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Luis Peralta Quartet at Bird & Beckett Books and Records

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Posted by Laura Yanow on May 19, 2023

Where

Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 586-3733

Luis Peralta Quartet at Bird & Beckett Books and Records

When

Fri, June 2, 2023
9:00 pm

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Musicians

About

Pianist Luis Manuel Gonzalez Peralta hails from Oakland, California. He began playing the piano when he was seven years old, learning to play the second movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata just a few months after his first lesson. The son of a Xicana punk drummer and a Mexican national, Luis Manuel follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, pianist Alfonzo Rojo Gonzales, and is drawn to Latin, jazz, and classical music. In 2017 he performed Alex Conde’s Concierto Para Piano Flamenco y Orquesta as a soloist with the Oakland Youth Orchestra. In 2019, Luis was awarded a full scholarship to study piano at the New School. He has studied with and performed with Bay Area figures such as Howard Wiley and Marcus Shelby. Currently, he studies with pianists Sullivan Fortner and John McCarthy....

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Concert Schedule

Jun 2 Fri
Stream

$20

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