It's not just high school students taking advantage of that spiffy semi-new theater at Menlo-Atherton High. Now two Stanford graduates, Jason Federmeyer and Alexander Sigman, have started a new musical organization and plan to bring in a slew of guest artists to M-A.Last year, the pair founded the ambitiously named Menlo-Atherton Academy of Contemporary Music, with plans to bring in "cutting-edge" 20th- and 21st-century music and musicians: concerts, lectures, master classes and workshops. Now they're publicizing their first concert, which will feature the Berkeley-based composer Luciano Chessa, player of piano, musical saw and many other instruments.
On April 9, Chessa is scheduled to perform with others including Stanford professor and visual artist Terry Berlier. The program includes "Always rings twice," with Chessa playing the piano and Vietnamese dan bau; and "Louganis," with Berlier using video on plasma.
Chessa teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has many compositions to his name. As a former Aggie myself, I cannot fail to mention the work "Inkless Imagination IV," which premiered at U.C. Davis in 2008 and featured viola, turntables, percussion, video projection with Berlier and other musical and visual media.
Pictured: Luciano Chessa, in his San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty photo.
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