Calendar
Dresher Ensemble Studio ReOpening Fest
Help us celebrate Paul Dresher’s new studio space. Diane and pianist Frank Johnson will perform Paul’s Waterfall, commissioned by the National Flute Association in 2006.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
1:30 – 6pm
Free!
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
La Vie Parisienne
Pocket Opera presents Offenbach’s hit operetta, a hilarious peek at Parisian life from 1866.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, July 20, 2025
2:30pm
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 27, 2025
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
Quinteto Latino at MTAC Convention
QL is excited to be the featured artist at the Music Teachers Association of California’s 2025 convention.
Friday, July 4, 2025
6pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Santa Clara Convention Center
More information here.
Tartuffe
Pocket Opera presents Bay Area composer Kirke Mechem’s melodious masterpiece, Tartuffe, featuring the famous tune, “Fair Robin.”
Sunday, June 15, 2025
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, June 22, 2025
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Sunday, June 29, 2025
7:30pm
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Tickets and more information here.
Adam Lion and sfSound
Adam Lion is a percussionist/vibraphonist investigating enabling constraint, acoustics, repetition, surprise and coincidence. sfSound performs two iconic sound works for ensemble and tape:
Alvin Lucier’s Two Circles (2012)
Robert Erickson’s Pacific Sirens (1969)
Sunday, May 11, 2025
7pm
$10-$25
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
The Marriage of Figaro
Pocket Opera presents Mozart’s brilliant comedy continuing the story of Figaro, the famous barber of Seville.
Friday, February 21, 2025
7:30pm
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, February 23, 2025
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, March 2, 2025
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
Mundanas & Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
Sunday, February 16, 2025
8pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members
The Lab
2948 16th St
San Francisco
Noontime Concerts
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, 2025
12:30pm
Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Free
QL 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 Society
Saturday, May 17, 2025
7pm
St. Frances Episcopal Church
1205 Pine Avenue
San José, CA
Tickets: $12 – $52
Purchase 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.