Left Coast is thrilled to invite you to our 28th season. Streaming free-of-charge!
If it becomes safe to gather again before the season ends, we’ll add live events and welcome you back to the concert hall with us.
Season Kick-Off Party
Sunday, August 23, 2020
4pm PST
We miss you and can’t wait to get together again! Join pianist Eric Zivian and violinist / Artistic Director Anna Presler for a special performance of Brahms’ fabulous masterpiece, the G major Sonata, followed by an after party on Zoom with your fellow Left Coasters. The Brahms performance will be live streamed on Left Coast’s YouTube channel, then we’ll move over to Zoom to say hello, and discuss the Brahms and Left Coast’s upcoming 28th season.
Soft-Spoken
Monday, September 21, 2020
7:30pm PST
This program stars flutist Stacey Pelinka in Soft-Spoken, a world premiere from the multi-talented artist David Dominique, Zeppelin, a duo by Laurie San Martin, and Kurt Rohde’s new remixes of songs by Hildegard and Joni Mitchell, alongside trios by Beethoven and Albert Roussel.
David Dominique - Soft-Spoken WORLD PREMIERE
Laurie San Martin - Zeppelin for Flute and Cello
Joni Mitchell - Blue (remix, Kurt Rohde)
Hildegard von Bingen - Ave Maria (remix, Kurt Rohde)
Albert Roussel - Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello, Op. 40
Beethoven - Serenade in D Major for Flute, Violin, and Viola, Op 25
Please Elaborate
Monday, November 9, 2020
7:30pm PST
In Please Elaborate, composers offer new ways of looking at music from other times. Benjamin Britten’s Nocturnal for guitar and Lachrymae for viola and piano are instrumental elaborations on songs by John Dowland. In Oh Chaconne and No Man’s Land Lullaby, Eleanor Alberga gives us her take on the monumental Bach Chaconne and Johannes Brahms’ tender Lullaby.
John Dowland - Come Heavy Sleep
Benjamin Britten - Nocturnal for Guitar
Eleanor Alberga - Oh Chaconne!
Johannes Brahms - Lullaby
Eleanor Alberga - No Man's Land Lullaby for Violin and Piano
John Dowland - If my complaints could passions move
Benjamin Britten - Lachrymae for Viola and Piano
Long Distance Call
Monday, January 25, 2021
7:30pm PST
Responding to the safety measures required in the pandemic, Left Coast has commissioned new works conceived as long distance conversations between a piano trio and a soprano. Laura Rose Schwartz and Ryan Suleiman will each write a new work, using a call and response model: the singer and ensemble alternate in sending each other musical postcards! Music by Frederic Rzewski, George Lewis, and Louise Farrenc completes the program.
Laura Rose Schwartz - New Work for Distanced Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano
Ryan Suleiman - New Work for Distanced Soprano, Flute, Cello, and Piano
George Lewis - Emergent flute and live electronics
Louise Farrenc - Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45
Metamorphosen
March 22, 2021
7:30pm PST
All the string players of Left Coast perform together in the septet version of Strauss’ Metamorphosen. Our cellists Leighton Fong and Tanya Tomkins are featured in the world premiere of a new duet by Nina Shekhar, and Kurt Rohde is the soloist in Derek Bermel’s Soul Garden, a shimmering concerto for viola and chamber ensemble.
Derek Bermel - Soul Garden
Nina Shekhar - New Work for Two Cellos WORLD PREMIERE
Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen for String Septet
Sonic Luxury
Monday, June 7, 2021
7:30pm PST
Enjoy the decadent beauty of Grazyna Bacewicz’s Piano Quintet #1 and Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s joyous Clarinet Quintet. For smaller forces, but equally lovely are Clara Schumann’s piano variations, and Esa Pekka Salonen’s Nachtlieder for clarinet and piano.
Grażyna Bacewicz - Piano Quintet No. 1
Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Clara Schumann - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op 20
Esa Pekka Salonen - Nachtlied, for clarinet and piano
