Julia Bullock, soprano
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) 
Christian Reif, conductor

Experience an all-new chamber music version of contemporary master John Adams's Christmas oratorio, El Niño, arranged for the forces of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and adapted for the intimate setting of The Met Cloisters.

Also on Friday, December 21, 5:30 pm

Bring the Kids for $1.

Tickets include same-day Museum admission.

Julia Bullock, soprano
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) 
Christian Reif, conductor

Experience an all-new chamber music version of contemporary master John Adams's Christmas oratorio, El Niño, arranged for the forces of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and adapted for the intimate setting of The Met Cloisters.

Also on Saturday, December 22, 5:30 pm

Bring the Kids for $1.

Tickets include same-day Museum admission.

A recital in Woodside, CA with pianist Jeff LaDeur featuring music by Janacek, Vasks, Schumann, and Chopin.

The Evnin Rising Stars program is an incubator for leaders in classical music performance. Along with Pamela Frank, distinguished artist/mentors cellist Timothy Eddy and pianist Gilbert Kalish work alongside a new generation of outstanding young instrumentalists on the great masterworks of the chamber music repertoire. The culmination of this week of intense collaboration and musical discovery is an opportunity for the public to witness musicians on their way to becoming legends themselves.

Artists

Distinguished Artists

Pamela Frank, violin
Timothy Eddy, cello
Gilbert Kalish, piano

Evnin Rising Stars

Benjamin Baker, violin
Rubén Rengel, violin
Tatjana Roos, violin
Zoë Martin-Doike, viola
Zhanbo Zheng, viola
Alexander Hersh, cello
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Program

Haydn  String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 6, Hob.III:64
Mozart  String Quartet in G Major, K. 387
Fauré  Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45

The Evnin Rising Stars program is an incubator for leaders in classical music performance. Along with Pamela Frank, distinguished artist/mentors cellist Timothy Eddy and pianist Gilbert Kalish work alongside a new generation of outstanding young instrumentalists on the great masterworks of the chamber music repertoire. The culmination of this week of intense collaboration and musical discovery is an opportunity for the public to witness musicians on their way to becoming legends themselves.

Artists

Distinguished Artists

Pamela Frank, violin
Timothy Eddy, cello
Gilbert Kalish, piano

Evnin Rising Stars

Benjamin Baker, violin
Rubén Rengel, violin
Tatjana Roos, violin
Zoë Martin-Doike, viola
Zhanbo Zheng, viola
Alexander Hersh, cello
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Opening Vivian Fung’s new studio

Program TBD

An evening of exquisite local food, breathtaking views, and inspiring live music
to benefit the Jamestown Arts Center’s Mary Schachtel Wright Programming Fund

September 17  Beauty & Seduction

Michael Brown piano
Mark Kaplan violin
Lisa Shihoten violin
Luosha Fang viola
Lisa Sung viola
Coleman Itzkoff cello
Oliver Herbert cello
Rita Mitsel oboe
Vadim Lando clarinet
Karl Kramer horn
Gina Cuffari bassoon

MOZART  Piano Quintet in Eb Major K. 452 • 1784
  • performed by Mozart himself on April Fool’s Day, and in a letter to his father, he declared enthusiastically, “the best thing I have so far written in my life”

SCHUBERT  Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F Major D. 487 • 1816
  • in love with Therese Grob at the age of 19, Schubert wrote the piano quartet for her brother Heinrich ~ stylistically, the piece is more of a concerto movement for piano and strings, and the Rondo, a sonata movement with Mozart-like themes

Peteris VASKS The Fruit of Silence • 2013
  • the Latvian composer’s sublime, spellbinding meditation ~ for piano quintet Vasks described the quintet as a muted contemplation on a path: “This path has five signposts—prayer, faith, love, service and peace. I want this composition to serve as a reminder that such a path exists.” The music, originally for choir a cappella, was set to a text by Mother Teresa: “The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.” It was commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Arnold SCHOENBERG  Verklärte Nacht “Transfigured Night” Op. 4 • 1899
  • dense, voluptuous, gut-wrenching late-Romanticism from the Modernist composer before he abandoned tonality

Based on a mystical poem of Richard Dehmel, the programmatic music for string sextet captures the despair, angst, love, nobility, and radiance of the story of a couple in love walking through the woods on a moonlit night, the woman’s confession that she is bearing the child of another man she never loved, and the man’s acceptance of both the woman and unborn child as his own, transforming all from darkness to light. Schoenberg, however, wanted the music to be appreciated as his expression of nature and human emotion.

