Kedrick Armstrong conducts the Oakland Symphony in February. The group is holding summer time choir workshops by August.
Scott Chernis
The Bay Space is a artistic hotbed, and this summer time’s reside music choices are proving that a couple of years of being cooped up didn’t diminish however really fueled a wholesome crop of classical and new music sequence which have one thing edifying to supply to each lover of artistic, musical performing arts.
Try the Chronicle’s information to noteworthy reside music sequence, with occasions taking place by August that you just gained’t wish to miss:
These Merola Opera Program artists will likely be featured in a completely staged efficiency of “Don Giovanni” in August on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. From left: Donghoon Kang, Hyungjin Son, Benjamin R. Sokol, Justice Yates, Michael John Butler, Lydia Grindatto, Viviana Aurelia Goodwin and Moriah Berry.
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Merola Opera Program
Every summer time a contemporary group of pre-professional opera college students get a possibility to take part in San Francisco Opera’s well-established coaching program. This yr’s performances are scheduled to incorporate two showcase concert events with full orchestral accompaniment, a manufacturing of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and a grand finale.
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Schwabacher Summer time Live performance: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 11; 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13. $10-$35, reservations recommended. “Don Giovanni”: Aug. 1-3. $10-$65, reservations recommended. San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak St., S.F.
S.F. Merola Grand Finale: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. Warfare Memorial Opera Home, 301 Van Ness Ave., S.F. $10-$85, reservations recommended. 415-864-3330. https://merola.org
Pianist Gwendolyn Mok will likely be one of many featured artists performing as a part of the San Francisco Worldwide Piano Pageant from Aug. 22-29, 2024.
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Pocket Opera: La Bohème
The tremendous earnest, small-scale opera troupe — based by Donald Pippin over 45 years in the past — has been underneath the inherited reins of Director Nicolas Aliaga Garcia since Pippin’s dying at 95 in 2021. Catch one of many remaining performances on this yr’s summer time season, Puccini’s “La Boheme.”
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2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at Mountain View Middle for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Hillside Membership, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley. 2 p.m. Sunday, July 28, at Legion of Honor, 100 thirty fourth Ave., S.F. 415-972-8934. https://pocketopera.org
Calliope: East Bay Music & Artwork
The East Bay sequence is scheduled to incorporate performances from cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak performing the entire Bach Cello Suites. As well as, San Francisco Opera Adler graduates tenor Christopher Oglesby and pianist Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad will current music of Ralph Vaughn Williams, Strauss and Britten. Brazilian guitarist Alessandro Penezzi joins the Berkeley Choro Ensemble — with flautist Jane Lenoir, multi-instrumentalist Harvey Wainapel, guitarist Ricardo Peixoto and pandeiro participant Brian Rice — in a program of Brazilian choro music.
4 p.m. Sunday, July 14, 28, Aug. 18 and Sept. 15. $15-$45, reservations really helpful. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 1501 Washington Ave., Berkeley. https://www.calliope-ebma.org/
The Sticklerphonics — with Danny Lubin-Laden, Scott Amendola and Raffi Garabedian — will carry out the West Oakland Sound Collection.
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West Oakland Sound Collection
New Performance Traditions and sfSound current a weekly new music and experimental sound sequence. Upcoming concert events embrace Nathan Clevenger’s Astrolabe, David Leikam, Daniel James Burke and Mates and the Sticklerphonics.
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7 p.m. Sunday, July 14, 21, Aug. 4 and 11. $20, reservations recommended. Dresher Ensemble Studio, 2201 Poplar St., Oakland. http://sfsound.org
Rootstock Arts Thursday Music Collection
Wyldflower Arts hosts a weekly reside efficiency sequence with an emphasis on Indian classical music. Upcoming performances embrace percussionist Rohan Krishnamurthy, Sameer Gupta’s Jupiter Project, Joanna Mack with Bruce Hamm, Erika Oba and others.
7-10 p.m. Thursday, July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29. Ongoing. $10-$20, reservations recommended. Wyldflower Music and Arts House, 809 thirty seventh St., Oakland. 510-842-5055. https://wyldflowrarts.com
Music@Menlo Chamber Music Pageant: French Reflections
Take a deep dive into the world of French chamber music, uncovering the historical past and improvements of French composers and their world counterparts with world-class artists set to carry out as a part of a virtually monthlong sequence. Programming will embrace a wide range of live performance codecs with featured musicians, collaborative programming with rising artists, grasp courses, lectures and extra.
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Program begins on July 19 and continues by Aug. 10. Menlo College, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. 650-330-2030. https://musicatmenlo.org
Violinist Angelo Xiang Yu, left, cellist Efe Baltacigil and violist Matthew Lipman carry out Françaix’s String Trio at Music@Menlo Pageant.
