Opening Performance - October 12, 2008 4:00 p.m. AVE - St. Francis of Assisi: Musical Musings on a World Order

The Artists’ Vocal Ensemble will fête our city’s namesake and advocate for peace with Renaissance and contemporary works from Europe and America. This choral group, directed by acclaimed early music specialist Jonathan Dimmock, will be sure to delight.

*Sunday, November 9, 2008 4:00 p.m. - Emerging Artists Concert
Sqwonk - Jef Anderle, Jon Russell, bass clarinets
Areon Flutes - Jill Heinke, Kassey LeBow and Amelia Vitarelli, flutes

Expand your listening horizons! In The Birds and the Beasts, Sqwonk will put their genre-bending spin on Bach and beyond. Then take light with Areon’s performance of works by Patrice Sciortino and Jeremy Haladyna.

Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:15 p.m. - Quartet San Francisco
Jeremy Cohen, Kayo Miki, violins, Keith Lawrence, viola, Joel Cohen, cello

Light up the holidays with this Grammy-nominated string quartet as they offer their crossover take on jazz masters such as Brubeck, Ellington, and Grisman.

This concert begins at 5:15 p.m.

*Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:00 PM - Cypress Quartet
Cecily Ward, Tom Stone, violins, Ethan Filner, viola, Jennifer Kloetzel, cello

We are pleased to welcome this renowned quartet back to our series to with a wonderful program including Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33 No. 32 in C Major (“The Bird”), the Debussy Quartet, and Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet.

Sunday, February 22, 2009 4:00 PM - Chamberbridge “I hate music but I love to sing…”
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano, Lara Bruckmann, soprano

This dynamic duo will explore childhood within art song, with works by Bernstein,
Messiaen, Tan Dun, Mei-Fang Lin, Walter Gieseking, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

*Sunday, March 22, 2009 4:00 PM - SFPQ - Six Degrees
Robin Sharp, violin, Elizabeth Prior, viola, Angela Lee, cello, Avi Downes, piano

These well-respected Bay Area musicians have come together to form the San Francisco Piano Quartet. SFPQ will present an exciting way of exploring chamber music repertoire in their “Six Degrees” series. Connecting the dots between music, composers and history, they will explore American themes in Dvořák, Gershwin, Shostakovich, and Rebecca Clarke.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 4:00 PM - Strauss, Fonteneau and Sykes - Piano Trio Milestones
Axel Strauss, violin, Jean-Michel Fonteneau

both on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, join forces with pianist Jeffrey Sykes. New to our series, this threesome of extraordinary artists will perform Beethoven’s Eb Major Op. 1 No. 1, Kirchner’s No. 1, and Ravel’s A minor piano trios.

Individual Ticket Admission $40 General, Senior and Students.