Other Minds Brings Nordic Voices to SFJAZZ

The city of Oslo will be audibly represented when Other Minds hosts the first concert in its 21st festival, March 4-6, at the SFJAZZ Center. Compositions by Norwegian composers Lasse Thoresen and Cecilie Ore will open the program at 8 p.m., and the Oslo-based a cappella vocal sextet Nordic Voices will perform Thoresen’s and Ore’s works and the Book of Madrigals, by Englishman Gavin Bryars.

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Photo: Ines Gellrich

Ore and Lassen also will be present at 7 p.m. for a panel discussion led by Other Minds co-founder and executive director Charles Amirkhanian. Bryars also will sit on the panel, alongside composers Michael Gordon and Phil Kline, featured in the second half of that evening’s program.

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