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may 2007
pacific chamber symphony
recording session

recording session of messiah

april, may 2007
pacific chamber symphony
kanbar hall, san francisco, ca
dean lesher center for the arts, walnut creek, ca
castro valley performing arts center, castro valley, ca
NAPA Valley opera house, napa, ca

four performances of daniel david feinsmith's messiah for chamber orchestra
a work based on prophecies of the coming messiah, son of david.

commissioned by maestro lawrence kohl
with funding from the east bay community foundation

2007 california performances of messiah

April 24   lafayette, ca            8pm
april 25   pleasanton, ca         7:30pm
april 29   napa, ca                    4pm
may 1       san francisco, ca     8pm

 

FRIDAY, DECEmber 8, 2006, 8pm
OTHer minds festival
san francisco Jewish community center

premiere performance of new music for electric bass, piano, cello, and percussion.

PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF elohim by the feinsmith quartet

Jennifer Culp, Cello
Michael Manring, Bass
Gyan Riley, Guitar
Christopher Taylor, Piano

december 2006
cd release

release of cd on other minds records

NOVEMBER 14, 15, 16 2006
rehearsal and recording of BARUCH
legacy studios
NEW YORK CITY, NY, usa

RE'UT BEN ZE'EV, SOPRANO
fred sherry, cello
beth guterman, viola
anna lynn, violin
 

FALL 2006
recording of el elyon
ERIN KATHLEEN DOWNEY, PIANO
SKYWALKER SOUNDSTAGE
NICASIO, CA

This fall, we will be recording EL ELYON at Skywalker Soundstage with Erin Kathleen Downey on the piano.

Graciously funded by Marcelline Krafchik of Emeryville, CA.

NOVEMBER 2006
NUMEROUS RADIO APPEARANCES. tIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED.

saturday march 16, 2006
21st annual jewish music festival
berkeley repertory theater thrust stage
premiere performance of elohim for solo pianoforte

EL is a new work for solo piano in two movements. Each movement is a quote from the psalmist David. These phrases are words King David used to express the state that he felt as he ascended in his attainment to the state of complete correction of his entire soul. Then he turned to the upper force, the Creator, with the words “Ki Chilatzta Nafshi”, which mean “Thank you for saving my soul”. EL is a hebrew word that refers to that upper force, the Creator whom he was addressing. EL is supported in part by the Ross McKee Foundation.

   The movements are:

       1. I will bless Your name forever and ever.
       2. Thank you (Lord) for saving my soul.

tuesday march 7, 2006, 6pm
lecture with john schott at
the san francisco public library main branch
koret auditorium

tuesday, january 31st, 2006, 8pm
COMPOSERS, INC.
GREEN ROOM
401 VAN NESS, 2ND FLOOR
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94102 (USA)

for more information, go to:

www.composersinc.ORG

The Green Room echoes the building facade with five sets of glass doors opening to a russet tiled 138-foot long loggia facing City Hall. The 28-foot high ivory and gold leafed ceiling of the room is graced with five 24-lamp chandeliers. Entry alcoves lead to double doors at either end of the room and the north alcove has a built in wet-bar. Originally designed as a lounge for World War I veterans, the room now serves as a performance and reception hall. Several concert and lecture series are held in the Green Room each year, as well as dinners, receptions, fashion shows, recitals, conferences and meetings. The room is also a prime location for fashion photography, video and movie shoots.

saturday, DECEmber 3, 2005, 2:00pm, 5:30pm, and 8pm
OTHer minds
swedenborgian church
2107 lyon street
san francisco, ca, usa

self for solo pianoforte
also, NEW work foR THREE PIANOS,  amalek, PERFORMED BY yamaha disklavier
disklavier donated by piedmont piano company

for more information, go to:

http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Seance.shtml

"Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua, 'Choose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.' And Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy. Then they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. Thus his hands were steady until the sun set. So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." Exodus 17.8-13

NOVEMBER 20, 2005
SURROUND SOUND RECORDING OF AMALEK FOR THREE PIANOS
daniel david feinsmith, producer
chris seifert, engineer
Berkeley, california
yamaha c7 disklavier grand

KPFA STUDIOS
BERKELEY, CA

october 29, 2005
performance of self for solo piano
BERKELEY ARTS FESTIVAL
2324 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Ca
(510) 665-9496

self for speaking pianist on a
beautiful fazioli 10 foot grand donated by piedmont piano company.

