Saturday, March 1, 2008 – 2pm
The Miró Quartet
Program: Mozart/Quartet K. 499; Takemitsu/String Quartet No. 1, "A way a lone;" and Beethoven/Quartet Op. 59, No. 2.
Florence Gould Theater/Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, San Francisco
$38/$42/CBO
Information: (415) 392-4400
www.chambermusicsf.org
***
Saturday, March 1, 2008 – 8:15pm
The Jupiter String Quartet
With clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester
Beethoven's String Quartet, Kovaks' Homage a Manuel de Falla, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet
Occidental Community Church
3637 Church Street, Occidental
Information: (707) 874-1124
www.redwoodarts.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 7 pm
Jupiter String Quartet
with clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
Béla Kovács, Two Hommages
Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Based in Boston, the superb young Jupiter String Quartet has performed at New York's Lincoln Center, Boston's Jordan Hall and London's Wigmore Hall, and won Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award in January 2007. Brilliant young Spanish clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, winner of multiple international competitions, joins the Jupiter for this performance
Music at Kohl Mansion
2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame
Information: (650) 762-1130
$42 Adult /$39 Senior/ $20 Student
www.musicatkohl.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 4pm
Jennifer Culp, cello and Betty Woo, piano
Strauss, Rachmaninoff, and Thomas Sleeper
Noe Valley Chamber Music
1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 648-5236
www.nvcm.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 –5pm
Mandelring String Quartet
Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Beethoven
Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church
Sycamore at Camino Alto, Mill Valley
Information:(415) 381-4453
www.chambermusicmillvalley.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 3pm
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Violin Virtuoso Robin Sharp
Handel's Concerto Grosso, Vaughan-Williams Concerto Accademico, and Elgar
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Stanford University
Information: (650) 856-3848
www.pacomusic.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 6pm
San Francisco Academy Orchestra
Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto and Haydn's 44th Symphony
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 596-8139
www.sfacademyorchestra.org
***
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 2:30pm
Miro Quartet
Program: Beethoven/Quartet Op. 59, No. 2 ("Rasumovsky"); Takemitsu/String Quartet No. 1, "A way a lone;" and Mozart/Quartet in D Major, K. 499.
Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive, San Francisco
$41
Information: (925) 943-7469
www.chambermusicsf.org
***
Monday, March 3, 2008 – 8pm
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Faculty Artist Recital
Faculty Artist Recital, Mario Guarneri, trumpet, with The Guarneri Jazz Quartet. Program: New Jazz Works and Jazz Classics.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
$15/$20
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
***
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 12:15pm
Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba; Annette Bauer, recorder; Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord; Jennifer Paulino, soprano
Noon Concert Series - Early Music
Sonatas and Cantatas by Handel and Telemann
Hertz Hall
UC Berkeley
Information: (510) 642-4864
music.berkeley.edu
***
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 8pm
San Francisco Performances
Brentano String Quartet
Program: Mendelssohn/: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80; Gabriela Lena Frank/ New work; and Beethoven/Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Herbst Theater
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
$30-$45
Information: (425) 392-2545
www.performances.org
***
Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 8pm
13th Other Minds Festival of New Music
Compositions by Dieter Schnebel, Åke Parmerud, Elena Kats-Chernin, Frances-Marie Uitti, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
German experimentalist Schnebel; Two innovative cellists in Uitti and Bach; Bang On A Can All-Star Lisa Moore; trumpeter, performer, composer, and free jazz legend Smith. Panel Discussion at 7pm hosted by Charles Amirkhanian.
Kanbar Hall
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 292-1233
www.otherminds.org
***
Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 5:30pm
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Program 3: Variations
Program: Vivaldi/Guitar Concerto in A Major; Roberto Sierra/"Pequeño Concierto" for guitar and 5 instruments (1998); Bach/Piano Concerto in F minor; and Bach/Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Old St. Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street, San Francisco
Free
Information: (415) 248-1640
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
***
Friday, March 7, 2008 – 8pm
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Program 3: Variations
Program: Vivaldi/Guitar Concerto in A Major; Roberto Sierra/"Pequeño Concierto" for guitar and 5 instruments (1998); Bach/Piano Concerto in F minor; and Bach/Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Herbst Theater
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Free
Information: (415) 248-1640
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
***
Friday, March 7, 2008 – 12:15pm
Noon Concert Series
Music by Mozart, Villa-Lobos, and Glass performed by student musicians
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Information: (510) 642-4864
music.berkeley.edu
***
Friday, March 7, 2008 – 8pm
13th Other Minds Festival of New Music
Compositions by John Cage and Michael Bach Bachtischa, Dieter Schnebel, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Åke Parmerud, and Dan Becker.
