Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – 12:30pm
CYPRESS STRING QUARTET
Cecily Ward / Tom Stone, violins
Ethan Filner, viola / Jennifer Kloetzel, cello
Igor Stravinsky: Concertino
Charles T. Griffes: Two Sketches on Native American Themes
Elena Ruehr: String Quartet No. 3
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 – 12pm
Noon Concert : Baroque Ensemble
University Baroque Ensemble, Davitt Moroney, director
Chamber Music
Friday, November 5
Chamber music selections featuring music students
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE
music.berkeley.edu
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Thursday, November 4, 2010 – 8pm
Chamber Music Masters Concert
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of its pioneering chamber music program, cellist and Longtime faculty Bonnie Hampton returns to the Conservatory for a performance of romantic and modern classics with faculty and student performers.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
$20/15
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
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Friday, November 5, 2010 – 7:30pm
L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA (Rothko Chapel)
Rothko Chapel
Friday, November 5, 7:30 p.m.
Programmed by Sarah Cahill
The UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, directed by Marika Kuzma, and the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio perform Morton Feldman’s affecting, meditative masterpiece Rothko Chapel, in the resonant architecture of the Berkeley Art Museum. The reflective, elegiac mood is continued and enhanced by performances of Robert Ashley’s choral work She Was a Visitor, Lou Harrison’s gamelan composition Threnody for Carlos Chávez, and Roscoe Mitchell’s monument for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Bells for New Orleans.
L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA
From meditative masterpieces to off-kilter performances, L@TE programming invades Gallery B with classical and experimental soundworks, dance, video, and conceptual and performance art. Guest programmer Sarah Cahill continues to focus on the experimental tradition of American music, while guest programmer Tomo Yasuda’s L@TE series concludes its dialogue with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Collection for Japanese Art and Culture. In conjunction with Radical Light, Radical L@TE recreates a 1975 performance and brings us up to the present with video-mediated cross-dressing and travel films made for plants.
Friday night programs typically begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gallery B; doors open at 5 p.m. with DJs in the lobby or Gallery B at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students. For more information on L@TE programs and our guest programmers, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late.
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
$7
Information: (510) 642-0808
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late
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Friday, November 5, 2010 – 8pm
Bang On A Can All-Stars: Works by Louis Andriessen, Marijke van Warmerdam and David Lang
A rare West Coast premiere of a newly minted piece by the eminent Dutch composer Louis Andriessen—fresh from its Carnegie Hall debut last season. And with it, a recent work, sunray, by David Lang—Stanford alumnus, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music, former Andriessen student, and co-founder of Bang on a Can.
With evident creative affinity for the clarity and vigor of work by Stravinsky, Mondrian, and bebop composers, Andriessen’s musical palette is edgy and bright. His new collaboration with Marijke van Warmerdam, who has created the video for Life, is a continuation of work with other filmmakers, notably Peter Greenaway.
David Lang’s music embraces and extends Andriessen’s kinetic quality and virtuoso writing, with an emotional urgency and beauty that have established him as an important figure—composer, collaborator, educator—on the international arts scene. The program is quintessential Bang on a Can All-Stars—the unparalleled ensemble that can, and will, tackle it all.
PROGRAM
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary; Fred Frith: Snakes and Ladders; Louis Andriessen: Life, with video by Marijke Van Warmerdam; David Lang: sunray; Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/2; Michael Nyman: Manhatta, with film by Paul Strand (arr. Andy Keenan)
PRE-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION (7:00–7:30) with David Lang and Jenny Bilfield
Stanford Lively Arts
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Palo Alto
$44.00 - 50.00 (Adult) | Discounts available - please check website for more information
Information: (650) 725-2787
www.livelyarts.stanford.edu
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Friday, November 5, 2010 – 8pm
Melody of China
Melody of China will present a concert on November 5th featuring a new work by Francis Wong, entitled Shanghai Stories. The piece makes use of Chinese traditional instruments together with saxophone, trumpet, bass and drums. Set in a jazz context, Shanghai Stories celebrates the intersection of musical cultures which thrived in Shanghai, China during the 1920's and '30's. The program will also feature traditional Chinese music, including a new work by Melody of China resident composer Dawei Wang.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Friday, November 5, 2010 – 8pm
Chamber Music Celebration Concert
The Conservatory presents a special Celebration Concert, bringing together students, faculty and alumni for a singular performance that touches upon all aspects of its pioneering chamber music program. Numerous distinguished alumni perform with their ensembles, including the Peabody Trio, the Cypress String Quartet, the Delphi Trio, the Nexus String Quartet, the Navitas Ensemble, ZOFO duet, the Del Sol String Quartet and Nonsemble Six. Groups of Conservatory faculty and students from both the collegiate and preparatory divisions join them, including one conducted by Mark Sokol. The concert also honors Hampton with a special student/alumni cello tribute to both her achievements and her 75th birthday. Come help us celebrate the 25th anniversary of the nation's first chamber music degree program!
