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About Left Coast Chamber Ensemble: Founded in 1992, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble communicates with audiences through inspiring performances of new and old chamber music. By embracing both musics, we enrich the audience’s experience — we reawaken a feeling of immediacy in performances of familiar masterpieces and we reveal the powerful expressive intentions in the music of our time. The ensemble’s twelve musicians, many of whom have played together since the 1980s, perform in different combinations, using strings, winds, guitar and piano to present a wide range of repertoire.
Our Seventeenth Season: You are invited to join our audience of inquisitive listeners for the 2009-2010 Season. This year our five program themes are: From the East, Fantasy and Fugues, Harpsichord Redux, Audible Visions, and Kurt Rohde Concertino. We welcome you to come to our concerts at San Francisco’s Green Room and Mill Valley’s 142Throckmorton Theater. Order tickets today for a remarkable season of concerts. Buy season tickets for 2009-2010
The upcoming season features familiar masterpieces like Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Benjamin Britten’s Phantasy Quartet, and Brahms’ Clarinet Trio as well as less well-known works we are eager to share with you. Here are just a few examples: Manuel de Falla’s rarely heard Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble; Martin Bresnick’s exquisite and mysteriously titled trio, ***; and a quartet by the first place winner of our annual Composition Contest, Matthew Barnson. And we are proud to present the world premieres of works we commissioned from Kurt Rohde, Eric Zivian, Melinda Wagner, Sam Nichols and Kristin Kuster.
Come hear the exhilarating ear-opening performances of The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble! The twelve musicians of the Left Coast combine the sonic resources of strings, winds, guitar and piano to play music that engages and moves us.
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Left Coast Commissions: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has commissioned and premiered more than 55 new works since 1992; in addition, we frequently present West Coast premieres of recently composed music. Grants to our group from charitable organizations, including the Clarence E. Heller Foundation, Barlow Fund, Zellerbach Foundation, Argosy Fund for New Music, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Meet the Composer USA, have funded some of the commissions; we have collaborated with composers to obtain grants from foundations like Fromm and Koussevitsky to support others.
Left Coast Supporters: LCCE is supported by the Chamber Music Partnership, a 501(c)(3) corporation formed in 1995. Major funding is provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts.