Upcoming "Classical" Music Events

Peregrine Quartet Performs Glorious Music By Beethoven

 Homecoming: Piano Quartet Masterworks

Beethoven Odyssey

 Amaranth Quartet

 Redwood Symphony - Two Fifths, Beethoven And Shostakovich

 Beethoven Odyssey II

 From Bohemia's Fields And Groves

 Dvorak Mass In D

May 5, 7:30 pm.

Vadim Neselovskyi at Art Boutiki  SLG Publishing Art Boutiki & Gallery 577 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113  Map. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. $10 for students with valid student ID cards (STUDENT TICKETS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR). FIND TICKETS. Event details at eventbrite.com!

Pianist, composer, Berklee College of Music professor and former Gary Burton sideman Vadim Neselovskyi kicks off the Ridgeway Presents series with a stellar trio performance featuring new compositions, original arrangements and select solo piano pieces. A Ukrainian-born pianist, Vadim was classically trained at conservatories in his native Odessa and in Germany; honed his jazz chops on German jazz stages and at Berklee College of Music; and undertook his apprenticeship around the world as a member of master vibraphonist Gary Burton’s Next Generation Quintet. Burton, who included a number of Neselovskyi compositions in his repertoire, called him “a true genius,” noting “I don’t think I have ever met an improviser who has more surprises in store….” Discover a new jazz voice whose “pianistic power station” displays “virtuosity coupled with passion and soul” (Neue Musik Zeitung). As part of the Ridgeway Presents program, local young musicians will have the opportunity to work directly with Vadim and present their work during the first of the performance. The Ridgeway Arts Presents program has both a national and local focus, fully integrated with its educational outreach programs. The programs focuses on presenting high profile artists in the Bay Area as well as providing young musicians access to educational opportunists with these artists. vadimneselovskyi.com ridgewayarts.org with Gary Burton (my composition Preldue for Vibes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU9tqY6mdrQ solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOnf3H25WE with orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6XC_08QHCk

May 6, Fri 8:00 PM, New York Polyphony.

San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132. Map. Four a cappella male voices beautifully illuminate great vocal repertoire from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to vibrant, newly commissioned works of our own time. Works by Guerrero, Dunstable, Pyamour, Plummer, McGlynn, Brumel, Clemens non Papa, Moody, Trinity Roll MS, John Scott and Geoffrey Williams. Pre-concert talk: 7 p.m. Event details at sfsu.edu! Admission is FREE

New York Polyphony: NEW YORK POLYPHONY are fast-rising stars on the classical music scene. Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts” (National Public Radio), the four men are recognized as one of the finest vocal ensembles active today. The all-male quartet apply not only refined musicianship and interpretative detail but also a refreshingly modern touch to repertoire that ranges from austere medieval melodies to cutting-edge contemporary works. Dedication to innovative programming, as well as a focus on rare and rediscovered early music, have earned New York Polyphony critical accolades and a devoted following. 
May 6, 7:30 pm, Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater
May 8 4 pm Lesher Center for the Arts. California Symphony with Jason Vieuz, Guitar.

Season Finale. Price: $35-$70.  Get Tickets for Napa Valley; Get Tickets for Walnut Creek. Buy online or call the Lesher Center Ticket Office at 925.943.7469; Napa Valley Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at 707.944.9900

The California Symphony season comes to a smashing finale with Brahms’ grand second symphony and the world premiere of our Young American Composer in Residence commission featuring 2015 Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux. Free pre-concert talk with Maestro Cabrera begins one hour before the performance.

Glass—Company for String Orchestra
Visconti—Living Language (World Premiere)
 Jason Vieaux, guitar
Brahms—Symphony No. 2

 May 7, 8. Santa Cruz Sympnony, "Ode to Joy" concert, featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony. $27-72.

May 7, 2016, Sat 7:00 PM. UC Davis Symphony. Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616. Map Tickets: $10-20.  Event details at sacramento365.com! | Event details at mondaviarts.org! | Event details at mondaviarts.org! |Event details at sfcv.org!

The UC Davis Symphony, led by Christian Baldini, the University Chorus, led by Jeffrey Thomas, and the Concert Band, led by Pete Nowlen, are all proud to call Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center their home. Contact Phil Daley, event manager, with  questions: pedaley@ucdavis.edu or (530) 752-7896. 

Program: Nocturnes and Dreams

Dallapiccola Piccola musica notturna (Little Night Music )
Ravel  Alborada del gracioso
Sciarrino Introduzione all’oscuro (Introduction to Darkness )
Ravel  Rapsodie espagnole

Sunday, May 8, 2016

NVCM welcomes Livia Sohn, James Austin Smith, Meena Bhasin, and Christopher Costanza to Noe Valley Ministry to wrap up our 23rd season! Enjoy a musical journey through time and genres with familiar and unusual masterpieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Britten & Berio. 3:00pm Doors 3:15pm Musical Conversations, a Pre-concert talk 4:00pm. Noe Valley Chamber Music. 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA  Map

May 9, 2016. Mon 8:00 PM. 

