Mark Pino

Brandon Evans: saxophone
Christina Stanley: violin
Mark Pino: percussion

Brandon Evans is a composer / saxophonist and composer best known for his work with Anthony Braxton beginning in the mid 90’s after leaving San Francisco. Evans also recorded with saxophone legend Sonny Simmons on several albums issued on his Parallactic Records label. He produced and directed a documentary in 2003 about Simmons called The Multiple Rated X Truth. In addition to working and performing with Anthony Braxton and Sonny Simmons he has also worked with Johnny Coles, Andre Vida, Jackson Moore, Chris Matthay, Kenny Washington, Mike Pride, Kevin Norton, Martin Van Duynhoven, Taylor Ho Bynum, and many other great contemporary jazz / creative musicians.

Christina Stanley is a Bay Area based violinist, improviser, multi instrumentalist, vocalist, electronic musician and songwriter who began piano at 5 and violin studies at the age of 8. she attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from ages 15-18 where she studied with li lin and eventually earned a full performance scholarship to San Francisco State University where she earned her Bachelors of Music and studied violin with Daniel Kobialka, Jassen Toderov and the Alexander String Quartet. After touring Europe and the US with various music groups, she attended HB studio in New York City where she studied theatre, dance and voice for two years. She then went on to earn an MFA in Music Performance and Literature from Mills College, where she studied violin with David Abel, composition and improvisation with Fred Frith and Roscoe Mitchell, and won the Margaret Lyon prize for excellence in music. She is currently an active performing musician and teacher, working as a solo artist as well as a member of various groups including the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné! With whom she appeared at the Warfield, The Fox Theater and Yoshis SF and Oakland. Her solo compositions are published on Self Help Tapes. As a studio musician, she has appeared on albums for Kill Rock Stars, 4AD and Beggars Banquet/Rough Trade. She has been a featured solo performer for the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, a vocalist for the William Winant percussion ensemble, and has premiered works by George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell for Mutable Music under conductor Petr Kotik. Her original painted graphic scores have been featured at the Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco, Temple Ad Hoc in Los Angeles and Rock Paper Scissors Gallery in Oakland. She is currently working on a recording project with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet and recording and writing an album with the band Silent pictures. She is passionate about working with living composers and composing new music.

Mark Pino began playing drums at the age of 13. He has performed in the SF Bay Area and other parts of the country since the early 1990’s. Mark has shared stages and playing situations with many talented individuals, and is grateful to all of them, most of all those who have shared their insights with him. He considers himself a band player, first and foremost. He also plays percussion with Cloud Shepherd, The Ruminations, and other experimental/improv groups.

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