Brooklyn, October 5, 1941 by Annie Gosfield, works for four-hand piano by Terry Riley and Ingram Marshall, and other new solo compositions”Two dynamite pianists with very different styles—the elegantly precise Joseph Kubera, the passionately mercurial Sarah Cahill” (Village Voice) team up for a performance of recent four-hand works by maverick Bay Area composers Terry Riley […]
Continue readingWorks by Enrique EspÃn Yépez, Luis Humberto Salgado, Alberto Ginastera, Frédéric Chopin and Franz SchubertBorn in Quito, Ecuador, Washington GarcÃa began his musical studies at the age of six, obtaining a Bachelor of Music from the National Conservatory of Music in Ecuador, and Masters and Doctoral degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins […]
Continue readingSongs by Korngold, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Bartók, Kodály and BaloghMiriam Abramowitsch and George Barth have been performing in recital together since 1990, offering a rich diversity of art song repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries. About their recording of Schubert’s Winterreise, Fanfare Magazine said “…Voice and piano are perfectly balanced, in as fine an exhibition […]
Continue readingTsubasa Ni Notte by Tadao Sawai; Ishi No Niwa by Hikaru Sawai; Haru No Umi (Spring Sea) by Michio Miyagi; Rokudan no Shirabe by Yatsuhashi Kengyo; Shaei (Reflections off a Prism) by Hikaru SawaiBrian Mitsuhiro Wong, a San Francisco Bay Area native, continues a brilliant legacy of koto performance that spans three generations and has […]
Continue readingProgram includes excerpts from the opera Trap Door by Lisa Scola Prosek; Life is Like That by David Graves; works by Mark Alburger, John Beeman, Beeri Moelem, and Clare TwohyA diverse and talented group of composer-performers, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra represents a cross-section of the eclectic Bay Area contemporary music world. Seeking to […]
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