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2000-2003 Performances

• December 8, 2000
  with Ole Saxe

• February 10, 2001
  at Stanford University

• Spring 2001
  with Paul Dresher

• April 21, 2001
  with Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra

• April 27, 2001
  with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

• May 4 and 5, 2001
  with the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

• June 6-13, 2001
  at the Next Generation Festival

• October 4, 5, and 6, 2001
  with the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

• October 7, 2001
  with Ian Dogole

• March 23, 2002
  with Paul Dresher

• March 27, 2002
  with Paul Dresher

• April 3, 2002
  with Paul Dresher

• April 5, 2002
  with Paul Dresher

• April 12, 2002
  with Ian Dogole

• April 21, 2002
  with Redwood Symphony

• April 27, 2002
  with Jonathan Salzedo

• April 28, 2002
  with Ian Dogole and Jonathan Salzedo

• Next Generation Festival
  at the Next Generation Festival

• June 28, 2002
  at the Stanford Hospital

• June 29th, 2002
  at the Englander House Victorian Parlor Concerts

• June 30th, 2002
  at the Englander House Victorian Parlor Concerts

• August 17, 18, 24, & 25, 2002
  at the Utah Music Festival

• September 4, 2002
  at Stanford Hospital

• November, 2002
  with the Northwest Sinfonietta

• February 14, 2003
  at the Stanford Hospital

• February 15, 2003
  at the Englander House Victorian Parlor Concerts

• February 16, 2003
  with the Albany Consort

• February-March, 2003
  with the Paul Dresher Ensemble

• March 19, 2003
  live web cast with Electric Diamond

• May 24, 2003
  Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center

• May 25, 2003
  Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center

• October 26, 2003
  In recital at Lebanon Valley College

• November 23, 2003
  Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

See recent appearances

Friday, December 8, 2000, 8:00 P.M.
Karen Bentley and Ole Saxe
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto

Featuring the World Premiere Performance of

Suite for Solo Violin
By Ole Saxe

Composed especially for Karen Bentley
by Swedish composer Ole Saxe in 2000

Flamenco, Balkan Dance, Rhumba for Viola, Jig, Tango, Salsa for Karen

Introductory remarks by the composer.
Read composer's program notes.

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Also on the program
In celebration of Bach's 250th anniversary

Partita #2 in D minor,  BWV 1004
By Johann Sebastian Bach

A collection of dances from Europe:
Allemande,  Courante,  Sarabande, Giga, Ciaccona

Luminous Convergences
A Program of World Premiers

Karen recently joined forces with the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band and will be touring with them during March on the East Coast. This is their first local concert. See below for more information, and see www.dresherensemble.org for the complete 2001 concert schedule.

The Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band kicks off its seventh touring season with a fresh take on the sacred cow of chamber music -- the solo concerto. The mix includes three visionary composers -- Paul Dresher, Anthony Davis and Terry Riley -- two virtuoso soloists -- Terry Riley and Joan Jeanrenaud -- and the Ensemble's powerful hybrid of traditional acoustic instruments infused and transformed by the latest electronics.

 Read about
Paul Dresher's
upcoming
Ravenshead
concert. 

Boundaries between musical styles will crumble under a sonic flood drawn from the full range of musical expression, classical forms melding with world music, jazz idioms bouncing off new tonal walls, and masterful players meeting three of the most uncompromising musical voices in the world today.

Terry Riley, the archetypal alchemist of minimalism, will premiere his own playful Concerto for Piano and Electro-Acoustic Band, Banana Humberto 2000. Dancing on the border between notation and improvisation, the Concerto promises to delight, to fascinate and to groove. Anthony Davis, whose ensemble "Episteme" has explored his unique blend of jazz, world and classical music, has crafted a tour-de-force for the Ensemble and the phenomenally talented cellist Joan Jeanrenaud entitled Blue Funk into Darkness. Jeanrenaud, concentrating on her own musical vision as a solo artist following 20 legendary years with the Kronos Quartet, is the ideal soloist for Davis' blend of notated and improvised forms.

Paul Dresher, founder and Artistic Director of the Ensemble, continues his own exploration of musical potentialities with a work that takes his own groundbreaking compositional vision into new territory, including sampling of his own invented instruments. His own Cello Concerto, Unequal Distemperment, also featuring Jeanrenaud as soloist, grew out of Joan's interest in exploring performance with live electronics, the hallmark of both Dresher and the Ensemble players, and their mutual desire to create music together. Dresher, Davis and Riley share diverse visions in a common musical world. Experiencing all three works on the same concert program will move the audience in new and unexpected ways, as each disparate vision converges on the same time and place.

Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major
Karen Bentley, violin
William Whitson, Conductor

Franz Josef Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major

Also on the program: Arcangelo Corelli's Concerto Grosso in d minor, Op. 6, No. 10, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade No. 6 in D Major, K. 239, and George Gershwin's Lullaby.

Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major
Karen Bentley, violin
Fabrizio Ficiur, conductor

This concert features the American debut of
Italian conductor Fabrizio Ficiur.

Also on the program: Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony and
Giuseppe Tartini' Devil's Trill Sonata with Joseph Gold, violinist.

Presidio of San Francisco
Main Post Chapel
130 Fisher Loop

Uncommon Visions
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band
with Joan Jeanrenaud, cello soloist

Two concerti featuring former Kronos string quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud:

• Paul Dresher, Unequal Distemperament
  San Francisco Premiere
• Anthony Davis, Blue Funk into Darkness
  San Francisco Premiere

and

• John Luther Adams, The Light That Fills the World
  World Premiere, Revised Version
• Anthony Davis, A Walk Through the Shadow
  (transcribed by Mark Grey)
• Paul Dresher, Dark Blue Circumstance
• Paul Hanson, Pull of the Gold Rope

May 4 and 5, 2001 - 8:00 P.M.

The Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street @ Third Street
San Francisco

$20 general; $16 Students w/ID & Seniors 65 & over

For tickets, call 415-978-ARTS
(415-978-2787)

Presented in association with the American Composers Forum Bay Area Chapter

THE WITF-FM
NEXT GENERATION FESTIVAL 2001
CALENDAR OF EVENTS

June 6-7, Lebanon Valley College, Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Annville, PA

June 8,   York College of Pennsylvania, MAC Recital Hall, York, PA

June 11, Harrisburg Area Community College, Rose Lehrman Arts Center, Harrisburg, PA

June 12, Susquehanna University, Degenstein Theater, Selinsgrove, PA

June 13, Franklin and Marshall College, Barshinger Center for Musical Arts in Hensel Hall, Lancaster PA

June 11 - Next Generation Festival Children's Program, YWCA of Greater Harrisburg (not open to the public)

June 13 – Next Generation Festival Chamber Music Master Class, Millersville University, Millersville, PA  (open to the public, no tickets required)

ODC Theater presents

A Deep Dark Spoonful of New Music
And A Whole Lotta Pianos

Featuring the world premiere of Martin Bresnick's Fantasia (On a Theme of Willie Dixon) with pianist Lisa Moore, the world premiere of Lois V Vierk's Deep-water Waves, the San Francisco premiere of Terry Riley's four movement piano concerto Banana Humberto 2000 with Riley as soloist, and Paul Dresher's Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band with violinist Tracy Silverman.

The virtuoso musicians of Paul Dresher Ensemble are joined by three major contemporary music soloists for a program featuring works by two godfathers of contemporary composition, Terry Riley and Martin Bresnick, along with two works from their musical godchildren, Paul Dresher and Lois V Vierk.

Terry Riley, who defined minimalism with his seminal works In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, joins the ensemble as both composer and pianist in his first concerto, the playful, irreverent Banana Humberto 2000. Banana also features guest violin/violist Tracy Silverman (formerly of the Turtle Island String Quartet) and extraordinary bassoonist and Ensemble member Paul Hanson. This is a dream come true for Dresher, who hails Riley as both an inspiration and a mentor.

Martin Bresnick, himself an inspiration and teacher to some of today's most exciting young composers, has created his own piano concerto, Fantasia (On a Theme of Willie Dixon), for the Ensemble. An homage to the great blues bassist Willie Dixon, whose primal performances inspired the archetypal riffs of rock and roll, Bresnick's concerto will feature the amazing pianist Lisa Moore. Moore's work, as a soloist and as a charter member of the Bang on A Can All Stars and Speculum Musica, has been praised by critics world-wide.

Lois V Vierk's compositions evoke an esthetic that is rigorous, visceral and timeless. Her world premiere commission for the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Deep-water Waves, promises these qualities, coupled with the deceptively subtle power that has earned her compositions enthusiastic praise from critics and audiences world-wide.

