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Music at Kohl Mansion announces its 40th Anniversary Season with an extraordinary roster of international guest artists on eight Sunday nights October 16, 2022 - May 7, 2023 in the intimate and warm acoustic of the historic Great Hall at Kohl Mansion. The season will be distinguished by the world premiere of critically acclaimed Bay Area composer Shinji Eshima’s commissioned chamber work entitled, Hymn for Her, a celebratory quintet for piano, marimba, clarinet, cello, and double bass. Read the full announcement here.
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THE HEATH QUARTET (Great Britain)
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 7 p.m.
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat Major
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden
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40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 7 p.m.
Shinji Eshima: Hymn for Her - World Premiere
Ernst Bacon: Piano Trio No. 2* (Premiered at MAKM Feb. 1987)
David Carlson: Sonata for Cello and Piano* (Premiered at MAKM Jan. 1993)
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
* Excerpt
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MIRÓ QUARTET (Austin, TX) 40th Anniversary Season Honorary Chairs
Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 7 p.m.
Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
Kevin Puts: Home for String Quartet (Bay Area Premiere)
Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
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MAXWELL QUARTET (Scotland)
Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Purcell: Fantasias*
Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet No. 2
Trad. Scottish/Maxwell Quartet "Work Songs" (Bay Area Premiere)
Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67
* Selections
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TRIO CON BRIO COPENHAGEN
(Denmark)
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Haydn: Piano Trio No. 44 in E Major, Op. 86, No. 2, Hob. XV:28
Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929
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FAURÉ PIANO QUARTETT (Germany) with FREDERICA VON STADE,
Mezzo-Soprano
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Fauré: Clair de Lune, Les Berceaux, Notre Amour, Mandoline (Arr. Zakarias Grafilo)
Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87, B. 162
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
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Frederica von Stade to perform with the Fauré Piano Quartett
Award-winning opera, concert and recording star extraordinaire Frederica von Stade joins the Fauré Quartett for her MAKM debut in a performance of four romantic songs by Gabriel Fauré, newly arranged by Zakarias Grafilo. See the full program here.
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CURTIS ON TOUR with
IDA KAVAFIAN, violin & PETER WILEY, cello (Philadelphia, PA)
Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Richard Danielpour: A Shattered Vessel (Bay Area Premiere)
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956
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ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET with PAUL YARBROUGH, viola & ERIC GAENSLEN, cello (San Francisco)
Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Mozart: Viola Quintet in B-flat Major, K. 174
Kodály: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18
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Music at Kohl Mansion is located at 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA.
For more information, visit www.musicatkohl.org or call 650.762-1130.
All programs are subject to change.
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The Merola Opera Program 2022 Summer Festival wraps with a fully staged production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). It will be performed by Merola artists for the first time since 1998. The Merola Grand Finale returns to the War Memorial Opera House stage, featuring all young artists of the summer program in a dazzling array of opera's most brilliant works.
Die Zauberflöte: August 4 & 6.
Merola Grand Finale: August 20.
https://merola.org/calendar
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Violins of Hope - August 7
The Cabrillo Music Festival's 60th season closes with a powerful and profound Festival commission: the full orchestral version of Guggenheim Fellow Jake Heggie's INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope, with texts by Gene Scheer, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra led by Cristian Măcelaru and three spectacular guest artists: mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, violinist Benjamin Beilman, and youth violinist Thais Chernyavsky.
https://cabrillomusic.org/2022-season/violins-of-hope/
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The San Francisco International Piano Festival celebrates its 5th Anniversary season featuring world-class artistry, dynamic concert experiences, and diverse repertoire from J.S. Bach to the Beatles. Highlights include the World Premiere of Kurt Erickson's 17:22 in celebration of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (1722) at 300, a three part solo recital series in partnership with Old First Concerts, Young Chamber Musicians' Aveta Trio in performance at the Maybeck Studio, and the festival finale with Jeffrey LaDeur and the Telegraph Quartet. www.sfpiano.org
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