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© 2016 dpdp SFMUSIC DAY Sunday September 25, 2016

12:45 Montclair Women’s Big Band ** page 43 1:30 Kasey Knudsen Sextet** page 39 intermission 2:45 Friction Quartet page 36 3:30 Redwood Tango Ensemble** page 47 4:15 Dialogue - Ben Goldberg & Myra Melford** page 32 intermission 5:30 Del Sol page 21 6:15 page 22 7:00 page 23 HERBST THEATER HERBST

12:00 Sunset Duo** page 51 12:45 martha & monica page 41 1:30 Delphi Trio page 31 intermission 2:45 SF Conservatory of Music Faculty Artists Quartet page 17 3:15 Telegraph Quartet page 18 3:55 Chamber Music Society of San Francisco page 19 4:30 Thalea Quartet page 20 intermission 5:30 New Esterházy Quartet page 46

THE GREEN ROOM 6:15 Earplay page 33 7:00 Vajra Voices** page 54

early & chamber music contemporary & new music jazz & creative music

** Presidio Sessions Artists _ concert schedule page 63 2 . SFMusic Day 2016 LIVE + FREE 12 noon - 8:00pm

12:00 The String Quartet—The First 250 Years by Kai Christiansen page 8 12:30 St. Lawrence String Quartet page 15 1:45 Sunrise Quartet page 48 intermission 2:45 A|B Duo** page 26 3:30 Strobe** page 50 4:15 Black Cedar page 27 intermission 5:30 Nathan Clevenger Group page 30 6:15 Phillip Greenlief - BARBEDWIRE page 37 Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater Atrium Taube Dianne and Tad ATRIUM THEATER ATRIUM 7:00 VNote Ensemble** page 55

12:00 Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood Ensemble page 48 12:45 Rova Saxophone Quartet** page 49 1:30 LIEDER ALIVE ! page 40 intermission 2:45 Lisa Mezzacappa’s avantNOIR** page 42 3:30 Ian Carey Quintet + 1 page 29 4:15 Akira Tana | Otonawa page 52 Diane B. Wilsey Center for for Center Wilsey Diane B. intermission

John M. Bryan Studio Education M. John 5:30 tbd_a quartet** page 53 6:15 David James’s GPS** page 38 7:00 Terrence Brewer Quartet page 28 EDUCATION STUDIO EDUCATION

2016 field report the string quartet - the first 250 years presented by Kai Christiansen

SFMusic Day 2016 . 3 SFMusic Marketplace Visit the SFMusic Marketplace in the main lobby to chat with rep- resentatives of the Bay Area’s chamber music presenting and music service organizations and receive information about their upcoming seasons, events and programs. Learn how their work contributes to the richness of our musical community and meet musicians from the SFMusic Day performing ensembles.

SFMusic Marketplace participants Berkeley Chamber Performances . BeMusic.al . Cal Performances Community Music Center . The Crowden School . Earplay Roland Feller Violins . Jazz in the Neighboorhood . Morrison Artist Series . Music at Kohl Mansion . Noe Valley Chamber Music Old First Concerts

Refreshments A pop-up “plaza” offering unique and delicious dishes and drinks will link the inside and outside of the Veterans Building. Family owned and operated food trucks will be parked on Van Ness Street right out front, and the War Memorial’s own C+M Cafe will ex- pand into the front lobby until 6:00. Prepare to lounge and enjoy in comfort all day long!

4 . SFMusic Day 2016 Welcome to SFMusic Day . Live + Free!

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” Henry David Thoreau Last year my friend, colleague and SFMusic Day 2015 curator Kevin Chen used this quote to describe his own relationship to music, to jazz, and to the community of music lovers in the Bay Area. In this current year, so fraught with injustice and vulnerability, Thoreau’s wisdom seems even more poignant, and crucially relevant.