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
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Saturday, November 6, 2010 – 8pm
Musical Journeys
On Saturday, Nov. 6th at 8:00 PM, NACUSAsf (San Francisco chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA) will present its 2010 Fall Concert, “Musical Journeys” at the Auditorium at the Palo Alto Art Center (1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto). The concert will be performed by the NACUSAsf Composers Performance Ensemble (violin, flute/sax, cello, soprano & piano), and featured composers will include Adrienne Albert, Anne Baldwin, Michael Barnett, John Beeman, Sondra Clark, Nancy Bloomer Deussen, L. Peter Deutsch, Hubert Ho, Monica Lynn, Karl Schmidt, Greg Steinke, Davide Verotta, and Dale Victorine. Come and sample some exciting music written by local contemporary composers. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 and $15. There will be a reception to follow. For more information, contact Dale Victorine at (408) 768-1941.
NACUSA San Francisco
Palo Alto Art Center
$10 to $15
Information: (408) 768-1941
nacusasf.org
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 2pm
Sightlines: Ensemble Zellig
Sightlines
The extraordinary artists on our stages and acclaimed scholars in our community provide programmatic insight in pre- and post-performance talks. Sightlines events take place in the performance venue (unless otherwise noted) and are free to event ticket holders.
Ensemble Zellig
Sun, Nov 7, 2-2:30 pm
UC Berkeley composer Edmund Campion discusses his new work commissioned for this program.
Cal Performances
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE to event ticketholders
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 3pm
Ensemble Zellig
New Music.
A trailblazing new music group from France, Ensemble Zellig is a collaboration of talented musicians, each an accomplished soloist commanding a variety of styles and points of view. These gifted musicians adapt, chameleon-like, to their environment, and bring innovative works to the stage. Founded by composer Thierry Pécou (whose music will be heard in this concert), the group travels widely through musical time and is as likely to visit Haydn's music as they are Stockhausen's. In its Cal Performances debut, Ensemble Zellig performs remarkable new music, including a world premiere by UC Berkeley composer/faculty member Edmund Campion.
Program: Works by Edmund Campion, Philippe Leroux, Don Freund, Thierry Pécou, and Gerald Shapiro
Cal Performances
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
$42
Information: (510) 642-9988
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Peabody Trio
Since winning the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989, this trio has established itself as an important presence in the chamber music world as vivid interpreters of the classics of the repertoire, advocates for new music and dedicated teachers and mentors to a generation of young musicians. The Peabody Trio brings to its music making what the Washington Post calls “the romantic fervor of the 20th century greats.”
Bringing Bay Area audiences the world’s finest chamber music since 1955, the Morrison Artists Series at San Francisco State University is “indispensable,” the San Francisco Chronicle writes. Led by Artistic Director Ronald Caltabiano, the series presents six free performances each year by acclaimed ensembles.
Caltabiano will give a pre-concert talk at 2 p.m.
Morrison Artists Series
McKenna Theatre at SFSU, San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 338-2467
creativearts.sfsu.edu/morrison
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 3pm
Guest Concert Series
The Guest Concert Series, hosted by Dominican University of California in San Rafael, brings wonderful musicians to the acoustically beautiful Angelico Hall. The concert features the Tilden Trio, a trio formed in 2004 by Julliard schoolmates. The program includes works by Saints-Saens, Jennifer Higdon and Dvorak.
Guest Concert Series, Dominican University
Dominican University, Angelico Hall
San Rafael
$10-$18
Information: (415) 257-0128
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 4pm
Emerging Artists Concert - Heidi Melton and Allen Perriello
Noe Valley Chamber Music presents: Heidi Melton and Allen Perriello
On November 7, 2010, Noe Valley Chamber Music will feature our Emerging Artists Concert with Heidi Melton, soprano, and Allen Perriello, piano. This young American dramatic soprano, a recent Adler Fellow with SF Opera, has already received international acclaim performing in Berlin and France as well as the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. She and Allen Perriello will thrill the audience with arias from romantic and contemporary operas. * Eleazar Rodriquez, originally scheduled to perform in November, had to cancel due to a European engagement.
Noe Valley Chamber Music
Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, San Francisco
$18 /$15
Information: (415) 648-5236
www.nvcm.org
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 4pm
The Berkeley Choro Ensemble
Jane Lenoir, flute
Harvey Wainapel, clarinet/reeds
Carlos Oliveira, 7-string Brazilian Guitar
Brian Rice, pandeiro/percussion
Berkeley Choro Ensemble celebrates the music and culture of Brazil, with special emphasis on the choro style, a genre of music which emerged in Brazil in the late 19th century, fusing European classical music and native Afro Brazilian styles. We will feature a wide variety of Brazilian styles, including choro, samba, bossa nova and Northeastern Brazilian music, including the music of Pixinguinha, Jobim, Bandolim, Mariano, Guinga and compositions by band members Harvey Wainapel and Carlos Oliveira.
