JANUARY

Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 8:15pm

Noe Valley Music Series:

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

The legendary troubadour returns to start the new concert year.

Noe Valley Ministry

1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

$22 (door); $20 advance

Information: (415) 454-5238

www.noevalleymusicseries.com

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Sunday, January 4, 2009 - 4:30pm

Trio Con Brio of Copenhagen

Soo-jin Hong, Soo-kyung Hong, and Jens Elvekjaer (Violin, Cello, Piano)

Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

Half Moon Bay

Information: (650) 726-4143

www.bachddsoc.org

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 8pm

Rob Kapilow and Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 (Archduke)

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Stanford University

471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford

Information: (650) 725-2787

www.livelyarts.stanford.edu

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Friday, January 9, 2009 - 8pm

Kai Gleusteen, violin and Catherine Ordronneau, piano

Sonatensatz (Scherzo from the F.A.E Sonata), Op. post, Johannes Brahms ; Fantasy for Violin and Piano, D. 934, Op. 159; Franz Schubert; Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75, Camille Saint-Saëns

Bankhead Theater

2400 First St, Livermore

Information: (925) 373-6800

www.livermoreperformingarts.org

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Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 8pm

Ghost in the House

Ghost in the House/Rova Saxophone Quartet. Ghost in the House features:Tom Nunn, Kyle Bruckmann, David Michalak, Karen Stackpole www.edgetonerecords.com/ghostinthehouse.html, www.myspace.com/ghostsighting The Rova Saxophone Quartet features: Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin

Community Music Center

544 Capp Street, San Francisco

$10

Information: (415) 647-6015

rova.org

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Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 8pm

Les grâces

(Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Annette Bauer, recorders; Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba; Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord)

Channel Crossings: Music from 17th- and 18th-century England and France. Works by Purcell, Lambert, Marais, and others.

Trinity Chapel

2320 Dana St., Berkeley

Information: (510) 549-3864

www.trinitychamberconcerts.com

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 4pm

Cypress Quartet

Program includes Haydn/String Quartet Op. 33 No 32 in C Major ("The Bird”), the Debussy Quartet and Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet.

Noe Valley Chamber Music

1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

Information: (415) 648-5236

www.nvcm.org

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 7pm

Osiris Piano Trio

Beethoven's Allegretto in B-flat Major, Bloch's Three Nocturnes, Frank Martin's Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, and Beethoven's Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97

Music at Kohl Mansion

2750 Adeline Dr. Burlingame

Information: (650) 762-1130

www.musicatkohl.org

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 5pm

Takács Quartet

Mill Valley Chamber Music Society

Haydn's Emperor Quartet, Op. 76, No.3; Bartok's Quartet No. 1, Op. 7; and R. Schumann's Quartet, Op. 41, No. 1

Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church

410 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley

Information: (415) 381-4453

www.chambermusicmillvalley.org

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January 11, 2009 - 7pm

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music presents an evening of cutting-edge contemporary music. Program: Features eighth blackbird and the CME performing Fred Rzewski’s Knight, Death and the Devil, a work that was commissioned by eighth blackbird with the generous support of the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Chicago.

Palace of Fine Arts Theater

3301 Lyons Street, San Francisco

$20

Information: (415) 392-4400

new.oberlin.edu/conservatory

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 4pm

Monika Gruber, Violin

CMC violin faculty member Monika Gruber performs in concert. Additional program details TBA.

Community Music Center

544 Capp Street, San Francisco

Free

Information: (415) 647-6015

www.sfcmc.org

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 7pm

San Jose Chamber Orchestra

Mendelssohn, Cohen, premieres by K. Lewis, JH Locus III, H. Otter

Le Petit Trianon

72 N 5th St., San Jose

Information: (408) 295-4416

www.sjco.org

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Friday, January 16, 2009 - 8pm

A Schubert Liederabend: Twenty-four Songs for a Winter's Evening. A perfect program for a winter evening: 24 art songs of infinite variety and beauty by Franz Schubert. Helene Joseph-Weil, mezzo-soprano; Hatem Nadim, piano

Old First Church

1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco

Information: (415) 474-1608

www.oldfirstconcerts.org

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Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 8pm

Stanford Woodwind Quintet

Trois Pièces Brèves, Jacques Ibert's Concerto in G Minor FXII, No. 4 for flute, oboe, bassoon; Antonio Vivaldi's Quintette No. 1 (1948); Jean Francaix' Quintet for Winds, Op. 45; Robert's Quintet No. 2; Frigyes Hidas

Bankhead Theater

2400 First St, Livermore

Information: (925) 373-6800

www.livermoreperformingarts.org

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Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 2pm and 7pm

Alexander String Quartet

All Beethoven: Op. 18, No. 2 & Op. 18, No. 5. The 2 pm concert includes commentary by Professor Robert Greenberg and the quartet. The 7 pm concert includes a post-performance Q&A session.

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

UC Davis

Information: (866) 754-ARTS

www.mondaviarts.org

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Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 4pm

San Francisco 'Cello Quartet

Michelle Djokic, Nina flyer, Miriam Perkoff, and Eric Sung

Program: Bach/Chaconne; Debussy/Girl With the Flaxen Hair; Dizzy Gillespie/A Night in Tunesia; the West Coast Premiere of Stretched on the Beauty by Andrew Waggoner, and other works.

