New Arts Alliance Dec 3rd 2011

December 3, 2011: 2PM and 8PM. At the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA).

The New Arts Alliance is a new music group that works with non-musician artists for every show for a truly unique performance. This year, we are joined by San Francisco dancer and choreographer Bianca Brzezinski in a collaborative work called Non-Self. The music was written by our co-artistic director Josh Friedman. In addition to the 2 flutists (myself and Kassey Plaha) and 2 guitarists (Josh Friedman and guest artist Yuri Liberzon), we will be joined by dancers from Bianca’s new dance group, the Opal Street Dance Improvisational Theater.

Along with Non-Self, we will be performing a new version of Castlepoint by Dante De Silva that we commissioned for this show. We will also perform other compositions by Leo Brouwer, Steve Reich, and Janice Misurell-Mitchell.

Please buy your tickets now and support the arts.

Who: New Arts Alliance with guests Bianca Brzezinski (dancer/choreographer), Yuri Liberzon (guitarist), and the Opal Street Dance Improvisational Theater.

What: Chamber music and dance performances

When: Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 2pm and 8pm.

Where: Second Stage, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets: Call 650-903-6000 or click here. (Tickets also available at the door.)

Here’s a little video I took when we were recording the prerecorded part of De Silva’s Castlepoint:

(View it at Facebook)

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Keep in Touch

Starting November 2011, I will be emailing somewhat regular newsletters (maybe monthly or bi-monthly, but definitely not more than twice a month!) and offering a free download of some sort with every newsletter.

If you are interested in hearing from me about once a month, please sign up for this email list. If you sign up by November 16, 2011, you will get a free download of a track from my CD, Sometimes the City is Silent.

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Another review of my CD!

Chip Michael wrote a very nice review of my CD:
“New CD Sometimes the City is Silent by Meerenai Shim is Delightfully Simple, yet Incredibly Complex”

Meerenai Engages the Listener with Pure Flute Technique and Sound on her Debut Album

Flutes are delightfully simple, yet incredibly complex instruments. When you look at the wave form, the sound of the flute is pure and clean. The emotional range and technical possibilities of the instrument are astonishingly diverse. Meerenai’s new CD Sometimes the City is Silent seizes all these subtleties, yet proffers them in such a splendidly pure way, we are intrigued by the flute with all of its complexity without being immersed in an overly effected recording…..”

keep reading!

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Song A Day: the Album

I’m a fan of Johnathan Mann – the guy writes one song every day and then posts a video of that song on youtube every day! (You might have seen his iPhone antenna-gate video or his Nintendo themed songs.) He recently raised money via Kickstarter to make an album during the month of June with some of his friends. He wrote and recorded 30 songs during the month and chose 11 of them for the album. I’m excited to report that the one song I recorded with him made it on to the album!

You can listen to the song as it was recorded and mixed that day:

You can also pre-order the finished/mastered album.

And…I’ll be performing with Jonathan and posse at the album release party/show on September 28th at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco. Hope to see you there!

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bandcamp

I just uploaded my album to bandcamp.com.  This means that you can listen to 6 complete tracks from my album and then buy the tracks individually or buy the whole album download (16 tracks) if you want!  Here is the last movement of the Bartok Romanian Dances:

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Fiscal Sponsorship = Tax deductible donations!

Thanks to San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, you can now make tax deductible donations to help me fund my next commissioning project!

*Click Here to make a donation*
(check the box for “Meerenai Shim”)

I am raising funds to pay for my commission from Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and to be able to give the new piece really great performances.  She is writing a very cool piece for flute and percussion called “The Art of Noise.”  I have already made a down payment but I need to pay her the balance of $2500 when she finishes the piece and gives me the score.  This piece will be premiered in San Francisco in 2012, and hopefully performed in Chicago as well.  Producing these performances costs a lot of money.

Many thanks to those of you who have helped me raise money to pay for my commission from Daniel Felsenfeld, and thank you to those who have supported me by buying my new album. I am asking you again for your help because it takes a lot of will, time, and money to create new art. It is cheaper and easier to play more Mozart or Poulenc, but the compositions by Janice Misurell-Mitchell are SO COOL — more of them need to be created. (You have seen my video for Sometimes the City is Silent, right? That’s a piece written by Janice!)

Please make a tax-deductible donation via San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and make this new piece come to life.

Meerenai Shim is an affiliate of, and fiscally-sponsored by, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the service of chamber music in California.

P.S. Asking for tax-deductible donations from individuals is just one part of my fundraising activities to pay for this project. I am applying for grants as well.  I am saving money from my private flute teaching and the small amount of money I get from performances and CD sales.  I’m doing everything I can (legally!) to give these commissioned pieces their best performances.  Your money will be well spent. THANK YOU!!

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Histoire du Tango

Sunday, August 21, 2011 @4pm
Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento St. at Van Ness Ave. San Francisco
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performances/396/

I will be performing Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango with guitarist Yuri Liberzon.

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SoundNotion again!

I will be on this Sunday’s SoundNotion video/audio podcast.  (Episode #20 – May 29, 2011) Many thanks to SoundNotion for inviting me on the show for the second time – this time to let me plug my new album.  They just told me what we’ll be discussing and it looks like it’s going to be a juicy show!  They also chose Sometimes the City is Silent by Janice Misurell-Mitchell as the pick of the week. Please check it out.  They usually post them by Sunday night.

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