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| | APRIL 2026 CALENDAR All Concerts at the Dresher Ensemble Studio | | |
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| | Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18 - 7:30 PM
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| | Point Line Piano - Visual Music and VR Performance Performance by Jaroslaw Kapuściński, and pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi | | |
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| | The evening contains two parts: - The first half features two piano-and-video works by Jaroslaw Kapuściński. The piano performance by new music specialist Keisuke Nakagoshi is carefully tracked by a computer that responds with large-scale video projections that follow the score.
- In the 2nd half, Kapuściński dons a VR headset and, while holding two handsets, draws in virtual space - which we see on the full wall projection - while triggering multiple pathways through his piano score.
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| | April 17-18 - 2-6 PM (Twelve 20-minute slots every day)
Before the concert, step into our free interactive VR installation
where you take on the role of the visual performer.
and musical interactive installation created by Jaroslaw Kapuściński
Point Line Piano represents a new artistic frontier where composing, performing,
and listening merge into a single embodied experience.
This is not just something you watch. It’s something you enter
and compose immersive visual & musical worlds in Virtual Reality
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| | Saturday, April 25 - 7:30 PM | | |
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| | Carl Stone Solo and Duo with Paul Dresher
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| | Live electronic music pioneer Carl Stone returns to the Bay Area for a rare solo performance, followed by a one-time collaborative set with Paul Dresher on his Hurdy Grande, a large-scale invented instrument. Unscripted and unrepeatable. | | |
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| | Sunday, April 26 - 7:15 PM WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES | | |
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| | Hommages to Kurtág and Janáček
Stenberg-Green-Scott String Trio and McCarroll-Esainko Piano Duo
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| | Signs, Games and Messages - Intimate chamber music miniatures by György Kurtág and Leos Janáček (and two short works by Monica Scott) will draw you into a magical world where every sound, every gesture conjures up memories or heightens awareness of the present.
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| | Dresher Ensemble Studio - 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland
Parking & Accessibility
Ample parking is available
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| | Mark Your May Calendar (tickets will be available shortly)
Composers, vocalists, and sound artists Merlin Coleman and Amy X Neuburg present two very different multi-channel song cycles, in which the audience is surrounded by sounds and stories emanating from the studio’s high-quality Meyer Sound audio system.
In Merlin Coleman’s DISPATCHES from the CHARCOAL FOREST, a group of six singers—two of whom are members of the acclaimed vocal ensemble Kitka—move through the space, singing over a quadraphonic audio sculpture composed of found recordings, collected sounds, and interviews reflecting on the 2017 Sonoma County Tubbs Fires.
Sunday, May 3 - 11 AM
Indradeep Ghosh (violin) and Eman Hashimi (tabla) More Information and Tickets >>“Where the bow meets the Soul” - Morning Ragas performed by virtuoso North Indian violinist Indradeep Ghosh. Join us for the rare opportunity to hear a recital of Hindustani morning ragas in the Dhrupad [devotional vocal music] Style, Baaj, from the Maihar tradition. This is the tradition that gave us such revered artists as maestros Ustad Allaudin Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee.
To celebrate the ninetieth birth year of Terry Riley, pianist Sarah Cahill presents a program dedicated to his visionary and influential music. The program moves from the early Keyboard Studies (1964), which helped shape the language of minimalism, to the luminous and meditative Be Kind to One Another (2014).
Ex Machina is a multimedia project exploring the evolving relationship between humanity and technology through immersive visual art and music. Centered around the piano—a machine of sound and expression—it reflects on how technology shapes both artistic experience and human identity. Clara Yang is on the Faculty of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Members of the QT Viet Collective present Ordinary People, a live audio-visual experience blending a refugee’s history with their child’s first visit to Vietnam, finding memories and love in the motherland while reflecting on a world that distances us from our truest selves.
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| | New Performance Traditions
created by the Paul Dresher Ensemble
Dominique Pelletey Executive Director - Paul Dresher Artistic Director
Board of Directors : Mary K. Austin - Paul Dresher - Ellen Hahn
Karin Hibma - Mohammed Hill - Tim Ware | | |
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