Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Alzheimer's: Moving Towards a Cure
With Paula Wolfert, Dr. Lennart Mucke, and Geoffrey Kerchner
In conversation with Patricia Unterman
A benefit for Alzheimer’s Association
Thursday, January 22, 2015   7:30 PM

Eric Schlosser
In conversation with Phil Bronstein
Thursday, February 5, 2015   7:30 PM

Slavoj Zizek
Friday, April 3, 2015   7:30 PM
(SPECIAL EVENT - Not included with Series Ticket)

Jon Ronson
In conversation with Jon Mooallem
Thursday, April 9, 2015   7:30 PM

Candice Bergen
Monday, April 20, 2015   7:30 PM

David Brooks
In conversation with Robert Reich
Tuesday, April 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Karl Ove Knausgaard
In conversation with Daniel Handler
Monday, May 4, 2015   7:30 PM

Gary Snyder
Reading & Conversation
Thursday, May 14, 2015   7:30 PM

John Waters
In conversation with Adam Savage
Thursday, May 21, 2015   7:30 PM

Sally Mann
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Breathtaking in Perfection
Anton Nel
Sunday, October 19, 2014   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

A Sumptuous Sound
The New Esterhazy Quartet
Friday, November 14, 2014   7:30 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Sparkling & Eloquent
The Dorian Wind Quintet
Sunday, January 25, 2015   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Triumphant Virtuosity
Gilles Apap & Grace Fong
Friday, Feburary 6, 2015   7:30 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Playing from the Heart
Anne-Marie McDermott
Sunday, March 15, 2015   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Utterly Compelling
The Alexander String Quartet
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:30 PM
Carole L. Ellis, Petaluma Campus

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

MEGAN HILTY on February 7
VANESSA WILLIAMS on April 25
A Concert Series to Benefit San Francisco Aids Foundation, Project Open Hand & San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

Star of NBC's Smash & Broadway's Wicked
MEGAN HILTY
featuring Sirius XM Radio Star SETH RUDETSKY as pianist/host
Saturday, February 7, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

VANESSA WILLIAMS
featuring Sirius XM Radio star SETH RUDETSKY as pianist/host
Saturday, April 25, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky whom the New York Times just dubbed “The Mayor of Broadway,” this unique series arrives this winter at The Nourse Theater with two concert dates scheduled for Megan Hilty and Vanessa Williams.  What differentiates this concert series from any other perhaps, is the seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway’s biggest stars – prompted by the encyclopedic-minded Rudetsky’s probing, funny, revealing questions – and their stellar singing of musical theatre repertoire.  Producer Mark Cortale and his creative partner Rudetsky have quickly made their Broadway @ series the single most sought-after ticket to see Broadway’s musical mega-stars in concert.  Since launching the series in 2011 at Provincetown’s Art House, its success has most recently led to runs in London, Sydney, Melbourne, New Orleans, Santa Monica, Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, San Antonio, and now San Francisco.

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In conversation with Dave Eggers
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Roz Chast
Thursday, October 9, 2014   7:30 PM

Lena Dunham
In conversation with Vendela Vida
Thursday, October 16, 2014   7:30 PM

David Edelstein
In conversation with Steven Winn
Wednesday, October 22, 2014   7:30 PM

Jeffrey Toobin
In conversation with Adam Savage
Thursday, October 23, 2014   7:30 PM

Marilynne Robinson
In conversation with Isabel Duffy
Tuesday, November 4, 2014   7:30 PM

Aziz Ansari
In conversation with Paul Lancour
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM
(SPECIAL EVENT - Not included with Series Ticket)

Miranda July
In conversation with Adam Savage
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Daniel Handler
In conversation with Michael Chabon
Tuesday, February 10, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Nick Hornby
Hosted by Vendela Vida
Wednesday, February 11, 2015   7:30 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

British writer Nick Hornby made his debut in 1992 with the autobiographical Fever Pitch, a chronicle of his adventures as an obsessed fan of the Arsenal Football Club. Since then, Hornby has written four other books of nonfiction, as well as numerous articles and critical pieces, and seven novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy - both made into major motion pictures. Hornby wrote the screenplay for the widely acclaimed 2009 film, An Education. He also wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming film Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir. His newest novel is Funny Girl, the story of two women in comedy in the sixties and will be published in early 2015.  In "Stuff I’ve Been Reading," his decade-long column in The Believer magazine, Hornby writes about books he has bought and read throughout the month, guided by the mantra "Read what you enjoy, not what bores you."

Kazuhito Yamashita
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

The Romeros
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Cavatina Duo
Saturday, January 31, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel CGP
with special guest Clive Carroll
Friday, Febrary 13, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel Workshop
Saturday, February 14, 2015   12:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Lobby - San Francisco

International Guitar Night
Andrew York, Diego Figuierido, Erik Mongrain, and Brian Gore
Saturday, February 21, 2015   7:30 PM
Brava Theater Center - San Francisco

David Russell
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Hye-jin Kim, violin & João Luiz, guitar
Friday, March 27, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Kazuhito Yamashita
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

The Romeros
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Cavatina Duo
Saturday, January 31, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel CGP
with special guest Clive Carroll
Friday, Febrary 13, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel Workshop
Saturday, February 14, 2015   12:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Lobby - San Francisco

International Guitar Night
Andrew York, Diego Figuierido, Erik Mongrain, and Brian Gore
Saturday, February 21, 2015   7:30 PM
Brava Theater Center - San Francisco

David Russell
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Hye-jin Kim, violin & João Luiz, guitar
Friday, March 27, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Kazuhito Yamashita
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

The Romeros
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Cavatina Duo
Saturday, January 31, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel CGP
with special guest Clive Carroll
Friday, Febrary 13, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel Workshop
Saturday, February 14, 2015   12:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Lobby - San Francisco

International Guitar Night
Andrew York, Diego Figuierido, Erik Mongrain, and Brian Gore
Saturday, February 21, 2015   7:30 PM
Brava Theater Center - San Francisco

David Russell
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Hye-jin Kim, violin & João Luiz, guitar
Friday, March 27, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Subscribe to San Francisco Performances and you’ll enjoy the greatest flexibility, the most convenience and the best value when you subscribe to any of our packages. Not sure about your future plans? Our ticket exchange service—free of fees for subscribers—takes the risk out of ordering in advance. Whether you purchase a fixed package series (such as Dance or Piano) or a Make-Your-Own Series of any 6 performances, you’ll enjoy ALL of these benefits:
 
•PRIORITY SEATING: When you subscribe before single tickets go on sale, you’ll be seated in advance of the general public—assuring you of the best available locations.

•SAVINGS: You save up to 13% off single ticket prices when you purchase any fixed series. You save 10% per ticket on Make-Your-Own subscriptions.

•TICKET EXCHANGE PRIVILEGES FREE OF FEES: As a subscriber, you may exchange your tickets for another event with no fee, up to one day prior to the original concert (48 hours prior for weekend performances). That’s a savings of $10 per exchange!
 
•FREE BONUS PERFORMANCES: As a subscriber, you will receive invitations to two annual events: our special Gift Concert (our gift to you for being a supporter) and the Naumburg Competition Winner Concert. These events are not to be missed—in past years, these bonus events have featured extraordinary artists at the dawn of their professional careers, including pianists Lang Lang and Steven Osborne, violinist Vadim Gluzman, and the Eroica Trio. Details will be available later in the season.

