New Piano Music – Rebecca Hass Album Release Celebration Concert + Art Collaboration

• Deborah "Debbie" Gold, flute

Help celebrate the release of Rebecca Hass' 2nd album, Bright Little Worlds – a collection of short pieces in various styles (Brazilian, jazz, waltz, impressionistic, and more), arranged in a hero’s journey-style narrative trajectory.

Featuring special guest, Debbie Gold, flute.

This album reflects a dedication to following creative curiosity and joy, and so you're invited to draw or color what you envision as you listen, which will be combined into a collage and shared after the show!

CDs, digital albums, cat stickers, piano art prints, and enamel pins will also be available for purchase at the show.

In the meantime, you can also:

- Listen to the first single, Patas de Problemas ("Troublepaws") here: https://hypeddit.com/rebeccahass/patasdeproblemastroublepaws
- Pre-save the album on streaming (release date: May 31) here: https://hypeddit.com/rebeccahass/brightlittleworlds

Note about parking: Please park on the street, as the spots directly in front of the building need to be used by the adjoining businesses until 5pm. Thank you!

This event will also be livestreamed; click "More info" for updates.

About Rebecca Hass

Rebecca Hass is a pianist and composer in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work has "a witty sensibility, lyricism, and joy." Her debut Brazilian album, Florescer (Bloom), was described as "thoughtful as it is clever and original" and "a delightful 43 minutes of musical sunshine," and includes guests Tim O'Keefe, Jenny Klukken, and Laura Harada.

Her new album of original piano music, Bright Little Worlds, is an imaginative, heart-filled collection of 22 compositions in various styles (Brazilian, jazz, impressionistic, neo-classical, and more) and is arranged in a hero’s journey-style narrative trajectory where each one is its own character or little world - something for every mood. It features guest musicians Debbie Gold (flute) and Brian Rice (pandeiro), and is inspired by influences as diverse as Hermeto Pascoal, Laercio de Freitas, Claude Debussy, Aaron Copland, Vince Guaraldi, and Thelonious Monk.

With a deep passion for Brazilian rhythms, Rebecca has been part of the Brazilian music scene in the Bay Area for the last 5 years, having been a guest with the Berkeley Choro Ensemble, and soloist with the Diablo Symphony and Echo Chamber Orchestra on Brazilian and Latin pieces written by living composers. Rebecca also performs solo shows of her own compositions and arrangements of classic Brazilian sambas, choros, and baiãos.

Rebecca works as a collaborative pianist and educator in the Bay Area, and has been a founding member of Modern Spark Trio, a piano trio with diverse repertoire in Minneapolis, as well as the Brazilian percussion group Batucada do Norte.

As a curious human, she is always designing new practices for herself, her students, and her creative coaching clients, and is dedicated to following and spreading creative curiosity and joy.