Avonova Music Concert Series
417 Avon Street, Oakland
$15 Admission/Children Under 12 Free
Reservations: avonovamusic.com/contact-and-rsvp
www.myspace.com/berkeleychoroensemble
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 4pm
Recital: William Bennett, oboe; Marc Shapiro, piano
Acclaimed as one of the country's most accomplished masters of the oboe, San Francisco Symphony's principal oboist Bill Bennett brings his mesmerizing technical virtuosity and unique artistry to a rare recital program showcasing works his instrument, partnered by the pianist Marc Shapiro. Program includes works by Britten, Schumann, Hindemith, Rimsky Korsakov, Saint-Saens, Dutilleux, Poulenc.
St. John's Concert Series
St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
$10-$20
Information: (510) 684-7563
www.stjohnsberkeley.org
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 4:30pm
Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation
The ensemble revisits a piece of its history at the opening of its 40th Anniversary Season. Co-commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 1988, Seven is part of Cage’s series of numbered works that explore the fixed and flexible aspects of time. In this unconventional piece, each musician reads from a different set of time-brackets, most of which are flexible in their length. Instead of a conductor, the musicians use stopwatches to guide their progress through the piece. The piece will be presented along with an open dialogue between the artists and the audience. The audience is invited to stay for wine and hors d’oeuvres after the performance.
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco
$5-$10
www.sfcmp.org
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 7pm
San Francisco Symphony Presents Beethoven String Trios by the Mutter-Bashmet-Harrell Trio
Three premier soloists join to form a chamber ensemble par excellence, as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yuri Bashmet, and Lynn Harrell present a program of Beethoven’s string trios. While perhaps overshadowed by Beethoven’s string quartets and his other more famous works, the string trios are nevertheless unqualified masterpieces.
San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
$15-$83
Information: (415) 864-6000
www.sfsymphony.org
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 – 4:30pm
THE RUFUS REID TRIO - OUT FRONT
Rufus Reid – bass, Steve Allee – piano, Duduka Da Fonseca – drums
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay
$35
Information: (650) 726-2020
www.rufusreid.com
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Monday, November 8, 2010 – 8pm
Points in Recent History
The ensemble opens its 40th season with a concert of unconducted works handpicked to present a concentrated highlight of our history and a glimpse of the future. Fresh new music from France and Italy will be performed alongside classics from Cage (co-commissioned by the ensemble in 1988) and Glass (featuring William Winant and friends on flute, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion, and two keyboards).
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
$10-$30
www.sfcmp.org
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 – 12:30pm
Christina Mok, violin / Joanne Lin, cello
Lori Lack, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2
More!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 – 7:30pm
Chamber Music
Broadmoor Presbyterian Church
377 - 87th Street, Daly City, CA 94015
reception following concert
The Villa Sinfonia Foundation is dedicated to providing a musical outlet for professional and nonprofessional string players to perform together. Among its many purposes, the Foundation is also dedicated to bringing a great heritage of chamber music and string orchestra music to all types of audiences through its support of the Villa Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra, Villa String Quartet, and Villa Chamber Orchestra and Adult Sinfonia.
Broadmoor Presbyterian Church Choir welcomes you, and we hope you enjoy this program which we offer as part of our music ministry. By presenting this concert, we wish to share the enjoyment of fine music with our neighbors.
Broadmoor Presbyterian Church Concert Series
Broadmoor Presbyterian Church, Daly City
$5 - 10 at door
Information: (650) 756-7793
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 – 8pm
Christian McBride & Inside Straight
“An effortlessly charismatic bassist” —The New York Times
In this latest Lively Arts performance—following on last season’s sold-out tribute to Herbie Hancock—DownBeat 2009 Readers Poll–winning bassist Christian McBride returns at the helm of his acclaimed acoustic ensemble, Inside Straight. As on the group’s 2009 debut disc, Kind of Brown, McBride is joined in this night of “hard swing-to-bluesy groove tunes” by some of the most in-demand players on the scene today: alto and soprano saxman Steve Wilson, vibist Warren Wolf, Jr., pianist Eric Reed, and drummer Carl Allen.
As The New York Times wrote in a glowing review of the group’s 2007 performance debut at New York’s legendary Village Vanguard: “When the bassist Christian McBride feels good about a groove, he savors it, exults in it. Flashing a million-watt smile, he tosses off frolicsome micro-elaborations….Watching his sidemen respond to him, you’re almost tempted to pose a question: Why doesn’t every jazz combo seem to be having such a good time?”
