The Farallon Quintet is the only Bay Area professional chamber music group focused exclusively on clarinet quintet repertoire-string quartet plus clarinet. Besides the classics, the quintet performs rarely heard works, innovative arrangements, and new music by living composers. Musicians Natalie Parker, clarinet; Dan Flanagan and Matthew Oshida, violins; Elizabeth Prior, viola; and Jonah Kim, cello - are principal players in local professional orchestras.
Tonight's performance showcases the quintet's virtuosity in a commissioned Chad Cannon work: Citizen 13660, as well as Souvenirs de Voyage by Hitchcock's composer, Bernard Herrmann, and quintets by Carl Maria Von Weber and Jean Francaix.
The Farallon Quintet is the only Bay Area professional chamber music group focused exclusively on clarinet quintet repertoire-string quartet plus clarinet. Besides the classics, the quintet performs rarely heard works, innovative arrangements, and new music by living composers. Musicians Natalie Parker, clarinet; Dan Flanagan and Matthew Oshida, violins; Elizabeth Prior, viola; and Jonah Kim, cello - are principal players in local professional orchestras.
Tonight's performance showcases the quintet's virtuosity in a commissioned Chad Cannon work: Citizen 13660, as well as Souvenirs de Voyage by Hitchcock's composer, Bernard Herrmann, and quintets by Carl Maria Von Weber and Jean Francaix.
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