•DISCOUNTS ON SINGLE TICKETS ALL SEASON LONG: When you order tickets through our exclusive subscriber services line (415-677-0325), you'll receive a 10% discount on single tickets you buy throughout the season.

•FREE EMAIL REMINDER SERVICE: We’ll remind you of your performance dates by email a few days prior to each event (email registration required).

•FREE NEWSLETTER: Our newsletter, Quarternotes, is rich with behind-the-scenes articles, provocative insights into upcoming events, breaking news and more.

•FREE TICKET INSURANCE: If you should ever misplace your tickets, we will re-print duplicates for you at no additional charge and hold them at the Box Office.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

November 2, 2014
Music for flute and cello; Dvorak Bass Quintet

December 14, 2014
Piano trios by Rachmaninoff and Beethoven; Brahms Violin Sonata

February 15, 2015
Music for Bass and Cello; Ewazen Trio for Flute, Horn and Piano; Bartok String Quartet

March 29, 2015
Beethoven Clarinet Trio; Chausson Piano Trio; Joachim Raff String Quartet

April 5, 2015
Taneyev Piano Quintet; Arensky String Quartet

June 7, 2015
Brindel String Quartet, Bach “Goldberg” Variations

$28 General Admission | $22 Students and Seniors | $11 Youth under 18

All shows start at 3pm

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Sunday, February 15, 2015   3:00 PM

CASALS QUARTET
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Sunday, March 8, 2015   3:00 PM

AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin
and JOYCE YANG, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   3:00 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Sunday, March 29, 2015   3:00 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Sunday, April 12, 2015   3:00 PM

"THE FOUR SEASONS OF VIVALDI AND PIAZZOLLA"
Sunday, April 19, 2015    3:00 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Sunday, May 3, 2015   3:00 PM

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Sunday, May 10, 2015   3:00 PM

All programs at the Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco

Nederlands Dans Theater 2 dancers in SHARON. Photo by Rahi Revzani.

Monday, February 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

One of the most revolutionary contemporary dance companies in the world, this ensemble of raging young talents was founded in 1978 as an internal training ground for the highly respected Nederlands Dans Theater. This is the first time this company will perform in San Francisco and it promises to be a spectacular experience, featuring the witty Shutters Shut and the expressive Subject to Change by NDT’s house choreographers, Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot and Artistic Advisor Sol León; I New Then by NDT Associate Choreographer Johan Inger; and Sara, a provocative work by Israeli choreographers Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar. The newspaper Aftenposten reported an "audience knockout,” after they performed recently in Norway. Don’t miss them!

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Monday, February 16, 2015   7:30 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Monday, March 9, 2015   7:30 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Monday, April 13, 2015   7:30 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Monday, May 5, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Oshman Family JCC - Palo Alto

Tuesday, February 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The legendary Dick Cavett established his reputation in the late 60’s as the most erudite of American talk show hosts. The Dick Cavett Show was one of the longest-running talk shows in television history, setting the bar for conversational in-depth interviews, with a wide range of guests from Groucho Marx to Katherine Hepburn, Fred Astaire to Noel Coward, David Bowie to Gloria Swanson, Buckminster Fuller to Jimi Hendrix, and even the notorious on-camera dustup between Normal Mailer and Gore Vidal. The master of talk recently appeared onstage in both New York and Los Angeles as himself in Hellman v. McCarthy, a play about the long-running feud between writers Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman. From as early as the eighth grade, it was clear that Cavett was destined for a life in show business, directing a live Saturday morning radio show in Nebraska and performing magic for $35 a night. Before discovering his gift as an interviewer, he had a brief career in stand-up and even performed at the Hungry I in San Francisco. Cavett is a regular contributor to the New York Times with his Opinionator column, in which he often shares personal reflections on his own life, including his bouts of clinical depression. His published books include the recent Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.

Edward James Olmos
Moving Beyond the Myth of the Melting Pot
Thursday, February 19, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Brandon Stanton
What Humans of New York Says about Our Shared Humanity
Friday, February 26, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Buika
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Wendy Davis
Standing Up for Women's Rights
Thursday March 5, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Ben Huh
Making Failure Cheap: Managing Risk to Ensure Success
Wednesday, March 11, 2015   7:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Lea DeLaria
Why Butch Still Matters: Identity, Gender, and the Media
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Cornel West
The Burden Carried by African American Men
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

David Zirin and Jaclyn Friedman
Domestic Violence, Rape Culture, and the Misogyny of Sports
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Lila Downs
Saturday, April 22, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The Complete String Quartets of John Zorn
Thursday, April 30, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Kala Ramnath
Friday, May 1, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Thollem McDonas
Saturday, May 2, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Yuna
Saturday, May 9, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Friday, February 20, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco
Ages 13 and older

Maz Jobrani is a founding member of The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, which aired on Comedy Central, had his own Showtime comedy special, Brown and Friendly, and has done standup comedy around the world, including the Middle East where he performed in front of the King of Jordan.  Maz starred in the films Friday After Next, 13 Going on 30, and The Interpreter.  On TV he was a regular on ABC's Knights of Prosperity and FOX's Life on a Stick. He also recurred on ABC's Better Off Ted. Maz has guest starred on Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24, ER, NYPD Blue, Traffic Light, and most recently Man Up. He has performed his standup on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Lopez Tonight. He has been featured on NPR, CNN, The BBC and in print in The New York Times, Time Magazine, and Newsweek. Maz also co-hosts a podcast called “Minivan Men” about fatherhood which has garnered great reviews on iTunes.

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Kazuhito Yamashita
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

The Romeros
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Cavatina Duo
Saturday, January 31, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel CGP
with special guest Clive Carroll
Friday, Febrary 13, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Tommy Emmanuel Workshop
Saturday, February 14, 2015   12:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Lobby - San Francisco

International Guitar Night
Andrew York, Diego Figuierido, Erik Mongrain, and Brian Gore
Saturday, February 21, 2015   7:30 PM
Brava Theater Center - San Francisco

David Russell
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Hye-jin Kim, violin & João Luiz, guitar
Friday, March 27, 2015   7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - San Francisco

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with San Francisco Performances
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

Join us in 2015 for a season of audience favorites from the past by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Poulenc and Piazzolla and stellar new works, including a San Francisco premiere. Avedis ticket holders will be admitted at 1 pm for the 2 pm concerts, so consider having lunch at the café before each concert. Be sure to order by December 31 to receive extra savings on season tickets.

Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
Shawnette Sulker, Soprano
Michael Dailey, tenor
Roy Malan, violin
Paul Hersh, piano
SF Conservatory String Ensemble

Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
David Tanenbaum, guitar
Roy Malan, violin
Paul Hersh, viola

Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
with the Stanford Woodwind Quintet:
Alexandra Hawley, flute
James Matheson, oboe
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet
Lawrence Ragent, horn
Rufus Olivier, bassoon

Sunday, May 3, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
Emily Laurance, harp
Roy Malan, violin
Susan Freier, violin and viola
Paul Hersh, viola
Stephen Harrison, cello
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet

All performances are at the Legion of Honor, in the Florence Gould Theater. For non-members wishing to see the Legion of Honor’s permanent collection, there is an admission fee of $10 general, $7 for seniors and $6 for students. However, on May 3rd museum admission is free for BofA or Merrill Lynch cardholders with the Museums On Us program.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Thursday, February 26, 2015   7:30 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Hannibal Buress is a wildly popular Emmy and WGA Award nominated comedian, writer and actor who The New York Times praises as having an “irresistible” comedic presence that lands squarely between “cerebral and swagger.” He is a cast member on the hit Comedy Central series “Broad City,” which will premiere its second season in 2015, and is the co-host of Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show,” which will premiere its third season in November 2014. This summer he also appeared in the blockbuster comedy feature “Neighbors,” starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, and later this year he can be seen in the film “Flock of Dudes,” starring Chris D’Elia, Eric Andre, and Hillary Duff.