Stanford Lively Arts
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Palo Alto
$38.00 - 42.00 (Adult) | Discounts available - please check website for more information
Information: (650) 725-2787
www.livelyarts.stanford.edu
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 – 8pm
The Tilden Trio
They were schoolmates at Juilliard and after many years of collaborating on musical projects, these noted Bay Area decided in 2004 to create the Tilden Trio with the goal of performing timeless masterpieces from the classical piano-trio repertoire as well as exciting new contemporary works. Violinist Sarn Oliver and cellist Peter Wyrick are members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and have performed with a range of chamber music ensembles. Pianist June Oh is on the faculties of Dominican University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has performed nationally and as a recitalist and as a soloist with leading orchestras; last September, she played with the Alexander String Quartet in their well-received concert for Del Valle Fine Arts. The Tilden Trio’s performances have included appearances with the Chancellor’s Series at the University of California, San Francisco; Chamber Music Sundaes in Berkeley; the Guest Concert Series at Dominican University; and the San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Series.
Del Valle Fine Arts
Bankhead Theater, Livermore
$33-$21, high school free, college $10 day of concert
Information: (925) 373-6800
www.delvallefinearts.org
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 – 8pm
Chiara String Quartet with West Coast Premiere of Milagros
Occidental, CA —At 8pm on Saturday, November 13, 2010, the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and Gregory Beaver, cello) will perform at the Occidental Center for the Arts (4008 Bohemian Highway), presented by the Redwood Arts Council. The concert features the West Coast premiere of Milagros (Miracles), a new work commissioned by the Chiara Quartet with support from Meet The Composer from composer Gabriela Lena Frank. The program also includes two works by Beethoven – his String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2, and String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131.
Gabriela Lena Frank is one of the country’s leading younger composers, and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship winner. Identity has always been at the center of Frank's music. Born in Berkeley, California to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, Frank explores her multicultural heritage most ardently through her compositions. Inspired by the works of Bela Bartók and Alberto Ginastera, Frank is something of a musical anthropologist. She has travelled extensively throughout South America and her pieces reflect and refract her studies of Latin-American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework that is uniquely her own. Milagros is inspired by the sounds and personalities of Andean lands, and is a celebration of the 10 years of mutual growth that Frank and the Chiara Quartet have enjoyed together.
Redwood Arts Council
Occidental Center for the Arts
$25
Information: (707) 874-1124
www.redwoodarts.org
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 – 8pm
SHADES: 2010 Home Season Concert
The SHADES concert program features "Tenebrae" by renowned Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov, and world premieres of four commissioned works, two by local composers: "Falling Water," the first string quartet by former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, String Quartet No. 3 by Canadian composer Ronald Bruce Smith, a new work for string quartet and voice by Amy X. Neuburg, and “La Sangre de la Luna” by Daniel Ward.
Del Sol String Quartet
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
$15-$25
Information: (415) 374-0074
www.delsolquartet.com
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 2pm
Chamber Music with Members of the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
$36
Information: (415) 864-6000
www.sfsymphony.org
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 2pm
SHADES: 2010 Home Season Concert
The SHADES concert program features "Tenebrae" by renowned Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov, and world premieres of four commissioned works, two by local composers: "Falling Water," the first string quartet by former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, String Quartet No. 3 by Canadian composer Ronald Bruce Smith, a new work for string quartet and voice by Amy X. Neuburg, and “La Sangre de la Luna” by Daniel Ward.
Del Sol String Quartet
Dance Palace Community Center, Point Reyes Station
$15-$25
Information: (415) 374-0074
www.delsolquartet.com
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 3pm
Villa Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet
Hailed by the New York Times as “something extraordinary” and by the Boston Globe for its “fiercely committed performances.”
The Parker Quartet began its professional touring career in 2002, and in 2005 sparked international acclaim by winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the 2005 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. Most recently, the Quartet was awarded the prestigious 2009–2011 Cleveland Quartet Award. Given biennially by Chamber Music America, this award honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry demonstrates that it is in the process of establishing a major career.
The Parker Quartet has been profiled in Time Out NY, The Boston Globe, Chamber Music Magazine, and on Musical America.com for their pioneering performances for audiences in non-traditional venues. The Quartet spends a great deal of time each year working with young musicians through educational residency activities. In addition to its ongoing work through the SPCO’s CONNECT program, the group has served as the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Center and the ensemble-in-residence at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival.
The Parker Quartet’s members—Daniel Chong (violin), Karen Kim (violin), Jessica Bodner (viola), Kee-Hyun Kim (cello)—hold graduate degrees in performance and chamber music from the New England Conservatory of Music and were part of the NEC’s prestigious Professional String Quartet Training Program.
