The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival comes down from the mountains of Northern California to present a special San Francisco concert. A reception with free wine and beer will be held at 7:30pm, with musical performance starting at 8:00pm.
The 2019 festival will feature an all-star cast young professional from the Bay Area, New York, Florida, Boston, and Copenhagen.
Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine and violinist Emma Steele will join the festival for two popular showcase-style works, Mozart’s Concert Aria K. 505, “Ch’io mi scordi di te?” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, Op 20.
The program will also feature three new works, two string quartets by composers Caroline Shaw (“Valencia”) and Jessie Montgomery (“Break Away”), and a set of songs for soprano, cello, and piano by Scott Gendel, entitled “To Keep the Dark Away”, based on poems of Emily Dickinson.
The concert will be held at the beautiful Edwardian building on Sutter and Franklin, the Century Club of California, with its gorgeous Julia-Morgan-designed concert hall. Tickets are available through the popular house-concert website Groupmuse, and cost $25 per person and $20 for groupmuse members (“supermusers”).
Founded in 2011 by pianist Ian Scarfe, the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival began as an artist-retreat in the scenic and rural mountains of Northern California’s Trinity Alps. Since then, it has grown considerably: it is one of the premier presenters of classical music around “North State” California, it has offered over 300 free concerts in rural communities, it has hosted over 75 musicians and composers at retreats, and it has performed a series of kids-concerts, including productions of “Peter and the Wolf”, “Carnival of the Animals”, and a commissioned work based on Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories”.
More information about this organization can be found at www.TrinityAlpsCMF.org