Eli Wallace, solo piano: explorations in composition and improvisation

Eli Wallace will perform one set of original compositions composed over the past few years directly applying specific musical theoretical concepts and dealing with societal/psychological subject matter, and a second set of entirely freely improvised music.

Eli Wallace at the Maybeck
Sunday, October 30 2016, 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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Composite Identities: The Music of Schulhoff, Frank, and Bartok

This evening's program explores the idea of cultural identities in the music of Erwin Schulhoff, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Bela Bartok. Each of these composers are, to varying extents, musical anthropologists. Frank and Bartok’s music often incorporates folk and native music styles into a western classical structure, whereas Schulhoff integrates elements of modernism, neoclassicism, jazz, and dance from a number of sources and cultures.

Schulhoff’s Five Pieces, a seemingly modern take on the baroque dance suite, highlights several aspects of the composer's hybrid style: bizarre caricatures and parodies of traditional forms (Alla Valse and Alla Serenata), an homage to Czech folk music (Alla Czeca), an admiration for contemporary, popular dance (Alla Tango), and a rapid and rhythmic finale (Alla Tarantella).

 Frank counts composer Bela Bartok among her many influences, particularly regarding his passion for ethnomusicology. The composer’s deeply personal and idiomatic language, one rooted in the synthesis of eastern Europe folk music and Western art sources, has cemented him as one of the twentieth century's most important composers. Bartok's String Quartet No. 4 displays an enormous range of expression while concurrently reflecting his preoccupation with formal unity and coherence.

 Amaranth Quartet at the Maybeck
Sunday October 23, 2016 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission/$15 Students

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Trance Mission Duo with Beth Custer & Stephen Kent


The acoustic coupling of Stephen Kent and Beth Custer sound out the Maybeck House. A unique combination: two world-class musicians, lips and reeds, roots and leaves, endless breath, flights of fancy, from farce to fantasy perchance to dream a deep trance dancing. Keening rawness the Bass Clarinet, the sophisticated Didjeridu, warm Percussion, Cello and the Piano too.

Trance Mission Duo weave the light fantastic reprising the journeys that make them one of the most popular features of The Garden of Memory at Oakland’s Columbarium, and bringing new inspired works together in the moment. Here’s a chance to hear them up close and personal!

Trance Mission Duo at the Maybeck
Sunday October 16, 2016 at 3:00pm
This concert is $25 General Admission

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Dan Zemelman Trio


The Dan Zemelman Trio is happy to be back at the Maybeck Studio once again for an intimate concert of original jazz music and creatively arranged standards. 

The trio consists of bassist Giulio Cetto, drummer Mike Quigg and pianist Dan Zemelman. Together, the group explores the vast terrain of jazz music that includes lyricism, melodicism, rhythmic intricacy and emotional depth.

Be prepared to go on a journey with the Trio as they surprise themselves all the time with new music and new choices.

 Dan Zemelman Trio at the Maybeck
Sunday October 09, 2016 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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Pianist Audrey Vardanega in Recital



Praised as a “[musically] eloquent” (San Francisco Classical Voice) player “with the kind of freedom, authority, and strength…that one expects from the world’s finest pianists” and a “forcefully established…major talent” (The Berkeley Daily Planet), twenty-year-old pianist and composer Audrey Vardanega was born and raised in Oakland, California and began formal piano training with acclaimed pianist Robert Schwartz at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2002 to 2013. Since then, she has also worked with notable pianists such as Gary Graffman, Alain Planés, Yefim Bronfman, Wojciech Switala, and Richard Goode. Her past primary instructors include former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Seymour Lipkin, former Head of Music at the BBC World Service Jeremy Siepmann, and Professor Christopher Elton of London's Royal Academy of Music.

 Audrey Vardanega at the Maybeck
Saturday, October 8 2016, 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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Black Cedar



Program:
Sonata in E Minor for Flute and Continuo,
BWV 1034 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toward the Sea by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)

Gravely and Vigorously
by Henry Cowell (1897-1965)

Fortune My Foe by John Dowland (1563-1626)

Miscellaneous Music (2015) by Durwynne Hsieh (b. 1963)
Commissioned by Black Cedar

Black Cedar at the Maybeck
Sunday October 02, 2016 at 3:00pm
This concert is $15 General Admission

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Exquisite Music: Tessa Seymour


Setting off from her native city of Berkeley, CA, and ending on the opposite coast in Boston, MA two months later, the young North Californian musician and her 1720 Testore “Camilla” cello will travel almost 10,000 miles across the US to play 30 unique concerts in 30 major cities on her first major US tour. Join us on October 1st in Berkeley, CA for the first concert of her tour.
Works by Bach, Cassadó, Ligeti, and Kodály.

Tessa Seymour at the Maybeck
Saturday October 01, 2016 at 7:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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Invisible Guy

Invisible Guy
Michael Coleman - keyboards
Hamir Atwal - drums
Ben Goldberg - clarinet

Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, pianist/keyboardist Michael Coleman, and drummer Hamir Atwal came together in the innovative jazz and experimental music world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Eventually they found it necessary to form this trio, which for some reason may or may not be called Invisible Guy.

As a trio, Ben, Michael, and Hamir are in strict pursuit of beautiful melody. Michael Coleman says: “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there is the importance of breath, and personal expression.” Reviewing a 2014 concert, Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune said the group is "an unusually focused ensemble inventing a musical syntax for itself."

Invisible Guy's first record, Knuckle Sandwich, is now available.

Invisible Guy at the Maybeck
Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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