Tuesday, June 1, 2010 – 12:30pm
NAVITAS ENSEMBLE
Hannah Addario-Berry, cello
Elizabeth Choi, violin
J. S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions
Erik Jekabson: Suite for Violin and Cello
Zoltan Kodaly: Duo for Violin and Cello
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 – 8pm
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble:
Kurt Rohde Concertino with Guest Artists Axel Strauss and Chris Froh
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble welcomes Rome Prize winner Kurt Rohde, LCCE's founding artistic director, back home to San Francisco after a year spent composing in Italy. Among the works Rohde wrote while abroad is a concertino dedicated to violinist Axel Strauss. The concert features performances Strauss and the dynamic percussionist Chris Froh in this new piece. The other works on the program, alternately brilliant and warm, include music showcasing Stacey Pelinka's flute-playing as well as star turns for clarinetist Jerry Simas. And Bresnick's meltingly beautiful *** will sweep you off your feet.
142 Throckmorton Theater
Mill Valley
$15 to $20
Information: (415) 383-9600
www.leftcoastensemble.org
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 – 9pm
Dubowsky Ensemble + Strings play Depeche Mode's Violator (20th Anniversary Concert)
JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY ENSEMBLE "redefining musical boundaries" San Francisco Classical Voice 9/1/09
JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY ENSEMBLE & STRINGS
PERFORM DEPECHE MODE’S VIOLATOR ALBUM
LIVE IN CONCERT
In a very special engagement, the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble and strings perform the entire Depeche Mode album Violator, start to finish, completely live, with no pre-records or sequencing. For the 20th anniversary of this auspicious album, hear it live, as you have never heard it before.
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. The Ensemble's contemporary electroacoustic music, is performed and recorded live with no overdubs or sequencing. The Ensemble just released its second album, II, and returned from an April tour of the east coast.
The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, alternative performance spaces, and has also presented programs of live music to experimental film.
Personnel
Jack Curtis Dubowsky : Arrangements, Synthesizer, Vocals
Hall Goff : Trombone, Vocals
Fred Morgan : Drums
Yuri Kye : Violin
Alice Kao : Violin
Adam Young : Cello
Also appearing: Monks of Doom. (JCDE Violator goes on first.) www.magneticmotorworks.com/monksofdoom.html
Monks of Doom were formed in 1986 by four members of the ever-popular college/indie rock band Camper Van Beethoven.
Eagle Tavern
398 12th Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 626-0880
$6
www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html
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Friday, June 4, 2010 – 8pm
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Double Duo
The Bay Area debut of the Dresher Ensemble's newest chamber music grouping—the Double Duo—features a program of challenging and exciting contemporary acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instrument compositions by Paul Dresher, Sam Adams, and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features Dresher performing on electric guitar and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the Quadrachord, long-time Ensemble percussionist Joel Davel on the miraculous Marimba Lumina, virtuoso violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and pianist Lisa Moore, the noted contemporary music soloist and founding and long-time member of the Bang on A Can All Stars. Performing in various combinations of duo, trio and quartet, the Double Duo's repertory highlights very recent works by Martin Bresnick (Bird As Prophet) and Sam Adams (John Adams' very talented young son) composed specifically for Bentley Pollick and Moore, Dresher and Davel, performing their invented instrument duo Glimpsed From Afar (recently performed twice with the Los Angeles Philharmonic) as well long-time favorite Dresher compositions such as the trio Double Ikat, the duo Elapsed Time and a new quartet version of Chorale Times Two.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 11am
Very First Concerts: Learn to be a Conductor
Crowden Music Center and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra encourage audiences to get up and dance in Very First Concerts, a classical series designed with the youngest listeners in mind.
Each concert features a central theme, short selections, tumbling mats for fidgety toddlers, and hands-on musical activities geared toward families with young children (infants to 7 year-olds).
Kids of all ages (including the young at heart) can "Learn to be a Conductor" in our final Very First Concerts of the season. Ever wondered what that person is doing waving that stick around up there? Join us to find out, and you might just get a chance to lead the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra yourself!
Repeat performances at 11am & 12pm are FREE to the entire community.