Montalvo Arts Center (Previously Villa Montalvo)
Saratoga
$30 General Admission; $25 Members; $10 Students with ID; $20 Subscription (available only when purchasing three or more dates from this series
Information: (408) 961-5858
montalvoarts.org
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 4pm
Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers with singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers is a San Francisco-based multi-ethnic, multi-cultural modern dance company dedicated to the creation and production of new dance works, to excellence and activism in the arts, and to developing dance from—and bringing it to—a diverse community. Steeped in the movement training developed by Bluethenthal, their dancing is eloquent and grounded, embodying a feminist approach to dance and choreography. Bluethenthal is committed to cross-cultural collaboration and to creating dance that is women identified, spiritual, passionate, and inclusive of all its member voices.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 4pm
Sundays @ Four: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble with guest pianist Karen Rosenak
By pairing new works with traditional masterpieces, The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble reveals the expressive intent of composers from every age in engaging, daring, and enlightened concerts. The group has commissioned over 50 new works, sponsors an annual Composition Contest that draws over 150 applicants each year, and carries on a tradition of performing the very best that the composers of today (whether established or emerging) have to offer.
In this concert, Left Coast features the organization’s artistic director Anna Presler, who is also a violinist in the New Century Chamber Orchestra and faculty member at Sacramento State University, and Leighton Fong, Principal Cello of the California Symphony and member of San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. They will be joined by guest pianist Karen Rosenak of University of California, Berkeley, a highly respected specialist in both fortepiano and new music.
Please join us for a free "Meet the Artists" reception following the concert.
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
$15 general admission; FREE for children 18 & under
Information: (510) 559-6910
www.crowden.org
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 4pm
Trio Navarro - "Masterful, marvelous and memorable"
One of Russia's most inexplicably neglected composers, Gyorgy Catoire is regarded as the father of Russian modernism. Trio Navarro opens its 16th season with Catoire's captivating Piano Trio in F Minor. Also on the program - Piano Trio by Barcelonan cellist Gaspar Cassadó and Franz Schubert's sublime Nottorno. Trio Navarro is comprised of Roy Malan, violin, Jill Rachuy Brindel, cello and Marilyn Thompson, piano.
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park
$8 to $12
Information: (707) 664-2353
www.sonoma.edu/performingarts
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Monday, November 15, 2010 – 10am
Waltzing in Appalachia Open Rehearsal
New Century Chamber Orchestra presents works by Bach and featured composer and soloist Mark O'Connor.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
$8
Information: (415) 357-1111
www.ncco.org
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 – 12:30pm
Claire Tremblay, oboe, recorder, shalm, didgeridoo, ojibwe flute
Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantaisie en Do
Peter Ashton: Three Pieces
Benjamin Britten: Six Metamorphoses
Tremblay: Improvisation on didgeridoo
Lots more!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 12pm
Noon Concert : Gamelan : Java and Bali
University Gamelan Ensembles, Midiyanto, director
Javanese music and song from Javanese & Balinese gamelan classes, under the direction of Midiyanto & a special guest Balinese instructor.
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE
music.berkeley.edu
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 8pm
Midori, violin, with Robert McDonald, piano
An artist and musical citizen of uncompromising integrity, Midori has established herself as a formidable performer, educator, entrepreneur, and arts leader. Devoting considerable time and personal resources to arts education in the US and abroad, Midori has brought special visibility and notable impact with community initiatives directed at replenishing hands-on music-making in the public schools. She has also been an important advocate for music of our time, spearheading commissions and widely performing new works.
In this intimate Lively Arts performance, accompanied on piano by longtime collaborator Robert McDonald, Midori continues her approach in recent years of balancing mainstays of the repertoire—here, sonatas by Bach, Mozart, and Bartók—with less frequently performed works from the 20th and 21st centuries. In this latter category, Midori considers two very different approaches to the nocturne: Szymanowski’s stately Nocturne and Tarantella for Violin and Piano (1915) and George Crumb’s haunting and texturally expansive Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) of 1964.
Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, K 301; Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz 75; Bach: Sonata for Violin Solo No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003; Crumb: Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) for Violin and Piano; Szymanowski: Nocturne and Tarantella for Violin and Piano
Stanford Lively Arts
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Palo Alto
$66.00 - 76.00 (Adult) | Discounts available - please check website for more information
Information: (650) 725-2787
www.livelyarts.stanford.edu
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 – 8pm
Waltzing in Appalachia
New Century Chamber Orchestra presents works by Bach and featured composer and soloist Mark O'Connor.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$29 to $49
Information: (415) 357-1111
www.ncco.org
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Friday, November 19, 2010 – 7:30pm
SHADES: 2010 Home Season Concert
The SHADES concert program features "Tenebrae" by renowned Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov, and world premieres of four commissioned works, two by local composers: "Falling Water," the first string quartet by former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, String Quartet No. 3 by Canadian composer Ronald Bruce Smith, a new work for string quartet and voice by Amy X. Neuburg, and “La Sangre de la Luna” by Daniel Ward.
