Upcoming Concerts
Ragazzi Boys Chorus – Light and Love – Sunday, December 10 at 4 pm
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Join GRAMMY Award-winning Ragazzi Boys Chorus, Silicon Valley as they open our hearts and illuminate the season with messages of love, hope, and peace in their program Light and Love.
Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco – Friday, December 15 at 8 pm
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The award-winning Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco returns to Old First Concerts for its beloved annual Carols by Candlelight performance. Start your holiday season with this exquisite candle-lit concert, presenting traditional carols and those re-envisioned – alongside original seasonal works.
Golden Bough’s Christmas in a Celtic Land – Saturday, December 16 at 8 pm
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Share the laughter, song and joy as Golden Bough performs rare versions of Celtic songs of Winter, as well as their unique take on better known Christmas Carols.
KITKA – Wintersongs – Sunday, December 17 at 4 pm
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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.
Amateur Music Network presents Sarah Cahill’s Backstage Pass – Monday, January 22 at 7 pm
How does a jazz pianist create a unique arrangement of a standard? Why do notation and improvisation seem like such separate worlds? How does an experimental bassist compose? We’ll explore these questions and more in this new series, moderated by Sarah Cahill, with guest artists demonstrating and revealing the secret processes behind their music.
Ives Collective – Sunday, January 28 at 4 pm
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Presenting powerful live music experiences through fresh and informed interpretations of established masterworks and under-appreciated gems, the Ives Collective's winter set builds on last season’s commitment to presenting lesser heard works by women composers, with works by Mélanie Bonis and Dame Ethel Smyth.
Sarah Cahill – Sunday, January 7 at 2 pm
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Hailed by The New York Times as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde”, Sarah Cahill opens our 2024 season with a performance of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford, Terry Riley, Ann Southam, and Evan Ziporyn (in person!).
Earplay – The Poetry of Physics – Monday, February 5 at 7:30 pm
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Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premiere of stellar Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui's Ad Hoc, West Coast Premieres by Suzanne Sorkin and Yotam Haber, and works by Kaija Saariaho and Ines Thiebaut.
Earplay – Life Cycle – Monday, March 18 at 7:30 pm
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Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premieres of the 2023 Donald Aird Prize winning work Flower Mantis by Koh Cheng Jin and a new work from the emerging Sacramento-based composer Chris Castro, alongside works by Haris Kittos, Erik Ulman, and Toshio Hosokawa.
Ives Collective – Sunday, May 5 at 4 pm
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Presenting powerful live music experiences through fresh and informed interpretations of established masterworks and under-appreciated gems, the Ives Collective's spring set builds on last season’s commitment to presenting lesser heard works by women composers, with works by Germaine Tailleferre and Emilie Mayer alongside W. A. Mozart.
Earplay – New Conversations – Monday, May 20 at 7:30 pm
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Challenging the audience to broaden its concept of music with new emotional and auditory experiences, Earplay performs the World Premieres of a new work for voice and sextet by composer/singer Erin Gee and an ensemble work by Byron Au Yong, as well as works by Sami Seif and George Walker.
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