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2000-2006 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

• January 9, 2004
  Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto CA (12:30 P.M.)
  Hillside Concerts, Berkeley (8 P.M.)

• January 10-11, 2004
  Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Santa Cruz CA

• February 13-15, 2004
  Seattle Chamber Players Baltic Festival, Seattle WA

• February 20, 2004
  Washington Composers Forum, Seattle WA

• March 26, 2004
  Four Horizons, Annville PA

• March 27, 2004
  Four Horizons, Philadelphia PA

• May 2, 2004
  Allen Theatre, Annville PA

• June 11, 2004
  Global Fusion Music, Mill Valley CA

• June 13, 2004
  With Redwood Symphony, San Mateo CA

• October 17, 2004
  in Birmingham, Alabama

• October 29, 2004
  in San Francisco

• November 7, 2004
  in Santa Anna, California

• November 12, 2004
  at Carnegie Hall

• November 17 & 18, 2004
  in San Francisco, California

• January 9, 2005
  in Seattle, Washington

• March 20, 2005
  in Haverford, Pennsylvania

• April 6 and 7, 2005 -- Music for Peace Program
  in Birmingham, Alabama

• May 19 & 20, 2005
  in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• September 11, 2005
  in Sonoma, California

• October 9, 2005
  with the Alabama Symphony

• November 5, 2005
  in Huntsville, Alabama

• February 3-6, 2006
  in Seattle, Washington

• February 11, 2006
  in Kirkland, Washington

• February 12, 2006
  in Seattle Washington

• February 27, 2006
  in Birmingham, Alabama

• March 31 - April 1, 2006
  in San Francisco

• May 2-7, 2006
  in Cleveland, Ohio

• May 27, 2006
  in Rome, Italy

• May 31, 2006
  in Rome, Italy

• August 4-6, 2006
  in Birmingham, Alabama

• September 13, 2006
  San Antonio, Texas

• September 15, 2006
  San Antonio, Texas

• November 16 and 18, 2006
  in New York

• December 1-2, 2006
  in San Francisco

• March 6, 2007
  in Birmingham

• March 23, 2007
  in Palo Alto, California

• March 25, 2007
  in San Mateo, California

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

Palo Alto, California
12:30 P.M. Friday, January 9
Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto

Bing Concert Series

Free admission

Berkeley, California
8 P.M. Friday, January 9
Bob Cowart's Residence

Hillside Concerts

The first half of this concert features the music of Bach and Telemann: the harpsichord is ever-present, fulfilling its role as the foundation of the ensemble. The second half features music of the twentieth century: the harpsichord has come of age, not an archaic curiosity, but a brilliant and vital instrument. Don't miss the Jan Hanus Partita Pastorale with traditional Baroque instrumentation or the Manuel De Falla Concerto for Harpsichord, with echoes of old Spain. The musicians are all Baroque specialists who are also well versed in 20th century techniques.

Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
Lars Johannesson, flute
Carol Panofsky, oboe, recorder, and director
Mark Sowlakis, clarinet
Karen Bentley, violin
Amy Brodo, cello

By Invitation Only
Donation: $15
www.cowart.com/concerts

Santa Cruz, California
8 P.M. Saturday, January 10
3 P.M. Sunday, January 11
Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos

The first half of this concert features the music of Bach and Telemann: the harpsichord is ever-present, fulfilling its role as the foundation of the ensemble. The second half features music of the twentieth century: the harpsichord has come of age, not an archaic curiosity, but a brilliant and vital instrument. Don't miss the Jan Hanus Partita Pastorale with traditional Baroque instrumentation or the Manuel De Falla Concerto for Harpsichord, with echoes of old Spain. The musicians are all Baroque specialists who are also well versed in 20th century techniques.

Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
Lars Johannesson, flute
Carol Panofsky, oboe, recorder, and director
Mark Sowlakis, clarinet
Karen Bentley, violin
Amy Brodo, cello

Tickets: $15 general admission / $13 senior / $10 student
(831) 425-3149
www.scchamberplayers.org

Directions:
From 17 south, Take 1 south towards Monterey, Go 4.7 miles
Take the Park Avenue exit towards Cabrillo College, Go 0.2 miles
Turn left on Park Avenue, Go 0.4 miles
Turn left on Soquel Drive, Go 0.1 mile

ICEBREAKER II: MUSIC OF THE BALTIC SEA
Festival of New Music By Contemporary Composers
From the Countries of the Baltic Region

Concert 1: Friday, February 13, 2004 -- 8 P.M.

