Oakland School for the Arts - Instrumental Music

05/04/2021

Dear OSA Community, This Saturday, at 7:30 PDT I will be sharing the bill with some great musicians including Kev Choice and Howard Wiley to close out the San Jose Jazz New Works Festival (April 29th - May 8th)
tickets to Stream are available at the link below!!
10 $for the individual night OR $20 for the entire festival!
Each artist on this festival are unique in their own and well worth seeing and following.
San Jose Jazz

For the final night of our inaugural New Works Fest, we’ve scheduled four diverse artists that represent the diversity and quality of the SF Bay Area music scene. First we have San Jose’s Robbie Benson, a Hammond B3 player literally born into his deep appreciation for his hometown’s rich music...

04/28/2021

Heart of Oakland is TOMORROW! Heart of Oakland is an important fundraising event for our community to come together and support our creative youth. Our hard-working, amazingly talented students and faculty have put together some spectacular art and performances to share with YOU. This event is open to ALL, share and invite friends and family! Register to attend, it's free! https://paybee.io/

04/20/2021

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Register for Heart of Oakland! Be the first to visit the Heart of Oakland online silent Auction! Visit The Auction! The online silent auction is open now until 8pm on Sunday, May 2nd. This gives you p

12/20/2020

Here’s a fun interview I got to do with my friend MJ Call KXSF 102.5 FM I talked about teaching and creating music during the past 10 months. It features Oakland School for the Arts - Instrumental Music colleague Patrick Anseth and alum Hannah Mayer and Bassist Daniel Fabricant . You can also hear a sneak peek of another alum Ari Carpenter in he first hour featuring OSA colleague and talented cellist in the first hour

WOTP Radio Editor It’s a Festive Friday episode of West of Twin Peaks Radio, with a full first hour of brand new tunes, followed by guest artist, SF’s Matt Nathanson chatting and playing songs off his new Christmas LP “Farewell December.” Plus Cameron Sears, Exec. Director of The Rex Foundat...

12/14/2020

OSA Instrumental Music Winter Concert 2020 is Up!

01/19/2020

1/23 come on out to hear some of OSA Faculty tear it up at the UPTOWN Nightclub in Oakland.
It’s a 21+ event so perfect night for date night and getting babysitter

Jazz arrangements and originals by Patrick Anseth, Mark Clifford, Justin Ouellet & Dan Parenti, featuring Dave Ellis & Geechi Taylor