Announcing
2023-2024 Season
Seven Great Concerts in Sebastopol, Occidental, and Guerneville for Our
44th Season
Local, National, and International, World-Class Musicians
Destiny Muhammad Trio and Chloe Tula – Nov 4
Amit Peled – Jan 21
AGAVE Sextet – Feb 9
Miró Quartet – Mar 1
Sequoia Quintet – Mar 30 & Mar 31
Quinteto Latino – May 17
Tickets, Season Tickets/Passes
$35 – Adults Tickets when purchased online ($40 at the door)
Free for Kids, and $10 for Students 18-25
Ticket Sales Provide Less Than One Third of Our Season Expenses
We Rely on Your Tax Deductible Donations to Fund Our Programs
Destiny Muhammad Trio and Chloe Tula
Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 7:00pm
Community Church of Sebastopol
“Destiny Muhammad is masterful, an exploratory musician who builds on the legacy of pioneering Jazz Harpists like Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.” – SFJazz
Chloe Tula is the former Principal Harpist of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony. Florida Classical Review declares, ”…substantial cadenza, charged with vigor by Tula, resounded especially vividly … Tula’s harp line sparkled … her precision and verve were manifest.”
Paul Hindemith, Harp Sonata, Tonal Centers in: A flat, G flat, and F flat, 1. Mäßig Schnell, 2. Lebhaft, 3. Lied: Ihr Freunde Hänget (L. H. Chr. Hölty) – Sehr Langsam
J.S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor, from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book 2 No. 11, BWV 881
Marcel Grandjany, Rhapsodie
Alexander Scriabin, Prelude for the Left Hand, Op. 9, No. 1
Carlos Salzedo, Chanson dans la Nuit (Song in the Night)
Jollity, Dorothy Jean Thomas Ashby
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, J. Rosamond Johnson & James Weldon Johnson (lyrics)
GDUBS Livery, Destiny Muhammad
Coltrane – A Sonic Reflection Evoking the Spiritual Soundscape of Alice Lucille McLeod Coltrane, Destiny Muhammad
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Amit Peled
Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 3:00pm
Community Church of Sebastopol
Praised by Stradmagazine and The New York Times, internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall – he returns to The Redwood Arts Council for another performance.
Amit Peled Performs with Pianist, Peter Miyamoto
American Landscape: Music for Cello and Piano by American Composers
– George Gershwin: Three Preludes for Cello and Piano
– Florence Price: Adagio for Cello and Piano
– Traditional Spiritual: “Motherless Child”
– Aaron Copland: Waltz and Celebration
– Samuel Barber: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6
– Victor Herbert: Concerto Number 2
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AGAVE Sextet
Fri, Feb 9, 2024, 7:00pm
Occidental Center for the Arts
GRAMMY®-nominated AGAVE presents a sextet of century-hopping music by women composers with music for Harpsichord, Guitar, Piano, Violins, Violas, and Cello.
Ensemble AGAVE is “an energized, free-spirited group” (EMAg), specializing in music of the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Agave has received numerous awards and accolades and gained local and national attention for its “brilliant,” “profound” (EMAg), “precise and stylish” (American Record Guide) playing, “a certain let-down-your-hair quality” (AllMusic), as well as its growing discography.
FROM HER HANDS:
Canzona Prima à 4: ‘La Borromea’, Claudia Francesca Rusca, 1593-1676
Prelude and Fugue, Clara Schumann, 1819-1896
Sonata no. 3 in D Major, Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, 1665–1729
Sonata Prima, Isabella Leonarda, 1620-1704
Forgotten, Catharina Josepha Pratten, 1821–1895
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, 1. Adagio ma Non Troppo, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805–1847
Allegro in D, Charlotte Wilhelmina Brandes, 1765-1788
Pastorale, Ethel Kathleen Sutton, 1873–1955
Erinnerung, Dora Pejačević, 1885–1923
String Quartet in D Major, Rosy Wertheim, 1888-1949
1. Allegro Con Moto
2. Intermezzo
3. Allegro Energico
Concerto in G Minor â Cembalo Obligato, Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, 1709-1758
Troubled Water, Margaret Bonds, 1912-1972
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Miró Quartet
Fri, Mar 1, 2024, 7:00pm
Community Church of Sebastopol
One of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, the Miró Quartet has been performing to sold out houses in the world’s most prestigious concert halls since 1995.
Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1 – Haydn
Microfictions, Volume 1 (commissioned for Miró Quartet) – Caroline Shaw
Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 – Brahms
Miró won first prize in both the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. They have released nine recordings and an Emmy Award-winning multimedia project titled “Transcendence”, which includes Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, the piece around which the 2012 film “A Late Quartet” was based.
From The New York Times: “The ensemble played with lithe tempos and lean textures, beautifully balancing cool refinement and intense expressivity.” – Anthony Tommasini
Daniel Ching, violin
William Fedkenheuer, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
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Sequoia Quintet – 3/30 & 3/31
TWO Performances: Guerneville & Occidental
In GUERNEVILLE, The Surrey Resort, Sat, Mar 30, 7:00 pm, and
Occidental Center for the Arts, Sun, Mar 31, 4:00 pm (Sunset will be at 7:33 pm)
Bring the whole family this holiday weekend to hear:
– One of Debussy’s most admired works, the dazzling dances for harp and strings, the impressionism of “Danse Sacrée” is couched in lush melodies that evoke ecclesiastical chants, while in “Danse Profane” the harp sparkles and the strings swirl, evoking a sensual reverie and swooning clouds of enchantment
– One of Haydn’s most popular string quartets. “The Joke”, known for its joyful, yet contrasting and acrobatic melodies, themes, and variations
– The exquisitely beautiful strains of the “Meditation”, an intermezzo, in Massenet’s enchanting masterpiece, “Thaïs”
– With more from Bach, Mozart, Sibelius, and others
J. S. Bach – Partita, No. 4 in D major, BVW 828
Mozart – String Duo, No 1 in G major, K. 423
Sibelius – String Duo in C major, JS 66
Halvorsen – Passacaglia on a Theme by Handel
Haydn – String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke”
Debussy – Dances Sacred and Profane, L 103
Massenet – Meditation from Thaïse, Intermezzo, Acts I & II
The Redwood Arts Council presents powerhouse virtuous from the East Coast, combining forces with West Coast masters! Piatigorsky Foundation Fellows: Qing Li, Principal Second Violin, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory, along with Adriana Linares, Violist, The Dali Quartet, Music Professor at West Chester University, and Member of the Board of Directors, Chamber Music America, blend their skills with West Coast musical champions, creating the Sequoia Quintet.
The Sequoia Quintet – Qing Li, Violin | Kathy Marshall, Violin | Adriana Linares, Viola | Vanessa Ruotolo, Cello | Chloe Tula, Harp
The Redwood Arts Council has partnered with the Piatigorsky Foundation with its Fellows, Adriana Linares and Qing Li (Pr Ching Lie) to bring six performances and assemblies to Sonoma County Schools, prior to their Sequoia Quintet appearances. The Redwood Arts Council continues to provide school assemblies, concerts, and coaching for students from transitional kindergarten to graduate school. Topping off our music education program, Adriana and Qing are coaching and teaching master classes at Sonoma State University in its very own Chamber Music Program. Our warmest thanks to the Piatigorsky Foundation for their continued support and partnership in our Music Education program and our music performance series. And, our special thanks to Inman Family Wines for underwriting The Redwood Arts Council’s Music Education programs.
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Quinteto Latino
Fri, May 17, 7:00pm
Community Church of Sebastopol
A highly celebrated quintet, which performs with the greatest precision the Traditional Latin-American Chamber Cannon, interspersed with newer more modern Latin compositions.
Program:
Astor Piazzolla – Libertango
Paquito D’Rivera – Wapango
Marcus Siqueira – Egregores
Eugenio Toussaint – Mambo
Gabriela Lena Frank – Mitos: Suite Dramática para Quinteto de Vientos
Paul Desenne – El Recreo, La Cumbia, Los Vikings, y Otras Miniaturas
Victor Márquez-Barrios – The Spanglish Dances
Armando Castellano – French Horn
Diane Grubbe – Flute
Leslie Tagorda – Clarinet
Jamael Smith – Bassoon
Kyle Bruckmann – Oboe