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 559-6910
www.crowden.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 2pm
Avedis Chamber Music Series
Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu
with the Stanford Woodwind Quintet
Alexandra Hawley, flute
James Matheson, oboe
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet
Lawrence Ragent, horn
Rufus Olivier, bassoon
with Paul Hersh, piano
Florence Gould Hall at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco
$15 to $20
Information: (415) 452-8777
www.avedisconcerts.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 8pm
Trinity Chamber Concerts:
Horns a Plenty
The five-piece brass band Horns a Plenty has one foot in J.S. Bach, the other in Duke Ellington, and plenty of brass in between. With a distinctly discriminatory policy in favor of trombones, cornets and flugelhorns, Horns a Plenty wants to squeeze as much music as it can out of each note. It's Bach, Sousa, ragtime, Dixieland and swing all fighting to be in first place. Horns a Plenty takes no prisoners!
Russ Button, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn
Eric Wayne, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn
John Kinney, tenor trombone
Brian Taylor, tenor trombone
Scott Sterling, bass trombone
Trinity Chapel
Berkeley
Information: (510) 549-3864
www.trinitychamberconcerts.com
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 8pm
11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Donny McCaslin Trio
Swedish American Hall
[2174 Market Street, San Francisco
$25
www.sfjazz.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 8pm
the eighth annual celebration of Matthew Sperry˝s life and music with the Bay Area˝s creative music community.
sfSoundGroup playing the music of Matthew Sperry, Anthony Braxton, Cornelius Cardew, James Tenney and sfSoundGroup.
21 Grand
416 25th Street, Oakland
$25
www.21grand.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 1pm
The Musical World of Sheli Nan
“The Musical World of Sheli Nan” highlights four original compositions by Sheli Nan, the noted 21st century Baroque composer, musician and arts educator, and includes a special performance by dancer Aviva Nan-Tabachnik.
The program centerpiece is the world premiere of Ms. Nan’s “String Quartet for the 21st Century,” a harmonic work in four movements created for the award-winning Ariel Quartet. This 24-minute composition was commissioned by Bill Barbini, a former musician with the New York Philharmonic and now leader of the Ariel Quartet. These champions of contemporary music has been together for 20 years and performed extensively throughout Northern California under the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento. Two of the ensemble’s members are on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music staff. The recipient of many awards and grants locally, the Ariel Quartet won the highest commissioning grant awarded from Chamber Music America. Ms. Nan’s “String Quartet for the 21st Century” is, in her words, “complex, contemporary classical music for our time [that] does not set the nerves on edge.”
In addition to the “String Quartet for the 21st Century” there are three other compositions by Sheli Nan that will be performed.
Divo Zachary Gordin (baritone) will perform two works by Sheli Nan. “I Have a Constant Fever” features Gordin accompanied by cello, piano, and Glen Shannon on recorder; and “Journey the Song Cycle” accompanied by the composer on piano. Gordin is a noted interpreter of the 18th century coloratura bass repertoire, the Bel Canto works of Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, as well as works of contemporary composers - including Ms. Nan who has composed many pieces for Gordin. He has sung La Scala and been a principal soloist with opera companies in Europe and several Bay Area companies, including the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
The concert will be completed by a special performance by choreographer and dancer Aviva Nan-Tabachnik with violin and piano in “Absinthe avec mes amis.” Nan-Tabachnik formerly danced with Tania Salas Perez Dance Company of Mexico City.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
FREE
www.shelinan.com
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Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 8pm
San Francisco Guitar Summit featuring Matthew Montfort, Teja Gerken, and the San Francisco Guitar Quartet
In what is certain to be a concert highlight of the year for Bay Area guitar lovers, the Noe Valley Ministry is presenting a one-of-a-kind evening featuring three internationally acclaimed acts with deep roots in the local music scene. The San Francisco Guitar Summit seeks to present the varied range of music possible on the instrument – from acoustic fingerstyle through modern classical, to pioneering world fusion – in one of San Francisco's most intimate listening rooms. The summit features Matthew Montfort performing on scalloped fretboard and fretless guitars, fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken, and classical and modern music by the San Francisco Guitar Quartet.
Matthew Montfort is the leader of the world music ensemble Ancient Future. Featured in the December 2009 commemorative Les Paul issue of Guitar Player Magazine, Montfort is a pioneer among guitarists who have had their fretboards scalloped in order to play various forms of world music that require intricate note-bending ornaments while still being able to play chords. Montfort immersed himself in an intensive study with vina master K.S. Subramanian in order to fully apply the South Indian gamaka (note-bending) techniques to the guitar. He is also known for his work on Glissentar (11 string fretless guitar), electric guitar, flamenco guitar, sitar, charango, mandolin, and gamelan. He has performed concerts worldwide, from the Festival Internacional de la Guitarra on the golden coast of Spain to the Festival of India in Mumbai. He has worked with many world music legends, including tabla phenomenon Zakir Hussain and Chinese zither master Zhao Hui. Montfort wrote the book Ancient Traditions – Future Possibilities: Rhythmic Training Through the Traditions of Africa, Bali, and India, which has been used by many musicians to improve their rhythm skills. For more info, please visit www.matthewmontfort.com.
The Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco
$16 advance/$18 door
Information: (415) 454-5238
www.noevalleymusicseries.com
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Sunday, June 6, 2010 – 2pm
San Francisco Symphony:
Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
Members of the San Francisco Symphony Play Chamber Music
Florence Gould Hall at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco
$15-56
Information: (415) 864-6000
www.sfsymphony.org
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Sunday, June 6, 2010 – 7:30pm
Tenor Gladness: David Boyce - tenor saxophone; Ralph Carney - tenor saxophone; Tracy McMullen - tenor saxophone; Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone; Bill Noertker - contrabass; Dave Mihaly - drums
SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th Street, San Francisco
$10/8
www.outsound.org
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Sunday, June 6, 2010 – 3pm
Geraldine Walther and Friends
The former Principal Violist with the S.F. Symphony, now with the Grammy-winning Takács Quartet, makes a return S.F. appearance. A regular at Marlboro and Tanglewood, she also collaborates with such artists as Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman.
Chamber Music San Francisco
Herbst Theatre
San Francisco
Information: (415) 392-4400
www.chambermusicsf.org
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Sunday, June 6, 2010 – 4pm
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Double Duo
The Bay Area debut of the Dresher Ensemble's newest chamber music grouping—the Double Duo—features a program of challenging and exciting contemporary acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instrument compositions by Paul Dresher, Sam Adams, and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features Dresher performing on electric guitar and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the Quadrachord, long-time Ensemble percussionist Joel Davel on the miraculous Marimba Lumina, virtuoso violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and pianist Lisa Moore, the noted contemporary music soloist and founding and long-time member of the Bang on A Can All Stars. Performing in various combinations of duo, trio and quartet, the Double Duo's repertory highlights very recent works by Martin Bresnick (Bird As Prophet) and Sam Adams (John Adams' very talented young son) composed specifically for Bentley Pollick and Moore, Dresher and Davel, performing their invented instrument duo Glimpsed From Afar (recently performed twice with the Los Angeles Philharmonic) as well long-time favorite Dresher compositions such as the trio Double Ikat, the duo Elapsed Time and a new quartet version of Chorale Times Two.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Monday, June 7, 2010 – 7pm
Orlando's Sardana: A Celebration of the Life of Orlando Cole
Join 20 of the Bay Area's most accomplished cellists for an incredible evening of music and memories of Orlando Cole, famed virtuoso and beloved cello pedagogue who died in January at 101.
Piedmont Piano Company
Oakland
$20.00
Information: (510) 547-8188
www.piedmontpiano.com
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Monday, June 7, 2010 – 8pm
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble:
Kurt Rohde Concertino with Guest Artists Axel Strauss and Chris Froh
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble welcomes Rome Prize winner Kurt Rohde, LCCE's founding artistic director, back home to San Francisco after a year spent composing in Italy. Among the works Rohde wrote while abroad is a concertino dedicated to violinist Axel Strauss. The concert features performances Strauss and the dynamic percussionist Chris Froh in this new piece. The other works on the program, alternately brilliant and warm, include music showcasing Stacey Pelinka's flute-playing as well as star turns for clarinetist Jerry Simas. And Bresnick's meltingly beautiful *** will sweep you off your feet.
Green Room of the War Memorial Building
San Francisco
$15 to $20
Information: (415) 642-8054
www.leftcoastensemble.org
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – 12:30pm
MIDSUMMER MOZART FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE, George Cleve, music director
Robin Hansen, violin / David Sprung, horn
Miles Graber, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo in E-flat Major, K. 371 for Horn and Piano
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 – 12pm
All Day Marais-a-thon by local and visiting all-Stars
Barefoot Chamber Concerts, your local East bay attitude-free concert series continues its mission to throw the fun back in classical chamber music. As part of the 2010 Berkeley Festival and Exposition (BFX 10), Barefoot presents a one of a kind event, a Marais-a-thon.
