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Mosswood Sound Series
CircleCircleCircleSquare (Kris Tiner, trumpet; Beth Schenck, saxophone; percussionist Nathan Hubbard and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa) Expect asymmetrical song structures, irregular grooves, free jazz explosions, sumptuous melodies, wide-open soundscapes, and also, definitely, surprises.
sfSoundGroup performs new compositions and improvisations, including a new work by Monica Scott and a composition by Matt Ingalls exploring extended low instrument ranges, including Mosswood’s new Bösendorfer’s lowest four notes below the usual piano low A.
Sunday, June 16, 2023
7pm
Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph (enter 2nd door on 37th St)
Oakland, CA
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
Tosca
Pocket Opera presents Puccini’s masterpiece.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, July 30, 2023
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
Noontime Concerts
Quinteto Latino is excited to perform on this long-time San Francisco concert series. The program will include music of Gabriela Lena Frank, Paquito D’Rivera, Victor Márquez-Barrios, and Gabriela Ortiz.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
12:30pm
Noontime Concerts
Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
FREE!
Orpheus in the Underworld
Pocket Opera presents Offenbach’s ever-popular operetta. This playful look at Orpheus and Eurydice’s relationship and their visit to the gods on Olympus features Offenbach’s most thrilling score, including the famous Can-Can of the Galop Infernal.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Saturday, June 17, 2023
7pm
Jarvis Conservatory
1711 Main Street
Napa
Sunday, June 18, 2023
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 25, 2023
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
The Mansion at Strathmore
Quinteto Latino heads to Maryland to perform at the gorgeous Mansion at Strathmore. The program features music of Gabriela Lena Frank, Paquito D’Rivera, Victor Márquez-Barrios, Gabriela Ortiz and Orlando García.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
6:30pm & 8:30pm
The Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda, MD 20852
QL performs works of Orlando García
Quinteto Latino is pleased to be hosting the award-winning Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto García, whose haunting music suspends time with slow-moving timbre and texture changes.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
4pm (pre-concert talk at 3:30)
Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco
$25
“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
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.