Glenview Classical Series presents Berkelium String Quartet, as they make their way through the Beethoven quartet cycle. Their current program consists of 3 Beethoven quartets, one from each of his style periods, and all in the key of F. 

Program:

Op. 18 No. 1

Op. 95

Intermission

Op. 135

Daniel Darmesin Flanagan - Violin

Karen Shinozaki Sor - Violin

Jacob Hansen-Joseph - Viola

Michael Graham - Cello

St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland

1658 Excelsior Ave. 94602

$20 Suggested Donation NOTAFLOF

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The Berkelium String Quartet is a new chamber ensemble of celebrated Bay Area musicians, founded in September 2024. They hold degrees from Yale University, Juilliard School of Music, UC Berkeley, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Bern Conservatory of Music. They perform with SF Opera, SF Ballet, SF Chamber Orchestra, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony, and hold principal positions with Berkeley Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Santa Rosa Symphony, and West Edge Opera. They have taught at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, SF State, Mills College, and The Crowden School. These musicians have performed solo and chamber performances across the US and Europe, and collectively, they have premiered hundreds of new works. Their primary focus as theBerkelium String Quartet is the seminal works of the string quartet repertoire, with a special focus on the sixteen quartets of Beethoven. The inaugural season included performances at The Senger House, Piedmont Center for the Arts, and Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts. The 2024-25 season includes performances at The Senger House (Berkeley), Berkeley Hillside Club, Music on the Hill (SF), Noontime Concerts (SF), Arc Gallery (SF), Toiyabe Chamber Music Society (NV), and a curated film/concert series at The New Parkway Theater (Oakland).

Berkelium: [ber-kee-lee-uhm] is a synthetic chemical element discovered in and named after the city of Berkeley in 1949. Bk

Individual players:

Daniel Darmesin Flanagan serves as Concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Concertmaster of West Edge Opera, and Instructor of Violin at University of California, Berkeley. Flanagan created The Bow and the Brush, an organization that commissions new music inspired by paintings and sculptures. With over 30 chamber and solo works, he has performed solo recitals across the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, University of California, Boston University, University of Rome, Stern Pissarro Gallery, and The American Library in Paris. Several of these compositions can be heard on his album, The Bow and the Brush, released by MSR Classics. Flanagan has performed as concertmaster with the Oakland Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, California Symphony, California Musical Theater, Festival Opera, Symphony San Jose, Modesto Symphony, and Opera Parallèle. He performs regularly with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Trio Solano, Berkelium String Quartet, and Eco Ensemble. As a composer, he has been commissioned by International Arts Educators Forum, Cecilia String Quartet, Trio Solano, Farallon Quintet, Hunter’s Point Shipyard Artists, Shipyard Gallery, Gold Coast Chamber Players, Le Petit Festival, and numerous musician colleagues.

A familiar face on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, Karen Shinozaki Sor (violin) is the Principal Second Violin of the Santa Rosa Symphony. She also performs with the Marin Symphony and as a regular substitute in the San Francisco Ballet and Opera Orchestras. As a founding member of the Grammy-nominated New Century Chamber Orchestra, she has concertized across Europe and the United States. Karen is a frequent chamber music collaborator, appearing with diverse groups including the Santa Rosa Chamber Players, Music at the Mission and the Sor Ensemble.A Bay Area native, she received her BA from UC Berkeley as a student of Serban Rusu of Tiburon, then continued her studies as a recipient of a Hertz Traveling Fellowship at the Konservatorium für Musik Bern, Switzerland with Professor Igor Ozim. 

Jacob Hansen-Joseph (viola) has a varied career as a freelance musician in his native Bay Area. Aside from appearing with many of the regional symphony orchestras and with touring Broadway productions, he is a founding member of the Oakland based Town Quartet, the unofficial resident string quartet of Oakland CA. He has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein, Glimmerglass, and Spoletto festival orchestras as well as the orchestra of the New York City Ballet and is currently principal violist of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and assistant principal violist of the Berkeley Symphony. Joseph has performed in chamber music recitals with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, The Claremont Trio, and with pianist Alon Goldstein and violist Toby Appel, as well as sharing the stage with the likes of Johnny Mathis, The Eagles, The Moody Blues, and Nick Cave among others. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard in the studio of Toby Appel. 

Michael Graham (cello) performs with the Oakland Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, Vitamin Em, in San Francisco productions of Broadway musicals, and on tour with singer/songwriter Van Morrison. He has taught and coached at Mills College, San Francisco State University, California State University East Bay, Sacramento State University, Santa Clara University, and the Crowden School. His students have included members, principal cellists, and concerto soloists with the Young People’s Chamber Orchestra, the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Youth Orchestra. 

As part of the Glenview Classical Series, which presents accessible concerts featuring a wide variety of music by local Bay Area musicians, Women Composers Collective presents a program featuring music for piano trio, with select pieces incorporating voice and percussion. There will be an intermission with a reception.

