Program
Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat, "Prussian", K589 No.2
Shaw: Blueprint
Fung: Pizzicato
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1
Program
Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat, "Prussian", K589 No.2
Shaw: Blueprint
Fung: Pizzicato
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1
The Creative Work Fund is pleased to award 13 new grants to Greater Bay Area artists collaborating with nonprofit organizations to develop new works of visual art, theater, traditional art, dance, poetry, arts activism and more. Grantees continue to show us that when artists and organizations are in partnership, they strengthen the vibrancy of the Bay Area.
Poet Genny Lim is collaborating with Del Sol Performing Arts Organization to create The Songs of the Diaspora, a connection between our ancestors and our future through new poetry by Lim in an immersive musical experience with collaborating artists Vivian Fung, Mark Heller, Meilina Tsui, Andi Wong, and Theresa Wong. The evening-length work will be presented in June 2025.
The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, “Everything is Green” pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Randall Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green” and Arvo Pärt’s equally exquisite “Spiegel im Spiegel,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung.
The interdisciplinary nature of the ensemble underpins the creative practices of its members, the originality and accessibility of its performances, and the diversity of artists with which the Ensemble can collaborate.
The performances of The Looking Glass Ensemble are imagined as multi-layer concerts, allowing for audiences to experience the novelty of multiple art forms, including music, dance, poetry, and film, in the recognizable and accessible context of music presentation. The ensemble has toured across Canada, and “Everything is Green,” the group’s dance film, recently won “Best Dance Short” at both the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Cine Paris Film Festival.
Interdisciplinary arts collective featuring cellist Vernon Regehr, pianist Gregory Oh, dance artist Shannon Litzenberger, and Christine Carter on clarinet. The program “Everything is Green”, pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations with works including Arvo Part and Beethoven.
The “Looking Glass Ensemble” is an interdisciplinary arts collective featuring cellist Vernon Regehr, pianist Gregory Oh, dance artist Shannon Litzenberger, and Christine Carter on clarinet. They will be touring their program “Everything is Green” in British Columbia, which pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel” and Randy Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Vivian Fung and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Recent engagements include the Canadian Opera Company’s Concert Series in Toronto, the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Virtuosi Concerts in Winnipeg, and several university residencies. Our film “Everything is Green” also just won “Best Dance Short” at both the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Cine Paris Film Festival.
Brahms: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Mendelssohn: Fantasy in f-sharp minor, Op. 28 (Jon Nakamatsu only)
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Gordon Goodwin: 3rd movement from Four Views for Clarinet and Piano
Paquito D’Rivera: Bandoneon from Cape Cod Files
Vivian Fung: 4th movement from Down and Dirty
John Novacek: from Four Rags for Two Jons
4th Street Drag
Full Stride Ahead+
Time and location to be confirmed!
Program
Barber, Adagio for Strings in B minor
Fung, Pizzicato
Grieg, Two Elegiac Melodies
Hailstork, Sonata da Chiesa
Program
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Music for Small Orchestra (1926)
Seare Ahmad Farhat - Muzzahaimat (2023) - Bay Area premiere
Vivian Fung - Ominous (2024) - West Coast premiere
Steve Reich Jacob’s Ladder (2023) - West Coast pemiere
UTNMF: Percussion Ensemble: Vis a Vis
Norbert Palej, festival coordinator
Music of Vivian Fung and Morton Feldman
"A Storm Within: The Music of Vivian Fung”
University of Toronto New Music Festival: Contemporary Music Ensemble
Wallace Halladay, conductor
Sophie Lanthier, flute
UofT Saxophone Ensemble
Walter Hall
Program
Vivian Fung: The Shaman Speaks (2009)
Vivian Fung: Ominous (2024)
Vivian Fung: Flute Concerto: “Storm Within” (2020-21)
(Sophie Lanthier, flute)
Unsuk Chin: Xi (1998)
Artistic Director Kristin Lee teams up with our three-time GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble-in-residence, Sandbox Percussion, for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres. This cutting-edge program showcases the dynamic blending of violin and percussion quartet- an unforgettable experience that pushes the boundaries of chamber music.
Program:
Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung New Work (World Premiere) ECM co-commission
Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion
Artistic Director Kristin Lee teams up with our three-time GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble-in-residence, Sandbox Percussion, for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres. This cutting-edge program showcases the dynamic blending of violin and percussion quartet- an unforgettable experience that pushes the boundaries of chamber music.