From 11 am to 7 pm (or until the cake runs out) local and visiting violists (and the occasional harpsichordist or lutenist, and even violinist) will play the music of Marin Marais. This is a fund raiser for the American Viola da Gamba Society’s grants-in-aid program to help young viol players in need of financial assistance, and all musicians will be donating their time. Participants so far include Rebekah Ahrendt, Amy Brodo, Marie Dalby, Peter Hallifax, Shirley Hunt, Julie Jeffrey, David Morris, Farley Pearce, Elisabeth Reed, Colin Shipman, Bill Skeen, Yuko Tanaka, Lynn Tetenbaum, Margriet Tindemans, and many more are expected. Go to the Barefoot website for an updated player list and schedule as the event draws nearer.
Marais wrote over 500 pieces for viol and continuo alone, and many other pieces for small chamber groups. This music is a touchstone of French high baroque chamber music. An all-day pass means you can drop in and out anytime you want during the day, catch the pieces or players you want to hear, and of course, there will be refreshments of many kinds.
The fabulous wooden acoustic of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall provides the ideal setting for this occasion, more of a party than a concert, but the music will be, as always, the main event.
You are encouraged to bring your lunch, as long as it is quiet and well behaved.
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Berkeley
$10 - $15 (cheaper online) all day pass
Information: (510) 220-1195
www.barefootchamberconcerts.com
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 – 7:30pm
SummerFest - China Music Now
The Third Angle New Music Ensemble, based in Portland, Oregon, has just returned from performing in the Beijing Modern Music Festival in China. Their program tonight will feature the music of Beijing Olympics composer Xiaong Ye and other new works, including classical chamber music compositions.
Music in the Mountains
Amaral Family Festival Center
Grass Valley
$35, $30, $27, $25, $5
Information: (530) 265-6124
www.musicinthemountains.org
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 – 8pm
New Esterházy Quartet:
Haydn's Jukebox
Your wish is our command! Come to our concert, enter our raffle for a chance to pick your favorite from among the over 280 movements of the 68 Haydn Quartets. If you are a winner, we play your choice. There will also be other prizes awarded, including CDs and concert tickets.
Trinity Chapel
Berkeley
$15–$25
Information: (510) 549-3864
www.newesterhazy.org
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 12pm
Wildcat Viols, with guest Annalisa Pappano, play Purcell Fantazies
Barefoot Chamber Concerts continues its mission to throw the fun back in classical chamber music. As part of the 2010 Berkeley Festival and Exposition (BFX 10), Barefoot is proud to be able to present the East Bay’s own Wildcat Viols (Joanna Blendulf, Julie Jeffrey, and Elisabeth Reed), and guest artist Annalisa Pappano, in a program of music for 3 and 4 viols by Henry Purcell.
Written when the long and glorious tradition of English consort music was effectively over, these pieces represent the swan song of the genre. They combine the counterpoint and formality of the ancient style with the innovative and daring harmonic language of what was to become Baroque music as we know it.
The concert is in Barefoot’s usual fabulous acoustic, the wooden Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley. This will provide a superb setting for an unforgettable sound. This is a one of a kind concert.
Barefoot is committed to presenting great music in an informal setting. The concert will start at 12 noon and last about 45 minutes without intermission. You are encouraged to bring your lunch, as long as it is quiet and well behaved.
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Berkeley
$10 - $15 (cheaper online) all day pass
Information: (510) 220-1195
www.barefootchamberconcerts.com
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 3:30pm
"Sweeter than Roses"
An hour of love songs, sacred hymns, sonatas, and preludes by "the Glory of the Temple, and the Stage" Henry Purcell.
Alphonse Berber Gallery
Berkeley
$8–$15
Information: (510) 649-9492
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 5pm
AVE, Artists Vocal Ensemble
Tenebrae Responsoria
by Carlo Gesualdo
AVE probes the heart and mind in a performance of the awe-inspiring and terrifying Tenebrae Responsoria by Carlo Gesualdo, one of the most controversial composers in Italian history. Jonathan Dimmock leads AVE in a program of 27 works that bring to life the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, in a searing, dramatic concert. Gesualdo’s distinct, tortured musical style was not replicated by any composer until Schoenberg!
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Berkeley
$35 General Admission
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 8pm
¡Sacabuche! with Paul Elliott & Nigel North
San Marco and the Venetian Double-Choir
This concert features the stunning doublechoir writing of the 17th-century composers associated with Venice’s opulent St. Mark’s Cathedral—Orlando di Lasso, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Hans Leo Hassler, and Alessandro Grandi. Large-scale vocal works accompanied by sackbuts, cornettos, violins and dulcian are contrasted with elegant solo motets, virtuosic instrumental works and finely crafted small-scale concerted writing.
