Being Alive: a Solo Recital for Voice by Rowan Katz
"Being Alive" is the first formal solo recital for voice presented by vocalist, composer, and artist Rowan Katz. Comprised of carefully selected works from classical, contemporary, and world folk genres, their repertoire ensconces a profound look into the artist's personal values and lived experience, inviting the audience into reflection upon what it means to Choose Life; to grieve openly and communally, to dream and love unabashedly, and to stand unwaveringly in the Avodat Kodesh of Tikkun Olam - or the sacred and brutal work of healing what is broken, and remembering we are still whole.
Rowan will be joined by noted accompanists Nuxia and Jef Labes, with support from Derek Sup, Nathan Swedlow, Lauren Biglow, and more.
Poster design by Micah Rivera.
Quinteto Latino
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)
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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)
Synergy Chamber Players: Great Perspectives
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:
glenview-classical-series.ticketleap.com/great-perspectives-w-synergy-chamber-players/
The Piedmont Chamber Players Present: CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
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
Free Key Choir
The Free Key Choir returns with new pieces by choir members Bella Hangnail, Rowan Katz, Cai Freeman, Marissa Deitz, Judith Horn, and more. There will be three concerts, but purchase your tickets quickly as every show has sold out in the past.
All three dates are at:
First Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 7:30pm
Saturday, December 16, 2023 - 7:30pm
Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 5:00pm
Tickets: Free Key Choir, and at the door
The Green Revolution and More New Music by Local Composers
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.
Tickets: Ticketleap
Konix Unplugged
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
CANCELED/RE-SCHEDULED - Melinda Becker + Friction Quartet
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
Tickets: Eventbrite or at the door
Musical Art Quintet
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.
Tickets: Eventbrite or at the door
Bay Area Big Band Fundraiser Concert
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!
Tickets: Eventbrite or at the door
Kitka
Kitka is an American women’s vocal arts ensemble inspired by traditional songs and vocal techniques from Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Alisa Rose and Monica Chew
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
Vox Musica featuring Molly Pease
Vox Musica, treble voice choir from Sacramento, featuring Molly Pease. “Ode to the Earth and Sky,” presenting new and innovative works that speak to the relationship between our planet, sky, sun, and moon. Music by local composers Derek Sup, Molly Pease, Adam Ward, and Sarah Walk.
Two Roads Trio
Ian Scarfe, piano, returns with Soprano, Jamie-Rose Guanine, and cellist, Karl Knapp, as the Two Roads Trio, performing a new song cycle, “To Keep The Dark Away” by Scott Gendel, as well as music by Chopin, Liszt, C. Schumann, and more.
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