Hannibal’s highly-rated second hour standup special “Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago” premiered on Comedy Central on March 29^th, 2014, with GQ declaring “He makes us ugly laugh. Hard.” His first hour special, “Animal Furnace,” premiered on the network in May 2012. Hannibal also recently shot a pilot for his own Comedy Central series, and has been featured on several comedy-fan favorite TV shows including FX’s Louie, Fox’s Bob’s Burgers and The Mindy Project, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, and Adult Swim’s China, IL. He has written for NBC’s Saturday Night Live as well as 30 Rock, where he also appeared on camera several times. He is a regular on the late night TV circuit, with appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Thursday, February 26, 2015   7:30 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Hannibal Buress is a wildly popular Emmy and WGA Award nominated comedian, writer and actor who The New York Times praises as having an “irresistible” comedic presence that lands squarely between “cerebral and swagger.” He is a cast member on the hit Comedy Central series “Broad City,” which will premiere its second season in 2015, and is the co-host of Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show,” which will premiere its third season in November 2014. This summer he also appeared in the blockbuster comedy feature “Neighbors,” starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, and later this year he can be seen in the film “Flock of Dudes,” starring Chris D’Elia, Eric Andre, and Hillary Duff.

Hannibal’s highly-rated second hour standup special “Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago” premiered on Comedy Central on March 29^th, 2014, with GQ declaring “He makes us ugly laugh. Hard.” His first hour special, “Animal Furnace,” premiered on the network in May 2012. Hannibal also recently shot a pilot for his own Comedy Central series, and has been featured on several comedy-fan favorite TV shows including FX’s Louie, Fox’s Bob’s Burgers and The Mindy Project, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, and Adult Swim’s China, IL. He has written for NBC’s Saturday Night Live as well as 30 Rock, where he also appeared on camera several times. He is a regular on the late night TV circuit, with appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Friday, September 19, 2014   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Heritage Room, 10th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Friday, October 24, 2014   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, October 25, 2014   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors
 
Friday, February 27, 2015   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Regimental Room, 10th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, February 28, 2015   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors

Friday, May 1, 2015   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, May 2, 2015   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors

Edward James Olmos
Moving Beyond the Myth of the Melting Pot
Thursday, February 19, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Brandon Stanton
What Humans of New York Says about Our Shared Humanity
Friday, February 26, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Buika
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Wendy Davis
Standing Up for Women's Rights
Thursday March 5, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Ben Huh
Making Failure Cheap: Managing Risk to Ensure Success
Wednesday, March 11, 2015   7:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Lea DeLaria
Why Butch Still Matters: Identity, Gender, and the Media
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Cornel West
The Burden Carried by African American Men
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

David Zirin and Jaclyn Friedman
Domestic Violence, Rape Culture, and the Misogyny of Sports
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Lila Downs
Saturday, April 22, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The Complete String Quartets of John Zorn
Thursday, April 30, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Kala Ramnath
Friday, May 1, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Thollem McDonas
Saturday, May 2, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Yuna
Saturday, May 9, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

From Haydn to Schoenfield:
Rockin’ the Sonata with the Saint Michael Trio
Friday, September 19, 2014   7:30 PM
Music at its most fun! Both Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Paul Schoenfield (1947- ) are highly formal in their sonata form. Yet Haydn’s classical sonatas embodied the formalism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, while Detroit native Paul Schoenfield’s “Cafe Music” (1987) expresses the whimsy and energy of a 21st-century urban metropolis.Daniel Cher (violin), Russell Hancock (piano, lecturer), and Michel Flexer (cello) demonstrate through illustrated lecture and performance how two utterly different composers use the same tools to express the sentiment of their age.An antidote to the staid world of classical music, the artists earn glowing praise for making their trademark ‘informances’ interesting, accessible, and oftentimes funny.

The Roman Republic (509-27 BCE)
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, October 25, 2014   10:00 AM
From its legendary origins as a tiny cluster of villages in the Italian countryside, ancient Rome grew into a vast metropolis and the dominant power of the Mediterranean. Leaders of the Roman Republic established a constitutional framework that embodied principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and the rights and duties of citizenship (for some) — a model that endured for centuries. Ultimately civil strife exacerbated by wide disparities in social and economic wellbeing and the strains of governing a far-flung empire doomed Cicero’s Republican Rome in the first century BCE. From its modeling of democratic values to its golden age of drama and its Greek- and Etruscaninspired art, the Roman Republic was a major turning point in western civilization that inspires us to this day.

Charlemagne: The Father of Western Europe
Friday, February 27, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   10:00 AM
Even 1200 years after his death in 814, Charlemagne still symbolizes a critical turning point in Western civilization. King of the Franks and Lombards, Emperor of a New Rome, Charles the Great ushered in the Carolingian Renaissance and fathered a dynasty. While political unity proved ephemeral, his economic, administrative, educational, and religious reforms created an enduring cultural identity that encompassed the heartland of today’s Western Europe. For the first time, European political power shifted from the Mediterranean’s Byzantine and Islamic empires to continental (and Catholic) Europe.

The Great War: Culutral Reverberations Across Europe
Friday, May 1, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2015   10:00 AM
The First World War collapsed empires, redrew national boundaries, caused cataclysmic change in a generation of Europeans, and revolutionized long-held world views all across Europe. From 1914–18, “The Great War” raged amid a vast crisis of cultural confidence. The war to end all wars was a monumental catastrophe, one of history’s major turning points. Yet among The Great War’s legacies of drastic political, social, and cultural change has been its immense artistic response in music, film, art, and literature.

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

From Haydn to Schoenfield:
Rockin’ the Sonata with the Saint Michael Trio
Friday, September 19, 2014   7:30 PM
Music at its most fun! Both Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Paul Schoenfield (1947- ) are highly formal in their sonata form. Yet Haydn’s classical sonatas embodied the formalism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, while Detroit native Paul Schoenfield’s “Cafe Music” (1987) expresses the whimsy and energy of a 21st-century urban metropolis.Daniel Cher (violin), Russell Hancock (piano, lecturer), and Michel Flexer (cello) demonstrate through illustrated lecture and performance how two utterly different composers use the same tools to express the sentiment of their age.An antidote to the staid world of classical music, the artists earn glowing praise for making their trademark ‘informances’ interesting, accessible, and oftentimes funny.