U.S. Premiere of One13 by Cage and Bachtischa; experimental vocal works by Schnebel; tape piece by Sweden's Parmerud; world premiere of new work by Becker for Adorno Ensemble. Panel Discussion at 7pm hosted by Charles Amirkhanian.
Kanbar Hall
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 292-1233
www.otherminds.org
***
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – 8pm
Old First Concerts
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Program: Works by Loren Jones; Alexis Alrich; Erling Wold, and others.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento, San Francisco
$15; $12 students and seniors
Information: (415) 474-1608
oldfirstconcerts.org
***
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – 8pm
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Program 3: Variations
Program: Vivaldi/Guitar Concerto in A Major; Roberto Sierra/"Pequeño Concierto" for guitar and 5 instruments (1998); Bach/Piano Concerto in F minor; and Bach/Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
600 Colorado, Palo Alto
Free
Information: (415) 248-1640
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
***
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – 8pm
The Discovery Series: Eclectic Alchemy
2 Foot Yard; Iron & The Albatross. Tin Hat veteran Carla Kihlstedt fronts her own trio, 2 Foot Yard. Multi-instrumentalist Ara Anderson’s Iron & the Albatross enchants with cinematic, haunting old-world music.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
$25
Information: (415) 788-7353
www.sfjazz.org
***
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – 4pm
The New Esterházy Quartet
Haydn in Salem: Quartets Op. 2, No. 6; Op. 17, No. 2; Op. 20, No. 1; Op. 77, No. 2
First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
Information: (510) 233-9403
www.newesterhazy.org
***
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – 8pm
SFJAZZ:
Piano Trios I
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette. From their Standards albums (soon to be re-released in an ECM box set) to their storied live shows, these three jazz legends deliver matchless, masterful music.
Nob Hill Masonic Center
1111 California Street, San Francisco
$30-$95
Information: (415) 788-7353
www.sfjazz.org
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 2pm
Gold Coast Chamber Players
Quartet in g minor, k.478 – W.A. Mozart
Quartet in c minor- Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano, op 23- Ludwig van Beethoven
Claey’s Lounge at St.Mary’s College
1928 Street Mary’s Road, Moraga
$30/25/10
Information: (925) 283-3728
www.gcplayers.org
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 3pm
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Program 3: Variations
Program: Vivaldi/Guitar Concerto in A Major; Roberto Sierra/"Pequeño Concierto" for guitar and 5 instruments (1998); Bach/Piano Concerto in F minor; and Bach/Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
Free
Information: (415) 248-1640
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 4pm
Old First Concerts
Thomas Schultz, Piano
Program: Works by Webern; Liszt; Chopin; Hyo-shin Na
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento, San Francisco
$15; $12 students and seniors
Information: (415) 474-1608
oldfirstconcerts.org
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 4pm
Quartet San Francisco
Music from the Grammy-nominated album, Whirled Chamber Music
Quartet San Francisco’s fresh combination of genre-bending repertoire, virtuosity, and musical zeal has been recognized with two consecutive Grammy® nominations for Best Classical Crossover Album. This year’s nominated album celebrates the centennial of inventor and composer Raymond Scott, whose music is heard in countless cartoons including Warner Bros. Looney Toons, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and The Simpsons.
Crowden Music Center
1475 Rose Street, Berkeley
Information: (510) 559-2941
www.crowden.org/Events/sundays.htm
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 7:30pm
Sounds New
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello, Soprano, and Piano
Warren, Dresher, Festinger, Al-Zand, Clark, and Bielawa
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
1 Lawson Rd., Kensington
Information: (510) 524 2912
www.SoundsNewUS.org
***
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – 3pm
TinAlley String Quartet
String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5 (Largo) by Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Op. 3 by Alban Berg, and String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13 by Felix Mendelssohn.
McKenna Theatre
Creative Arts building
S.F. State University
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Franicisco
Information: (415) 338-1431
www.morrisonseries.org
***
Monday, March 10, 2008 – 7:30pm
Janaki String Trio
Violin, viola, cello
Music at Meyer
Temple Emanuel
2 Lake Street, San Francisco
Information: (800) 838-3006
www.musicatmeyer.com
***
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – 8pm
The Wolford-Rosenblum Duo with guest flutist Kathleen Purcell
Saxophone and piano duo with flute
Bach, Schumann, Grant Still, Ghidoni, Chedeville, and Koechlin
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Street, Berkeley
Information: (510) 525-5211
www.berkeleychamberperform.org
***
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – 8pm
Wolford-Rosenblum Duo with Kathleen Purcell
Berkeley Chamber Performances: saxophone, flute, and piano
Schumann, Bach, Koechlin, Vivaldi (arr.), others.
