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Recent Past Performances
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
--Music by the Mountain
Program: Del Sol Quartet with Sally Porter Munro, soprano, Laura Dahl, piano. Mozart, Fauré, Harrison, Gershwin.
Where: Mt. Shasta Seventh Day Adventist Church, Mt. Shasta, CA
More Info: Music by the Mountain
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
--Divide Light (opera)
Program: WORLD PREMIERE.
Divide Light is a new opera based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The work began as an interdisciplinary collaboration between New York visual and performance artist Lesley Dill and Colorado composer and conductor Tom Morgan. The project has expanded to include a number of additional collaborators, including Philadelphia-based stage director Eleanor Holdridge and the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet.
Divide Light is commissioned by Montalvo Arts Center, and supported in part by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Production Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Where: Montalvo Arts Center, Garden Theatre, Saratoga, CA
More Info: Montalvo Arts
• Sunday, May 4, 2008, 4pm
--Ring of Fire
Program: See below.
Where: The Dance Palace, 503 - B Street, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
• Saturday, May 3, 2008, 11am-noon
--SF Community Music Center Outreach
Program: Performance and talk with students of CMC's Saturday Music Program. Open to the public.
Where: San Francisco Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
• Friday, May 2, 2008, 8pm
--Ring of Fire
Home to earthquake swarms and volcanic eruptions, the countries of the Pacific Rim also produce some of the world’s most groundbreaking composers. In this celebration of Del Sol’s latest CD release for Other Minds, the quartet leads an inspiring seven-country tour.
Program:
Del Sol Quartet: “Prelude Music”
Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972): “Chasqui” from Leyendas - An Andean Walkabout (2001)
Zhou Long (b. 1953, China): Song of the Ch'in (1982)
Jack Body (b. 1944, New Zealand): Flurry (2001)
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929, Australia): “Yearning” String Quartet No. 16 (2005) (selection)
Hyo-shin Na (b. 1959, Korea): Song of the Beggars (1998)
Chinary Ung (b. 1942, Cambodia): Spiral X: “In Memoriam” for amplified string quartet (2007)
Where: San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Recital Hall, 50 Oak St., San Francisco, CA 94102
• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 4-6pm
--SF Public Library Outreach
Program: Performance. Open to the public.
Where: Koret Auditorium, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Saturday, April 26, 2008, 7:30pm
--Old Town Temecula Community Theater
Where: Old Town Temecula Community Theater, Temecula, CA
More Info: Old Town Temecula Community Theater
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Thursday-Sunday, April 10-13, 2008, 8pm
--StringWreck
Program: a collaboration with Janice Garrett & Dancers and Charles Moulton
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts FORUM, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
More Info: Janice Garrett & Dancers
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Sunday, March 30, 2008, 2-10 (7:30-8:30) pm
--Switchboard Music Festival
Program: Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960, Argentina): The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for klezmer clarinet and SQ (1994) with Jeffrey Anderle, clarinet;
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929, Australia): String Quartet No. 16 (2005), selection;
Arturo Salinas (b. 1955, Mexico): Awiroma for percussion ensemble (2005) with Jeffrey Anderle, percussion;
Where: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St. (at Mission St.), San Francisco, CA
More Info: Switchboard Music Festival
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Thursday and Saturday, March 6 and 8, 2008, 8pm
--Other Minds Festival 13
Program:
(March 6) Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (b. 1941, USA): Taif: Prayer in the Garden of the Hijaz (2007); with Smith, trumpet; Anthony Brown, percussion; WORLD PREMIERE (Other Minds commission)
(March 8) Keeril Makan (b. 1972, USA): Static Rising (2004); with David Shively, percussion
(March 8) Elena Kats-Chernin (b. 1957, USSR): Russian Rag (1996/2007); Fast Blue Village(2007) with Kats-Chernin, piano
Where: Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of SF, 3200 California St. (at Presidio), San Francisco, CA
More Info: Other Minds
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 8pm
--Coming Together
Program: a collaboration with clarinetist Jeff Anderle and master didjeridu player Stephen Kent, featuring the quartet and the two guest musicians assembled into duet, quintet, and sextet, performing works by Derek Bermel, Peter Sculthorpe, Osvaldo Golijov, and a work by Arturo Salinas in which the musicians experiment as percussionists. These works reflect diverse influences, including American jazz, Asian folk melodies, Klezmer music, and Mexican rhythms.
