Calendar
Merry Wives of Windsor
Pocket Opera presents Otto Nicolai’s playful setting of Shakespeare’s comedy.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, June 23, 2024
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, June 30, 2024
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
globokar, braxton, carter, sciarrino, ferneyhough, hauben
sfSound performs a program covering half a century of composed, semi-composed, and improvised music by Anthony Braxton, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Eva-Maria Hauben, and Salvatore Sciarrino. From craggy complexity to sexy extended instrumental techniques including graphic notation and free jazz, the whole gamut of sfSound’s musical skill and interest is presented here in a single concert!
Sunday, July 7, 2024
7pm
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
More details here.
Pacific Pythagorean Music Festival
Music of Larry Polanski, Mat Muntz, Juri Sen, Hwayoung Shon, Taylor Brook, Andrew McIntosh and Matt Ingalls. The program includes performances by Giacomo Fiore, the Del Sol String Quartet, the Paul Dresher/Joel Dave Invented Instrument Duo, the sfSound Orchestra and more!
Sunday, May 26, 2024
7pm
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
More details here.
QL in Sebastopol
Quinteto Latino performs for the Redwood Arts Council’s concert series. This full-length, formal program will include works of Paquito d’Rivera, Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Desenne, Marcus Siqueira, Victor Márquez-Barrios, Eugenio Toussaint and Astor Piazzolla.
Friday, May 17, 2024
7pm
Sebastopol Community Church
1000 Gravenstein Highway N.
Sebastopol, CA
More information here.
¡Chicanísima!
Commissioned and performed by Quinteto Latino, composer Carla Lucero‘s opera chronicles the life and work of legendary Chicanx leader and LGBTQ+ activist, Olga Talamante. The opera explores her journey from working the garlic fields as a child in Gilroy, California, to her decades of activism in the US, Mexico, and in Argentina, where she became a political prisoner. Ultimately, Olga frees herself from the psychological hold of her captors and releases her heart from 40 years of suppressing the memories of violence perpetrated against her. She finally finds peace, and in the process of healing, the love of her life, Vola. Soprano Aléxa Anderson, tenor Eric Levintow, and mezzo-soprano Jessica Gonzalez-Rodriguez make up the cast for the premiere of this important work.
Noontime Concerts
Quinteto Latino performs Paquito d’Rivera’s playful Wapango followed by their own arrangement (by José-Luis Hurtado) of the Mexican folk song, Son de la Bruja. Also on the program are QL’s commission, El Recreo, La Cumbia, Los Vikingos, y otras Miniaturas, by Paul Desenne and Marcus Siqueira’s monumental Egrégores. The program concludes with Mexican composer Eugenio Toussaint’s clever Mambo.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
12:30pm
Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Free
Cunning Little Vixen
Pocket Opera presents Janáček’s charming masterpiece.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2pm
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Sunday, April 21, 2024
2:30
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2pm
Gunn Theatre
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
Tickets and more information here.
Music@Noon
Quinteto Latino performs Paquito d’Rivera’s playful Wapango and Gabriela Lena Frank’s colorful Mitos (composed for Quinteto Latino). Also on the program are Marcus Siqueira’s monumental Egrégores and Eugenio Toussaint’s clever Mambo. Don’t miss this free opportunity to hear QL in the South Bay. You will have a chance to chat with the musicians about the music, the composers, and the musicians themselves too.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
12pm
Santa Clara University
Music Recital Hall
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA
Free
Glenview Classical Series
This exciting Oakland series welcomes Quinteto Latino to perform a program including commissions by two Venezuelan-American composers, Paul Desenne and Victor Márquez-Barrios, as well as music from Mexico (Eugenio Toussaint), Brazil (Marcus Siqueira), Cuba (Paquito d’Rivera) and Argentina’s star tango composer, Astor Piazzolla.
Friday, March 22, 2024
7:30
St. Paul Lutheran Church
1658 Excelsior Avenue
Oakland CA 94602
$25 suggested donation
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.