Videos

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Virtual Concerts

Sheltering Music - June 1, 2020 - Live from the Doug Adams Gallery in Berkeley, CA

Replay of our June 1, 2020 Live Virtual Concert! Complete program information here, including program notes: http://www.leftcoastensemble.org/shelter PROGRAM...



Fairytale Pieces - March 9, 2020
- Live from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (we cautiously closed to audiences just days before shelter-in-place took effect)

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Carl Schimmel: Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (2020). Musicians (left to right): Loren Mach, percussion; Leighton Fong, cello; Phy...



Left Coast at Home!

Messages from our Left Coast players while we shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay well and safe, friends.

Hello from Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, while we shelter in place during the pandemic. LCCE conductor and violist Matilda Hofman performs Bartok with her son...

Clarinetist Jerry Simas shares a favorite LCCE memory and encore of David Conte’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Phyllis Kamrin and Michael Goldberg perform a Gershwin medley.

Cellist Tanya Tomkins and pianist Eric Zivian perform Debussy's 1915 Cello Sonata

Message from LCCE soprano Nikki Einfeld, plus a duet with her daughter Sienna!

LCCE flutist Stacey Pelinka performs Couperin with her partner Joe Edelberg.

 


Selections from our 2018-19 season:

Charles Peck: Sunburst (Left Coast Composition Contest Winner)

from October 2018 program: Singing the Gamut

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Charles Peck: Sunburst (2018)

Musicians (left to right): Eric Zivian, piano; Anna Presler, violin; Leighton Fong, cello; Kurt Rohde, viola

David Conte: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

from March 2019 program: Bay Area Spotlight

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs David Conte: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.

Musicians: Jerome Simas, clarinet; Eric Zivian, piano

March 4, 2019

Laura Schwendinger: Artemisia (complete opera)

from June 2019 opera double-bill: Dorothea & Artemisia

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Laura Schwendinger - Artemesia (2019).

World premiere, complete opera.

Selections from our 2017-18 season:

Kurt Rohde: Death with Interruptions (Complete Opera)

from November 2017 opera double-bill: Death and a Knight

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Kurt Rohde: Death with Interruptions, featuring vocal ensemble Volti.

Aida Shirazi: Vestiges for strings and flute

from March 2018 program: Sonnets to Orpheus

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Aida Shirazi: Vestiges, for Strings and Flute (2018). Commissioned by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. World premiere.

Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen

from February 2018 program: Visions de l’Amen (with guest artist Sarah Cahill)

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen, 2018. Musicians (left to right): Eric Zivian, Sarah Cahill, pianos

Additional Selections from our archives:

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Jennifer Jolley - The Lives and Opinions of Literary Cats (2017). Musicians (left to right): Anna Presler, Eric Zivian, Tanya Tomkins. March 21, 2107, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Brahms Through the Looking Glass (Set 4), 2016-17 season.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble performs Elinor Armer: Sacred Forest for English Horn and String Quartet (2016) WORLD PREMIERE. Musicians (left to right): Anna Presler, violin; Ilana Thomas, violin; Thomas Nugent, English horn; Phyllis Kamrin, viola; Leighton Fong, cello. February 1, 2016, San Francisco. Program: Oboe Bliss, 2015-16 season.

photo banner: Jordan Murphy