Welcome!

Welcome to the Web Site of the San Francisco Bay Area Nacusa Chapter. Nacusa is a non-profit organization founded in 1933 by Henry Hadley, originally as the National Association of Composers and Conductors. It is one of the oldest organizations devoted to the promotion and performance of music by Americans. Many of the most distinguished composers of the 20th Century have been NACUSA members. Each NACUSA chapter typically sponsors several concerts each year which feature music by its members. NACUSA has chapters in Cascadia, East Coast, Great Plains, Los Angeles, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-South, San Francisco Bay Area, the South East, Southern Oregon, and Texas.

San Francisco Bay Chapter

Started by Nancy Bloomer Deussen and John Webber more than twenty years ago the San Francisco Bay Chapter has evolved into an active organization with a peak membership of seventy five composers. It produces four to six concerts a year in the San Francisco Bay Area

Upcoming Concerts

Composers and Friends I

Sunday, February 15, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco

Works by Monica Chew, James W. Cook, Mary Fineman, Robert Fleisher, Amy Stephens, Davide Verotta, and Ludmila Yurina.

Composers and Friends II

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco

Trio Solano

Saturday, June 20, 2026, 8 p.m.
Community Music Center, 544 Capp St, San Francisco