Start your holiday season with this candle-lit concert by the award-winning Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco, featuring the local premiere of Sarah Quartel’s Snow Angel, which celebrates the love, beauty, and strength that a child’s voice can bring to our troubled world, plus works by Joni Mitchell, J. S. Bach, traditional carols, and more!
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Ensemble for These Times – Lines, Circles + Spirals – Friday, November 7 at 8 pm
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, including West Coast Premieres by Clarice Assad, Hannah Ishizaki, and Karim Al-Zand, in conversation with Duo No. 1 for Violin and Cello by Bohuslav Martinu.
Continue readingLieder Alive! presents Peter Grünberg & John Parr – Sunday, September 14 at 4 pm
Two renowned pianists and master coaches — BOTH of whom are former chiefs of the San Francisco Opera music staff! — will offer us a delectable and eclectic program of four-hand piano music, with works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, and more!
Continue readingSan Francisco International Piano Festival – Ravel et Le Jazz – Saturday, August 30 at 8 pm
The San Francisco International Piano Festival is thrilled to welcome back Stephen Prutsman to the stage for an evening of Ravel, Jazz, and a screening of Buster Keaton’s 1920 comedy classic.
Continue readingSan Francisco International Piano Festival – Miroirs – Sunday, August 24 at 4 pm
A joint recital between beloved pianist and authoritative Ravel interpreter Gwendolyn Mok and Founder/Artistic Director Jeffrey LaDeur, featuring Ravel’s Miroirs, representing a landmark development in the evolution of his style, each of the five pieces explores striking tonal and expressive territory that bear his unique musical signature
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