SF’s Guerrilla Composers Guild

Gyre Music is proud to be a sponsor of Phonochromaticism, a concert of new music presented by Guerrilla Composers Guild in San Francisco this Thursday. “The Guerrillas were founded in San Francisco in 2012 by a few unruly souls, and serves to keep its finger on the pulse of the new music scene and promote both creation and listening.” I met one of the central figures through a series of Tweets recently and was impressed with the work Nick Benavides and his friends are doing. Read more at their website.

I grew up south of SF and attended the SF Conservatory of Music, so I definitely left a piece of my heart there (all references intended)(it was the time of Fillmore West!). It has been a thrill in the last couple of years to write a piece for the Mobius Trio and to get to know several young guitar and voice duos. San Francisco has become more and more an important center of the guitar – there is long-time chair of the Dept. and new-music innovator David Tannenbaum, Sergio Assad now teaches there, the OMNI concert series is one of the most successful in the country, many other successful teachers and performers, and there is a wealth of young ensembles: Mobius Trio, One Great City, Jarring Sounds, Duo Fado and others.

It’s a thrill to get just a little involved.