The Roman Republic (509-27 BCE)
Friday, October 24, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, October 25, 2014   10:00 AM
From its legendary origins as a tiny cluster of villages in the Italian countryside, ancient Rome grew into a vast metropolis and the dominant power of the Mediterranean. Leaders of the Roman Republic established a constitutional framework that embodied principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and the rights and duties of citizenship (for some) — a model that endured for centuries. Ultimately civil strife exacerbated by wide disparities in social and economic wellbeing and the strains of governing a far-flung empire doomed Cicero’s Republican Rome in the first century BCE. From its modeling of democratic values to its golden age of drama and its Greek- and Etruscaninspired art, the Roman Republic was a major turning point in western civilization that inspires us to this day.

Charlemagne: The Father of Western Europe
Friday, February 27, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   10:00 AM
Even 1200 years after his death in 814, Charlemagne still symbolizes a critical turning point in Western civilization. King of the Franks and Lombards, Emperor of a New Rome, Charles the Great ushered in the Carolingian Renaissance and fathered a dynasty. While political unity proved ephemeral, his economic, administrative, educational, and religious reforms created an enduring cultural identity that encompassed the heartland of today’s Western Europe. For the first time, European political power shifted from the Mediterranean’s Byzantine and Islamic empires to continental (and Catholic) Europe.

The Great War: Culutral Reverberations Across Europe
Friday, May 1, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2015   10:00 AM
The First World War collapsed empires, redrew national boundaries, caused cataclysmic change in a generation of Europeans, and revolutionized long-held world views all across Europe. From 1914–18, “The Great War” raged amid a vast crisis of cultural confidence. The war to end all wars was a monumental catastrophe, one of history’s major turning points. Yet among The Great War’s legacies of drastic political, social, and cultural change has been its immense artistic response in music, film, art, and literature.

Friday, September 19, 2014   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Heritage Room, 10th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Friday, October 24, 2014   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, October 25, 2014   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors
 
Friday, February 27, 2015   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Regimental Room, 10th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, February 28, 2015   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors

Friday, May 1, 2015   5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to Humanities West donors of $250 or more

Saturday, May 2, 2015   12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Crystal Lounge, 11th Floor - Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
Open to all Humanities West donors

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

On the evenings of all Bay Area Cabaret performances, the Fairmont offers patrons a delicious buffet supper for $44 plus tax and tip and four hours of free parking at the hotel!  Make dining reservations directly through the hotel at (415) 772-5260.  This offer is subject to availability.  Be sure to reserve soon!

Opening Night Gala
Celebrating Stephen Schwartz
Saturday, September 27, 2014   8:00 PM

Leslie Uggams in
Classic Uggams
Sunday, November 02, 2014   5:00 PM

Sierra Boggess
Sunday, December 07, 2014   5:00 PM

Stacey Kent: Favorites
Saturday, January 31, 2015   8:00 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights
Sunday, February 01, 2015   7:30 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter
Judy Collins
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2015   5:00 PM

Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli in
Straighten up and Fly Right: A Tribute to Nat King Cole
Saturday, March 21, 2015   5:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Annaleigh Ashford
Lost in the Stars
Sunday, April 19, 2015   5:00 PM

Bobby Conte Thornton
Concert Debut
Sunday, May 31, 2015   5:00 PM

Lillias White & Billy Stritch
Bay Area Cabaret Season Finale
Sunday, May 31, 2015   8:00 PM

Edward James Olmos
Moving Beyond the Myth of the Melting Pot
Thursday, February 19, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Brandon Stanton
What Humans of New York Says about Our Shared Humanity
Friday, February 26, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Buika
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Wendy Davis
Standing Up for Women's Rights
Thursday March 5, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Ben Huh
Making Failure Cheap: Managing Risk to Ensure Success
Wednesday, March 11, 2015   7:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Lea DeLaria
Why Butch Still Matters: Identity, Gender, and the Media
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Cornel West
The Burden Carried by African American Men
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

David Zirin and Jaclyn Friedman
Domestic Violence, Rape Culture, and the Misogyny of Sports
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Lila Downs
Saturday, April 22, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The Complete String Quartets of John Zorn
Thursday, April 30, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Kala Ramnath
Friday, May 1, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Thollem McDonas
Saturday, May 2, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Yuna
Saturday, May 9, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Sunday, February 15, 2015   3:00 PM

CASALS QUARTET
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Sunday, March 8, 2015   3:00 PM

AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin
and JOYCE YANG, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   3:00 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Sunday, March 29, 2015   3:00 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Sunday, April 12, 2015   3:00 PM

"THE FOUR SEASONS OF VIVALDI AND PIAZZOLLA"
Sunday, April 19, 2015    3:00 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Sunday, May 3, 2015   3:00 PM

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Sunday, May 10, 2015   3:00 PM

All programs at the Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco

Audium is the only theatre of its kind in the world, pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 176 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them. "Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre. When the concept of AUDIUM began taking shape in the late 1950s, space was a largely unexplored dimension in music composition. The composer who suspected space capable of revealing a new musical vocabulary found his pursuit blocked by the inadequacy of audio technology and performance spaces. Because of an unusual combination of art and technology—AUDIUM's creators, composer Stan Shaff and equipment designer Doug McEachern, were both professional musicians—AUDIUM's conception and realization were able to evolve jointly. AUDIUM is the only theatre anywhere constructed specifically for sound movement, utilizing the entire environment as a compositional tool.

"I have always been possessed by the evocative qualities all sounds seem to have, whether natural or electronic. Sounds touch deeper levels of our inner life, layers that lie just beneath the visual world. All sounds are communicative—sound as birth, life and death; sound as time and space; sound as object, environment or event. Audiences should feel sound as it bumps up against them, caresses, travels through, covers and enfolds them. "I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies sounds as images, dreams and memories. As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization. From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum."
—Stan Shaff, Composer

AUDIUM
415.771.1616
1616 Bush St., S.F. 94109
audium.org

Note: A limited number of  tickets may be available at the venue box office.

Saturday, February 14, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015   7:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2015   1:00 PM*

Eureka Theatre - San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Education Project presents Sittin' on a Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen, an original musical revue performed by the SFArtsED Players a musical theater company of 50 young performers ages 9 to 14. Celebrate the work of Harold Arlen, one the great American composers, whose extraordinary songbook includes "Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "Get Happy" and many more. For more information visit www.sfartsed.org

* Tickets for the 1:00 PM show on Sunday, March 8, 2015 are $40 ($20 for students and seniors) and include a special performance by Paula West, drinks, hors d’ouevres and dessert as part of the Players’ Family Benefit Reception and Closing Day Party, a fundraiser for the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

On the evenings of all Bay Area Cabaret performances, the Fairmont offers patrons a delicious buffet supper for $44 plus tax and tip and four hours of free parking at the hotel!  Make dining reservations directly through the hotel at (415) 772-5260.  This offer is subject to availability.  Be sure to reserve soon!

