New music

Dan Neville and Rebecca Kleinmann feature their sextet, presenting their own unique blend of Jazz, Afro Cuban and Colombian music.

The Musical Art Quintet perform Sascha Jacobsen's Kanta Judezmo, an oratorio using Jewish melodic themes with motifs and rhythms from Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, and South America, that tells the story about the Sephardic diaspora through the lens of its central female character, with universal threads that traverse centuries, borders, language, culture and genre.

With an emphasis on exciting and unexpected grooves, adventurous improvisations and rich soundscapes, StringQuake is impossible to genre-fy, with stylistic influences including traditional classical chamber music, jazz, Latin, classical Indian, West African folk and Balkan music.

A program celebrating women of a variety of ages, backgrounds, and social status featuring three World Premieres and two sets of carefully curated music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

A program centered around two works by the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, exploring connections to the works of Maria Szymanowska, Thomas Adès, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, and Agata Zubel.

Pianists Angela Passos and Mayer Goldenberg perform solo and duo works for piano by Brazilian composers and the works that influenced them.

Friction Quartet are joined by pianist Sarah Cahill for the World Premiere of Max Stoffregen's The Gila: Mesa, River, and Mountain, plus Geoffrey Gordon's ABACISCUS and the World Premiere of a new string quartet by Piers Hellawell.

A special candlelight, late-night performance of David Gordon's hypnotic Mysteria Incarnationis for two grand pianos (one of which is prepared), an upright piano of unequal temperament, percussion, singing glasses, and more.

An eclectic program exploring the extreme versatility of the cello, including Baroque favorites by Boccherini and Barrière and contemporary works by Barry Guy and John Zorn, with the West Coast premiere of Akshaya Tucker's new Hindustani piece for solo cello.

Omri Shimron explores the idea of transformation through works by J. S. Bach, Philip Glass, Franz Schubert, and Menachem Weisenberg.

Celebrating 10 years of ZOFO's dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for one-piano-four-hands, including their own arrangements, commissioned works, and a World Premiere.