MANA Quartet

MANA Saxophone Institute | June 17 - 21, 2024 | San José, CA
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-21 | San José State University – School of Music and Dance, 1 Washington Square, San José, CA, 95112, United States
MANA Saxophone Institute is back this June!
Join us at San José State univiersity June 17-21
MORE INFORMATION HERE

MANA with Santa Cruz Symphony | June 7, 2024 | Santa Cruz, CA
2024-06-07 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
MANA Joins the Santa Cruz Symphony for a celebration of music by John Williams.

Music at Four - Portola Valley, CA
2023-11-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Sequoias, Portola Valley, CA, United States
A concert of chamber music, featuring works celebrating California’s landmarks and culture.

MANA + ECHO Chamber Orchestra - San Anselmo, California
2023-11-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo, CA, 94960, United States
MANA joins ECHO Chamber Orchestra yet again to perform Philip Glass’ Concerto for Saxophone Quartet.

ECHO Chamber Orchestra takes part in CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL: A Celebration of New Music organized throughout the state by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and San Diego Symphony to perform the most innovative and compelling music from around the world composed in the last five years.
ECHO will perform music by Californian composers Belinda Reynolds and Kevin Gordon, Mexican composer Horacio Fernandez and Brazilian composer Lea Freire. In collaboration with the MANA Saxophone Quartet, ECHO will perform the exciting Concerto for Saxophone Quartet by Philip Glass.

Arts Around August - Walnut Creek, California
2023-08-20 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, 94596
MANA joins Arts Around August as a trio to share chamber music with the community on Rudney Plaza at the Lesher Center, in Walnut Creek!

Arts Around August, in its 3rd year, is a month-long celebration of the performing, visual and culinary arts in downtown Walnut Creek. Events and activities are planned throughout the month of August, including experiences for both families and adults like Summer Concerts at Broadway Plaza, First Wednesday Street Fest, Downtown Stages, Moveable Feasts, Family Day at the Lesher Center, Pop-up Opera performances and many more activities!

Noontime Concerts - San Francisco, California
2022-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Old St Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
MANA returns to Noontime Concerts (San Francisco)!

Maritzika* (2021) – Marc Mellits (1966)
Premier Quatuor (1857) – Jean Baptiste Singelée (1821-1875)
Portrait of My Dead Brother* (2014) – Kevin Villalta (1989)
Diversions in Denim (1977) – Carl Anton Wirth (1921-1986)

Link to Noontime Concerts

San Jose Contemporary Music Festival featuring the Music of Chen-Yi
2022-10-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San José State University – School of Music and Dance, 1 Washington Square, San José, CA, 95112, United States
San Jose Contemporary Music Festival featuring the Music of Chen-Yi
Thursday, October 20, 2022
7:30 PM
San Jose State University Concert Hall
One Washington Square, San Jose, CA
Prolific Chinese-American composer Chen-Yi will be the composer-in-residence at the 2022 San Jose Contemporary Music Festival from October 18-20.
Join MANA as they Perform Chen-Yi’s Ba Yin (the eight sounds) for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble in this concert that will celebrate the music of this extraordinary composer!

Music at Noon Concert Series - Santa Clara University
2022-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Clara University
Music at Noon Concert Series – Santa Clara University
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
12:00 PM

Premier Quatuor (1857) – Jean Baptiste Singelée (1821-1875)
Portrait of My Dead Brother* (2014) – Kevin Villalta (1989)
Diversions in Denim (1977) – Carl Anton Wirth (1921-1986)

SF Music Day - San Francisco
2022-10-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
SF Music Day
Sunday, October 9, 2022
1:00 PM 6:40 PM
SF Music Day was founded fourteen years ago to celebrate the Bay Area music community, and to encourage local audiences to explore and savor the diverse range of music of our region. Each year, the daylong festival presents dozens of ensembles performing a staggering array of repertoire, from Baroque and classical works to contemporary compositions.
More details soon!

La Belle et la Bête with OPERA PARALLÈLE | San Francisco, CA
2022-07-14 - 2022-07-17 | CA
OPERA PARALLÈLE PRESENTS

La Belle et la Bête

by Philip Glass
Libretto by the Composer
based on the film by Jean Cocteau

A surreal new take on a
timeless tale, fusing opera
& film live on stage.

