Sept. 13: Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers Perform at Flower Piano 10th Anniversary – Presented by Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park
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Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers Perform at Flower Piano 10th Anniversary
Presented by Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park
Featuring Music by
Eleanor Alberga, Amy Beach, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Terry Riley
Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 11am in the Great Meadow
San Francisco Botanical Garden at Golden Gate Park| 1199 9th Ave. | San Francisco, CA
Free with General Admission to the Botanical Garden. Advanced Tickets Recommended.
www.gggp.org/flowerpiano | www.flowerpiano.com
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San Francisco, CA – Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers will perform together as part of San Francisco’s annual Flower Piano interactive music festival, on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 11am, presented by Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park. Held at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park (1199 9th Ave.), the beloved annual event brings the San Francisco community together for ten days (September 12-21, 2025) of live piano performances, filling the San Francisco Botanical Garden with elegant melodies and the joyful spirits of music lovers from near and far. Flower Piano celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025, making this year’s events all the more meaningful for long-time attendees and first time visitors alike. The full festival will feature more than 100 performers, including solos, duos, and ensembles.
For this year’s milestone festival, Cahill and Myers will combine their prodigious musical talents in the performance of a vibrant, expressive, image-driven program of music from the 20th and 21st centuries, including Eleanor Alberga's Two-Piano Suite (1986), Amy Beach's Summer Dreams (1901), Dance of the Paper Umbrellas (2013) by Elena Kats-Chernin, and Terry Riley's Cinco de Mayo (1997). Festival attendees can watch the duo’s performance in the Great Meadow area of the Botanical Garden.
Eleanor Alberga’s Two-Piano Suite is a sprightly one movement work that is as lively and uplifting as is the reason for its composition. A Jamaican-born, British composer, Alberga wrote the work to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Jamaica's independence in 1987.
Amy Beach’s Summer Dreams connects with the natural beauty of the New England summer landscape, as well as other brilliant creatives like William Shakespeare, Agnes Helen Lockhart, and Walt Whitman. Made up of six miniatures, each references a specific natural image: The Brownies, Robin Redbreast, Twilight, Katy-dids, Elfin Tarantelle, and Good Night.
Dance of the Paper Umbrellas was written for the Hush Music Foundation – an Australian non-profit dedicated to producing and licensing original music and arts projects with the aim of improving healthcare environments and patient outcomes. Elena Kats-Chernin says of the idea behind the music: “I wondered what kind of piece I could write that would be uplifting. I wanted to enter the world of magic and dreams. I imagined a cake adorned with multi-coloured umbrellas. A dance formed in my head, starting with a pattern in harp, marimba, plucked strings and flutes.”
Terry Riley’s Cinco de Mayo is the first of five works for four hands on one piano that Cahill commissioned from Riley and which Cahill and Myers recorded in 2017 as part of the album, Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley on Irritable Hedgehog Records.
For more information about Sarah Cahill visit www.sarahcahill.com.
For more information about Regina Myers visit www.reginamusic.com.
For Calendar Editors:
Description: Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers perform at San Francisco’s annual Flower Piano interactive music festival, presented by Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park, which celebrates its 10th anniversary at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. The two Bay Area pianists will perform a vibrant, expressive, image-driven program of music from the 20th and 21st centuries in the Great Meadow area of the Botanical Garden. The concert will include works by Eleanor Alberga, Amy Beach, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Terry Riley.
Concert details:
Who: Pianists Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers
Presented by Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park
What: Music by Eleanor Alberga, Amy Beach, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Terry Riley
When: Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 11am
Where: San Francisco Botanical Garden at Golden Gate Park 1199 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122
Tickets and information: https://gggp.org/flowerpiano/