March 2019

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, whose repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music.

Dan Neville and Rebecca Kleinmann feature their sextet, presenting their own unique blend of Jazz, Afro Cuban and Colombian music.

Nashville-based guitarist, composer, and songwriter performs his own work–which draws on bucket blues, bluegrass, Celtic and Appalachian fiddle tunes, Gypsy jazz, and even New Orleans ragtime–alongside music by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Rodrigo, Shand, and Hétu. Special appearance by Bay-area flutist Courtney Wise.

The Musical Art Quintet perform Sascha Jacobsen’s Kanta Judezmo, an oratorio using Jewish melodic themes with motifs and rhythms from Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, and South America, that tells the story about the Sephardic diaspora through the lens of its central female character, with universal threads that traverse centuries, borders, language, culture and genre.

Known for their powerful sound and profound unity of ensemble, Ensemble Illume perform Saariaho’s Je sens un deuxième cœur, plus Brahms’ Trio in A minor and a Mozart Duo.