Paul Dresher's Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band was originally composed for and premiered by the incomparable violinist David Abel, and continues to stand as one Dresher's most important works. As interpreted by soloist Tracy Silverman, this reprise promises to shed a new and different perspective on the work's two movements, Cage Machine and Chorale Times Two.

Tickets: $18 General, $14 Students/Seniors
Call: 415-863-9834, www.ticketweb.com, & Tix Bay Area in Union Square
See www.odctheater.org for more information.

Recital featuring violinist Karen Bentley
and multipercussionist Ian Dogole

Suite for Solo Violin by Ole Saxe
Composed especially for violinist Karen Bentley
by Swedish composer Ole Saxe in 2000

Dances include Flamenco, Balkan Dance, Rhumba for Viola, Jig, Tango, and Salsa for Karen

Multipercussionist Ian Dogole will join Karen Bentley on Salsa for Karen, plus works by Bela Bartók, a Finnish Tango, a unique rendition of the hardangerfele tune Fanitullen, and a solo improvisation on the Hang, Dogole's custom-built Swiss percussion instrument.

Donation: $10
Call 650-851-3376 for more information.

Directions to Henrik Ibsen Park:

From San Francisco, south on 280. Take Hwy 92 toward Half Moon Bay.
- Go to the top of the Mt. and turn left on Skyline Blvd.
- Go 5.9 miles down skyline.
- Henrik Ibsen Road is on the right hand side, next to the Mt. House Restaurant.
- Go down Henrik Ibsen Road, pass the Sons of Norway sign, till you come to a big clearing.
- Park on the right hand side in the open field.

From San Jose, north on 280. Take Woodside Road toward the mountains.
- You are now on 84.
- Very soon after the town of Woodside you will come to Kings Mt. Road on the right hand side.
- Go up Kings Mt. Road pass Huddart Park to the very top where it T-intersects into Skyline Blvd.
- Turn right on Skyline.
- About a mile on your left you will come to Henrik Ibsen Road next to Mt. House Restaurant.
- Go down Henrik Ibsen Road, pass the Sons of Norway sign, till you come to a big clearing.
- Park on the right hand side in the open field.

Electro-Acoustic Band Concert

With composer/pianist Terry Riley performing Riley's Banana Humberto 2000
and cello soloist Joan Jeanrenaud performing Dresher's cello concerto Unequal Distemperament

Electro-Acoustic Band Concert

With composer/pianist Terry Riley performing Riley's Banana Humberto 2000
and cello soloist Joan Jeanrenaud performing Dresher's cello concerto Unequal Distemperament

Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert's opera Ravenshead

Performed by Rinde Eckert and the
Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electro-Acoustic Band.

Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert's opera Ravenshead

Performed by Rinde Eckert and the
Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electro-Acoustic Band.

Englander House Victorian Parlor Concert Series Presents
Instruments from the Far Corners of the Globe

Featuring

Dance Suite for Solo Violin
Composed especially for violinist Karen Bentley
by Swedish composer Ole Saxe in 2000

Karen Bentley will perform the Dance Suite for Solo Violin by Swedish composer Ole Saxe, who will be present to introduce the 6 dances: Ziga, Jig for Alan, Rhumba for Viola,  Redhaired Tango, Flamenco, and Salsa for Karen, then join forces with percussionist Ian Dogole of Global Fusion to embark on a musical journey featuring a veritable United Nations of instruments.

Ian Dogole
biography

Karen Bentley  Violin, Viola, Hardingfele (Norwegian fiddle)
Ian Dogole  Multipercussionist on Udu (Nigerian clay pot), Mbira (African thumb piano), African talking drum, Dumbek (Middle Eastern goblet drum), Doira, Cajon (Peruvian box drum), Remo Mondo drum

Violinist/violist Karen Bentley and multipercussionist Ian Dogole possess a far-reaching musical vision, traversing the realms of Bach, Bartok and Brahms, segueing seamlessly into free improvisation, morphing into Finnish tango and then onto Corea, Gershwin and Monk by way of a Danish salsa. Never constrained by preexisting formulas, their musical adventures transport listeners to previously uncharted musical landscapes. It's an aural/visual feast for the senses.

The Setting

The Englander House is one of the grandest and most original of the surviving Victorians in San Francisco. Built in 1880, this four story 7,500 square foot home is still illuminated with live gasoliers, including one used as a prop in the 1942 classic film "Gaslight," starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and a very young Angela Lansbury.

