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On Maritin Luther King Day, January 15th 2024, Michael be playing with the Avant-Garde Trio at Books, Inc in the Marina, SF.
Michael is back with the SFCCO on March 16th, 2024 at 8 pm. for Mark Alburger Memorial Concert.
He performed with the SFCCO on Nov 4th, 2023. He conducted and composed a new variation of Open Ended right before the audiences eyes.

Michael performs with:
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Saturday March 16th, 2024 at 8 pm
Lakeside Presbyterian Church
1201 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco, CA
$25 General, sliding scale available


The multi-instrumentalist & improviser Michael Cooke is a composer of jazz and classical music. This two-time Emmy and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments: you can hear him on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon and percussion. A cum laude graduate with a music degree from the University of North Texas, he had many different areas of study; jazz, ethnomusicology, music history, theory and of course composition.

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