• Uljas Pulkkis (1975) Djinni (2002) for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano
• Dieter Schnebel (1930) Auguri (Pieces #3, 4 and Epilogue) (1992) for piano
• Onutė Narbutaitė (1956) Winter Serenade (1997) for flute, violin, and viola
• Pär Lindgren (1952) Beep-Ooh (1995) for clarinet and percussion
• Kaija Saariaho (1952) Terrestre (2002) for flute, percussion, harp, violin, and cello
• Georgs Pelecis (1947) Music on the Grass (1995) for flute, violin, viola, cello, and bassoon
• Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959) Fata Morgana (2002) for violin, cello, and piano

Concert 2: Saturday, February 14, 2004 -- 2 P.M.

• Remigijus Merkelys (1964) MiKonst (2000) for string quartet and piano
• Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928) Cello and piano work to be determined
• Krzysztof Knittel (1947) Trio for optional melodic instruments (2001) (for clarinet, flute, percussion)
• Wiesław Rentowski (1953) Lake Charles Variations (1990) for prepared piano
• Anders Nilsson (1954) Divertimento (1991) for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
• Alexandr Popov (1957) Hortus Conclusus (2002) for violin, viola, and cello
  
  Choral Music with participation of Seattle Pro Musica
• Pēteris Vasks (1946) Plainscapes (2001) for choir, violin, and cello
• Arvo Pärt (1935) Magnificat (1989)
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933) Amen (1975)
• Vaclovas Augustinas (1959) Trepute Martela (1994) for choir and four melodic instruments

Concert 3: Sunday, February 15, 2004 -- 7 P.M.

• Ester Mägi (1922) A tre (1991) for violin, cello, and guitar
• Bronius Katavičius (1932) Cranes' Dances (1989) for clarinet and two pianos
• Per Nørgård (1932) Serenita (1996) for guitar
• Peter Bruun (1968) Heaven and Earth (1996) for flute, clarinet, percussion, guitar, violin, cello, and celesta
• Poul Ruders (1949) De Profundis (1990) for two pianos and percussion
• Helena Tulve (1972) Island (1993) for violin and clarinet
• Raimo Kangro (1949-2001) Idioms (1992) for flute, violin, and guitar
• Ivan Sokolov Russia - Farewell Music (2004) (World Premiere) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

Seattle, Washington
8 P.M.
Frye Art Museum Auditorium
704 Terry Avenue

Washington Composers Forum
presents

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dmitriy Cogan, piano

Lawrence Frank: Prelude and Fugue and Reflections on a Jewish Holiday
Donald Skirvin: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Melissa Maier: looking back
Sebastian Currier: Clockwork for Violin and Piano
Benedikt Brydern: From My Notebook Vol. I and Sonata Montuno
Derek Healey: Four Preludes on Latino Religious Songs

Born in Moscow in 1963, pianist Dmitriy Cogan began his music studies at the age of six at the Central Music School in Moscow. In 1974, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in San Francisco. He studied conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and continued his piano studies with Vladimir Pleshakov and Maria Cysic. In 1979, he moved to New York to study with Martin Canin at the Juilliard School, where he received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. He has performed publicly since age nine in Moscow. His American debut was in 1975 with the Peninsula Symphony in San Mateo, California. In 1976, he won the Junior Bach Festival in Berkeley: his recitals in the San Francisco Bay Area have been favorably reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. Since 1980, he has appeared in numerous solo and chamber music concerts in the New York area. In 1981, he was prizewinner at the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in New York; in 1982 won first prize at the American Music Scholarship Association International Piano competition in Cincinnati; in 1983 he was a laureate of the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland. Cogan gave his New York recital debut in October 1988 at Carnegie Hall to favorable reviews, and has appeared in recitals throughout the Northeast and California. He has also toured in France twice, performing in Paris, Nice, and other cities to enthusiastic reviews, and was laureate of the Jose Iturbi International Piano competition in Valencia, Spain. He toured Russia in 1993 and again in 1997, giving a series of concerts in Moscow, including the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and in other cities, playing to capacity audiences. Since 1985, he has also performed throughout North America and Asia with violinist Alexander Markov; their first compact disc was released worldwide on the Erato label. Dmitriy Cogan currently lives near San Francisco. He has often performed with violinist Philip Quint throughout California in recent years.

