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SFMusic Thursdays

5/25/2014

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Thursday, June 12, 7:30pm

Center for New Music
55 Taylor St., San Francisco, CA


Festival director Ian Scarfe will be joined by violinist Edwin Huizinga, violist Stephen Fine, and cellist Hannah Addario-Berry for a special preview of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival's 2014 Summer Programs.

Program
Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78

"Asturiana", Songs from Spain and Argentina for Viola and Piano

Sergei Prokofiev  - Cello Sonata in C Major, Op 119

Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60

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Trinity Alps Chamber Players

Ian Scarfe, piano
Edwin Huizinga, violin
Stephen Fine, viola
Hannah Addario-Berry, cello
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HAMMERED

5/13/2014

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HAMMERED:
a concert of mostly-recent music by mostly-local composers

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image by artist David Levine

MAY 24, 2014 AT 8:00PM

Admission: sliding scale, $10 - $15

The Berkeley Arts Festival site at 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Program:

Mason Bates - Red River, for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics

Alden Jenks – HAMMERED, for piano and laptop

Bela Bartok – Contrasts, for violin, clarinet, and piano

Ian Dicke – Two Takes Three, for violin, cello, bass-clarinet, and piano

Alden Jenks - “Oh It's You” for singer-actress and laptop
            The Trinity Alps Chamber Players, a group featuring young virtuosi affiliated with the expanding Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, joins forces with Bay Area composer Alden Jenks and soprano Amy Foote for a concert of recent music by California composers --- plus a rarely heard work by Bela Bartok.

            “Red River” for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics by Mason Bates will give audiences a chance to hear chamber music by a composer most recently heard with the San Francisco Symphony, performing his “Liquid Interface” for orchestra and laptop computer. Named after the local nickname of the mighty Colorado River, “Red River” traces the journey of the river from continental divide, past Interstate Highways, Grand-Canyon-Walls, Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas to its tragic resting place – the Sonoran Desert on the California/Mexico Border.

            The laptop plays an important role in the title work, “Hammered”, by A. Jenks. Here the computer transforms the sounds of the piano, played by Ian Scarfe,, and it also provides an independent keyboard-like “Ghost Piano” for Scarfe to interact with. In Jenks’s solo opera, “Oh It’s You”, the extraordinary young singer-actress Amy Foote experiences all the thrills and terrors of an encounter with someone new. The laptop provides musical accompaniment as well as speech sounds derived from the text (also written by A. Jenks). Jenks will be present to control the computer in both pieces.

            The youngest composer on the program, Ian Dicke, provides his 2011 “Two Takes Three”, a joyful and energetic study in rhythmic interplay among four performers: Doug Machiz, cello, Paul Miller, clarinet, Kevin Rogers, violin, and Ian Scarfe, piano.

            Back in 1933 a joyful energy was to be found in Bela Bartok’s “Contrasts” for clarinet, violin, and piano. Commissioned by legendary jazz and big-band clarinettist Benny Goodman, this work features Hungarian folk music is woven into the fabric of a sophisticated urban composition.
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Bar 717 Ranch Music Camp

5/11/2014

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Join the first Bar 717 Ranch Music Camp!

August 17-21, festival musicians will partner with Bar 717 Summer Camp to offer a special Music Camp Workshop for adults and families. Meals and lodging are provided by the camp, and campers will have daily opportunities to have music lessons, give performances, and hear workshops by a host of professional musicians. Many other fun camp activities are part of the daily offering, more information at www.Bar717.com.

Here are the important details:
Dates: August 17th (evening) - August 21st (morning)
Cost: $500 for adults, $250 for children ages 6-11, $350 for children ages 12-17, free for children ages 0-5
Includes: 4 days of Music Camp, including all meals, lodging, group lessons, and evening activities
Additional Options: Private music lessons are available for an extra fee
Schedule: Mornings will consist of group lessons, afternoons will be free time for exploring the ranch, visiting the river, or scheduling private music lessons, and evenings will consist of jam sessions and/or concerts
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2014 Summer Festival

5/11/2014

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Announcing the 2014 Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival

June 20-22

Chamber Music of Brahms

Friday, June 20 – 8:00pm
Hyampom Community Hall (6:00pm potluck)

Saturday, June 21 – 8:00pm
Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville

*Sunday, June 22 – 2:00pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church, Redding
*please note change of time and venue*

June 27-29

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

Friday, June 27 – 8:00pm
Hyampom Community Hall(6:00pm potluck)

Saturday, June 28 – 8:00pm
Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville

Sunday, June 29 – 6:00pm
Trailhead Pizza Cafe, Coffee Creek

ALL CONCERTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

            This year's Festival features six concerts, all free and open to the public.
       
