Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 8pm
Sounds from the Bay Area
Two of the world's finest mandolinists, American Mike Marshall and Bulgarian Caterina Lichtenberg, join New Century in March 2012 as guest soloists, performing both original work and Vivaldi's Concerto for Mandolin in C. New Century Chamber Orchestra also features composers from the Bay Area in this stunning program. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads the orchestra as they perform work of Gordon Getty, as well as John Adam's legendary Shaker Loops, which premiered in the Bay Area.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$29-49
Information: (415) 357-1111
http://www.ncco.org
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 8pm
Voices of Music
Dominique Labelle, soprano; Meg Bragle,mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violin; Lisa Grodin, baroque viola; William Skeen, baroque cello; Farley Pearce, violone; David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, organ.
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater; Vivaldi, In turbato Mare Irato and Scarlatti, Totus amore languens.
A dazzling display of sacred vocal music including Pergolesi's signature work, the Stabat Mater, as well as sacred motets of Vivaldi and Scarlatti.
Voices of Music Series
All Saints' Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
$35/$25 students and seniors/$5 rush ticket for students with valid ID
Information: (415) 260-4687
http://www.voicesofmusic.org
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 8pm
Other Minds 17 Festival of New Music
Other Minds
Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco
Standard Seating: Single Concerts $35 General, $30 JCCSF Members, $25 Students; 3-Concert Pass $89 General, $77 JCCSF Members, $64 Students. Premium Seating: Single Concerts $45 General, $40 JCCSF Members; 3-Concert Pass $115 General, $102 JCCSF Members
Information (415) 292-1233.
http://www.otherminds.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 12:30pm
Noon Concert: Chamber Music
Department of Music students perform chamber music
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 642-4864
http://music.berkeley.edu
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Voices of Music
Dominique Labelle, soprano; Meg Bragle,mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violin; Lisa Grodin, baroque viola; William Skeen, baroque cello; Farley Pearce, violone; David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, organ.
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater; Vivaldi, In turbato Mare Irato and Scarlatti, Totus amore languens.
A dazzling display of sacred vocal music including Pergolesi's signature work, the Stabat Mater, as well as sacred motets of Vivaldi and Scarlatti.
Voices of Music Series
St Stephen's Epsicopal Church
3 Bayview Avenue, Belvedere
$35/$25 students and seniors/$5 rush ticket for students with valid ID
Information: (415) 260-4687
http://www.voicesofmusic.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Sounds from the Bay Area
Two of the world's finest mandolinists, American Mike Marshall and Bulgarian Caterina Lichtenberg, join New Century in March 2012 as guest soloists, performing both original work and Vivaldi's Concerto for Mandolin in C. New Century Chamber Orchestra also features composers from the Bay Area in this stunning program. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads the orchestra as they perform work of Gordon Getty, as well as John Adam's legendary Shaker Loops, which premiered in the Bay Area.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
$29-49
Information: (415) 357-1111
http://www.ncco.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Archetti
Masters of the Italian Concerto
SFEMS series debut! This powerful new ensemble delivers fiery and distinctive performances of the glorious Italian concerti from the 18th century. Archetti’s concert features violin concerti by masters of the genre, including Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli, and G.F. Handel. An added treat will be renowned early keyboard specialist Davitt Moroney’s performance of a harpsichord concerto by J.S. Bach.
San Francisco Early Music Society
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto
$35 General; $30 Seniors; $28 Members
Information: (510) 528-1725
http://www.sfems.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Trio Brillante
Trio Brillante gave its first performance in 2009 at Holy Names University, where Woo and Rose are members of the music faculty. Because of their unusual instrumental combination, they are able to explore less-performed repertoire by major composers, as well as transcriptions that can highlight the unique quality of such instrumentation. On June 15, 2010 Trio Brillante gave its debut performance in San Francisco, at Noontime Concerts. The concert was reviewed by San Francisco Classical Examiner, in which the reviewer remarked that the performance of the Kegelstatt Trio of Mozart was “an absolute delight”. The reviewer gave the group’s performance a rating of 4 stars of possible 5. An audience member at their September 2010 concert at Berkeley Chamber Performances wrote, “Wonderful music played by a superb trio. Loved it, especially since one does not often get the chance to hear a trio composed of viola, clarinet and piano.”
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Songs With(out) Words: Is there there there?
Gertrude Stein’s poetry inspires Seattle composer John Muehleisen in his new piece for VOLTI, San Francisco’s award-winning chamber choir. Volti concerts on March 2/3/4, 2012, in San Francisco, Mill Valley and Berkeley, explore the expressive potential of the human voice, both through poetry and through the beauty and variety of the pure musical sounds achievable with an ensemble of 20 top-notch professional singers. The all-contemporary program features recent works by Bay Area composers Robin Estrada and David Conte, as well as the Muehleisen world premiere.
A visit to “The Steins Collect” at SF-MOMA last summer inspired Seattle composer John Muehleisen to write …is knowing… for Volti, setting four poems by Gertrude Stein. Muehleisen says, “For me, the most fascinating aspect of Stein’s writing is her desire to create a linguistic analogy to what Picasso, the cubists, and other avant garde painters were doing visually. … The real genius of Gertrude Stein is the way that she seemingly forces us through her use of language to ultimately stop trying to make sense of the words and simply listen to them as sounds, even as music, or at least to listen musically.”
Commissioned by Volti and originally premiered in 2010, Robin Estrada's Paghahandog explodes and deconstructs a short Tagalog text of dedication into a kaleidoscope of joyful sound. By contrast, Without Words by Huang Ruo paints the minimal text of Li Yü (the last emperor of the Tang dynasty) with delicate brushstrokes. John Stirling Walker's memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired the moving work The Homecoming by San Franciscan David Conte, originally written for the 40th anniversary of King's death. Reena Esmail captures the dense suspension of Carol Muske-Dukes' poetry in her finely wrought White Key, which will receive its West Coast premiere.
Volti
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco
$10-30
Information: (415) 771-3352
http://www.voltisf.org
***
Friday, March 2, 2012 – 8pm
Other Minds 17 Festival of New Music
Esteemed expat Gloria Coates (b. 1938) and the ambient/avant-garde legend Harold Budd (b. 1936) are joined by Japanese-American innovator Ikue Mori on this eclectic program. A prolific composer and declared "the greatest woman symphonist" by Kyle Gann, Gloria Coates has remained outside of the mainstream of American classical music, having lived in Europe since 1969. Born in Wisconsin, she began experimenting with overtones and clusters at age nine, and has continued to explore the outer limits of expressive tools in her deep catalog of 15 symphonies, nine string quartets, and numerous other works. San Francisco's Del Sol String Quartet tackles her String Quartet No. 5, an emotive masterpiece whose first movement is a double canon with the first violin and viola tuned a quarter-tone sharp.
Budd brings his trademark atmospheric piano style to the Other Minds stage in collaboration with Seattle bassist Keith Lowe. After a purported retirement in 2004, Budd has in recent years re-emerged, producing new works that blur the line between minimalism and his better-known ambient music collaborations with Brian Eno.
The evening concludes with a special set of improvisations led by Japanese punk drummer-turned electronics composer-performer Ikue Mori. Equally at home as a soloist or collaborator, Mori brings a drummer's sense of propulsion and invention to her laptop-based improv. She'll perform solo, and also together with Tyshawn Sorey (drums) and Ken Ueno (voice / throat-singing).
A panel discussion will take place at 7pm, followed by the concert at 8pm. A reception will follow the concert.
Other Minds
Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco
Standard Seating: Single Concerts $35 General, $30 JCCSF Members, $25 Students; 3-Concert Pass $89 General, $77 JCCSF Members, $64 Students. Premium Seating: Single Concerts $45 General, $40 JCCSF Members; 3-Concert Pass $115 General, $102 JCCSF Members
Information (415) 292-1233.
http://www.otherminds.org
***
Saturday March 3, 2012 – 8pm
Voices of Music
Dominique Labelle, soprano; Meg Bragle,mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violin; Lisa Grodin, baroque viola; William Skeen, baroque cello; Farley Pearce, violone; David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, organ.
