In Motion

Award-winning San Francisco contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) opens its 2024/25 season with a musical conversation around motion, with three commissioned World Premieres--"And I Made My Own Way, Deciphering That Fire," by Ursula Kwong-Brown, "ubi lux floret" by Darian Donovan Thomas, and oboe/cello duo by Mary Bianco--Perpetuo mobile movements by Benjamin Britten and York Bowen, and music by Lisa Bielawa, Vivian Fung, Sage Shurman, and Zhou Tian.

Pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m.

Program:
COMMISSIONED WORLD PREMIERES:
Mary Bianco: Duo for oboe and piano
Ursula Kwong Brown "And I Made My Own Way, Deciphering That Fire" for piano trio
Darian Donovan Thomas: "ubi lux floret" for piano trio

PLUS
Lisa Bielawa: "Synopsis #10: I Know This Room So Well" for solo English horn
Benjamin Britten: "Moto Perpetuo" from Cello Sonata, Op. 65 for cello and piano
Vivian Fung: "Ominous Machine" for piano trio
Sage Shurman: "Composure" for piano trio
Zhou Tian: "Majestic Bells" for solo piano
York Bowen: "Moto Perpetuo" from Suite Mignonne, Op. 39, for solo piano


Performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), with Laura Reynolds, oboe/English horn, Lylia Guinon, violin, and Megan Chartier, cello

In-person and online
More information: https://E4TT.org/inmotion.html

0-$30.

Presented by Ensemble for These Times