Del Sol String Quartet
Samovar Hall, Mountain View
$15-$25
Information: (415) 374-0074
www.delsolquartet.com
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Friday, November 19, 2010 – 8pm
Tanya Tomkins, solo cello
J.S. Bach Solo Cello Suites
“Tomkins explored J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 with a probing, ruminating, often rhapsodic approach….” Los Angeles Times
Bach's Solo Cello Suites are unsurpassed masterpieces, capturing the complexity of human emotion while demonstrating the great technical range and vocal depth of the solo cello.
San Francisco Early Music Society
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto
$28 general/$25 members/$10 students
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
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Friday, November 19, 2010 - 8pm
pre-concert talk at 7:15pm by Roger Emanuels
Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo
Jon Manasse, clarinet and Jon Nakamatsu, piano
BRAHMS Sonata, #1 in F Minor, Op.120
WEBER Grand Duo Concertant in E-Flat Major, J.204
BERNSTEIN Clarinet Sonata (1941-42)
JOPLIN Two Rags [piano]
Paquito D’RIVERA Lecuonerias
SCHREINER Immer kleiner
"...their partnership is complete – Mr. Nakamatsu’s playing is as meltingly beautiful as Mr. Manasse’s." – The New York Times, reviewing their 2008 Harmonia Mundi Brahms Sonatas CD
"In a performance of considerable finesse, Manasse’s warm, liquid tone met Nakamatsu’s crisp, articulate playing..." – San Jose Mercury News
The San Jose Chamber Music Society
Le Petit Trianon
72 N. Fifth Street, San Jose,
$42-$30/$39-$37 students and seniors
Information: (408) 286-5111
www.sjchambermusic.org
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Friday, November 19, 2010 – 8pm
Yee Duo
Violinist Thomas Yee and pianist Jieun Yee, a husband and wife pair began performing with each other with the desire to share music and life with each other, and the collaboration has blossoming ever since. Known as the Yee Duo, they create a perfect union of balance between as a recital duo where the pair explores different classical styles including Classical, Baroque, Romantic, and New Music. The mission of the Duo is to share our love of classical music, with a vision of creating music that will excite, inspire, and communicate positively with everyone. The duo, like any chamber ensemble intends to search for projects that allow us to perform and also collaborate with musicians, expanding our community.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Friday, November 19, 2010 – 8pm
Waltzing in Appalachia
New Century Chamber Orchestra presents works by Bach and featured composer and soloist Mark O'Connor. All tickets are available at City Box Office, at www.cityboxoffice.org or 415.392.4400, and New Century, at www.ncco.org or 415.357.1111. Patrons aged 35 and under can purchase concert tickets for $15.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
First United Methodist Church
Palo Alto
$29 - $49
Information: (415) 357-1111
www.ncco.org
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Friday, November 19, 2010 – 8pm
Yee Violin/Piano Duo in Concert
Program:
Tartini Devil's Trill Sonata
Biggs Dialogue for Violin and Piano
Prokofiev Sonata #1 in f minor
Piazzolla Le Grand Tango
Bio:
Violinist Thomas Yee and pianist Jieun Yee, a husband and wife pair began performing with each other with the desire to share music and life with each other, and the collaboration has blossoming ever since. Known as the Yee Duo, they create a perfect union of balance between as a recital duo where the pair explores different classical styles including Classical, Baroque, Romantic, and New Music.
The mission of the Duo is to share our love of classical music, with a vision of creating music that will excite, inspire, and communicate positively with everyone. The duo, like any chamber ensemble intends to search for projects that allow us to perform and also collaborate with musicians, expanding our community.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 7pm
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
BluePrint new music ensemble teams up with American Conservatory Theater for a rare production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, a play for orchestra and actors by Tom Stoppard with music by Andre Previn. Also featured are Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky's Lux Aeterna and readings from the letters of Vladimir Bukovsky, whose imprisonment in a Soviet mental hospital inspired the play.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco
$20/15
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 7:30pm
Tanya Tomkins, solo cello
J.S. Bach Solo Cello Suites
“Tomkins explored J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 with a probing, ruminating, often rhapsodic approach….” Los Angeles Times
Bach's Solo Cello Suites are unsurpassed masterpieces, capturing the complexity of human emotion while demonstrating the great technical range and vocal depth of the solo cello.
San Francisco Early Music Society
St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
$28 general/$25 members/$10 students
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 8pm
BARS: Britten's Serenade & Appalachian Spring
Join Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) as we continue our 2010-2011 Season of great music!
