Past Performances
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
Pocket Opera presents Offenbach’s opéra bouffe poking fun at militarism in general and at a young Grand Duchess specifically who learns that she cannot always get her way. Sunday, June 12, 20222pmHillside Club2286 Cedar StreetBerkeley Friday, June 17, 20227pmJarvis Conservatory1711 Main StreetNapa Sunday, June 19, 20222:30Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts500 Castro StreetMountain View Sunday, June 26, 20222pmGunn TheatreLegion of Honor100 34th AvenueSan Francisco Tickets and more information...
Read MoreGrisey, Oliveros & Sciarrino
SFSOUNDGROUP performs three iconic chamber music works from the late 20th century: GÉRARD GRISEY – Talea (1986)PAULINE OLIVEROS – The Inner/Outer Sound Matrix (for sfSound) (2007)SALVATORE SCIARRINO – Lo Spazio Inverso (1985) The “house band” for the Mosswood Sound Series, SFSOUNDGROUP is a unique collection of performer-composers that have presented their own compositions, improvisations, new commissions, electronic music, and standard avant-garde repertoire for over two decades. With a mix of works from the European, American, and contemporary Californian avant-garde, their concerts...
Read MoreWelch, Grubbe & Allen @ Mosswood
Matthew Welch presents a solo set focusing on Anthony Braxton’s#247, a species of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music written especially for Welch’s bagpipes. Diane Grubbe performs Mario Lavista’s Lamento for bass flute and Orlando Jacinto García’s cuando el mar besa al Malecón for piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and electronics. Tenor Saxophonist Josh Allen performs a solo improvisation that strives to present non linear visual concepts in sonic linear form. Friday, May 6, 20228pmMosswood Sound Series3630 Telegraph AvenueOakland $10 –...
Read More“Searsville, 1891-2015”
Composer Marc Evanstein’s composition based on pollen data from a sediment core in Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Through this translation from data to music, listeners are offered a window into the dynamic and interconnected quality of the natural world, and the way in which this balance has been impacted by human activities over the last 120 years. Watch the discussion and performance here. Diane Grubbe, flute soloLeslie Tagorda, clarinet soloStanford New Ensemble & members of Quinteto Latino May 7, 2022Stanford...
Read MoreMerry Widow
Pocket Opera presents Lehár’s delightfully romantic operetta. Sunday, March 27, 20222pmHillside Club2286 Cedar StreetBerkeley Sunday, April 3, 20222:30Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Sunday, April 10, 20222pmGunn TheatreLegion of Honor100 34th AvenueSan Francisco
Read MoresfSound performs Lucier
We celebrate the music of ALVIN LUCIER, an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media. Friday, March 18, 20208pmMosswood Sound Series3630 Telegraph AvenueOakland $10 –...
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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.