It with great anticipation and excitement that I write to greet you to this year’s SF Music Day Live + Free. I am certain that Music Day, with its friendly atmosphere and sheer quantity of music free to the public, will be a day to remember. I anticipate that for many of you, your experiences will be firsts…perhaps the first time that you hear jazz in a concert hall, and can really listen to every note? Perhaps you have never heard a hurdy-gurdy in real life? Perhaps a first live string quartet?

I myself have vivid memories of my two first experiences with string quartets. A friend in Amsterdam invited me to hear the . We arrived in the disused warehouse that had been transformed into a new art and music space - and I was surprised to see only four large speakers. It turned out the quartet members were each in a separate helicopter hovering above the city, their playing broadcast into the hall, mixed at a console by the composer - Karlheinz Stockhausen.

On the other side of the spectrum, my future wife took me to hear her friends, the from Prague, playing Haydn quartets in Paris. It was such a fervent performance; their CD of the Opus 76 quartets remains one of my favorite recordings to listen to time and time again.

I love the idea that Music Day may be the memory bank that holds fond recollections many years from now. The richness of the medium of chamber music has inspired composers and players for hundreds of years.The history of the string quartet tells an epic story of humanity through four centu- ries - and the instruments of today will continue to flourish and inspire for centuries to come.

While I welcome you to savor the rich palette of sounds that await you, I en- courage you to take risks, knowing that no matter the genre or style of music, musicians are sharing their most intimate and honest passions with you.

Dominique Pelletey Executive Director SFMusic Day 2016 . 5 18 OctOber 2016 triO brillante Delight in the rich timbres of clarinet, and piano.

6 December 2016 GalaX Quartet with cOntraltO Karen clarK Enjoy conversations between tradition and innovation through Baroque instruments and voice.

10 January 2017 FarallOn Quintet Savor the engaging sounds of past and present with clarinet and strings.

7 march 2017 FreQuency 49 Celebrate Women’s History Month in style with this stellar wind and piano sextet.

25 april 2017 with pianiSt GWenDOlyn mOK Thrill to the scintillating musicianship of these local heroes.

All concerts at 8 PM, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley www.berkeleychamberperform.org email: [email protected] 510-525-5211 Come make music with us!

Private Lessons Ensemble Classes Theory & Musicianship Performance Opportunities Summer Music Camps Concerts and Hall Rentals Instrument Rentals Scholarships & Financial Aid

People of all ages, abilities and financial means are welcome.

Mission District Branch (Main) Richmond District Branch 544 Capp St. San Francisco 741 30th Ave., San Francisco (415) 647-6015 (415) 221-4515 www.sfcmc.org 2016 Field Report The String Quartet—The First 250 Years

A string quartet combines four independent but meticulous- ly coordinated players featuring closely related instruments from the violin family: two violins, viola and cello. Perfected in the late 17th century by master Italian luthiers, these are among the supreme instruments of the Western tradition. A bowed string can produce a huge range of sounds from the initial percussive at- tack to the extended draw featuring everything from a whisper to an electric growl with such beautiful, resonant singing in between. A quartet of bowed instruments spans a sonic range of sev- eral octaves from bass (the cello) to soprano (the violin) with a dynamic range from soft to loud. Although each player is generally restricted to a single, singing line (chords are possible but relatively infrequent), the four parts can combine to sound the richest harmo- nies as a perfectly blended whole, or diverge into a complex web of counterpoint and innumerable tex- tures between these extremes. Each voice is impor- tant, exposed, transparent but engaged in conversa- tional give and take, with solos, duets, trios and quartets ever changing in a fluid texture. Perhaps less obvious is the remarkable rhythmic capability of a string quartet: with virtuosic agility in the fingers and the bow, a quartet can achieve an astonishing range of rhythms from a nearly static sheen to the most violent, rocking groove. The time keeping percussive effects are “embedded” in the sound, inseparable from the pitches and sonorities of the notes themselves.