Works by:
Ariel Wang*
Lillian Yee
Rebecca Hass
Irene Sazer
Laura Klein*
Gail Gallagher*

* premieres of new works

Performed by:

Irene Sazer, violin

Jessica Ivry, cello

Rebecca Hass, piano

Laura Klein, piano

Lillian Yee, percussion, voice

$20 NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds)

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Join Emily Brown and friends for a performance of new experimental folk songs weaving together images of domestic life, new motherhood, and divine abstraction.

$20, NOTAFLOF

A scholarly concert about the music of Fanny Hensel, featuring multiple world premieres! With Town Quartet and Monica Chew.

In 'DEAR CAMILLA', violinist Patrick Galvin honors the profound influence of his former teacher, Camilla Wicks, through a heartfelt program of works for violin and piano. Joined by pianist Jennifer Hou, Galvin performs music by Sibelius, Chopin, Kroll, Chausson, Higdon, Pärt, and Beach in a moving tribute to a mentor whose guidance shaped his musical path.

Ayla Swihart’s concert debuts her original songwriting, and will also feature lots of covers including FreeKey favorites: “Lopin’ Through the Cosmos” and “Your Life Is The Wheel”. It’s a free, small, and very DIY show (there will be snacks as well).

Pianist and co-conductor of the Free Key Choir, Nuxia Peng, makes her debut as a classical soloist! She'll also be joined by some friends for the 2nd half which will be her original music.

Promo materials for this concert are available:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djhaoBK0RIU

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We are so pleased to announce another installment of New Music by Local Composers on Sunday July 6th at 4PM at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland, featuring music by Monica Chew, Marissa Deitz, Mary Fineman, Dmitri Glickman, Anderew MacIver, Emil Margolis, Lewis Patzner, Sean Emmet Thompson, and Ariel Wang, and performed by Town Quartet and Monica Chew. 

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On Thursday, May 15th at 7:30 pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland the songwriters of the pieces featured in the Reservoir concerts will be kicking off the Free Key weekend with a show of their own.  The evening will feature Lucy Broom, Waterstrider, Nüxia Peng, Liana Warren, and Derek Sup sharing a couple of their songs and talking about their music.  It will be a free show but donations are welcome!  All donations will go straight to the songwriters to support their amazing artistry.  Come meet the amazing artists behind this very special project!

The founders of the Glenview Classical Series, Lewis Patzner and Derek Sup, will be performing a program they’ve dubbed The French Connection, featuring works by French composers from the Baroque era to the 20th century. They’ve also composed brand new works for each other for cello and piano which will be premiered at this concert. Suggested donation of $20 NOTAFLOF.

Continuing our support of the research project of the Bay Area's preeminent violist, Jacob Hansen-Joseph, this concert focuses on 3 Czech-born composers who lived in Vienna during the time of Beethoven. Reicha is the headliner, along with Pavel Wranitzky and Leopold Kozeluch. All 3 string quartets on the program are unjustly underperformed! The group is Patrick Galvin and Shawyon Malek-Salehi on violins, Jacob on viola, and Lewis Patzner on cello. The concert is at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland. 1658 Excelsior Ave, Oakland.

From March 20-25, the Willamette University Chamber Choir (alma mater of series director Derek Sup) will perform in and around northern California, with stops in Novato, San Francisco, and Sacramento. They will be hosted by the Glenview Classical Series on the evening of Thursday, March 20th at 7:30 pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland, 1658 Excelsior Ave Oakland CA 94602.

The tour concert program will draw from a variety of styles and time periods, featuring compositions by Paul Hindemith, Josquin des Prez, Reena Esmail, and Oliver Tarney, as well as folk songs from Germany, Italy, and the Philippines. The program will also include Jake Runestad's "A Silence Haunts Me" for piano and chorus—an impassioned work that explores heartbreak, loss, and resilience of the human spirit, inspired by Beethoven's words and music. Featured on piano will be recent WU music alumna, Trinity Goff '24.

Members of the community are welcome to join the Chamber Choir along their tour. All events listed below are free and open to the public. For more info, email Dr. Song at asong@willamette.edu or Tour Coordinator Jaylah Bennett at jmbennett@willamette.edu.

Echo Chamber Orchestra presents a program highlighting the musical talents of Oakland, CA opening with Alexis Alrich’s piece “Canoeing at Silver Lake”, followed by the world premiere of Ariel Wang’s brand new orchestral suite “Integration”. Clarinetist Kyle Beard will be the soloist for Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1, and the concert will close with Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo and Finale.

Program notes: https://www.echorchestra.com/coming-soon-03

Tickets: $20-40+ sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds

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The Town Quartet Collective brings you a program of new and old, with the Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No.2, plus additional works by Lewis Patzner, Piazzolla, Puccini, and more!

