Name: Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers
Start: 2025-07-23T14:30:00
Location: Preston Hall

Alexander Katsman

Sam Weiser

Sarah Cahill

Elizabeth Dorman

Silvie Jensen

Ben Albertson

Susan Waterfall

Carolyn Steinbuck

Eric Kritz

Matthew Wherley

Julian Pollack

Johanna Borenstein

Mendocino Music Festival

Zoe Ellis’s dramatic and colorful voice is well known to music fans in the Bay Area and beyond. Described by reviewers as “a resourceful and inventive vocalist,” she sang for many years with the Bay Area funk band, the Mo’Fessionals. A dynamic performer, Ellis’s credits include live performances with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Donald Byrd, Phil Lesh and Friends, ZADELL music co-lead with her big brother Dave Ellis, SoVoSo, Slammin All-Body Band, Darryl Anders AgapeSoul, and as the leader of her own quartet, The Zoe Ellis Group. Currently, she is Director of Music Ministries at Glide Memorial Church.

Zoe Ellis, with Tammy Lynne Hall and Leberta Lorál

Preston Hall

The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on “Cradle Songs for a Cat.” Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will play “Eight Easy Pieces” on one piano. Eric Kritz will take a turn on “Three Solo Pieces for Clarinet,” deeply moving and soulful Russian music. Following a brief intermission, Carolyn Steinbuck and Sam Weiser will play excerpts from Duo Concertante, Stravinsky’s important work for piano and violin. Sarah Cahill and Elizabeth Dorman will team up on Concerto for Two Pianos, considered one of Stravinsky’s major compositions for the instruments. Jensen and Katsman will return for “The Owl and the Pussycat,” Stravinsky’s final completed composition, which he based on a poem by Edward Lear.

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Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers