Armor Hall Concert

Forest Scenes, Op. 66 (1907) 
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

I. The Lone Forest Maiden
II. The Phantom Lover Arrives
III. The Phantom Tells His Tale of Longing
IV. Erstwhile They Ride, The Forest Maiden Acknowledges Her Love
V. Now Proudly They Journey Towards the Great City

The Woods So Wild (1590) 
William Byrd (1540-1623)

Morning in the Woods (1971)
Leo Ornstein (1893-2002)

The Murmur of the Wheat (1908)
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)

Hermit Thrush at Eve, Op. 92, No. 1 (1921)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)

Selections from Patterns of Plants (1997-2008)
Mamoru Fujieda (1955-)

The Mysterious Forest, Op. 118 (1923)
Erkki Melartin (1875-1937)

I. Autumn Portrait
II. Mysterious Forest
III. Witch
IV. Spell
V. Will-o’-the-wisp
VI. Troll Dance

ARTIST
Sarah Cahill – Piano

Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Julia Wolfe, Roscoe Mitchell, Annea Lockwood, and Ingram Marshall. She was named a 2018 Champion of New Music, awarded by the American Composers Forum (ACF). Cahill’s latest project, The Future is Female, a three-album series released on First Hand Records between March 2022 and April 2023, is an investigation and reframing of the piano literature featuring more than seventy compositions by women around the globe, from the Baroque to the present day, including new commissioned works. Recent and upcoming performances of The Future is Female include concerts at The Barbican, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carolina Performing Arts, National Gallery of Art, Carlsbad Music Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, University of Iowa, Bowling Green New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, North Dakota Museum of Art, Gretna Arts, WoCo Festival, Mayville State University, the EXTENSITY Concert Series’ Women Now Festival in New York, and the Newport Classical Music Festival. Cahill also performed music from The Future is Female for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Sarah Cahill’s discography includes more than twenty albums on the New Albion, CRI, New World, Tzadik, Albany, Innova, Cold Blue, Other Minds, Irritable Hedgehog, and Pinna labels. Cahill’s radio show, Revolutions Per Minute, can be heard every Sunday evening on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory and is a regular pre-concert speaker with the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

For more information, visit www.sarahcahill.com.