2004
• January - Performances at the Jazz House, Berkeley
• February - American tour, visits to St. Petersberg, FL; Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Bloomington, IN; Madison, WI
• March - 10th Annual Other Minds New Music Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF; world premier of Jon Raskin's "The Hear and Now," commissioned by Other Minds
• April - Performances at Jazz House, Berkeley
- Release An Alligator in Your Wallet (EWE, Japan), featuring Orkestrova and compositions by Satoko Fujii and Steve Adams
• May - First-ever tour to Serbia, visits to Belgrade and Novi Sad (Ring-ring Festival); also Lausanne and Bern, Switzerland
• June - Art of the Improviser at Intersection for the Arts featuring Harris Eisenstadt, Vinny Golia, Bill Horwitz, Lisle Ellis, Sara Schoenbeck, and Mark Trayle, with Rova
• August - Three Drops of Blood performance at Dance Mission Theater, SF
- Summer JazzCycle Tour in Groningen, Holland
• September - New Music on the Mountain with Cheryl Leonard, Darren Johnston's United Brassworkers Front, and Rova
2003
• February - The Anniversary Concerts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, with special guests Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Ikue Mori and Jenny Scheinman (New York), Nels Cline (Los Angeles), Donald Robinson, Fred Frith, Chris Brown, Carla Kihlstedt; music by John Coltrane, Steve Lacy, Rova
• March - European tour, including Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium
• April - Performance at the Black Box, Oakland
• May - East Coast tour, visits to New York, Hartford, Boston, Burlington (VT)
- Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada, Festival Improvisee Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
• October - German tour, Leipzig Jazz Festival, Leipzig, Berlin
• November - Performance at Mills College, Oakland, with Annie Gosford
2002
• March - Performances at New Langton Arts, SF
• May - European tour, including Holland and Germany
• June - Pauline Oliveros' Tribute Concert, SF
- Art of the Improviser at Intersection for the Arts, with special guests Shoko Hikage, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, Ches Smith - Performance at Meet the Composer concert, "The Works," Minneapolis, MN
• August - SF Jazz Festival, performance in Transamerica Redwood Park Series
• September - Performance at KFJC, San Mateo, CA
• October - Performane at KPFA, Berkeley
- Performance at Amoeba Records, SF
- Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, with world premier of new commissioned work by Satoko Fujii and Steve Adams.
- Performance at Bottom of the Hill, SF
• November - Midwest Tour, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Lansing
• December - Southwest Tour, San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque
2001
• April - Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, with new work by guest artists John Schott and Wadada Leo Smith, and world premier of music commissioned by Rova:Arts from Graham Connah
• May - Performance at Kuumbwa Jazz Society, Santa Cruz
• June - Local performances at Bruno's (SF), Freight and Salvage (Berkeley)
- Short tour of Italy July - Performance at LIMN 20th Anniversary party, SF
• September - New Music on the Mountain at Mt. Tamalpais with guests Carla Kihlstedt, Adam Lane, and Shoko Hikage
• October - Afternoon workshop and evening concert at Colorado University, Boulder, CO
• November - European Tour, with stops in Finland (20th AnniversaryTamperé International Jazz Festival), Spain, France
2000
• March - Yo Miles! at the Fillmore with Carl Perazzo, Tom Costner, Chris Muir, Steve Smith, Michael Manring, Steve Kimmock, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser.
• May - Workshop at San Diego State University
- Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at ODC Theater, SF, with new work by guest artist Gerry Hemingway
- Benefit for Chabot School, Oakland
• August - Rova solos at Meridian Gallery, SF
- Outdoor concert at Zeum, SF
• September - New Music on the Mountain at Mt. Tamalpais, Marin, with new works by Adams, Ochs, Raskin
- Performance at Knitting Factory, L.A.
• October - Performance at Intersection for the Arts, SF
- European tour with stops in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France
• June - Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at ODC Theater, SF, with premier of Sam Rivers' "Maelstrom," Miya Masaoka's "Music for Mouths," Ben Goldberg's "Third Last," John Schott's "Second Thoughts."
• August - SF Jazz Festival, performance in Transamerica Redwood Park Series
• September - New Music on the Mountain at Mt. Tamalpais, with guests Joan Jeanrenaud, India Cooke, Fred Frith, others
• October - First-ever Japanese tour, visits to Yokahama, Oiso, Tokyo
• October - Yo Miles! at the Fillmore, SF, with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Nels Cline, Rashied Ali, others
1999
• March - Canadian/Northwest tour, stops in Vancouver, Seattle
• May - European tour, including Holland and Germany
• June - Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at ODC Theater, SF, with premier of Sam Rivers' "Maelstrom," Miya Masaoka's "Music for Mouths," Ben Goldberg's "Third Last," John Schott's "Second Thoughts."
• August - SF Jazz Festival, performance in Transamerica Redwood Park Series
• September - New Music on the Mountain at Mt. Tamalpais, with guests Joan Jeanrenaud, India Cooke, Fred Frith, others
• October - First-ever Japanese tour, visits to Yokahama, Oiso, Tokyo
• October - Yo Miles! at the Fillmore, SF, with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Nels Cline, Rashied Ali, others
1998
• February - Tour of Southeast U.S., including Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida
• April - Rovaté Improvisor's Festival at ODC Theater, SF, with Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, Carla Kihlstedt, John Schott, and more
• May - European tour, with stops in Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, England
• June - an evening at Yoshi's
• August - concert for Bruce Ackley's 50th Birthday celebration at Venue 9, SF
• September - New Music on the Mountain at Mt. Tamalpais with Pauline Oliveros, Miya Masaoka, Wadada Leo Smith, India Cooke
• September - Monterey Jazz Festival
• October - Tour of Southwest/Midwest, stops in San Diego, Albuquerque, Iowa City, Chicago
• October/November - Rova performs in SF MOMA for Alexander Calder Retrospective
1997
• February - first performance: OrkestRova at Slim’s, San Francisco
• February, March - collaborate with Turkish drummers: Istanbul Symphony Hall,
• June - inaugural Texaco New York Jazz Festival; The Knitting Factory, New York City
• July - complete the recording of The Works,volume 3
(for future release on Black Saint, Rova's 28th full recording).
