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August in Trinity

7/22/2014

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Featuring Free Public Concerts, and a special partnership with Bar 717 Camp Trinity.

August 16, 7:00pm        Studio 299, Willow Creek
August 22, 7:00pm        Skycrest Lake, Burnt Ranch (1635 Underwood Mtn. Rd.)
August 23, 7:00pm        Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville


Concerts will feature classical favorites and family-friendly music for piano, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, and more. Performers include flute virtuoso Gina Gulyas, clarinettist and improviser Matthew Boyles, festival director and pianist Ian Scarfe, award willing violinist and fiddler Rachel Patrick, and guitarist Ryan Loweth, who can play classical, jazz, flamenco, tango, and everything in between!
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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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Great Fun with Peter and the Wolf

4/18/2014

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The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival celebrated its fourth year with a special springtime tour that was all about the kids.

A dozen professional musicians from California and Oregon came together April 1-6, 2014 to present a special version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and performed for over 2,500 students at 7 schools in Northern California. The ensemble also performed 4 public concerts in Hayfork, Weaverville, Redding, and San Francisco -- a very busy week! Musicians in costume acted out the story of Peter, the Bird, the Cat, the Duck, his Grandfather, the Hunters, and the fearsome Wolf, while festival director Ian Scarfe narrated.

Kids not only got to experience this classical favorite, but also had a chance to talk to musicians, see the different instruments of the orchestra, and to hear other music from Disney's recent movie "Frozen" - a real crowd-pleaser!

In addition, the public concerts offered audiences a chance to hear oboist Denis Harper perform his rendition of Telemann's Oboe Concert - an imaginative baroque work of incredible virtuosity.

This week long tour was made possible by support from many individuals as well as Scotts Valley Bank. You can help support worthy projects like this by making a donation to the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival! We need your support!
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Peter and the Wolf - April 1 - 6, 2014

2/21/2014

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Peter and the Wolf has been a family favorite since Walt Disney released his animated version of it in 1946.

Originally written for a full orchestra, the Trinity Alps Chamber Players introduce a special chamber music arrangement for 10 musicians and narrator. Each character in the story is played by a different instrument – the Bird by the flute, the Duck by the oboe, the Cat by the clarinet, the Wolf by the horn, the Grandfather by the bassoon, the Hunters by the woodwinds, and the hero of the story, Peter, by the violin.
Preview Peter and the Wolf by watching this video
Admission is free and open to the public!
Suggested donations will benefit the 2014 season of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival

Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00pm

Veteran's Memorial Hall
101 Memorial Drive
, Weaverville, CA

Wednesday, April 2 at 7:00pm

Trading Post
Frontier Village
, Hayfork, CA

Friday, April 4 at 6:30pm

Old City Hall
1313 Market Street, Redding CA

Sunday, April 6 at 3:00pm

Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA


This special free family concert is part of the 2014 season of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival. Now in its fourth season, this organization is dedicated to presenting exceptional and accessible chamber music performances, and bringing classical and contemporary chamber music alive to younger generations through education and outreach performances. In addition to several free family concerts, the musicians will be doing outreach performances for students at schools in Trinity and Shasta counties in Northern California.
Performers:
Petr Masek – violin (Peter)
Ellen McGehee – violin
Paula Karolak – viola
Juan Mejia – cello
Jacob Johnson – double-bass
Gina Gulyas – flute (Bird)
Denis Harper – oboe (Duck)
Karla Avila – clarinet (Cat)
Seth Goldman – bassoon (Grandfather)
Wayne Van Lieu – horn (Wolf)
Ian Scarfe – piano, narrator
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Friction Heats Up Chamber Music Festival

1/17/2014

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As you read this, The Friction Quartet is in the midst of a busy tour of the northeast, with concerts in New York and Philadelphia. Hard to imagine that just last week they were a world away from all that, at the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival.

As the first group invited to our special "Winter Residency", Friction enjoyed a fully-sponsored week in the beautiful and remote village of Hyampom, tucked on the banks of the South Fork of the Trinity River.