Friday september 23, 2005, 8pm
performance of self
admission $15 - $10 for hsc members and seniors
the hillside club
2286 cedar street
berkeley, ca, 94709/usa
510.701.1787

self for speaking pianist.

Solo piano recital with music by Leo Ornstein, Daniel David Feinsmith, Janice Giteck, Guy Klucevsek, and others.

Work based on a paragraph from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay "The Poet". The Pianist plays and recites Emerson's strong text on the transcendent nature of the Self and on the poet's idealized state of unity with God:

"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals. The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or, “with the flower of the mind;” not with the intellect, used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service, and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life; or, as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone, but with the intellect inebriated by nectar. As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

may 25-26 2005
skywalker sound, nicasion, ca, usa
david holzman, SOLO piano
daniel DAVID feinsmith, producer
bill susman, producer
chris seifert, engineer

RECORDING SESSION of lvtn AT SKYWALKER SOUND IN NICASIO, CA.

may 22, 2005, 4pm
david holzman, piano
meyer concert series
2 Lake street
san francisco, ca, usa

Performance of LEVIATHAN (30.6.400.50) Piano Sonata at the Meyer Concert Series in San Francisco, CA

Hailed as "a master pianist," (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker), David Holzman has won acclaim both for his recitals and his recordings. His honors and awards include recording grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alice B. Ditson Fund, and the Aaron Copland Foundation. Concentrating on modern keyboard masterworks, Holzman has premiered hundreds of works by composers from around the globe and has made Þrst recordings of many of them.

His latest CD, Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920 ­ 1952), on the Bridge label, has received equal acclaim and won Holzman a Grammy nomination as well as an Indie Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.

Born in New York in 1949, Holzman received his bachelor of music magna cum laude from Mannes College of Music where he studied with Paul Jacobs. Completing his studies with Nadia Reisenberg at Queens College, he was a Þnalist in the Carnegie Competition of St. Germaine‹Laye.

The Jean Hartman Music Fund was established in 1988 to enhance the capacity of the Congregation to present musical performances and to commission new musical works.

There is no admission charge for this concert

february 12, 2005
performance of BARUCH
ARRangement for soprano, two flutes, viola, cello

TSUNAMI BENEFIT CONCERT!
All Proceeds go to Red Cross

Chapel of the chimes,
4499 Piedmont Ave,
Piedmont, california
(510) 654-0123

Katya Roemer, Soprano
Carol Alban, Flute

Originally Commissioned by Joelle Shefts

february 5, 13th
MUJAAN USA(25 MIN / COLOR) 2004
short film, music by daniel david feinsmith
international buddhist film festival

february 5th: wheeler hall, berkeley, ca, usa
February 13th: san rafael cinema, san rafael, ca, usa

JANUARY 24, 25, 26 2005
MUJAAN USA(25 MIN / COLOR) 2004
short film, music by daniel david feinsmith
SLAMDANCE
www.slamdance.com

Mujaan

DIRECTOR: CHRIS MCKEE
PRODUCER: CHRIS MCKEE
DP: CHRIS MCKEE
EDITOR: ADAM HELLER
MUSIC: DANIEL FEINSMITH, AMY REED
CAST: SUKHBAATAR, ALTANGEREL

On the distant steppes of Mongolia, using only simple tools,
strength and ingenuity, a Mongolian nomad builds a home much
the way his ancestors have for a thousand years.
MUJAAN (The Craftsman) is a vivid window to a
disappearing way of life.

Websites: www.mujaan.com

JANUARY 15, 2005
kronos quartet | sonos bell ensemble
CENTERSTAGE AT THE OSHER MARIN JCC (Get Map)
200 NORTH SAN PEDRO RD.
SAN RAFAEL, CA, 94903
415.444.8000
415.478.2277 (tickets.com)

World Premiere of 10.5.6.5 for KRONOS QUARTET/SONOS BELL ENSEMBLE

Kronos Quartet is

David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Jennifer Culp

Sonos Roster 2005/Kronos
James Meredith, Music Director

10.5.6.5 is a five-movement work for string quartet and handbell ensemble inspired by alternating visions of peacefulness, brutality, divine comedy and cosmic grandeur as found in the biblical prophecies of Daniel and Ezekiel. In these richly evocative and multi-layered writings, the prophets describe their visions intermingling architectonic blueprints of heavenly structure with manifestations of wrath, forgiveness, death, resurrection and joy in the life of the whole. 10.5.6.5 is a gesture of praise to divinity itself, a meditation on the purity of its violence and the brilliance of its simplicity.

As in all of my works, the esoteric meaning of the numeric representations of the Hebrew letters in the title, 10.5.6.5, function as a primary source of compositional ideas. The five movements express the four letters of the Tetragrammaton -- where two sets of two letters are considered as pairs of nested polarities -- as four primary movements, with a middle dividing movement as a breath between the sets.

Movements:

1. Eheieh Asher Eheieh (I Will Be What I Will Be)
2. Ballet of Robots and Zombies
3. His Hollow Pillar Breathes
4. El Shaddai (Almighty God)
5. Elohim Tzavaot (Lord Of Armies)

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Program:

Felipe Pérez Santiago / CampoSanto (Holy Ground) *
Gétatchèw Mèkurya (arr. Stephen Prutsman) / Aha gèdawo +
Terry Riley / One Earth, One People, One Love from Sun Rings *
Daniel Feinsmith / 10.5.6.5 * World Premiere
with special guests SONOS Handbell Ensemble

INTERMISSION

Peter Sculthorpe / Jabiru Dreaming *
Alfred Schnittke / Quartet No. 3
I. Andante
II. Agitato
III. Pesante
(played without pause)


PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Updated: 11/23/04

JANUARY  14, 8:30-9:30 PM
KRCB 91FM noon to 1
CHARles sepos, National public radio, santa rosa, ca

January 9th, Noon to 1pm, Host Charles Sepos talks with Daniel David Feinsmith and James Meredith, Director of the Sonos Bell Ensemble.

SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA

KALW, THEN AND NOW PROGRAM

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Interview of  Daniel Feinsmith, and playing some music.

november, 2004
david holzman, piano
New York city, ny

Performance of 30.6.400.50 Piano Sonata.

november 2004
2nd and fourth fridays

Webcast Interview by Wendy Loomis of Copus on ArtistsFirst POETS and WRITERS program.
Click Here to Go There

SEPTEMBER 25, 26
ABC NEWS (kgo-tv)
san francisco

Appearance at Spark Studios engineering recording session with Latin Pianist Rebecca Mauleon.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2004, 8PM
SILVER LAKE FILM FESTIVAL
Dir: christopher mckee, ragcha media
 

Documentary on Mongolian Nomads, Score by Daniel Feinsmith, using Mongolian harmonic throat singing, native songs, Tamboura, and electronically modified Cello.

Director and Composer will be at the reception following.

AUGUST 27, 2004
RACHEL CONDRY, BASS CLARINET
OLD FIRST CHURCH
san francisco, ca

Premiere of SAMUEL for solo Bass Clarinet by Clarinetist Rachel Condry.

