Winter Sale is HERE!
𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘!!!
Pay only $25 per ticket when purchasing at least one ticket to two or more eligible performances until Jan 31! 💃😱🤩💖🌟
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Happy 2024 from Cal Performances!
Happy New Year to each and every one of you!
#performingarts
Jeremy Geffen: What the Performing Arts Gives Me
Jeremy Geffen, our Executive & Artistic Director, calling out those tingles! ❤️⭐️
This video is part of our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
Harumi Rhodes: What The Performing Arts Gives Me
Harumi Rhodes is a violinist in the Takács Quartet , a true favorite around Berkeley. Harumi is so generous and creative, and she brings us many wise words in this video about what the performing arts give to her–and so many of us. Hope…
This video is part of our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason: What The Performing Arts Gives Me
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason is the University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer at University of California, Berkeley, and a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Department of Economics.
His current research and teaching mix mostly economics with some computer science, and a bit of psychology (cognitive, and increasingly social) thrown in.
In his “spare” time, MacKie-Mason plays the piano and serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees at Cal Performances. Truly impressive.
His insights and brilliance are deeply appreciated, and we are so lucky he made in appearance in our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! If you’re buried in data, we suggest you enjoy more performing arts, too. :)
Watch the full “What do the performing arts give to you?” video here: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
Kimia Adibi: What The Performing Arts Gives Me
Kimia Adibi is a political science & media studies major at Berkeley, class of 2025! She is also a PR & Social Media Assistant here at Cal Performances. Kimia loves enjoying the world-class performances that happen right on campus, and her answer to what the performing arts give her gave us all the feels. ❤️
This video is part of our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
Filippo Gorini, Bach's The Art of Fugue
January may come faster than vacation you would like. However the great news is that it will then be much closer to Filippo Gorini 's Jan 28 recital in which he’s playing all of Bach’s The Art of Fugue! 🥰😍🤩
Video credit: Gorini plays J.S. Bach’s Contrapunctus 11 a 4 from The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
#bach #piano #artoffugue #berkeley #pianorecital
Judith Jamison: What the Performing Arts Gives Me
Judith Jamison joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 and quickly became an international star. Over the next 15 years, Mr. Ailey created some of his most enduring roles for her, most notably the tour-de-force solo Cry. During the 1970s and 80s, she appeared as a guest artist with ballet companies all over the world, starred in the hit Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies, and formed her own company, The Jamison Project. She returned to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1989 when Mr. Ailey asked her to succeed him as Artistic Director.
She is nothing short of astounding.
This video is part of our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
Rica Anderson on why the performing arts matter to students
Rica Anderson is our Manager of Education & Community Programs. She is incredible and works behind the scenes to bring the performing arts to students all around the Bay Area (and beyond). The passion she has for her work inspires us every day. ❤️
This video is part of our “What do the performing arts give to you?” series! Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/3uWdOnv
#performingartseducation #education #berkeley #supportart
As we continue on with our “What do the performing arts give to you?” theme, Nathalie Joachim shares her beautiful answer!
In this season of giving, we’re taking a look at those intangible gifts that the arts bring each of us—gifts that inspire us and shape us throughout our lives.
♥️🎶🎁 💃 🎭
Urban Bush Women are about to change you with Hair & Other Stories, a dance-theater work exploring race, identity, and concepts of beauty through black women’s hair.
You’ve got 3 chances to see it!
Dec 1, 8pm
Dec 2, 8pm
Dec 3, 3pm
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3D3JZCk
“It is astounding. The fleetness of finger, the touch and taste, the grit and grime when he needs it, the lightness and airiness when it’s called upon—Whitaker has it all” (Downbeat).
A child prodigy on piano and organ, MMatthew Whitakercomes to Zellerbach Playhouse on Dec 8 to play some bebop, electric fusion, R&B, and all the jazz!
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3JKNLUN
#jazz #jazzpianist #organ #matthewwhitaker
Opera, art song, or jazz your style?!
⭐ Cecile McLorin Salvant draws connections between vaudeville, blues, international folk traditions, theater, jazz, and classical music with her seriously incredible voice. Captivating to say the least!
⭐ Ema Nikolovska is full of artistry, sensitivity, and technical skill. Nikolovska visits with an art song rich program featuring songs by Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Debussy in her Cal Performances debut.
⭐ Darlings of the opera world, the wife and husband duo of soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati give a recital of songs and you can expect 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the vocal power, charisma, and dramatic flair!