Opening Night Gala
Celebrating Stephen Schwartz
Saturday, September 27, 2014   8:00 PM

Leslie Uggams in
Classic Uggams
Sunday, November 02, 2014   5:00 PM

Sierra Boggess
Sunday, December 07, 2014   5:00 PM

Stacey Kent: Favorites
Saturday, January 31, 2015   8:00 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights
Sunday, February 01, 2015   7:30 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter
Judy Collins
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2015   5:00 PM

Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli in
Straighten up and Fly Right: A Tribute to Nat King Cole
Saturday, March 21, 2015   5:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Annaleigh Ashford
Lost in the Stars
Sunday, April 19, 2015   5:00 PM

Bobby Conte Thornton
Concert Debut
Sunday, May 31, 2015   5:00 PM

Lillias White & Billy Stritch
Bay Area Cabaret Season Finale
Sunday, May 31, 2015   8:00 PM

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Chuck Todd
In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
Tuesday, March 3, 2015   7:30 PM

Barney Frank
In conversation
Sunday, April 19, 2015   4:00 PM

David McCullough
In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
Wednesday, June 17, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Carmen Returns
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
September 11-14, 2014
A repeat performance of New Century’s biggest hit

The season opens with “a marvelous blend of wit and dramatic immediacy” (SF Chronicle), Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for strings and percussion, written for a balletic version of Bizet’s timeless opera. The concert also highlights Featured Composer and guest soloist, clarinetist Derek Bermel.

Holiday Favorites
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
December 18-21, 2014
The most beloved holiday music all in one program

New Century celebrates the holidays with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, in a concert featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Mozart’s Engel Gottes künden, Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, selections from Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and more.

Dicterow Leads Brahms and Mozart
Glenn Dicterow, Guest Concertmaster
March 5-8, 2015
New Century features New York Philharmonic legend

Glenn Dicterow, the outgoing 34-year Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, leads the ensemble for an elegant program including Brahms’ Sextet for Strings No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 18 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major K. 136, plus works by Grieg and Holst.

Schubert and Stravinsky Masterpieces
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
May 28-31, 2015
Nadja leads virtuosic works for strings, old and new

The season culminates with an electrifying new work by Featured Composer Derek Bermel, alongside Stravinsky’s charming Pulcinella Suite and Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.

Surprising Benefits of Bacteria: The Human Microbiome
Katie Pollard
Wednesday, March 04, 2015   7:30 PM

Minds of Their Own: Animal Intelligence
Virginia Morell
Wednesday, March 18, 2015   7:30 PM

The Neuroscience of Zen: Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Rick Hanson
Wednesday, April 08, 2015   7:30 PM

The Internet of Things
Vinton Cerf
Wednesday, April 29, 2015   7:30 PM

The Science of Sleep
Matt Walker
Wednesday, May 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Drugs, Dopamine and Lessons From the Brain
Nora Volkow
Tuesday, June 30, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Surprising Benefits of Bacteria: The Human Microbiome
Katie Pollard
Wednesday, March 04, 2015   7:30 PM

Minds of Their Own: Animal Intelligence
Virginia Morell
Wednesday, March 18, 2015   7:30 PM

The Neuroscience of Zen: Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Rick Hanson
Wednesday, April 08, 2015   7:30 PM

The Internet of Things
Vinton Cerf
Wednesday, April 29, 2015   7:30 PM

The Science of Sleep
Matt Walker
Wednesday, May 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Drugs, Dopamine and Lessons From the Brain
Nora Volkow
Tuesday, June 30, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Thursday, March 5, 2015   6:00 PM
Hotel Rex - San Francisco

Humanities West’s first Salon at the Rex. Ars Minerva presents Bringing Lost Italian Carnival Music to the Stage. Join Artistic Director and mezzo-soprano Céline Ricci and pianist Derek Tam performing and in conversation about their upcoming mid-March Premier of the Lost Baroque Opera La Cleopatra. Join us in the Library Bar at the Hotel Rex at 5:00 PM for a pre-program drink.

About the Performers:
Céline Ricci is Artistic Director of Ars Minerva, a presenter of world premiere Baroque Operas in Festival. Its first is La Cleopatra at Marines’ Memorial Theatre on March 14 and 15, 2015. She studied in Paris with Ana Maria Miranda and at the prestigious London Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Selected by conductor William Christie for Les Jardin des Voix, she was named one of opera’s promising new talents in 2005 by Opernwelt, which singled out her performance as Arbace in Terradellas’ Artaserse as a “tour de force,” and her coloratura abilities “equal to those of Cecilia Bartoli.” She appears frequently for the prestigious Les Arts Florissants. Her discography includes Cirque (2011) and a CD of French melodies (2012). Recent operas include Angelica in Handel’s Orlando (Sacramento Opera), Clitia in Handel’s Teseo (Göttingen-Handel Festival), Handel’s Athalia (Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (numerous companies). Collaborating conductors include Nicolas McGegan, Hugo Reyne, Friedmann Layer, P. Cohen-Akenine, Enrique Mazzola, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Martin Haselbock, Martin Gester, Timm Rolek. She has toured in Berlin, London, Brussels, Israel, and Barcelona, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Moscow, and St. Petersburg.

In demand as a conductor and historical keyboardist, Derek Tam performs regularly in the Bay Area and elsewhere. As a conductor, Derek appears frequently with choral and orchestral ensembles. In addition to serving as Director of Music at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, he is music director of the Berkeley Community Chorus Chamber Singers. He is also artistic director of Star Valley Children's Choir. In addition to his conducting career, Derek is a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist on various historical keyboards, from the harpsichord and fortepiano to the modern concert grand. He has served as continuo harpsichordist in many professional ensembles in the Bay Area, as well as with his own groups, MUSA and the Alchemy Trio.

Edward James Olmos
Moving Beyond the Myth of the Melting Pot
Thursday, February 19, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Brandon Stanton
What Humans of New York Says about Our Shared Humanity
Friday, February 26, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Buika
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Wendy Davis
Standing Up for Women's Rights
Thursday March 5, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Ben Huh
Making Failure Cheap: Managing Risk to Ensure Success
Wednesday, March 11, 2015   7:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Lea DeLaria
Why Butch Still Matters: Identity, Gender, and the Media
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Cornel West
The Burden Carried by African American Men
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

David Zirin and Jaclyn Friedman
Domestic Violence, Rape Culture, and the Misogyny of Sports
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Lila Downs
Saturday, April 22, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The Complete String Quartets of John Zorn
Thursday, April 30, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Kala Ramnath
Friday, May 1, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Thollem McDonas
Saturday, May 2, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Yuna
Saturday, May 9, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Carmen Returns
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
September 11-14, 2014
A repeat performance of New Century’s biggest hit

The season opens with “a marvelous blend of wit and dramatic immediacy” (SF Chronicle), Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for strings and percussion, written for a balletic version of Bizet’s timeless opera. The concert also highlights Featured Composer and guest soloist, clarinetist Derek Bermel.

Holiday Favorites
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
December 18-21, 2014
The most beloved holiday music all in one program

New Century celebrates the holidays with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, in a concert featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Mozart’s Engel Gottes künden, Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, selections from Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and more.

Dicterow Leads Brahms and Mozart
Glenn Dicterow, Guest Concertmaster
March 5-8, 2015
New Century features New York Philharmonic legend

Glenn Dicterow, the outgoing 34-year Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, leads the ensemble for an elegant program including Brahms’ Sextet for Strings No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 18 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major K. 136, plus works by Grieg and Holst.

Schubert and Stravinsky Masterpieces
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
May 28-31, 2015
Nadja leads virtuosic works for strings, old and new

The season culminates with an electrifying new work by Featured Composer Derek Bermel, alongside Stravinsky’s charming Pulcinella Suite and Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Carmen Returns
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
September 11-14, 2014
A repeat performance of New Century’s biggest hit

The season opens with “a marvelous blend of wit and dramatic immediacy” (SF Chronicle), Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for strings and percussion, written for a balletic version of Bizet’s timeless opera. The concert also highlights Featured Composer and guest soloist, clarinetist Derek Bermel.

