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 Nineteenth Season: You are invited to join our audience of inquisitive listeners for the 2011-2012 Season. This year our five program themes are:

• Two Sets of Keys
• Werther and the English Cat––Character Pieces with Guest Marc Teicholz
• The Clarinet Program
• The Shoulders of Giants
• Delicacies for Diverse Ensembles.

We welcome you to come to our concerts at San Francisco’s Green Room and the Dennis Gallagher Arts Pavilion, and Mill Valley’s 142Throckmorton Theater. It’s not too late to buy discounted season tickets! Email us for information on purchasing season tickets for 2011-2012

We are offering opportunities to sponsor a concert, musician, or even the whole season. Please contact us at info@leftcoastensemble.org for full details.

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Come hear the exhilarating 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.

Listen to Recordings of Our Live Performances:

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.