Welcome to the 2018-19 Chamber Music season. Here you will find instrumental recitals by students, by resident faculty and guest artists, and by the SSU Brass Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble. The chamber music program is under the direction of Marilyn Thompson.
Written for any combination of two up to about 15 players, chamber music has no boss, no one person directing the sound and shaping the piece. It is a shared responsibility among all the players, alternating in roles of leadership and support as the music requires." —International Music Foundation
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Instrumental Repertory Recital
The Instrumental Repertory Recital is the midterm exam for students receiving private instrument lessons. The recital will consist of instrumental solos and chamber music from the Baroque up to modern times.View Event Details
Friday, October 12, 2018
Guitar Guest Artist Judicael Perroy
Judicaël Perroy has become widely known as an extraordinary virtuoso classical guitarist and musician with several prizes to his credit. In 1997, he captured the prestigious first prize of the 15 th Guitar Foundation of America International Competition and Convention awarding him tour of the United States and Canada with more than sixty concerts and master classes. In between his North American tour that year, he gave several concerts in France where his performances were broadcast live on France-Musique followed by extensive recital tours throughout the world.
Perroy's residency will include a workshop for...View Event Details
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Navarro Trio
Guest violinist Mariko Smiley joins The Navarro Trio, Chamber Artists-in-Residence since 1992, for this concert of piano trios by Dvořák and Brahms.
Mariko Smiley began violin studies at age six with her father, David Smiley, who was a violist with the San Francisco Symphony. She trained with former SFS musicians Leonard Austria and Stuart Canin before attending Juilliard, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Robert Mann, and Joel Krosnick. Ms. Smiley joined the SFS in 1982 and was for many years a member of the Aurora String Quartet. Currently SFS Acting Assistant Concertmaster, she occupies the Paula & John...View Event Details
Friday, November 16, 2018
Rescheduled for 11/16 at 3:30 p.m.: Brass Ensemble: An American Anthem
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN RESCEDULED for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th at 3:30 p.m. (was originally 11/11)
After a two-year hiatus, the SSU Brass Ensemble is back! Please join us for An American Anthem , a concert of musical selections composed for trumpets, horns, trombones, euphonium, tuba and percussion, evoking the American experience and honoring Veterans of the Armed Forces. Brian S. Wilson conducts.
Program
Copland | Fanfare for the Common Man Thompson | The Plow that Broke the Plains Sousa | Presidential Polonaise Cohan | Over There Dvorak | Largo from Symphony in E Minor “From...View Event DetailsTuesday, November 27, 2018
Instrumental Repertory Recital II
The Instrumental Repertory Recital is the final exam for students receiving private instrument lessons. The recital will consist of instrumental solos and chamber music from the Baroque up to modern times.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Instrumental Repertory Recital III
The Instrumental Repertory Recital is the final exam for students receiving private instrument lessons. The recital will consist of instrumental solos and chamber music from the Baroque up to modern times.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Guitar Ensemble
Program selections will be announced at a later date.
The SSU Guitar Ensemble is led by Eric Cabalo.View Event Details
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Navarro Trio
The Navarro Trio, music department Chamber Artists-in-Residence, was co-founded in 1992 by faculty members Marilyn Thompson, piano, and Jill Rachuy Brindel, cello. With violinist Victor Romasevich, The Navarro Trio has performed virtually the entire “standard” piano trio repertoire. They are advocates of out-of-print and rarely performed works and frequent collaborators with leading Bay Area musicians.
Program details to come.View Event Details
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Carol Menke, soprano: Faculty and Friends Recital
Lyric soprano Carol Menke is well known to Bay Area audiences as a vocal soloist and chamber music collaborator. She studied at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria and has been coached by some of Europe’s finest recitalists, including Elly Ameling, Jörg Demus, and Norman Shetler. Upon hearing her perform one of his newly composed chamber works, the renowned composer Alan Hovhaness acknowledged and praised her “perfect musicianship.”
Ms. Menke holds an M.A. in Vocal Performance from California State University, Chico. The Santa Rosa Children’s Chorus, with whom she has worked since 1984, continues to thrive and has achieved...View Event Details
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Instrumental Repertory Recital
The Instrumental Repertory Recital is the midterm exam for students receiving private instrument lessons. The recital will consist of instrumental solos and chamber music from the Baroque up to modern times.View Event Details