The evening features Britten's* Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with tenor and SF Opera Merola Program alumnus Brian Thorsett, and BARS horn principal, Rachel Harvey, along side Copland's* beloved Appalachian Spring, under the baton of Daniel Canosa, Artistic Director.
Learn more about BARS mission and music at BARS-SF.org
*Part of BARS LGBTQ Composer & Performing Artist Series, which strives to redefine perceptions of LGTBQ music and increase awareness of the beauty, talents and accomplishments of fellow LGBTQ individuals and groups.
Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS)
First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco
$15 to $30
Information: (415) 57.VIOLA
bars-sf.org
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 8pm
Waltzing in Appalachia
New Century Chamber Orchestra presents works by Bach and featured composer and soloist Mark O'Connor. All tickets are available at City Box Office, at www.cityboxoffice.org or 415.392.4400, and New Century, at www.ncco.org or 415.357.1111. Patrons aged 35 and under can purchase concert tickets for $15.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
$29 - $49
Information: (415) 357-1111
www.ncco.org
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 8pm
Areon Flutes
Areon Flutes, a professional flute chamber music ensemble, provides audiences a fresh new outlook on traditional chamber music. Noted for innovative programming and collaborations, Areon is quickly establishing itself as a premier chamber music ensemble. In addition to utilizing the traditional "four C flutes" model, Areon Flutes incorporates every member of the flute family in its programming. The group's performances are notable for creatively engaging its audiences with unique staging, theatrics and choreography.
Trinity Chamber Concerts
Trinity Chapel, Berkeley
$15/$10
Information: (510) 549-3864
www.trinitychamberconcerts.com
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 – 9:30pm
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
BluePrint new music ensemble teams up with American Conservatory Theater for a rare production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, a play for orchestra and actors by Tom Stoppard with music by Andre Previn. Also featured are Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky's Lux Aeterna and readings from the letters of Vladimir Bukovsky, whose imprisonment in a Soviet mental hospital inspired the play.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
San Francisco
$20/15
Information: (415) 503-6275
www.sfcm.edu
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 2pm
Zina Schiff, violin & Lois Brandwynne, piano
An afternoon of French music to benefit the Berkeley Piano Club Building Fund.
Berkeley Piano Club
Suggested donation $30, Students $10
Information: (510) 845-8488
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 4:30pm
REX ALLEN 14 PIECE BIG BAND
featuring vocalist Johnny Martin. w/dancing
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay
$35
Information: (650) 726-2020
www.americaswingsagain.com
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 3pm
Cypress String Quartet
252 West Spain St.
Sonoma, CA
Sunday, November 21st, 3pm
Sonoma Classical Music Society
Burlingame Hall (Congregational Church), Sonoma
$25 - non-members, $20 - members
Information: (707) 343-6334
www.sonomaclassical.org
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 4pm
Tanya Tomkins, solo cello
J.S. Bach Solo Cello Suites
“Tomkins explored J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 with a probing, ruminating, often rhapsodic approach….” Los Angeles Times
Bach's Solo Cello Suites are unsurpassed masterpieces, capturing the complexity of human emotion while demonstrating the great technical range and vocal depth of the solo cello.
San Francisco Early Music Society
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco
$28 general/$25 members/$10 students
Information: (510) 528-1725
www.sfems.org
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 4pm
Hynchae Kim, kayageum
Korean musician Hyun-chae Kim will present a solo concert of works for kayageum, a twelve-string zither. Included on the program is the World Premiere of Bay Area composer Hyo-shin Na’s Song of the Firewood, as well as local premieres of new works by Hyun-chae Kim and fellow Korean composer Kwan-yong Shin. Hyun-chae Kim is a young musician from Korea who has performed solo recitals mixing traditional Korean and contemporary works for kayageum throughout Asia and Europe, and has been a member of traditional Korean instrument ensembles Jeong Ga Ak Hoe and Gayageum Ensemble Sagye, both of whom specialize in interpreting works of the European and American avant-garde for traditional Korean instruments as well as commissioning new works. Hyo-shin Na’s music combines influences from her studies with composers such as Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi as well as her study of traditional Korean music, and has been performed around the world by ensembles as varied as the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Barton Workshop and the Korean Traditional Orchestra of the National Theatre.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 4pm
Fall Concert
The Albany Chamber Strings Orchestra presents its first concert of the 2010-2011 season. Come join us for an afternoon of musical treasures by Haydn, Ravel, and Holst, played in the architectural gem of Albany: the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium. Parking is plentiful, and admission is free!