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater; Vivaldi, In turbato Mare Irato and Scarlatti, Totus amore languens.
A dazzling display of sacred vocal music including Pergolesi's signature work, the Stabat Mater, as well as sacred motets of Vivaldi and Scarlatti.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
1111 O'Farrell Street at Franklin, San Francisco
$35/$25 students and seniors/$5 rush ticket for students with valid ID
Information: (415) 260-4687
http://www.voicesofmusic.org
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Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 4pm
Northern Psalms, Songs & Sonatas
Join Briarbird for an intimate concert of German and Swedish music of the 17th century! This house concert has limited seating, so please call or email to reserve your seat and receive address & directions. Reception to follow.
Briarbird
Mill Valley
FREE
Information: (415) 381-2483
http://www.briarbird.org
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Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 6pm
American Contemporary Music Ensemble Informance
A Stanford Lively Arts Informance. Led by artistic director and cellist Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) is dedicated to the outstanding performance of masterworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily the work of American composers.
About Stanford Lively Arts Informances - World-class visiting artists provide excerpts & conversation in these intimate, educational collaborations with Stanford University.
Sponsored by Applied Materials. Funded in part by a grant from Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center
Mountain View
FREE
Information: 650-917-6800
http://www.arts4all.org
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Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 7:30pm
Archetti
Masters of the Italian Concerto
SFEMS series debut! This powerful new ensemble delivers fiery and distinctive performances of the glorious Italian concerti from the 18th century. Archetti’s concert features violin concerti by masters of the genre, including Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli, and G.F. Handel. An added treat will be renowned early keyboard specialist Davitt Moroney’s performance of a harpsichord concerto by J.S. Bach.
San Francisco Early Music Society
St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
$35 General; $30 Seniors; $28 Members
Information: (510) 528-1725
http://www.sfems.org
***
Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 8pm
Sounds from the Bay Area
Two of the world's finest mandolinists, American Mike Marshall and Bulgarian Caterina Lichtenberg, join New Century in March 2012 as guest soloists, performing both original work and Vivaldi's Concerto for Mandolin in C. New Century Chamber Orchestra also features composers from the Bay Area in this stunning program. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads the orchestra as they perform work of Gordon Getty, as well as John Adam's legendary Shaker Loops, which premiered in the Bay Area.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Herbst Theatre
San Francisco
$29-49
Information: (415) 357-1111
http://www.ncco.org
***
Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 8pm
Songs With(out) Words: Is there there there?
Gertrude Stein’s poetry inspires Seattle composer John Muehleisen in his new piece for VOLTI, San Francisco’s award-winning chamber choir. Volti concerts on March 2/3/4, 2012, in San Francisco, Mill Valley and Berkeley, explore the expressive potential of the human voice, both through poetry and through the beauty and variety of the pure musical sounds achievable with an ensemble of 20 top-notch professional singers. The all-contemporary program features recent works by Bay Area composers Robin Estrada and David Conte, as well as the Muehleisen world premiere.
A visit to “The Steins Collect” at SF-MOMA last summer inspired Seattle composer John Muehleisen to write …is knowing… for Volti, setting four poems by Gertrude Stein. Muehleisen says, “For me, the most fascinating aspect of Stein’s writing is her desire to create a linguistic analogy to what Picasso, the cubists, and other avant garde painters were doing visually. … The real genius of Gertrude Stein is the way that she seemingly forces us through her use of language to ultimately stop trying to make sense of the words and simply listen to them as sounds, even as music, or at least to listen musically.”
Commissioned by Volti and originally premiered in 2010, Robin Estrada's Paghahandog explodes and deconstructs a short Tagalog text of dedication into a kaleidoscope of joyful sound. By contrast, Without Words by Huang Ruo paints the minimal text of Li Yü (the last emperor of the Tang dynasty) with delicate brushstrokes. John Stirling Walker's memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired the moving work The Homecoming by San Franciscan David Conte, originally written for the 40th anniversary of King's death. Reena Esmail captures the dense suspension of Carol Muske-Dukes' poetry in her finely wrought White Key, which will receive its West Coast premiere.
Volti
Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church
Mill Valley
$10-30
Information: (415) 771-3352
http://www.voltisf.org
***
Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 8pm
Other Minds 17 Festival of New Music
Other Minds
Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco
Standard Seating: Single Concerts $35 General, $30 JCCSF Members, $25 Students; 3-Concert Pass $89 General, $77 JCCSF Members, $64 Students. Premium Seating: Single Concerts $45 General, $40 JCCSF Members; 3-Concert Pass $115 General, $102 JCCSF Members
Information (415) 292-1233.
http://www.otherminds.org
***
Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 8pm
BluePrint | Anosmia
Pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
$20/$15
Information: (415) 503-6275
***
Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 8pm
Stanford Woodwind Quintet
Stanford University Music Department
Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
$5 - $10
Information: (650) 725-2787
http://music.stanford.edu/Home/index.html
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 2pm
Stanford Woodwind Quintet and Guests
Stanford Woodwind Quintet
Alexandra Hawley, flute
James Matheson, oboe
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet
Rufus Olivier, bassoon
Lawrence Ragent, horn
with
Gregory Dufford, clarinet and bass clarinet
Rufus David Olivier, bassoon
Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork
Vincent d’Indy – Chanson et Danses, Op. 50
Arturo Márquez – Danza de Mediodia
Leos Janácek – Mladi
Avedis Chamber Music Series
Florence Gould Hall at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
$16 - $22
Information: (415) 452-8777
http://www.avedisconcerts.org
***
Sunday March 4, 2012 – 7:30pm
Voices of Music
Dominique Labelle, soprano; Meg Bragle,mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violin; Lisa Grodin, baroque viola; William Skeen, baroque cello; Farley Pearce, violone; David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, organ.
Pergolesi, Stabat Mater; Vivaldi, In turbato Mare Irato and Scarlatti, Totus amore languens.
A dazzling display of sacred vocal music including Pergolesi's signature work, the Stabat Mater, as well as sacred motets of Vivaldi and Scarlatti.
St. Alban's Episcopal Church
1501 Washington Ave., Albany
$35/$25 students and seniors/$5 rush ticket for students with valid ID
Information: (415) 260-4687
http://www.voicesofmusic.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 2:30pm
Lionheart / Acme String Quartet
These 10 musicians might seem unlikely stage-mates: six male vocalists who are masters of early music (Lionheart) and four leading string players from New York’s contemporary music scene (ACME). But their collaboration here is a fertile one, spanning centuries of musical forms—from the Latin Ordinary to American hymnody, from psalm tunes to the blues—in new large-scale works by two American composers: Phil Kline, hailed for his “direct, vernacular eloquence” (The New York Times); and Ingram Marshall, whose Lively Arts–commissioned Psalmbook, based on the earliest known printed music in North America, receives its premiere in this performance.
PROGRAM
Kline: John the Revalator (2006); Marshall: Psalmbook (2011)
Stanford Lively Arts
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto
Reserved Seating $38/42
Information: (650) 725-ARTS (2787)
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 2:30pm
Stanford Benefit Duo Piano Recital: Frederick Weldy and Laura Dahl
Stanford University Music Department
Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
$10-25
Information: (650) 725.2787
http://music.stanford.edu/Home/index.html
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 3pm
Parker Quartet
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the pre-eminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France.
In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the Parker Quartet the biennial Cleveland Quartet Award. Last season, the quartet partnered with Grammy Award-winning producer Judith Sherman to launch HaydnLIVE!, a live recording project featuring a series of all-Haydn performances at the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston and Virginia Arts Festival.
In May 2010, the Parker Quartet finished its second year as quartet-in-residence with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The residency, the first of its kind for SPCO, involved individual instrument performances with the orchestra, chamber music presentations and a robust educational program with public schools through the SPCO’s CONNECT program. During the 2009-2010 season, the quartet was also the first-ever artist-in-residence with Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media.
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 Richard Festinger, the series presents free performances each year by acclaimed ensembles.
Festinger will lead a pre-concert talk at 2pm.
