Program:

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+

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Mozart & Now reimagines the concert weekend experience with three unique performances contrasting the music of Mozart alongside contemporary works by some of today’s brightest composers. From Friday to Saturday, hear three of Mozart’s most revered compositions including the scintillating Symphony No. 35, his “Gran partita” Serenade featuring the entire woodwind section, and the “Coronation” Mass alongside modern works by Joel Thompson, Vivian Fung, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

 Program
VIVAN FUNG Dust Devils
MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385
—INTERMISSION—
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Conquest Requiem

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Program

Barber, Adagio for Strings in B minor
Fung, Pizzicato
Grieg, Two Elegiac Melodies
Hailstork, Sonata da Chiesa

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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

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UTNMF: Percussion Ensemble: Vis a Vis

Norbert Palej, festival coordinator
Music of Vivian Fung and Morton Feldman

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"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)  

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Maestro Peter Oundjian has been hailed as a masterful and dynamic presence in the conducting world and has developed a multi-faceted portfolio as a conductor, violinist, professor, and artistic advisor. He has been celebrated for his musicality, an eye towards collaboration, innovative programming, and an engaging personality.

Program:
Vivian Fung: Dust Devils
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, op. 21
(Eric Guo, Grand Prize winner of The Robert W. and G Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition)
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, op. 74

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Experience the sounds of Alberta with ESO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni. This performance will feature music by familiar composers with connections to the province, including John Estacio, Zosha Di Castri, and Cris Derksen, and more, plus two exciting world premieres.

Program
John Estacio, King Arthur Suite: Picnic Bacchanale
Zosha Di Castri, Pentimento
Allan Gordon Bell, Sundogs Reel (ESO Premiere)
Joel Toews, Sleeping Giant (ESO Premiere)
Cris Derksen, Amiskkwacîwâskahikan (World Premiere)
Annika Schoenhardt, For the Star Chasers (World Premiere, Young Composers Project)
Vivian Fung, Earworms (ESO Premiere)

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Program
Li Huanzhi, Spring Festival Overture
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Zhao Jiping, Concerto No. 2
Chen Gexin, Gōngxǐ Gōngxǐ (恭喜恭喜)
Huang Ruo, Folk Songs
Grieg, Piano Concerto A Minor, Op.16–Mvt. I
Alison Yun Fei Jiang, The Mountain Paths of Shu are Treacherous! (Shǔ Dào Nán / 蜀道难) (World Première)
Liu Tieshan (刘铁山) & Mao Yuan (茅沅), Dance of Yao People

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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

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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

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Canadian composer Vivian Fung’s bold and vibrant Parade and Kevin Chen’s take on Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 17, filled with wit, sparkling interplay, and serene beauty, complement Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7—a fiery, dramatic, and powerful masterpiece regarded as one of his greatest.

TSO RBC Resident Conductor
Kevin Chen, piano

Vivian Fung: Parade
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

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Canadian composer Vivian Fung’s bold and vibrant Parade and Kevin Chen’s take on Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 17, filled with wit, sparkling interplay, and serene beauty, complement Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7—a fiery, dramatic, and powerful masterpiece regarded as one of his greatest.

TSO RBC Resident Conductor
Kevin Chen, piano

Vivian Fung: Parade
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

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Symphonic Dances

Program

Prayer, Vivian Fung
Symphonic Dances, Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Beethoven’s beloved “Pastorale” Symphony is filled with imaginative musical depictions of birdsong, a flowing stream, a thunderstorm, and other sounds of country life. Edmonton-born Vivian Fung’s Parade, inspired by watching her 6-year old son in a parade following pandemic lockdowns, is a “celebration of community that also explores the journey from solitude to togetherness.” Camille Saint-Saëns often said, “form is the essence of art,” a principle that is eloquently realized in his compact Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Montreal-born Jean-Guihen Queyras in his long overdue ESO debut.

Program
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
Fauré, Élégie for Cello
Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto No. 1
Fung, Parade

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Beethoven’s beloved “Pastorale” Symphony is filled with imaginative musical depictions of birdsong, a flowing stream, a thunderstorm, and other sounds of country life. Edmonton-born Vivian Fung’s Parade, inspired by watching her 6-year old son in a parade following pandemic lockdowns, is a “celebration of community that also explores the journey from solitude to togetherness.” Camille Saint-Saëns often said, “form is the essence of art,” a principle that is eloquently realized in his compact Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Montreal-born Jean-Guihen Queyras in his long overdue ESO debut.

Program
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
Fauré, Élégie for Cello
Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto No. 1
Fung, Parade

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Dvorak Symphony No. 7

Kalena Bovell, Guest Conductor
Aaron Smith, Percussion

Program

FUNG: Dust Devils
SÉJOURNÉ: Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra (Aaron Smith, Percussion)
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Experience an exciting blend of contemporary and classical music, with a program that truly has something to offer every orchestral music fan. This evening's concert opens with two LPO premieres- Vivian Fung’s energetic Dust Devils, a vivid and energetic work inspired by nature's forces, and Emmanuel Séjourné’s virtuosic marimba concerto, featuring the talents of LPO’s own principal percussionist Aaron Smith. We end the night with one of Dvořák’s grandest works, his moody and passionate Symphony No. 7.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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