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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
QL returns to Mazza Castle
The Mazza Castle Music Salon Series welcomes Quinteto Latino, a one-of-a-kind San Francisco Bay Area-based 501(c)3 organization driving social change in the classical music industry. The program will include a commissions by two Venezuelan-American composers: Paul Desenne and Victor Márquez-Barrios as well as music from Mexico (Eugenio Toussant), Brazil (Marcus Siqueira), Cuba (Paquito d’Rivera!) and Argentina’s star tango composer, Astor Piazzolla.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
5pm (doors open at 4pm)
Mazza Castle
900 Mirador Terrace
Pacifica, CA
$45 general admission
Quinteto Latino performs for Calliope
The quintet presents “Music of Latin America for Winds.” The program will include commissions by Gabriela Lena Frank and Paul Desenne as well as music of Mexican composers Gabriela Ortiz and Eugenio Toussant, Cuban composer Paquito D’Rivera and Argentina’s star, Astor Piazzolla.
Saturday, February 25, 2024
4pm
Calliope East Bay Music & Arts
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington Avenue
Albany CA 94706
$15 youth
$25 senior/student
$30 general admission
West Oakland Sound Series
Visiting from Austria, mezzo-soprano Heléna Sorokina joins local composer-vocalist Sarah Grace Graves to perform Scelsi’s Sauh voice duos alongside solos and duos written for, and in certain instances by, them. Featuring music by Giacinto Scelsi, Harrison Birtwistle, Jon You, Sarah Grace Graves, and others.
The concert also features the Oakland Reductionist Orchestra, a supergroup of local musicians with a predilection for lowercase/fricative/reductionist acoustic improvisation that often sounds more electronic than acoustic. This ensemble grows out of a rich tradition of “American reductionist” music that emerged (re-emerged?) in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Previous projects like Tom Djll’s Grosse Abfahrt and The Jack Wright Large Ensemble Eight By Nine document the Bay Area’s contribution to the genre.
PERFORMERS
Hallie Smith, violin
Danishta Rivero, voice
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Ron Heglin, tuba
Diane Grubbe, flutes
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Jacob Felix Heule, percussion
Tom Djll, trumpet
Kevin Corcoran, percussion
Chris Cooper, objects, electronics
Sunday, February 11, 2024
7pm
Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland
$10-$25 sliding scale (cash & venmo accepted at door)
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Quinteto Latino at CSMA
The quintet presents “Puzzles and Myths, Classical Music for Winds.” The program will include commissions by Gabriela Lena Frank and Paul Desenne as well as music of Mexican composers Gabriela Ortiz and Eugenio Toussant, Cuban composer Paquito D’Rivera and Argentina’s star, Astor Piazzolla.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
7:30pm
Tateuchi Hall
Community School of Music and Arts
230 San Antonio Circle
Mountain View, CA 94040
FREE!
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.