Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Here we are about to slip into summer! And, as usual, it starts with the joyful noise of “Garden of Memory” at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. For those of you unfamiliar, this is an annual walk-through marathon concert event presented by New Music Bay Area every June on the evening of the solstice, when dozens of performing members of the contemporary music community fill every corner of the labyrinthine, Julia Morgan-designed columbarium. This year, I’m sharing my niche with composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, and we’re planning to have a grand time trading solo sets peppered with some improvisatory duo moments. Garden of Memory is always a high point, and definitely my preferred way to start the summer. Off to a Good Start The first half of 2024 has been quite rich for me, with travels and art-filled adventures. This past February, in Milwaukee, I had the joy of hearing one of my latest commissioned works produced by Present Music and performed by a stellar quartet of cellists (including Nick Photinos, who commissioned the work, and Paul Wiancko, Kronos Quartet’s new cellist). And in April, I was honored to perform at Merkin Hall and have some of my works performed by the Chicago chamber collective D-Composed. I also traveled to Europe in April to give a performance at a very special underground (literally) art gallery KIT (Kunst im Tunnel) in Düsseldorf, at the invitation of artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu. And from there, I went on to Italy to attend La Biennale di Venezia with my friend, filmmaker Sandra Davis. And last month, I had the great pleasure of getting to know and interact with six extraordinary composers (Danishta Rivera, Anthony Green, Brittany Green, Molly Jones, Alessandro Maione, and Lisa Degrace) during an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. I was supposed to be their mentor, but I think I really had more to learn from them than they did from me. Powerful Work Since my last writing, I’ve experienced some very impactful concerts, exhibitions, and performances across the US and in Europe. In February, the transnational African dance company L’École des Sables performed Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. I found the performance riveting and surprisingly true to Bausch’s original setting. And Miya Masaoka returned to The Lab in San Francisco to give a beautiful concert with Hans Tammen. In March, The Lab presented a brilliantly staged and performed concert of Robert Ashley works (Automatic Writing and a Spanish language translation of The Backyard).		Nick Photinos, Paul Wiancko, Susan Babini, and Adrien Zitoun at Present Music John Schaefer interviews PZ at Merkin Hall Valdéz bronze sculptures on St. Marks Piazza PZ on the Grand Canal in Venice Associate Artists at ACA An army of stage hands raking earth on the stage for Bausch's Rite of Spring Miya and Hans taking a bow at The Lab Matmos at Bang on a Can Long Play Curtain Call for the Cast and Crew of Innocence at SF Opera
Installation in the Mexican Pavillion in the Arsenale at La Biennale	In April, I did my best to visit every Venice Biennale pavilion. A standout for me was a mixed media work by Erick Meyenberg at Arsenal, featuring an immersive 4-channel video surrounding a porcelain rendering of a long table setting.
Then in May, I attended Bang On A Can’s “Long Play Festival” in Brooklyn, where I heard one amazing concert after the next – including Ekemeles performing exquisite vocal music by George Lewis, Dither performing an acoustic transcription of a Laurie Spiegel work, and the Bang on a Can All Stars in a Riuichi Sakamoto tribute concert. This month I had one the most moving opera experiences I can remember at SF Opera’s production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. This tremendous (and disturbing) work was exceptional on every level – from the difficult but touching score to the virtuosic and sensitive performances of the ensemble cast and opera chorus on the continuously revolving and constantly changing set. Bang On A Can All Stars and Guests with Steve Reich after performing Music for 18 Musicians
More to Come I completed some commissioned works in these past months, but I still have more composing to do and more scheduled performances of new and existing work. Adam Tendler will be playing my work alongside that of the other composers in his Inheritances project at Brava Theater next month, and this fall the Twin Cities-based Zeitgeist will premiere Closed Loop, a piece I’m still working on as we speak. As always, I have a number of other solo performances scheduled as well. Scroll down and read on for details! Love, PZ

Photos by: Sadie Woods, Pamela Z, Beth Warshafsky, Sandra Davis, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán  top
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Garden of Memory annual Summer Solstice Event at Chapel of the Chimes
Friday June 21, 2024 5-9 pm Pamela Z gives solo voice and electronics performances as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, CA This year PZ shares her niche with composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, and they will alternate sets in the Garden of St. Paul. Garden of Memory features continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers and musicians presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music in a walk-through concert in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building. The audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm. A map of this year's performer locations can be found here:  https://www.gardenofmemory.com/map. Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA, USA top
Adam Tendler: INHERITANCES (Tendler plays Pamela Z's Thank You So Much) Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 7:30pm Brava Theater After his father’s unexpected death, acclaimed New York-based pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance – a wad of cash received in a parking lot – to begin a commissioning project, inviting some of today’s most influential composers and sound artists to create new piano works exploring the idea of inheritance itself. Woven into an intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and result in a meditation on confronting our past while moving toward the future. The San Francisco premiere of Inheritances, presented by Other Minds at Brava Theater, features works by Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Devonté Hynes, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover. Purchase Tickets   OTHER MINDS special event at Brava Theater 2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 top Pamela Z performance at James Casebere Opening
In a shared event celebrating an exhibition of James Casebere’s Shou Sugi Ban Sculptures, Pamela Z will perform works for voice and electronics and Samiya Bashir will give a reading of her poetry. This event will be a reunion of three 2019/2020 Rome Prize Fellows. James Casebere’s work has addressed architecture from the start by building models to photograph. For this exhibition, Casebere will present a new series of large-scale wooden geometric sculptures that engage notions of synthetic nature: bio-design—or self-generating forms that suggest organic or inorganic growth.  'T' Space 60 Round Lake Road in Rhinebeck, NY top	Casebere's Seeds of Time (concurrently on view at Sean Kelly, NY)
Pamela Z solo concert at The Foundry Sunday, August 11, 2024 7pm The Foundry
Pamela will give a performance of works for solo voice and electronics at The Foundry at 7pm in West Stockbridge, MA Tickets: $25 in advance / $30 at door Seating/Bar: 6:30PM   Show:  7:00PM This event is indoors. The Foundry 2 Harris Street, West Stockbridge, MA 01266 top
Zeitgeist premieres Pamela Z's Closed Loop September 6-8, 2024 Barringer Family Farms
top	The Twin Cities-based new music ensemble, Zeitgeist, has commissioned Pamela Z to compose a work called Closed Loop, exploring agriculture and the Farm-to-Table movement. Stemming from a study that Z did during her 2015 McKnight Artist Residency, this piece will premiere in September at Barringer Family Farms. More information to come. Barringer Family Farms N4815 810th St, Ellsworth, WI 54011
CNMAT presents Pamela Z | Danishta Rivero | Anthony R. Green September 30, 2024 8pm Center for New Music and Audio Technologies Composer/Performers Pamela Z (San Francisco), Danishta Rivero (Oakland), and Anthony R. Green (Brighton, UK) will perform an evening of works for voices, electronics, and piano. at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT at 8pm in Berkeley, CA The three artists will intersperse composed solo works with improvised trios – finding curious intersections between their individual sonic and performance practices. CNMAT Center for New Music and Audio Technologies 1750 Arch Street Berkeley, CA 94709 USA top
Pamela Z Live @ Low End Thursday, November 14, 2024 8pm LOW END BEMIS Center Pamela Z will perform a concert of works for solo voice and electronics at BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts. BEMIS Center 724 S. 12th Street Omaha, NE 68102 top
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