Holiday Favorites
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
December 18-21, 2014
The most beloved holiday music all in one program

New Century celebrates the holidays with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, in a concert featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Mozart’s Engel Gottes künden, Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, selections from Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and more.

Dicterow Leads Brahms and Mozart
Glenn Dicterow, Guest Concertmaster
March 5-8, 2015
New Century features New York Philharmonic legend

Glenn Dicterow, the outgoing 34-year Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, leads the ensemble for an elegant program including Brahms’ Sextet for Strings No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 18 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major K. 136, plus works by Grieg and Holst.

Schubert and Stravinsky Masterpieces
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
May 28-31, 2015
Nadja leads virtuosic works for strings, old and new

The season culminates with an electrifying new work by Featured Composer Derek Bermel, alongside Stravinsky’s charming Pulcinella Suite and Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Carmen Returns
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
September 11-14, 2014
A repeat performance of New Century’s biggest hit

The season opens with “a marvelous blend of wit and dramatic immediacy” (SF Chronicle), Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for strings and percussion, written for a balletic version of Bizet’s timeless opera. The concert also highlights Featured Composer and guest soloist, clarinetist Derek Bermel.

Holiday Favorites
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
December 18-21, 2014
The most beloved holiday music all in one program

New Century celebrates the holidays with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, in a concert featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Mozart’s Engel Gottes künden, Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, selections from Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and more.

Dicterow Leads Brahms and Mozart
Glenn Dicterow, Guest Concertmaster
March 5-8, 2015
New Century features New York Philharmonic legend

Glenn Dicterow, the outgoing 34-year Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, leads the ensemble for an elegant program including Brahms’ Sextet for Strings No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 18 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major K. 136, plus works by Grieg and Holst.

Schubert and Stravinsky Masterpieces
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
May 28-31, 2015
Nadja leads virtuosic works for strings, old and new

The season culminates with an electrifying new work by Featured Composer Derek Bermel, alongside Stravinsky’s charming Pulcinella Suite and Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Sunday, February 15, 2015   3:00 PM

CASALS QUARTET
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Sunday, March 8, 2015   3:00 PM

AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin
and JOYCE YANG, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   3:00 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Sunday, March 29, 2015   3:00 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Sunday, April 12, 2015   3:00 PM

"THE FOUR SEASONS OF VIVALDI AND PIAZZOLLA"
Sunday, April 19, 2015    3:00 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Sunday, May 3, 2015   3:00 PM

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Sunday, May 10, 2015   3:00 PM

All programs at the Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco

Carmen Returns
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
September 11-14, 2014
A repeat performance of New Century’s biggest hit

The season opens with “a marvelous blend of wit and dramatic immediacy” (SF Chronicle), Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for strings and percussion, written for a balletic version of Bizet’s timeless opera. The concert also highlights Featured Composer and guest soloist, clarinetist Derek Bermel.

Holiday Favorites
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
December 18-21, 2014
The most beloved holiday music all in one program

New Century celebrates the holidays with the San Francisco Girls Chorus, in a concert featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Mozart’s Engel Gottes künden, Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, selections from Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and more.

Dicterow Leads Brahms and Mozart
Glenn Dicterow, Guest Concertmaster
March 5-8, 2015
New Century features New York Philharmonic legend

Glenn Dicterow, the outgoing 34-year Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, leads the ensemble for an elegant program including Brahms’ Sextet for Strings No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 18 and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major K. 136, plus works by Grieg and Holst.

Schubert and Stravinsky Masterpieces
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director & Concertmaster
May 28-31, 2015
Nadja leads virtuosic works for strings, old and new

The season culminates with an electrifying new work by Featured Composer Derek Bermel, alongside Stravinsky’s charming Pulcinella Suite and Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Monday, February 16, 2015   7:30 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Monday, March 9, 2015   7:30 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Monday, April 13, 2015   7:30 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Monday, May 5, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Oshman Family JCC - Palo Alto

Edward James Olmos
Moving Beyond the Myth of the Melting Pot
Thursday, February 19, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Brandon Stanton
What Humans of New York Says about Our Shared Humanity
Friday, February 26, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Buika
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Wendy Davis
Standing Up for Women's Rights
Thursday March 5, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Ben Huh
Making Failure Cheap: Managing Risk to Ensure Success
Wednesday, March 11, 2015   7:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Lea DeLaria
Why Butch Still Matters: Identity, Gender, and the Media
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Cornel West
The Burden Carried by African American Men
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

David Zirin and Jaclyn Friedman
Domestic Violence, Rape Culture, and the Misogyny of Sports
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

An Evening with Lila Downs
Saturday, April 22, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

The Complete String Quartets of John Zorn
Thursday, April 30, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

Kala Ramnath
Friday, May 1, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Thollem McDonas
Saturday, May 2, 2015   8:00 PM
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason - San Francisco

Yuna
Saturday, May 9, 2015   8:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

OLD & NEW 'NEW MUSIC'
Saturday, March 14, 2015   6:00 PM
Mission Dolores Basilica - San Francisco

Sit back and transport yourself to Leningrad, 1937 - as Dmitry Shostakovich, premiered his 'new music' - Symphony #5 - to wide acclaim.  Alongside this classic -  enjoy TWO 2015 World Premieres by contemporary composers, Michael Kimbell & Stardust. 

Join Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner & the Golden Gate Symphony in their side-by-side tribute to OLD & NEW 'NEW MUSIC'!

5th Symphony - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer, 1937
World Premiere - Barcarolle - Michael Kimbell, Composer, 2015
World Premiere - Metamorphosis - Stardust, Composer, 2015

The Golden Gate Symphony (previously the San Francisco Sinfonietta) celebrates 20 years of keeping classical music ACCESSIBLE & ADVENTUROUS in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

A MODERN WORLD PREMIERE

Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco 

Ars Minerva is creating a Carnival Series and will bring every year Venice to San Francisco by reviving a forgotten Venetian Opera originally written for the Carnival.

Daniele da Castrovillari’s La Cleopatra– lost in the archives of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since its premiere in 1662 – bears the name of the femme fatale whose legend has been recounted by everyone from Plutarch to Burton and Taylor. But those who anticipate yet another version of that famed tragedy should brace themselves for a hefty dose of the unexpected. Castrovillari and his librettist Giacomo dall’Angelo conjure up a lively salmagundi of romance, jealousy, skullduggery, sensuality, comedy, political catastrophe and attempted murder, climaxing in a surprise ending that is entirely in the spirit of Carnevale. Ars Minerva’s ensemble of talented young baroque specialists will bring this unique discovery back to sonorous life this coming March.

Much has been said about Cleopatra and Marc Anthony and yet they are presenting another version of the story… Don’t miss it! Buy tickets to La Cleopatra, a Modern World Premiere!

Semi-staged production
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Cast:
Cleopatra: Céline Ricci
Marc Antonio: Randall Scotting
Ottavia: Nell Snaidas
Coriaspe: Jennifer Ellis Kampani
Arsinoe: Molly Mahoney
and more

www.arsminerva.org

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Saturday, March 14, 2015   8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco

For over three decades the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival has been delighting Bay Area audiences and has grown to become the leading showcase for talented vocal groups from the region. From vocal jazz to doo wop, gospel to pop and all styles in between, you will be amazed at the versatility of the human voice on display in this most exhilarating evening of vocal harmony singing. This event always sells out so get your tickets early!