Morrison Artists Series
McKenna Theatre at SFSU, San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 338-2467
http://morrison.sfsu.edu
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 3pm
Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone, Russell Ryan, piano
Schubert's last, and perhaps greatest, song-cycle, Winterreise ("Winter's Journey"), is certain to receive a definitive performance by this distinguished Austrian baritone. A noted lieder interpreter, Holzmair commands a superb vocal instrument—"rich, sensitive and charismatic," says the New York Times—and can effortlessly illuminate a song with an almost conversational ease. Nowhere are these strengths more apparent than in Schubert's towering Winterreise, written when the composer was slowly dying, at the tragically young age of 31. Holzmair's poetic interpretation of this musical touchstone is at once a moving deathbed cry for understanding and a Romantic portrayal of a lovelorn man.
Hertz Hall
Berkeley
$48
Information: (510) 642-9988
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 2:30pm
A Wonderful program of Romantic chamber music chamber music performed by members of the San Francisco Symphony and their friends
Chamber Music Sundaes
St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
$18—28
Information: (415) 601-3580
http://www.chambermusicsundaes.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 4pm
Archetti
Masters of the Italian Concerto
SFEMS series debut! This powerful new ensemble delivers fiery and distinctive performances of the glorious Italian concerti from the 18th century. Archetti’s concert features violin concerti by masters of the genre, including Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli, and G.F. Handel. An added treat will be renowned early keyboard specialist Davitt Moroney’s performance of a harpsichord concerto by J.S. Bach.
San Francisco Early Music Society
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco
$35 General; $30 Seniors; $28 Members
Information: (510) 528-1725
http://www.sfems.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 4pm
Songs With(out) Words: Is there there there?
Gertrude Stein’s poetry inspires Seattle composer John Muehleisen in his new piece for VOLTI, San Francisco’s award-winning chamber choir. Volti concerts on March 2/3/4, 2012, in San Francisco, Mill Valley and Berkeley, explore the expressive potential of the human voice, both through poetry and through the beauty and variety of the pure musical sounds achievable with an ensemble of 20 top-notch professional singers. The all-contemporary program features recent works by Bay Area composers Robin Estrada and David Conte, as well as the Muehleisen world premiere.
A visit to “The Steins Collect” at SF-MOMA last summer inspired Seattle composer John Muehleisen to write …is knowing… for Volti, setting four poems by Gertrude Stein. Muehleisen says, “For me, the most fascinating aspect of Stein’s writing is her desire to create a linguistic analogy to what Picasso, the cubists, and other avant garde painters were doing visually. … The real genius of Gertrude Stein is the way that she seemingly forces us through her use of language to ultimately stop trying to make sense of the words and simply listen to them as sounds, even as music, or at least to listen musically.”
Commissioned by Volti and originally premiered in 2010, Robin Estrada's Paghahandog explodes and deconstructs a short Tagalog text of dedication into a kaleidoscope of joyful sound. By contrast, Without Words by Huang Ruo paints the minimal text of Li Yü (the last emperor of the Tang dynasty) with delicate brushstrokes. John Stirling Walker's memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired the moving work The Homecoming by San Franciscan David Conte, originally written for the 40th anniversary of King's death. Reena Esmail captures the dense suspension of Carol Muske-Dukes' poetry in her finely wrought White Key, which will receive its West Coast premiere.
Volti
David BrowerCenter, Berkeley
$10-30
Information: (415) 771-3352
http://www.voltisf.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 4pm
San Francisco Academy Orchestra, Chamber Music Showcase! (A Fundraiser for Martin de Pores Meal Program)
San Francisco Symphony and Academy Orchestra memebers, in collaboration with Calvary Presbyterian Church, perform side-by-side in the Annual Chamber Music Showcase. The event is designed to raise funds for a different humanitarian cause each year! This year it is a fundra...iser for Martin de Pores, a meal program serving the community since 1933!
Please enjoy a wonderful concert and reception while raising funds for a great cause!
Dotzauer- Cello Trio
Barriere- Sonata for Two Cellos
Mozart- Viola Quintet in g Minor
Dan Carlson, Violin
Darren Sagawa, Violin
Evan Buttemer, Viola
Joy Fellows, Viola
Amos Yang, Cello
Samsun Van Loon, Cello
Isaac Melamed, Cello
***The San Francisco Academy Orchestra mission is to preserve, promote and present the art of musical performance as a vital form of human expression. Hailed by the SF Chronicle and SF Classical Voice as "venerable" and "simply amazing," the Academy Orchestra is dedicated to giving emerging professional musicians the opportunity to rehearse and perform alongside members of the San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Academy Orchestra
Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco
$15-$25
Information: (415)506-7139
http://www.sfacademyorchestra.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 4pm
Sonoma State University Faculty Recital: Wind Power
Faculty Chamber Music Recital - Wind Power
Woodwind and Brass faculty; Kathleen Reynolds, flute, Ruth Wilson, horn and friends
Sunday, March 4 – 4:00 p.m.
Green Music Center, Music Education Hall 1028
Enjoy sparkling works for flute by Alfredo Casella and Claude Debussy performed by Kathleen Reynolds. Also on the program is Andante and Variations by Robert Schumann for two pianos, two cellos and horn, and Sextuor by Francis Poulenc for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano.
$12 general; $10 SSU faculty, alumni and staff; $8 seniors and students
Sonoma State University
Green Music Center, Music Education Hall Room 1028
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
$8-$12
Information: (707) 664-2353
http://www.sonoma.edu/performingarts
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 5pm
Sounds from the Bay Area
Two of the world's finest mandolinists, American Mike Marshall and Bulgarian Caterina Lichtenberg, join New Century in March 2012 as guest soloists, performing both original work and Vivaldi's Concerto for Mandolin in C. New Century Chamber Orchestra also features composers from the Bay Area in this stunning program. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads the orchestra as they perform work of Gordon Getty, as well as John Adam's legendary Shaker Loops, which premiered in the Bay Area.
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Osher Marin JCC, Hoytt Theater
San Rafael
$29-49
Information: (415) 357-1111
http://www.ncco.org
***
Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 7pm
Souvenirs: Music from the Jewish Diaspora
Exploring the ethnic roots and diversity of a culture in transition, this chamber music concert features 20th century Jewish composers from Eastern Europe, Israel and the U.S. Music by Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Schoenfeld, Ben Haim, and Avshalomoff.
Music on the Hill
St. Aidan's Church, San Francisco
$15/$9
Information: (415) 820-1429
http://www.musiconthehill.org
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 4:30pm
The Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society presents
Stephanie Nakasian & the Hod O’Brien Trio
A nostalgic tour with one of the world’s leading jazz singers, often compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan
Stephanie is listed in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz as one of the world’s leading jazz singers and often compared to jazz greats like Ella and Sarah Vaughan. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band features on their internationally syndicated show Riverwalk portraying Lee Wiley, Peggy Lee, Helen Ward, Helen Humes, 20s singers and blues singers. She has performed with jazz legend Jon Hendricks, Pat Metheny, Bobby McFerrin, and others, and teaches voice at the University of Virginia and College of William & Mary. Hod O'Brien is a famed swing/bop pianist, having performed with jazz legends Art Farmer, Stan Getz, Donald Byrd, Chet Baker, and many others. Together they have headlined from Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the Moscow International Performing Arts Center, to festivals in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.
Stephanie Nakasian - vocals, Hod O’Brien – piano, John Wittala - bass, Vince Lateano –drums
Douglas Beach House
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$35
http://www.bachddsoc.org
http://www.stephanienakasianjazz.com/bio/
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 7:30pm
Noertker's Moxie - Season Opener
Season opener!
