American Bach Soloists: Viva Vivaldi!
The musicians of the American Bach Soloists present an All-Vivaldi performance Saturday night at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco, featuring his “Four Seasons” as well as several other less-famous works: a concerto for four violins, a cello sonata, and a sonata for two violas. The violin soloists are Jacob Ashworth, Tatiana Chulochnikova, Tomà Iliev, and YuEun Kim; Gretchen Claassen is the cello soloist, and the violists are Ramón Negrón-Pérez and Yvonne Smith. Jeffrey Thomas is the conductor of ABS. The concert is at 7:30 Saturday night.
pianoSonoma’s Vino & Vibrato
pianoSonoma, the festival which launched in 2011, and brings together adult musicians of all backgrounds, has its final two “Vino & Vibrato” concerts this week. The first, called “Dueling Piano Masterpieces” is on Tuesday at the Green Music Center’s Schroeder Hall at 6pm (with the wine tasting that gives the series its name a half-hour before). The concert opens with songs by Cécile Chaminade sung by mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, accompanied by Jessica Chow Shinn. Then it’s the Schubert Fantasy in F minor, played by the festival’s artistic directors, Michael and Jessica Shinn; then a Mozart concert aria, and ending with Lutosławski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini. On Thursday, also at 6, it’s the Season Finale: Brahms and Mendelssohn, opening with songs by Brahms, and then the Piano Trio No 1 by Mendelssohn. Before the wine tasting at 5:30, there will be the world premiere of a set by Thomas Cabaniss called Songs from Joe’s Chapel.
FREE (Livestream/Kids 12 and under): Le Due Muse
Old First Concerts presents a concert called “Neoclassical!” this Sunday afternoon at 4 with cellist Sarah Hong and Makiko Ooka on piano. The program includes music by Maurice Ravel, Frank Bridge, and Benjamin Britten. The duo has been playing together for more than 20 years, and returns to Old First Concerts to play Ravel’s Sonata posthume and Pièce en forme de Habanera, a Sonata by Bridge, and Britten’s Sonata in C, Op. 65 as well as selected songs. The concert is hybrid, with different prices for general admission, seniors, full-time students with ID, and free for kids 12 and under. There’s a suggested donation of $20 for the Livestream. The performance is at Old First Church in San Francisco at the corner of Sacramento Street and Van Ness Avenue, Sunday at 4.
