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Kaitlin Miller – Sunday, May 19 at 4 pm
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Kaitlin Miller finds boundless joy in playing the harp and sharing her deep affection for the instrument with her community, and her heart resonates most with romantic French music and the innovative compositions of contemporary artists.
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Earplay – New Conversations – Monday, May 20 at 7:30 pm
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Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premieres of a new work for voice and sextet by composer/singer Erin Gee and an ensemble work by Byron Au Yong, as well as works by Sami Seif and George Walker.
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Blaise Bryski plays Mark Winges – Sunday, June 2 at 4 pm
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East coast pianist Blaise Bryski plays music by west coast composer Mark Winges. This concert includes Mark’s complete Nocturnes as well as the premieres of longer works Red Sky Opening and More Hand Jive. The latter is a nod to Blaise’s and Mark’s roots in rock / funk, and includes sections of music that are improvised.
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Arjun Verma – Friday, June 14 at 8 pm
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Arjun K. Verma and Eman Hashimi return to San Francisco for a very special evening of thrilling rhythms and gorgeous melodies on sitar and tabla. Verma—whose music has been featured in The New York Times, The Times of India, Songlines Magazine, The Hindu, and Popmatters—weaves together the ancient and modern aspects of Indian classical music in the style of the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
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Lee Alan Nolan – From Rags to Mystics 2 – Sunday, June 30 at 4 pm
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Lee Alan Nolan returns to Old First Concerts with From Rags to Mystics 2, featuring Ragtime composers Scott Joplin, May Aufderheide, and Irene Giblin alongside the first book of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux and Bruce Christian Bennett's Small Art.
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AnnaLotte Smith – Songs My Mother Taught Me – Sunday, July 7 at 4 pm
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AnnaLotte Smith's program Songs My Mother Taught Me blends classical and contemporary works embodying the enduring spirit of female strength and creativity while touching on themes of generational and cultural exchange, climate change, and our collective aspiration for a brighter future.
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Le Due Muse – NEOCLASSICAL! – Sunday, July 28 at 4 pm
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Le Due Muse is a cello and piano duo team formed by the Bay Area cellist Sarah Hong and her long time duo partner, Japanese pianist Makiko Ooka in the year 2000. They return to Old First Concerts to share works by Ravel and Bridge, neoclassical pioneer composers who influenced Britten, as well as works by Britten himself.
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7th SFIPF – Opening Night – La Musique Francaise de Piano – Friday, August 23 at 8 pm
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The 7th annual San Francisco International Piano Festival returns to Old First Concerts with a celebration of French keyboard music across the centuries. Festival favorite and fellow Francophile Gwendolyn Mok will join artistic director Jeffrey LaDeur and special guests Sarah Yuan and Munan Cheng in this opening concert.
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7th SFIPF – Asiya Korepanova – Transformations – Sunday, August 25 at 4 pm
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The San Francisco International Piano Festival is proud to present pianist and composer Asiya Korepanova in her San Francisco debut recital. Ms. Korepanova begins with a nod to our featured composer, Gabriel Fauré, before launching into a diverse array of virtuosic and emotionally captivating music, all in her own transcriptions.
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7th SFIPF – Schumann & Sherlock Jr. – Friday, August 30 at 8 pm
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The Festival is thrilled to present the return of Stephen Prutsman and the Telegraph Quartet in quartets of contrasting brilliance—Robert Schumann's Op. 44 quintet and Prutsman's original, dazzling score to Buster Keaton's 1924 classic Sherlock Jr., which matches the genius of the film at every step.
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7th SFIPF – Festival Finale – Cycles of Life – Sunday, September 1 at 4 pm
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Presented in collaboration with Lieder Alive!, and featuring mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich, the Festival Finale comes full circle with a special program of musical cycles that mirror those in nature, joining the glory of the voice with the wonders of the piano.
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