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Quinteto Latino – Friday, April 27 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Quinteto Latino aims to expand the boundaries of classical music by performing works composed by Latino composers exclusively. This program features work by the renowned Mexican composer Carlos Chavez, and contrasts two very different works by Brazilian composers Liduino Pitombeira and Júlio Medaglia.
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Music Teachers’ Association of California-San Francisco – Sunday, April 29 at 4 pm
$5.00 – $15.00The San Francisco Branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California presents some of the Bay Area’s most gifted and talented students in a gala concert of music inspired by dance.
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Ives Collective – Sunday, May 6 at 4 pm
$5.00 – $23.00…the poppies blow… The Ives Collective is joined by tenor Brian Thorsett and violist Jessica Chang for a program honoring the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, featuring works which were either written during the Great War or were composed by artists who served during the conflict.
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Continuum – Friday, May 11 at 8 pm
$0.00 – $23.00Continuum a cappella group sing sacred and secular music, from Renaissance motets to traditional hymns, and from spirituals to contemporary pop.
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Debussy Centennial Festival – Friday, May 18 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Debussy Centennial Festival, concert two, featuring performances of Debussy’s Pour le piano, Images Books I & II, Suite bergamasque, Salut printemps, and more! Pianists include Daniel Glover, Laura Magnani, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Robert Schwartz, Brent Smith, and vocalists Katherine McKee, Leandra Ramm and Christa Pfeiffer. The Festival is sponsored in part by R. Kassman, Purveyor of Fine Pianos.
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Thorwald Jørgensen, theremin with Friction Quartet – Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00The Bay Area’s Friction Quartet joins Thorwald Jørgensen, one of the world’s leading classical theremin players, for a beautiful and rare musical experience featuring the US Premiere of Simon Bertrand’s The Invisible Singer, along with other works for this unique quintet, including Transformations by Dalit Warshaw.
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Stephen Porter – Sunday, May 20 at 4 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Pianist Stephen Porter, whose playing has been described by Early Music America as “pure magic … disturbingly beautiful”, presents his program Spirituel: a journey through the religious piano works of Franz Liszt.
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Hannah Addario-Berry, Jeff Anderle & Kate Campbell – Friday, June 1 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Hannah Addario-Berry, Jeff Anderle, and Kate Campbell bring their combined talents to Old First Concerts with a diverse program including works by Bay Area composers Belinda Reynolds and Ryan Rey, and the world premiere of Kaolin for bass clarinet and piano by Ryan Brown.
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Farallon Quintet – Friday, June 8 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Farallon Quintet is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the repertoire for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet—inspired by the simplicity and beauty of nature.
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Amy Stephens – Sunday, June 24 at 4 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Jazz composer and pianist Amy Stephens presents the World Premiere and album release of Becoming, her seven-movement suite for solo piano. Becoming is a delightful musical journey, taking the listener through contemporary jazz, rags, blues, world music and more.
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Curium – Friday, June 22 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Founded in the summer of 2017, the women of Curium piano trio specialize in performing the music of female composers along with traditional piano trio repertoire. This program features two rarely heard piano trios by women from different parts of the world: Chen Yi’s Tunes from My Home and Kaija Saariaho’s Light & Matter.
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Ensemble for These Times – Friday, June 29 at 8 pm
$5.00 – $23.00Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) returns to Old First Concerts with another edition of their 56X54 project of new and recent works by living composers. This program focuses on works featuring cello, and includes numerous World, US, and Bay Area premieres. Pre-concert talk at 7:30 with composers Lawrence Kramer and Frederick Schipizky.
