FREE program
Gabriela Smith — Imaginary Pancake
Robert Schumann — Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (selections)
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel — 4 Lieder for Piano, Op. 6
Grazyna Bacewicz — 10 Studies for Piano (selections)
with Joseph Maile, violin, and Pei-Ling Lin, viola
Brahms — Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78
TBD
with Anna Presler, violin, Phyllis Kamrin, viola, Leighton Fong, cello, and others
Florence Price - Piano Quintet in A minor
David Sanford - Klatka Still
Chris Castro - New Miniature for Double Bass and Bass Clarinet (Pathways mentor)
Pathways emerging composers TBA
with Anna Presler, violin, Phyllis Kamrin, viola, Leighton Fong, cello, and others
Florence Price - Piano Quintet in A minor
David Sanford - Klatka Still
Chris Castro - New Miniature for Double Bass and Bass Clarinet (Pathways mentor)
Pathways emerging composers TBA
Joan Tower – Petroushskates (1980)
Arnold Schoenberg – Cabaret Songs: Selections
Jessie Montgomery – Lunar Songs: I. and III. (2019) (West Coast Premiere)
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Kevin Day – un(ravel)ed (2019)
Katherine Balch – Musica Spolia (2021)
Massimo Lauricella – E Piove in Petto una Dolcezza Inquieta (1996) (US premiere)
Andrew Norman – Mine Mime Meme (2014) (10’)
Mason Bates – Difficult Bamboo (2013)
with soprano Sara LeMesh
Voices of Identity: Songs of the Jewish Diaspora
Join us for a deep dive into the rich tapestry of Jewish song from around the world, with a program that includes rarely performed works by Polish-Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Ukrainian composer Shalom Kharitonov, Yemeni singer Bracha Tzfira, American composer Lori Laitman, and much more.
with Matilda Hoffman, conductor, Terrie Baun, violin, Thalia Moore, cello, and others
Koh Cheng Jin — Flower Mantis for violin, cello and piano. West Coast Premiere
Haris Kittos — Dyades for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
Erik Ulman — Skamandros for clarinet violin, cello and piano
Toshio Hosakawa — Threnody for viola. West Coast Premiere.
Chris Castro — New Work (2024) for flute and viola. World Premiere.
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Mel Bonis — Cello Sonata
Elena Ruehr — Cello Sonata
Amy Beach — Romance
Nadia Boulanger — 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
with Stacey Pelinka, flute, and Leighton Fong, cello
Kaija Saariaho - Cendres, Papillons, Oi Kuu, Mirrors
Kay Rhie - Three Piano Miniatures (Pathways Mentor)
Sergei Prokofiev - Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94
Monica Chew - New Work TBA WORLD PREMIERE
Tomàs Piere Serrate- Five Haiku (2022 Composition Contest Winner)
with Stacey Pelinka, flute, and Leighton Fong, cello
Kaija Saariaho - Cendres, Papillons, Oi Kuu, Mirrors
Kay Rhie - Three Piano Miniatures (Pathways Mentor)
Sergei Prokofiev - Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94
Monica Chew - New Work TBA WORLD PREMIERE
Tomàs Piere Serrate- Five Haiku (2022 Composition Contest Winner)
Melinda Wagner — Romanze with Faux Variations for piano trio
Carlos Simon — Lickety Split for cello and piano
Ollie Wilson — Piano Trio
Errollyn Wallen — Dervish for cello and piano
Gabriella Smith — Imaginary Pancake for solo piano
Laura Schwendinger — Violinists in My Life for violin and piano
Cañon
[Four Studies of Light and Dark]
Hishuk ish ts’ awalk [All things are One]
Scenes from The Road to Xibalba (World Premiere)
Missy Mazzoli – Tooth and Nail (2010)
Two Works by Composers from SF Conservatory of Music’s Technology & Applied Composition Program (world premieres)
Louis Andriessen – Life (2009) with film by Marijke van Warmerdam]
Steve Mackey – San Francisco (1997)
Pierre Boulez – Dérive 1 (1984)
Frank Zappa – The Perfect Stranger (1984)
Beethoven - 7 Variations from Mozart’s Magic Flute
Amy Beach - Romance
Esa-Pekka Salonen - solo cello work
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Cello Sonata in G minor
This is What it Means
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival.
We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolás Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.
This is What it Means
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival.
We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolás Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.
Recording Richard Aldag’s Piano Sonata for an upcoming album of Aldag’s works on Albany Records