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
Information: (510) 525-5211
www.berkeleychamberperformances.org
***
Friday, March 14, 2008 – 8pm
Old First Concerts
Quadre: The Voice of Four Horns
Program: Works by Wood; Pawelek; Tcherepnine; Mozart; Copland
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento, San Francisco
$15; $12 students and seniors
Information: (415) 474-1608
oldfirstconcerts.org
***
Friday, March 14, 2008 – 12:15pm
Noon Concert Series - Chamber Music
Music by Ravel and Schubert performed by student musicians
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Information: (510) 642-4864
music.berkeley.edu
***
Saturday, March 15, 2008 – 8pm
Cal Performances
SFJAZZ Collective
The SFJAZZ Collective is a powerhouse ensemble featuring some of the finest jazz performer/composers at work today—including Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano.
Zellerbach Hall
UC Berkeley
$34/$40/$52
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
***
Saturday, March 15, 2008 – 10am
Chamber Music and Lecture
Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg
Bartok, Greenberg
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Information: (415) 398-6449
www.performances.org
***
Saturday, March 15, 2008 – 8pm
The Cypress String Quartet and Composer Kurt Rohde
Call & Response 2008: World Premiere: Kurt Rohde String Quartet, also featuring Haydn Quartet Op. 77 No. 2 and Bartok Quartet No. 6.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
Call for ticket information
Information: (415)978-2787
www.ybca.org
***
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 3pm
The Cypress String Quartet
Cypress String Quartet: Featuring Mendelssohn Quartet Op. 13. This program is the third of four in the "Late Beethoven" Salon Series at Montalvo Arts Center. No look at Beethoven is complete without considering the profound impact he had on other great artists. One of the world's most formidable musicians and geniuses, Felix Mendelssohn could not escape the gravity of Beethoven's eminence. In this remarkable quartet, Mendelssohn pays homage to some of the great musical ideas his predecessor explored in his incredible and profound Quartet Op. 132, also in A minor. Historic Villa's Main Hall.
Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga
Call for ticket information
Information: (408) 961-5858
www.montalvoarts.org
***
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 3pm
Takacs Quartet
Beethoven's Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (Razumovsky); Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue, Op. 133.
UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall
Bancroft Way at College Avenue, Berkeley
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2007/chamber_or
***
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 2pm
Chamber Music San Francisco
Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet
Program: Brahms/Clarinet Sonata and other works TBA.
Florence Gould Theater
Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, San Francisco
$44/$48/CBO
Information: (415) 392-4400
www.chambermusicsf.org
***
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 2pm
Broderick Ensemble, Elizabeth Prior, Nathaniel Stookey
David la Tulippi, Avi Downes, and Ronit Widmann-Levy
Life of Mozart Through His Music and His Letters: Selected movements from Mozart string quartets, flute quartet, clarinet quintet, piano sonatas, Jubilate, Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Mass in C Minor
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 346-3832
www.calvarypresbyterian.org
***
Sunday, March 16, 2008 – 4pm
California Chamber Players
String Quartet: Romasevich, Santos, Liu, Granger
Glazunov, Borodin, I.Andriasov, A.Andriasov, and Tchaikovsky
Sandbox Suites
123 10th Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 659-8197
www.sandboxsuites.com
***
Monday, March 17, 2008 – 8pm; pre-concert talk at 7:15pm
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Regions of the Unknown and Nameless
Program: Stockhausen’s Kontakte; Music of Steiger, Spiropoulos. Julie Steinberg, piano; William Winant, percussion
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
$27; $22 senior; $10 student
Information: (415) 978-2787
www.ybca.org
***
Thursday, March 20, 2008 – 8pm
Chamber Music Masters Concert, Joel Krosnick, cello. Program: Featured work: Schoenberg/Verklärte Nacht.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
$15/$20
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
***
Friday, March 21, 2008 – 7:30pm
Novello Quartet
Tenebrae Service
Haydn's Seven Last Words with homilies by Reverend Chandler Stokes
First Presbyterian Church
2619 Broadway, Oakland
Information: (510) 444-3555
www.novelloquartet.org
***
Friday, March 21, 2008 – 8pm
SFJAZZ
Swinging Strings
Regina Carter Quintet.
Herbst Theater
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
$25-$60
Information: (415) 788-7353
***
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 – 7:30pm
Teslim
Violin, Harp
Teslim: Kalia Flexer and Gary Hedegus
23rd Jewish Music Festival Presents Ladder of Gold: Stellar Mizrahi, Sephardic and original music by Teslim. This potent duo features violinist Kaila Flexer and oud and lauoto player Gari Hegedus. Special guests include Shira Kammen and Julian Smedley, violins; Tobias Roberson, percussion and Liza Wallace, harp This project is commissioned in part by the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program.
