Upcoming Events
2024
May 1: John-Carlos Perea faculty concert at Brechemin Auditorium, University of Washington
John-Carlos Perea presents a concert of cedar flute songs featuring solos, arrangements of jazz standards by Coltrane, Ellington, Ayler, and Jordan, and duets with special guests to be announced. Click HERE for event details.
2023
March 3: John-Carlos Perea Quartet at Bird and Beckett
Jimmy Biala (drums and percussion), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), Masaru Koga (saxophones, flutes, shakuhachi), John-Carlos Perea (electric bass, voice, cedar flute). Click HERE for event details.
2022
October 8: Town Destroyer World Premier at the Mill Valley Film Festival
Invited moderator for panel discussion with documentary filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman and. Click HERE for tickets and event details.
October 10: “Cedar Flute Songs”
John-Carlos Perea on Native American cedar flute, drums, and voice with invited guests UC Berkeley Music PhD students Gus Dalan Holley and Everardo Reyes with SFSU Composition MA student Shahin Shahbazi. Hosted by the Department of Music at San Francisco State University, Knuth Hall. Click HERE for event details.
Past Events
2022
February 19: “Pre-Concert Talk Featuring R. Carlos Nakai and facilitated by John-Carlos Perea, PhD”
Invited dialogue with R. Carlos Nakai at Bing Concert Hall hosted by Stanford Live at Stanford University. Click HERE for event details.
March 26: Keynote Address “Rethinking ‘Visiting’: the Significance of Intertribal and Invitational Songs”
Invited keynote address with Jessica Bissett Perea for the “Tourism and Musical Imaginaries” Conference hosted by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Genève, and the University of California, Berkeley. Click HERE for event details.
April 13: “Native American Flute Concert”
John-Carlos Perea on Native American cedar flute, bass guitar, and voice with invited guests. Hosted by the Noon Concert Series in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley, Hertz Concert Hall. Click HERE for event details.
April 15: Keynote for “Indigenous Relations and Unexpectedness: Intergenerational Sound Knowledge”
Invited keynote for the second annual Indigenous Sound Studies symposium sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender and the American Indian Graduate Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Click HERE for event details.
April 22: “Sounding Homelands, Composing Continuance: Listening to ‘Lenapehoking’ in Manhatta”
Invited roundtable participant with with Mohican/Munsee composer Brent Michael Davids and the Lenape Center directors to discuss musical contributions to the new work “Lenapehoking: An Anthem for Lenape Center” (2021); for the “When I think of Home: Race and Borders in Popular Music” Pop Convergence Conference hosted by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Click HERE for event details.
May 12: Hafez Modirzadeh - Ode B'kongofon
Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophone; Francis Wong, saxophone; John-Carlos Perea, bass, flutes, and drum; and Keshav Batish, tabla accompany the poet Genny Lim in her reading of Modirzadeh's long-form poem Ode B'kongofon. $25 cash cover charge. Bird and Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery St, San Francisco. Click HERE for event details.
May 14: “Pre-Concert Talk Featuring R. Carlos Nakai and facilitated by John-Carlos Perea, PhD”
Invited dialogue with R. Carlos Nakai before the Gold Coast Concert: Cultural Crossroads featuring compositions by Dvořák at the Community Hall at the Lafayette Library hosted by the Gold Coast Chamber Players. Click HERE for event details.
May 18: “Teaching Music Culturally: A NAfME (National Association for Music Education) Webinar”
Invited webinar with co-presenters: Loneka Battiste, University of Tennessee; Will Coppola, University of Southern California; John-Carlos Perea, UC-Berkeley; Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington; and Juliana Cantarelli Vita, University of Hartford. Click HERE for webinar details.
June 27-29: 2022 Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy Courses
Click HERE for event details.
2021
April 24: “Pop Musicking and Survivance in the Native North Pacific”
Invited conversant for Pop Convergence: A Virtual Pop Conference, hosted by New York University, online. Click HERE for event details.
July 1: “Teaching Intertribal American Indian Powwow Music”
Guest Artist Session for the Smithsonian Institute in World Music Pedagogy, hosted by the University of Washington, online. Click HERE for event details.
