For our season finale we welcome back the American, surely one of the finest string quartets performing today. In their 45-plus years, the ASQ has performed worldwide and recorded the complete string quartets of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Bartók. “Luxurious, beautifully sculptured performances” New Yorker.

Program

Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6, “La Malinconia”
Caroline Shaw, Blueprint
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Schubert, Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde”

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American String Quartet w/ Wendy Chen, piano

Program

Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6, “La Malinconia”
Caroline Shaw, Blueprint
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Brahms, Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Op. 34

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As a Guest Artist for Festival Metales del Pacifico, Mary Elizabeth Bowden will perform the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with Argentina Durán.

Program:
Debussy (arr. Bowden), Préludes, Book I, no. 8, L 123: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Bach (arr. Chen), BWV 972 after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV 230
Fung, Trumpet Concerto
Beach (arr. Bowden), Three Browning Songs
DeFalla (arr. Miles), Siete canciones populares españolas

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Darrian’s doctoral lecture recital: nature-inspired violin works by living women composers

Works by Jennifer Baker, Vivian Fung, Sally Beamish, and Reena Esmail

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Tactus

Contemporary chamber music performed by the ensemble of the Contemporary Performance Program at MSM.

Erin Rogers and Matt Ward, Artistic Advisors

WESLEY THOMPSON Solar Sonata, Voyager, Op. 33 (2024) Tactus Commission Prize Winner 2023
STEFAN WOLPE Quartet (1950-1954)
VIVIAN FUNG Corona Morphs (2021)
ANTHONY BRAXTON Composition #142 (1988)
KATE GENTILE b i o m e i.i (2021)

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Canadian Impressions

A Prime Chamber Music Collection of Canadian Soundscapes from Coast to Coast

Danielle Lisboa, Artistic Director

This is the second fundraiser concert of the 23-24 season in support of the Chamber Nucleus European tour with the program “Canadian Impressions” in June.

This performance features Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 for two flutes and violin solo with Frank Ho (violin), Rock Larochelle and Jennifer Gregory (flutes), and the Nucleus strings. Also, a little taste of the works being prepared for this trip include “Birdsong” by Canadian composer Vivian Fung for violin and piano among other pieces.

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NUMUS Emerging Curators Series

“The Divine Feminine: A Woman’s Love through Life and Loss” aims to tell the stories of women, historical, folkloric, and universal (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Helen Creighton, Penelope of the Iliad, the mythical Sirens) and their capacities for love – love for their children, their partners, their work, a lost loved one, and/or themselves/each other. Through a programme dedicated exclusively to the works of Canadian women composers, the artists and the audience will consider how love has led to the most passionate moments of the character’s lives, for better or for worse.

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

6:00pm Artist Talk
7:15pm Concert

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Members of Chamber Music | OC’s very own Pre-College faculty join forces to present an exciting evening of chamber music in a variety of configurations, including Vivian Fung’s Birdsong for Violin and Piano, Brahms’ Piano Quintet with guest Pre-College participant Minji Choi, and more.

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Chamber Music by Canadian Female Composers, performed by Evan Jones (cello) and Diana Dumlavwalla (piano).

Recital features works by Emily Doolittle, Vivian Fung, Alexina Louie, Jocelyn Morlock, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Elizabeth Raum, and Linda Catlin Smith.

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

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Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova will present a concert performing pieces from their album that celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. In a pre-performance talk, they will speak about the composers and their importance in music history. “HERS” vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé.

Program

Florence Price, Elfentanz
Beyonce / Eisenmann, Halo
Michelle Ross, Where THings Weigh Nothing At All
Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus
Amy Beach, Romance
Clara Schumann, Romances
Vivian Fung, Prayer
Andrea Casarrubios, Magnitude

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Joseph Petric X Penderecki String Quartet Part II

Program

String Quartet No. 4 “Insects and Machines,” Vivian Fung
New Work, Kevin Day
Concertante, Boyd McDonald
String Quartet No. 1 “Bogusławów,” Tyler Versluis
String Quartet No. 4, Krzysztof Penderecki
A Letter from the After-life, Dinuk Wijeratne

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I have been working with Sandbox Percussion expand my percussion quartet, (Un)Wandering Souls, newly adapted for the group!

