Mahan Esfahani

Presented by Cal Performances

Cal Performances Presents Mahan Esfahani, Sunday, April 2, 2023 in Hertz Hall. (credit: Kaja Smith)

Mahan Esfahani—a highlight of the 2020–21 Cal Performances at Home streaming series—bristles at many of the conventions of historical performance, and enjoys programming Baroque works alongside contemporary compositions. Here, in addition to music by Bach and Scarlatti, he pairs three of William Byrd’s pioneering 16th-century keyboard works with a new composition by Australian composer Brett Dean. Dean’s ByrdSong Studies, for solo harpsichord with prerecorded voices, celebrates Byrd’s unique and influential style, and the transgressive mass settings Byrd wrote for Catholic services during the Protestant Reformation. 

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Program Items

Byrd, after Dowland Lachrimae Pavan
Byrd The Bells, Fantasia MB 27
J.S. Bach English Suite in G minor, BWV 808
Brett Dean ByrdSong Studies (US premiere)
D. Scarlatti Selected keyboard sonatas

Performers

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

101 Cross-Sproul Path
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States