The String Quartet’s Beginnings The string quartet was born sometime around 1760. Following the Baroque Era that ended around 1750, at least a few early classical composers began composing for string quartet, but ex- act composition dates are difficult to determine. The Austrian composer Jo- seph Haydn is appropriately named the father of the string quartet, but he was not the first or the only one, although he quickly became greatest. His creative genius and lifelong dedication produced a series of outstanding quar- tets that defined the new genre, closely entwined with the emerging Classical

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The String Quartet—The First 250 Years

St. Lawrence String Quartet Geoff Nuttall and Owen Dalby, violin . Lesley Robertson, viola . Christopher Costanza, cello

Established in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) has developed an undisputed reputation as one of the world’s great ensembles. Called “witty, buoyant, and wickedly attentive” (The Gazette, Montreal), with a “peerless” sense of ensemble (Financial Times, London), the SLSQ performs around the world and has served as Ensemble-in-Residence at since 1998.

The St. Lawrence continues to build its reputation for imaginative and spontaneous music-making through an energetic commitment to the great established quartet literature, as well as the champi- oning of new works by such composers as John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Ezequiel Vinao and Jonathan Berger. In recent seasons, SLSQ has paid special attention to Franz Josef Haydn with a series of concerts in which the foursome explores and unpacks the com- Sponsored by Nancy B. Ranney B. Nancy by Sponsored poser’s string quartets from various perspectives and then performs the works in their entirety. It has also enjoyed a long association with the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, where it returns each summer.

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The String Quartet—The First 250 Years

Sunrise Quartet Raushan Akhmedyarova, and Elina Lev, violin . Matthew Young, viola . Barbara Bogatin, cello

The Sunrise String Quartet is comprised of San Francisco Sym- phony members who love to play the string quartet repertoire. Formed in 2014, the ensemble has performed for the San Francis- co Symphony Chamber Music Series at Davies Symphony Hall, at Chamber Music Sundaes, the Bay Lights Community Celebration, in partnership with UCSF Hospital Music Outreach Program, and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.

As chamber musicians, the members of Sunrise String Quar- tet have performed at festivals throughout the world, including Chamber Music Northwest, Casals Festival, Lake Tahoe Sum- merfest, Arizona Music Fest, Festival Mozaic, Stockholm Summer Music, Sun Valley , Sarasota Music Festival, New of Belgium Chamber Series, Holland Music Sessions, and Paris Chateau de Champs-sur-Marnes Festival. Current rep- Sponsored by Robert and Susan Larson and Susan Robert by Sponsored ertoire includes works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Sulkhan Tsint- sadze, and Haydn.

16 . SFMusic Day 2016 sunrisestringquartet.com music dance theater 2016/17 Cal Perform ances SEASON UNIVERSITY OF , BERKELEY Esa-Pekka Salonen, principal conductor & artistic advisor Philharmonia Orchestra, London Cal Performances welcomes the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra, led by trailblazing principal conductor and artistic advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, for a residency that celebrates two themes dear to the conductor’s heart: Igor Stravinsky and California. Visit us online for the complete schedule of events and public programs.

“The energy level was irresistible and the orchestral blaze as tremendous as ever” —The Guardian

Oct 7–9

Oct 7 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 Oct 8 STRAVINSKY Fanfare for Three Trumpets Symphonies of Wind Instruments Agon The Rite of Spring Oct 9 STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex Symphony of Psalms

calperformances.org music dance theater 2016/17 Cal Perform ances SEASON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Takács Quartet Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets

A momentous occasion! Following our tradition of exploring cycles of music in context, we present a cornerstone of and one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Visit us online for the complete schedule of events and public programs.

Oct 15 & 16 March 4 & 5 April 8 & 9 HERTZ HALL, UC BERKELEY

Kronos Quartet Fifty for the Future

Featuring Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Silent Cranes, a memorial to the Armenian genocide built on Armenian folk songs.

