TwoSense, the New York based Bang on a Can All-Star derived powerhouse duo, featuring cellist Ashley Bathgate and pianist Lisa Moore, perform two San Francisco concerts of six commissioned chamber works, including five Bay Area premieres, at the Presidio Officer’s Club (Look Left 19th April 7pm) and the Centre for New Music (Look Left Again 21st April 6pm). This “new music equivalent of a special ops team” (New York Magazine) will bring their tour-de-force laser focus to unique repertoire for cello and piano by (mostly) Bay Area composers – with music by Martin Bresnick, Ryan Brown, Paul Dresher, Amy Beth Kirsten, Ingram Marshall, and Jack Perla.
“Look Left” at the San Francisco Presidio Officer’s Club
Free but you must make reservations here
April 19 2018 7pm
Program:
Ryan Brown Three Ideas Sleep (Furiously)*
Ingram Marshall The Balladeer*
Martin Bresnick Prayers Remain Forever*
Intermission
Jack Perla Persistence of the Blues*
Paul Dresher Family Matters
73’
*Bay Area premiere
All works commissioned by TwoSense: Ashley Bathgate and Lisa Moore
+Commissioned with funds from The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
#Commissioned with funds from Meet the Composer/New Music USA
TwoSense: Ashley Bathgate cello, Lisa Moore piano
TwoSense is a New York-based chamber duo and commissioning venture, established by the Bang On A Can All-Stars cellist Ashley Bathgate and founding alumna pianist Lisa Moore in 2010. The duo has been described as the “new music equivalent of a special ops team” (New York Magazine), an “excellent duo” and “eloquent new-music interpreters” (New York Times). TwoSense have performed at Bargemusic, National Sawdust, (le) poisson rouge, Rubin Museum, Spectrum, Bang on a Can 25th Anniversary Marathon (World Financial Center), Roulette, Detroit Institute for the Arts, The Presidio San Francisco, Firehouse12 New Haven, MIT, Wesleyan and Yale Universities as well as at festivals in Saratoga NY and Columbia SC. TwoSense have commissioned over 14 new works – including pieces by composers Samuel Carl Adams, Martin Bresnick, Ryan Brown, Paul Dresher, Stephen Feigenbaum, Daniel Felsenfeld, Paul Kerekes, Amy Beth Kirsten, Hannah Lash, Ingram Marshall, Kate Moore, Jack Perla, and Daniel Wohl – with grants from Meet the Composer, Barlow, and Fromm Foundations. TwoSense have released recordings on Albany, Starkland, and Bandcamp. Of their Starkland recording “Prayers Remain Forever” (by Martin Bresnick) Fanfare wrote “both dig deeply into their material…building to a rock-solid conclusion as it brings back the opening material in a new light. They give a powerhouse rendition.”