ArtIs - PARTY (World Premiere)

Join us to welcome ARTIS, an art collective who developed an original piece during their residency as part of our Young Artist Program.
About this Event

ArtIs (pronounced “Art Is”) is a collective of four artists who met at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The four come from different departments at the school: Peyton Dexter and Brayden Meng studied composition, Ezekiel Sokoloff studied violin and Thomas Stenzel was enrolled in the Conservatory’s Technology and Applied Composition program. Together they are developing a new opera titled Party, complete with a 25-player orchestra.

Drawing on a wide range of musical sources from Frank Zappa to Thomas Adès and the Black Eyed Peas, Party asks the question: What happens when intelligent technology begins to mirror the psychology of its creators’ worst features — their mental illnesses, substance abuse, identity crises and so on?

A pair of performances will take place on July 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. Attendance is free with RSVP