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$38 Premium Section/$32 All Other Seats
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 8pm
Irving M. Klein International String Competition 25th anniversary concert
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world’s leading competition for young string artists. Performers include pianist Jon Nakamatsu, the Alexander String Quartet, Cypress String Quartet, violist Michi Aceret and past Klein Competition winners including cellist David Requiro and violinist Tessa Lark.
The Irving M. Klein International String Competition has given virtuosos a place to showcase their skills and initiate their careers. The award carries the prestige that has helped many top soloists gain prominence in the competitive world of classical music, including David Requiro, Tessa Lark, Jennifer Koh, Mark Kosower and Eric Nowlin.
Klein Competition director: Mitchell Sardou Klein
SFSU School of Music and Dance
San Francisco State University - Knuth Hall
$25 to $50
Information: (415) 338-2467
www.musicdance.sfsu.edu
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 8pm
Cello Heaven
Directed by Burke Schuchmann
Cello Choir
Villa Lobos Bachianas Braziliares #1
Bach, Fugues and Choral Preludes
Russian Liturgical Chant
Pieces by Riegger and Severn and others
St. Alban's Episcopal Church
Albany
FREE
Information: (510) 234-4502
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Friday, June 11, 2010 – 5pm
The Marion Verbruggen Trio
The Virtuoso Recorder
Three of the brightest stars in the early music firmament align in this dazzling concert of Baroque masterpieces. The trio tours from Germany to France, starting with sonatas and trio sonatas by Germany’s most famous composers Telemann, Handel and J.S.Bach. France is represented by 17th-century viola da gamba virtuoso Marin Marais in his homage to his teacher, the Tombeau de Mr. de Ste. Colombe and the famous Folies d’Espagne, plus a prelude and chaconne from Louis Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin.
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$38 Premium Section/$32 All Other Seats
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Friday, June 11, 2010 – 7:30pm
Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
Submerged Queer Spaces: Music and Architectural Remains
Submerged Queer Spaces: Music and Architectural Remains is a live concert and cinematic presentation that explores redeveloped spaces that were once gathering spots of San Francisco’s queer community.
San Francisco has been a leader in real estate speculation, internet sex, social networking, and the dot com goldrush. A byproduct of long-term and rapid change has been the loss of lower-income, hippy, and queer counterculture. Bars, baths, restaurants, cafes, bookstores and other queer spaces have been submerged and lost, leaving behind faded signs or custom fittings – the stained glass sign of the Rainbow Cattle Company, or the etched glass of the Elephant Walk.
This experimental documentary film, directed by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and shot by Wilfred Galila, with historical images from the GLBT Historical Society, looks at physical spaces that once belonged to queer, lesbian, and communities of color in San Francisco, and what they are now. What, if anything, remains of queer spaces dating back to the 1930s to the 1980s? Join this expedition of urban archeology where we look for actual remnants of the Ebb Tide, the Tool Box, the Purple Pickle, the White Swallow, the Honey Bucket, the Fickle Fox, Bligh's Bounty, Maud's, and many others throughout the city.
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. The Ensemble's contemporary electroacoustic music is performed live with no overdubs or sequencing. The Ensemble just released its second album, II, and returned from an April tour of the east coast. The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, alternative performance spaces, and has also presented programs of live music to experimental film.
Personnel
Jack Curtis Dubowsky : Roland Jupiter 6 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer, Electric Bass, Percussion
Hall Goff : Trombone, Electronics
Fred Morgan : Drums, Percussion
This event received a Creating Queer Community Commission from Queer Cultural Center funded through the San Francisco Foundation.
This event is supported by the Queer Cultural Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, and the San Francisco Foundation.
African American Arts & Culture Complex
762 Fulton St, San Francisco
Information: (415) 762-2071
$12 - $20
www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html
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Friday, June 11, 2010 – 8pm
Magnificat
Motets
by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
A concert of motets by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani marks the release of Magnificat’s recordings of her complete works. Recognized during her lifetime as one of the finest composers in Italy, Cozzolani spent her adult life within the four walls of the musically famous convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan. Contemporary accounts describe the huge crowds that filled the exterior church of the convent to hearthe angelic voices of nuns singing Cozzolani’s passionate and ecstatic music.
