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2024-2025 Season: Dream Journeys

FALL CONCERT

FALL CABARET: PIERROT LUNAIRE

7:30pm, Saturday, November 2, 2024 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)
4:00pm, Sunday, November 3, 2024 (Berkeley Hillside Club, Berkeley)

An evening of genre-breaking works from the 20th and 21st centuries immerses 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.

WINTER WANDERING FESTIVAL

January 24-26 (East Bay) | January 31-February 2 (San Francisco)

Three intense days of music explore the human journey and its connections to place, space, and the imagination.

SCHUBERT QUINTET: HAY QUE CAMINAR

7:30pm, Friday, January 24, 2025 (First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley)
4:00pm, Sunday, February 2, 2025 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)

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.

ECHO CONTEST…NEARLY

11:30am, Saturday, January 25, 2025 (First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley)

Left Coast will join with community members to create two improvisatory works which explore the spatial dimension of music within Maybeck’s innovative architecture.

ON THE THRESHOLD OF DREAMLAND

7:30pm, Saturday, January 25, 2025 (First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley)
7:30pm, Saturday, February 1, 2025 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)

A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey which delves into the role of place in the human imagination. New works by 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.

A DARK MATTER

11:30am, Sunday, January 26, 2025 (Berkeley Hillside Club, Berkeley)
11:30am, Saturday, February 1, 2025 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)

A musical journey through Earth and Space is interpreted in live painting by artist Adrian Arias. Program highlights include a world premiere by Bay Area composer Addie Camsuzou and the performance of the winning piece from LCCE’s 2023 Composition Contest.

WINTER JOURNEY: schubert’s winterreise

5:00pm, Sunday, January 26, 2025 (Berkeley Piano Club, Berkeley)
7:30pm, Friday, January 31, 2025 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)

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.

SPRING CONCERT

SPRING CONTRASTS

7:30pm, Saturday, June 7, 2025 (Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont)
7:30pm, Monday, June 9, 2025 (Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco)

The contrasting timbres of the violin, clarinet, and piano bring to life a vibrant variety of musical imaginations in this program of rhythmic vitality and melodic invention.