Upcoming Events

Since 1993, Other Minds has brought the Bay Area revelationary new music with our annual Other Minds Festival and our environmental concert series The Nature of Music. We also produce Special Events focusing on a variety of unique musical presentations, including Latitudes, focusing on improv, rock & other experimental forms. On this page you’ll find a chronological list of our upcoming extravaganzas, along with ticket links plus audio and video links so you can preview our artists. Join us as to discover more about fine innovative composers spanning the globe.

Other Minds will celebrate the 80th birthday of Other Minds co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director Charles Amirkhanian on Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 3:00 pm at the David Brower Center’s Goldman Theater in Berkeley, California. The event will begin with a presentation of Amirkhanian’s compositions from across the decades and an onstage discussion with friends of Other Minds, followed by snacks and refreshments in the Brower Center lobby. Join us to mark this momentous occasion.

Other Minds presents a celebration of the centennial of Pierre Boulez, comprising an inventive concert of music for two pianos played by Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 7:30 pm. The duo will perform the composer’s rarely heard Structures Books I and II, alongside music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Frank Zappa, and Magnus Lindberg, concluding with Igor Stravinsky’s elegant neo-classical masterwork Sonata for Two Pianos. The concert will be preceded by a lecture at 7:00 pm by musicologist Simon Morrison, Professor of Music at Princeton University.

Other Minds welcomes pianist Geoffrey Burleson to present his solo piano recital “From Antheil to Zappa” on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Burleson’s performance will feature forgotten mid-century masterpieces by American composers, including such rarities as the Piano Sonata No. 12, “Mirror Sonata,” (1982) by Vincent Persichetti, “Mirrorrorrim” (1931) by Gerald Strang, Music for Piano (1947) by Irving Fine, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1947) by Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber’s Four Excursions, Second Sonata, “The Airplane” (1922) by George Antheil, as well as works by Frank Zappa, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Herbie Nichols.