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Quinteto Latino at Chico State
Chico Performances has been presenting stellar events for over 40 years. QL looks forward to making their debut there with a unique program of traditional and contemporary music by Latina/o/e composers. Come to Chico State’s lovely Arts Recital Hall for music of Paquito d’Rivera, Gabriela Ortiz, Gabriela Lena Frank and many more!
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2pm
$41 | youth age 17 and under $17 | Chico State student $17
West Oakland Sound Series
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Duo performance with flutist Meerenai Shim
Bay Area flutists Diane and Meeranai Shim perform Robert Dick’s duo Time is a Two Way Street. Meerenai will premiere Whispers on the Wind for flute and electronics by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker. Diane will perform Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronism No. 1 for flute and pre-recorded tape, Dai Fujikura’s Glacier for bass flute, and Alyssa Aska’s Circles.lines for glissando flute & tape.
The second half of the evening features The Holy Martins, Kasey Knudsen (alto saxophone), Lorin Benedict (voice), and Eric Vogler (guitar). They have been playing in this configuration for over 15 years, during which time the group has explored a broad range of composed music (written by them and by others), improvised game pieces, and collective free improvisation. The nucleus of their approach is rooted in the jazz idiom, writ large, but the conspicuous absence of a “rhythm section” pushes the team in directions bordering on the altogether unfamiliar.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
West Oakland Sound Series
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Mezzacappa’s Music for More Than a Few of Us
Silvia Matheus (computer and electronic music composer, sound artist, and improviser) teams up with Ric Louchard (pianist, composer, and improviser) to create The VisitoR, a performance where electronics and acoustics meet and interact. The VisitoR goes beyond a simple two-person conversation, embracing a lively interplay of actions that flow freely. The soundscape blends algorithmically generated sounds with fixed compositions, all layered with live-processed acoustic elements, creating a rich and dynamic auditory experience. This piece will be presented in a multiple-speaker configuration.
Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa presents a set of new and newly-arranged works for improvising large ensemble, featuring members of sfSound, the oakland reductionist orchestra, and special guests. Exploring noisy abstraction, gnarly grooves and austere lyricism, her compositions incorporate graphic notation, game strategies, and conducted improvisation to engage a spirit of play and exploration.
Performers:
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Hallie Smith, violin
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Ron Heglin, trombone
Monica Scott, cello
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
Lisa Mezzacappa, double bass
Brett Carson, pianoChris Cooper, electronics
Kjell Nordeson, drums
Sunday, October 20, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
West Oakland Sound Series
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Bertoncini & Lehn | Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
Tiziana Bertoncini (Italy) and Thomas Lehn (Germany), violin and analogue synthesizer, move in an abstract territory, their approach to sound is contemporary. Nevertheless their consideration to music is quite classical insofar as based principally on tension/release, rupture, intensity and expressivity in all its facets.
The concert concludes with the duo joining THE OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA in an improvised set. A supergroup of local musicians with a predilection for lowercase/fricative/reductionist acoustic improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic, this ensemble grows out of a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that flourished in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
Performers:
Hallie Smith, violin
Danishta Rivero, voice
Cody Putman, bassoon
Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Kevin CK Lo, violin/flute/piano
Cheryl E. Leonard, natural-object instruments
John Ingle, saxophones
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Ron Heglin, tuba
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
Chris Cooper, objects, electronics
Sunday, September 29, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Wendy Reid’s Ambient Bird
A performance with Wendy Reid and ensemble, including live and pre-recorded African grey parrot, blue parrotlet and green parrotlet.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Live Oak Park
1301 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA
6pm
FREE
Celebrating Elliott Carter
Join sfSoundGroup for a rare evening celebrating the music of Elliott Carter, featuring sextets, trios, and duos that span 70 years of his career. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the creativity and innovation of one of the 20th century’s most remarkable composers.
Performers:
Sam Weiser, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
John Ingle, alto saxophone, conductor
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Sunday, September 22, 2024
7pm
$10-$25
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
Quinteto Latino in Edmonds
QL travels to Washington state to perform at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The performance will feature works of D’Rivera, Piazzolla, Frank, Ponce and others!
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
2pm
Edmonds Center for the Arts
410 4th Ave. N
Edmonds, WA
QL at Yerba Buena
Quinteto Latino performs for the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. This delightful, free, lunchtime series is perfect for the quintet’s blend of folk, contemporary and playful music by Latin-American composers.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
12:30pm
FREE!
Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission Street (bet 3rd & 4th Streets)
San Francisco
Merry Wives of Windsor
Pocket Opera presents Otto Nicolai’s playful setting of Shakespeare’s comedy.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, June 23, 2024
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 30, 2024
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
Diane Grubbe has appeared as a soloist with the Siena Music Festival in Italy, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Notre Dame in San Francisco and the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra in Southern California, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto for their CD The Baroque Concerto.