Michael will be appearing with Green Alembic @ El Valenciano in the Mission Thursday 3.15.12 • 11pm 1153 Valencia St. (22nd) S.F and again as part of the SIMM Series on April 1st 7:30 PM at Music Union hall 116 9th St @ Mission San Francisco CA. In January 2011 as a member of the Bill Horvitz Expanded Band, Michael recorded a cd to be entitled "The Long Walk". Be on the look out for it later this year.
SAN
FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and Old First Concerts Present:
Saturday June 9th, 2012 at 8 pm
Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $14 Full Time Students
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415)
474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org
and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts
box office.
The multi-instrumentalist & improviser Michael Cooke is a composer of jazz and classical music. This two-time Emmy and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments: you can hear him on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon and percussion. A cum laude graduate with a music degree from the University of North Texas, he had many different areas of study; jazz, ethnomusicology, music history, theory and of course composition.
