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Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations. Part 1 In Cold Blood SFCCO 203 views Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations. Part 1 In Cold Blood I. Wasps II. Flies III. Spiders IV. Crabs V. Sharks VI. Frogs VII. Turtles VIII. Snak...
A Love Letter: G.A.C. by Michael Cooke SFCCO 136 views Most of the Love Letters collection are written for piano and G.A.C. was originally written for two pianos by Michael Cooke. Twenty years ago he decided he want to write a ...
A Love Letter: Minerva's Dance by Michael Cooke SFCCO 207 views Minerva's Dance by Michael Cooke was originally written for Michael's wife for their first dance as husband and wife in 2004. She loves tangos and the music of Astor Piazzo...
Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi by Davide Verotta SFCCO 481 views Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi, is a piece for chamber orchestra and two soprani about the acceptance, or awareness, of death, life passing by, and the longing for the ...
Open Ended (redux) SFCCO 374 views Open Ended is a very versatile work that is composed live before your eyes and ears. Based on Rovas Radar techniques, Open Ended is less of a composition and more of a colo...
A Baby Sleeps (for Isabella) by Michael Cooke SFCCO 1,926 views A Baby Sleeps (for Isabella) Theme & Variations on "搖嬰仔歌" by 呂泉生 Gangqin Zhao, 古箏 (gŭzhēng) Michael Cooke, 笙 (shēng) This is the last 10 minutes of the composit...
String Theory by Michael Cooke SFCCO 513 views String Theory, was premièred February 28th, 2009 by the SFCCO. String Theory is a guided improvisation composition that uses a graphical score which is inspired by the theo...
Open Ended SFCCO 208 views Open Ended is a very versatile work that is composed before your eyes. This work has no set instrumentation and can be played by any number of performers. It also has no se...
The SOUSA VARIATIONS part 2 SFCCO 1,981 views a six-composer collaboration, The Sousa Variations, based on John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. Sousa Variation IV "On the death of David Blakely" by Erl...
THE SOUSA VARIATIONS part 1 SFCCO 2,633 views a six-composer collaboration, The Sousa Variations, based on John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. Variation I "Minsu" by Alexis Alrich In this Sousa Varia...

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Introducing one of the most unique orchestras in the nation: The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (SFCCO). Founded by Drs. Mark Alburger and Erling Wold in 2001, the orchestra consists primarily of composer/performers, forming a unique ensemble dedicated to democratizing the symphony orchestra, making it available to composers of many styles and in many stages of development, from the established to the very young.

Since our first concert in March 2002, the SFCCO has premiered more new and vital works than any other orchestra in the Bay Area. Many of these composer/performers have advanced degrees; many are highly accomplished and recognized by their peers. Some have performed throughout the world, some have received awards from academic composition prizes to Emmys to fellowships and grants to Academy Awards.

The result is an incredibly diverse offering of new music. In any one concert, the audience may hear styles ranging from the Neo-Romantic, Serial, Neo-Classical, Guided Improvisation, and Minimalist just to name a few.

The SFCCO takes an informal approach to their concerts, emphasizing communication with the audience, talking to them before, between and after pieces, drawing them into the music-making. We have found that audience members appreciate this, that they learn something about why a piece is the way it is, why it was played a certain way, and that each of them leave the concerts with very different favorites.

The music we play is not museum music. Most orchestras of today play music primarily from the Classical/Romantic period of the 1700s to the 1800s. However, during that era, orchestras presented new works every week. The SFCCO goal is to dramatically reverse this trend by performing 6-8 new works a concert instead of a few a year.

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