July 21: “Indigenous Soundings: Environmental and Cultural Landscapes”
Invited conversant for “Sound, Meaning, Education Conference,” hosted by Northern Arizona University, online. Click HERE for event details.
August 13: Improvisation Festival 2021
Duet with Jessica Bissett Perea, Improvisation Festival, online, hosted by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. Click HERE for event details.
October 14: “Perspectives on Native American and Indigenous Song and Singing”
Invited seminar for MUS 553 “Advanced Choral Techniques” hosted by Dr. Geoffrey Boers University of Washington, online.
October 15: “Intertribal Native American Music from Powwow Music to Pop”
Invited talk for Native American Heritage Month Honors Salon hosted by Bergen Community College (New Jersey), online. Click HERE for event details.
November 10: “Making Music Meaningful: Music In Native America”
Invited webinar for Oxford University Press, Faculty Development Webinar Series, online.
November 19: “Jim Pepper, Don Cherry, and the Globalization of American Indian Ways of Doing Jazz, 1969-1974”
Invited talk for the Music Studies Colloquium hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. Click HERE for event details.
2020
July 25: Asian Improv aRts Midwest Showcase # 4
Solo Native American flute performance, hosted by HotHouseGlobal Chicago, livestream. Click HERE for event details.
September 11: San José Poetry Festival 2020 Keynote: An Evening with Juan Felipe Herrera and Friends
Electric bass performance with Juan Felipe Herrera’s Shambala Cruisers, hosted by the San José Poetry Festival, livestream. Click HERE for event details.
October 17: “Teaching Intertribal American Indian Powwow Music”
Guest Artist Session for the Smithsonian Institute in World Music Pedagogy, hosted by the University of Washington, online. Click HERE for event details.
October 22: “Navigating a Path toward Tenure: Focus on Underrepresented Minorities”
Invited roundtable participant for session hosted by the SEM Diversity Action Committee at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, online. Click HERE for conference program.
October 28: Honor Song for President Walter Echo-Hawk
Invited closing song for “Forum 49: UNDRIP, NAGPRA, and Higher Education,” hosted by the University of California, Davis. Click HERE for the event recording.
2019
April 6: “Perspectives on Intertribal American Indian and Alaska Native Music and Dance in the Classroom”
Invited panelist with Jessica Bissett Perea and Eddie Madril for the California Teachers Association Ethnic Studies Caucuses Racial and Social Justice: Empowering Change Agents and Mobilizing Communities Conference, San Jose, CA.
April 13: “J-Town Culture Bearers”
Electric bass performance with Masaru Koga’s Hanabi, hosted by the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, San Francisco. Click HERE for event details.
October 16: “Resounding Witchi Tai To”
John-Carlos Perea Quartet in concert at Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University. Click HERE for event details.
November 13: Alcatraz Reflections
John-Carlos Perea Trio in concert at Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University. Click HERE for event details.
2018
March 18: Vietnamese Performance Art and History
Performance with the Asian Improv Nation Special Edition Ensemble featuring Lenora Lee Dance and the Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center, Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
July 4: “‘What the Music Could Be’: Revisiting the Unexpectedness of Jim Pepper”
Invited paper for the Indigenous Improvisations: Freedom and Responsibility Colloquium at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.
November 15: “My Life in Education” Keynote Address by Timothy Rice
Invited respondent to keynote address, hosted by the Education Section Form at the Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Albuquerque, NM. Click HERE for conference program.
November 16: “Indigenizing Ethnomusicology: Histories, Theories, and Methods”
Invited roundtable participant for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Albuquerque, NM. Click HERE for conference program.
October 17: Alcatraz Reflections
Premiere solo performance of new composition for ImprovisAsians! 2018 at San Francisco State University.
2017
March 13: Improvising Home
Intertribal Ensemble premieres new composition by John-Carlos Perea for ImprovisAsians! Festival, San Francisco State University.
June 10 and 11: Improvising Home
Intertribal Ensemble performances at the Center for New Music, San Francisco, June 10 and 11.
2016
January 6: Lewis Jordan’s Music at Large
Performance at the Café Pink House, Saratoga. January 6.
March 6: Lewis Jordan’s Music at Large
Performance at the Bird & Beckett, San Francisco. March 6.
June 24: Lewis Jordan’s Music at Large
Performance at the Freedom Archives, San Francisco.