Program:
Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung New Work (World Premiere) ECM co-commission
Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion
From Ruth Gipps to Vivian Fung
Program
Gipps, Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, and String Trio
Hindemith, Morgenmusik
Day, Ignition
Fung, Frenetic Memories for clarinet and string quartet
Experience a bold new fusion of percussion and violin as Kristin Lee and Sandbox Percussion perform the DMV premiere of a new work by Vivian Fung, co-commissioned by Constellations.
Program:
Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung New Work (World Premiere) ECM co-commission
Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion
Curated and conducted by Brian Current, this special concert honours the extraordinary legacy of Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025) with a performance of Introitus, her deeply spiritual concerto for piano and chamber orchestra. Also featured are two bold contemporary works: Black Ice by Rashaan Allwood, a visceral reflection on unseen danger and structural inequality, and Ominous by Vivian Fung, a tense, vibrant work that explores precariousness and urgency through vivid textures. Together, these pieces explore vulnerability, voice, and transcendence through three distinct and powerful lenses.
Grammy-nominated Sandbox Percussion and violinist Kristin Lee explore the beauty of creative reuse in this concert of new music performed on found and recycled objects. Featuring a world premiere by Vivian Fung, a new work by Joan Tower, and partnerships with Wave Pool, Indigo Hippo, and the Heavy Metal Marching Band.
Program:
Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung New Work (World Premiere) ECM co-commission
Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion
WOMEN CROSSING/ LIMINALITY
Friday, April 17, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Cha Chi Ming Hall, Bowes Center, SF Conservatory of Music, 200 Van Ness, SF and livestreamed on SFCM's Vimeo channel
FREE
Pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m.
The culmination of E4TT's two-year exploration of women's immigration and identity and our sixth collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department, featuring:
Commissions by Juhi Bansal, Vivian Fung, and Pamela Z
Program
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 50, No. 2
Fung: String Quartet No. 5"Spiraling"
Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Program
Vivian Fung: Quartet "Spiraling" - New York Premiere
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 50, No. 2 (1787)
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 (1825)—with members of the Ulysses Quartet
Concert will also be livestreamed
SONIC SPECTRUM IV
Kristin Lee, Violin
Sandbox Percussion (Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian David Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Rose Studio at CMS
Program
Vivian Fung, (Un)Wandering Souls
Joan Tower, Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra
Harrison, Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra
The Park University International Center for Music's 2025-26 concert season will begin on Friday, Sept. 5, with a performance by violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova showcasing classical music created entirely by female composers. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan.
Program
“Elfentanz,” composed by Florence Price
“Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22” (arranged for viola and piano), composed by Clara Schumann
“Prayer” (based on music by Von Bingen),” composed by Vivian Fung
“Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23” (arranged for viola), composed by Amy Beach
“Halo,” by Beyoncé and Henrique Eisenmann
“Magnitude,” composed by Andra Casarrubios
This piece was commissioned by the Carr-Petrova Duo and is based on music by the Palestinian Women Ensemble Daughters of Jerusalem
“Sonata for Viola and Piano,” composed by Rebecca Clarke
Tenor Nicholas Phan (“one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” Boston Globe) and the Jasper String Quartet explore the unique sound world of English music. Separated from the mainland by water, England developed its own folk, classical, and popular traditions; a sampling of each will be heard on this stirring program, including British music by Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Britten, and Canadian composer Vivian Fung.
Program:
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, On Wenlock Edge
ELGAR, Salut d’Amour for Violin and Piano
BRITTEN, Three Divertimenti for String Quartet & Selected Songs
REBECCA CLARKE, Three Irish Country Songs
VIVIAN FUNG, “O” from Lamenting Earth
2024 Jeju International Brass Competition
Trumpet Repertoire:
1st round
Theo Charlier - Etude No. 2 “Du Style” (either B flat or C Trumpet)
Choose one from the followings
Arthur Honegger - Intrada
George Enesco - Legend
2nd round
Choose one from the followings(piccolo trumpet)
Giuseppe Tartini - Concerto in D, Movement 1
Johann Friedrich Fasch - Concerto in D, Movement 1
Steve Rouse - The Avatar, Movement 1 ‘Nativity’
Choose one from the followings
Vivian Fung - Rhapsody
Kevin Day - Enigma
Libby Larson - Ridgerunner
Final Round
Grace Williams - Concerto
Renowned violinist Claire Bourg is enchanting audiences worldwide with her heartfelt artistry and dazzling virtuosity. A laureate of numerous competitions including the prestigious 2021 Luminarts Fellowship and the New England Conservatory Competition, she has graced the stages of many of the world’s premier venues as both a soloist and chamber musician. We are delighted to welcome this distinguished alumna of our 2021 and 2022 Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program back to the Music Room for her debut solo recital.
