Author name: Rick Bahto

Ten noted pianists from the Bay Area and beyond unite to celebrate the birthday of Franz Liszt with a concert of his works.

Cascada de Flores celebrates love, life, and music, inspired by the troubadours of Mexico and the Americas.

Minsky Duo Raises the Barn with an all-American program including a Bay Area premiere by Ned Rorem and a World Premiere by Aaron Andrew Hunt, plus works by Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, and John Adams.

Alisa Rose and Amy Zanrosso are joined by special guest pianist Ian Scarfe in a program of nocturnes by Copland, Cage, Medtner, Chopin, Ravel, Crumb, Ogerman, Rose, Szymanowski, and Schnittke.

Pianist José López returns to Old First Concerts with a performance of rarely heard works by 19th century Cuban-born composers José Comellas and Nicolás Ruíz Espadero, along with Charles V. Alkan’s Symphony.  We will also be raising funds to help Melisa Nieves, a fourth-year student at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music who lost her piano in the devastation of Hurricane Maria.