Classical at the Freight: Haydn Project @ Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704 Map Tickets: $9.00 to 11.00. Event details at thefreight.org! | Event details at sfcv.org!

Take four musicians, sixty-eight string quartets, and the genius of Franz Josef Haydn; stir vigorously and applaud wildly. Robin Sharp, Julie Kim, Ben Simon, and Hannah Addario-Berry make their third annual Freight appearance as The Haydn Project. Join them as their journey continues into these mostly brilliant, always inventive, enormously engaging works.

SFCO supporting members get 2-for-1 tickets (in advance and at the door) for all shows. Tickets are sold by Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse (2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, 510.644.2020, freightandsalvage.org).

May 12, 2016, Thu 8:00 PM

Yo Yo Ma, Katheryn Stott. Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. 201 Van Ness Avenue. San Francisco, CA 94102 Map 

May 15, 8 pm.

Trio 180 performs Russian Romantics. Venue: Old First Church City: San Francisco. Email: rick@oldfirstconcerts.org. Price Range: $5 to $20. Tickets: (415) 747 1608. BUY TICKETS. 

Piano trios by Arensky and Tchaikovsky. Trio 180, the faculty piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, is dedicated to its roles as performer, proponent of new music, and educator. In addition to giving concerts and master classes throughout the United States, the trio has been featured on concert series in Mexico and Canada. Trio 180 performs a wide range of music from the Classical era to the present and is an active advocate of new music.

May 19, 2016. Thu 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM.

Cypress String Quartet at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 760 Howard Street Esplanade Stage. San Francisco, CA  Map. Admission is FREE

San Francisco’s Cypress String Quartet has played on thousands of stages around the world and recorded more than a dozen albums. Celebrating both their 20th anniversary and the commercial release of their complete recordings of Beethoven’s string quartets, the ensemble is taking the music to the streets in a series of 16 performances titled Beethoven in the City. Performing in a variety of publicly accessible settings throughout San Francisco’s 11 districts, the Cypress String Quartet is determined to bring classical music to the broadest possible audience. http://ybgfestival.org/event/cypress-string-quartet/

Friday, May 20  8:00 PM – SAN MATEO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER and Sat 8:00 PM, 

May 21:  Peninsula Symphony at the Flint Center. 21250 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95015. Map. FIND TICKETS. SECONDARY BOX OFFICE: FIND TICKETS. Buy tickets at ticketmaster.com!. Tickets: $10-$40

Friday, May 20th 7: 30 p.m.

Winchester Orchestra. Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph 80 S. Market St., San Jose. Tickets: General-$20.00 Seniors (60 and older): $15.00 Students: $10.00
12 and under free with paying adult. Tickets are available at the door or you may purchase them below at PayPal. Information: (408) 866-5302. winchester@pacbell.net.

Program:Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor

May 7, 8. Santa Cruz Sympnony, "Ode to Joy" concert, featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony. $27-72.
Saturday, May 21, 2016: 8 p.m.

LARRY POLANSKY AND GIACOMO FIORE: ELECTRIC GEETARS. Center For New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

(415) 275-C4NM (2466). Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members. Tickets available at the door only

Composer/Guitarist Larry Polansky joins Giacomo Fiore for an evening of works for one and two electric guitars. Featuring folk songs arrangements by Ruth Crawford Seeger plus music by Feldman, Wolff, Polansky, Parsons, and the world premiere of Nat Evans’s “Branching Streams Flow in the Dark”
May 21, 2016 Sat 8:00 PM 

Mission San Jose 43300 Mission Boulevard, Fremont, CA 43300. Map. Chaplin in Concert. 7:15pm Pre-Concert Talk / 8pm Concert / After Party Reception. Tickets: www.musicatmsj.org. Payment required - Tickets: $13/$23/$28 available online at: www.musicatmsj.org. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2250588 | http://www.musicatmsj.org/

Music at the Mission CHAPLIN IN CONCERT tips a hat to comic genius Charlie Chaplin, who put Essanay Studios on the map in 1915, filming silent movie classics in our own backyard of Niles, CA. Music at the Mission will screen the films that launched Chaplin and the beloved character he created, The Little Tramp, into world-wide fame. Following silver screen tradition, The Champion and The Tramp will be accompanied by live music performed by the Music at the Mission Chamber Players. The dynamic new scores commissioned by Music at the Mission specifically for this performance, were created by Bay Area composer Mark Fish. This is truly a once in a lifetime experience! 
PROGRAM: Special screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Champion and The Tramp scored by Bay Area composer, Mark FISH; Henry COWELL'S The Three Irish Legends for Solo Piano and songs by Charles IVES. 
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