Sunday, March 4, 2012
7:30pm
Noertker's Moxie Quintet
Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Dax Compise - drums
also appearing
Pacific Sticks Ensemble
performs
8 Trios For Percussion (For Roto-Timpani, Tom Toms, and Snare Drum)
by Oszkar Balazs
Outsound Presents the SIMM Series
Musicians' Union Hall, San Francisco
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
Information: (415) 905-4425
http://www.noertker.com
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 – 8pm
BEN GOLDBERG PERFORMS ORPHIC MACHINE
Premiere of JMF-commissioned chamber-jazz suite inspired by the poetic writings of Allen Grossman, featuring Carla Kihlstedt, Rob Sudduth, Ches Smith, Myra Melford, Ron Miles, Kenny Wollesen, and Greg Cohen. Ben is a Berkeley-based clarinetist and composer, named #1 Rising Star Clarinet by the 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll.
Jewish Music Festival
Freight and Salvage Coffee House, Berkeley
$21-26
Information: (510) 848-0237
http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org
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Monday, March 5, 2012 – 12pm
Master Class | Morrison Artists Series: Parker Quartet
Join the members of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet as they work with Music students on interpretation and performance of masterworks from the chamber music repertoire.
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the pre-eminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France.
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 Richard Festinger, the series presents free performances each year by acclaimed ensembles.
Morrison Artists Series
San Francisco State University - Knuth Hall
San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 338-2467
http://morrison.sfsu.edu
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 – 12:30pm
BELLAVENTE WIND QUINTET
Leslie Chin, flute / Kyle Bruckmann, oboe
Marilyn Martella, clarinet / Beverly McChesney, bassoon
Alicia Telford, French horn
Francis Poulenc: Novelette in C, Sextour
Jacques Ibert: Trois pièces brèves
More!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
http://www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 – 12pm
Noon Concert: Winds
University Wind Ensemble, Robert Calonico, director
Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Bryant: Stampede
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 642-4864
http://music.berkeley.edu
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Thursday, March 8, 2012 – 8pm
Ébène Quartet
San Francisco Performances
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Premium $60/$50/$38
Information: (415)398-6449
http://www.performances.org
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Friday, March 9, 2012 – 7pm
Mahler: Songs on the Death of Children
BRAHMS , STRAUSS, MAHLER:
KINDERTOTENLIEDER
(SONGS OF DEAD CHILDREN)
Katherine Tier mezzo-soprano
John Parr on piano Pleyel
7:00pm wine reception, 7:30pm concert
wine, champagne, pesto pasta, and
la boulange desserts
Salle Pianos & Events
San Francisco
suggested donation: $30
Information: (415) 240-2181
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Friday, March 9, 2012 – 8pm
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Schumann's Cello Concerto
"Brilliant" - The New York Times
Self-described "Schumann nut" Steven Isserlis tackles Schumann's daring cello concerto in this concert that features music by three of the greatest Romantic composers. The Guardian (U.K.) praises the "unrivalled intensity of his playing."
Mendelssohn described his overture The Fair Melusine, a work that inspired Wagner's overture to Das Rheingold, as the "best" and "most intimate" piece he had ever composed.
Philharmonia Baroque performed Brahms' first Serenade in February 2010, and the San Francisco Chronicle loved the "verve and robustness" of the performance, calling it "splendid." His second Serenade includes some of the most poetic music that Brahms wrote, and it's an apt conclusion to this concert of rich lyricism.
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusine, Op. 32
SCHUMANN: Concerto for Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 129
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
$25-95
Information: (415) 252-1288
http://www.philharmonia.org
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Friday, March 9, 2012 – 8pm
Mills Music Now presents: Signal Flow Festival 2012
The Mills College Music Department Graduate Program presents Signal Flow, an annual spring festival showcasing new student works in music and sound art.
For over 75 years, Mills College has maintained an international reputation as a site for innovation and experimentalism in music. In its past and present, Mills counts among its students and faculty key innovators in areas as diverse as electronic, electro-acoustic and computer music, installation based sound art, improvised music, multi-media performance, instrument building, idiomatic instrumental composition and more. Notable graduates and faculty include Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Luciano Berio, Anthony Braxton, Dave Brubeck, Lou Harrison, Annea Lockwood, Darius Milhaud, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morton Subotnick, David Tudor, and Iannis Xenakis. Over the course of four days of programming, the public is invited to sample the latest offerings by student composers, performers, and artists who have taken up this legacy and who in turn are charting new territories of their own.
Signal Flow takes place throughout the lush campus of Mills College. All events are free and open to the public.
Mills College Dept of Music
Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall, Oakland
FREE
Information: (510)430-2296
http://musicnow.mills.edu
http://www.signal-flow.org
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Saturday. March 10, 2012 – 7pm
Jazz and Improvised Music
Jazz and Improvised Music (JIM) Benefit Concert featuring the stellar duet of pianist Art Lande and woodwind artist Paul McCandless (Oregon) with an opening set by the Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective. Myra Melford directs the JIM program.
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
$15 general; $10 senior, students, groups of 10 or more; $5 UC Berkeley students
Information: (510) 642-4864
http://music.berkeley.edu
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Saturday , March 10, 2012 – 8pm
Grisha Goryachev & Jérôme Mouffe
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, guitarist Grigory Goryachev has been acclaimed the world over for his blinding virtuosity and extraordinary musical sensitivity and is a master of both flamenco and classical styles. Jérôme Mouffe is a virtuoso guitarist from Belgium who has dazzled international audiences with his passionate and spontaneous playing. Solos and duos.
Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts
Green Room of the War Memorial Building, San Francisco
$34
Information: (415) 242-4500
http://www.omniconcerts.com
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 8pm
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Schumann's Cello Concerto
"Brilliant" - The New York Times
Self-described "Schumann nut" Steven Isserlis tackles Schumann's daring cello concerto in this concert that features music by three of the greatest Romantic composers. The Guardian (U.K.) praises the "unrivalled intensity of his playing."
Mendelssohn described his overture The Fair Melusine, a work that inspired Wagner's overture to Das Rheingold, as the "best" and "most intimate" piece he had ever composed.
Philharmonia Baroque performed Brahms' first Serenade in February 2010, and the San Francisco Chronicle loved the "verve and robustness" of the performance, calling it "splendid." His second Serenade includes some of the most poetic music that Brahms wrote, and it's an apt conclusion to this concert of rich lyricism.
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusine, Op. 32
SCHUMANN: Concerto for Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 129
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$25-95
Information: (415) 252-1288
http://www.philharmonia.org
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Saturday. March 10, 2012 – 8pm
String quartets, trios, duets and quintets - brass and wind ensembles – it’s always different! Varied and sometimes unusual combinations of small groups, performing old favorites and pieces you may not have heard before.
Our chamber music concerts feature orchestra musicians and their friends – and we hope you will join us in the more intimate setting.
Don’t miss these delightful concerts! Tickets available on the website and at the door.
Palo Alto Philharmonic
First Baptist Church of Palo Alto
$10 - $20
Information: (408) 395-2911
http://www.paphil.org
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 8pm
Mills Music Now presents: Signal Flow Festival 2012
The Mills College Music Department Graduate Program presents Signal Flow, an annual spring festival showcasing new student works in music and sound art.
For over 75 years, Mills College has maintained an international reputation as a site for innovation and experimentalism in music. In its past and present, Mills counts among its students and faculty key innovators in areas as diverse as electronic, electro-acoustic and computer music, installation based sound art, improvised music, multi-media performance, instrument building, idiomatic instrumental composition and more. Notable graduates and faculty include Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Luciano Berio, Anthony Braxton, Dave Brubeck, Lou Harrison, Annea Lockwood, Darius Milhaud, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morton Subotnick, David Tudor, and Iannis Xenakis. Over the course of four days of programming, the public is invited to sample the latest offerings by student composers, performers, and artists who have taken up this legacy and who in turn are charting new territories of their own.
Signal Flow takes place throughout the lush campus of Mills College. All events are free and open to the public.
Mills College Dept of Music
Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall, Oakland
FREE
Information: (510)430-2296
http://musicnow.mills.edu
http://www.signal-flow.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 4:30pm
Lynn Arriale Trio
Pianist/composer draws from jazz, world/folk, pop/rock, and alternative musical influences
Lynne Arriale – piano, Omer Avital – bass, Anthony Pinciotti – drums
Pianist/composer Arriale has performed internationally for the past 18 years. She was winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and her 12 CDs have topped the National Jazz Radio Charts. The consummate storyteller, Arriale connects with her audience through emotionally-charged performances. Her compelling compositions, combining Middle-Eastern, Celtic, Americana, and pop and rock influences have helped create new audiences of listeners previously unfamiliar with jazz. “Convergence” was included in the Top Ten Best New Jazz Releases and Best New Songs of 2011. Lynne continues her star trajectory with a singular musical vision on her new Motema Music release, “Solo.”