Albany Chamber Strings Orchestra
Albany Veterans' Memorial Auditorium
FREE
Information: (415) 883-4959
www.aasorchestra.org
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 5pm
Waltzing in Appalachia
New Century Chamber Orchestra presents works by Bach and featured composer and soloist Mark O'Connor. All tickets are available at City Box Office, at www.cityboxoffice.org or 415.392.4400, and New Century, at www.ncco.org or 415.357.1111. Patrons aged 35 and under can purchase concert tickets for $15.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Osher Marin JCC, Hoytt Theater, San Rafael
$29 to $49
Information: (415) 357-1111
www.ncco.org
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 5pm
Nakamatsu Duo
Nakamatsu Duo: Pianist Jon Nakamatsu and clarinetist Jon Manasse
Program: Brahms, Sonata, op. 120, #1; von Weber, Grand Duo Concertant; Mendelssohn, Rondo capriccioso, op.14; D’Rivera, Lecuonerias.
Jon Nakamatsu, who enjoys a continuously expanding career based on a deeply probing and illuminating musicality, returns to give another concert for the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society. He gave his last recital in Mill Valley shortly after winning the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition. Clarinetist Jon Manasse is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, glorious sound and charismatic performing style. He is also principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Jon Manasse and
Jon Nakamatsu have developed extensive repertoires and lengthy discographies. The Duo's debut CD, an album of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas, was released early in 2008.
Mill Valley Chamber Music Society
Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, Mill Valley
$25 at door
Information: (415) 381-4453
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Sunday, November 21, 2010 – 7:30pm
An Anniversary Celebration
The Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra continues a celebratory season with an evening of exhilarating works, commemorating anniversary events. Spectacular Bay Area pianist Daniel Glover joins the CCCO performing stunning solo works of Schumann and Chopin. The orchestra will present evocative works by Stravinsky and Samuel Barber, including the poignantly moving Adagio for Strings.
Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theater
Walnut Creek
$20 to $28
www.cccorch.org/about.html
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 – 12:30pm
Mirta Gomez, piano
A concert of Spanish and Cuban Dances from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Tuesday, November 30 12:30 p.m.
TRIO BILLANTE
Betty Woo, piano / Caroline Lee, viola
Tom Rose, clarinet
Trios of Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Carl Reinecke.
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Saturday, November 27, 2010 – 4pm
Pupils of Haydn I
Haydn had many students during his long life, among them Beethoven. We will play Beethoven's Quartet, Op. 74 ("The Harp") and one of the few surviving quartets by Haydn's Polish student Franciszek Lessel. And, of course, a quartet by Haydn himself.
New Esterházy Quartet
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
San Francisco
$25/$20/$10
Information: (415) 520-0611
www.newesterhazy.org
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Sunday, November 28, 2010 – 2pm
You Gotta Hear This! David Tanenbaum & SFCM Guitar Ensemble
Internationally renowned classical guitarist David Tanenbaum has performed with the greatest symphonies in the world. A composer and ensemble leader, Tanenbaum will perform contemporary and classic material for this special presentation.
PLUS: Special guest artist, jazz violinist Jeremy Cohen!
Tickets are $10 ($5 for ages 17 and younger). One-drink minimum applies (alcoholic or nonalcoholic). Doors open at 1:30pm.
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
$5 to $10.
Information: (415) 692-5297
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
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Sunday, November 28, 2010 – 3pm
Chamber Music performed by members of the San Francisco Symphony.
Chamber Music Sundaes
St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
Information: (415) 601-3580
www.chambermusicsundaes.org
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Sunday, November 28, 2010 – 4pm
Pupils of Haydn I
Haydn had many students during his long life, among them Beethoven. We will play Beethoven's Quartet, Op. 74 ("The Harp") and one of the few surviving quartets by Haydn's Polish student Franciszek Lessel. And, of course, a quartet by Haydn himself.
New Esterházy Quartet
All Saints' Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$25/$20/$10
Information: (415) 520-0611
www.newesterhazy.org
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Sunday, November 28, 2010 – 4:30pm
29th Annual Classical Piano Fest festuring Awadagin Pratt
Three individual performances by Awadagin Pratt, Ira Nakamura and Mack McCray.
For 29 years Mack McCray of the SF Conservatory has brought the finest emerging classical piano talent to the Bach Society stage. This year we are especially proud to present pianist/conductor Awadagin Pratt who has played internationally and with most of the major symphony orchestras in the US. He has been the subject of numerous articles in the national press, appeared on TV, and performed twice at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama. He will play an individual set followed by Eri Nakamura and Mack McCray. Programs to be announced onstage.
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay
$35
Information: (650) 726-2020
www.awadagin.com
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Monday, November 29, 2010 – 8pm
Classical at the Freight: David Tanenbaum (guitar) & Friends
Internationally renowned classical guitarist David Tanenbaum has performed with the greatest symphonies in the world. A composer and ensemble leader, Tanenbaum will perform contemporary and classic material for this special presentation.
Doors open at 7pm.
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
Freight and Salvage Coffee House, Berkeley
Information: (510) 644-2020
www.sfchamberorchestra.org
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