Thur. May 22, 7:00pm
Han, Rae-Sook (South Korea)
Kayageum Performance
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street
TICKETS: FREE with entry to the Museum.

Korea's latest young and rising prodigy of the Kayageum (or Gayageum-the Korean 12 string zither) makes her Bay Area debut at the Asian Art Museum's Samsung Hall. She follows in the famous foot steps of Kayageum master Byung Ki-Hwang who performed the opening night concert of the SF International Festival in May 2005.

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Thur-Sat. May 22-June 7, 8:00pm, Sun June 1, 2:00pm
Erling Wold's Fabrications (San Francisco) & Frieder Weiß (Germany)
Mordake (world premiere)
Shotwell Studios, 3252-A 19th Street (@ Shotwell)
TICKETS: $20 General Admission.
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BOX-OFFICE: 800-838-3006
Presented by Erling Wold's Fabrications, Footloose Studios and SFIAF.

Mordake is being created by a team led by San Francisco composer Erling Wold and German computer engineer and sound designer Frieder Weiß along with tenor John Duykers, director Melissa "Missy" Weaver and libretto by poet Douglas Kearney. The plot line is inspired by the strange case of Edward Mordake and his 'devil twin' - a man tormented by a voice coming from a woman's face on the back of his head.

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Sat. May 24, 2:00pm
Melody of China (San Francisco)

Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street
TICKETS: FREE with entry to the Museum

Presented by the Asian Art Museum and Melody of China

Melody of China will present a concert of new and Chinese traditional music that both celebrates the past and points to a new direction in modern culture. The evening will include a new commissioned piece from renowned electro-acoustic composer, Carl Stone featuring the erhu, a Chinese bowed, single string instrument and the sheng, or mouth organ.

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Wed, May 28, 7:00pm (pre-performance talk at 6:15pm)
The Earplay Ensemble (San Francisco)
EARPLAY 23: Intricate inventions
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue (@ McAllister)
TICKETS: $20 General Admission. Students $10.
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BOX-OFFICE: 800-838-3006

SFIAF's longest running presenting partners, the Earplay Ensemble will play their fifth annual concert of international experimental music featuring the works of composers Christopher Burns (US), Beat Furrer (Germany), Peter Maxwell Davies (England), Hèctor Parra (Spain) and Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy). Special guest musicians will include Dan Reiter on cello.

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Thur-Sat. May 22-31, 8:00pm
Blindsight (San Francisco) Lucy HG (Los Angeles) & Susan Hawkins (UK/Australia)
thirty-seven isolated events (world premiere)
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street (@ Ninth Street).
TICKETS: $20 General Admission.
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Presented by Blindsight and CounterPULSE.

thirty seven isolated events is a responsive, inter-media performance and installation created by Bay Area choreographer paige starling sorvillo, media artist Lucy HG and composers Susan Hawkins and Liz Allbee.

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Sun. June 8, 1:00pm (Picnic and DJ starting at 12:30pm)
Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quintet

Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission Street between Third & Fourth Streets
TICKETS: FREE for more information call 415-399-9554

Presented by SFIAF and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

The Festival's closing performance on Sunday June 8 will feature the return, after five years, of the great Cuban pianist at Yerba Buena Gardens presented free of charge to the public. The show will also feature local all stars including the Bay Area's leading exponent of Latin percussion, John Santos.

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