Upcoming concerts
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is putting on hundreds of concerts as part of its season-long centennial celebration. Here are some highlights (all shows are at the conservatory, except where noted):
Community Concert, Nov. 7: The celebrated Kronos Quartet performs with chamber and orchestral musicians from three San Francisco schools — School of the Arts, Lowell High and the conservatory — playing works by Wu Man, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Rhiannon Giddens and others.
Historical Concert, Nov. 11-12: Corey Jamason, a specialist in Bach and American music theater who chairs SFCM’s Historical Performance department, conducts the Theatre Comique Conservatory Orchestra in “unknown masterpieces” by the operettawriting master Victor Herbert and the young Jerome Kern.
Chamber Music, Dec. 9: The conservatory’s shining ensemblein-residence, the Telegraph Quartet, three of them from the Class of ’12, performs the program that won it a prestigious Naumburg Competition award last year. The quartet plays Carnegie Hall in February.
Roots, Jazz and American Music, Jan. 31: That’s the name of the new program at the conservatory taught by artists performing at this concert, among them such superlative players as guitarist Julian Lage and members of the SFJazz Collective on the SFCM faculty, including bassist Matt Penman, pianist Edward Simon and vibraphonist Warren Wolf. They perform with their students.
New Music Ensemble, Feb. 3, 2018: Nicole Paiement conducts the SFCM ensemble in performances of Schoenberg’s 1906 Chamber Symphony No. 1 and a work it inspired, “Chamber Symphony,” a 1992 piece by John Adams, who directed the New Music Ensemble in the ’70s.
Sunday with the Sopranos, Feb. 25, 2018, Nourse Theater: Three stellar operatic sopranos, Patricia Racette, Frederica von Stade and current SFCM faculty member Deborah Voight, come together with a few special guests to make and talk about music.