Volti and Left Coast meet in a new work by Chris Castro for storyteller and musicians, which explores the connection between sound and the spoken word in tales from the west coast. The human relationship to our environment forms a through-line from romantic to experimental musical sensibilities.
Volti and Left Coast meet in a new work by Chris Castro for storyteller and musicians, which explores the connection between sound and the spoken word in tales from the west coast. The human relationship to our environment forms a through-line from romantic to experimental musical sensibilities.
Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, written and performed during the 1918 flu epidemic, is a satirical examination of the pursuit of happiness. We pair this iconic tale with a new work for the same jazz-inspired forces, in which Arna Bontemps’ novel Black Thunder clashes with contemporary social crises. Omari Tau brings his theatrical brilliance to both works.
Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, written and performed during the 1918 flu epidemic, is a satirical examination of the pursuit of happiness. We pair this iconic tale with a new work for the same jazz-inspired forces, in which Arna Bontemps’ novel Black Thunder clashes with contemporary social crises. Omari Tau brings his theatrical brilliance to both works.
Join us for an interdisciplinary, FREE program at the Doug Adams Gallery!
Strauss’s eulogy to the world he knew and loved is an outpouring of emotion, and one of his most intimate works. Metamorphosen is paired with other works that extract maximum power from small forces: Berio’s virtuosic Sequenza and the world premiere of Bahar Royaee’s viola concerto.
Strauss’s eulogy to the world he knew and loved is an outpouring of emotion, and one of his most intimate works. Metamorphosen is paired with other works that extract maximum power from small forces: Berio’s virtuosic Sequenza and the world premiere of Bahar Royaee’s viola concerto.
Fanny Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler brush shoulders with composers of our time, past and present connecting through musical memories.
Fanny Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler brush shoulders with composers of our time, past and present connecting through musical memories.
The contrasting timbres of the violin, clarinet, and piano bring to life a vibrant variety of musical imaginations in this program of rhythmic vitality and melodic invention.
The contrasting timbres of the violin, clarinet, and piano bring to life a vibrant variety of musical imaginations in this program of rhythmic vitality and melodic invention.
Please join us on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 3:00pm for our 32nd Season Gala! Hosted at the Women’s Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus, the centerpiece will be a performance Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor by Liana Bérubé, Tanya Tomkins, and Eric Zivian.
The last works of Luigi Nono and Franz Schubert, performed back to back, reveal a sense of deep beauty, profound unease, and a sensitivity to the close connection between happiness and sorrow on the threshold of life and death.
A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey. New works from LJ White and Todd Kitchen, exploring instability and dreams, contrast with the humor of Laurie San Martin’s Witches and Benjamin Britten’s tender folk song arrangements.
Space travel meets Art in a program which is interpreted in live painting by artist Adrian Arias.
In Schubert’s last song cycle, the wanderer and his landscape become one in this journey into the depths of the human soul. Emotions from tenderness to despair come together in a cathartic winter journey.
In Schubert’s last song cycle, the wanderer and his landscape become one in this journey into the depths of the human soul. Emotions from tenderness to despair come together in a cathartic winter journey.
Space travel meets Art in a program which is interpreted in live painting by artist Adrian Arias.
A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey. New works from LJ White and Todd Kitchen, exploring instability and dreams, contrast with the humor of Laurie San Martin’s Witches and Benjamin Britten’s tender folk song arrangements.
Left Coast musicians join with amateur players to create two improvisatory works which explore the spatial dimension of music within Maybeck’s innovative architecture.
The last works of Luigi Nono and Franz Schubert, performed back to back, reveal a sense of deep beauty, profound unease, and a sensitivity to the close connection between happiness and sorrow on the threshold of life and death.
Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.
Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.
Left Coast will perform the fifth and final concert in Jonathan Khuner’s Celebrating Schoenberg series. Experience Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with an accompanying lecture given by Matilda Hofman and Jonathan Khuner. The session will be followed by time to enjoy free refreshments and engage in open discussion.
In collaboration with the SF Public Library, Left Coast explores the music of primarily Californian composers whose music is connected to the earth and to the climate, music which asks us to listen deeply to the natural world. Works include Pauline Oliveros' Tree/Peace, Monica Chew's Ice Calf, Kaija Saariaho's Nocturne for Solo Violin and Peteris Vasks' Landscape with Birds.
In celebration of Black Music Month with the Ruth Williams Opera House, Left Coast presents Florence Price’s romantic Piano Quintet alongside works by David Sanford and Chris Castro. With our new project Pathways, Left Coast champions the music of emerging Californian composers.
In celebration of Black Music Month with the Ruth Williams Opera House, Left Coast presents Florence Price’s romantic Piano Quintet alongside works by David Sanford and Chris Castro. With our new project Pathways, Left Coast champions the music of emerging Californian composers.
Saariaho’s rapt attention to every sound is remembered and explored in this concert for flute, cello and piano. In this program, her music invites the listener to hear the music which surrounds it from different angles — Prokofiev’s flute sonata and miniatures by two Californian composers.
Saariaho’s rapt attention to every sound is remembered and explored in this concert for flute, cello and piano. In this program, her music invites the listener to hear the music which surrounds it from different angles — Prokofiev’s flute sonata and miniatures by two Californian composers.
Featuring clarinetists Jerome Simas and Jeff Anderle in two fabulous venues, this haunting program pairs Brahms’ autumnal clarinet quintet alongside Jonathan Russell’s On Sorrow.
Featuring clarinetists Jerome Simas and Jeff Anderle in two fabulous venues, this haunting program pairs Brahms’ autumnal clarinet quintet alongside Jonathan Russell’s On Sorrow.
Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary. Works for piano and guitar by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program which spans more than a century of Californian music.
Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary. Works for piano and guitar by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program which spans more than a century of Californian music.
Left Coast teams up with the San Francisco Girls Chorus to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers.
