The Concert Hall is undergoing renovations in 2007–08. Concerts will be held in Lisser Hall and other campus locations during this time. 

Tickets may be purchased the door or online at www.boxofficetickets.com. All Concert Series and Songlines Series events are free to Mills students, faculty, and staff. The Concert Line: 510.430.2296

The Concert Series is sponsored in part by a gift from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Darius Milhaud Concert is made possible in part by a generous endowment from the Mills College Class of 1945. The Mills Performing Group is made possible by a grant from elfenworks LLC, proudly supporting the musical community.

Sunday, September 9, 2006, 4:00 pm
3, 2, 1 - CLASSICAL !
Johann Christoph Mann: Divertimento in G Major for flute,
cello, and fortepiano
CPE Bach: Sonata in g minor for viola da gamba and fortepiano
CPE Bach: Sonata in D Major for flute and fortepiano
WA Mozart: Variations on "Ein Weib is das herrlichste Ding" in F major for fortepiano
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in D Major for flute, cello,
and fortepiano
Belle Bulwinkle, fortepiano; Angela Koregelos, flute;
David Morris, cello and viola da gamba
Free
Rothwell Center Student Union

Saturday, September 29, 2007, 8:00 pm
MILLS PERFORMING GROUP
Aaron Copland: Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Roscoe Mitchell: White Tiger Disguise for mezzo-soprano
and string quintet
Zeena Parkins: Between the Whiles for solo electric harp
and electronics
Charles Wuorinen: Bearbitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch for flute, clarinet, violin, contrabass
Graeme Jennings, violin; Cynthia Mei, violin; Charleton Lee, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass; Lynne Morrow, mezzo-soprano; Tod Brody, flute; Robert Schwartz, piano; William Wohlmacher, clarinet; Zeena Parkins, electric harp; Steed Cowart, conductor
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

Friday, October 12, 2007, 8:00 pm
Darius Milhaud Concert
MILHAUD, STRAVINSKY, AND CARTER
Darius Milhaud: Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 1, Op. 3
Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 2, Op. 40
Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano
Elliot Carter: Duo for Violin and Piano
Graeme Jennings, violin; Christopher Jones, piano
Free
Lisser Hall

Sunday, October 21, 2007, 4:00 pm
The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) present:
MILLS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT 40
with CCM AND CALARTS COMPOSERS

Composers:
Chris Brown: "Stupas" (2007) for piano, vibraphone,
and live computer processing
John Bischoff: "Edge Transit" for cello, bass, piano,
percussion, and electronics
James Fei: "Homage" for the Buchla Box
Maggi Payne: "Arctiv Winds" electro-acoustic work
David Rosenboom: "Zones of Coherence" for trumpet and
interactive electronics
Mark Trayle: "Placeholder" for live audio/video electronics

Performers:
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass;
Willliam Winant, percussion; Chris Brown: piano;
Daniel Rosenboom, trumpet, Mark Trayle, live audio/video electronics
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

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Monday, November 5, 2007, 8:00 pm
IMPROVISATION
Roscoe Mitchell, saxophone; Chris Brown, piano; Fred Frith, electric guitar, Zeena Parkins, harp; William Winant, percussion; Pauline Oliveros, accordion; India Cooke, violin
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

Saturday, November 17, 2007, 8:00 pm
David Tudor Composer-in-Residence
LAETITIA SONAMI
Laetitia Sonami will perform her work in progress "The Appearance of Silence (the Invention of Perspective)," a live interactive electronic work with her unique instrument "the lady's glove,"and works made collaboratively with Mills students.
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

Saturday, January 26, 2008, 8:00 pm
Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence
HELMUT LACHENMANN
Intérieur I for solo percussion
Gran Torso for string quartet
Allegro Sostenuto for clarinet, cello, and piano
Toccatina for solo violin
William Winant, percussion; Graeme Jennings, violin; Erik Ulman, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Matt Ingalls, clarinet; Geoffrey Gartner, cello; Christopher Jones, piano
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

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Thursday, March 6, 8:00 pm
Friday, March 7, 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 8, 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 9, 4:00 pm
additional events/times/locations tba
SIGNAL FLOW FROM MILLS 2008: A Festival of New Works by Mills Graduate Student Composers
Free
various locations

Thursday, March 20, 8:00 pm
CONNECTIONS
A Recital by: Thomas Buckner, Baritone
Joseph Kubera, Pianist, Electronics
The program includes plainsong, early liturgical chant,
songs of the troubadors and trouviers, Minnelieder,
Songs of Ockeghem, Jacobus Clemens, Isaak,Senfl, works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Webern, Brecht, Charles Ives, John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Robert Ashley.
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall

Friday, April 4, 2008, 8:00 pm
X SOUND FESTIVAL
A Festival of New Works by Mills Undergraduate Senior Composers
Free
Lisser Hall

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Songlines Series
All concerts in the Songlines Series are free of charge and held in the Ensemble Room.

Monday, September 17, 2007, 7:30pm
DOUGLAS KAHN: lecture
How did it sound historically when the cosmos shifted from the mythical acoustics of the music of the spheres to electromagnetism? It was heard on the telephone late at night.

Thursday, October 11, 2007, 7:30pm
MARCO CAPPELLI: performance
Cappelli's "Extreme Guitar Project" juxtaposes the traditional (six nylon strings) against the possibility of something ‘other' (altered tunings, noise, metal strings, electronics) in a series of works written especially for him. This concert is presented with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco.

Monday, October 29, 2007, 7:30 pm
ANDREA PARKINS: Known for her dynamic timbral explorations on the electric accordion, Parkins will perform a solo audio work built from sonic materials that document the specificity of objects--collected, invented or implicated--as they are set into awkward motion and ultimately come to stasis.

Monday, November 26, 2006, 7:30 pm
KAUFMANN/GRATKOWSKI/DE JOODE: performance
Achim Kaufmann, piano, Frank Gratkowski, clarinet and alto sax, and Wilbert De Joode, bass, spontaneously weave compact pieces full of intricate, multi-threaded interaction. 

Monday, February 11, 2008, 7:30 pm
AKIYAMA/VAN WISSEM: performance and lecture
Improvisational solos and duos by Tetuzi Akiyama on Martin HD-28 acoustic guitar and Jozef van Wissem on baroque lute featuring occasional layers of ambient field recordings.

Monday, March 17, 2008, 7:30 pm
MARGARET FISHER: performance and video
The director of MA FISH CO, a performance and media
production company which creates densely layered and
surreal intermedia works, performs live and screens recent pieces with a "faux foreign" theme.

Monday, April 14, 2008, 7:30 pm
ELLEN FULLMAN: video and lecture
The creator/player of the Long String Instrument screens
"Event Locations No. 1," made with miniature wireless
cameras strapped to each wrist, and discusses the
complexities of overtone production in her work.

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