These 3 performances are part of our Black Friday Sale!
𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙇𝙀:
https://bit.ly/3SNvziw
Did ya hear?! Our Black Friday Sale is LIVE! From Nov 22–28, get 50% off 10 incredible performances for our Black Friday Sale!!! 🎉😍
𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙇𝙀:
https://bit.ly/3SNvziw
Music bed: Duke Ellington, Night Creature from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s “Night Creature”
We are so lucky to have the expertise of not only artists, but the UC Berkeley faculty to help us make better sense of the world through the performing arts.
Explore more about Illuminations and watch the full video on intersectionalities: bit.ly/3E1C2xS
Handel’s 𝙍𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖 is a story about steadfast love and we can’t imagine anyone better to play it than the The English Concert with a truly star-studded cast. ❤️
The English Concert’s recording of the work got rave reviews including this one from BBC Music Magazine: “Harry Bicket has gifted us the best-ever recording of Rodelinda.”
Happening THIS SUNDAY, Nov 19 at Cal Performances!
Cast to include:
Lucy Crowe (Rodelinda), soprano
Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), countertenor
Eric Ferring (Grimoaldo), tenor
Christine Rice (Eduige), mezzo-soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Unulfo), countertenor
Brandon Cedel (Garibaldo), bass-baritone
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3JI7c0v
#earlymusic #rodelinda #handel #baroque #opera #singers #singer #lucycrowe
One of the great clarinetists of our time, Carey Bell is a master storyteller on the instrument. He brings a virtuosity and expressiveness to his playing that is informed by an incredibly deep knowledge of the history of music and the instrument. It is impressive to say the least!
Carey sat down with us to talk about his background, what’s unique about a clarinet concerto, and his upcoming concerto appearance play Esa-Pekka Salonen's Kinēma with the San Francisco Symphony in Berkeley on Nov 10, 2023!
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JNHAz9
One of the great clarinetists of our time, Carey Bell is a master storyteller on the instrument. He brings a virtuosity and expressiveness to his playing that is informed by an incredibly deep knowledge of the history of music and the instrument. It is impressive to say the least!
Carey sat down with us to talk about his background, what’s unique about a clarinet concerto, and his upcoming concerto appearance with the San Francisco Symphony in Berkeley on Nov 10!
Stay tuned for part II where Carey will dive into what’s unique about @esapekkasalonen.official ‘s Kinēma for clarinet and string orchestra! And a part III where Carey reveals if 🍪 or 🍰 are his preference …. 🤔
#esapekka #clarinet #clarinetist #clarinetconcerto #careybell
On Oct. 5, cellist @shekukannehmason joined music writer @levmamuya via Zoom in @sfclassicalvoice ‘s virtual greenroom to chat about the repertoire on his upcoming Nov 1 recital at Cal Performances! In addition he talked about his take on his generation’s relationship with classical music, growing up in a family full of musical talents, the diversifying world, and much more.
Sheku is a versatile, beautiful musician and cellist. His impressive and far-ranging program of music for just one solo cellist on stage is bold and personal—a chance to hear him play music that is really special to him. So, come join us Nov 1 at Zellerbach to witness it yourself!
Sheku, we can’t wait! And SFCV, thanks for doing this interview.
Catch the full video: https://www.sfcv.org/videos/sfcv-presents-virtual-greenroom-sheku-kanneh-mason
#shekukannehmason #cello #cellist #cellorecital #classicalmusic #performingarts #bach #britten
Los Angeles Master Chorale is getting ready to sing some seriously beautiful stuff on Oct 28. 💕
#chorus #earlymusic #harmony #classicalmusic #performingarts #berkeley
UC Berkeley student Kimia Adibi shares why she loves the arts! Kimia is on our social media and PR teams, but we think she’d like the arts even if she didn’t work for Cal Performances. 😍
Facilitating the opportunity for students to see world-class performing arts on campus is something we're incredibly proud of. Different views and possibilities open up to all of us through the performing arts. ❤️
😱🔥 Brad Mehldau weaves so much together in his music—tunefulness and simplicity, abstraction and dense counterpoint.
Mehldau has entered the canon of great jazz piano trio leaders, and on Nov 11 is joined by longtime bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard for an evening of original compositions coupled with reimagined jazz standards.
Jazzwise got it right… “A marvel of contemporary jazz. The ever-empathic Mehldau trio…never stops fizzing with life.”
