WINTER WANDERING FESTIVAL
A Dark Matter: Coffee Concert
Music and art come together in this unique event! Painter Adrian Arias* shares the stage with Left Coast musicians, creating a visual interpretation on canvas as audience and artist listen together to live music. The program includes our composition contest winner, A Dark Matter, plus Steep Steps, Equinox and four other evocative works showcasing contrasting blends of oboe, flute, piano, clarinet, and guitar. Everyone is welcome at this one-hour concert, including families with children. Recommended for people 8 years and up. Free coffee will be served at the show!
Enjoy performances by Andrea Plesnarski, Jerome Simas, Stacey Pelinka, Michael Goldberg and Eric Zivian.
Program length: 70 minutes
Coffee served from 11:00 AM.
Program includes:
Tōru Takemitsu - Equinox
Gilad Cohen - A Dark Matter (2023 LCCE Composition Contest Winner)
Addie Camsuzou - Unearth**
Jessie Cox - Afronaut
Thea Musgrave - Impromptu No. 1
Elliott Carter - Steep Steps
Benjamin Britten - Selections from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Artists
Stacey Pelinka, flute
Andrea Plesnarski, oboe
Jerome Simas, clarinet
Eric Zivian, piano
Michael Goldberg, guitar
*Adrian Arias' collaboration is sponsored by the Center for the Arts & Religion at the Graduate Theological Union. Learn more at https://www.gtu.edu/centers/care.
**Addie Camsuzou’s new work is commissioned by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
Meet the composers
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Image credit: Copyright Adrian Arias, used by permission of Artist. Adrian Arias is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.The banner image is a detail of Mourning.
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2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
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1021 Sanchez Street
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