Junior Bach Festival – Sunday, March 15 at 4 pm
The Bay Area’s best music students, ages 8 to 18, perform the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with great skill and beauty.
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KITKA – Wintersongs: Kolo – A Seasonal Cycle of Song – Sunday, December 21 at 4 pm
This year’s Wintersongs concert program is a dramatic song cycle of music gathered from across Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia, as well as songs from Balkan, Baltic, Mediterranean and Slavic lands, inviting listeners into Kitka’s kolo, a place where giving voice and deep listening revolve in a timeless dance of dissonance and harmony.
Continue readingLieder Alive! presents – Esther Rayo and Peter Grünberg – Sunday, May 18 at 4 pm
Lyric soprano Esther Rayo is joined by pianist Peter Grünberg in a program featuring Schubert and a plethora of their trademark Classical Spanish repertoire—highlights from their recent major recording!
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Pianist Utsav Lal and Saxophonist George Brooks fuse Indian classical music and American jazz with contemporary minimalism, crafting innovative new sounds.
Continue readingSarah Cahill – Sunday, January 5 at 2 pm
Celebrating the composer James Cleghorn, best known as music librarian for 25 years at the San Francisco Public Library, with a selection from his dazzling range of piano music, including sets of variations intricate fugues, neoclassical suites, modal experiments, and much more, all with a special focus on melodic invention—many never heard before.
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