In 1949, Schoenberg said, “I can really contend that I owe very, very much to Mozart.... And I am proud of it!” In background notes on Mozart’s influence on Schoenberg at the Schönberg Center in Vienna, Therese Muxeneder wrote, “The special exhibition addresses Arnold Schönberg’s stylistic career in the footsteps of Viennese Classicism as well as his artistically and theoretically diverse reflection on the Viennese fathers. The importance of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven for his own work and teaching can be impressively demonstrated in numerous documents from the estate. They also provide insights into Schönberg’s compositional style, which is juxtaposed with that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.”

September 17  Beauty & Seduction

Michael Brown piano
Mark Kaplan violin
Lisa Shihoten violin
Luosha Fang viola
Lisa Sung viola
Coleman Itzkoff cello
Oliver Herbert cello
Rita Mitsel oboe
Vadim Lando clarinet
Karl Kramer horn
Gina Cuffari bassoon

MOZART  Piano Quintet in Eb Major K. 452 • 1784
  • performed by Mozart himself on April Fool’s Day, and in a letter to his father, he declared enthusiastically, “the best thing I have so far written in my life”

SCHUBERT  Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F Major D. 487 • 1816
  • in love with Therese Grob at the age of 19, Schubert wrote the piano quartet for her brother Heinrich ~ stylistically, the piece is more of a concerto movement for piano and strings, and the Rondo, a sonata movement with Mozart-like themes

Peteris VASKS The Fruit of Silence • 2013
  • the Latvian composer’s sublime, spellbinding meditation ~ for piano quintet Vasks described the quintet as a muted contemplation on a path: “This path has five signposts—prayer, faith, love, service and peace. I want this composition to serve as a reminder that such a path exists.” The music, originally for choir a cappella, was set to a text by Mother Teresa: “The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.” It was commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Arnold SCHOENBERG  Verklärte Nacht “Transfigured Night” Op. 4 • 1899
  • dense, voluptuous, gut-wrenching late-Romanticism from the Modernist composer before he abandoned tonality

Based on a mystical poem of Richard Dehmel, the programmatic music for string sextet captures the despair, angst, love, nobility, and radiance of the story of a couple in love walking through the woods on a moonlit night, the woman’s confession that she is bearing the child of another man she never loved, and the man’s acceptance of both the woman and unborn child as his own, transforming all from darkness to light. Schoenberg, however, wanted the music to be appreciated as his expression of nature and human emotion.

In 1949, Schoenberg said, “I can really contend that I owe very, very much to Mozart.... And I am proud of it!” In background notes on Mozart’s influence on Schoenberg at the Schönberg Center in Vienna, Therese Muxeneder wrote, “The special exhibition addresses Arnold Schönberg’s stylistic career in the footsteps of Viennese Classicism as well as his artistically and theoretically diverse reflection on the Viennese fathers. The importance of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven for his own work and teaching can be impressively demonstrated in numerous documents from the estate. They also provide insights into Schönberg’s compositional style, which is juxtaposed with that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.”

Program TBD

High atop Salesforce East’s Ohana 30th floor in San Francisco, our fall fundraiser will support the Klein Competition, and our artistic and outreach programs, honoring arts champion Judith Preves Anderson.

Enjoy cocktails, small bites while you bid on irresistible auction items, and experience pop-up concerts by Klein Laureates Coleman Itzkoff and Lisa Lee.

this event is private

Join artists from the American Modern Opera Company in an afternoon of music and dance, performed throughout the landscape of the Clark's beautiful campus. AMOC will perform mini-concerts everywhere from the Fernández Terrace, to Thomas Schütte: Crystal, to the stunning entrance of the original museum. Performances include a new work created by dancer Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with violinist Keir GoGwilt, as well as music spanning centuries—including pieces by AMOC Co-Artistic director Matthew Aucoin, featuring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, violinists Miranda Cuckson and Keir GoGwilt, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, percussionist Jonny Allen, and Conor Hanick and Matthew Aucoin on piano.