Old First Church

1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco

Information: (415) 474-1608

$15; $12 students & seniors

www.oldfirstconcerts.org

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Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 8pm

The Stanford Woodwint Quintet

A program of French and Hungarian music, including Frigyes Hidas’ Quintet No. 2, Jean Françaix’s Quintet No. 1, Jacques Ibert’s Trois Pieces Brèves, and Endre Szervanszky’s Quintet for Winds

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Lagunita Dr. (next to Braun Music Center), Stanford University Campus

Information: (650) 725-2787

music.stanford.edu/Events/calendar.html

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 8pm

John Dornenburg, viola da gamba and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord

Corelli’s Opus 5, No. 7, Marais’ Suite in A Major, and Forqueray’s Chaconne in D Major.

Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford campus

Information: (650) 725-2787

music.stanford.edu/Events/calendar.html

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Friday, January 23, 2009 - 8pm

Dr. Anthony J. Doheny, violin and Marilyn Thompson, piano

Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12, No. 2; Dohnányi’s Sonata in C-sharp, Op. 21; and Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in D Minor.

Campbell Recital Hall, in Braun Music Center

541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford

Information: (650) 725-2787

music.stanford.edu/Events/calendar.html

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Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:30pm

Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival: Alexander String Quartet, Cecilia String Quartet, Hausmann Quartet, Lydia Artymiw, Toby Appel

Haydn: Quartet Op. 76 No. 4 “The Sunrise”; Brahms: Viola Quintet, Op. 111; and works by Bax, Brahms and Shostakovich.

Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

S.F. State University

1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco

Information: (415) 335-2467

creativearts.sfsu.edu/menuhin

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Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 7:30pm

CMASH Ann Moss, soprano; Steven Bailey, piano

Vartan Aghababian, Jacob Bertrand, Jake Heggie, JooWan Kim, John Thow, and Liam Wade

San Francisco Conservatory of Music Recital Hall

50 Oak St., San Francisco

(215) 740-1107

www.cmashmusic.org

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Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 7:30pm

Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival: Alexander String Quartet, Afiara String Quartet, Cecilia String Quartet, Hausmann Quartet, Lydia Artymiw, Toby Appel

Haydn: Quartet Op. 20 No. 3; Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133; and works by Brahms and Dvorak

Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

S.F. State University

1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco

Information: (415) 338-2467

creativearts.sfsu.edu/menuhin

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 3pm

Scrap Arts Music

The company creates music from recycled materials including artillery shells, planks of wood, rubber tubes, and balloons.

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

UC Davis

Information: (866) 754-ARTS

www.mondaviarts.org

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 2:30pm

St. Lawrence String Quartet

With Barry Shiffman, violin; and Marina Hoover, cello

Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio / Berg: Lyric Suite / Dvorak: Sextet

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University

471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford

Information: (650) 725-2787

www.livelyarts.stanford.edu

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 7pm

Ives Quartet

Quincy Porter, Early Works: Prelude, Andante, Scherzo In Monasterio; Joseph Gregorio, Voices of Lincoln: Eugene Brancoveanu, guest baritone; world premiere based on the writings of Abraham Lincoln as part of national celebrations of his 200th birthday; Antonin Dvorak's Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, American

Le Petit Trianon Theater

72 North Fifth St., San Jose

Information: (650) 224-7849

www.ivesquartet.org

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 3pm

Cypress String Quartet

“From the Artist’s Studio” takes a closer look at what inspirations drive a composer’s creativity. This year’s series of four concerts focuses on the link between visual arts and music. Program: Montalvo’s January Composer-in-Residence: George Tsontakis/Quartet No 5. Historic Villa.

George Tsontakis Quartet No. 5

15400 Montalvo Rd., Saratoga

Information: (408) 961-5858

montalvoarts.org/events/cypress_string_quartet_4

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 2:30pm

The St. Lawrence String Quartet

Featuring works by Strauss, Berg, and Dvořák — composers all known for their lyrical string writing.

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Lagunita Dr. (nex to Braun Music Center), Stanford University

Information: (650) 725-2787

music.stanford.edu/Events/calendar.html

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 4pm

Old First Concerts:

Music of Haydn and Mendelssohn

Music of Haydn and Mendelssohn—A 200th Anniversary Celebration; William Wellborn, Piano. Program: Haydn/Sonata No. 20 in C minor and Sonata No. 52 in E-flat major; Rondo Capriccioso; Capriccio in B-flat minor, Op. 33, No. 3; Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 ‘Sonata ecossaise’ and selections from Songs Without Words and Klavierstücke by Mendelssohn.

Old First Church

1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco

Information: (415) 474-1608

www.oldfirstconcerts.org

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 6:30pm

Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival

Alexander String Quartet, Afiara String Quartet, Cecilia String Quartet, Hausmann Quartet, Lydia Artymiw, Toby Appel

Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

S.F. State University

1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco

Information: (415) 338-2467

creativearts.sfsu.edu/menuhin

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Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11am

Scrap Arts Music

School Matinee: an innovative quintet of out-there percussionists playing futuristic, whimsical instruments like ziggurat drums and plankophones. Recommended for grades K-12.

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

UC Davis

Information: (866) 754-ARTS

www.mondaviarts.org

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 8pm

David Krakauer, clarinet; matt Haimovitz, cello; and DJ Socalled

Messiaen Celebration

Akoka (Messiaen Remix)

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University

471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford

Information: (650) 725-2787