MONDAY June 21, 2004, 5-9PM
chapel of the chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave, next to Mountain View Cemetery
Oakland, CA
SELF will be played at 6:00 and then again at 8:00

World Premiere of SELF, a new work for SPEAKING PIANIST based on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson partially underwritten by the American Composers Forum.

June 6, 2004
Texas premiere of baruch
the axiom
2524 McKinney
houston, texas

APRIL 22, 2004, Thursday, 6:0-8:30pm
MUJAAN PREMIERE, Dir: christopher mckee, ragcha media
dELANCEY STREET THEATER
600 Embarcadero Street
San Francisco, ca
 

Documentary on Mongolian Nomads, Score by Daniel Feinsmith, using Mongolian harmonic throat singing, native songs, Tamboura, and electronically modified Cello.

Director and Composer will be at the reception following.

MARCH 26, 27, 28, 2004
david holzman, piano
BATTLE MUSIC

Three Concerts of DAVID HOLZMAN, Pianist. Sponsored by VAST FACE Concerts, Old First Concerts, and The San Francisco Jewish Music Festival. With support from the Goldman Foundation.

march 28, 2004
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, THEME AND VARIATIONS PROGRAM
WILL EVERETT, HOST

  

monthly music and poetry magazine, featuring music by one of today's foremost working composers Daniel David Feinsmith.

MARCH 21, 8-9PM
KALW, THEN AND NOW PROGRAM
DAVID LATULIPPE, HOST

OCTOBER 4, 2003, 9PM
OCTOBER 10, 2003, 7PM

WEST COAST PREMIERE OF FILM ATTITUDE
Mill Valley Film Festival
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
1118 Fourth Street
San Rafael, California

ATTITUDE celebrates its west-coast premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Rob Nilsson's ATTITUDE premiered on Opening Night at the Hong Kong Film Festival 2002, and ran to critical acclaim in New York. Film Score by Daniel David Feinsmith for Solo Cello performed by Cellist Matthew Owens. See Press for the run in New York and Premiere at the Hong Kong Film Festival 2002.

Rob Nilsson: Director
Daniel D. Feinsmith, Composer

OCTOBER 8, 2003
DAVID HOLZMAN, PIANO

DAVID HOLZMAN IN CONCERT
CW Post Campus, Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, New York

Premiere performance of LEVIATHAN Piano Sonata performed by Grammy Award Nominee David Holzman.

September 16 - October 16, 2003

Residency at DJERASSI Resident Artists Program
Woodside, California

July 11-12, 2003

Premiere Performance of AARON
SUMMERFEST/DANCE
McKenna Theatre, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California

A powerful new work of cutting edge dance and music exploring the global symbolism of animal sacrifice as a means of spiritual rectification. Generously commissioned by the Composers and Choreographers Consortium.

Daniel David Feinsmith, Composition
Cathleen McCarthy, Choreography
Claire Calderwood, Costumes

Musicians: Chris Jones (Piano), Phyllis Cameron (Violin), Jeff Watson (Cello), Chris Froh (Percussion)

Dancers: Akweta Colbert, Juan Pazmino, Anna Dalpino, Rebecca Johnson, Elizebeth Randall, Gina Lamont, Sabrina Satt, Michael Kruzich, Junko Nishiyama

May 30, 2003

Premiere performance of MIRIAM
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
Old First Church, San Francisco

MIRIAM, two songs for Piano and Soprano. Based upon the prophetic achievements of the Biblical heroine, Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron. The original text and music, written by Daniel Feinsmith, draws inspiration from the writings on Miriam in the Old Testament and the Talmud, from the writings of Hellenic philosopher Zosimus, and from the poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Concert endowed by the generosity of celebrated Bay Area singer, scholar and teacher James H. Schwabacher.

San Francisco Opera musicians Greta Feeney, Soprano and John Parr, Piano.

May 25, 2003

Radio Interview at KALW 97.1 San Francisco

February 16, 2003

Radio Interview at KVMR with John Deaderick.