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$38 Premium Section/$32 All Other Seats
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Friday, June 11, 2010 – 8pm
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
New works by Bay Area composers performed by the composers themselves, featuring a surprising diversity of styles influenced as much by pop and world as post-modernist and minimalist music. www.sfcco.org
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 10am
The 25th annual Irving M. Klein International String Competition: semifinals
Observe the superb performances of young string artists from all over the world who have traveled to San Francisco to compete for one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for virtuosos ages 15 to 23. The semifinal round features eight performers selected among entrants from four continents and top conservatories. Semifinalists will perform a new commissioned composition by Dick Hyman, unaccompanied works of Bach and a concerto. In the final round, the artists must perform additional portions of their selected concerto and one major sonata movement.
This year’s grand prize includes $14,000 and solo appearances with the Santa Cruz and Peninsula symphonies, a Bay Area benefit concert and other performances.
The Irving M. Klein International String Competition is a thrilling, exciting event that showcases the bravura of classical music. Since its inception in 1985, the Klein has earned recognition as one of the leading string competitions in the world. The award carries the prestige that has helped many top soloists gain prominence in the competitive world of classical music, including David Requiro, Tessa Lark, Jennifer Koh, Mark Kosower, Vadim Gluzman, Alban Gerhardt, Frank Huang and Francois Salque. The competition is named for the late cellist and master teacher who devoted himself untiringly to the development of young artists.
SFSU School of Music and Dance
San Francisco State University - Knuth Hall
$5 to $50
Information: (415) 338-2467
www.musicdance.sfsu.edu
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 8pm
Expanding on the mesmerizing sonorities of the saxophone quartet, Rova members Jon Raskin and Steve Adams will present an evening of new work s for quadruple saxophone quartet The Sax Cloud'a sonic-suround event exploring the musical possibilities of this unique ensemble. featuring: Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Daniel Plonsey, Frank Gratkowski, James Fei, Jayn Pettingill, John Ingle, Kasey Knudsen, Phillip Greenlief, Sheldon Brown, Vinny Golia and Aaron Bennett.
O D C D a n c e T h e a t r e , S t u d i o B
351 Shotwell Street, San Francisco
www.odcdance.org
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 5pm
Music’s Re-creation
Early English Baroque Masters
The music of William Lawes, John Jenkins, William Young, and Matthew Locke occupy a special place between the Golden Age of the English Renaissance fantasia and the new Baroque genres of the suite and sonata. Swift Italianate virtuosity is set to particularly poignant English harmonic language, resulting in music that is both emotionally charged and unlike any other style.
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$25 General Admission Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 8pm
ARTEK Performs Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book V
Madrigals, Book V
by Claudio Monteverdi
The publication of Monteverdi’s madrigals in 1605, marked a defining moment between the polyphony and counterpoint of the Renaissance and the new, “modern” practices of the baroque. Monteverdi daringly incorporated basso continuo and new fashions in dissonance—what he called the “Seconda prattica or the perfection of modern music.” ARTEK performs the five- and six-part madrigals in Book V, together with texts that dramatically illustrate the tremendous controversy caused by the publication of these madrigals.
Laura Heimes, soprano;
Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano;
Drew Minter, countertenor;
Philip Anderson, Michael Brown, tenors;
Peter Becker, bass-baritone;
Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord;
Daniel Swenberg, theorbo;
Charles Weaver, lute & guitar;
Grant Herreid, lute;
Christa Patton, harp;
Motomi Igarashi, violone & lirone
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$38 Premium Section/$32 All Other Seats
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 – 7pm
Soundwave Festival ((4)) : Phantom Power
Curated by Bay Area Sound Ecology featuring works and talks by Bernie Krause, Andrea Williams, Jeremiah Moore
Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission Street Street, San Francisco, CA
FREE
www.ybca.org
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 – 4:30pm
WALLY SCHNALLE’S QUARTET
At the Douglas Beach House
Bay Area drummer can go from acoustic straight-ahead realm to funky electric realm without losing his jazz focus.
