GRAMMY-Award winning pianist, arranger, and Askonas Holt Artist Craig Terry visits SFCM for a Voice Department residency culminating in a one-night-only performance titled "Beyond the Aria.”ProgramFinal program details will be announced upon availability. Featured ArtistsCraig Terry, piano
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Impressões Seresteiras Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57 ( Appassionata ) Ezequiel S. Barrera: Fantasía “IRINI” Ezequiel S. Barrera: Fantasía Mexicana (One Piano – Four Hands)* *Piano duet with Carl Blake
Join us for four evenings of listening and discovery as Philharmonia’s program notes annotator Scott Foglesong offers a practical introduction to the music, the composers, and the ideas and stories behind it. Class 4: 20th century composers looked back to the Baroque for inspiration. Stravinsky’s “neo-Baroque” style views Baroque idioms through a modern lens. The rise of historically-informed performance practice that aims to reconstruct, as far as possible, the overall sound world of Baroque music as it was, has also impacted modern composers, who may well for write for the harpsichord instead of the piano, or who may explore the sonic possibilities of earlier string, wind, and brass instruments. The Baroque is very much with us today, as we’ll find out in a session that will include a live performance by members of Philharmonia Baroque! Dates: Wednesdays, September 16, 23, 30, and October 7 | 6:30–8:00 PM Location: Community Music Center Mission Campus, 544 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Price: $100 for the full course (four sessions). This includes a $20 voucher toward a Philharmonia Baroque concert in the 2026/27 season.* ENROLL TODAY *May not be combined with other discounts or applied to the price of a subscription. Not valid for concerts at Stanford. Exclusions apply.
Women of Note is the Kloetzel-Chapman Duo’s multi-season project celebrating cello and piano repertoire by women which, through thoughtfully curated programs demonstrate that this music belongs at the center of the cello and piano repertoire, not at its margins. Their program with Old First Concerts features music by Hélène Liebmann, Luise Le Beau, Mel Bonis, and Leokadiya Kashperova.