A MODERN WORLD PREMIERE

Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco 

Ars Minerva is creating a Carnival Series and will bring every year Venice to San Francisco by reviving a forgotten Venetian Opera originally written for the Carnival.

Daniele da Castrovillari’s La Cleopatra– lost in the archives of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since its premiere in 1662 – bears the name of the femme fatale whose legend has been recounted by everyone from Plutarch to Burton and Taylor. But those who anticipate yet another version of that famed tragedy should brace themselves for a hefty dose of the unexpected. Castrovillari and his librettist Giacomo dall’Angelo conjure up a lively salmagundi of romance, jealousy, skullduggery, sensuality, comedy, political catastrophe and attempted murder, climaxing in a surprise ending that is entirely in the spirit of Carnevale. Ars Minerva’s ensemble of talented young baroque specialists will bring this unique discovery back to sonorous life this coming March.

Much has been said about Cleopatra and Marc Anthony and yet they are presenting another version of the story… Don’t miss it! Buy tickets to La Cleopatra, a Modern World Premiere!

Semi-staged production
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Cast:
Cleopatra: Céline Ricci
Marc Antonio: Randall Scotting
Ottavia: Nell Snaidas
Coriaspe: Jennifer Ellis Kampani
Arsinoe: Molly Mahoney
and more

www.arsminerva.org

Breathtaking in Perfection
Anton Nel
Sunday, October 19, 2014   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

A Sumptuous Sound
The New Esterhazy Quartet
Friday, November 14, 2014   7:30 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Sparkling & Eloquent
The Dorian Wind Quintet
Sunday, January 25, 2015   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Triumphant Virtuosity
Gilles Apap & Grace Fong
Friday, Feburary 6, 2015   7:30 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Playing from the Heart
Anne-Marie McDermott
Sunday, March 15, 2015   4:00 PM
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Utterly Compelling
The Alexander String Quartet
Friday, April 10, 2015   7:30 PM
Carole L. Ellis, Petaluma Campus

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

Steven Isserlis, Boccherini, and Haydn
October 8-12, 2014
Join cellist Steven Isserlis and conductor Nicholas McGegan for a concert celebrating the charm and wit of the Classical era. Renowned for performances which combine authenticity with energetic dynamism, Steven Isserlis plays C.P.E. Bach’s inventive Concerto for Violoncello in A major, full of unexpected twists and turns, and Boccherini’s elegant Concerto for Violoncello No. 7. McGegan leads energetic performances of two carefree and playful symphonies by Joseph Haydn.

Andreas Scholl, J.S. Bach, and Handel
November 7-9, 2014
Hear Andreas Scholl, the world-renowned countertenor with a “darkly entrancing” voice (The New Yorker) sing music by two Baroque masters: Johann Sebastian Bach’s moving Cantata No. 170, and Handel arias including “Va tacito” from Giulio Cesare. Julian Wachner, known for his joyful conducting at Trinity Wall Street in New York City, leads Philharmonia in J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. The wistful tones of oboe and horns combine in Telemann’s sweetly melodic Concerto in F major to wonderful effect.

Vivaldi and Zelenka: A Joyous Christmas
December 3-7, 2014
Celebrate the holiday season with joyous sacred music by Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others. Vivaldi’s recently-discovered Dixit Dominus combines pealing trumpets, exultant strings, and soaring choral harmonies, rivaling his Gloria in beauty and magnificence. Hear it with the Philharmonia Chorale and sparkling soloists including Dominique Labelle, Christopher Ainslie, and Dashon Burton. Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (“Christmas Mass”) includes ornate arias and duets, enthralling choral passages, and richly expressive harmonies from the orchestra. Rounding out the program are Vevajnovsky’s Sonata natalis and Joseph Haydn’s Ave Regina Coelorum, a tender hymn to a young girl Haydn loved but lost to the convent.

The Cousins Bach
February 4-8, 2014
Discover moving music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Bernhard, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. The Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies sung by guest artists including Sherezade Panthaki and the Philharmonia Chorale. Let this concert transport you with the glories of music by two Bachs.

Rachel Podger and Vivaldi
March 13-15, 2014
Violin virtuoso Rachel Podger returns to Philharmonia to lead this program of Vivaldi’s most popular works from L’estro armonico and La cetra. Podger leads the orchestra with warmth and verve-as well as a generous helping of the dazzling technique which makes her a sought-after soloist the world over. Savor the shimmering textures, exquisite dissonances, and thrilling high-speed passages which make Vivaldi among the most beloved of Baroque composers.

Rossini’s The Marriage Contract
April 15-19, 2014
Nicholas McGegan leads Rossini’s first great opera, The Marriage Contract, a comic masterpiece featuring vocal soloists from San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship Program. Set in London, the opera tells the story of a Canadian businessman and his machinations to marry Fanny, the daughter of a wealthy merchant – over the opposition of Eduardo, Fanny’s lover. Full of boisterous melodies from the orchestra and vocal fireworks from the Adler Fellows, this production marks an exciting collaboration between American’s premier period-instrument orchestra and the next generation of opera stars.

Surprising Benefits of Bacteria: The Human Microbiome
Katie Pollard
Wednesday, March 04, 2015   7:30 PM

Minds of Their Own: Animal Intelligence
Virginia Morell
Wednesday, March 18, 2015   7:30 PM

The Neuroscience of Zen: Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Rick Hanson
Wednesday, April 08, 2015   7:30 PM

The Internet of Things
Vinton Cerf
Wednesday, April 29, 2015   7:30 PM

The Science of Sleep
Matt Walker
Wednesday, May 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Drugs, Dopamine and Lessons From the Brain
Nora Volkow
Tuesday, June 30, 2015   7:30 PM

All programs at the Nourse Theater - San Francisco

On the evenings of all Bay Area Cabaret performances, the Fairmont offers patrons a delicious buffet supper for $44 plus tax and tip and four hours of free parking at the hotel!  Make dining reservations directly through the hotel at (415) 772-5260.  This offer is subject to availability.  Be sure to reserve soon!

Opening Night Gala
Celebrating Stephen Schwartz
Saturday, September 27, 2014   8:00 PM

Leslie Uggams in
Classic Uggams
Sunday, November 02, 2014   5:00 PM

Sierra Boggess
Sunday, December 07, 2014   5:00 PM

Stacey Kent: Favorites
Saturday, January 31, 2015   8:00 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights
Sunday, February 01, 2015   7:30 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter
Judy Collins
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2015   5:00 PM

Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli in
Straighten up and Fly Right: A Tribute to Nat King Cole
Saturday, March 21, 2015   5:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Annaleigh Ashford
Lost in the Stars
Sunday, April 19, 2015   5:00 PM

Bobby Conte Thornton
Concert Debut
Sunday, May 31, 2015   5:00 PM

Lillias White & Billy Stritch
Bay Area Cabaret Season Finale
Sunday, May 31, 2015   8:00 PM

Saturday, March 21, 2015   7:00 PM
Nourse Theater - San Francisco

Come celebrate the 19th Annual Grand Slam Finals of the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam! The annual slam (an Olympic-style poetry competition) features hundreds of young writers, emcees, and performers from throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, and attracts almost 10,000 audience members during its month-long run.

