Past Performances
“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 –...
Read MoreQL at SF Music Day
Quinteto Latino performs in Intermusic SF‘s wonderful, free, day-long event! Sunday, March 20, 202012pmHerbst Theatre, War Memorial Building401 Van Ness AvenueSan...
Read MoreTerry Riley’s In C
Santa Cruz New Music Works presents an outdoor performance of Terry Riley’s iconic In C. Saturday November 13, 20212pm (PDT)Free Heart of Soquel ParkSoquel Details here
Read MoreQuinteto Latino in Oakland
The concert includes commissions by Gabriela Lena Frank and Felipe Nieto-Sáchica as well as Gabriela Ortiz’s Puzzle-Tocas and other favorites. Saturday November 6, 20217:30pm (PDT)$20 (suggested) St. Paul Lutheran Church1658 Excelsior AvenueOakland Tickets available...
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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.