GARTH KNOX Satellites ALEKSANDRA My Desert, My Rose VREBALOV YOTAM HABER break_break_break MARY Silent Cranes KOUYOUMDJIAN (Bay Area Premiere)

Dec 3 ZELLERBACH HALL calperformances.org • Ensemble Training (Goran Berg, Doris Fukawa, Eugene Sor, conductors) • Chamber Music for Youth and Adults • John Adams Young Composers Program • Music Fundamentals, Chorus, Suzuki Strings, Private Lessons • Also on our campus: The Crowden School for grades 4-8 provides a distinguished education with chamber music at the heart! www .crowden.org 2017 SEASON January 30 - returning to the beautiful Herbst Theatre March 20 & May 15 - ODC Theater 7:30pm; pre-show talk 6:45pm

Celebrating 32 years of stellar new music performances for Bay Area audiences Featuring works by: Patricia Alessandrini • Linda Bouchard • Cindy Cox • James Dashow • Peter Maxwell Davies • Jason Federmeyer • Eric Moe • Elena Ruhr • Laurie San Martin • Toru Takemitsu

Tickets available November 1, 2016 through our website; Toru Takemitsu Elena Ruhr Laurie San Martin you can also learn more about the ensemble, the upcoming season, sign up for our email list, and volunteer: EARPLAY.ORG

Earplay Season 32 is supported in part by the following funders: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • SF Grants for the Arts: Hotel Tax Fund • Aaron Copland Fund for Contempory Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund, Ann & Gordon Getty, Thomas J. White & Leslie Scalapino Fund, Zellerbach Family Fund, and many generous Thalia Moore, Ellen Ruth Rose, Terrie Baune, Peter individuals Josheff, Brenda Tom, Tod Brody, Mary Chun, conductor rare and contemporary instruments and bows

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Doug Morton Mule Gallery Musically Minded Chris Newton Marcelo Perez Timothy Phelan Piedmont Center for the Arts Susana Pineda Red Poppy Art House Blake Richardson Benjamin Ring Luis Salcedo Jordan Samuels Caleb Sankoh Greg Sankovich John Schott Zach Schubert Michael Schwartz John Shifflett Sammy Shufton Levi Smith Marika Tabilio Joshua Tazman Shane Turner Dillon Vado Francis Vanek Randy Vincent Joe Warner Kenny Washington Steve Webber Angela Wellman Wesla Whitfield John Wiitala Michael Wilcox Howardin Wileythe Steve Willisneighborhood Gini Wilson Faith Winthrop Matt Wong Josh Workman Nancy Wright Greg Wyser-Pratte Engin Yesilyemis Matt Zebley Dan Zemelman Michael Zilber James Zimmerman Dann Zinn Zhoushu Ziporyn

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Bringing the world’s finest Sunday, September 18 · 3:00pm chamBer music to Bay Area Alexander String Quartet audiences since 1955, the Morrison Sunday, november 6 · 3:00pm Chamber Music Center is home Inscape to the Morrison Artists Series. Sunday, december 4 · 3:00pm The Peabody Trio Led by Artistic Director Richard Festinger, the series hosts Friday, February 10 · 8:00pm The Juilliard String Quartet admission-free concerts and WedneSday, march 15 · 8:00pm master classes by internationally The Daedalus String Quartet acclaimed ensembles. Friday, april 7 · 8:00pm The Van Kuijk String Quartet Friday, april 28 · 8:00pm Calmus Tickets available online one month before concert date. morrison.sfsu.edu th Annual Season

Jasper String Quartet November 6, 2016 Andrew von Oeyen December 18, 2016 Aulos Ensemble with soprano Julianne Baird January 29, 2017 February 12, 2017 Horszowski Trio March 26, 2017 Alexander String Quartet with cellist Eric Gaenslen April 9, 2017 Ying Quartet April 30, 2017 Hermitage Piano Trio

