In January 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. Last year he has complete a new composition G.A.C. 26.2 for two pianos. He has also orchestrated it for chamber orchestra and it was performed on the September 25th SFCCO concert. His piece Minerva's Dance was also be performed on that concert.
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and Old First Concerts Present:
"LOST
THINGS FOUND"
Saturday June 25th, 2011 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.
