2023 - 2024 Season | Concerts at a glance
Left Coast’s 2023/24 season celebrates California! All year we feature California composers from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. We are also excited to partner with Peralta Hacienda for workshops exploring the relationship between music and storytelling through native Californian languages.
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Individual tickets available later this summer.
Storytelling Workshops: Word and Music
MUSIC AND THE LANGUAGE OF STORYTELLING
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park are partnering to offer two days of special musical storytelling workshops and performances:
Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1
Workshop 11:00 am - 2:00 pm : The Musical Language of Storytelling: Tales from Paiute Country
Storytelling Performance 2:30 - 3:15 pm : Tales from Native Country
Location: Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
More information on this page! This event is free of charge.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.
Left Coast at the California Festival:
California Voices
(features the two concerts below)
this is what it means: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Girls Chorus | Nov 4 and 5, 2023
Nov 4, 7:30 pm at First Presbyterian church of berkeley
Nov 5, 4:00 PM at san francisco conservatory of music
Left Coast and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival. We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolás Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.
This concert is generously sponsored by Susan Shalit and Mary Logger.
Art Song and Keyboard music of California | Nov 12 AND 19, 2023
Nov 12, 4:00 pm at Calliope east bay music & arts, Albany
Nov 19, 7:30 pm at noe valley ministry, sf
Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Elinor Remick Warren and Carrie Jacobs-Bond to Vivian Fung, Addie Camsuzou, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Works for piano and guitar by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program which spans more than a century of Californian music.
Clarinet Shadows | Jan 21 and 22, 2024
Jan 21, 4:00 pm at first church of christ, scientist, berkeley
jan 22, 7:30 pm at san francisco conservatory of music
Featuring clarinetists Jerome Simas and Jeff Anderle, this haunting program pairs Brahms’ autumnal clarinet quintet alongside Jonathan Russell’s On Sorrow. Inspired by and quoting Tomas Luis de Victoria’s O Vos Omnes, Russell’s quintet explores mortality, consolation, and common humanity across the centuries, finding common themes with one of Brahms’ final and most profound chamber works.
ashes, butterflies, mirrors: a Saariaho celebration | Mar 2 AND 3, 2024
mar 2, 7:30 pm at berkeley piano club
mar 3, 4:00 pm at noe valley ministry, sf
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.
Pathways: florence price piano quintet | June 8 and 9, 2024
June 8, 7:30 pm at piedmont center for the arts
june 9, 4:00 pm at ruth williams opera house, sf (formerly bayview opera house)
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.
(Composers selected for the project will workshop their music with Left Coast musicians next spring, with performances to follow in June 2024. Composers will receive a professional recording of their work –– vital to progress to the next step of their careers.)