The LA times wrote that this work, Music to Accompany a Departure, is “art that makes you sad yet grateful for every minute of life.”
On Oct 28, Peter Sellars, Grant Gershon, and singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale reunite in a deeply personal meditation on what it means to say goodbye during times of struggle.
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3JMA1J9
#choir #lamasterchorale #earlymusic #choralmusic
Avi Avital is a mandolin rock star. ⭐️ He’s charted new territory on his instrument by playing an incredible variety of repertoire and collaborating with instruments and ensembles from all corners of the musical world!
On Oct 15, he performs with concert accordionist Hanzhi Wang , exploring repertoire by composers including Bach, Saint-Saëns, de Falla, Stravinsky, and Bartók, arranged for the duo’s unique instrumentation.
“Every plucked sound from Avital’s fingers…radiates warmth and dazzling light” (The Times, London).
This will be a true musical party! 🎉 🎶 🎹 🎻
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3pAXJRF
#accordion #mandolin #aviavital #music #classicalmusic #performingarts #ucberkeley
Jean Rondeau is not your average harpsichord player. He’s become known for his bold, unorthodox interpretations of well-known works that he coaxes from his famously demanding instrument of choice.
In November, Rondeau comes to Berkeley to play an artfully curated recital that is going to blow you away. It will be a true journey through the Baroque.
And don’t forget… Early Music? These are the original chart-toppers and head-bangers! These pieces are just as energy-generating as Shake It Off. At least… we think so. 😍🤘
Tickets: bit.ly/45hxQpv
Video credit:
Jean Rondeau plays Sonata K.141 in D minor, Domenico Scarlatti
Our newest blog post has landed! 5 Questions with Groundbreaking Pianist Michelle Cann! In this truly inspiring article, Cann explores her roles as artist, educator, and activist, and what it means to be successful.
Check it out: https://bit.ly/48iXOLp
Thank you Michelle for sharing so many beautiful insights with us! We can’t wait for your Oct 29 recital. 🎶 💕
Video credit: Cann plays Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47, recorded July 2020 at the Curtis Institute of Music
A master musical storyteller at just 24 years old, British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to Berkeley in his Cal Performances solo recital debut on Nov 1!
Kanneh-Mason skyrocketed to fame as the winner of the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition, and you may have caught him in his performance at Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding…!
Kanneh-Mason’s program includes staples by Bach, Britten, and Cassadó, alongside works composed especially for him by Welsh composer Gwilym Simcock, English composer Edmund Finnis, and Cuban composer Leo Brouwer.
Come bathe in the glory of cello sounds for a couple of hours. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3pAXK8b
Ps: Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins San Francisco Classical Voice writer Lev Mamuya for an hour-long conversation on Zoom on Oct 5 at 12pm. Register free: https://bit.ly/3PxDAFc
Video credit: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Isata Kanneh-Mason performing Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19 - II. Allegro scherzando
In April, darlings of the opera world, the wife and husband duo of soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati , grace the Zellerbach Hall stage with an evening of opera duets!
Both Pati and Edris were Adler Fellows in San Francisco Opera’s prestigious training program, and both have enjoyed career-launching star turns in major productions in recent years.
Here they're singing the famous Cherry Duet from L'amico Fritz by Pietro Mascagni. Their power, charisma and dramatic flair is 🎉😍!
Grab your tickets to what will be an extraordinary April evening: https://bit.ly/3pCvoul
#opera #operaduets #mascagni #cherryduet #soprano #tenor #singer #operasingers #performingarts #classicalmusic #berkeley
The charming animated French feature film The Triplets of Belleville swept the globe when it was released in movie theaters in 2003, raking up dozens of awards and nominations and attracting a cult following among film buffs.
Through music and images (and almost no dialogue), writer-director Sylvain Chomet tells a story of a caper involving American gangsters, Tour de France cyclists, and a trio of colorful vaudevillian sisters out to expose a crime ring. Composer Benoît Charest leads his eight-piece orchestra in a live version of his Oscar-nominated score, evoking the streets of 1920s Paris and “Le Jazz Hot” and featuring fun live sound effects to accompany the film.
“[A] bracing blend of silliness and sophistication…. It’s comic, touching and a visual knockout” (Rolling Stone).
🍿 🎥 🎶 🎫
Tickets: https://bit.ly/46GG6k3
