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presents…

KRONOS QUARTETDavid Harrington | Violin Hank Dutt | ViolaJohn Sherba | Violin Sunny Yang | Cello

TIMO ANDRES | Piano 

Friday, February 2, 2018 | 7:30pmHerbst Theatre

ON PLAYING GLASS

1. Kronos Quartet

PHILIP GLASS String Quartet No. 2 (Company): Movement I *

String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak): Movement III

Modern Love Waltz + (arr. Kronos Quartet)

String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima): 1962—Body Building

String Quartet No. 5: Movement III *

2. Timo Andres interviews David Harrington

INTERMISSION

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3. Timo Andres

PHILIP GLASS Evening Song No. 2

Piano Études No. 13, 16, 20

4. David Harrington interviews Timo Andres

5. Kronos Quartet and Timo Andres

PHILIP GLASS Music from Dracula * (arr. Michael Riesman)

* Written for Kronos + Arranged for Kronos

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Kronos Quartet Janet Cowperthwaite, Managing Director P.O. Box 225340, San Francisco, CA 94122 kronosquartet.org

Timo Andres is represented by OtherARTS otherarts.net

Hamburg Steinway Model D, Pro Piano, San Francisco

ARTIST PROFILES

San Francisco Performances presents Kro-nos Quartet for the sixth time. Previously this season they appeared with Youth Speaks and the Living Earth Show. The ensemble first ap-peared in 1986 with ODC and also has appeared frequently on the Family Matinee Series. Timo Andres performed on the PIVOT series in Janu-ary; he made his SF Performances mainstage debut in 2015 in Philip Glass: The Études.

For more than 40 years, San Francis-co’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has com-bined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually reimag-ine the string quartet experience. In the process, Kronos has become one of the world’s most celebrated and influential ensembles, performing thousands of con-certs worldwide, releasing more than 60 recordings, collaborating with many of the world’s most intriguing and accom-plished composers and performers, and commissioning more than 900 works and arrangements for string quartet. Kronos has received over 40 awards, including the Polar Music and Avery Fisher Prizes, two of the most prestigious awards given to musicians.

Since 1973, Kronos has built a compel-lingly eclectic repertoire for string quar-tet, performing and recording works by 20th-century masters (Bartók, Schnittke),

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Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley box set; Folk Songs, which fea-tures Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhi-annon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant singing traditional folk songs; Ladilikan, a collaborative album with Trio Da Kali, a “super-group” of Malian griot musicians assembled by Aga Khan Music Initiative; and vinyl re-releases of Pieces of Africa and Dracula, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain official soundtracks.

The nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association manages all aspects of Kro-nos’ work, including the commissioning of new works, concert tours and home season performances, education programs, and a self-produced Kronos Festival. In 2015, Kronos launched Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, an education and legacy project that is commission-ing—and distributing for free—the first learning library of contemporary reper-toire for string quartet.

Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in ru-ral Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. A Nonesuch Records artist, his newest al-bum of orchestral works, Home Stretch, has been hailed for its “playful intelligence and individuality,” (The Guardian) and of his 2010 debut album for two pianos, Shy and Mighty, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that “it achieves an unhurried gran-deur that has rarely been felt in Ameri-can music since John Adams came on the scene… more mighty than shy, [Andres] sounds like himself.”

Notable works include Everything Hap-pens So Much, commissioned and pre-miered by the Boston Symphony, led by

Music Director Andris Nelsons; Strong Language, a string quartet for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and premiered at the Barbican Centre in London with An-dres and pianist David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a piano concerto for Jona-than Biss. Co-commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and the Or-chestra of St. Luke’s, The Blind Banister was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

Andres has also written works for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Los An-geles Chamber Orchestra, and the Los An-geles Philharmonic. Chamber music in-cludes works for yMusic, Eighth Blackbird, Gabriel Kahane, and a piano quintet for Jonathan Biss and the Elias String Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and San Francisco Performances.

As a pianist, Timo Andres has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, (le) Poisson Rouge, National Sawdust, and elsewhere. He has toured with Brad Mehldau, and per-formed the world premiere of a piano con-certo by Ingram Marshall—written spe-cifically for him—with John Adams and the LA Phil. He has toured internationally with Philip Glass, performing the com-plete Glass Études alongside the composer. He recently appeared at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where he received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize; Glass selected Andres as the recipient of this award.

This season Andres writes new works for the Music Academy of the West; for Inbal Segev and Metropolis Ensemble, per-formed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and for Ravinia’s Steans Insti-tute of Music, celebrating their 30th anni-versary. He performs the Ingram Marshall Concerto with John Adams and the New World Symphony on the same bill as Mr. Biss performing The Blind Banister; joins Evan Christ and the Orchester Cottbus Sta-atstheater; offers solo recitals at Bargemu-sic and for San Francisco Performances; and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet and L.A. Dance Project.

Timo Andres earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Yale School of Music. He is one sixth of the Sleeping Gi-ant composers’ collective, with whom he has written for the Albany Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Eighth Blackbird, and others.

contemporary composers (Osvaldo Golijov, Vladimir Martynov, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Sahba Aminikia), jazz legends (Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk), rock artists (Jimi Hendrix, The Who’s Pete Townsh-end), and many others.

Integral to Kronos’ work is a series of long-running, in-depth collaborations with many of the world’s foremost com-posers, including: “Father of Minimal-ism” Terry Riley, on projects such as the NASA-commissioned Sun Rings (2002); Philip Glass on an all-Glass CD in 1995 and recent premieres of String Quartets No. 6 (2013) and No. 7 (2014); Azerbaijan’s Frang-hiz Ali-Zadeh, featured on the 2005 CD Mugam Sayagi; Steve Reich, with whom Kronos has recorded the Grammy-win-ning composition Different Trains (1989); and many more.

Kronos has collaborated regularly with performing artists from around the world such as Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, performance artist Laurie Anderson, Az-eri vocalist Alim Qasimov, legendary Bol-lywood “playback singer” Asha Bhosle, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, Iranian vocalist Mahsa Vahdat, and visual art-ist Trevor Paglen. Kronos has also per-formed and/or recorded with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Angélique Kidjo, Zakir Hussain, Tom Waits, k.d. lang, Van Dyke Parks, Caetano Veloso, and múm. In dance, famed choreographers Merce Cun-ningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Eiko & Koma, and Sol León & Paul Lightfoot of Nederlands Dans Theater have created pieces with Kronos’ music.

Kronos’ work has been featured promi-nently in films, including the Academy Award-nominated documentaries How to Survive a Plague (2012) and Dirty Wars (2013). Kronos also recorded full scores by Philip Glass (Mishima and Dracula), Clint Mansell (The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream), Terry Riley (Hochelaga terre des âmes), and others.

The quartet tours extensively each year, appearing in the world’s most prestigious concert halls, clubs, and festivals. Kronos is equally prolific and wide-ranging on recordings, including the releases Pieces of Africa (1992), a showcase of African-born composers that simultaneously topped Billboard’s Classical and World Music lists; Nuevo (2002), a Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated celebration of Mexican culture; and the 2004 Grammy-winner Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite. Kronos’ most recent releases include the One