CCRMA Concerts
Concerts at CCRMA feature new and recent computer music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Our Concert Series also hosts regular performance by local and visiting artists working with computers, electronics, modular synthesizers, visuals, etc.
Concerts are announced via our MAILING LIST.
Past concerts can be accessed on our Vimeo archive of live streamed events.
Recent Concerts
[POSTPONED] Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: Phase Changes
Date:Thu, 05/23/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVEEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA's own Fernando Lopez-Lezcano returns to the Stage for a live performance with his modular synthesizers and other bleeps-and-blops-making devices.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + LivestreamStanford Graduate Composers Present: Manuela Freua & The TANK
Date:Sat, 05/18/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertFREE and Open to the Public | In Person
John Chowning & Friends
Date:Fri, 05/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVEEvent Type:Concert
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Caroline Davis: Liberative Joy
Date:Thu, 05/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVEEvent Type:Concert
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Open House Concert
Date:Thu, 05/16/2024 - 4:00pm - 5:30pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVEEvent Type:Concert
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Galan Trio: Kinesis
Date:Mon, 04/29/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVEEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA presents Galan Trio performing works for piano, violin, cello, and electronics.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + LivestreamStanford Graduate Composers Present: Marco Fusi
Date:Fri, 04/26/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertFREE and Open to the Public | In Person
nostalgica utopica futura
Date:Sat, 04/20/2024 - 4:30pm - 5:30pmLocation:Bing Concert Hall StudioEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA presents Marco Fusi and Patricia Alessandrini performing nostalgica utopica futura in the Bing Studio.
In a special performance at Stanford University, Luigi Nono's La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura will be presented by violinist Marco Fusi and Patricia Alessandrini, who will perform the electronics. They will also perform their own homage to Nono, in the form of a brief improvised prelude, entitled Proximity, distance. This performance and its prelude were developed during a residency at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).Bing Star | The Spatialized Audissey
Date:Fri, 04/19/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Sat, 04/20/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA continues its 50th Anniversary Concerts with two new programs of works by students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the Bing Concert Hall Studio.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Carolina Santiago - Solo Piano Concert | Engin Daglik's DMA Final Project Presentation
Date:Tue, 04/16/2024 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom
Upcoming Concerts
CCRMA Transitions 2024
Date:Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmDate:Thu, 10/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined by special guest performers will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artistsDue to limited seating, in-person access to these events is based on registration. Reserve your seat here. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before the show, otherwise your seat may be given away.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Distractfold
Date:Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'A Thing Made Whole (Coda)' (2023) - Andrew Greenwald
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
FREEOpen to the PublicDistractfold x Graduate Composers
Date:Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
FREEOpen to the PublicHomage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
Date:Sun, 11/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmEvent Type:ConcertA major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA. This all-Ligeti program comprises Atmosphères (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; Musica ricercata performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition Artikulation; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream