SF contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) opens its 18th Home Season with a musical conversation between works by exciting composers of today and a virtuosic string duo by Bohuslav Martinu:
* "Displaced Lines" for solo piano by Latin Grammy(R) nominee, Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad;
*"Six Bagatelles" for piano trio, inspired by images by Robert Motherwell, by Barlow Prize winning Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand;
*"Fits + Starts" for amplified cello and tape by Grammy(R) nominee, British-American composer Anna Clyne;
*"Ammonite" for piano trio by ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award winning Japanese-American composer Hannah Ishizaki;
*"Cavities" (selections) for piano trio by Iranian-American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh, made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Mellon Foundation.
*"the motion between three worlds" for solo cello by nonbinary Latina/Quechua inti figgis-vizueta.
Performed by E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Megan Chartier, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano;) with guest artist Maya Victoria, violin
The Critics Rave About E4TT: "Compelling... Passionate... Deeply Moving..."
Winner of The American Prize in 2021 for Chamber Music Performance, E4TT made its international debut in Berlin, was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest in 2014 for a four-city tour in Hungary, and has performed at the Krakow Culture Festival, the Conservatorio Teresa Berganza in Madrid, and throughout California. E4TT produces a weekly podcast, "For Good Measure," and has recorded five award-winning albums.
$10-$30.