Geoff Sheil
Sundown Music and Arts
This yr the native live performance sequence housed in a comfortable Sundown district venue celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Upcoming performances scheduled embrace violinist Nato with a program of solo works by Bartók, Bacewicz, Prokofiev and Ysaÿe, together with pianist Tomasz Kamieniak performing works by Chopin-Liszt, Beethoven, Walter Niemann and others.
4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and Aug. 9. $20-$25, reservations really helpful. Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 1750 twenty ninth Ave., S.F. 415-564-2324. https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com
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Oakland Symphony and Schola Cantorum Sing-In Collection
Be taught to sing choral masterworks by Fauré, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Orff, Ralph Vaughan Williams and extra in a sequence of summer time choir workshops set to be led by native conductors together with S.F. Bach Choir director Magen Solomon, Stanford Summer time Refrain director Rafael Ornes, Oakland Symphony Refrain and Pacific Edge Voices director Ash Walker, Oakland Symphony Music Director Kedrick Armstrong and others.
Schola Cantorum Summer time Sings: 7:30 p.m. Monday July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5 and 12. $20, reservations really helpful. Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos. 650-254-1700. https://scholacantorum.org
Oakland Symphony Refrain Summer time Sing-Ins: 7-9:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, Aug. 7 and 14. $20, reservations really helpful. First Presbyterian Church, 2619 Broadway, Oakland. 510-444-0801. www.oaklandsymphony.org
Shenson College Live performance Collection
A summer time efficiency sequence spotlights the skills of the Group Music Middle’s school. Upcoming performers scheduled embrace vocalist Clif Payne, violinist Ava Gehlen-Williams and percussionist Deszon X. Claiborne.
7 p.m. Thursday, July 25, Aug. 8 and 15. Free, reservations recommended. Group Music Middle, 544 Capp St., S.F. 415-647-6015. https://sfcmc.org
American Bach Soloists (pictured right here acting at Grace Cathedral) will kick off its thirty sixth season beginning with a gala efficiency in San Francisco on July 26.
American Bach Soloists
American Bach Soloists
Kick off American Bach’s upcoming thirty sixth season by mingling with the artists at a party celebrating musical director Jeffrey Thomas that’s set to incorporate reside performances, cocktails, candy and savory hors d’oeuvres and extra.
Two music applications will comply with in July, “Viva Vivaldi” with an interpretation of the “4 Seasons” that includes violinists Jacob Ashworth, Tatiana Chulochnikova, Tomà Iliev and YuEun Gemma Kim. On July 28, “Theater of Fate” will embrace Handel’s Italian melodramatic “Agrippina” cantata, Vivaldi’s “Cessate, omai cessate” and “Amor hai vinto” in addition to Corelli’s “Concerto Grosso” that includes soprano Maya Kherani and mezzo-soprano Sarah Coit.
Gala: 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 26. $250-$500, reservations required. Inexperienced Room, Warfare Memorial Constructing, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F. • 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, July 27-28. $49-$111, reservations recommended. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell St., S.F. 415-621 7900. https://americanbach.org
Outsound New Music Summit
The creation of experimental music, avant garde musical composition and improvisation are the main target of a four-day, new music occasion that’s set to incorporate musique concrete, invented devices, genre-bending music, discipline recordings and intermedia works.
Performances scheduled embrace queer goth punk duet Bat Noise, electro-acoustic music by Sharkiface and Tanukispidercat. The second evening gives a set by the Regular duo, that includes guitarist Fred Frith and instrument inventor Suduh Tewari.
Additionally on the invoice would be the Moe Staiano Ensemble that includes 15 guitarists performing authentic works, bassist/composer Safa Shokrai, experimental soul with Pateka, vibraphonist Mark Pascucci-Clifford’s Dirty Snacks Ensemble. Closing the pageant is a convergence of cinema and sound from Matt Robidoux and visible efficiency and noise/drone artwork from Lori Varga.
7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Monday, July 26-27 and 29; 6 p.m. Sunday, July 28. $17-$25, reservations recommended. Finnish Corridor, 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley. 510-845-5352. https://outsound.org
‘Inform Me a Bedtime Story, Abraxas: A Gnostic Opera About Frogs’
Bay Space composer Brett Carson presents the world premiere of a brand new experimental, multimedia chamber opera.
The dreamlike narrative follows the protagonist by a sequence of vignettes exploring the double lifetime of amphibians as beings present each on land and within the water.
Reside musical accompaniment options vocalists Daniel Cilli and Melinda Martinez Becker, the Friction Quartet and drummer/percussionist Jordan Glenn.
8 p.m. Saturday, July 27; 3 p.m. Sunday, July 28. $20, reservations recommended. Dresher Ensemble Studio, 2201 Poplar St., Oakland. www.brettcarsonmusic.com
Cellist Sarah Hong, left, and pianist Makiko Ooka make up Le Due Muse. The duo is ready to carry out the Outdated First Concert events sequence.