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24th Season | 2016 -17

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TICKETS and INFO: nvcm.org | 415-648-5236 OUR 46TH SEASON Promoting Emerging and Mid-Career Musicians from the Bay Area and Beyond OCT/NOV 2016 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, AT 4PM Ives Collective Roy Malan and Susan Frier, violins; Nancy Ellis, viola Stephen Harrison, cello; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano Works by Turina, Dohnanyi and Fauré

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 4PM Grace Note Chamber Players Get Close to Claudia Bloom and Geoffrey Noer, violins; Wendy Clymer, viola, Russ Bartoli, cello; Madeline Bloom, piano the Music Works by Beethoven and Bach FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 8PM Amaranth Quartet Emily Botel and Abigail Shiman, violins Erika Zappia, viola; Helen Newby, cello Works by Schulhoff, Gabriela Lena Frank and Bartók

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 3PM Old First Concerts Benefit/Piano Party William Wellborn, Mack McCray, Robert Schwartz, Daniel Glover, Sarah Cahill, Luciano Chessa, Heidi Hau, $20 General Peter Grunberg $17 Senior Works by Chessa, George Lewis, Schulz-Evler, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Debussy and others. $5 Full-time Student FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8PM Tickets purchased Farallon Quintet with guest pianist online, in advance Christine McLeavey Payne receive a $2 discount Natalie Parker, clarinet; Dan Flanagan and Matthew Prices not for Oshida, violins; Elizabeth Prior, viola; Jonah Kim, cello Special Events Works by Prokofiev, Copland, and a World Premiere by Durwynne Hsieh

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 8PM Telegraph Quartet 1751 Sacramento Street Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola San Francisco, CA 94109 Jeremiah Shaw, cello 415.474.1608 Works by Haydn, Brett Dean and Schubert’s String www.oldfirstconcerts.org Quartet in D minor PRESIDIO SESSIONS The Presidio Officers’ Club puts the “life” back into live music with free evening performances that invite you to move and mingle. Performances range from jazz to classical music from around the world, and are curated by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music in partnership with the Presidio Trust. In the intimate atmosphere of a house concert with opportunities to converse with performers and each other, listeners can savor, and lounge.

September 30, 2016 Invisible Guy (Ben Golberg, page 32) October 7, 2016 Sunset Duo (page 51) October 14, 2016 Vnote Ensemble (page 55) October 21, 2016 Baumer Quartet October 28, 2016 Friction Quartet (page 36) and Tiffany Austin November 4, 2016 Strobe (page 50) November 11, 2016 Montclair Women’s Big Band (page 43) November 18, 2015 A|B Duo (page 26) January 13, 2017 Destiny Muhammad Alice Coltrane Project January 20, 2017 Musical Art Quintet January 27, 2017 Ensemble for These Times February 3, 2017 Micheal Tan + Telegraph Quartet February 10, 2017 David James’s GPS (page 38) February 17, 2017 Paul Dresher Ensemble February 24, 2017 Myra Melford piano recital (page 32) March 3, 2017 Circadian Quartet March 10, 2017 Diana Gameros Trio March 17, 2017 Lisa Mezzacappa’s avantNoir (page 42) March 24, 2017 Stenberg | Cahill Duo March 31, 2017 Jon Jangtet April 7, 2017 Sylvestry Quartet April 14, 2017 Mario Guarneri | tbd_a quartet (page 53) April 21, 2017 Amaranth Quartet April 28, 2017 Ila Cantor’s Encanto

www.sffcm.org/presidio-sessions/ May 5, 2017 Kasey Knudsen Sextet (page 39) May 12, 2017 Vajra Voices (page 54) Friday Night Concerts 6-7:30PM Free of charge Night Concerts 6-7:30PM Free Friday May 19, 2017 Redwood Tango Ensemble (page 47) May 26, 2017 Rova Saxophone Quartet (page 49) early & chamber music contemporary & new music jazz & creative music SFMusic Day 2016 . 63