Douglas Beach House
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$35
http://www.bachddsoc.org
http://www.lynnearriale.com
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 2:30pm
Sundays with the St. Lawrence
In this all-Beethoven program, the SLSQ samples the expanse of the composer’s quartet repertoire, including Op.18, No.4, in which Beethoven challenges the conventions of the slow and dance movements; the monumental and surprising Op.59, No.1, with its Russian accents in tribute to the work’s commissioner, Count Razumovsky; and Op.127, the first of the celebrated “late quartets,” whose composition spanned the composer’s final descent into deafness.
PROGRAM
Beethoven: String Quartet No.4 in C minor, Op.18, No.4 (1798– 1800); String Quartet No.7 in F Major, Op.59, No.1 (“Razumovsky 1”) (1806); String Quartet No.12 in E-flat Major, Op.127 (1825)
“Sundays with the St. Lawrence” is presented in partnership with Music at Stanford. Generously supported by Paul and Iris Brest.
Stanford Lively Arts
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Palo Alto
Reserved Seating $44/50
Information: (650) 725-ARTS (2787)
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 4pm
MUSIC IN THE MISHKAN CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Randall Weiss, violin
Patricia Whaley, viola
Michael Graham, cello
Marilyn Thompson, piano
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A major
Beethoven: Violin Sonata #10 in G major
Bloch: Suite Hebraique
Congregation Sha'ar Zahv
290 Dolores Street, San Francisco
$15-$20
Information: (415) 861-6932
http://www.shaarzahav.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 3pm
Trio Voronezh
Trio Voronezh’s astonishing virtuosity and delightful artistic innovation gives the trio the ability to alter the way audiences experience classical, folk and contemporary repertoire. Discovered playing Bach in a Frankfurt, Germany subway station, Trio Voronezh has since made several tours of the U.S., and earned audience and critical praise.
Classically trained at the Conservatory in Voronezh, Russia, the members Valerie Petrukhin, Vladimir Volokhin (National Champion, All-Russian Domra Competition), and Sergei Teleshev formed the trio in 1993 in their native working-class city of Voronezh. They play traditional Russian folk instruments: a double-bass balalaika (the three-stringed Russian national instrument, with a triangular body made of fir), a domra (a three-stringed short-necked ancestor of the mandolin), and a bajan (a chromatic-button accordion, with various registers).
The trio’s diverse repertoire ranges from the works of Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky to Russian folk songs, gypsy dance music, and popular songs by Gershwin. This ever-expanding concert material is arranged by the trio’s members and performed with extraordinary virtuosity entirely from memory. More recently they have added works by Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, Shostakovich, and Strauss.
The trio made its U.S. debut at the 1996 Oregon Bach Festival, becoming the sleeper-hit of the summer; the musicians were then immediately invited to return. The first U.S. tour began by bringing down the house on American Public Media's "A Prairie Home Companion."
Montalvo Arts Center (Previously Villa Montalvo)
Saratoga
$30
Information: (408) 961-5858
http://montalvoarts.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 3pm
Musical Conversations with Emily Onderdonk: The Rhythm Sisters String Quartet
Holy Innocents Episcopal Church
San Francisco
Free with purchase of concert ticket
Information: (415) 648-5236
http://www.nvcm.org
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Sunday. March 11, 2012 – 4pm
Mills Music Now presents: Signal Flow Festival 2012
The Mills College Music Department Graduate Program presents Signal Flow, an annual spring festival showcasing new student works in music and sound art.
For over 75 years, Mills College has maintained an international reputation as a site for innovation and experimentalism in music. In its past and present, Mills counts among its students and faculty key innovators in areas as diverse as electronic, electro-acoustic and computer music, installation based sound art, improvised music, multi-media performance, instrument building, idiomatic instrumental composition and more. Notable graduates and faculty include Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Luciano Berio, Anthony Braxton, Dave Brubeck, Lou Harrison, Annea Lockwood, Darius Milhaud, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morton Subotnick, David Tudor, and Iannis Xenakis. Over the course of four days of programming, the public is invited to sample the latest offerings by student composers, performers, and artists who have taken up this legacy and who in turn are charting new territories of their own.
Signal Flow takes place throughout the lush campus of Mills College. All events are free and open to the public.
Mills College Dept of Music
Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall, Oakland
FREE
Information: (510)430-2296
http://musicnow.mills.edu
http://www.signal-flow.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 7:30pm
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Schumann's Cello Concerto
"Brilliant" - The New York Times
Self-described "Schumann nut" Steven Isserlis tackles Schumann's daring cello concerto in this concert that features music by three of the greatest Romantic composers. The Guardian (U.K.) praises the "unrivalled intensity of his playing."
Mendelssohn described his overture The Fair Melusine, a work that inspired Wagner's overture to Das Rheingold, as the "best" and "most intimate" piece he had ever composed.
Philharmonia Baroque performed Brahms' first Serenade in February 2010, and the San Francisco Chronicle loved the "verve and robustness" of the performance, calling it "splendid." His second Serenade includes some of the most poetic music that Brahms wrote, and it's an apt conclusion to this concert of rich lyricism.
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusine, Op. 32
SCHUMANN: Concerto for Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 129
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Information: (415) 252-1288
http://www.philharmonia.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 8pm
CD Release Concert for San Francisco: In & About the City
The Bernal Hill Players will play a concert to celebrate the release of their new CD “San Francisco: In and About the City”, which features new chamber music for flute, clarinet, voice and piano about neighborhoods of San Francisco by Bay Area composers Chus Alonso, Beth Custer, Loren Jones, Erik Pearson, Peter Josheff and Katrina Wreede. The concert will include some of the pieces from the CD, as well as a Beethoven Trio, a quirky original arrangement of Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo and a foot-stomping finale by contemporary Mexican composer Eduardo Gamboa, played with special guest cellist Jessica Ivry.
The Bernal Hill Players is an adventurous chamber music group from San Francisco which was formed in 2008 by pianist Jennifer Peringer, flutist and singer Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, and clarinetist Leah di Tullio. Their mission is to play a wide and rich repertoire, to commission new works, to create interesting arrangements of existing works, and to use chamber music as a way of both celebrating local community and creating cross-cultural musical connections.
This project has received financial support from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program, Subito, the quick advancement program of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Composer’s Forum, the Faculty Professional Development Grant of the Community Music Center, and Hobnob Inc.
Bernal Hill Players
Community Music Center, San Francisco
$10
Information: (415) 824-0456
http://www.bernalhillplayers.com
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 – 8pm
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Schumann's Cello Concerto
"Brilliant" - The New York Times
Self-described "Schumann nut" Steven Isserlis tackles Schumann's daring cello concerto in this concert that features music by three of the greatest Romantic composers. The Guardian (U.K.) praises the "unrivalled intensity of his playing."
Mendelssohn described his overture The Fair Melusine, a work that inspired Wagner's overture to Das Rheingold, as the "best" and "most intimate" piece he had ever composed.
Philharmonia Baroque performed Brahms' first Serenade in February 2010, and the San Francisco Chronicle loved the "verve and robustness" of the performance, calling it "splendid." His second Serenade includes some of the most poetic music that Brahms wrote, and it's an apt conclusion to this concert of rich lyricism.
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusine, Op. 32
SCHUMANN: Concerto for Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 129
Steven Isserlis, violoncello
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
$25-95
Information: (415) 252-1288
http://www.philharmonia.org
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 – 12:30pm
Anna Shelest, piano
Franz Liszt: Sonetto del Petrarca
Richard Wagner: Isolde’s Liebestod
Robert Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11
This concert is supported by a grant from the Helen von Ammon Fund for Emerging Artists.
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
http://www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 – 8pm
Pacific Guitar Ensemble
The Pacific Guitar Ensemble began in 2010 when two friends, classical guitarist David Tanenbaum and steel-string guitarist Peppino D'Agostino, decided they wanted to form a larger guitar ensemble that could perform a wide variety of repertoire. After they gathered together members of the guitar faculty from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with some of its most exceptional alumni, and combined nylon strings with steel, electric basses with 17th century theorbos, a new eclectic group of pluckers was born.
While the Pacific Guitar Ensemble's repertoire features original music written by composers like Brazilian guitar legend Sergio Assad, noted minimalist Belinda Reynolds, and group's own brilliant steel-string stylist Peppino D'Agostino, it also includes fresh arrangements of great composers from Bach to Brahms, Dowland to Rossini. Guitarists like nothing better than to get together to play for and with each other, learning and copying, sharing and competing. The Pacific Guitar Ensemble is a group dedicated to keeping this dynamic process alive and we hope and believe that audiences will enjoy being a party to it.
Michael Bautista, Peppino D'Agostino, Lawrence Ferrara, Antoniy Kakamakov, Jon Mendle, Paul Psarras, David Tanenbaum & Marc Teicholz, guitars.
With special guests; Sérgio Assad, John Britton & Adam Cockerham
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 503-6265
http://www.sfcm.edu
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 – 7pm
SF State Wind Ensemble and CSU Northridge Wind Ensemble
SFSU School of Music and Dance
Knuth Hall, SF State University Creative Arts Building, San Francisco
FREE
Information: (415) 338-2467
http://musicdance.sfsu.edu
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 – 8pm
Lera Auerbach, composer/pianist and Alisa Weilerstein, cello
San Francisco Performances
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Premium $60/$50/$38
Information: (415) 398-6449
http://www.performances.org
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 – 8pm
San Francisco-Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival
Following an exciting launch last spring in Shanghai, this new transcontinental collaboration between the Shanghai and San Francisco conservatories comes to San Francisco, with master classes, recitals and other special events. Watch for updates at sfcm.edu.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
$20/$15
Information: (415) 503-6265
http://www.sfcm.edu
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Friday, March 16, 2012 – 8pm
Jonah Kim & Robert Koenig
Experience the romance of Europe from the banks of the Danube to the snow-capped Alps, Italian piazzas and Roman ruins, a stroll down Champs-Élysées, through the Rhine valley to Bohemia, and even down in the depths of the salt mines of Poland—songs of love, joyous and tragic, songs of life, some dreaming, some yearning. Hailed by the Washington Post as “the next Yo-Yo Ma”, ‘cellist Jonah Kim, who graduated from Juilliard and Curtis at the age of 17, put down his ‘cello and went searching for something. After years of wandering through the backstreets of Europe, he came back with a message—an apologue of love and hope. Come join us and celebrate your senses!
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Friday, March 16, 2012 – 8pm
Mandelring Quartet & marimbist Katarzyna Mycka
MANDELRING QUARTET with marimbist KATARZYNA MYCKA
Sebastian Schmidt, violin
Nanette Schmidt, violin
Roland Glassl, viola
Bernhard Schmidt, cello
Katarzyna Mycka, marimba
MENDELSSOHN Quartet in D Major, Op.44 #1
DEBUSSY Quartet in G Major, Op.10
Emmanuel SEJOURNE Concerto for Marimba & Strings (2005)
Ney ROSAURO Concerto for Marimba & Strings.
Audiences listen with “sheer pleasure and feeling” to the concerti of French composer Emmanuel Séjourné (b. 1961). Brazilian Ney Rosauro's (b. 1952) “Concerto for Marimba” was composed in 1986 to advance the then new four-mallet technique, and has become the world's most performed marimba concerto. Debussy's Quartet helped set his new Impressionist style. The first of Mendelssohn's three Op.44 quartets, composed in the happy year after his wedding, was his personal favorite.
Mandelring Quartet's three siblings and their close friend have been playing music together for over 20 years. “Impeccable sense of style.” - N.Y. Times. “A performance that blazed with light and energy.” - Washington Post.
In the 1990s marimba virtuoso Dr. Katarzyna Mycka won numerous international competitions, and is now a guest soloist all over the world.
Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm by Mark Veregge.
Free parking across the street from the venue.
San Jose Chamber Music Society
Le Petit Trianon, San Jose
$27-$42
Information: (408) 286-5111
http://www.sjchambermusic.org
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Friday, March 16, 2012 – 8pm
San Francisco-Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival
Following an exciting launch last spring in Shanghai, this new transcontinental collaboration between the Shanghai and San Francisco conservatories comes to San Francisco, with master classes, recitals and other special events. Watch for updates at sfcm.edu.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco
$20/$15
Information: (415) 503-6265
http://www.sfcm.edu
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 – 7:30pm
Stanford Woodwind Quintet
One of America's most distinguished ensembles, this Quintet unites fove virtuoso performers, each renowned for solo work and chamber music collaboration. Reviewers have cited the palpable enthusiasm of these versatile players.
Four Seasons Arts
Regents Theatre at Holy Names University, Oakland
$35 - $40
Information: (510) 845-4444
http://fsarts.org
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 – 8pm
Prophets, Kings, and Klezmer
Last year’s collaboration with the Alexander String Quartet confirmed San Francisco Choral Artists’ fine reputation for presenting new works for unusual combinations of voices and instruments. Continuing this compelling aspect of their programming, this year they feature world renowned Klezmer band Veretski Pass in lively and moving performances of folksongs, psalms, and lullabies from the texts and traditions of Jewish life. The concerts include two world premieres for the combined ensembles.
San Francisco Choral Artists
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco
$12-25 advance; $15-30 at door
Information: (415) 494-8149
http://www.sfca.org
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 – 8pm
Larry Ochs
Saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs is best known as a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet, which has been performing in the Bay Area and beyond for over thirty years. But he also likes to take his musical ideas and recontextualize them in other bands he either leads or collaborates with. One set of music is for the musical unit called Kihnoua. Selections from that book of music will be performed on March 17. The music is influenced heavily by “the blues” in general and the blues of Korea – an ancient form of music called p’ansori – in particular. BUT what “influence” means here is that you’ll feel the spirit of that music; the actual forms and some of the sounds Ochs and his ensemble use to realize the music are often contemporary in origin.
Trinity Chamber Concerts
Trinity Chapel, Berkeley
$15/$10
Information: (510) 549-3864
http://www.trinitychamberconcerts.com
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 12pm
Vocallective at Legion of Honor
Classical and contemporary chamber music involves a wide variety of instrumental groupings: from string quartets and Pierrot ensembles to duos, trios, and more. This variety is particularly apparent in chamber music that includes the voice, with no clear dominance by a single ensemble configuration, save duos with piano. Vocal chamber music can thus be more difficult to prepare and perform, since a new ensemble must be created for every new configuration.
Yet there is a vast repertoire of ensemble pieces featuring the voice by both classical and contemporary composers. These pieces deserve to be heard more frequently, and audiences tend to respond positively to music featuring the voice. To alleviate the practical problems associated with performing this repertoire, Vocallective brings together a roster of exceptional singers and instrumentalists who share a passion for vocal chamber music. Led by founders Indre Viskontas and Shannon Wolfe, the collective organizes and curates concert programs both inside the concert hall and in unconventional spaces with the goal of presenting vocal chamber music at the highest artistic level and reaching the widest possible audience.
Third season of Chamber Music Series
Presented in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution
Vocallective
Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Program is free after museum admission. Seating is limited and first come, first served.
Information: (415) 750-7694
http://vocallective.com
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 4:30pm
The Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society presents
Jayme Stone’s Room of Wonders
Banjoist makes music inspired by folk traditions from around the world.
Jayme Stone’s Juno Award-winning albums, most notably Africa to Appalachia, honor the banjo’s long role in the world’s music, turning historical connections into compelling music. His latest album, Room of Wonders, explores music from Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Brazil, Italy and North America. Stone will be touring with three extraordinary musicians: world-wise Sandra Wong on the nyckelharpa, a resonant Swedish keyed fiddle. Andrew Small, a classically-trained bassist who has played with Symphony Augusta and is currently finishing his Master's degree in performance at the Yale School of Music. Nick Fraser, an ever-creative and versatile drummer and composer from Toronto.