Performances

July 14, 2022 – 7:30pm
July 15, 2022 – 7:30pm
July 16, 2022 – 7:30pm
July 17, 2022 – 3pm

Venue

Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ

Running Time: 90 mins with no intermission – performed in French with English subtitles.

Rutgers University Residency | New Brusnswick, NJ
2022-03-30 - 2022-04-01 | Rutgers Univeristy
Wednesday, March 30, 2020
Composers Forum (workshop of Mason Gross student compositions in advance of April 1 concert)
12 pm
Schare Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 30, 2020
MANA Quartet Concert (Works by Becker, Mellits, Vu, and Zare)
7:30 pm
Nicholas Music Center
Thursday, March 31, 2020
Saxophone Masterclass (Solo and chamber works)
5-7 pm
Schare Recital Hall
Friday, April 1, 2020
MANA Quartet Concert of Mason Gross student compositions
7:30 pm
Nicholas Music Center

Peace Memorial Concert Series | Clearwater, FL
2022-01-09 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church, 110 S. Fort Harrison Ave, Clearwater, FL, 33756, United States
“Made in America,” an eclectic program of classical works and new commissions by American Composers.

Timucua Arts Foundation | Orlando, FL
2022-01-08 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S Summerlin Ave, Orlando, FL, 32806, United States
MANA performs new works written by living American composers.

MANA + Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY
2021-12-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | BrooklyMuseum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
December 12, 2021 – 6:00 PM – Brooklyn Museum – The MANA Quartet will perform Philip Glass’ Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.

MANA + MSO at Roulette | Brooklyn, NY
2021-10-10 17:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, 11217
October 10, 2021 – 5:00 PM – Roulette, NY, NY – Megalopolis presents works by Nicola LeFanu, Josiah Catalan, and Niki Harlafti alongside winners from its 2020 Call for Scores.

MANA + MSO at DiMenna Center for Classical Music | New York, NY
2021-10-09 19:30 (America/New_York) | DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY, 10018, United States
October 9, 2021 – 7:30 PM – Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY, NY – Megalopolis presents the world premiere of Nicola LeFanu’s In the Forests of the Night for saxophone orchestra alongside new works by Josiah Catalan and Niki Harlafti.

MANA with the MSO | San Francisco, CA
2020-04-19 | Bethany Methodist Church – SF, 1270 Sanchez St, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
April 19th, 2019 – Bethany United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA – Megalopolis presents works by Catalan, Harlafti, and more as part of their West Coast debut.

MANA with the MSO | San Jose, CA
2020-04-17 - 2020-04-19 | School of Music and Dance – San Jose State University, 1 Washington Square, San Jose, CA, 95192, United States
April 17th-19th, 2019 – San Jose State University, San Jose, CA – Residency at San Jose State University culminating with the ensemble’s West Coast debut in works by Catalan, Harlafti, and more.

Piano Plus! Concert Series with John Halle | West Shokan, NY
2020-03-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Olive Free Library
MANA teams up with composer John Halle for an East Coast premiere of Street Music for saxophone quartet and other collaborations.

North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference | Tempe, AZ
2020-03-06 - 2020-03-09 | Arizona State University
Conference Performances
Saturday 3/7
2:00 PM in Katzin Hall | MANA Quartet – *World Premieres* of music by Dan Becker and Gabriel Bolaños
3:40 PM in Katzin Hall | Diane Hunger – Concert Piece, by Stephen Dankner
4:00 PM in Recital Hall | Michael Mortarotti – Allegro, Cadenza, e Adagio, by Werner Wolf Glaser
Sunday 3/8
4:20 PM in Nelson Fine Arts Center Plaza | Michael Hernandez conducts the SJSU Saxophone Orchestra

Discourse, for saxophone quartet and electronics, explores the perceptual distance between speech and music. The performers are accompanied by a fixed tape part that combines samples of multiple international poets reading their work in their native languages. When listening to speech in a language we understand, our attention is so focused on deciphering the meaning of the speech, that we are unable to focus deeply on the speech sounds. By juxtaposing and combining multiple different speech samples in different languages, I hope to attune listeners to the beautiful, complex sounds of speech, and focus listeners’ attention towards a musical mode of listening to language.
This piece was originally composed in 2018 for three members of the MANA quartet, and was significantly revised in 2020 for the full saxophone quartet.