2 pm: WITH CARE (20 minutes)
Fernández Terrace
Straight from their summer residency space in Stamford, Vermont, AMOC brings a special preview of this boundary-blurring, new work for two dancers and two violins to the Clark. Created by Bobbie Jene Smith, former star of the world-renowned Batsheva Dance Company, in collaboration with violinist Keir Gogwilt, “With Care” also features stunning dancer Or Schraiber, powerhouse violinist Miranda Cuckson, and an original piece by Matthew Aucoin. Co-commissioned by AMOC and ODC Theater, San Francisco.

2:30 pm: OLD & NEW (40 minutes)
Entrance of the Museum Building
Mirroring the Clark’s landscape, musical works by George Frideric Handel and other Baroque composers, combined with new music, are juxtaposed in offerings from star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo (“utterly riveting”—The New York Times), percussionist Jonny Allen (“jaw-dropping virtuosity”—The Washington Post), and cellist Coleman Itzkoff (“flawless technique and keen musicality”—The New Yorker).

3:30 pm: DUOS IN CRYSTAL (25 minutes)
Thomas Schütte: Crystal (on Stone Hill)
The pasture becomes home to virtuosic duets featuring music by Georg Philipp Telemann and Béla Bartók with violinists Miranda Cuckson (“one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music”—Downbeat Magazine) and Keir Gogwilt (“amazingly supple technical finesse…a lustrous sonority”—San Diego Story).

4:30 pm: WORKS BY MATTHEW AUCOIN (1 hour)
Clark Center Lower Lobby
A special, intimate performance features pianist Conor Hanick (“brilliant,” “effortlessly elegant”—The New York Times), the world’s premier countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and musical works by composer and AMOC Co-Artistic Director Matthew Aucoin—including This Earth, Aucoin’s setting of a literal and spiritual dawn from the “Purgatorio” section of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
 

• An opening night concert on Aug. 4 with cello soloist Coleman Itzkoff, a rising star who is the son of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra violinist Gerry Itzkoff and CCO principal violist Heidi Yenney.  The British Invasion concert at SCPA will feature Itzkoff performing Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor; other musical selections of the English aristocracy will include the soundtrack from Downton Abbey by John Lunn and Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D Major or "London" symphony.

The mystique of cellist Emanuel Feuerman has become the stuff of legend. He died unexpectedly at the age of thirty-nine, following a minor operation when he came down with an infection. Violinist Jascha Heifetz declared that talent like Feuermann's comes once every one hundred years. Indeed, after Feuermann's untimely death it took seven years for Heifetz to collaborate with another cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky . Artur Rubinstein was equally emphatic: "He became for me the greatest cellist of all times.”

The author of the definitive biography of the legendary cellist Emanuel Feuermann presents a captivating portrait of this lifetime artist. For the first time, on one stage, the author appears with his grandson, Coleman Itzkoff—gold medalist in the 2017 International Berliner Music Competition. Hailed by The New Yorker for his “flawless technique and keen musicality,” Coleman Itzkoff enjoys a hdiverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. He achieved his master’s degree at the University of Souther California’s Thornton School of Music while a member of the studio of Ralph Kirshbaum—one of Lev Aronson’s most renowned students.

event description

Table Seating: $20 advance, $25 day of show
Standing Room: $15 advance, $20 day of show

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a live, nationally syndicated radio broadcast of music by three generations of Mexico’s most exciting composers.  The concert is an evening of New York premieres including pieces by Gabriela Ortiz, Felipe Perez Santiago, Ana Lara, Hilda Paredes and Mexico’s most celebrated living composer Mario Lavista.

These composers have been performed by leading ensembles like the New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, the LA Philharmonic and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico but these pieces have never before been heard in New York.

Hosted by Seth Boustead, Relevant Tones is the world’s only weekly syndicated radio program featuring the music of living composers.  With composers, men and women, from nearly every country in the world writing new classical music, we believe that the golden era for our art form is happening now.  Through syndication and our podcast, Relevant Tones is heard by approximately 250,000 people every week.