Jayme Stone – banjo,
Sandra Wong – nyckelharp, fiddle,
Andrew Small – bass, Nick Fraser – drums
Douglas Beach House,
Half Moon Bay
$35
http://www.jaymestone.com
http://www.bachddsoc.org
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 2pm
American Mavericks: Chamber Music with members of the San Francisco Symphony
Two world premieres by Bay Area residents round out the American Mavericks concerts. Mason Bates, who is also the Project San Francisco composer, brings his individual style of electronica and choral writing to Mass Transmission. And John Adams introduces Absolute Jest, featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet and based on fragments of Beethoven scherzos. Rounding out the evening is pianist Emanuel Ax with the SFS in Feldman’s work of free-floating rhythms and slowly evolving sounds, Piano and Orchestra. The Orchestra reprises its highly praised performance of Varèse’s Amériques.
"Eventually, someone was bound to grow up so immersed in genre-mixing that they would get both sides of the [classical and electronica] equation right. Bates has... The most impressive thing is how comfortably his two idioms mix." —SYMPHONY MAGAZINE
San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
$36
Information: (415) 864-6000
http://www.sfsymphony.org
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 3pm
Bridge Chamber Virtuosi
Violinist Wei He, viola Yun Jie Liu and cellist Amos Yang – together known as the Bridge Chamber Virtuosi – will be performing Sunday, March 18, in the 2011-12 Guest Concert Series at Dominican University of California.
The Sunday concerts, part of the Expression series sponsored by the Department of Music, Dance and Performing Arts at Dominican, start at 3 p.m. at Angelico Hall on the Dominican campus. Free parking is available in the nearby Conlan Center lot off Grand Avenue in San Rafael.
This season, students under the age of 18 will be admitted free if accompanied and supervised by an adult. In addition, community college students with a valid I.D. and music teachers in grades K-12 will be admitted free of charge along with Dominican faculty, staff and students with a valid I.D.
Subscription season tickets for the Guest Concert Series are $72 for general admission, $60 for seniors over 60. Single-event tickets, which are only available at the door 30 minutes prior to scheduled performances, are $18 for general admission and $15 for seniors over 60.
The Bridge Chambers Virtuosi juxtaposes Western classical music and contemporary Asian music to present a cross-cultural, synergetic concert experience. Individually heralded for their prowess and acumen on their respective instruments, all three performers in BCV are faculty members at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Liu is the Associate Principal Violist and Amos Yang is the Assistant Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Symphony.
Guest Concert Series, Dominican University
Dominican University, Angelico Hall, San Rafael
Free - $18
Information: (415) 257-0128
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 4pm
Villa Chamber Orchestra
The Villa Sinfonia Foundation mission statement: dedicated to developing string musicians of all ages and abilities, through the performance of chamber music and chamber orchestra music, assisted and coached by professional musicians. The group has performed throughout the Bay Area in Berkeley, Oakland, and in San Francisco at Davies Hall, Herbst Theatre, Union Square, Ghirardelli Square and at Carnegie Hall in New York City and The Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, DC. The Villa Sinfonia Foundation sponsors a two-week chamber music camp at Zephyr Point in South Lake Tahoe every summer. The orchestra tours every three years and has traveled to Hawaii, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Ireland and Scotland.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 4pm
Prophets, Kings, and Klezmer
Last year’s collaboration with the Alexander String Quartet confirmed San Francisco Choral Artists’ fine reputation for presenting new works for unusual combinations of voices and instruments. Continuing this compelling aspect of their programming, this year they feature world renowned Klezmer band Veretski Pass in lively and moving performances of folksongs, psalms, and lullabies from the texts and traditions of Jewish life. The concerts include two world premieres for the combined ensembles.
San Francisco Choral Artists
Temple Sinai, Oakland
$12-25 advance; $15-30 at door
Information: (415) 494-8149
http://www.sfca.org
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 7pm
Afiara String Quartet
The Afiara String Quartet balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire. The all-Canadian Afiara offers performances of “startling intensity” with a “powerful, keen-edged collective sound” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Formed in 2006 and mentored at San Francisco State University by the Alexander String Quartet, the Afiara takes its name from the Spanish fiar, meaning “to trust”, a basic element vital to the depth and joy of its music-making. The quartet is currently in residence at The Juilliard School, serving as teaching assistants to the Juilliard String Quartet.
Music at Kohl
Kohl Mansion, Burlingame
Adult: $45; Senior: $42; Gen Y&Z (30 & under): $15
Information: (650) 762-1130
http://www.musicatkohl.org
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 7pm
Real Vocal String Quartet
Original songs and unique arrangements pay tribute to a fantastic array of music from Appalachia to Kenya to Brazil, incorporating sparkling improvisation that impresses and moves.
Real Vocal String Quartet, a quartet of exquisite string players, and a group of eclectic singers, have endless fascination with the whole world of music. Sometimes the strings are a band backing up a lead vocal, sometimes the voices are a textural adding to the strings; ethereal, mesmerizing, and surprisingly funny. In preparation for their upcoming second CD recording, Real Vocal String Quartet performs pieces from places as varied as Sweden and Mali, plus works by singer-song writer Regina Spektor, some new original work, and more.
Candlelight Concert Series
St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco
FREE - Donations Appreciated
Information: (415) 999-9965
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 2pm
The San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble
Rhythmix Cultural Works will present The San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble at 2513 Blanding Avenue in Alameda. The ensemble performs Russian, Ukrainian, and Roma Gypsy music in a traditional folk instrument orchestra of balalaikas, domras, bayan (Russian button accordian), zhaleika (Russian reed pipe) and sopilka (Ukrainian flute). The concert starts at 2pm and all ages are welcome.
Rhythmix Cultural Works
2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda,
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
http://www.rhythmix.org
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 – 12:30pm
BACH’S 327th BIRTHDAY CONCERT
David Wilson, violin / Farley Pearce, cello/viola da gamba
Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in C minor, BWV 1017, Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1029
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
http://www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 – 8pm
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Presents
THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents The Shoulders of Giants, featuring the world premiere of a new duo by Left Coast’s violist and composer Kurt Rohde, along with Beethoven’s String Quartet op.127 and two arresting string quartets by contemporary composers who were inspired by musical giants.
142Throckmorton Theatre
142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
Information: (415) 383-9600
$25
http://www.142throckmortontheatre.com
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Friday, March 23, 2012 – 12pm
Noon Concert: Bustan Quartet
Israeli group demonstrates their work in crafting new means of musical expression from diverse resources
UC Berkeley Music Department
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 642-4864
http://music.berkeley.edu
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Friday, March 23, 2012 – 8pm
Terry Riley in concert: a benefit for Old First Concerts
Please join Old First Concerts in celebrating 43 years of diverse and extraordinary music with a solo performance by the legendary composer and performer Terry Riley. With his revolutionary classic work In C Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement in 1964. He has continued to produce an extensive body of music, working across disciplines with artists like choreographer Anna Halprin, filmmaker Bruce Conner, and playwright Michael McClure, as well as with musicians like the Kronos Quartet, Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, and many others. For this performance, Riley will present a number of works for piano, keyboard, and voice.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Friday, March 23, 2012 – 8pm
BELLA Trio at the SF Conservatory of Music
Come listen to one of San Francisco's most exciting emerging ensembles, BELLA Trio, performing live at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's acoustically dramatic Recital Hall. Their fresh and tangibly passionate playing will be showcased in their presentation of Beethoven's reknowned "Archduke" Trio, as well as Schubert's monumental second piano trio. As appetizers and palate cleansers, they will also be offering their own arrangements from their "Moments Musicaux" collection, including works by Shostakovich and Pärt. It promises to be an evening of sheer beauty and love for chamber music at its best.