Outdated First Concert events
Outdated First Concert events
Try an upcoming efficiency from this widespread, long-running live performance sequence. Upcoming concert events embrace Le Due Muse cello and piano duo, Duo Penseur, the Zēlos Saxophone Quartet and pianist/composer Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses Quartet. Livestream viewing choices accessible on the Old First Concerts YouTube channel.
4 p.m. Sunday, July 28; 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, and Aug. 16-17. Free-$30, reservations really helpful. Outdated First Concert events, 1751 Sacramento St., S.F. 415-474-1608. www.oldfirstconcerts.org
Pageant del Sole
The four-day pageant options reside chamber music, a movie screening, wine tasting lunches at Freeman Vineyards and Three Sticks Winery and a gala dinner. This system contains performances from pianist Olga Kern, world-renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman, acclaimed tenor Joseph Calleja and others.
The ultimate program gives a screening of “The Way of the Rain: Hope for Earth” from filmmaker Sibylle Szaggars Redford, that includes narration by Academy Award-winning actor Robert Redford, who is ready to hitch the occasion as a particular visitor. A gala fundraiser at Buena Vista Winery is scheduled to comply with the movie screening.
7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 1-4; 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $45-$500, reservations recommended. Weill Corridor, Inexperienced Music Middle, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. 707-664-4246. https://festivaldelsolearts.com
Music within the Vineyards thirtieth Anniversary
A 3-week reside classical music sequence set in winery and vineyard areas round Napa will kick off on the Frog’s Leap Vineyard with a program that includes works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Aaron Copland.
The Miró, Pacifica and Isidore string quartets will likely be featured artists with weekly Wednesday night performances. An interactive play-along “Live performance for the Group” will characteristic music by Vivaldi, Mozart and extra. And a “Not-So-Silent Cinema” occasion returns to the Jarvis Conservatory, with basic movies set to newly composed music performed by pageant musicians.
Salami Rose Joe Louis is among the featured artists set to carry out as a part of the two-day Bliss Pageant set to happen on Aug. 3-4 on the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.
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Bliss Pageant
People Yeah and the Presidio Theatre current a two-day out of doors music pageant that includes performances from three bands every day, together with the inimitable Salami Rose Joe Louis, Orchestra Gold and others. With meals vehicles, arts and crafts, complimentary beer and wine tastings from Fort Point Beer and Cultivar Wines, concessions from Cow Hollow Catering and Presidio Pop-Up meals vehicles.
5:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3; 2:30-6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $8-$17, reservations really helpful. Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Ave., S.F. 415-960-3949. www.presidiotheatre.org
Grace Cathedral Organ Recital Collection
Spend an hour having fun with a efficiency on the cathedral’s historic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ. Concert events scheduled embrace Eugene Lavery performing works by Massenet, Jessica French, Joseph Jongen and German organist Raphael Attila Vogl providing a program of Late Romantic works by Max Reger and Bruckner.
4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 and Sept. 1. Reservations required without cost admission. Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., S.F. 415-749-6300. https://gracecathedral.org
Noontime Concert events
The historic San Francisco cathedral hosts an ongoing weekly sequence of free, reside chamber music performances. Upcoming performances embrace duos that includes cellist Evan Kahn with pianist Amy Zanrosso performing works by Beethoven, Britten and Glazunov, and cellist Angela Lee with pianist Elizabeth Schumann performing works by Chopin and Frank Bridge.
12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, 20 and 27. Free, donations inspired. On-line viewing choices accessible on the Noontime Concerts Youtube channel. Outdated St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St., S.F. 415-777-3211. https://noontimeconcerts.org
San Francisco Worldwide Piano Pageant: Fauré Centennial
San Francisco Worldwide Piano Pageant founder Jeffrey LaDeur. This yr this system is embracing a French angle.
Carlin Ma
This yr the annual chamber music fest, that includes magnificent pianistic virtuosity, has a distinctly French angle, because it celebrates the life and music of Gabriel Fauré. That includes hidden gems and better-known works from the composer and his contemporaries, it’s set to incorporate six concert events with performances from inventive director Jeffrey LaDeur and pianists Gwendolyn Mok, Stephen Prutsman, Sarah Yuan, Munan Cheng and Asiya Korepanova. This system gives solo piano works in addition to small ensemble performances — with the Telegraph String Quartet, mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich, baritone Simon Barrad and violinist Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel — over the pageant’s 10 days.
Moreover, piano grasp courses from acclaimed pianists Mok, Paul Sánchez and Sharon Mann are scheduled on the S.F. Conservatory of Music’s grand 11th floor recital hall atop its new Bowes Middle constructing.
Performances: 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. $75, reservations recommended. Maybeck Studio, 1537 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23 and 30; 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25 and Sept. 1. Free-$30, reservations recommended. Outdated First Concert events, 1751 Sacramento St., S.F. 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27. Free. Outdated St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St., S.F.
Grasp Courses: 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27; , 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29. Free, reservations required. Barbro Osher Recital Corridor, Bowes Middle, 200 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 877-497-4266. https://sfpiano.org
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