This broadcast will also be heard live on WKCR in New York. The evening is sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Mexico in New York and is a co-production of Unison Media, the WFMT Radio Network and Access Contemporary Music.

Le Salon de Musiques, a compendium of Los Angeles' world renowned Chamber Music performers, gives his Eighth Season at the famed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning on October 15, 2017, until June 3, 2018. The hours are from 4:00 pm until 6:30 pm.

Program:

A.BORODIN, A. GLAZUNOV, N. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: “LES VENDREDI” STRING QUARTETS Excerpts
E.NAPRAVNIK: SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO IN G MINOR OP 52
A.GLAZUNOV: ELEGY FOR CELLO & PIANO OP 17
D.SHOSTAKOVITCH: PIANO QUINTET IN G MINOR OP 57

Southwestern University’s Sarofim School of Fine Arts’ Music Department is excited to have Coleman Itzkoff join us in the Alma Thomas Theater.

       Hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “astonishing prowess,” cellist Coleman Itzkoff enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, chamber & orchestral musician, and educator. Originally from Cincinnati, OH, Coleman is the son of two professional violinists and began playing cello at the age of 5. Coleman received his Bachelor of Music from Rice University and his Master’s Degree from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School Music under the tutelage of Ralph Kirshbaum. Coleman has been awarded prestigious accolades from across the country, including the Gold Medal in the 2017 International Berliner Music Competition. He was invited for an artist residency with NPR’s Performance Today with host Fred Child and has most recently had his Walt Disney Concert Hall concerto debut. Coleman has collaborated with artists such as Midori, John O’Connor, Richey Hawley, amongst others that have garnered him great success. He performs on a Paul Siefried bow on loan to him from the Maestro Foundation and on a 1740 Gennaro Gagliano Cello, generously loaned to him by the Amatius Foundation. 

Barbara Day Turner, conductor, featuring cellist Coleman Itzkoff

– New music by Vivian Fung,Thea Musgrave, Judith Shatin and William Susman.
– Melody and rhythm meet algorithms, melting glaciers and electronic interventions.

For tickets, please visit:

https://sjco.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F3600000836oIEAQ

Amicus Duo was born in 2014 when cellist Coleman Itzkoff and pianist Alin Melik-Adamyan began their musical collaboration. Graduate students at USC, they have performed, as both soloists and partners, music from the classical cello and piano repertoire.

Program:

Schumann, Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102

Ethel Smyth, Cello Sonata, Op.5

Joan Tower, Très Lent (Hommage a Messiaen) (1994)

 César Franck, Sonata in A major for violin and piano, arr. cello

for tickets, please visit:

http://www.boulderchamberorchestra.com/tickets/january-14

Amicus Duo was born in 2014 when cellist Coleman Itzkoff and pianist Alin Melik-Adamyan began their musical collaboration. Graduate students at USC, they have performed, as both soloists and partners, music from the classical cello and piano repertoire.

Program:

Schumann, Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102

Ethel Smyth, Cello Sonata, Op.5

Joan Tower, Très Lent (Hommage a Messiaen) (1994)

 César Franck, Sonata in A major for violin and piano, arr. cello

for tickets, please visit:

http://www.boulderchamberorchestra.com/tickets/january-13

Amicus Duo was born in 2014 when cellist Coleman Itzkoff and pianist Alin Melik-Adamyan began their musical collaboration. Graduate students at USC, they have performed, as both soloists and partners, music from the classical cello and piano repertoire. Suggested donation of $15 adult, $5 Student/children

Program:

Schumann, Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102

Ethel Smyth, Cello Sonata, Op.5

Joan Tower, Très Lent (Hommage a Messiaen) (1994)

 César Franck, Sonata in A major for violin and piano, arr. cello

Amicus Duo was born in 2014 when cellist Coleman Itzkoff and pianist Alin Melik-Adamyan began their musical collaboration. Graduate students at USC, they have performed, as both soloists and partners, music from the classical cello and piano repertoire. Tickets are $10.00 at the door.

Program:

Schumann, Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102

Ethel Smyth, Cello Sonata, Op.5

Joan Tower, Très Lent (Hommage a Messiaen) (1994)

 César Franck, Sonata in A major for violin and piano, arr. cello

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