Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) is pleased to announce its 32nd season: DREAM JOURNEYS. Taking place from November 2024 to June 2025, Season 32 invites the audience to explore the way we listen in our musical and human journeys, in our travels both real and imagined. The season opens in November with Fall Cabaret: Pierrot Lunaire (November 2 & 3). At the center of the season is LCCE’s inaugural chamber music festival, Winter Wandering, which is composed of four concerts over three days and will take place in both the East Bay (EB) and in San Francisco (SF) on separate weekends. The Festival concerts include Schubert Quintet: Hay que caminar (January 24 [EB] & February 2 [SF]), On the Threshold of Dreamland (January 25 [EB] & February 1 [SF]), A Dark Matter (January 26 [EB] & February 1 [SF]), and Winter Journey (January 26 [EB] & January 31 [SF]). The East Bay festival includes an extra concert, Echo Contest…Nearly (January 25), which is free to attend and features Left Coast musicians collaborating with amateur players from the local community. The season concludes with Spring Contrasts (June 7 & 9).
Tickets for individual LCCE concerts can be purchased at the door for $38 for general admission and $18 for student admission. Subsidized ARTS ACCESS tickets invite concertgoers to pay what they are able. In-advance tickets are available at $35/general and $15/student. A season subscription includes admission to all concerts and can be purchased for $180/general and $60/student. For more information, call 415/617-5223 or visit https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/.
Winter Wandering marks Left Coast’s first festival in its 32 seasons. Centered at the heart of Dream Journeys, the festival sets out to invite connection between the act of listening and the paths we create. “The late work of Schubert and Nono frames the festival: their music connects through a preoccupation with wandering and a concern with how the individual interacts with the world,” said LCCE Artistic Director Matilda Hofman. “Two new commissions, three world premieres, and collaborations across different disciplines are presented in five concerts across three days.” In this year’s especially collaborative season, Left Coast will cross paths with the chamber choir Volti, tenor Kyle Stegall, artist Adrian Arias, and the Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project.
In a year that restructures the typical LCCE season, the ensemble’s mission to place new works in meaningful conversation with music of the past remains steadfast. Hofman noted, “The season opens with cabaret and closes with contrasts: two central works of the twentieth century look outside the classical frame and can be heard here alongside voices which are new and artists which have been unjustly overlooked.”