The group enjoyed home-cooked (and home-grown!) meals from festival sponsors, a wood-fired hot tub looking across the valley, early-morning hikes along scenic trails, and lots of time to make music.  At the end of the week they gave back to the community by playing three public concerts and performing for over 500 school children across Trinity County. 

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Friction Quartet

12/20/2013

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Winter Residency with the Friction Quartet - January 3-10, 2014

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Concerts
Wednesday, January 8, 7:00pm
Hyampom Community Hall
Hyampom, CA

Thursday, January 8, 7:00pm
Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center
Weaverville, CA

Friday, January 10, 7:30pm
Old City Hall
Redding CA

Program:
Stephen Feigenbaum - Strange Dances
Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 (1940)

Admission is free and open to the public!
Suggested donations will benefit the 2014 season of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival

The newest offering from the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival is the “Winter Residency”, an opportunity for established California-based ensembles. The first group to be selected for this program is San Francisco's Friction Quartet. This award-winning young group is known for their genre-bending performances that highlight both classical masterpieces and adventurous contemporary music. 

Friction Quartet

Friction Quartet's Website
Friction Quartet, recipient of the 2012 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artist Award, has established a reputation for edgy programming and exhilarating performance of contemporary string quartets. Through artistic collaboration in varied mediums, the commissioning of new works, crossing into non-classical genres, adding movement to performances, and incorporating mixed medias, Friction Quartet creates a progressive and inviting concert atmosphere that attracts audiences of all ages and interests. Community improvement and education are crucial elements to Friction’s work; free public performance and outreach in under-served communities and schools builds and sustains a vibrant culture, while broadening future audiences of classical music.

Friction has commissioned new works from Ian Dicke, Gabriella Smith, and Daniel Felsenfeld among many others. 2013-14 events include an installation of music and dance with Dan Becker and Garrett-Moulton Productions, Healdsburg, CA’s Brave New Music series, and Friction’s New York City debut at The Firehouse Space.

Doug Machiz, cello
A native of Washington, DC, cellist Doug Machiz resides in San Francisco where he is co-founder, manager, and cellist of Friction Quartet, recipient of the 2012 Berkeley Piano Club Emerging Artists Award. In addition to his work with Friction Quartet, Doug is an active free-lance musician and teacher.  While beginning his cello studies at the late age of 14, he won a position in the prestigious Maryland Classic Youth Philharmonic by age 15.  At 17, he was performing with the world renowned Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and touring Italy with the West Chester University Orchestra. Doug earned his Bachelors degree at Boston University, a Masters degree from UT Austin, and a Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory.

Taija Warbelow, viola
Taija Warbelow, originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, has a long history in chamber music. At the age of 5, she was placed in her first quartet which ended up staying together for 11 years as Quartetto Polare. She has participated in many summer festivals including the Encore School for Strings, the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival, the Moritzburg Festival Academy, and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival where she has been a returning guest artist. She studied at the Juilliard Pre-College with Toby Appel and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jodi Levitz.

Kevin Rogers, violin
Kevin Rogers is the founding violinist/violist of the Friction Quartet and Nonsemble6, a contemporary Pierrot Ensemble based in San Francisco. He began his solo career at sixteen in South Carolina. His most recent solo performances have included Lou Harrison's Violin Concerto at the Hot Air Music Festival in San Francisco, and a premier of Manly Romero’s concerto for two violins and two trumpets titled “Doppelgaenger” with the Blue Print Series under the Baton of Nicole Paiement. Kevin Rogers recently graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Masters degree in Violin Performance.

Otis Harriel, violin
California native Otis Harriel recently graduated the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has attended the California All-state Symphony Festival, Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop, Idyllwild Chamber Music Program, Sphinx Academy of Music, Mendocino Music Festival and Castleton Festival. Otis studied at the conservatory under the tutelage of Wei He. There he participated in master classes with the first violinist of the Shanghai Quartet, Weigang Li, William van der Sloot, and Pinchas Zukerman. While at the conservatory Otis developed his love of chamber music under coaches Mark Sokol, Jennifer Culp and Jodi Levitz. Throughout his life he has maintained a strong association with the quartets of Haydn and in his free time enjoys reading and baking.

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