Junior Bach Festival – Sunday, March 16 at 4 pm
Be inspired by the Bay Area’s best music students as they perform the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with great skill and beauty.
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The Yale Spizzwinks(?) – Friday, March 15 at 8 pm
The Spizzwinks(?) are composed entirely of full-time undergraduate students at Yale, bringing our diverse repertoire of over 600 arrangements everywhere from local New Haven elementary schools, to concert halls, special events, businesses, and universities on our international tours.
Continue readingKITKA – Wintersongs – Sunday, February 11 at 4 pm
What sustains us in times of darkness, scarcity, uncertainty, and hardship?
Kitka’s Wintersongs program this year is a music response to this question, featuring songs that express wonder and gratitude for the miracle of creation, the diversity of life on Earth, and the mysterious influences of heavenly bodies. Through voices raised together in song, we find sustenance.
Continue readingThe Mike Greensill Trio – Sunday, September 3 at 4 pm
Mike Greensill and his Trio return to Old First Concerts for their annual Labor Day weekend performance, this time introducing “surprise guest vocalist” Gale Terminello, in a celebration of the glorious melodies of the American Songbook.
Continue readingSarah Cahill – Friday, January 6 at 8 pm
Sarah Cahill premieres Humanitas by the late Frederic Rzewski, written in honor of his friend Terry Riley, as well as Arlene Sierra’s Birds and Insects Book 3, selections from Robert Pollock’s Enneagram, and a Nocturne by Carolyn Yarnell.
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