MANA Quartet

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)
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.

BachSpiele | Leipzig, Germany
2019-06-15 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany
Performance of Mozart and Bach at BachSpiele at the BachFestival in Leipzig

Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik (Workshop) | Dresden, Germany
2019-06-14
Workshop with students from Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik in conjunction with Musikhochschule Dresden.

Concert at Academy of Art | Szczecin, Poland
2019-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland
MANA Quartet concert. Program TBA

Masterclass at Academy of Art | Szczecin, Poland
2019-06-11 | Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland
Masterclass by MANA Quartet at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.

Evangelische Pauluskirche | Badenweiler, Germany
2019-06-09 20:15 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Evangelische Pauluskirche, Kaiserstr. 8, Badenweiler, 79410, Germany
MANA Quartet recital. Program TBA

Masterclass and Concert | Musikschule Pliezhausen
2019-06-08
Masterclass and concert with studnts from Musikschule Pliezhausen

European Summer Tour - Details TBA
2019-06-04 - 2019-06-15
Check back here soon for details of our upcoming European tour.

The Sequoias | Portola Valley, CA
2019-05-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Sequoias, Portola Valley, CA, United States
MANA Trio at the Sequoias – Program TBA

The To Kalon Club of San Jose
2019-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Jose Country Club, 15571 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA, 95127, United States
MANA Trio concert – program TBA

Noontime Concerts | San Francisco, CA
2019-04-23 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Old St Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
MANA Trio concert at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
Program includes Brahms, Quantz, and Singelee
