[NewMusicEvents] SIMM Series 5/25/08 Memorial Concert for Toyoji Tomita

[Rent Romus]

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-->>OUTSOUND PRESENTS<<-- 
SIMM New Music Series
116 9th St. @ Mission , San Francisco
7:30 PM , donation 
($10 - $100 donation no one turned away for lack of funds)
kids under 12 free
tel: 415-905-4425
http://www.outsound.org
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Sunday, May 25th  2007 7:00 PM

In Celebration Memory of Toyoji Tomita
(All proceeds will be donated to help with expenses for Toyoji's Family)
Friends and colleagues perform a plethera of improvisational, experimental, and genre spanning sounds reflecting the diverse sonic life of Toyoji Tomita.

7:00 pm  Chris Brown w/ Larry Ochs and Willie Winant
7:25 pm  David Slusser 
7:50 pm  Karen Stackpole
8:15 pm  Phillip Greenlief
8:45 pm  Kathrynn Lyle & Marianne Macdonald
9:05 pm Brassiosaurus w/ Tom Djll, Ron Heglin, Jen Baker performs "Three Blind Mice" and other tunes from their book
9:30 pm Lords of Outland w/ Rent Romus / Bill Noertker / Dave Mihaly

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Toyoji Peter Tomita 1951 - 2008
Born in Berkeley, CA; Died unexpectedly on April 17 at home. 
Toyoji was an accomplished trombonist who studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1976 he won the First Prize in the Gaudeaumus International competition for Interpreters of Modern Music in Rotterdam, Holland. Living in Paris, France for the next three years, he toured Europe extensively both as a soloist and as a member of the Ensemble Musique Vivante, Diego Masson director. He received an M.F.A. in electronic composition from Mills College in 1986 and later became a music instructor at Mills. He performed with several ensembles in the Bay Area including the Mills College Didjeridu Ensemble which he founded. Toyoji was the owner and president of T.P.T. Gardener, Inc., one of the first sustainable gardening companies to be awarded public works contracts including the City of Oakland Frank Ogawa Plaza project and the Alameda County Juvenile Hall renovation project.
We will all miss him terribly. Please keep his widow, Marianne MacDonald and his mother, Mary Kimoto Tomita, in your hearts today.

Donations to the family can be made here:
http://www.deeplistening.org/site/toyojitomita
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Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. 
THE MUSIC UNION HALL 116 9th Street @ Mission St. , 1.5 blocks from Civic Center Street BART, San Francisco . The SIMM Series is a musician run/audience funded music series now in it's 6th season bringing highly professional and truly adventurous music that would not normally be heard or supported by mainstream society. 
We ask that you contribute $10 in support of the artists. All Ages welcome, $5 minimum entry. Kids under 12 free. 
For series info 
tel: 415-905-4425; web: http://www.outsound.org/