violin

Multiple competition winner, violinist Michelle Xiao You has been featured as a soloist with some of the finest symphonies in the world, including the Houston Symphony, the BBC Northern Symphony in Great Britain, the Central Philharmonic of China (now the National Orchestra of China), and many other fine orchestras, including the Sacramento Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Merced Symphony and the Auburn Symphony. Ms. You also has given recitals in the U.S.A., China and Europe to rave reviews.

• Larry Ochs, saxophones and compositions
• Dohee Lee, voice and percussion
• Scott Amendola, drums and electronics

Saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs is best known as a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet, which has been performing in the Bay Area and beyond for over thirty years. But he also likes to take his musical ideas and recontextualize them in other bands he either leads or collaborates with. One set of music is for the musical unit called Kihnoua. The music is influenced heavily by “the blues” in general and the blues of Korea – an ancient form of music called p’ansori – in particular. BUT what “influence” means here is that you’ll feel the spirit of that music; the actual forms and some of the sounds Ochs and his ensemble use to realize the music are often contemporary in origin.

• Susan Erickson, harpsichord
• Maquette Kuper, flute
• Robert Samson Bloch, violin
• Rejean Anderson, cello
• Ruth Onstadt, soprano

The California Baroque Ensemble is known for its extensive repertoire, including manuscripted cantatas and motets, copied from microfisch with instrumental parts researched and found in libraries in Europe. The CBE is open to creating singular programs in French, German, Italian and early English, concerts of varied repertoire or sacred works. Our repertoire also includes larger works with additional strings, recorder, and other instruments as needed. We have performed set pieces during sacred services, gallery events, wine receptions, client dinners, as well as weddings.

flute

• with
• Rachel Turner Houk, 'cello
• Lori Lack, piano

San Francisco Bay Area flutist Meerenai Shim will premiere a newly commissioned composition by Daniel Felsenfeld. She will also perform compositions from her recent album, Sometimes the City is Silent.

soprano

• with
• Miles Graber, piano

Kerstin Fischer, soprano, brings us songs from the British Isles, circa 1880 to 1991. Ms. Fischer can be heard regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in solo recital performance. In recent years she has devoted her musical study to the Art Song, or Lieder, genre, finding immense satisfaction with her role in the coordination and integration of composer, poet, accompanist and voice that is inherent in the form.

sarod

• with special guests

Lisa Sangita Moskow, virtuoso electric sarod player and East-West composer, will present an evening of imaginative creations with special guests from her ensembles. Sangita has been charting new territory with her music for 30 years, combining her long training with Ali Akbar Khan with modern sensibilities.

• Karen Stackpole, gongs, percussion
• Cornelius Boots, shakuhachi, taimu shakuhachi, throat vocals

Sabbaticus Rex is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of tone over time and thought. This process uses haunting and beautiful acoustic instruments and methods: overtone gongs, shakuhachi (bamboo Zen flutes), Taimu (bass) shakuhachi, and throat-singing. The group is completely acoustic; no electronics or amplification. This is sound, but not music. It is primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs: slowly shifting elemental improvisations from fat flutes and huge gongs, completely acoustic.