Attuned: A Non-Concert Experience is the Bay AreaÕs new and unique invitation to the world of Classical music. Curated by sister ensembles Agave Baroque and Sylvestris Quartet in collaboration with the California Jazz Conservatory, each program invites you to enjoy a cabaret-style show along with a multimedia experience and narration that brings you the stories behind the music. San FranciscoÕs gut-string era Sylvestris Quartet presents "BrahmsÕs Library," an exploration of the amazingly diverse influences of the iconoclastic 19th century composer Johannes Brahms. Brahms reached back into the late 16th and17th centuries for influence, and this program explores as far back as the Venetian polychoral master composer Giovanni Gabrieli, his student, Heinrich SchŸtz, who brought the style north to the German speaking countries, the oft-copied JS Bach, Franz Schubert, a raucous Hungarian dance set, and of course, lots of wonderful Brahms! Movements from Brahms's Op...
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Attuned: A Non-Concert Experience is the Bay AreaÕs new and unique invitation to the world of Classical music. Curated by sister ensembles Agave Baroque and Sylvestris Quartet in collaboration with the California Jazz Conservatory, each program invites you to enjoy a cabaret-style show along with a multimedia experience and narration that brings you the stories behind the music. San FranciscoÕs gut-string era Sylvestris Quartet presents "BrahmsÕs Library," an exploration of the amazingly diverse influences of the iconoclastic 19th century composer Johannes Brahms. Brahms reached back into the late 16th and17th centuries for influence, and this program explores as far back as the Venetian polychoral master composer Giovanni Gabrieli, his student, Heinrich SchŸtz, who brought the style north to the German speaking countries, the oft-copied JS Bach, Franz Schubert, a raucous Hungarian dance set, and of course, lots of wonderful Brahms! Movements from Brahms's Op. 51, nos. 1 and 2 quartets, an early organ fugue, and a late motet. And, all on gut strings! Band Members and Instrumentation: Anna Washburn and Tyler Lewis, violins; Aaron Westman, viola; Gretchen Claassen, cello. Sylvestris Quartet is the San Francisco Bay AreaÕs new historically informed string quartet, performing music from the entire Ògut-string eraÓÉ that is, from the 17th century up through World War II (and beyond). Sylvestris in known for programming that explores the cyclical nature of music, looking forward through the veil of history. Violinists Anna Washburn and Tyler Lewis, violist Aaron Westman, and cellist Gretchen Claassen play with many of the nationÕs leading period instrument ensembles, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Agave Baroque, and hold degrees from Juilliard, Indiana University School of Music, Boston University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Now in their third season together, Sylvestris just released their debut album The Good Song, FaurŽ in the 1890s featuring baritone Harry Baechtel of Portland State University, pianist Michael Seregow of Ball State University, and an incredibly beautiful 1869 ƒrard piano. Recently, the quartet has performed on IntermusicSFÕs Chamber Music Day and Presidio Sessions, Barefoot Chamber Concerts, at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, Pacific Music Works Underground (Seattle), Westhaven Center for the Arts (Trinidad), Resonance and Fifth Street Farms series in Berkeley, as well as a live performance for a studio audience on 89.9 FM ÒAll-Classical Portland. The quartet was in residence at the 2018 Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, where they accompanied two operas and performed with pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg and soprano Jennifer McGregor. They will return for the 2019 Festival.
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