$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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From Classical to New Works

For this exciting recital, pianist Ting Luo will present a repertoire spanning the classical era, with compositions from Schubert and Bach, as well as several pieces from contemporary and new piano music, featuring works by Phillip Glass, Terry Riley, and Ingrid Stölzel.

A special highlight will be the inclusion of prepared piano classics by John Cage. Additionally, Ting Luo will showcase selected compositions from the New Arts Collaboration 2023 season, including pieces by Xuesi Xu, Dylan Findley, and Cole Reyes.

The New Arts Collaboration proudly offers innovative programming, bringing together multimedia piano works by living composers and artists from diverse fields, resulting in a groundbreaking mixed-media experience.

“The music offered a wide variety of different technical and rhetorical approaches to composition, and the variations in media design were just as extensive.” from the review by The Rehearsal Studio.

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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Middle Eastern delights with oud, clarinet, percussion and song

Featuring artists whose backgrounds include Israel (Asaf Ophir), Lebanon and Syria (Faisal Zedan) and Iran (Sirvan Manhoobi), the Dashti Trio brings a unique musical and cultural blend to the concert stage.

The Dashti Trio began with a peace concert in 2017, bringing together musicians from different parts of the Middle East to share their cultures. Each coming from a unique background and with his own independent career, they continued to collaborate on numerous projects and finally decided to form a dedicated trio. With a mixture of voice, clarinet, flutes, oud, and percussion, they bring the beauty of each individual culture as well as a few refreshing combinations that may never have existed before. Come and hear avaz with a scent of spices, hijaz with a flourish, and klezmer with a twist!

With: Asaf Ophir - woodwinds, vocals; Sirvan Manhoobi - oud, vocals and Faisal Zedan - percussion, vocals

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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Outstanding woodwind quintet performs Latin American music both old and new

Since 2004, Quinteto Latino has performed music of Latino and Latin-American composers and used the performances to educate audiences around racial equity and cultural issues in the classical music field. Sharing the wonderful music of Latino composers and supporting them in their creation of new works and wider recognition are Quinteto Latino’s goals for every performance. Our program includes a piece recently commissioned by us: Mitos by Gabriela Lena Frank, as well as a tribute to the late composer Paul Desenne: El Recreo, La Cumbia, Los Vikingos, y Otras Miniaturas. We’re excited to perform these new pieces alongside a folk song and a well-known tango… old and new Latin American music!

With Armando Castellano, French horn; Leslie Tagorda, clarinet; Diane Grubbe, flute; Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and Jamael Smith , bassoon.

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No "Dots" - No Problem!

Want to learn how to jam? This Jam Session Workshop "Beyond the dots” will show you how!

Oftentimes musicians are divided into two categories, those who can play by ear and those who need “dots” - music notes. This workshop is especially for those who have not explored learning music by ear, as well as for musicians who play by ear, but just want to learn some new tunes! Through the use of simple European melodies (Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian), Cookie will guide participants to feeling comfortable in a jam session - even if this is your first time jamming! After learning the melodies, we start to apply the stylistic elements, ornaments, trills, frills and thrills. Some of the melodies will stem from the music in her childhood home, a mixture of Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish.

This class is best suited for intermediate players and above and open to all acoustic instruments.

$15 youth/Live Stream, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission

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$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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For this special event, Veretski Pass presents a program of formerly lost melodies of pre-Holocaust traditional, Ukrainian-Jewish music, as well as dances from Ukraine.

PLUS: Join us at 3:00 p.m. for a 30 minute scholarly talk with violinist/violist, scholar and teacher Cookie Segelstein - Veretski Pass: UNDER THE HOOD: Using Jewish Archival Materials to Create New Music and Arrangements, at no extra cost; the talk is free to concert ticket-holders. Thank you, Klez California, for the grant covering this talk!

In this short talk, Cookie will explore ways that musicians can balance old-school research and learning with digital resources. How does Veretski Pass use Jewish archival collection materials to compose and arrange new music? This presentation shows their creative process, from gathering materials, to the treatment of the smallest melodic fragments, to using whole melodies. Cookie will show elements of this, including music sources, tempo and key treatments, melodic and rhythmic variations.

Concert Program: This new program combines traditional folk resources from Ukraine with Veretski Pass' own new compositions. With both traditional and contemporary folk gestures, in concert with the traditional style of improvisation, this collection draws on sources of Ukrainian Jewish music that are in peril, being housed in the Vernadsky National Library in Kiev, Ukraine, and being digitized by volunteers from the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital manuscript Project (KMDMP), which includes members of Veretski Pass.

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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Voices for Change: ART SONG AND KEYBOARD MUSIC OF CALIFORNIA - part of the statewide California Festival

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

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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Rich harmonies and intimate music with beloved East Bay singer-songwriters

Jaeger & Reid, a duo from the San Francisco East Bay, combines Judi’s Canadian background, striking vocals and intelligent songs with Bob’s California upbringing and his own engaging original tunes. Their artful blending of guitars, ukulele and rich harmonies delivers an intimate evening of deeply meaningful music. Be prepared to be moved.

FREE EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Please join us for the opening of Calliope’s first juried group art exhibition!

The unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic will have long ranging effects on all of us. Surrounding this experience is a collective grief we are only beginning to grasp. This exhibition will explore the COVID experience as seen through the art and writings of our own community with the goal of acknowledging, honoring and learning from all that we have experienced, lost and gained, TOGETHER.

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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We welcome you to join us for a special treat: not just one, but FOUR extraordinary classical saxophonists who will take us on a musical ride around the world.

TC4's eclectic program begins with Atom Hearts Club Quartet by Takashi Yoshimatsu, which blends his unique approach to classical music with rock icons Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

We then travel to major port cities in South America, and explore the combination of American Rags, Blues, and Jazz, with Brazilian Choro and Dominican Merengue in Saxteto by Victor Marquez Barrios.

We end in France, where we explore the diverging styles of late French Romanticism and the ever popular Impressionism, with Nuages by Eugene Bozza and a fresh setting of Claude Debussy's famous String Quartet.

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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This is music you won’t hear anywhere else! This program consists entirely of original compositions, combining a jazz quintet with string quartet.

Typically, in a jazz setting, strings are either relegated to the role of “sweetener” or, in small jazz groups they function much like another horn. Here, you hear a musical partnership, with the string quartet integrated into the music, lending its agility and plush sonority to balance and contrast with the slash and burn of the jazz quintet. These arrangements have been a long time in the making, and we are thrilled to be able to share them with you!

$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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Piano and cello masterworks - with a world premiere by composer Jean Ahn

Join Berkeley's own Isaac Pastor-Chermak and Alison Lee for an afternoon of greatest hits and brand-new music for cello and piano. Isaac and Alison will perform sonatas and showpieces by Beethoven and Brahms, and the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Jean Ahn. One of the Bay Area's most prominent musical "power couples", Isaac and Alison have collaborated musically since 2016, including several performances of the complete Beethoven and complete Brahms sonatas and appearances at Calliope and St. Alban's individually and as a duo. Jean Ahn is a music faculty member at UC Berkeley and director of Ensemble ARI, which performed on Calliope's 2021-22 season.

Each of the three pieces on their program represents the friendship and collaboration between composers and performers: Beethoven with Jean-Louis Duport, Brahms with Robert Hausmann, and Jean Ahn with the performers directly, for a world-premiere commissioned work.