Derek Bermel (b. 1967, USA): Coming Together for clarinet and cello (1999) with Jeffrey Anderle, clarinet;
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929, Australia): String Quartet No. 16 (2005) with Stephen Kent, didjeridu;
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960, Argentina): The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for klezmer clarinet and SQ (1994) with Jeffrey Anderle, clarinet;
Arturo Salinas (b. 1955, Mexico): Awiroma for percussion ensemble (2005) with Stephen Kent and Jeffrey Anderle, percussion;
More Info: Program details
Where: Berkeley Chamber Performances, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA
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Friday, November 30, 2007, 8pm
--Coming Together
Program: a collaboration with clarinetist Jeff Anderle and master didjeridu player Stephen Kent, featuring the quartet and the two guest musicians assembled into duet, quintet, and sextet, performing works by Derek Bermel, Peter Sculthorpe, Osvaldo Golijov, and a work by Arturo Salinas in which the musicians experiment as percussionists. These works reflect diverse influences, including American jazz, Asian folk melodies, Klezmer music, and Mexican rhythms.
Derek Bermel (b. 1967, USA): Coming Together for clarinet and cello (1999) with Jeffrey Anderle, clarinet;
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929, Australia): String Quartet No. 16 (2005) with Stephen Kent, didjeridu;
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960, Argentina): The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for klezmer clarinet and SQ (1994) with Jeffrey Anderle, clarinet;
Arturo Salinas (b. 1955, Mexico): Awiroma for percussion ensemble (2005) with Stephen Kent and Jeffrey Anderle, percussion;
More Info: Program details
Where: Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
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Friday, October 19, 2007, 8 pm
-- Performance at Library of Congress
Program:
Chinary Ung (b. 1942, Cambodia): Spiral X (2007); WORLD PREMIERE (Koussevitzky Foundation Commission);
Kui Dong (b. 1966, China): Spring (2006);
Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972, USA): Leyendas - An Andean Walkabout (2001);
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929, Australia): Quartet no. 16 (2005) with Stephen Kent, didgeridoo;
Specials: 6:15 pm, Whittall Pavilion, Pre-concert presentation: A Conversation with Chinary Ung and members of the Del Sol String Quartet led by Steve Soderberg, Music Division
Where: The Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building, 1st and Independence Streets, SE, Washington, DC
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Thursday, October 11, 2007, noon
-- UCSF Chancellor's Concert Series
Program:
Kui Dong (b. 1966, China): Spring (2006);
Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972, USA): Leyendas - An Andean Walkabout (2001);
Jack Body (b. 1944, New Zealand): Epicycle (1989, rev. 2004);
Where: University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 7:00pm
-- Ghost Opera
Program:
The Santa Fe Opera presents Ghost Opera. Ghost Opera is a five movement work for string quartet and pipa, with water, metal, stone and paper composed by Tan Dun. A reflection on human spirituality, it is a cross-temporal, cross-cultural and cross-media dialogue which touches on the past, present, future and the eternal, employing elements from Chinese, Tibetan, English and American cultures. Performed by the Del Sol String Quartet and pipa player Wu Man. Directed by Acushla Bastible.
Where: The Lensic, Santa Fe's Performing Arts Center, 211 West San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM
Tickets: $10-$30
More INFO: click here and click on July 17 in the calendar, or call 505-988-1234
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 6:00-7:30pm
--Spring Concert Series (Condensed)
Program: This will be a condensed version of the spring concert series program (see the 5/27/07 description). Free public program cosponsored by the SF Public Library and the Art, Music and Recreation Center
Where: San Francisco Public Library, Main Library Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. (at Grove)
More INFO: SFPL Public Events Calendar
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Sunday, June 3, 2007, 2:30pm
--Spring Concert Series
Program: See 5/27/07 description.
Where: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco
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Thursday, May 31, 2007, 7pm
--Spring Concert Series
Program: See 5/27/07 description.
Where: Le Petit Trianon, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 8pm
--Spring Concert Series
Program: See 5/27/07 description
Where: Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley
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Sunday, May 27, 2007, 4pm
--Spring Concert Series
"Umbilical Chords -- Women Composers and the Creative Process"
Program: Del Sol explores the influence that motherhood has had on women composers' careers and compositions. This program features works from the past 111 years by Kui Dong, Linda Catlin Smith, Teresa Carreño, Sally Beamish, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Inspired by the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Bay Area composer Mark Fish, the only male composer featured in this program, composed Whatever Happened to Fireside Fancies (2007), which will have its world premiere. Additionally, folk songs collected by Ruth Crawford and arranged by Mark Fish will be interspersed within the program.