On the evenings of all Bay Area Cabaret performances, the Fairmont offers patrons a delicious buffet supper for $44 plus tax and tip and four hours of free parking at the hotel!  Make dining reservations directly through the hotel at (415) 772-5260.  This offer is subject to availability.  Be sure to reserve soon!

Opening Night Gala
Celebrating Stephen Schwartz
Saturday, September 27, 2014   8:00 PM

Leslie Uggams in
Classic Uggams
Sunday, November 02, 2014   5:00 PM

Sierra Boggess
Sunday, December 07, 2014   5:00 PM

Stacey Kent: Favorites
Saturday, January 31, 2015   8:00 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights
Sunday, February 01, 2015   7:30 PM
Contact Bay Area Cabaret at (415) 927-4636 or info@bayareacabaret.org to be added to the wait list.

Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter
Judy Collins
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2015   5:00 PM

Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli in
Straighten up and Fly Right: A Tribute to Nat King Cole
Saturday, March 21, 2015   5:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Annaleigh Ashford
Lost in the Stars
Sunday, April 19, 2015   5:00 PM

Bobby Conte Thornton
Concert Debut
Sunday, May 31, 2015   5:00 PM

Lillias White & Billy Stritch
Bay Area Cabaret Season Finale
Sunday, May 31, 2015   8:00 PM

Join us in 2015 for a season of audience favorites from the past by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Poulenc and Piazzolla and stellar new works, including a San Francisco premiere. Avedis ticket holders will be admitted at 1 pm for the 2 pm concerts, so consider having lunch at the café before each concert. Be sure to order by December 31 to receive extra savings on season tickets.

Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
Shawnette Sulker, Soprano
Michael Dailey, tenor
Roy Malan, violin
Paul Hersh, piano
SF Conservatory String Ensemble

Sunday, February 22, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
David Tanenbaum, guitar
Roy Malan, violin
Paul Hersh, viola

Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
with the Stanford Woodwind Quintet:
Alexandra Hawley, flute
James Matheson, oboe
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet
Lawrence Ragent, horn
Rufus Olivier, bassoon

Sunday, May 3, 2015   2:00 PM
Alexandra Hawley, flute
Emily Laurance, harp
Roy Malan, violin
Susan Freier, violin and viola
Paul Hersh, viola
Stephen Harrison, cello
Mark Brandenburg, clarinet

All performances are at the Legion of Honor, in the Florence Gould Theater. For non-members wishing to see the Legion of Honor’s permanent collection, there is an admission fee of $10 general, $7 for seniors and $6 for students. However, on May 3rd museum admission is free for BofA or Merrill Lynch cardholders with the Museums On Us program.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM

Rafal Blechacz
Tuesday, October 14, 2014   7:30 PM

Erin Johnson, soprano
Zanda Švede, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, October 15, 2014   6:30 PM

Hagen Quartet
Saturday, November 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Sean Jones, trumpet
Adam Shulman, piano
Wednesday, November 05, 2014   6:30 PM

Batsheva
Thursday, November 06, 2014   7:30 PM
Friday, November 07, 2014   7:30 PM
Saturday, November 08, 2014   2:00 PM

Sean Jones, jazz trumpet
Family Matinee
Saturday, November 08, 2014   11:00 AM

Dan Tepfer, piano
Saturday, November 08, 2014   7:30 PM

Beijing Guitar Duo
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, November 15, 2014   7:30 PM

Yuja Wang
Monday, December 01, 2014   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, December 06, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, December 20, 2014   10:00 AM
Saturday, January 24, 2015   10:00 AM
St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, CA

Le Jazz Hot
Family Matinee
Saturday, December 06, 2014   11:00 AM

The Romeros
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, December 06, 2014   7:30 PM

Garrick Ohlsson
Sunday, December 07, 2014   7:00 PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Julia Bullock, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
Tuesday, January 06, 2015   7:30 PM

Wendy Whelan / Restless Creature
Thursday, January 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015   7:30 PM

Alexander String Quartet
Robert Greenberg, host and lecturer
Saturday, January 17, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, February 07, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2015   10:00 AM
Saturday, May 09, 2015   10:00 AM
Miner Auditorium, SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA 
 
Marcus Roberts, piano
Saturday, January 17, 2015   7:30 PM

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Sunday, January 18, 2015   7:00 PM

Lera Auerbach, piano
Daniel Hope, violin
Joshua Roman, cello
Tuesday, January 20, 2015   7:30 PM

Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2015   2:00 PM

Uri Caine, piano
Saturday, February 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Saturday, February 14, 2015   7:30 PM

Andras Schiff
Sunday, February 15, 2015   2:00 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015   7:00 PM

Maria Valdes, soprano
Wednesday, February 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Philip Glass: The Etudes
Monday, March 02, 2015   7:30 PM

Lawrence Power, viola
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Thursday, March 05, 2015   7:30 PM

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Friday, March 06, 2015   7:30 PM

David Russell
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, March 07, 2015   7:30 PM

Takacs Quartet
Sunday, March 15, 2015   7:00 PM

Leah Crocetto, soprano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   2:00 PM

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Wednesday, March 25, 2015   6:30 PM

Elias Quartet
Monday, March 30, 2015   7:30 PM

Eliot Fisk
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015   7:30 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Wednesday, April 15, 2015   7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015   7:30 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015   7:30 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015   2:00 PM

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Family Matinee
Saturday, April 18, 2015   2:00 PM

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano
Saturday, April 18, 2015   7:30 PM

Dubravka Tomsic
Sunday, April 19, 2015   7:00 PM

Lisa Bielawa & Friends
Wednesday, April 22, 2015   6:30 PM

Marcin Dylla
Presented in association with OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts
Saturday, April 25, 2015   7:30 PM

Kronos Quartet
Family Matinee
Sunday, May 10, 2015   11:00 AM

Brentano Quartet & Vijay Iyer, piano
Sunday, May 10, 2015   7:00 PM

Stephen Hough
Tuesday, May 12, 2015   7:30 PM

Farallon Quintet
Wednesday, May 20, 2014   6:30 PM

David Requiro & Meta Weiss, cellos
Wednesday, May 27, 2015   6:30 PM

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Thursday, May 28, 2015   7:30 PM

RENAUD CAPUCON, violin
and KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI, piano
Sunday, February 15, 2015   3:00 PM

CASALS QUARTET
Saturday, February 28, 2015   8:00 PM

SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Sunday, March 8, 2015   3:00 PM

AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin
and JOYCE YANG, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2015   3:00 PM

PACIFICA QUARTET
Sunday, March 29, 2015   3:00 PM

ARTEMIS QUARTET
Sunday, April 12, 2015   3:00 PM

"THE FOUR SEASONS OF VIVALDI AND PIAZZOLLA"
Sunday, April 19, 2015    3:00 PM

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV, piano
Sunday, May 3, 2015   3:00 PM

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Sunday, May 10, 2015   3:00 PM

All programs at the Marines' Memorial Theatre - San Francisco

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano
Tuesday, September 30, 2014   7:30 PM

Paul Yarbrough & Friends
Wednesday, October 01, 2014   6:30 PM