As part of their concert series performing pieces from Experimental Music Yearbook's issue 2015, EMY presents Brian Harnetty's Could I Tell You A Little Story About That?, Katherine Young's graveled crumbled strewn, and Jennifer Walshe's Zusammen i. If you're the extra-curious-concert-goer type, check out all of the concert scores in advance to see what you'll be getting yourself into; read the EMY 2015 issue at experimentalmusicyearbook.com.

Admission: Free

For more information, visit www.experimentalmusicyearbook.com

Seven Butterflies is a micro-concert featuring Kaija Saariaho's Sept Pappilons for solo cello and La Monte Young's Composition 1950 #5. 

Sept Papillons, which translates into "seven butterflies," is a seven movement work for solo cello that features ethereal extended techniques evocative of swooping, swarming, or gently fluttering butterflies. Composition 1960 #5 is a text score with the instructions: “Turn a butterfly (or any number of butterflies) loose in the performance area... the composition may be considered finished when the butterfly flies away.”

Though they are an absolute complement to one another, these pieces have never been performed together. Seven Butterflies will be a simultaneous performance of these two works during which a live Monarch Butterfly will perform Composition 1960 #5 while cellist Jennifer Bewerse performs Sept Papillons. The result is a miniaturized concert, fitting of both the delicate nature of the butterflies and their symbolic ephemeralness.

Seven Butterflies will be performed on:

Friday, Oct 9: 2:30pm & 5:00pm

Saturday, Oct 10: 12:00pm & 5:00pm

Sunday, Oct 11: 12:00pm, 3:00pm & 5:00pm

For more information, visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org

Southland Ensemble presents a concert highlighting three generations of living British composers - Howard Skempton (1947), Laurence Crane (1961) and Sarah Hughes (1983). 

All three composers have had a considerable impact on experimental music both nationally and globally.  Skempton was a founding member of the infamous Scratch Orchestra.  Crane, whose compositions have been gaining recent notoriety, is closely associated with the experimental ensemble Apartment House, now celebrating their 20th year as an experimental ensemble.  Hughes, both an artist and composer, is the co-creator of the experimental collective Compost and Height.  

This concert will feature an arrangement of Hughes' A Reward is given for the Best Inframammary Fold composed for the ensemble. 

While all three composers maintain their own unique voices, there is a sparse beauty found in their music that unites them. We invite you to share to hear similarities and differences, and share this special listening experience with us. 

Admission: $18 | $15 students

For more information, visit southlandensemble.com

Southland Ensemble plays the music of Gerhard Stabler & Kunsu Shim with the composers.

Jennifer joins the 12th Annual Carlsbad Music Festival for their New Currents programming. Eleven groups will present cutting edge classical music on Saturday, August 29 from 2-8pm and Sunday, August 30 from 1-5pm. Jennifer will be performing Adrianne Pope's music for ___ hand crank music boxes with Adrianne and members of the now hear ensemble at 4:20pm on Sunday, August 30th.

Admission: Free!

For more information, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org

And for performance schedules, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org/2015-concert-programs/

Southland Ensemble presents iconic event scores from the 1960's - music for oranges, melting ice, string instruments, drums, tea and nivea creme by Fluxus members including George Brecht, Allison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Eric Anderson, and Bengt Af Kintberg

"...the awareness of every daily act we perform, of every daily object around us. And the critique of it all by means of humor." - George Maciunas

Southland Ensemble is:

Eric KM Clark & Christine Tavolacci, directors

Casey Anderson, Orin Hildestad, James Klopfleisch, Jonathan Stehney,Cassia Streb

with special guests

Jennifer Bewerse and Todd Lerew

Admission: $10

Rachel Beetz (flute), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), and Todd Moellenberg (piano) join together to present an afternoon of beautiful chamber music by Debussy, Saariaho, Dutilleux, and more! 

Admission: $12 Adults, $5 Students w/ID (No Senior Discounts)

For more information, visit tickets.temeculatheater.org

Carlsbad Music Festival kicks of the summer with its third annual free Village Music Walk, featuring dozens of musicians performing over 50 sets during a 6 hour celebration of adventurous music.

An extension of the August Carlsbad Music Festival, the Village Music Walk is an all- ages, free of charge, community event that features a wide array of music performed in outdoor and indoor spaces throughout the historic Village of Carlsbad.

The Village Music Walk runs from 4-10pm with 20-minute sets starting every half hour. With multiple performance options to choose from at any time, attendees of the Village Walk are invited to create their own concert journey through the Village.

For more information, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org/events

Carlsbad Music Festival kicks of the summer with its third annual free Village Music Walk, featuring dozens of musicians performing over 50 sets during a 6 hour celebration of adventurous music. 

An extension of the August Carlsbad Music Festival, the Village Music Walk is an all- ages, free of charge, community event that features a wide array of music performed in outdoor and indoor spaces throughout the historic Village of Carlsbad. 

The Village Music Walk runs from 4-10pm with 20-minute sets starting every half hour. With multiple performance options to choose from at any time, attendees of the Village Walk are invited to create their own concert journey through the Village.

For more information, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org/events

What could be better than an afternoon spent with 12 cellists playing music from Bach to contemporary? On Sunday, May 31st at 4:00pm, Music from Salem’s Cello Seminar will perform a concert at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge NY. 

The Cello Seminar is an intensive weeklong seminar for young professionally bound cellists, led by Music from Salem consulting directors Rhonda Rider, cello, and Judith Gordon, piano, as well as guest cellists David Russell and Scott Klucksdahl, and guest teaching artist, Jennifer Bewerse. Welcome in the summer with this end-of-the-week cello-bration concert!

Admission: Pay what you can – all are welcome!

For more information, visit musicfromsalem.com/cello-seminar