Linda Catlin Smith (b. 1957, USA): As you pass a reflective surface (1991);
Ruth Crawford (1901-1953, USA): String Quartet (1931);
Mark Fish (b. 1969, USA): Whatever Happened to the Fireside Fancies? (2007); WORLD PREMIERE;
Teresa Carreño (1853-1917, Venezuela): Selection from String Quartet in B Minor (1895);
Sally Beamish (b. 1956, Great Britain): String Quartet No. 2 "Opus California" (1999);
Kui Dong (b. 1966, China): Spring (2006);
Specials: Mark Fish will discuss his new quartet and the arrangements at all the concerts.
Where: The Dance Palace, 503 - B Street, Point Reyes Station
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 seniors; $7 students/kids
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Sunday, May 20, 2007, 10pm
--Papa Toby's Revolution Cafe and Art Bar
Where: 3248 22nd Street (at Bartlett), San Francisco, 94110
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Monday, April 30, 2007, 7:30 pm
--Music at Meyer: "Remembering Lorraine"
Memorial Concert for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Program:
Linda Catlin Smith (b. 1957, USA): As you pass a reflective surface (1991)
Where: Temple Emanuel, San Francisco
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 12:00 noon
--Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Student Compositions
Program:
Robin Estrada: Bad'iw..ng parangal, ng alaala (2007) WORLD PREMIERE
Jen Wang: String Quartet (2007) WORLD PREMIERE
Nils Bultmann: String Quartet in two movements (2007) WORLD PREMIERE
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Saturday, April 21, 2007, 8:30 pm
--60 Friends for 60 Years
Benefit for the Crowden School / John Adams 60th birthday celebration
Program:
John Adams (b. 1947, USA): John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953, USA): String Quartet (1931)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003, USA): String Quartet Set (1979)
Where: Meyer Sound's Pearson Theatre, 2837 10th St., Berkeley
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Wednesday, April 19, 2007, 12:00 noon
--Leakey Foundation Event
Program:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828, Austria): String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Lou Harrison (1917-2003, USA): String Quartet Set (1979)
Where: Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery St., San Francisco
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April 11-24, 2007
--Music at Kohl Mansion, Music in Schools
In-school performances in Burlingame and Millbrae school district elementary schools. Theme: Peace Through Music (Conflict Resolution).
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 7:30pm
--KQED-TV Spark
Watch us on TV and hear us rehearse and debut the work of contemporary chamber composers.
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Friday, March 30, 2007, 7:30pm
--Chamber Music Albuquerque
Program: José Evangelista (b. 1943, Spain): Spanish Garland: 12 folk melodies from Spain (1993)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003): String Quartet Set (1979)
George Antheil(1900-1959): String Quartet No. 1 (1924, rev. 1925)
Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972): Leyendas - An Andean Walkabout (2001)
Specials: Free pre-concert lecture 1 hour prior to performance.
Where: Simms Center for the Performing Arts at Albuquerque Academy, 6400 Wyoming Blvd, Albuquerque, NM
Tickets: Advance purchase: $20, At the door: $22, Students: half price Purchase tickets
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 7:30pm
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John Donald Robb Composers Symposium Concert
Program: Richard Herman: Gerunds and Participles-an open folio for string quartet (2006-), Curt Cacioppo: a distant voice calling (Nilch 'i dine'e) (2001), plus music by Raven Chacon, Paul Lombardi, Thomas Licata, Brady McElligott.
Specials: Del Sol is ensemble in residence for the Composers Symposium.
Where: Keller Hall. UNM Fine Arts Center.
University of New Mexico.
Albuquerque, NM.
Tickets: Free admission.
More INFO: 505.277.8967 or
Composers Symposium.
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Monday, March 26, 2007, 7:30pm
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John Donald Robb Composers Symposium Concert
Program: Hyo-shin Na: Fixed Stars (2005), plus music by Peter Lieuwen, Thomas Licata, Raven Chacon.
Specials: Del Sol is ensemble in residence for the Composers Symposium.
Where: Keller Hall. UNM Fine Arts Center.
University of New Mexico.
Albuquerque, NM.
Tickets: Free admission.
More INFO: 505.277.8967 or
Composers Symposium.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007. 3pm
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DSSQ at Northeastern University
Program: Ronald Bruce Smith (b. 1961, Canada): String Quartet No. 2 "Nostalgia" (2002/2006),
George Antheil (1900-1959): String Quartet No 1: (1924, rev 1925),
Marc Blitzstein (1905-1934): String Quartet "The Italian" (1930),
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) String Quartet (1931)
Specials: Del Sol will be in residence at Northeastern this week
Where: 354 Ryder Hall. Northeastern University
Forsythe Street, Boston, MA. (building 24 on map below)
Tickets: Free admission.
More INFO: 617-373-2671 or Arthur Rishi.
Northeastern University.(click on "events")
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