Join Larry Ferrara and Shiqi Li for their glowing and popular holiday-inspired concert of festive and romantic music for guitar and cello, capturing the magic of the holiday season and the winter charms of San Francisco, with works by Vivaldi, Milan, Sanz, Piazzolla, and Giuliani.
Acclaimed vocalist and qanunist Ali Paris returns with a thrilling program of Flamenco and Arabic music, from North Africa to Andalusia and back.
The Tokyo-based Club Glee, composed of senior alumni of the Waseda University Glee Club, makes a special San Francisco appearance, bringing a program of audience pleasing pop songs, bringing heartfelt joy beyond borders and generations.
The distinguished faculty of the Golden Gate Philharmonic, San Francisco’s all-inclusive youth orchestra, is showcased in this not-to-be-missed benefit recital, with new works from Bay Area composers Alden Jenks and Stephen Damonte along with works by Kodaly, Mozart, Cuban danzones, and more.
Sitarist Arjun Verma is joined by Sudhakar Vaidyanathan on tabla in a performance of North Indian classical music. Arjun first learned from his father, sitarist Roop Verma, himself a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar. As a teenager, Arjun was very fortunate to study with Ali Akbar Khan for eight years, and since the Maestro’s passing in 2009, with his son Alam Khan. The combination of these influences results in a style encompassing the profound as well as exhilarating aspects of North Indian classical music.
