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Featured Press ReleaseBenjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia Presented by Merola Opera Program July 11 and 13
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2013 – The Merola Opera Program presents Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 11 and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at the Everett Auditorium at 450 Church Street in San Francisco. The performance coincides with the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's birth, an anniversary being celebrated with Britten productions throughout the world. (read full release)
Photo by: Kristen Loken Recent Press ReleasesOther Minds Presents Rhys Chatham's "A Secret Rose"
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2013 – Other Minds will present the West Coast Premiere of Rhys Chatham’s awe-inspiring work for 100 electric guitars, A Secret Rose, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 17 at Richmond’s Craneway Pavilion. Led by composer/guitarist Rhys Chatham, credited with creating a new type of urban music by fusing early 1960s minimalism with the relentless, elemental fury of punk rock, this large-scale performance features an international team of section leaders working in concert with amateur and professional guitarists from all over the Bay Area and beyond. With an almost cult-like following akin to those who travel to hear The Grateful Dead, Rhys Chatham is a formally trained composer whose music combines “the drone-based minimalism of La Monte Young and Tony Conrad with the raw energy and amplified instrumentation of punk bands like the Ramones.” (Steve Smith, The New York Times) A Secret Rose is sponsored by a lead grant from the Exploring Engagement Fund of the James Irvine Foundation. (read full release)
Photo by: Craig S. McKibben, Jr. New Century Chamber Orchestra Announces 2013-2014 Season
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2013 – Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra announce the 2013-2014 Season including four subscription weeks that include Donizetti’s rarely-performed one act opera Rita featuring San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows; a special collaboration with San Francisco’s renowned Chanticleer; and a world premiere violin concerto by Featured Composer Michael Daugherty. The season includes contemporary works such as Dreamscapes by Clarice Assad and Elegy by Samuel Jones, European masterworks such as Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile and Suk’s Serenade for String Orchestra, in addition to Jazz Classics from Gershwin and Ellington. This will be Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s sixth season as Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. (read full release)
Photo by: Matthew Washburn Berkeley Symphony Awarded National Endowment For The Arts Grant
BERKELEY, Calif., May 8, 2013 – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that Berkeley Symphony is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Berkeley Symphony is recommended for a $12,500 grant to support their 2013-2014 Music in the Schools program. (read full release)
Philharmonia Baroque Productions Releases Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2013 – Philharmonia Baroque Productions announces the May 7 release of two Beethoven symphonies, Nos. 4 and 7, featuring Music Director Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recorded during live performances at First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California on November 10 and 11, 2012 (Symphony No. 4) and September 12 and 13, 2009 (Symphony No. 7), this is the sixth disc to be released since the 2011 founding of the institution’s own record label. (read full release)
Photo by: Kathleen Karn Britten and Mozart Operas Highlight Merola Opera Program 2013 Summer Festival
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2013 — Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro highlight the Merola Opera Program’s 2013 summer season which also includes the annual Schwabacher Summer Concert and the traditional Merola Grand Finale. Everett Middle School has been named as the new performance venue for the staged operas and the Schwabacher Summer Concert due to simultaneous renovations on both Herbst Theatre and Cowell Theater. (read full release)
Photo courtesy: SFUSD Berkeley Symphony Announces 2013-2014 Season
Berkeley, Calif., March 26, 2013 – Music Director Joana Carneiro and Berkeley Symphony today
announced programming for the 2013-2014 season including a world premiere by
Edmund Campion, co-commissioned with Cal Performances; a world premiere work
for violin and ensemble by Samuel Carl Adams; and the Bay Area premieres of
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx and Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Songs. (read full release)
Photo by: Christiana Ceppas New Concert Series Debuts in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2013 – Curious Flights, a new concert series dedicated to presenting new and rarely performed works from the solo, chamber and orchestral repertoire, announced today the lineup for its inaugural 2013 season. Highlights of the inaugural three-concert series are the West Coast Premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Movements for a Clarinet Concerto led by conductor Alasdair Neale with British clarinetist Brenden Guy as soloist; a weeklong residency by renowned British composer, oboe virtuoso and contemporary conductor Edwin Roxburgh; and a performance of Bay Area composer Dylan Mattingly's Six Night Sunrise by acclaimed violinist René Mandel. Curious Flights is the brainchild of Brenden Guy. A native of the U.K., Brenden Guy is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Mr. Guy has designated that proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to a San Francisco Conservatory of Music fund created specifically for assisting international students studying music in the United States. (read full release)
Photo by: Kristen Loken Eastern Music Festival Announces Ten-Year Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Commissioning Project
GREENSBORO, NC and NEW YORK, March 13, 2013 – Eastern Music Festival Music Director Gerard Schwarz today announced the establishment of the Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Commissioning Project celebrating American composers. Working together, Ambassador McElveen-Hunter and Maestro Schwarz will choose ten composers whose work will be premiered at the Eastern Music Festival over the course of ten seasons. Composers Richard Danielpour and John Corigliano have been commissioned for the first two seasons. Richard Danielpour will write A Prayer for Our Time especially for cellist Julian Schwarz, which will be premiered with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra on July 20. John Corigliano is creating a work for violin and orchestra to be premiered during the 2014 Eastern Music Festival. The violinist will be Eastern Music Festival’s concertmaster, Jeff Multer, who will play the work on his Vuillaume, an instrument once owned and played by John Corigliano’s father. Mr. Corigliano, Sr. was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years. (read full release)
Photo by: Ben VanHouten Berkeley Symphony Announces 2012-2013 Under Construction Composers
BERKELEY, Calif., October 22, 2012 – Berkeley Symphony announces the selections for its 2012–2013 Under Construction Composers Program, designed as an opportunity for Bay Area emerging composers to work with a professional orchestra. Three selected composers—Andrew Ly, Michael Nicholas and Davide Verotta—will each write a symphonic work to be read and performed by Berkeley Symphony at the Under Construction New Music Concerts on December 9, 2012 and March 24, 2013, at the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley. Music Director Joana Carneiro and Music Alive Composer-in-Residence Steven Stucky will curate the concerts. (read full release)
Photo by: Marshall Berman Nicola Luisotti's 2012-2013 Performance Season Opens with Rigoletto
SAN FRANCISCO, September 7, 2012 – The 2012-2013 Season finds Tuscan conductor Nicola Luisotti entering his fourth season as Music Director of San Francisco and beginning his tenure as Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. (read full release)
Elza van den Heever's 2012-2013 Season Highlighted by Metropolitan Opera Debut
September 6, 2012 – Elza van den Heever begins the 2012-13 season as Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Canadian Opera Company and goes on to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. (read full release)
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Header Photos by: (Cal Performances) Daniel Schmitz, (Green Music Center) David Wakely, (Teatro ZinZanni) courtesy of Teatro ZinZanni, (SF Film Society) Tommy Lou, Elza van den Heever) Dario Acosta, (Gerard Schwarz) Ben VanHouten, (David Lomelí) Kristin Hoebermann, (Nicola Luisotti) Terrence McCarthy, (Opera Parallèle) Steve DiBartolomeo, (New Century Chamber Orchestra) Jim Block, (Berkeley Symphony Orchestra) Dave Weiland, (Nicole Paiement) Roger Steen, (Matías Tarnopolsky) Kat Wade, (Domenico Monteforte) , Ted Hope (Chris Lee)
