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Mobius Trio Concert at Little Mission Studio
Described by the eminent Sergio Assad as "the most inventive and exciting young guitar ensemble today," Mobius Trio has, since its inception in 2010, made its name as one of the Bay Area's best and hottest young ensembles.
Mobius Trio members Mason Fish and Matthew Holmes-Linder have been guitar faculty at Little Mission Studio since its founding in October 2014. Join us for a meet-the-artists/faculty reception following the concert program at Little Mission Studio.
Mobius Trio's mission is to use the most popular, ubiquitous instrument in the world the guitar to create a new lexicon of music; one that freely combines the varied influences of musicians who grew up with unfettered access to the world's entire musical library. To accomplish this, they collaborate with composers and other musicians to commission pieces that reflect this beautiful musical schizophrenia: "classical," punk, bebop, metal, folk, hardcore, and many other genres form the DNA of this music, in which the walls between genres cease to exist and old dichotomies start to unravel. Are they a band or an ensemble? One minute, they are premiering a new classical guitar trio by Brazilian guitar legend Sergio Assad, the next they're using electric guitars to create a droning wave of feedback in Nick Vasallo's Dark Matter.
The Trio exclusively performs music that they have commissioned, and they commission some of the music world's most interesting composers. They seek to expand the guitar ensemble's repertoire to encompass all of the myriad currents passing through "contemporary art music," whatever that means. Mobius Trio has commissioned over two dozen composers in their first three years of existence, and that pace isn't slowing. Recent premieres include pieces by Samuel Adams, Belinda Reynolds, and Nick Vasallo, and the Trio looks forward to many, many upcoming collaborations with composers like Aaron Gervais, Ryan Brown, and Ian Dicke. Performance residencies with the trio frequently include workshops on the process of performer/composer collaboration.
Since recording commissioned works is an integral part of expanding and disseminating an ensemble's repertoire, Mobius Trio's debut album, Last Light, features all of the aforementioned commissions and more. The album was produced by Sergio Assad and Marc Teicholz and released in November 2012. Mobius has also toured widely with this new repertoire, performing at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Center for New Music, Old First Concert Series, the Hot Air Music Festival, as part of the Guitar Foundation of America Symposium, and more. Mobius appeared as featured alumni on NPR's "From the Top" Radio Program in May 2013, opened for the Kronos Quartet at Z Space in February 2014, and performed a featured concert at the Guitar Foundation of America Festival in June 2014.
Mobius Trio was formed in 2010 by guitarists Robert Nance, Mason Fish, and Matthew Holmes-Linder while studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. They started things off with a bang, commissioning and learning five pieces within the span of a month, and performing many of those pieces at Washington, DC's Kennedy Center the following April. These first few pieces, written by Bay Area composers such as Sahba Aminikia, Anthony Porter, and Garrett Shatzer, marked the beginning of Mobius Trio's ongoing contributions to the guitar trio repertoire. Matt, Rob, and Mason are all accomplished, competition-winning guitarists in their own right, and they all live and work in the Bay Area. When not rehearsing, the group enjoys home brewing, BBQ, hacky sack, and nature documentaries.
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LocationLittle Mission Studio (View)
445 Hampshire Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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