Guests may view the extensive collection of museum quality furniture and decorative arts from the period 1865 through 1895, including the following examples made by the premiere New York furniture makers to the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age:  Herter Bros. (for the family of financier J. Pierpont Morgan and California railroad owner and Senator, Milton Latham); Pottier & Stymus (for James Flood, "Silver Baron of the Comstock Lode"); and the firm of Alexander Roux. Original furnishings of the home include a twelve feet tall 24-karat gold gilt pier mirror with matching window cornice, purchased from Hausman Brothers of San Francisco circa 1880.

Redwood Symphony presents

Read the composer's program notes for
the solo version,
Dance Suite for
Solo Violin.

Carnival!
featuring the world premiere of
Ole Saxe's Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra
with Karen Bentley, violinist

Also on the program: Shakespeare in Love Suite (Warbeck); Circus Polka (Stravinsky); and Till Eulenspiegel (Strauss)

Arts at St. Bede's presents

Karen Bentley, violin
and Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
romp through the centuries with
music by Bach, Biber, and Scarlatti
new works by Ole Saxe and Gunther Tautenhahn
improvisations on the Ancient Romanesca
and Frank Zappa's favorite tango.

Benefit Concert for the Pacifica Foundation/
Free Speech Radio Network
Sponsored by Mid-Peninsula for KPFA & Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Karen Bentley  Violin, Viola, Hardingfele (Norwegian fiddle)
Ian Dogole  Multipercussionist on Udu (Nigerian clay pot), Mbira (African thumb piano), African talking drum, Dumbek (Middle Eastern goblet drum), hang (Swiss hybrid instrument)
Jonathan Salzedo  Harpsichord

Karen Bentley, Ian Dogole, and Jonathan Salzedo will join their diverse talents and the sounds of a veritable United Nations of instruments to take you on a unique musical journey. A program of solos, duos, and trios spans the ages, ranging from Romanesca Variations to Baroque works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, J.S.Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti. From these masters of the Baroque, their music transitions seamlessly into free improvisations, which metamorphose into a Finnish tango by way of a Swedish salsa.

* "...a very live wood room." K. Bentley

June 5-12, 2002
at the Next Generation Festival

THE WITF-FM
NEXT GENERATION FESTIVAL 2002
CALENDAR OF EVENTS

June 5 and 6 at the Zimmerman Recital Hall, Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville

June 7 in the MAC Recital Hall, York College of Pennsylvania, York

June 10 at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg

June 11 at Degenstein Theater, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove

June 12 in the Barshinger Center for Musical Arts, Hensel Hall, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster

Bing Music Series Presents
Karen Bentley and Pianist Dmitriy Cogan

Amy Beach's Violin Sonata and Invocation

Free admission.

Englander House Victorian Parlor Concert Series Presents
Karen Bentley and Pianist Dmitriy Cogan

Sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Amy Marcy Cheney Beach

Englander House Victorian Parlor Concert Series Presents
Orchestral Favorites of the Victorian Age III

Karen Bentley, Geoffrey Gallegos and Kenneth Raskin conduct Saint Saëns' Carnival of the Animals and works by Beethoven and Ernst with soloists Karen Bentley, violin, Joseph Gold, violin, and Seth Montfort and Brent Smith, duo pianists.

The Setting

The Englander House is one of the grandest and most original of the surviving Victorians in San Francisco. Built in 1880, this four story 7,500 square foot home is still illuminated with live gasoliers, including one used as a prop in the 1942 classic film "Gaslight," starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and a very young Angela Lansbury.

Guests may view the extensive collection of museum quality furniture and decorative arts from the period 1865 through 1895, including the following examples made by the premiere New York furniture makers to the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age:  Herter Bros. (for the family of financier J. Pierpont Morgan and California railroad owner and Senator, Milton Latham); Pottier & Stymus (for James Flood, "Silver Baron of the Comstock Lode"); and the firm of Alexander Roux. Original furnishings of the home include a twelve feet tall 24-karat gold gilt pier mirror with matching window cornice, purchased from Hausman Brothers of San Francisco circa 1880.

Utah Music Festival

Click here for info.

Bing Music Series Presents
Karen Bentley and Pianist Dmitriy Cogan

Featuring violin/piano duets by Brahms, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Free admission.

Karen appeared as guest concertmaster with the
Northwest Sinfonietta at their November concerts.

Bing Music Series Presents

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Karen Bentley, violin
Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
Amy Brodo, cello

Free admission.