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in A Major, K. 526
Vivian Fung: Birdsong
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata, Op.Posth.
Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in C minor for Violin and Piano
A stellar ensemble of internationally acclaimed artists perform selections from Royce’s catalogue – plus a sneak peek at his newest opera-in-the-making! Meet the creative voices that shaped Royce’s journey, and glimpse the future of Against the Grain.
$400* Ticket includes: event admission, wine/beer station, celebratory nibbles, and a $250.00 tax receipt.
Royce and Friends is a fundraiser for Against the Grain Theatre. Proceeds from this event will support future programming and outreach/education activities.
This Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital features the Katarina String Quartet, Juilliard’s graduate resident string quartet, in a program of works by Haydn, Vivian Fung, and Beethoven.
Program
Haydn, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50, No. 2
Fung, String Quartet No. 3
Beethoven, String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2, “Razumovsky”
University of New Mexico Trumpet Day
An intimate concert featuring solo and chamber repertoire. Experience the magic of new music in a closer, more personal setting with a select roster of a dozen Choral Artists. Featuring new vocal works by Vivian Fung, Che Buford, Joe Jaxson, Christopher Cerrone, and more.
Join us as ROCO’s Connections Series returns to Asia Society Texas Center on March 29th, and enjoy an evening spotlighting music by Asian artists and composers, exploring the experiences of Vietnamese immigrants.
Tenor Nicholas Phan features in the world premiere of Season 20 Composer-In-Residence Viet Cuong’s song cycle, telling the story of his family’s escape from Saigon, plus Vivian Fung’s elegaic Lamenting Earth, complimented by Viet Cuong’s driving septet Pulse Train.
Emmy Award-winning composer and traditional musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ joins, performing on instruments such as the đàn bầu (Vietnamese monochord), 16-string đàn tranh (zither), đàn t’rung (bamboo xylophone), and trống (traditional drums), creating music that blends the wonderfully unique sounds of Vietnamese instruments with other genres, fusing deeply rooted musical traditions with fresh new structures.
As a heartfelt thank-you for being a special part of our OrKidstra family, we invite you to a FREE performance of “Through the Looking Glass.”
This dynamic interdisciplinary concert will take place on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 7:30 PM performed by The Looking Glass Ensemble at the Huguette Labelle event space in Tabaret Hall, uOttawa (550 Cumberland St., Ottawa). Doors will open at 7 PM for this one-hour concert (no intermission); seating is general admission and will be available until hall capacity is reached.
Thanks to a grant from ArtsNL, long-time friend of OrKidstra, Christine Carter, and her interdisciplinary collective The Looking Glass Ensemble, are offering this invite-only performance free for the OrKidstra family! The one-hour original show features acclaimed clarinetist Christine Carter and celebrated dance artist Shannon Litzenberger in collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr. The program “pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Arvo Pärt’s exquisite ‘Spiegel im Spiegel,’ with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig van Beethoven and Vivian Fung.” The performances of The Looking Glass Ensemble are imagined as multi-layer concerts, allowing audiences to experience the novelty of multiple art forms, including music, dance, poetry, and film.
There is no need to RSVP for “Through the Looking Glass” and no tickets are required – we hope to see you on March 19 (and feel free to bring a friend)!
Featuring works by John Luther Adams, Vivian Fung, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Jan Dismas Zelenka.
The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, “Everything is Green” pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Randall Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green” and Arvo Pärt’s equally exquisite “Spiegel im Spiegel,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung.
Program
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
ARVO PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel
RANDY WOOLF: Everything is Green
VIVIAN FUNG: The Billy Collins Suite
Ipswich Chamber Music Society celebrates 100th Anniversary
March 15: Centenary Gala Concert, featuring the Villiers Quartet and students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Including Haydn’s ‘Fifths’ quartet, played at the very first ICMS concert in October 1925, Vivian Fung’s String Quartet No 1 and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings, Op. 20.
The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, “Everything is Green” pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Randall Woolf’s breathtaking “Everything is Green” and Arvo Pärt’s equally exquisite “Spiegel im Spiegel,” with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung.
Program
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
ARVO PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel
RANDY WOOLF: Everything is Green
VIVIAN FUNG: The Billy Collins Suite
Elektik Duo
Andrea Willis, soprano
Megaria Halim, piano
Program
In coelo et in terra (sonnet), Rita Strohl
The Seal Man, Rebecca Clarke
Penelope, Cecilia Livingston
Kalypso, Cecilia Livingston
Aunt Helen, Monica Pearce
Baby Book, Lauren Spavelko
Pot Roast à La RBG, Vivian Fung
Rhythm; one of the most basic and compelling attributes of music.