• October - Rova 20th Anniversary tribute at San Francisco Jazz Festival
1996
• March and May - workshop performance of Jon Raskin’s Telegraphing the Temescal with Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
• March - first extended tour of the Southern US with concerts and workshops in all the following cities: Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston and Austin
1995
• July - Pamela Norris joins Rova organization, replacing Carla Harryman as manager
• October - extended European tour including:
"Festival of the Winds" - quintet with Steve Lacy: Athens, Greece; sextet with Fred Frith and Tom Cora: Amsterdam, Ghent (Belgium) and Bochum (Germany);
festivals in Skopje, Macedonia and Aachen, Germany;
special performance at Wittgenstein Museum in Vienna.
• November - week-long workshops and concert at M.I.T., Boston
• December - 30th anniversary performance and live recording of John Coltrane’s Ascension: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
1994
• October - lectures, workshops and performances at Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, California
1993
• February, March - 24 live and 20 taped performances in A.C.T.’s Antigone
• August - Saalfelden Festival celebrates Rova’s 15th touring season with performance of Figure 8 (Rova plus 4 more saxophonists)
• September. - premiere of Larry Ochs’ The Secret Magritte: Antwerpen '93, Belgium
• November. - first Lila Wallace Jazz-Network concerts: Denver, Albuquerque and Helena (Montana) including workshops in Denver and Helena
1992
• June - Documenta IX inaugural concert; Kassel, Germany
• October - 3 concerts in New Music Across America Festival: Chicago, Milwaukee, and Toronto
1990
• June - formation of and performances by The International Creative Music Orchestra: Pan Am Games, Seattle; DuMaurier Festival, Vancouver.
• September - PreEchoes 10: Rova plus architect Howard Martin present multi-media show: Occupancy. Final concert in PreEchoes series
1989
• February - British Arts Council tour of Great Britain
• April - concert at Town Hall, NYC;
workshop in NYC sponsored by Composers Forum;
Smithsonian Institute , Washington, D.C. Rova with Anthony Braxton
• September - first concerts with Alvin Curran:
premiere of Electric Rags II in Atlanta
PreEchoes 9 : three performances in San Francsico recorded for New Albion Records
• October - Rova with Seiichi Tanaka and San Francisco Taiko Dojo:
Leverkeusener Jazz Festival, Germany
• November - 2nd tour to and live recordings in USSR
1988
• September - Steve Adams replaces Andrew Voigt as a member of Rova
• September/ October - a long, memorable tour of Europe including
Adam’s first concert;
a week of concerts with Anthony Braxton;
Musica 88 in Strassbourg, France
December - PreEchoes series highlight: Lawrence Butch Morris Conduction #11 with large Bay area ensmble organized by Rova
1987
• June - first appearance at DuMaurier Jazz and Blues Festival, Vancouver, Canada
• June, August, September - three more Pre-Echoes concerts with John Zorn (quintet and Cobra), with Terry Riley, with Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith
1986
formation of Rova’s non-profit corporation: Carla Harryman, manager, from 1986 - 1995
• June - first concert in Rova’s self-produced PreEchoes series: Rova plus The Ganelin Trio, the first jazz group from USSR to perform in USA
• August - first concert as a quintet with Anthgony Braxton (PreEchoes 3)
1985
• May thru August - residency in Europe including:
5-day workshop in Cluny, France;
extended tour of England;
first concerts in Czechoslavakia;
recording of The Crowd in Amiens, France,
2 peformances with WDR String Quartet, Germany;
Nickelsdorf Festival performance with Anthony Braxton.
Relase of double-lp Saxophone Diplomacy on Hat Hut Records; live recording from 1983 USSR tour
1984
• May - Rova and Kronos in collaboration: 5 shows for American Inroads Series, San Francisco June- Ideas in Motioncomples the documentary Saxophone Diplomacy on Rova’s 1983 USSR tour for KQED and PBS
• October- first performance for San Francisco Jazz Festival
1983
• June - premiere The Hive at 80 Langton, San Francisco
• June - tour of USSR and Romania
• October - first extended tour of Eastern US including Public Theater, NYC and New Music America Festival, Washington D.C.
1982
• February. - John Adams commissions Rova's early master-work Trobar Clus #10 (The Crowd) for San Francisco Symphony’s New + Unusual Music Series
1981
• April - record As Was for Metalanguage at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley; (the first of 20 recording projects engineered by Robert Shumaker )
• November. - collaborative performance w/Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
1980
• October - Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco: Rova plus Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Toshinori Kondo, Greg Goodman
1979
• April - first major San Francisco performances: Keystone Korner, opening for the group Air
• May - first European festival (Moeírs Intíl Festival of New Jazz)
first European tour (Moers, Germany; Amsterdam; Paris; Berlin; Nickelsdorf,Austria; Nyon, Switzerland).
(around 30 tours ranging from 5 days to 4 months have followed....)
Fall - first New York City performance: Soundscape
1978
• February 4 - first concert: Mills College, Oakland
• August - first recording - Cinema Rovate produced by Larry Ochs and Henry Kaiser for Metalanguage
• November - first major tour-performance: Vancouver New Music Society, Canada
1977
• October - first rehearsals: Blue Dolphin, San Francisco