Debussy Centennial Festival, program three, featuring performances of Debussy’s complete set of 24 Preludes, Books I & II, with pianists Steven Bailey, Christopher Basso, Daniel Glover, Jeffrey LaDeur, Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Robert Schwartz. The Festival is sponsored in part by R. Kassman, Purveyor of Fine Pianos.
Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) returns to Old First Concerts with another edition of their 56X54 project of new and recent works by living composers. This program focuses on works featuring cello, and includes numerous World, US, and Bay Area premieres. Pre-concert talk at 7:30 with composers Lawrence Kramer, Frederick Schipizky and Grammy-nominee Tom Flaherty.
Founded in the summer of 2017, the women of Curium piano trio specialize in performing the music of female composers along with traditional piano trio repertoire. This program features two rarely heard piano trios by women from different parts of the world: Chen Yi’s Tunes from My Home and Kaija Saariaho’s Light & Matter.
Farallon Quintet is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the repertoire for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet—inspired by the simplicity and beauty of nature.
Hannah Addario-Berry, Jeff Anderle, and Kate Campbell bring their combined talents to Old First Concerts with a diverse program including works by Bay Area composers Belinda Reynolds and Ryan Rey, and the world premiere of Kaolin for bass clarinet and piano by Ryan Brown.
