Sound Personalities: Kymry Esainko, Laura Reynolds, and Carla Wilson

Join us to explore the sound personalities of the oboe and bassoon through rich, dramatic and whimsical pieces by iconic composer Francis Poulenc and the more contemporary Madeline Dring, Libby Larson, Alyssa Morris and John Reager. Inspired by personality tests, suits, jazz, and friends, these composers all love the double reeds in one way or another.

Program:
Hilmar Mückenberger: Der Schäfer und die Schäferin
Michael Head: Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano
Libby Larsen: Jazz variations for solo bassoon
John Reager: Fantasy for oboe, bassoon & piano
Alyssa Morris: Four Personalities for oboe & Piano
Francis Poulenc: Nocturne No. 1 in C Major
Madeline Dring: Romance, Three Piece Suite for oboe & piano
Francis Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Sound Personalities at the Maybeck
Sunday February 26, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission



Django Mack - "100 Page Tattoo" EP Release Party


Django Mack returns to the Maybeck to celebrate the release of the new EP, 100 Page Tattoo. Their last CD inspired comments like, “...intoxicating …a non-stop homage to ‘real’ American music” –Matthew Easler – gigband.com

Come, let us know what you think of the new work! Equal parts gypsy troubadour & high plains drifter, Django growls and croons while the band brings together elements of delta blues, Tin Pan Alley jazz, western folk, and old-time rock & roll into a lively, engaging set of drinking songs and narrow escapes, punctuated by guitars, horns and the occasional clinking of glasses.

Django Mack at the Maybeck
Sunday February 19, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

Fabiana Passoni Brazilian Quartet

Please join us for an acoustic afternoon of unique Brazilian music in an incredibly warm venue.

Nu-jazz Brazilian artist FABIANA PASSONI has a distinct sultry, voice and a fresh interpretive style. Her interpretations are passionate, heartfelt, and exciting.

With her inventive and poetic musical spirit, STEPHANIE OZER presents her fresh interpretations of contemporary Brazilian compositions in various groupings, from solo piano to full jazz ensemble.

Fabiana Passoni Brazilian Quartet at the Maybeck
Sunday, February 05, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission/$10 Students 
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Works for Viola and Piano by Schumann, Brahms, Clarke and Carter


Deanna Badizadegan, viola & Britton Day, piano

Program:
Schumann Märchenbilder
Brahms Sonata in F Minor
- Intermission -
Clarke Sonata
Carter Elegy

With its raw and expressive voice, the viola is beautifully suited to capture the range of emotion and expression that color the human experience. The program begins with Schumann’s Märchenbilder, a collection of four Fairy Tales composed for the viola and piano, which invite the listener into a childish fantasy world. Brahms’ Sonata for Viola and Piano, written just a few years before Brahms’ death, is a deeply expressive and lush work performed widely on both the clarinet and the viola and considered one of the great masterpieces for the instrument duo. Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata, one of the few works written by a female composer to have entered the mainstream repertoire, is a highly idiomatic work that captures a wide variety of characters and styles and showcase the viola's versatility of sound. The program concludes with Carter’s Elegy for Viola and Piano, an elegant and lyrical piece that Carter himself rearranged for many different instruments before finally settling on the combination of viola and piano, which he felt uniquely captured the appropriate sonority for the piece.

Deanna Badizadegan at the Maybeck
Saturday February 04, 2017 at 3:00pm
This concert is $20 General Admission

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