Impossible Inventions

Music full of youthful brilliance and optimism opens our season: we celebrate the music of the new generation through our Pathways Program, alongside Mendelssohn’s beautiful E-flat major quartet and music from Paul Novak, the winner of Left Coast’s 2025 composition contest.

Program includes:

Thea Musgrave - In the Still of the Night

Paul Novak - impossible inventions (2025 Composition Contest Winner)

Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12

Plus world premieres from our Pathways Program emerging composers!

Artists

Stacey Pelinka, flute
Anna Presler, violin
Phyllis Kamrin, viola
Leighton Fong, cello
Michel Taddei, double bass

Meet the composers

Image credit: Copyright Sally K. Smith, used by permission of Artist. The banner image is a detail of The Painter Wife.

Saturday, September 19, 2026, 7:30 PM

Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94114

Sunday, September 20, 2026, 4:00 PM

Berkeley Piano Club
2724 Haste Street
Berkeley, CA 94704