First Unitarian Church
685 14th Street, Oakland
Information: (800) 838-3006
www.jewishmusicfestival.org
***
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 – 8pm
Nikolaj Znaider and Robert Kulek
Violin and Piano
Bach, Beethoven, Ives
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Information: (415) 398-6449
www.performances.org
***
Thursday, March 27, 2008 – 8pm
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Words, Stories and Music - The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble continues its 2007-2008 15th Anniversary Season with concerts exploring the fascinating and imaginative ways composers set, interpret, and represent words in music. The performances are highlighted by the United States premiere of Carl Schimmel’s The Pismirist’s Congeries for violin, cello, flute and piano; and the West Coast premiere Harold Meltzer’s Sindbad for narrator and piano trio.
142 Throckmorton Theatre
142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
$20 General Admission and $15 Seniors/Students
Information: (415) 383-9600
www.142throckmortontheatre.com
***
Friday, March 28, 2008 – 8pm
Harmonie Universelle
Baroque ensemble: Florian Deuter, violin and musical direction; Mónica Waisman, violin; David Glidden, violin and viola; Baláz
The Dawn of the German Baroque: Johann Rosenmüller, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Philipp Krieger, Johann Pachelbel, Andreas Uswaldt, and Johann Grabbe
First Lutheran Church
600 Homer at Webster, Palo Alto
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
***
Saturday, March 29, 2008 – 8:15pm
Denise Djokic and David Jalbert
Cello and Piano
Mendelssohn, Britten, and Cassado
Occidental Community Church
3637 Church Street, Occidental
Information: (707) 874-1124
www.redwoodarts.org
***
Saturday, March 29, 2008 – 8pm
Harmonie Universelle
Baroque ensemble: Florian Deuter, violin and musical direction; Mónica Waisman, violin; David Glidden, violin and viola; Baláz
The Dawn of the German Baroque: Johann Rosenmüller, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Philipp Krieger, Johann Pachelbel, Andreas Uswaldt, and Johann Grabbe
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue, Berkeley
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
***
Sunday, March 30, 2008 – 5pm
Altenberg Piano Trio
Beethoven and Schubert
Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church
Sycamore at Camino Alto, Mill Valley
Information: (415) 381-4453
www.chambermusicmillvalley.org
***
Sunday, March 30, 2008 – 3pm
Harmonie Universelle
Baroque ensemble: Florian Deuter, violin and musical direction; Mónica Waisman, violin; David Glidden, violin and viola; Baláz
The Dawn of the German Baroque: Johann Rosenmüller, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Philipp Krieger, Johann Pachelbel, Andreas Uswaldt, and Johann Grabbe
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
1661 15th Street, San Francisco
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
***
Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 7 pm
Pre-Concert Talk at 6 pm
Meet the Artists - Reception immediately following the Concert
Borealis String Quartet
Mozart, String Quartet in F Major, K. 590
Imant Raminsh, String Quartet No. 1, "A Falcon, a Storm, or a Great Song"
Puccini, "I Crisantemi" ("Chrysanthemums")
Beethoven, String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, ("Serioso")
Formed in Vancouver, BC in 2000, the Borealis String Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of British Columbia. Performing in sold-out concert halls in every province and frequently featured on CBC Radio, the ensemble has created a sensation across Canada with its dynamic performances, passionate style and refined musical interpretations.
Music at Kohl Mansion
2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame
Information: (650) 762-1130
$42 Adult /$39 Senior/ $20 Student
www.musicatkohl.org
***
Monday, March 31, 2008 – 7:30pm
Chen Zimbalista, percussion with Jose Guillardo, piano
Marimba and percussion
Contemporary Israeli composers and classics
Music at Meyer
Temple Emanu-el
2 Lake Street, San Francisco
Information: (800) 838-3006
www.musicatmeyer.com
***
Monday, March 31, 2007 – 8pm
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Words, Stories and Music - The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble continues its 2007-2008 15th Anniversary Season with concerts exploring the fascinating and imaginative ways composers set, interpret, and represent words in music. The performances are highlighted by the United States premiere of Carl Schimmel’s The Pismirist’s Congeries for violin, cello, flute and piano; and the West Coast premiere Harold Meltzer’s Sindbad for narrator and piano trio.
The Green Room
San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
$20 General Admission and $15 Seniors/Students
Information: (415) 642-8054
www.ChamberMusicPartn.org
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