"Czech Mate" with San Jose Wind Symphony
2020-02-16 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | McAfee Performing Arts Center, 20300 Herriman Avenue, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Czech composers have had a major influence on Western music, and you’ll hear why as SJWS performs spellbinding works by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Jaromír Weinberger and Václav Nelhýbel. Plus, the virtuosic Mana Saxophone Quartet performs David DeBoor Canfield’s Concerto After Dvorak. (from http://www.sjws.org/)

JOHN HALLE & FRIENDS OBLITERATE STANDARDS
2020-02-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Center for New Music SF, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 — 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15 Suggested Donation
Tickets available at the door only

Composer/pianist/scholar/activist John Halle, the Mana Sax Quartet and Friction String Quartet perform two decades of Halle’s obliterations and reconfigurations of jazz standards by Monk, Rodgers and others.
Activist/pianist/scholar/composer John Halle began his musical career as a jazz musician in San Francisco in the early 1980s performing with Mark Levine, Eddie Henderson, Sonny Stitt and Freddy Hubbard among others. A founding member of the Common Sense Composers collective, he recently retired from Bard and Yale where he taught many of the most performed composers of the millennial generation. This retrospective of Halle’s reflections, critiques and deconstructions of jazz standards will feature the critically acclaimed Sphere(‘s) based on classic tunes by Thelonious Monk performed by the brilliant Friction Quartet. Halle will perform three solo piano works including Towerology (dedicated to composer Joan Tower), You Took Advantage of Me-an homage to the great jazz pianists Art Tatum and Stanley Cowell and the premiere of Street Music commissioned by the Mana Sax Quartet. Halle will be in attendance to perform–and discuss the works’ connection to the obliteration of standards of common decency, intellectual honesty, and moral authority which have been a conspicuous feature of the political culture of recent years.

MANA Makes Sense!
2020-02-13 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Center for New Music SF, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 — 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members & Students
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Tickets also available at the door

MANA Quartet returns to the Bay Area premiering several new works from their recent collaboration with the Common Sense Composer Collective! Featuring west coast premieres of works by Belinda Reynolds, John Halle and Randy Woolf also featuring works by Kevin Villalta and Philip Glass and others.

Keene State College | Keene, NH
2019-11-06 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Keene State College, 229 Main St, Keene, NH, 03435, United States
Guest artist recital – Program TBA
Redfern Arts Center, Alumni Recital Hall – 7:30 PM

Skyloft Groupmuse | NYC
2019-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Works by Glass and Villalta, with new works by Josiah Catalan and two world premieres as part of our season-long collaboration with the Common Sense Composers Collective by Belinda Reynolds and Randy Woolf. Join us!

VARIOUSOUND SESSIONS | NYC
2019-11-04 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
The MANA Quartet joins friends for a fun evening of chamber music on the Peet’s Candy Store stage

MANA with the MSO | Princeton, NJ
2019-11-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | All Saints’ Church Princeton, 16 All Saints Rd, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
November 3rd, 2019 – 3:00 PM – All Saints’ Church, Princeton, NJ – New Jersey debut of the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, featuring the NJ premiere of works by Herron, Karkoff, and Schwartz.

MANA with the MSO | New York, NY
2019-11-02 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY, 10018, United States
November 2nd, 2019 – 7:30 PM – Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY, NY – Joined by mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter, Megalopolis presents the world premiere of music by Jay Schwartz alongside the world premiere of a new work by Molly Herron, and the US premiere of Maurice Karkoff’s Sechs Albumblätter.

Summer in the City | San Jose, CA
2019-07-05 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San José State University – School of Music and Dance, 1 Washington Square, San José, CA, 95112, United States
MANA Quartet recital at San Jose State University
Program TBA

MSI 2019 | San Jose State University
2019-07-05 - 2019-07-14 | San José State University – School of Music and Dance, 1 Washington Square, San José, CA, 95112, United States
MANA Saxophone Institute 2019!
Details TBA
July 5 is registration and opening concert only. Final concert is July 14 (afternoon).
Registration information will be posted here.
