Chris Trinidad Residency featuring ATOM Ensemble, Chris Trinidad Collective, and Chroma Tonic
Schedule
Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Wyldflowr Arts, 809 37th St, Oakland, CA 94608, United States | Emeryville, CA
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With thanks to Sameer Gupta at Rootstock Arts and Nora Free and Wyldflowr Arts, Chris Trinidad presents a curated series of current musical projects over the course of 3 days in December!Thursday, December 4, 2025 --
Tickets: https://www.viewcy.com/event/chris_trinidad_reside
The Atom Ensemble seeks to integrate jazz, musical theater, improvisation, Japanese folk music, Original Pilipino Music, and Indian Carnatic Music to create new cultural pathways. Atom Ensemble is:
Kevin Amos, drum set, Chris Trinidad, bass guitar and synth bass, Erika Oba, piano and flute, and Roopa Mahadevan, voice.
Friday, December 5, 2025 --
Tickets: https://www.viewcy.com/event/chris_trinidad_reside_1
The 3-day Chris Trinidad Residency continues! Filipino-Canadian and San Francisco Bay Area-based musician, teacher, and learner Chris Trinidad has fallen into the place where everything is music. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, his relationship with music grew through exploring various instruments beginning with the voice, then the piano, followed by the bass guitar, and finally the drum set with little detours in the world of percussion and forays with the guitar. Chris’s formal education includes undergraduate training in Jazz Studies and Secondary Education, graduate study in the fields of Philosophy and Sociology of Music Education and Theological and Liturgical Studies, and doctoral work in Educational and Interdisciplinary Leadership. His compositions take inspiration from jazz musicians such as Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny, Bill Evans, Jack DeJohnette, Brad Turner, Chris Gestrin, and Chris Tarry as well as disparate genres including Cuban Timba, Original Pilipino Music, British Progressive Rock, and Gregorian Chant. All of these seemingly disparate disciplines, inspirations, and interests help to inform the music that he makes. He has discerned that the core purpose of his music is to explore the intersections of his identity and upbringing, while combining these into musical conversations with his current experiences and curiosities. He currently divides his time between creating music, developing high school students into compassionate human beings, and working on defeating his addiction to improvising excessively in the saddest of all keys … D minor.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 --
Tickets: https://www.viewcy.com/event/chris_trinidad_reside_2
The 3-day Chris Trinidad Residency's Grand Finale! Chris Trinidad's Chroma Tonic brings together musicians from wildly divergent backgrounds in order to make unique sounds and unusual music. Drawing inspiration from ambient music pioneers Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, the avant-garde progressive rock of Tu-Ner, the adventurous electric jazz experimentation of early 70s Miles Davis, Chris Trinidad's Chroma Tonic blends these explorations with the influences of the members of the group. Alex Heigl plays textured and looped guitars, Cy Thompson brings an array of Afro-Caribbean percussive elements, Scott Oshiro performs on flute and programs the quantum electronic improvised live interactions, while Chris Trinidad holds down the foundation on bass guitar and synth bass. The concluding evening of the residency is also the debut performance of this project.
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Where is it happening?
Wyldflowr Arts, 809 37th St, Oakland, CA 94608, United States, 809 37th St, Emeryville, CA 94608-3910, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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