The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental chamber music of beauty, searching, friendship, and loss written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area musicians.
The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 1, 2023, 8:00PM. The concert will feature works by Mary Fineman, Douglas Ovens, Monica Chew, Sheli Nan, John Bilotta, and Robert Stine. Featured guest artists include violinist Monika Gruber, pianist Lori Lack, and the Avenue Winds.
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MARY FINEMAN Watercolor
Who You Were Then and Always
Monika Gruber, violin; Composer at the piano
DOUGLAS OVENS Largo
Monika Gruber, violin; Lori Lack, piano
MONICA CHEW Ice Calf
Composer at the piano
SHELI NAN Absinthe avec mes amis
Monika Gruber, violin; Lori Lack, piano
JOHN BILOTTA Elegy
Monika Gruber, violin; Lori Lack, piano
ROBERT STINE Tempore
The Avenue Winds: Victoria Hauk, flute; Laura Reynolds, oboe;
James Pytko, clarinet; Daniel Wood, horn; Jamael Smith, bassoon
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The National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1933 by conductor Henry Hadley. The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter was founded by Nancy Bloomer Deussen and John Webber over twenty years ago. NACUSAsf has evolved into an active organization that produces four to six concerts a year.