On October 12, superstar chef Lidia Bastianich and composer Daniel Brewbaker team up to celebrate Copland House for this year’s gala event “The Awakened Palate.” Brewbaker, a 2006 Copland House resident, joins Bastianich to create a remarkable culinary and musical…
The New Century Chamber Orchestra’s opening night offered a concert of the music of Derek Bermel – the ensemble’s 2014-15 Featured Composer. Lou Fancher of SFWeekly noted that Bermel – as guest clarinetist and composer – “provided talent and tease…
SFGate journalist Andrea Abney recently asked San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman how he reacted the first time he heard Derek Bermel’s music. “I was serving on the jury panel for an arts award…When I started listening to the…
Always on the cutting edge of what’s new and significant in contemporary American music, the online magazine NewMusicBox featured Aaron Jay Kernis in an insightful interview. Senior Editor Frank J. Oteri chatted with Kernis about prose, 20’s jazz, Top 40,…
This September, Derek Bermel will be featured at The New Century Chamber Orchestra, both as a composer and a clarinetist. In this preview, Michael Zwiebach, of San Francisco Classical Voice, talked with Bermel about his urban upbringing in New York…