Mary Vanhoozer: Bright Shadows

Program:
Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor
Rodriguez 'Partita for Piano'
Schubert Impromptus Op. 142, No. 1 and 4
Ravel Sonatine

Known for her passion for performing and bringing community together through live music, Dr. Mary Vanhoozer is an active soloist and chamber musician. She began piano at age five with her father, an amateur pianist and professional theologian. At age nine, she was admitted to St. Mary's School of Music, an independent specialist music school in Edinburgh, Scotland, which offers both music and academic education to musically gifted children. It was there that she developed an enduring love of folk music and Scottish fiddling.

Mary Vanhoozer at the Maybeck

Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $10 General Admission  

Seating is limited.  Get your required online reservation here.

Luciano Troja "At Home With Zindars"

An intimate and creative solo piano journey into the world of Earl Zindars, who was a
San Francisco-based composer, percussionist and teacher, and who enjoyed a close friendship and long musical association with the legendary Bill Evans.

For Luciano’s Bay Area debut, he will be playing a selection of songs from his critically acclaimed album “At Home With Zindars” (2010), which is dedicated exclusively to the music of Earl Zindars.

Luciano Troja at the Maybeck

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $20 General Admission/$10 Students & Seniors   

Seating is limited.  Get your required online reservation here.

Naoya Kanai and Crystal Chao: Music for Cello and Piano

Cellist Naoya Kanai  and Crystal Chao will perform music for piano and cello.

Naoya Kanai performs and teaches regularly in the Bay Area. He has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, including concerti with the California Youth Symphony and Stanford Symphony Orchestra, as well as principal positions in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Aspen Concert Orchestra. He has also appeared at the Banff, Orford, and Takefu festivals.

Crystal Chao is a new music enthusiast, she studied with Evan Ziporyn of Bang on a Can at MIT, and with pianist Timothy Whiteboard of Georgia Tech's contemporary music ensemble-in-residence Sonic Generator. She also programmed and performed with a marimba robot named Shimon.

Naoya Kanai at the Maybeck

Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $20 General Admission  

Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.

Cecily Ward - Solo Violin

Dances for Solo Violin:

Unaccompanied works by Tartini, Schulhoff, Ruehr and Harbison

Cecily returns to the Bay Area for her West Coast appearance since the Cypress Quartet disbanded in 2016. 

For 20 years she was the first violinist of the Cypress String Quartet, and performed throughout the United States and Europe at venues including the Kennedy Center, Ravinia Festival, the Lobkowitz Palace (Prague, Czech Republic), and Eroicasaal (Vienna, Austria). Her performances have been featured numerous times on NPR’s “Performance Today” and are broadcast on radio stations worldwide.

Cecily Ward at the Maybeck

Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $25 General Admission/$10 Students 

Seating is limited. To purchase advanced tickets, click here.   

Michael Coleman and Ben Goldberg: CD Release Concert for PRACTITIONER

PRACTITIONER

Michael Coleman and Ben Goldberg are happy to announce the release of their new record “PRACTITIONER.” This record, three years in the making, is based on Steve Lacy’s Hocus Pocus - Book ‘H’ of “Practitioners”.

BEN GOLDBERG SAYS:
“In 1985 I took a lesson from Steve Lacy. I was in Paris a lot and would go to the Sunset to hear Steve and politely beg for a lesson. Finally he relented, saying, ‘I have a soft spot for clarinetists.’ We spent the afternoon at his place on Rue du Temple and Steve prescribed some exercises for investigating the basic elements of music. At the end of our meeting he gave me a copy of a new record of his, called Hocus Pocus.”

STEVE LACY WRITES:
“These pieces were written (‘83) for my own use, as exercises and studies for the saxophone. Deliberately made so as to be hard to play, they also contain many of the characteristic ‘licks’, which comprise the language that I use, in the the different kinds of improvisational musics that I perform in. Each piece is also a portrait of, and an homage to, a distinguished practitioner of a particular art.”

Since Steve was a baseball fan, each cd comes with a pack of 12 baseball cards depicting the artists to whom Lacy dedicated his pieces, along with the people who made the record happen, and of course Steve himself. Each card has a portrait by Molly Barker and an original poem by the likes of Dean Young, J. Kathleen White, Paul Muldoon, Heather de Guzman Gordon, Clark Coolidge, Molly Barker, SNEAL, Babs Gonzalez, Jake Marmer, and Jesse Rimler.

Michael Coleman & Ben Goldberg at the Maybeck

Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:00pm

This concert is $25 General Admission  

Seating is limited. Get your required online reservation here.

An Afternoon Recital featuring Eric Chin, Ellie Kanayama, and Yi-Fang Wu

Program:
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op.56
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in D minor, Op.108

Violinist Eric Chin, a founding member of the acclaimed Telegraph Quartet, is
equally passionate about performing and teaching. Captivated by chamber music, he founded
the award- winning Nexus String Quartet in 2007 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Ellie Kanayama is a senior at Berkeley High School, and is currently studying with Eric Chin at the Precollege Division of San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has received top prizes in competitions, including Youngarts, VOCE, Etude Club of Berkeley, US Open Music, American String Teacher Association, and other concerto competitions. 

Yi-Fang Wu decided to pursue her love of music after graduating from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan and came to Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Paul Schenly and Daniel Shapiro for Master Degree in Piano Performance. 

Eric Chin, Ellie Kanayama & Yi-Fang Wu at the Maybeck

Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is FREE 

Seating is limited.  Get your required online reservation here.

Dan Zemelman Solo

For the first time in a LONG time, Dan Zemelman will be performing a live solo piano concert. What better place than the Maybeck Studio concert space?

Come and listen to (new) original compositions, improvisational journeys, songs by the great American songbook composers, and lush chords on the beautiful Yamaha C7 grand piano.

Dan's ability to combine technique and a deep knowledge of music with heart, soul and spirit captures the essence of jazz.

This is a rare chance to catch Dan playing a live solo piano concert. Don't miss it!

Dan Zemelman at the Maybeck

Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $20 General Admission 

Seating is limited.  Get your required online reservation here.

The Delphi Trio in Concert

Please join the Delphi Trio for the third installment of their performance series at the Maybeck featuring Irving Santana Garcia on viola.

Program:
Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90 "Dumky" by Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 47 by Robert Schumann

Praised for “spot-on ensemble playing and a beautifully blended sound” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “rich, committed string tone, dazzling pianism, rhythmic flexibility, and risky tempi” (Sarasota Herald Tribune), the Delphi Trio has become a powerfully eloquent voice in the world of chamber music.

The Delphi Trio is pleased to collaborate with Irving Santana Garcia, viola, who was selected from the spring round of the Delphi Trio's Emerging Artist Program. As a member of the Orchestra of the New Fire, he performed under the baton of Mexican composer Arturo Marquez. In 2009, he was selected as one of the best performers in the state of Colima for a national concert of over 1,500 musicians from Conculta in Mexico City where musicians from throughout Mexico participated.

The Delphi Trio at the Maybeck

Saturday, April 07, 2018 at 3:00pm

This concert is $25 General Admission/$15 Students & Seniors  

Seating is limited.  Get your required online reservation here.