5th Season, 2022-23
5th Season, 2022-23
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Friday, September 30, 2022 at 7pm
Special event at The Vacaville Museum
213 Buck Ave, Vacaville, CA 95688
Ensemble San Francisco, piano quartet
Ensemble San Francisco, piano quartet
Rebecca Jackson-Picht, violin
Matt Young, viola
Angela Lee, cello
Elizabeth Schumann, piano
Each of the musicians of Ensemble San Francisco is an international star in their own right — graduates of Yale, Julliard, the Cleveland Institute, and regular members of the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Santa Fe Opera orchestras. They perform at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center — but Ensemble SF is equally committed to bringing music of the highest quality to schools in low access communities, juvenile halls, hospitals, homeless centers. Their mission: “to inspire a more just and inclusive world by using artistry to recognize our shared humanity.”
The program will include the monumental Brahms g minor quartet Opus 25, Five Pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich for two violins and piano, along with two short new works: Solbong Kim’s quartet “From the Sixth Hour” (2004) and Polina Nazaykinskaya’s “Songs for Tasya” (2021)
“A hip, unstuffy, and malleable group of high-quality chamber musicians dedicated to fresh programming.” —San Francisco Classical Voice
“This collective of musicians possess an amazing amount of talent!” examiner.com
photo: Matthew Goff
Sunday, January 22 , 2023 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
Eric Wang, classical guitar
Eric Wang, classical guitar
Eric Wang is a classical guitar phenom, playing at the national level since the age of 14. We are thrilled to present this profoundly expressive and technically brilliant young artist in a solo recital. The first prize winner of many prestigious guitar competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition (2018, Junior Division, and 2020, Senior Division) and the Parkening International Guitar Competition (2019 Youth Division), Eric received the distinction of semi-finalist in the 2022 Presidential Scholar in the Arts award. This fall he begins studying at the San Francisco Conservatory with Professor Meng Su, while at the same time starting as a freshman in physics at Stanford University. Eric lives in San Jose with his family.
The program will include Aquarelle by Sergio Assad and Reverie by Giulio Regondi.
Sunday, March 12 , 2023 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
Clerestory, vocal chamber ensemble
Clerestory, vocal chamber ensemble
Clerestory is the Bay Area’s professional, all-male vocal chamber ensemble. In the truest spirit of chamber music, their performances are not conducted, but led from within by its members, many of whom are veterans of the Bay Area's finest professional vocal groups, including Chanticleer, Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, and others. Founded in 2006, Clerestory’s mission is to engage, enlighten and inspire by bringing the highest level of artistic excellence to a wide range of choral music for audiences in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble has been featured on National Public Radio.
Their program, "Phoenix Rising", is a musical exploration of loss, longing, metamorphosis, and rebirth - a journey we can all relate to. Along the way you will hear early music from Thomas Tallis and Josquin, gems from Elgar, Holst, and Clara Schumann, and new works from diverse living composers, like Stacy Garrop, whose Songs of Joy and Refuge trace the circuitous path we've all shared in recent years.
"The exceptional sincerity and beauty of the singing elevate the performances.." – San Francisco Classical Voice
Sunday, April 30 , 2023 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
Telegraph Quartet
Telegraph Quartet
Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins
Pei-Ling Lin, viola
Jeremiah Shaw, cello
The Telegraph Quartet formed in 2013 with an equal passion for the standard chamber music repertoire and contemporary, non-standard works alike. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for "soulfulness, tonal beauty and intelligent attention to detail “ and “a combination of brilliance and subtlety,” Telegraph was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet has performed in concert halls across the United States and abroad, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and at music festivals including the Chautauqua Institute, Interlochen Arts Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Emilia Romagna Festival. Telegraph is currently on the chamber music faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as the Quartet-in-Residence.
Their program will feature Beethoven's String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major, Opus 74, "The Harp", as well as Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (2001) by Gabriela Lena Frank.
"With precise tuning, textural variety and impassioned communication, the Telegraph players burned this masterpiece into one's memory." – The Strad
photo: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
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