Curated by Kevin Rogers, every piece on this program has some blend of the most difficult, challenging, and delightful rhythmic play inside of it. From Thomas Adés’s brilliant use of irrational time signatures (you read that right!) to the high octane music of Trevor Weston that Friction Quartet cuts it's teeth on. Also featured is the imaginative music of Vivian Fung, merging machinary and biology, and a series of arrangements of tunes written by Tigran Hamasyan, one of the greatest Jazz pianists alive today.
Come see the full breadth of rhythmic expression and experience some Hard Times!
Program:
Thomas Adès - Four Quarters
i - Nightfalls
ii - Morning Dew
iii - Days
iv - The Twenty-fifth Hour
Trevor Weston - Fudo Myoo
Vivian Fung - String Quartet no. 4 “Insects and Machines”
Tigran Hamasyan arr. Kevin Rogers -
Song for Melan and Rafik
Vortex
Rhythm; one of the most basic and compelling attributes of music.
Curated by Kevin Rogers, every piece on this program has some blend of the most difficult, challenging, and delightful rhythmic play inside of it. From Thomas Adés’s brilliant use of irrational time signatures (you read that right!) to the high octane music of Trevor Weston that Friction Quartet cuts it's teeth on. Also featured is the imaginative music of Vivian Fung, merging machinary and biology, and a series of arrangements of tunes written by Tigran Hamasyan, one of the greatest Jazz pianists alive today.
Come see the full breadth of rhythmic expression and experience some Hard Times!
Program:
Thomas Adès - Four Quarters
i - Nightfalls
ii - Morning Dew
iii - Days
iv - The Twenty-fifth Hour
Trevor Weston - Fudo Myoo
Vivian Fung - String Quartet no. 4 “Insects and Machines”
Tigran Hamasyan arr. Kevin Rogers -
Song for Melan and Rafik
Vortex
University of Alberta Saxophone Studio perform 'Shaman Speaks' at NASA Region 9 Conference
Held at the University of British Columbia School of Music
Host: Dr. Julia Nolan
The second of the Villiers Quartet’s Late Schubert Series pairs the great Austrian composer’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ with three recent pieces by women composers. St Hilda's music student Ariana Pethard’s ‘The Dance of Persephone’ has been commissioned especially for this concert as a response to ‘Death and the Maiden’, with the composer playing the piano part. It's also a rare opportunity to hear Alisa Dixon's fascinating song cycle 'The Spirit of Love'; her strikingly dissonant harmonic language, reminiscent in places of Fauré, Bartók and Britten, is used to convey dark and conflicting emotions.
Program:
Vivian Fung, String Quartet No. 1 (2004)
Ariana Pethard, The Dance of Persephone for piano and string quartet (wp)
Alisa Dixon, The Spirit of Love — 3 Songs for soprano and string quartet (2020)
Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 (Death and the Maiden)
Girl From the 905 is a genre-busting presentation from a powerhouse operatic team working within their usual roles, but completely outside the lines. A classical score that rattles alive with electronic textures, performed completely raw and unfiltered by a classical trained soprano, rooted in an auto-biographical story of women living between the lines in a multi-cultural family, who come to accept and love themselves for who they are.
The Williams College Department of Music and I/O Fest 2025 bring Gamelan Yowana Sari to the Clark for an afternoon of new music for Balinese gamelan. The program features recently commissioned works for the ensemble by Michael Gordon and Evan Ziporyn, alongside music by Vivian Fung and Balinese master composer and musician Dewa Alit.
A performing Balinese Art Ensemble in residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, New York City, Gamelan Yowana Sari has recently appeared at Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival in Brooklyn and the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA. Additionally, while in Bali recently, they studied and performed with Dewa Alit’s Gamelan Salukat. Musicians from I/O Ensemble, I/O Fest’s resident ensemble, join the group for this program.
I/O Ensemble, the Williams College contemporary music ensemble directed by Matthew Gold, joins Gamelan Yowana Sari for this performance. I/O, which stands for input/output, reflects the group's ethos of letting lived experience bleed into their music. The ensemble is composed of musicians from the Williams College Department of Music faculty, student body, and local community, with guest artists from across the country.
MSM Chamber Music Festival: MSM Artists in Residence: American String Quartet
