Sonata, Op. 28 ‘Pastoral by Beethoven; Geary Street and Dark Carousel by Tanya Vegvary Plescia; sonatas by Scarlatti and other worksPianist and composer Tanya Vegvary Plescia performs widely throughout California and the western United States, with appearances schedules at the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery in Washington DC. Edward Ortiz of The Sacramento Bee […]
Continue readingPampeana No. 2 by Ginastera; Sonata No. 4 in C major by Beethoven; Phantasiestücke, Op. 73 by Schumann; Sonata for Unaccompanied ‘Cello by KodályA recent graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Elizabeth Dormans playing has been called “as striking for its restraint as for its technical assurance … Dorman is unnervingly precocious†by […]
Continue readingDon Pender, oboist and English horn with the Silicon Valley Symphony and former Deacon of Old First Church, presents his new quintet Jazzberry Patch in a tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Sérgio Mendes, with several bossa novas and sambas on the program.
Continue readingThe dynamic young pianist Matthew McCright joins some of the Bay Area’s brightest up-and-coming new music stars in a concert highlighting the vitality and inventiveness of the next generation of Bay Area musicians. Performers include Jeff Anderle and Jonathan Russell, clarinets; Alisa Rose and Emily Packard, violins; and Brian Dowdy, guitar. The program features Bay […]
Continue readingDaniel Glover, piano, will perform Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat, ‘Genzinger’, three pieces in Homage to Haydn (1909) by Dukas, Ravel and Debussy, Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, ‘Funeral March’, Liszt’s Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome) and Funerailles (Burial), along with Hexameron, variations on the March from Bellini’s I Puritani by six composers.
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