The last works of Luigi Nono and Franz Schubert, performed back to back, reveal a sense of deep beauty, profound unease, and a sensitivity to the close connection between happiness and sorrow on the threshold of life and death.

A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey. New works from LJ White and Todd Kitchen, exploring instability and dreams, contrast with the humor of Laurie San Martin’s Witches and Benjamin Britten’s tender folk song arrangements.

Space travel meets Art in a program which is interpreted in live painting by artist Adrian Arias.

In Schubert’s last song cycle, the wanderer and his landscape become one in this journey into the depths of the human soul. Emotions from tenderness to despair come together in a cathartic winter journey.

In Schubert’s last song cycle, the wanderer and his landscape become one in this journey into the depths of the human soul. Emotions from tenderness to despair come together in a cathartic winter journey.

Space travel meets Art in a program which is interpreted in live painting by artist Adrian Arias.

A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey. New works from LJ White and Todd Kitchen, exploring instability and dreams, contrast with the humor of Laurie San Martin’s Witches and Benjamin Britten’s tender folk song arrangements.

Left Coast musicians join with amateur players to create two improvisatory works which explore the spatial dimension of music within Maybeck’s innovative architecture.

The last works of Luigi Nono and Franz Schubert, performed back to back, reveal a sense of deep beauty, profound unease, and a sensitivity to the close connection between happiness and sorrow on the threshold of life and death.

Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.

Genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerse the listener in interactions between poetry, music, and the human voice. The composers explore the extremes of drama and poetry within the intimate setting of chamber music.

Left Coast will perform the fifth and final concert in Jonathan Khuner’s Celebrating Schoenberg series. Experience Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with an accompanying lecture given by Matilda Hofman and Jonathan Khuner. The session will be followed by time to enjoy free refreshments and engage in open discussion.

In collaboration with the SF Public Library, Left Coast explores the music of primarily Californian composers whose music is connected to the earth and to the climate, music which asks us to listen deeply to the natural world. Works include Pauline Oliveros' Tree/Peace, Monica Chew's Ice Calf, Kaija Saariaho's Nocturne for Solo Violin and Peteris Vasks' Landscape with Birds. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Featuring clarinetists Jerome Simas and Jeff Anderle in two fabulous venues, this haunting program pairs Brahms’ autumnal clarinet quintet alongside Jonathan Russell’s On Sorrow.

Featuring clarinetists Jerome Simas and Jeff Anderle in two fabulous venues, this haunting program pairs Brahms’ autumnal clarinet quintet alongside Jonathan Russell’s On Sorrow.

Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary. Works for piano and guitar by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program which spans more than a century of Californian music.

Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary. Works for piano and guitar by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program which spans more than a century of Californian music.

Left Coast teams up with the San Francisco Girls Chorus to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers.

Left Coast teams up with the San Francisco Girls Chorus to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park are partnering to offer special musical storytelling workshops and performances on Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park are partnering to offer special musical storytelling workshops and performances on Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1

Come hear the music of Jörg Widmann, the Austrian composer whose pieces were in the worldwide top 10 list of most performed contemporary music of 2022! (He was #6.) The noted San Francisco chamber music ensemble, Left Coast makes Widmann's wild new music easy to understand by connecting it to familiar work by Bach and others.

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Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents Starry Night, an evocative chamber music concert about dreams and moonlit walks and talks. The world premiere of Josiah Catalan's flute concerto Night of the South Winds is featured alongside Arnold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night, Nina Shekhar's Bedtime Stories, and Sleepless Nights, by Bay Area composer Marty Rokeach.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents Starry Night, an evocative chamber music concert about dreams and moonlit walks and talks. The world premiere of Josiah Catalan's flute concerto Night of the South Winds is featured alongside Arnold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night, Nina Shekhar's Bedtime Stories, and Sleepless Nights, by Bay Area composer Marty Rokeach.