Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Our next concert streams on November 9th! Don't miss "Please Elaborate," streaming free: https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/elaborate If you can't wait that long, we understand Enjoy this video of our recent performance of Laurie San Martin's "Zeppelin" for flute and cello. The title comes from the cello's use of its high registers, thus floating in the sky like a zeppelin. https://youtu.be/bUSxze1oBvQ

New video on our YouTube channel! Last month we were honored to premiere David Dominique's serene trio "Soft-Spoken" on our season-opening concert: https://youtu.be/jbSbYt4tujc... Notes from the composer: "In the Summer of 2020, I had put aside music for a bit to focus on Black Lives Matter activism and political journalism. The extroversion and sheer loudness [literal and figurative]required in these domains became me. I accepted these personal adjustments as necessary adjuncts to the work I was doing, but in Soft-Spoken I've taken the opportunity to become something else. Unity has been important to me lately." Unity of being, Unity of purpose. So this trio is about individuals becoming one for the sole purpose of moving together gracefully, quietly, in no rush, and for each other only.

Soft-Spoken streams TOMORROW! Join Left Coast Chamber Ensemble for a premiere from David Dominique followed by works from Laurie San Martin, Albert Roussel, and Beethoven, plus Kurt Rohde's remixes of Joni Mitchell and Hildegard. Streaming free, Monday night at 7:30pm, Pacific Time. See you then!! https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/spoken

We're happy to open the San Francisco Examiner's Fall Arts Guide! Soft-Spoken streams this coming Monday, September 21st at 7:30pm, starring Stacey Pelinka, Kurt Rohde, Leighton Fong, and with a special appearance from Anna Presler. RSVP here for the free watch link: https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/spoken https://www.sfexaminer.com//fall-2020-arts-online-classic/

Great write-up by Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook! Soft-Spoken premieres Monday, Sept 21st at 7:30pm. "The range of things a flute can do especially in the hands of a gifted practitioner like Stacey Pelinka is impressively broad. [...] All these moves promise to figure in Soft-Spoken, the forthcoming online concert by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, with Pelinka tapped as the headliner. The program takes its title from a featured world premiere by composer and bandleader David Dominique, which promises to showcase the flute’s talent for insinuation." https://datebook.sfchronicle.com//left-coast-chamber-ensem

Thank you The Mercury News for listing us in your Fall Arts guide! "The ever-adventurous Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has an appealing program for September" We can't wait! RSVP today to join us for this free virtual concert: ... https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/spoken https://www.mercurynews.com//fall-arts-2020-bay-area-clas/

THANK YOU Bay Area for voting us your Best New Music Ensemble We're honored to also take 2nd place in Best Chamber Music Performance (Quartet for the End of Time) & 3rd for New Music Performance (Changing and Unchanging Things concert). Congratulations to our fellow honorees in this amazing Bay Area arts community:... https://www.sfcv.org//audience-choice-awards-2019-2020-bay See more

In case you missed the 2020 Composer's Conference with Kurt Rohde, you can listen to the events from all ten days here, lots of great music and conversation! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9OAZFou0DXhOCYzsAmpCg

We are THRILLED to announce that Left Coast is the recipient of a 2020 CMA Classical Commissioning grant, with composer Sky Macklay!! Look for a fabulous new string quintet in the coming seasons. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

Starts in 3 hours! Join Left Coast players and friends for our virtual Season Kick-Off Party at 4pm, Pacific. We'll start on YouTube for a streamed performance of Brahms' masterful G Major Sonata from Anna Presler and Eric Zivian, then we'll move to Zoom for the after-party to say hello, catch up, and discuss the new season! See you soon! ... www.leftcoastensemble.org/party

A 1930s postcard from Portschach on the Wörter See, where Brahms wrote his first violin and piano sonata in 1878-79, with all its beautiful pastoral sounds... and a more recent view of the Wörter See. If you look closely you see the snowy peaks in the photo too. Come listen online. Eric and Anna perform tomorrow, Sunday August 23 at 4pm. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/season-28-kick-off-party-ticke

Free event with Gabriela Lena Frank on Saturday August 29. Register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/874328832974625