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Our Winter concert:

Composers and Friends

Featuring S.F. Bay NACUSA composers and friends

FRIDAY March 6, 2009
at 8 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center

Embarcadero and Newell, Palo Alto

Composers and Friends
Hubert Ho      Study No. 1, for piano and electronics
Dale Victorine      I Love You Much, for soprano and piano
Sondra Clark      Still Waters, for viola and piano
Nurit Barlev      Eastern Fantasy, for flute and piano
Intermission
Monica Lynn      Le Synchronisme, for harp
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Victoria Who?, for 2 sopranos, baritone and piano
Michael Kimbell      Rondino scherzando, for e-flat clarinet

Admission: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 293-2765.
Tickets available at the door


Our Mid-Spring concert:

Composers and Friends II

Featuring S.F. Bay NACUSA composers and friends

Sunday, April 26, 2009
at 3 p.m.
Foothill Presbyterian Church

5301 McKee Rd, San Jose 95127

Composers and Friends II
Carolyn Hawley      Nocturnes No. 3, No. 1, for piano
Simon Bokman      The Puppet Show (Prologue), for mezzo-soprano and piano
L. Peter Deutsch      Sunset at Montélimar, for flute, cello and piano
Monica Lynn      Ye Xiang Gu, for Gu-zheng and percussion
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Two Pieces for Piano
Intermission
Mark Behm      Rainforest, for piano
John G. Bilotta      Madison Sketchbook, set 1, for piano
Karl Schmidt      Three Spirituals, for clarinet quartet
Liam Wade      Silver Apples, for soprano and piano

Admission: free; optional donation requested at the door
For more information call (408) 293-2765.


Our Late Spring concert:

The Avenue Winds

Saturday June 6, 2009
at 8 p.m.
Valley Presbyterian Church

Portola Valley

The Avenue Winds
Wind Quintet
Dale Victorine      Two Mountain Scenes
John Beeman      Adagio
Brian Bice      Visions of a Landscape
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Woodwind Quintet No.1
Greg Steinke      Wind River Country
Sondra Clark      Postcards from Yosemite
Intermission
Stan McDaniel      Across the River
Anne Baldwin      Wind Quintet No. 1
Robert Stine      Allegretto
L. Peter Deutsch      Love in the Afternoon
Adrienne Albert      Animalogy

Admission: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 293-2765.
Tickets available at the door


Our Fall concert:

Composers Performance Ensemble

Featuring:

Monika Gruber
violin
 Kris Yenney
cello
Chin Beckman, Davide Verotta, Libby Kardontchik
piano
Ellen Ruth Rose
viola
 Karen Wells
clarinet
Diana Tucker
flute and alto sax
 Kathleen Nitz Kasdorf
soprano voice

Saturday November 14, 2009
at 8 p.m.
Valley Presbyterian Church

Portola Valley

Composers Performance Ensemble
David van Gilluwe      Concepts, 1st movement
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Two Songs of Love and Sorrow
Robert Stine      Deep Field
Anne Baldwin      Wind and Rain, from Autumnal Suite
Sharon Ruchman      Piece for Cello and Piano
William Jason Raynovich      into a truly
Jean Ahn      Froggy Froggy
Intermission
Stephen Spies, winner,
NACUSAsf 2009
Student Composer Competition
 
    Tearing Apart
John Bilotta      Petroushka Dreams
Clifton Callender      Metamorphoses II
Evan Mack      Three Songs from Dream of Freedom
Adrienne Albert      Ode to Piazzola from Musescapes

Admission: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 293-2765.
Tickets available at the door