Meet composer Eric Estrada Valadez, an alumnus of the University of Houston Moores School of Music (DMA). Eric’s piece for the ARTZenter program, Divided Realities, explores the different interpretations we hold as a society around historical and social events through the juxtaposition of musical motifs and shapes.
Join us at Herbst Theatre with @sfcontemporarymusicplayers on June 9 at 7:30 PM for the world premiere.
Meet composer Euna Joh, currently a student at Indiana University. Euna’s piece for the ARTZenter program, inspired by A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, explores the winding nature of grief through music.
Join us at Herbst Theatre with @sfcontemporarymusicplayers on June 9 at 7:30 PM for the world premiere!
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Congratulations to the four winners of the ARTZenter Emerging Composer Completion Grant project (August 2025 cohort): Eric Estrada Valadez, Euna Joh, Luca Pasquini, Jackson Waters
They will be returning to San Francisco for a series of rehearsals with the @sfcontemporarymusicplayers and a world premiere concert of their piece at Herbst Theatre on June 9, 2026 at 7:30pm!
Tickets are free, see you all there!
A reminder from composer and mentor, Mark Gustavson, to submit your pieces for ARTZenter’s Emerging Composers Completion Grants today!
Apply at ARTZenter.org🎵
📣New deadline to submit your piece for the ARTZenter Emerging Composer Completion Grants!
Eight composers from this round will be chosen for $3,000 completion grants. Four finalist composers will then be chosen to receive world premiere performances at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre at future dates.
Deadline: August 15, 2026
Apply at ARTZenter.org
Reminder!📣 Only one week left to submit your piece for the May 1 deadline!
ARTZenter Institute is an initiative offering Emerging Composer Completion Grants to composers across the United States. Please note that eligibility has been expanded to include composers not currently matriculared, who have received a degree within the past 3 years.
Visit ARTZenter.org for more information.
And that’s a wrap for our first ARTZenter Institute concert of the year! Congratulations again to the four composers: Brady Wolff, SiHyun Uhm, Anak Baiharn, and Trevor Zavac 👏
You are all officially ARTZenter Alumni! A huge thank you to @sfcontemporarymusicplayers for this incredible partnership, and shoutout to @thesfwarmemorial for hosting us in this amazing venue!
See you all at the next concert!
Trevor Zavac is a composer, hornist, and wordist whose work experiments with perception and abstraction to explore the complexity, beauty, and humor of the illogical.
We can’t wait to hear Trevor’s world premiere of “Composition No. 0136” tomorrow at 7:30 PM at Herbst Theatre. See you all there!
#MeetTheComposer Brady Wolff, a Kansas City–native composer, shares the inspiration behind his piece, “Lichtenberg Figures,” which will be premiered with the @sfcontemporarymusicplayers on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM at Herbst Theatre. See you all there!
Congratulations to our four winning composers from ARTZenter’s June 2025 Completion Grants!
In partnership with the @sfcontemporarymusicplayers we are thrilled to present four world premiere performances for chamber orchestra at Herbst Theatre on Tuesday, January 6 at 7:30 PM.
Anak Baiharn – Forever, Until / Until, Forever
SiHyun Uhm – Pulse
Brady Wolff – Lichtenberg Figures
Trevor Zavac – Composition No. 0136
FREE ADMISSION — no tickets or reservations required.
More info at artzenter.org
