Person And Then I Will Teach You And Then We Will Know
IV.	When I Leave This Place
V.	Are You Ok?

May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Wild Rumpus:
Vanessa Langer, soprano
Sophie Huet, clarinet
Mckenzie Camp, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano

Christopher Cerrone: I Will Learn To Love A Person

Beyoncé: Blue arr. Dan VanHassel
for clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, and double bass
May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Wild Rumpus:
Sophie Huet, clarinet
David Wegehaupt, saxophone
Mckenzie Camp, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Eugene Theriault, bass

Beyoncé (arr. Dan VanHassel): Blue

Stefan Weisman: Bloom (World Premiere)
for soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello
May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Wild Rumpus:
Vanessa Langer, soprano
Bethanne Walker, flute
Sophie Huet, clarinet
Margaret Halbig, piano
Mia Nardi-Huffman, violin
Joanne de Mars, cello
Nathaniel Berman, conductor

Stefan Weisman: Bloom

Emma O’Halloran: Endless Deeps (World Premiere)
for flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, percussion, electric guitar, violin, cello, and double bass

May 29, 2015: 8 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

Wild Rumpus:
Bethanne Walker, flute
Sophie Huet, clarinet
Weston Olencki, trombone
Mckenzie Camp, percussion
Margaret Halbig, piano
Dan VanHassel, electric guitar
Mia Nardi-Huffman, violin
Joanne de Mars, cello
Eugene Theriault, bass
Nathaniel Berman, conductor

Emma O'Halloran: Endless Deeps

Premiered by Wild Rumpus December 10, 2011, at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Performers: Calisa Hildebrand, flute; Sophie Huet, clarinet; Naomi Hoffmeyer, harp; Margaret Halbig, piano; Dan VanHassel, electric guitar; Stephanie Bibbo, violin; Michelle Kwon, violoncello.

Program Note:
Delta refers both to the place where a river flows into an ocean and to the Greek letter that, in mathematics, signifies change. Beginning with parallel threads of music, both measured and unmeasured, the piece unfolds as a series of ideas that arise and dissolve, beginning with half-formed snippets of material, but moving toward increasingly pronounced forms and greater expanses over time.

About the Composer:
<a href="http://www.jenwang.com">Jen Wang</a>’s work has been featured at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the International Computer Music Conference, the Bang On A Can Summer Institute, the California EAR Unit Residency at Arcosanti, the Music ’03 and ’04 festivals, and the SPARK Festival. Her commissions include works for the Iktus Percussion Quartet, Coro D’Amici, the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, flutist Janet McKay, NeXT Ens, and clarinetist Cristhian Rodriguez; she has also been performed by Lucy Shelton, the California EAR Unit, Onix Ensamble, Eco Ensemble, the New Spectrum Ensemble, and the percussion ensembles of Mannes College and the University of California, Davis. Her first installation work, Black Cloud (for streaming data and electronics), premiered as part of Panorama, an evening-length multi-media performance featuring choreography by Merce Cunningham and Lisa Wymore.

Jen has been commissioned to write a chamber work for the 2012 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, as one of the recipients of the Staubach Honoraria, and her percussion quartet, Renderings of Things We Couldn't Take Home, will be featured this March at San Francisco's Other Minds Festival, as part of the Composer Fellowship program. Other upcoming projects include a song cycle for contralto Karen Clark and a piece for piano and electronics for pianist Gloria Cheng. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, where she was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the Millay Colony of the Arts, where she was a Robert W. Simpson Fellow. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.) and Carleton College (B.A.). Currently, Jen is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been awarded the Eisner Award in Music, the Nicola de Lorenzo Prize, and the William V. Power Graduate Award. She is founder and co-director of Wild Rumpus.

Jen Wang: "Delta"

Premiered by Wild Rumpus December 10, 2011, at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Performer: Kathryn Bates Williams, violoncello.

Program Note:
Afterimage was written as a wedding gift for my friend and cellist Kathryn Bates Williams—a gift that was only late by a few years. Faced with such a severe writer’s block, I took Stravinsky’s seemingly paradoxical advice of imposing arbitrary constraints in order to stimulate creativity. The limits that I imposed were idiosyncratic to the possibilities offered by a cello: the piece is composed using only natural harmonics, and pizzicato played on the open strings. The strings have been de‐tuned to offer a less conventional set of notes, but ultimately, I was left with a total of 23 notes to work with. True enough, once this constraint was put into place, I was able to compose relatively quickly.

“Afterimage” refers to an image that remains in one’s vision long after the original image disappears. The two playing techniques utilized in this piece remind me such an optical illusion. Natural harmonics have a transparent, mirage‐like sound compared to the ordinary velvety sound of a bowed cello. Similarly, a pizzicato played on an open string, especially when played by just the left hand, looks like a sleight of hand on an instrument that usually requires two hands to play.

I would like to thank Kathryn for her invaluable musical insights throughout the compositional process. It has been a truly collaborative effort and I could not have written the piece without her dedication to the piece.

About the Composer:
Takuma Itoh (b. 1984) spent his early childhood in Japan before moving to Northern California where he grew up. Currently a student at Cornell University, he has attended the University of Michigan (M.M.) and Rice University (B.M.), and has studied with such composers as Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng. His music has also been performed by Albany Symphony, New York Youth Symphony with Shanghai Quartet, St. Lawrence Quartet and Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra, violinist Joseph Lin of the Juilliard Quartet, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Momenta Quartet, New Spectrum Ensemble, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble among others. He is the recipient of four Morton Gould Young Composer Awards including the 2010 Leo Kaplan Award, and has been a fellow at the Pacific Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. His Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra is published by Theodore Presser, and his Echolocation has been recorded by the H2 saxophone quartet on their CD, Times and Spaces. He enjoys playing jazz piano and has studied with Geri Allen. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.takumaitoh.com">www.takumaitoh.com</a>.

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