Wally Schnalle – Drums, Jeff Massanari – Guitar, Dann Zinn – Sax, Jason Muscat - Bass
Performer website: www.itrhymes.com <http://www.itrhymes.com/>
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
This Northern California drummer is jazz-oriented, but he hasn't played one style of jazz exclusively. "Schnalle can go from the acoustic straight-ahead realm to the funky electric realm without losing his jazz focus or forgetting that jazz should be -- to borrow a term coined by the late jazz critic Whitney Balliett-- the sound of surprise." Alex Henderson, AllMusic.com. Celebrating new CD, Out of the Pan, due out in July. Fierce modern jazz chops...Adam Budofsky, Modern Drummer
A Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society presentation
At the Douglas Beach House
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay,
$30
www.bachddsoc.org
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 – 4pm
Festival Finale Celebration: Vespers in Venice from Monteverdi to Vivaldi
Magnificat, ARTEK, Marion Verbruggen Trio, AVE, ¡Sacabuche!, Music’s, Re-creation and Archetti
CELEBRATE
Vespers in Venice from Monteverdi to Vivaldi
The famous Vespers of 1610 helped Monteverdi to secure the position of maestro di cappella at San Marco in Venice, and the music he composed there inspired a century of glorious Vespers music in the Most Serene Republic. Join us for a concert that explores the extraordinary repertoire of Venetian vespers music: psalms and motets by Monteverdi, Rovetta and
Cavalli and instrumental music by Castello and Legrenzi, as well as Vivaldi’s e minor concerto for four violins and his brilliant setting of the Magnificat.
This exciting concert showcases each of the ensembles participating in the festival, plus soloists Marion Verbruggen, Laura Heimes, Jennifer Ellis Kampani, Barbara Hollinshead, Meg Bragle, Christopher LeCluyse, and Peter Becker.
Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$38 Premium Section/$32 All Other Seats
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.bfx.berkeley.edu
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 – 4pm
Miriam Abramowitsch & Kumaran Arul
Miriam Abramowitsch is a frequent performer at Old First Concerts. Heuwell Tircuit of San Francisco Classical Voice praised her 2007 recital for her “courageous artistry”, and went on to say “she was superb, and, indeed, maturity has enriched her timbre into velvet warmth and broadened her concept of fine phrasing.” She is celebrated for her imaginative programs of wide-ranging repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries. Kumaran Arul has been described as a “formidable”, “superbly intelligent and sensitive musician” with a “gripping” presence (SF Classical Voice, Classical Sonoma). He has received praise for performances that include original arrangements and improvisation. For this program they present a compelling selection of vocal and solo piano works exploring expressions of transcendence and retreat from worldly love, the program will incorporate related readings from historical sources and narration. Works are drawn from the songs of Gustav Mahler, including selections from the Rückert-Lieder (with piano transcriptions arranged by Mr. Arul), Franz Liszt’s Sonetti di Petrarca (vocal and solo piano versions), Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 in B Minor (solo piano), and Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (with clarinet).
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 – 12:30pm
TRIO BRILLANTE
Tom Rose, clarinet / Caroline Lee, viola
Betty Woo, piano
Mendelssohn: Concert Piece No.1 in F minor
Max Bruch: Eight Trios, Op. 83
W. A. Mozart: Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 – 8pm
INZINZAC ( www.inzinzac.com )...the Philadephia based trio of Alban Bailly (guitar), Dan Scofield (soprano & tenor sax), and Eli Litwin (drums). Flanked by new local projects ADDLEDS (Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and English horn; Tony Dryer, bass; Jacob Felix Heule, percussion; and Kanoko Nishi, koto) and SHELTON / NORDESON DUO (Aram Shelton, saxophones; Kjell Nordeson, drums).
21 Grand
416 25th Street, Oakland
$6-10
www.21grand.org
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Saturday, June 19, 2010 – 8pm
Trinity Chamber Concerts:
Pala Garcia & Henry Kramer
Both recent alumni of the Juilliard School, Bay Area native Pala Garcia and Henry Kramer began a lasting collaboration during their studies there and have since appeared together in recitals and masterclasses across the country. Their joint recital will include an exciting and diverse offering of masterworks by Beethoven, Debussy, Cage and Adams, among others.
Trinity Chapel
Berkeley
$8 to $12
Information: (510) 549-3864
www.trinitychamberconcerts.com
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Sunday, June 20, 2010 – 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music
Members of the San Francisco Play Chamber Music
San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
$35
Information: (415) 864-6000
www.sfsymphony.org
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Sunday, June 20, 2010 – 5pm
Cellist Leanne Zacharias and Friends
Canadian cellist Leanne Zacharias appears in concert at St. John’s Church, Ross, on Sunday, June 20 at 5:00 p.m. This concert by Leanne Zacharias will feature soprano Tonia D’Amelio and organist Lenore Alford in a gorgeous piece by Robert Honstein of Yale University. Based on a chant by Hildegard of Bingen, the composition combines voice with cello, pipe organ and…water goblets! There will be a pre-concert talk at 4:25 p.m. when the artists will discuss the music and music-making. Leanne Zacharias received her doctorate from University of Texas, where her performance project Music for Spaces explored imaginative venues and collaborations. Now a professor of cello and conductor of the university orchestra in Brandon, Canada, Leanne Zacharias has toured the continent performing with songwriter Christine Fellows and has four albums on Six Shooter Records.
