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.
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!
Pianist Utsav Lal and Saxophonist George Brooks fuse Indian classical music and American jazz with contemporary minimalism, crafting innovative new sounds.
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.
Award-winning duo N Blanco Y Negro are joined by violinist Jennifer Redondas in an eclectic program including a US Premiere by Carlota Garriga alongside works by José White Lafitte, Jason McCauley, Dvořák, Schubert, Fauré, Say, Rachmaninoff, and Piazzolla.
