Ensemble for These Times – Lines, Circles + Spirals – Friday, November 7 at 8 pm
Lines, Circles + Spirals
Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Nanette McGuinness, soprano
Megan Chartier, cello
Margaret Halbig, piano
with guest Maya Victoria, violin
Bohuslav Martinu Duo No. 1 for violin and cello, H. 157
Clarice Assad Displaced Lines West Coast Premiere
Anna Clyne Fits + Starts
Hannah Ishizaki Ammonite West Coast Premiere
Karim Al-Zand Six Bagatelles West Coast Premiere
Niloufar Nourbakhsh Cavities (selections)
inti figgis-vizueta the motion between three worlds
Zhou Tian A Crown for Sonia from A Crown for Sonia
Award-winning San Francisco new music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) opens its 18th Home Season with Lines, Circles + Spirals, a program featuring new music that engages with geometrical shapes, in conversation with Duo No. 1 by Bohuslav Martinu (1890–1959) for violin and cello, H. 157 (1927); Displaced Lines for solo piano by Latin Grammy® nominee, Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad (b. 1978), Fits + Starts for amplified cello and tape by Grammy® nominee, British-American composer Anna Clyne (b. 1980), Ammonite for piano trio by ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award winning Japanese-American composer Hannah Ishizaki (b. 2000), Six Bagatelles for piano trio—inspired by images of Robert Motherwell (1915–1991)—by Barlow Prize winning Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b. 1970), Cavities (2024, selected movements) for piano trio by Iranian-American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh (b. 1992), and the motion between three worlds for solo cello by nonbinary Latina/Quechua inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993).