Washington Composers Forum (WCF) is a non-profit arts organization that nurtures the creation, performance, and dissemination of new music. WCF presents opportunities in Washington State for composers everywhere. Since its founding in 1984 WCF has produced concerts, readings, and lectures in the U.S. and Canada, representing many composers in the region. Attracting strong interest from the public, WCF has received sustained funding from the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Cultural Development Authority of King County/Motel Hotel Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, Seafirst Bank Corporation, Meet The Composer, and generous donations from the private sector. WCF has collaborated with such organizations as the Seattle Art Museum, Town Hall, Jack Straw Productions, Richard Hugo House, Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Creative Orchestra, Northwest Mahler Festival, Seattle Viola Society, and many ensembles.

$15 general admission, $10 for students, seniors, and WCF members.
Tickets are available at the door or by contacting the WCF at
(206) 985-7003 or orange@seanet.com. Cash or checks are accepted.
Free parking is available.

For more information visit www.washingtoncomposers.org.

Charles Abramovic piano
Allison Herz clarinet
Karen Bentley Pollick violin
Michal Schmidt cello

Program:

Across the Horizons World premiere by Jay Reise
Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Béla Bartók
Sonata: Portraits of Antiquity for Cello and Piano by Richard Wernick
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 5 by Alban Berg
Dance Card Suite for Violin and Cello by Scott Eggert

Charles Abramovic piano
Allison Herz clarinet
Karen Bentley Pollick violin
Michal Schmidt cello

Program:

Across the Horizons World premiere by Jay Reise
Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Béla Bartók
Sonata: Portraits of Antiquity for Cello and Piano by Richard Wernick
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 5 by Alban Berg
Dance Card Suite for Violin and Cello by Scott Eggert

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin, viola and hardangerfele
Karen Savage, piano

A kaleidoscopic musical journey from Beethoven's Spring Sonata and Charles Ives' Sonata No. 2 with American hymn and fiddle tunes to Swedish composer Ole Saxe's Tango Orientale for Viola and Piano, a Finnish Tango, and a Norwegian folk fiddle tune

Karen Hsiao Savage, of Victoria, British Columbia is active as a collaborative pianist, performing frequently with both singers and instrumentalists. Recent performances include those in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Shanghai Grand Theatre. Ms. Savage has also served as collaborative pianist with the Perlman Music Program in New York and Shanghai. Dedicated to community outreach and education, Ms. Savage performed frequently at health care facilities in New York through Juilliard's Community Service Fellowship Program, and performed at Inside Chamber Music at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  The recipient of many awards, including the Music Academy of the West Alumni Fellowship, the Carl Roeder Memorial Prize, the David Garvey Scholarship, the Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Scholarship, Ms. Savage was selected twice to perform in Juilliard's Vocal Arts Honors Recital in Alice Tully Hall. Ms. Savage holds master of music degrees in both solo and collaborative piano from The Juilliard School, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Juilliard and an adjunct faculty member at Lebanon Valley College.

"Breathtaking lyricism and pure beauty, in a fireworks display of technique and emotion. She did not hesitate to give her body and soul to Beethoven's fourth concerto."
     --Le Soleil, Vancouver

"Tour de force"
          Santa Barbara News-Press

Tickets: $15 suggested donation
Available at the Allen Theatre, 717-867-4766
or call 717-273-7154 for more information.

Mill Valley, California
Mount Tamalpias United Methodist Church
8 P.M.
410 Sycamore Avenue (at Camino Alto)

Ian Dogole, Karen Bentley Pollick and Moses Sedler in Concert

Ian Dogole, Karen Bentley Pollick and Moses Sedler collaborate to present a one-of-a-kind musical experience that traverses a myriad of genres and styles. Compositions by Bach, Bartók, Brahms, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, Ole Saxe, plus an assortment of original pieces will be performed. The confluence of classical, jazz and "world" influences, coupled with the high energy and inventiveness of the performers make this a concert not to be missed!

Ian Dogole udu, mbira, hang, dumbek & talking drum
Karen Bentley Pollick violin, viola
Moses Sedler cello

Tickets: Adults $20 ($15 in advance), Senior/Student $15 at door
For advance tickets, send a check to Global Fusion Music, 315 Durant Way, Mill Valley, CA 94941.
(Advance tickets will be listed on will-call list at the door.)

Read a preview
from
The Independent
 

Violinist Karen Bentley appears with Redwood Symphony performing
music from John Corigliano's The Red Violin.

This concert also features Olivier Messiaen's Un Sourire and
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, featuring Schola Cantorum.

Pre-concert lecture at 2 P.M.