This premiere will happen alongside two other commissioned works:

Christopher Cerrone, Don’t Look Down
Tyshawn Sorey, For Arthur Jafa

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Grand prize winner of the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and winner of the prestigious 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, this adventurous young group is known for “a combination of brilliance and subtlety.” (The Telegraph)

Program

BRITTEN, Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25
WALKER, Quartet No. 1 “Lyric”
FUNG, Pizzicato from Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK, Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105

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Down and Dirty is a new work commissioned by the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival for clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu. Manasse and Nakamatsu will be performing ‘Down and Dirty’ on San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve ‘CELEBRATION!!!’ concert.

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Due to extenuating visa circumstances, the Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, Gamelan Gita Asmara, will not be able to join for the December 15 Seattle and December 16 Olympia programs. They will be rescheduled on a future program.

Replacing them on the second half of the program will be more music inspired by gamelan from the already scheduled wonderful ECM artists Kristin Lee, Michael Stephen Brown, and Svet Stoyanov – full program details are below.

Program

Steve Reich, Electric Counterpoint, III. Fast
Maurice Ravel, Miroirs
Vivian Fung, Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Claude Debussy, Estampes for Solo Piano, L. 100
Lou Harrison, Varied Trio for Violin, PIano and Percussion

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Due to extenuating visa circumstances, the Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, Gamelan Gita Asmara, will not be able to join for the December 15 Seattle and December 16 Olympia programs. They will be rescheduled on a future program.

Replacing them on the second half of the program will be more music inspired by gamelan from the already scheduled wonderful ECM artists Kristin Lee, Michael Stephen Brown, and Svet Stoyanov – full program details are below.

Program

Steve Reich, Electric Counterpoint, III. Fast
Maurice Ravel, Miroirs
Vivian Fung, Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Claude Debussy, Estampes for Solo Piano, L. 100
Lou Harrison, Varied Trio for Violin, PIano and Percussion

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Program
William Grant Still, Lyric String Quartette
Vivian Fung, String Quartet No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130

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Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Carrie Jacobs Bond and Elinor Remick Warren to Vivian Fung and Gabriela Lena Frank. Piano works by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program.

Featuring lyric coloratura Nikki Einfeld and pianist Allegra Chapman.

This concert is presented as part of The California Festival - a Celebration of New Music

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Left Coast explores the voices of women composers of California in song, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Carrie Jacobs Bond and Elinor Remick Warren to Vivian Fung and Gabriela Lena Frank. Piano works by Gabriella Smith and Henry Cowell complement the program.

Featuring lyric coloratura Nikki Einfeld and pianist Allegra Chapman.

This concert is presented as part of The California Festival - a Celebration of New Music

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In a partnership with CA Biennial Festival, this Chamber Music Tuesday features SFCM alumni ensemble L'Arc Trio in performance with students. The concert also features two new and exciting works by Bay Area composers Jonathan Bingham and Vivian Fung, as well as one of Ernest Bloch's greatest chamber music works. Fung’s piano trio Ominous Machine was written for the L’Arc Trio and the performance will be a world premiere. Emerging Black Composers Project winner Jonathan Bingham wrote his string quartet Pareidolia in 2022 for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.

Program
Jonathan Bingham, Pareidolia
Vivian Fung, Ominous Machine
Ernest Bloch, Piano Quintet No. 1

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In a residency at Western Michigan University, Mary Elizabeth Bowden will perform the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with Professor Lori Sims in addition to putting on a masterclass for the WMU trumpet studio.

Mary Elizabeth Bowden performs the world premiere of the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with pianist Zhao Wang as the guest artist for Central Michigan University’s Trumpet Blast Day.

Program
Ravel, Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera
Fung, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Debussy (arr. DeJonge/Miles), Reverie
Beach, Three Browning Songs
de Falla, Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas

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The Jasper String Quartet has included Fung Quartets throughout many tour seasons and this upcoming October 2023, JSQ will be releasing their next album, showcasing Vivian Fung’s first four string quartets. Recorded on the Sono Luminus label, this album continues to build the relationship the quartet has with Fung.

Tickets are free, but register online to reserve a seat!

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