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“The Spanglish Dances” premiere
Quinteto Latino performs their latest commission, The Spanglish Dances by Victor Márquez-Barrios, Puzzle-Tocas by Gabriela Ortiz, multiple winds in the distance by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and another QL commission, Felipe Nieto-Sáchica’s C U Z A – four nocturnes for wind quintet.
Friday, April 7, 2023
8pm
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street
San Francisco
$15 General
$10 Members & Students
QL and Bruno Ruviaro at Mosswood
Quinteto Latino presents three works: Gabriela Ortiz’ Puzzle-Tocas, Orlando Jacinto Garcia’s multiple winds in the distance, and a QL commission, C U Z A – four nocturnes for wind quintet, by Felipe Nieto-Sáchica.
Happy to share this concert with long-time colleagues from Quinteto Latino, Bruno Ruviaro will play a set of live coding electronic improvisations based on reworked samples of Brazilian music.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
2pm
Mosswood Sound Series
3630 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland
$10 – $25
Yasushi and Friends
Acclaimed violinist Yasushi Ogura, concertmaster for many Bay Area orchestras and operas (including Jarvis Conservatory’s many zarzuelas, Pocket Opera and many others), will perform with flutist Diane Grubbe
and pianist Frank Johnson (host of “It’s a Grand Night for Singing”) in a program of chamber music.
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 (“Spring”) in F major
Handel Trio Sonata in g minor (HWV 393)
Gieseking Sonatine for flute and piano
Saturday, October 15
7pm
Jarvis Conservatory
1711 Main Street
Napa, CA
$10 – $25
more information here
Ambient Bird
A performance with Wendy Reid and ensemble, including live and pre-recorded African grey parrot, blue parrotlet and green parrotlet.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Live Oak Park
Berkeley, CA
6pm
Free
QL Seminario 2022
On August 4-7, 2022, Quinteto Latino presented Seminario, a biennial conference of Latino musicians from around the United States, exploring the intersections of identity, artistry, and racial equity in the classical music field. As part of this intensive, co-hosted by San Jose State University, the public was invited to view the opening plenary and the culminating concert featuring Seminario cohort musicians.
Thursday, August 4-7, 2022
Seminario 2022
San José State University
sfSound Group & Giacomo Fiore
Guitarist GIACOMO FIORE presents a pair of just intonation works: CATHERINE LAMB’S point/wave (2015) and LARRY POLANSKY’S freeHorn (2004).
sfSoundGroup performs two iconic 20th century works of chamber music: GÉRARD GRISEY’S bracing Talea(1986) and the premiere of a transcription of BRUNO MADERNA’S rarely performed, beguiling Serenata N.2(1956).
Friday, July 22, 2022
8pm
Mosswood Sound Series
3630 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland
$10 – $25
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
Pocket Opera presents Offenbach’s opéra bouffe poking fun at militarism in general and at a young Grand Duchess specifically who learns that she cannot always get her way.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Friday, June 17, 2022
7pm
Jarvis Conservatory
1711 Main Street
Napa
Sunday, June 19, 2022
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 26, 2022
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Grisey, Oliveros & Sciarrino
SFSOUNDGROUP performs three iconic chamber music works from the late 20th century:
GÉRARD GRISEY – Talea (1986)
PAULINE OLIVEROS – The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)
SALVATORE SCIARRINO – Lo Spazio Inverso (1985)
The “house band” for the Mosswood Sound Series, SFSOUNDGROUP is a unique collection of performer-composers that have presented their own compositions, improvisations, new commissions, electronic music, and standard avant-garde repertoire for over two decades. With a mix of works from the European, American, and contemporary Californian avant-garde, their concerts explore the continuum between notated composition and free improvisation, often sounding more “electronic” than “acoustic.”
Friday, May 13, 2022
8pm
Mosswood Sound Series
3630 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland
$10 – $25
Welch, Grubbe & Allen @ Mosswood
Matthew Welch presents a solo set focusing on Anthony Braxton’s#247, a species of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music written especially for Welch’s bagpipes.
Diane Grubbe performs Mario Lavista’s Lamento for bass flute and Orlando Jacinto García’s cuando el mar besa al Malecón for piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and electronics.
Tenor Saxophonist Josh Allen performs a solo improvisation that strives to present non linear visual concepts in sonic linear form.
Friday, May 6, 2022
8pm
Mosswood Sound Series
3630 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland
$10 – $25
“Searsville, 1891-2015”
Composer Marc Evanstein’s composition based on pollen data from a sediment core in Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Through this translation from data to music, listeners are offered a window into the dynamic and interconnected quality of the natural world, and the way in which this balance has been impacted by human activities over the last 120 years. Watch the discussion and performance here.
Diane Grubbe, flute solo
Leslie Tagorda, clarinet solo
Stanford New Ensemble & members of Quinteto Latino
May 7, 2022
Stanford University
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.