Tickets: Adult $20 ($18 in advance), Child $12
Buy tickets online at Redwood Symphony's web site
or call 650-366-6872 for more information.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Adam Bowles, piano

• Ludwig van Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata No. 9 in A major for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
• Ole Saxe Salsa for Karen
• Fanitullen for Norwegian hardangerfele
• Arnold Schoenberg Phantasy for Violin with Piano accompaniment, Op. 47
• Charles Ives Second Sonata for Violin and Piano

Adam Bowles is becoming increasingly active on the contemporary art music scene. He is a member of the new music ensemble Luna Nova, which performs a wide variety of works ranging from twentieth century classics to new works by emerging composers. This ensemble was formed at the Associated Colleges of the South New Music Festival in Georgetown, Texas in the summer of 2003. Mr. Bowles also performs frequently as a part of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Artburst, and similar venues for new music. Mr. Bowles is a native of Los Angeles who is nearing completion of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music and received his Master of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music. His main teachers have been Milton Stern, Barry Snyder, Jacob Maxin, and Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff. He has also received periodic coaching with Richard Goode, Malcolm Bilson, and Seymour Lipkin.

During graduate studies Mr. Bowles held assistantships in vocal and instrumental accompanying for three years and performed numerous solo and chamber music recitals around the Cincinnati area. Mr. Bowles was also on the faculty of the Preparatory Department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he had served as coordinator of its Chamber Music Program. He is now an instructor on the Birmingham-Southern College Conservatory faculty where he teaches the two highest levels of music theory in addition to maintaining a studio of private students. At the college level he teaches Accompanying and both years of Keyboard Harmony for music majors, and he frequently collaborates in recital with both students and faculty at BSC.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin, viola and hardangerfele
Ian Dogole, percussion
Moses Sedler, cello
with special guest Lebanese poet Elias Abu Saba reading from his recent works in Arabic and English

New York composer Neil Rolnick will join Karen Bentley Pollick in a performance of his dynamic composition Fiddle Faddle for solo violin and computer and share his computer effects processing in a riveting finale with the trio.

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.

Here's a map showing the location of The Englander House Victorian Mansion.

Tickets: $15 at the door
RSVP at englanderh@aol.com attention: RSVP, or 415-362-6080

Karen will perform selections from her CD Dancing Suite to Suite, recently nominated in the Best Classical Soloist Album Category, and then collaborate with Kourosh Zolani on santour and Julianne Markavitch on piano playing Isaac Albeniz' Asturias.

Tickets: Call 714-957-0600 or click here

This concert is part of IN YOUR EAR, a weekend festival curated by John Adams.

Paul Dresher Ensemble

• Violin Concerto (Cage Machine & Chorale Times Two)
• Din of Iniquity
• In the Nameless (Duo for Quadrachord & Marimba Lumina)
• "Racer" (from Elapsed Time)
• Double Ikat Part Two

Tickets: $20 - $30

Paul Dresher Ensemble

Featuring world premieres by Ingraham Marshall, James Moberley and Neil Rolnick.

Neil Rolnick's Plays Well With Others uses samples of toddlers playing,
with a form taken from social models of how small children learn to play.

Haverford, Pennsylvania
Haverford College

Charles Abramovic piano
Allison Herz clarinet
Karen Bentley Pollick violin
Michal Schmidt cello

• Olivier Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time
• Erwin Schulhoff: Duo for Violin and Cello
• Ingrid Arauco: Fantasy-Quartet

4 P.M.
Free admission

Birmingham, Alabama

Craig Hultgren cello
Karen Bentley Pollick violin, viola and piano

• Scott Eggert: Dance Card for Violin and Cello (2001)
• Erwin Schulhoff: Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
• Ole Saxe: Tango Orientale for Viola and Cello
• Olivier Messaien: Praise to the Eternity of Jesus,
  from Quartet for the End of Time
• And a medley of fiddle tunes and spirituals

Wednesday April 6
6 P.M. St. Paul A.M.E.
300 4th Court North, Birmingham, AL 35204

Thursday April 7
7 P.M. Alabama School of Fine Arts
1800 8th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203

Paul Dresher Ensemble

• Paul Dresher: The Tyrant for tenor and Pierrot Ensemble
  Libretto by Jim Lewis
• Paul Dresher: Elapsed Time for Violin and Piano
• Paul Dresher: Double Ikat for Violin, Piano and Marimba Lumina

Paul Dresher's The Tyrant is a song cycle commissioned by the Seattle Chamber Players, in consortium with the California EAR Unit (Los Angeles), Present Music (Milwaukee), Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia) and Musical Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble. The Tyrant will be performed by noted contemporary music tenor and long-time Ensemble collaborator John Duykers.