Music at St. John's
St. John's Episcopal Church, Ross
$5 to $15
Information: (415) 456-1102
www.stjohnsross.org
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Sunday, June 20, 2010 – 4:30pm
FRANK JACKSON & THE LARRY VUCKOVICH TRIO
At the Douglas Beach House
SF Fillmore District legendary vocalist with Bay Area favorite pianist.
Larry Vuckovich – piano, Al Obidinski – bass, Akira Tana – drums
Performer website: www.larryvuckovich.com
All About Jazz re: Jackson: www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Frank Jackson, a Bay Area and West Coast Jazz legend, was house pianist at Jimbo’s famed Bop City after-hours club in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore district. He accompanied such Jazz icons as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Frank Foster, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, and more. Frank performs regularly on both coasts, and won strong national attention for his latest CD, New York After Dark, which renowned pianist James Williams produced and played on with a stellar New York cast.
The Bach Program will feature Frank in a stand-up role, presenting his world-class singing with interpretations and unmatched repertoire that represent the best in lyrical and soulful Jazz vocals, along with a most authentic scatting. Frank will also show his elegant, lush accompaniment style on a few selections
A Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society presentation
At the Douglas Beach House
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay,
$30
www.bachddsoc.org
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 –12:30pm
Mariya Borozina, violin / Miles Graber, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat Major, No. 3, Op. 12 and Sonata in A minor, No. 4, Op. 23
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Friday, June 25, 2010 – 8pm
Robert Schumann's 200th Birthday Celebration
Adagio and allegrio; Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47 and others by Robert Schumann
Sarah Hong is well known in the Bay Area for her seemingly effortless performances of the most demanding repertoire; for this concert she is joined by violinist with the Oregon Symphony Fumino Ando, Japanese pianist Makiko Ooka and Bay Area violist Caroline Lee to celebrate Robert Schumann's 200th birthday with a selection of his chamber works.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, June 26, 2010 – 8pm
Meridian presents the Emergency String (X)tet: Bob Marsh and Doug Carroll (cello), Angela Hsu, Jonathan Segel and Adria Otte (violin), Tony Dryer (bass), and Kanoko Nishi (koto). The (X)tet will be joined by butoh dancer Kinji Hayashi for a few pieces.
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street, San Francisco
$10 general; $5 students/seniors
www.meridiangallery.org
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Sunday, June 27, 2010 – 4pm
Jupiter Chamber Players
String Quartet in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 by Georgy Catoire; Piece for String Quartet, Op. 7 by Arshak Andriasov; ‘Spring’ for String Quartet, Op. 32 and String Quartet in D major, Op. 1 by Iosif Andriasov; String Quartet in F major, Op. 22 by Tchaikovsky.
In 1997, two veteran freelancers, violinist Michael Jones and Juilliard-trained violist Steve Levintow, recruited BBC Orchestra violinist Andrew Davies and 'cellist Paul Hale of the Oakland Symphony to found the Jupiter Quartet which later became the Jupiter Chamber Players. The quartet had the good fortune to connect with Marvin Sanders, director of Live Oak Concerts at the Berkeley Art Center, just as the Center's previous ensemble-in-residence, the Cypress Quartet, left to launch their international career. The Art Center remained the Quartet's "home" venue for 10 years. Paul Rhodes replaced Hale in 2000, bringing his years of experience in numerous orchestras and as soloist with the Carmel Bach Festival. Two years later, Davies left to pursue other projects, and San Francisco Symphony member Victor Romasevich took over as first violinist. Romasevich brought deep fascination with Russian chamber music, including masterworks by such composers as Sergei Taneyev, Georgy Catoire, and Iosif Andriasov (with whom Romasevich studied violin and viola)—all links in a tradition going back to Tchaikovsky through Moscow Conservatory. The Jupiter Chamber Players take pleasure in introducing wider audiences to the work of these composers, while continuing to present more familiar Russian and European repertoire.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – 12:30pm
MIDSUMMER MOZART FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE, George Cleve, conductor, music director
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in A Major, K. 169, Divertimento in D, K. 251 for Strings, Oboe and Two Horns
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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