Please note the change to June 22 - it has been moved from Trinity Alps Resort to Pilgrim Congregational Church in Redding!


            The first weekend (June 20-22) will focus on the Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms, one of classical music's great masters, whose music is always a favorite of musicians and audiences alike. Featured works include his gentle and lyrical Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78, played by Scarfe at the piano and visiting violinist Edwin Huizinga, who comes all the way from his home in Toronto, Ontario. The duo will be joined by violist Stephen Fine (Gainesville, Florida) and cellist Hannah Addario-Berry (Vancouver, British Columbia) for Brahms' dark and dramatic Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60. The program will finish with all the string players, including festival co-founder Ellen McGehee on violin, in Brahms' String Quintet in F Major, Op. 88, a work rich in melodies that weaves the five parts together in a beautiful web of complexity.

            The second weekend (June 27-29) will feature a special presentation of Aaron Copland's Pulitzer Prize winning ballet suite, Appalachian Spring. The musicians will present the music in its original scoring – for 13 instruments. Four violins, two violas two cellos, double bass, piano, flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This incredible piece of music is one of the greatest ever written by an American composer, and conjures images of rural Appalachian scenes of country songs, folk dances, and a memorable set of variations on the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts”. Other works by Bach, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos, and contemporary composers will be presented as well.
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Featured Musicians:
June 20-22:
Edwin Huizinga, violin
Petr Masek, violin
Ellen McGehee, violin
Ellen Flanagan, viola
Stephen Fine, viola
Hannah Addario-Berry, cello
Ian Scarfe, piano
June 27-29:
Daniel Rouslin, violin
Ellen McGehee, violin
Petr Masek, violin
James Keene, violin
Ellen Flanagan, viola
Paul Karolak, viola
Courtney Kelly, cello
Natalie Raney, cello
Jacob Johnson, double-bass
Gina Gulyas, flute
Karla Avila, clarinet
Alexis Luque, bassoon
Gabrielle Castriotta, oboe
Ian Scarfe, piano
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Italian Chamber Music

5/6/2014

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The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival
with the Carmel Bach Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute present

"Italian Chamber Music - Vivaldi's Four Seasons"

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Saturday, June 7, 8:00pm
Century Club of California
1355 Franklin Street, San Francisco

Admission is $25
Wine and light snacks will be provided
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Program
Ottorino Respighi - Notturno for Piano
Gioachino Rossini - Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano
Gian Carlo Menotti - Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, Edwin Huizinga, soloist
Trinity Alps Chamber Players
Ian Scarfe, piano
Lux Brahn, clarinet
Edwin Huizinga, violin
Petr Masek, violin
Ivo Bokulic, viola
Samsun Van Loon, cello
Andrei Gorbatenko, double-bass
          
            This program is a unique collaboration between organizations. San Francisco's Italian Cultural Institute is again showing their increased range of programming, this being their second partnership with the Trinity Alps Chamber Players. The Carmel Bach Festival, long an established presenter of classical and baroque programs in Monterey County, here reaches out to Bay Area audiences in anticipation of its summer concerts featuring “Bach and the Italians”.
            Held at the elegant Century Club of California, this event is an opportunity to experience one of San Francisco's greatest venues for chamber music. Something of an undiscovered gem, this splendid Edwardian mansion features a Julia Morgan-designed ballroom, with a top quality Steinway D on stage and excellent acoustics.
            The program will cover a broad spectrum of Italian classical music, highlighting Vivaldi's baroque masterpiece “The Four Seasons”, written as a colorful and virtuoso concerto for violin. It shows Vivaldi in his most imaginative of moods, with music that describes the dances of spring, the storms and heat of summer, the drunken autumn festivals, and the snowflakes of winter.
            The first half of the program is an interesting window into three composers who are primarily known not for chamber music, but for their contributions to other genres. Ottorino Respighi, best known for his lush orchestral scores, is represented by a little-known gem, the Notturno from his Six Pieces for solo piano. Known primarily for his operas and librettos, Gian Carlo Menotti's witty and playful Clarinet Trio shows the composer at home in the more intimate medium of chamber music. The master of classical Italian opera, Gioachino Rossini, contributes one of his two great virtuoso clarinet works, the Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano.

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