Posts by diane
The Marriage of Figaro
Pocket Opera presents Mozart’s brilliant comedy continuing the story of Figaro, the famous barber of Seville. Friday, February 21, 20257:30pmMountain View Center for the Performing Arts500 Castro StreetMountain View Sunday, February 23, 20252pmHillside Club2286 Cedar StreetBerkeleySunday, March 2, 20252pmGunn TheatreLegion of Honor100 34th AvenueSan FranciscoTickets and more information here.
Read MoreMundanas & Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
Sunday, February 16, 20258pm $17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members The Lab2948 16th StSan Francisco more details here
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Enjoy a mid-day break with Quinteto Latino. We returning to Noontime Concerts to perform Pulitzer Prize-winning Tania León’s monumental De Memorias. We’ll also perform Ronaldo Miranda’s lovely Variações Sérias and works by the legendary Astor Piazzolla and the quintessential tango: Gerardo Matos Rodríguez’s La Cumparsita. Tuesday, May 27, 202512:30pm Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral660 California StreetSan Francisco, CA Free
Read MoreQL performs León’s De Memorias
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Tania León’s De Memorias is an important standard in contemporary wind quintet repertoire. Quinteto Latino is excited to take it on! We’ll also perform Ronaldo Miranda’s tuneful Variações Sérias, Júlio Medaglia’s exquisite Belle Epoque en Sud-America and a suite of tangos by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez and Astor Piazzolla including his fiery masterpiece Libertango. San José Chamber Music SocietySaturday, May 17, 20257pm St. Frances Episcopal Church1205 Pine AvenueSan José, CA Tickets: $12 – $52Purchase...
Read MoreIntangible & Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
Intangible, (Gamin on Korean reed instruments, tenor saxophonist Robert Reigle, bassist Jeff Schwartz, and percussionist Tim Feeney) is a new ensemble. Its members have toured and recorded internationally, testing the potential and limitations of experimental music as a means of cross-cultural collaboration, and examinations of the terms “folk,” “Western,” and “world.” The ensemble’s name reflects gamin’s esteemed status as a bearer of an intangible cultural asset and the group’s dedication to exploring complex acoustic phenomena and the mysterious essence of successful improvisation. The concert also features the Oakland Reductionist Orchestra, a supergroup...
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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.