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Join us for our first ever Spring concert of four-hand piano music from Canadian piano stars Duo Fortin-Poirier combined with an illuminating presentation from Artistic Director, Michael Adams taking a close look at the importance of four-hand piano music before the age of recording. A fascinating musical event for all the family.

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Spring Concert

Napa Methodist Church

University Of Illinois Wind Orchestra And Hindsley Band

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Marianna Vartikian, Collaborative Piano

The Juilliard School

Music at Kohl Mansion’s international chamber music season continues on Sunday, November 19 with the Kohl Mansion debut of the nationally acclaimed Jupiter String Quartet. For their auspicious engagement, the ensemble will present Upheaval, a thoughtful program of music reflective of great social political upheaval from the past to the present.

Jupiter String Quartet

Kohl Mansion

Please note: San Francisco will be hosting the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week. Street and highway closures will cause delays in transit into and out of the SFCM area. Please plan accordingly in attending our concerts this week, as we do hope to see you in the audience! For those of you who cannot make it to the concerts, SFCM will be livestreaming most concerts for the week.

Kristin Pankonin American Art Song Award Showcase

Bowes Center

For CA Festival, we are presenting Stanford alumnus and a very prominent composer of our time, William Bolcom (b. 1938) in "Celebration of New Music". Especially, we are honored to west-coast premiere the piece, Dedication (2022), by William Bolcom during our Stanford Philharmonia Fall Concert, conducted by Paul Phillips, as part of the CA Festival this year. Along with Bolcom, we have Mozart Symphony No.34 in C Major, K. 338 and Charles Griffes on our program, which Griffes’s piece, Poem for Flute and Orchestra, will be performed by Laura Futamura, a 2023 Concerto Competition Winner at Stanford University.

Stanford Philharmonia – California Festival: A Celebration Of New Music

Stanford University

The Stanford Philharmonia, conducted by Paul Phillips, presents their 2023 Fall Concert program, "California Festival: A Celebration of New Music," from the main stage of Bing Concert Hall

Studio Recitals feature students who all study with the same faculty instructor. These young artists represent their studio with a program curated by their teacher.

Voice Students of Susanne Mentzer

Masterworks Series: Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff-Kreisler, Bolcom / Olga Vinokur, piano

Bargemusic

Imagine as an aspiring tennis pro, you get an hour on the court with Venus Williams or Rafael Nadal. Or, as an emerging golf talent, hitting the links with Tiger Woods? x2 is the classical music version of this dream – realized before a live audience. This unique series features our Academy Artists paired with the brilliant 2023 fellows – the energy is explosive as emerging talents dance with legends.

x2: Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3

Music Academy of the West

This intimate and unconventional pas de deux follows the arc of a relationship, exploring the moments of tension and companionship that make two into one.

Some Assembly Required

Roosevelt University

Stony Brook University

Our concert season opener is a musicological journey through the history of American music featuring composers from the late 1900s to present day. Come to hear your favorite works by American composers and support our 2022 Charles F. Davis concerto competition winner, Karlie Thomas, performing Scaramouch for alto saxophone and orchestra.

Aspects of America

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Music Academy of the West Marilyn Horne Song Competition Recital is generously supported by Linda Seltzer Yawitz. 
Wise Moon was commissioned by Music Academy of the West with the generous support of Stephen Schaible and Daron Builta.

William Bolcom

Composer, Pianist

Events

Apr 13, 2024

Spring Concert · Music in the Vineyards

Feb 29, 2024

University Of Illinois Wind Orchestra And Hindsley Band · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Feb 6, 2024

Marianna Vartikian, Collaborative Piano · The Juilliard School

Nov 19, 2023

Jupiter String Quartet · Music At Kohl Mansion

Nov 13, 2023

Kristin Pankonin American Art Song Award Showcase · San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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