BELLA Trio
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Sol Joseph Recital Hall, San Francisco
$15 - $25
http://www.bellatrio.us
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Saturday. March 24, 2012 – 7pm
An Evening of Chamber Music
Philippine-born American cellist Wilfredo Pasamba has been hailed by Harris Goldsmith of the New York Times for his "audacity and brilliance". A graduate of two leading music schools, the Tchaikovsky’s Moscow Conservatory and the Juilliard School, Mr. Pasamba has quickly emerged as one of the most important and outstanding concert artists from the Philippines. His performances has been praised for lyrical eloquence and impeccable virtuosity. Pasamba will be joined by Corey McVicar, who is described as a "truly poetic and exhilarating" pianist by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Fil-Am Chamber Music Society
St. Philip the Apostle Church
San Francisco
$20 general admission, $15 seniors
Information: (415) 9394418
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 7:30pm
Rhapsody!
Gold Coast Chamber Players, fresh from their sold out season opening, continue their 2012 season on March 24 at 7:30 p.m. with Rhapsody!, an alluring mix of chamber music for winds, strings and piano. The program gets its title from the centerpiece composition, George Enescu’s ‘Romanian Rhapsody.‘ Originally for full orchestra, this special chamber music arrangement retains the playful folk quality of the original while adding an intimacy and robustness of its own. In the hands of Romanian violinist, Corina Stoian, you will have a rare opportunity to hear this music performed with authenticity and bravura.
Equally dynamic is the rarely performed Suite for clarinet, violin and piano by Armenian composer, Alexander Arutiunian. The Suite draws on its composer’s love of Armenian folk-music. Though not Armenian himself, American composer Osvaldo Golijov, wrote 'Lullaby and Doina' for the film “For the Man Who Cried” featuring Johnny Depp. This haunting piece provides the listener everything from a wild romp to an emulation of the Armenian instrument, duduk. Khatchaturian claimed the duduk was the only instrument which made him cry. Local composer, Martin Rokeach’s composition, Going Up? is scored for an unusual trio, 8 strings and a whistle (flute, viola and cello), and is both acrobatic and playful. Leading off this program is the popular, Jet Whistle by Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Jet Whistle is an exotic blend of flute and cello that contrasts between high and low, metal and wood, wind and wire, breath and bow.
Rhapsody! provides an ethnic kaleidoscope which will keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Seating is limited, reserve today!
Gold Coast Chamber Players
Community Hall at the Lafayette Library, Lafayette
$10-$30
Information: (925) 284-7404
http://www.gcplayers.org
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 8pm
Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion
The preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India and as one of the world's most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge and study. Masters of Percussion, an outgrowth of Hussain's memorable tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, has enjoyed successful tours in the West since 1996, and is a particular favorite with Cal Performances audiences. Joining the 2012 are Fazal Qureshi, tabla & kanjira; Rakesh Chaurasia, bansuri (bamboo flute); Dilshad Khan, sarangi; Navin Sharma, dholak; Abbos Kosimov, doyra; and the Meitei Pung Cholom Performing Troupe (dancing drummers of Manipur).
Cal Performances
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
$20-$65
Information: (510) 642-9988
http://calperformances.org
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 8pm
David Finckel, cello, Wu Han, piano, Shubert through Brahms: The Romantic Legacy
"America's power couple of chamber music" (Wall Street Journal) returns following their unforgettable Beethoven cycle last season. Among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today, David Finckel and Wu Han trace the genesis of the Romantic cello sonata from its birth to full flowering: from Schubert, whose work foreshadows the developments to come, through the unbridled emotion of both Brahms and Schumann, who took the Romantic era to its heights.
Program: Schubert: Sonata in A minor, (Arpeggione) • Brahms: Sonata in E minor, Op. 38 • Schumann: Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano, Op. 70 • Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99
Cal Performances
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
$46
Information: (510) 642-9988
http://calperformances.org
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 8pm
Eco Ensemble
Three concerts. Eleven composers. A stunning exploration of some of the most exciting, innovative musical creations from world-class composers. In their second season appearance at Cal Performances, David Milnes conducts the spectacular Eco Ensemble, Berkeley's professional new music ensemble-inresidence, in this three-concert survey of the sounds of today and the future. Traveling the leading edges of contemporary composition, this remarkable journey begins with the unique utterances of Gerard Grisey, continues with the powerful, heartfelt creations of Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho, and concludes with the visceral, evocative music of Franck Bedrossian and Nico Muhly.
Cal Performances
Hertz Hall, Berkeley
Tickets Start at $30
Information: (510) 642-9988
http://calperformances.org
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Sunday, March 25, 2012 – 3pm
Nigel Armstrong (violin) and Marilyn Thompson (piano)
Twenty-one year old Nigel Armstrong, Sonoma’s own internationally acclaimed violinist, returns on Sunday, March 25, in concert at Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 252 East Napa Street, at 3:00 p.m. He will be accompanied by local favorite Marilyn Thompson. Nigel’s program will include Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major. op. 24 “Spring;” Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor; Saint-Saens’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28, Ernst’s The Last Rose of Summer, as well as compositions by Paganini, Faure, and Tchaikovsky. In addition, Nigel has promised a special surprise to those attending.
Sonoma Classical Music Society
Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma
$25 (members), $30 (nonmembers)
Information: (707) 343-6334
http://www.sonomaclassical.org
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Sunday, March 25, 2012 – 4pm
Crowden Music Center presents Sundays @ Four: Tessa Seymour, cello, and Miles Graber, piano.
Cellist Tessa Seymour is one of the most exciting young musicians to emerge from the Bay Area in recent years. The many accomplishments already under her belt at age 18 include a televised Carnegie Hall debut, first place in the 2007 San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, selection for the 2009 Rostropovich International Competition in Paris, and recently performing for His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Tessa returns home from the Curtis Institute to perform with her longtime collaborator, much-beloved pianist and Crowden faculty member Miles Graber.
Please join us for a free "Meet-the-Artists" reception following the concert.
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
$18; $15 students/seniors; FREE for children 18 & under
Information: (510) 559-6910
http://www.crowden.org
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Sunday, March 25, 2012 – 5pm
The Eroica Trio
Honored with multiple Grammy®-nominations and known for its audience appeal, flawless technical virtuosity, elegance and enthusiasm, the critically acclaimed Eroica Trio features three award-winning soloists ~ pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Susie Parker and cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio. Their Mill Valley March 25 concert program includes Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio in C Major; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67; Ravel: Piano Trio in A
~ Pianist Erika Nickrenz made her concerto debut in New York's Town Hall at the age of 11. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. Nickrenz has toured with Music from Marlboro in addition to tours of Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Tasmania and Colombia.
~ Violinist Susie Park, a native of Sydney, Australia, made her solo debut at the age of five and holds her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied under Jaime Laredo.
~ Cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio's international successes include winning a medal at the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Violoncello Competition in Moscow, resulting in tours across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, culminating in a recital at Carnegie Hall which was broadcast on national television.
PROGRAM: The March 25 concert program includes Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio in C Major; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67; Ravel: Piano Trio in A
Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church
410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley
$30 General; $15 Youth - 18 years and under.
Information: (415) 381-4453
http://www.chambermusicmillvalley.org
http://www.eroicatrio.com
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Monday, March 26, 2012 – 8pm
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Presents
THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents The Shoulders of Giants, featuring the world premiere of a new duo by Left Coast’s violist and composer Kurt Rohde, along with Beethoven’s String Quartet op.127 and two arresting string quartets by contemporary composers who were inspired by musical giants.
The Green Room, San Francisco Veterans War Memorial
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Information: (415) 617-LCCE (5223)
$25
http://www.leftcoastensemble.org
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – 12:30pm
VINACCESI ENSEMBLE
Susie Fong, harpsichord / Kirk Eichelberger, bass
Sarge Gerbode, archlute / Hallie Pridham, Baroque cello
Nanette McGuinness, soprano / Jonathan Smucker, tenor
Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano
Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo libro de madrigali
Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Sonata Op. 14 No. 5 in e minor
Benedetto Vinaccesi: Il disinganno de gli amante
Lots more!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
http://www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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