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

Cash, Credit cards, PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, and Check will be accepted at the door

Presale online (please note that it is for the February 9th concert):

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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)

Tickets:
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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!

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CANCELED/RE-SCHEDULED - Melinda Becker + Friction Quartet

This event has been re-scheduled, and the website will be updated when we know the date. Apologies for any inconvenience!

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Songs of Love, Life, and Memory

Contemporary Classical & Ranchera Songs for Mezzo Soprano & String Quartet

Melinda Becker and Friction Quartet present Canto Caló, a collection of songs by Nicolas Benavides that explore the process of keeping memory and culture alive. They will also perform an eclectic mix of works in English and Spanish by Caroline Shaw and Raymundo Pérez y Soto, crossing genres from contemporary classical to ranchera.

Featuring:

Melinda Becker - Mezzo soprano

Doug Machiz - Cello

Otis Harriel - Violin

Kevin Rogers - Violin

Mitso Floor - Viola

Melinda Martinez Becker’s New Mexican and Jewish heritage has shaped her career as a performer of art song in Spanish, Ladino, Yiddish and a variety of other languages. As a soloist and chamber musician, she is recognized for her expressive interpretations of diverse repertoire, such as baroque, new, and experimental music.

Melinda’s collaborations with emerging new music composers and ensembles include projects with Nicolas Lell Benavides, Emily Koh, Friction Quartet, Brian Baumbusch, the Musical Art Quintet, and as a soloist with the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra.

She is dedicated to performing, championing, and the education of music by underrepresented groups, including BIPOC and female composers. In 2023 she will join forces with Friction Quartet to record Canto Caló, an album of music by Nicolas Lell Benavides, on Innova Recordings.

Friction Quartet exists to modernize the chamber music experience and expand the string quartet repertoire. Friction achieves this mission by commissioning new works, curating imaginative programs, collaborating with artists, and presenting interactive educational outreach. Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle) has declared them, “The Bay Area's redoubtable new-music ensemble.”

Since forming in 2011, Friction has commissioned fifty works for string quartet and given world premiere performances of more than eighty works. They won Second Prize in the 2016 Schoenfeld Competition, were quarter-finalists in the 2015 Fischoff Competition, and placed second at the 2015 Frances Walton Competition.

Friction appears on recordings with National Sawdust Tracks, Innova Records, Albany Records, and Pinna Records. They released their full-length debut album, resolve, in 2018.

Melinda Becker: www.melindabecker.com

Friction Quartet: www.frictionquartet.com

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The name of the quintet is taken from The Musical Art Quartet, a string quartet formed in the 1920's and led by the great-grandfather and namesake of the bassist and composer for the quintet, Sascha Jacobsen.

Although classically trained, the quintet are skilled improvisers and each one brings a special area of expertise: Jazz, Argentine Tango, Afro-Cuban Son, or Klezmer.

The music of band leader Sascha Jacobsen propels the group with rhythmic, lyrical, modern compositions, and new arrangements of pieces by great composers.

The Quintet has cemented its status as a top chamber ensemble with recent recordings with the Nuevo Flamenco guitarist Stevan Pasero (Twelve Shades of Night, 2011, Sugo records) and with the Argentine Tango group Trio Garufa (El Rumor de tus Tangos, 2012, Garufa records) and Doug Beavers 2015 release: Titanes del Trombone.

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Glenview Classical Series is proud to present a fundraiser for the Bay Area Big Band! Started by Frank and Roberta Como and Oz Ramsey in 1983, there have been a number of composers/arrangers in the band over the years including the Comos. They wrote and played for a number of bands in New York including the Lionel Hampton Band. The Bay Area Big Band meets weekly and members participate for their own musical fulfillment. However, there are costs involved, like renting space and aquiring sheet music, so this concert will help them pay for those costs and ensure the health of the band for years to come.

The program will be a journey through different eras of big band music, including new originals!

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Dreams and Dances for Violin and Piano

Paul Schoenfield - Country Fiddle Pieces
Olivier Messiaen - Theme & Variations
Gabriela Lena Frank - Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album
Monica Chew - Glances and premiere of a new work!
Alisa Rose - Nocturne for America, and premiere of a new work!

Tickets at the door and online at: Groupmuse