Violins: Sarah Biagini and Michele Walther
Viola: Jacob Hansen-Joseph
Cello: Lewis Patzner

Tickets: $20 at the door

Glenview Classical Series continues it's misison to reframe classical music for the modern era by presenting a concert of Brazillian Choro with Grupo Falso Baiano. Featuring music educators from local schools, Edna Brewer Middle School and Glenview Elementary, the concert will honor choro's 150-year legacy. 

Grupo Falso Baiano is Ami Molinelli (percussion), Brian Moran (7-string guitar), Jesse Appelman (mandolin), and Zack Pitt-Smith (reeds).

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Two friends, one from Alaska, one from Australia, go on a musical pilgrimage that explores the question: What is home?

Come and enjoy an eclectic evening of Robert Schumann and Joni Mitchell, JS Bach and Regina Spektor. Join a voyage that will navigate through the song traditions of Australia to 17th century Italy, Romantic-era Europe to Hollywood, Irish folk songs to American pop, and even a short visit to Mars. 

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Amorophosis features a collection of original music written by Bay Area based instrumentalist and composer Nathan Swedlow. This program carries echoes of ambient dreamscapes, 1930’s ballrooms, DIY basements, jazz clubs, and classical recital halls. 

Jacob Swedlow - Drums

Neil Heaton - Piano

Levi Saelua - Saxophone

Nathan Swedlow - Bass, Composition, Arrangement

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Tammy Dyer, Rebecca Wishnia, Jacob Hansen-Joseph, and Lewis Patzner, are performing a concert of string quartet music by lesser known composers in the Classical Era, Asplmayr, Eybler, and Eberl. For a century, we have been content with just Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and maybe a smattering of Boccherini, for our Classical Era string quartet fix, and that music is great, but their output is a small percentage of the music written at that time in this genre. In the digital age, we now have unparalleled access to a vast amount of sheet music in the public domain. Musicians, musicologists, and audiences, are now tasked with sorting through this unfamiliar music, and curation is needed. This concert is one step towards answering the question: What is the best Classical Era string quartet music by people other than the most famous composers?

Asplmayr Op. 2 No. 6 in E Flat

Eybler Op. 1 No. 1 in D

Intermission

Eberl Op. 13 No. 1 in E Flat

Tammy Dyer - Violin

Rebecca Wishnia - Violin

Jacob Hansen-Joseph - Viola

Lewis Patzner - Cello

Quinteto Latino on Friday, March 22nd, at 7:30PM

Program:

Wapango
Paquito D’Rivera, (b. 1948, Cuba)

Egrégoras
Marcus Siqueira, (b. 1974, Brazil)

The Spanglish Dances (Quinteto Latino commission)
Victor Márquez-Barrios, (b. 1977, Venezuela)
One
Interlude 1: Perlitas
Waltz for Kyle
Interlude 2: De Hielo
Cinco

El Recreo, La Cumbia, Los Vikingos, y otras Miniaturas (Quinteto Latino commission)
Paul Desenne, (1959-2023, Venezuela)

Talk Back
Audience members are encouraged to ask questions about the performers, the composers, the music they’ve heard, anything!

Mambo
Eugenio Toussaint, (1954-2011, México)

Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, (1921-1992, Argentina)

The Synergy Chamber Players offers a program of string quartets by Barber, Suk, Perkinson, Montgomery, and Piazzolla

$20, No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF)

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The Piedmont Chamber Players Present:
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

Milhaud                    Pastorale for Woodwind Trio 
Koechlin                   Pastorale for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Rimsky - Korsakov     Quintet for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano 
Intermission 

Villa-Lobos                Choros 2 for Flute and Clarinet
Poulenc                    Sextuor

Piedmont Chamber Players
Martha Stoddard, Flute
Jan Davis, Oboe
Marcelo Meira, Clarinet
Alex Stepans, Horn
Adam Williams, Bassoon
Stanley Wolfersberger, Piano

Glenview Classical Series proudly presents an ambitious program of instrumental and vocal chamber music by local composers. Headlining the concert is "The Green Revolution," a food science chamber opera by Lewis Patzner. Is gluten-rich wheat good for humanity??? Also on the program are brand new song cycles by Marissa Deitz, Derek Sup, and Ariel Wang, and string quartets by Spencer Jordan and Michele Walther. Every piece is a world premiere, performed by the Town Qartet Collective!

Featuring: Emili Rice, Rachel Rush, Derek Sup, Bradley Kynard, Marissa Deitz, Michele Walther, Ariel Wang, Jacob Hansen Joseph, Misha Khalikulov, Lewis Patzner, and Eric Price.

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Bay Area based producer Konix creates classical music inspired beats that combine classical era instruments and melodies with 808’s and trap snares. On the evening of November 17th, these songs will be brought to life for the first time by the arrangements of Derek Sup and Lewis Patzner, who will be joined by a chamber ensemble featuring bassoon, flute, recorder, clarinet, cello, violin, organ, and harpsichord. An evening surely not to be missed!

Tickets: Eventbrite or at the door