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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Featuring Northern California’s most versatile and innovative players, Simple Excesses Quartet’s exciting repertoire is sets of compositions which unify jazz, classical chamber music, improvisation and experimental soundscapes. Intricate and dynamic and often surprising, the quartet brings the music, which are like a flight in the clouds for both performers and audiences.
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Join Duo Penseur for a night filled with fun, suspense, and tenderness with an an eclectic program that bridges the old with the new, sharing music by Jessie Montgomery, Beethoven, and Clara Schumann, and William Grant Still that is sure to bring a full spectrum of emotions that connect us in the human experience.
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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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