Englander House Victorian Parlor Concert Series Presents
Albany Consort and Karen Bentley, violinist

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

The Setting

The Englander House is one of the grandest and most original of the surviving Victorians in San Francisco. Built in 1880, this four story 7,500 square foot home is still illuminated with live gasoliers, including one used as a prop in the 1942 classic film "Gaslight," starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and a very young Angela Lansbury.

Guests may view the extensive collection of museum quality furniture and decorative arts from the period 1865 through 1895, including the following examples made by the premiere New York furniture makers to the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age:  Herter Bros. (for the family of financier J. Pierpont Morgan and California railroad owner and Senator, Milton Latham); Pottier & Stymus (for James Flood, "Silver Baron of the Comstock Lode"); and the firm of Alexander Roux. Original furnishings of the home include a twelve feet tall 24-karat gold gilt pier mirror with matching window cornice, purchased from Hausman Brothers of San Francisco circa 1880.

For a map showing the location of The Englander House Victorian Mansion, go to:
aolsvc.kw.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/music/venuemap.adp?vid=179063
Our complete schedule is always listed at SF Classical Voice at www.sfcv.org
     Just click on Calendar and select month.

Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at door.

Prepaid tickets held at door.
Tickets at door on first come/space available basis, 30 minutes before concert time.

Program subject to change.

For reservations, send phone number or e-mail address and check payable to:

San Francisco Concerto Orchestra
807 Franklin St.                                                
San Francisco, CA  94102           

Information, call 415-362-6080                                                                     
To get on the Email List: englanderh@aol.com
For all e-mail responses, please put "Englander House" in the subject line.

Ensign Street Concerts
With the Albany Consort

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Read a review
by Paul Hertelendy
of artssf.com

Wired Strings
New (and Old) Music from Russia and America

A festival of seven concerts, featuring
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello and Tatiana Grindenko, violin

Performances of Ensemble commissioned works by young Russian composers, young American composers Mark Grey and Keeril Makan, the premiere of Dresher's completed concerto Unequal Distemperament, featuring cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, and performances of Russian and American new music by the incredible Russian new music Ensemble Opus Posth, including a work by Vladimir Martynov for both groups.

Also see the Paul Dresher Ensemble web site.

 Read a review
by John Foxworthy

 Another review
by William Ashley Cooper

 And another review
by Howard Moscovitz

Web cast details available here.

Electric Diamond is Don Slepian, Stuart Diamond, and Karen Bentley.

Also see the Electric Diamond web site.

Violinist Karen Bentley and soprano Victoria Gydov join forces with the Seattle band Men in Black to perform tangos by Astor Piazzola, Anibal Troilo, Agustin Bardi, Horacio Salgan, Alfredo de Angelis, Julio de Caro, Ricardo L. Brignolo, Carlos Marcucci and Hector Stamponi.

See www.nwfolklife.org  for more information.

Sunday, May 25, 2003
Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center
Fisher Pavilion
5:00 - 5:50 P.M.

Violinist Karen Bentley performs with the Valse Cafe Orchestra alongside Phil and Vivian Williams and others. Bring your dancing shoes!

See www.nwfolklife.org  for more information.

Amy Beach: Invocation
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata #10 in G Major, Opus 96
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Opus 100
William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost Rag

Free admission

Zimmermann Recital Hall is adjacent to the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery on White Oak Street (Route 934) in Annville, Pennsylvania. Arrive early to view the current exhibit! (See below.)

Violinist Karen Bentley returns to the Bay Area to join forces with pianist Dmitriy Cogan in a program of romantic American music by Currier & Ives, Corigliano & Beach plus a world premiere by Swedish composer Ole Saxe. Amy Beach's intensely lyrical Invocation will segue into Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano, an early work which received the chamber music prize at the 1964 Spoleto Festival Competition. Audiences who were treated to Ole Saxe's virtuosic Dance Suite for Violin/Viola and Orchestra, premiered in April, 2002 by Redwood Symphony, will be thrilled by his passionate Tango Orientale for Viola and Piano. New York composer Sebastian Currier depicts eerie clock-like music in his Clockwork for Violin and Piano, a work championed by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter with pianist Lambert Orkis. To commemorate the 50th year of Charles Ives's death, his Second Sonata for Violin and Piano with its hymns and fiddle tunes will conclude the musical offerings.

www.bachddsoc.org