Re-registration for Summer Quarter runs June 22–August 22, 2020.
Current students will automatically be re-enrolled at this time and may enroll for group classes or submit request for lesson change. Contact a registrar to re-register or make lesson change requests for for Summer Quarter.
Join us for a free, online concert featuring the Bernal Hill Players, a San Francisco-based, eclectic chamber ensemble that plays classical and contemporary music from around the world. The group will present music for flute, voice, and piano.
Following the short concert, ask the artists questions about online learning at Community Music Center, the music performed, and/or their lives as performing artists. Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and Jennifer Peringer, the founding members of the ensemble, both teach online at Community Music Center and can answer questions about what it’s like to learn and teach music on platforms like Zoom and Youtube. Questions can be asked live or submitted ahead of time at this link.
The concert and Q&A will be broadcast securely on Zoom.
Free RSVP at this link.
ABOUT THE BERNAL HILL PLAYERS:
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, flute and voice
Jennifer Peringer, piano
The Bernal Hill Players is a gleefully eclectic chamber music ensemble formed in 2008 that plays classical and contemporary chamber music from around the world, as well as newly commissioned pieces by Californian and Mexican composers. At the core of the ensemble are flutist and singer Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and pianist and arranger Jennifer Peringer. Over the years the Bernal Hill Players has included many different musicians, most recently CMC faculty members Rachel Condry and Annelise Zamula.
For the “Music to Our Ears” concert on May 29th, Martha and Jennifer are going to play about 20 minutes of music for flute, piano and voice, by three very diverse composers: C.P.E. Bach, Carlos Guastavino, and John Rutter. The Bach flute sonata offers the listener the reassurance and regularity of the German Baroque style. The songs of the 19th century Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino offer a poetic exploration of themes concerning love, loss, and the healing powers of nature. The final piece on the program, from a flute suite by the mid 20th century composer John Rutter, offers the relaxation and good humor of simply beautiful modern harmonies and fun rhythms.
PROGRAM
Allegro and Adagio from Sonata in G Minor, C.P.E. Bach (1714 – 1788)
“La Rosa y el Sauce” (The Rose and the Willow) and “Pampamapa – Aire de Huella” , Carlos Guastavino (1912 – 2000)
Prelude and Rondeau from Suite Antique, John Rutter (1945)
New Students can schedule appointments for Summer Quarter 2020 registration. Contact a registrar to make an appointment or visit our enrollment page for more.
Summer Quarter runs June 22–August 22, 2020
Field Day is CMC’s annual extravaganza of music and community with a school-wide Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
Virtual Field Day is a new frontier for us as a community. Instead of two days of non-stop performances live and in-person, Virtual Field Day will be a week long (June 1–7) festival of videos highlighting our many talented CMC students, friends, and faculty in a curated presentation on Facebook and YouTube. All Virtual Field Day performers are raising money for music scholarships at CMC.
Sponsor a performer or donate online here: https://www.classy.org/event/field-day-at-cmc/e266518
Tune into Virtual Field Day for a daily dose of music and community everyday at 12 noon, as our Field Day performers share their talent while fundraising to support access to music for everyone.
Tune into Community Music Center’s Facebook Page and YouTube channel to view the performances by our talented community. Be sure to “like” and “follow” to get updates.
Learn more about Virtual Field Day, and how you can get involved here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate.
Virtual Field Day presents Shenson Salons: free, online, evening concerts from the Shenson Faculty Concert Series. These short concerts will be broadcast on Zoom and streamed on Facebook Live on June 1, 2, 3, and 4 at 5:30pm. Donations support CMC music scholarships.
RSVP to receive a secure link to view the program here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate and donor steward of the Shenson Foundation.
Shenson Salons: Bernal Hill Players
Martha Rodríguez Salazar and Jennifer Peringer
In February 2020 the Bernal Hill Players were honored to inaugurate the 25th annual CMC Shenson Faculty concert series, with a program of North and South American chamber music played by five members of the CMC community, on flute, voice, clarinet, saxophone, piano and guitar. For the Zoom live concert they will be unable to reprise any of the exact pieces from the concert due to instrumentation issues.
They will give a taste of the ensemble’s aesthetic with several flute, voice and piano duo repertoire from the U.S. and Mexico. The four short pieces will emphasize their interest in women composers, cultural diversity, and local creative community. The pieces express the ensemble members’ current range of feelings, from sadness about the pandemic, to the simple joys of contemplating nature, to the memory of parties past, and the hope for parties again one day. Learn more about this ensemble at BernalHillPlayers.com
PROGRAM
Requiem Milonga
by Valerie Coleman (b.1970)
for flute and piano
Daikon Radish from Bernal Heights Suite
by Beth Custer (b.1958)
for voice and piano
Montón de Tierra
by Liliana Felipe (b.1954)
for voice and piano
Solsticio
by Chus Alonso (b.1958)
for flute and piano
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and Jennifer Peringer are the founding members of the Bernal Hill Players, a gleefully eclectic chamber music ensemble formed in 2008 that plays classical and contemporary chamber music from around the world, as well as newly commissioned pieces by Californian and Mexican composers. www.bernalhillplayers.com
Field Day is CMC’s annual extravaganza of music and community with a school-wide Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
Virtual Field Day is a new frontier for us as a community. Instead of two days of non-stop performances live and in-person, Virtual Field Day will be a week long (June 1–7) festival of videos highlighting our many talented CMC students, friends, and faculty in a curated presentation on Facebook and YouTube. All Virtual Field Day performers are raising money for music scholarships at CMC.
Sponsor a performer or donate online here: https://www.classy.org/event/field-day-at-cmc/e266518
Tune into Virtual Field Day for a daily dose of music and community everyday at 12 noon, as our Field Day performers share their talent while fundraising to support access to music for everyone.
Tune into Community Music Center’s Facebook Page and YouTube channel to view the performances by our talented community. Be sure to “like” and “follow” to get updates.
Learn more about Virtual Field Day, and how you can get involved here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate.
Virtual Field Day presents Shenson Salons: free, online, evening concerts from the Shenson Faculty Concert Series. These short concerts will be broadcast on Zoom and streamed on Facebook Live on June 1, 2, 3, and 4 at 5:30pm. Donations support CMC music scholarships.
RSVP to receive a secure link to view the program here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate and donor steward of the Shenson Foundation.
Shenson Salons: Michael Long, violin
Michael Long’s Shenson Faculty Concert Series classical music recital “Music in Times of Resistance” was going to highlight music written in or about extreme political circumstances and oppression. Schulhoff was a composer meant to be featured in this concert and will be central to the Shenson Salon. Researching his music has been a passion project of Michael Long’s. Schulhoff was a wonderfully eclectic Czech composer of German-Jewish descent who was captured by the Nazis in Prague just days after he had obtained Soviet citizenship to escape. The lack of dogma, the political content, and the open-mindedness of his music are inspiring to Long. The composers Bach and Ysaye as pillars of unaccompanied music repertoire and are also included in the Shenson Salon. The Shenson Salon Zoom concert is a preview for Long’s live-streamed concert on June 19 (supported by a CMC Faculty Creative Stimulus Grant) called “Works for Violin Alone”.
PROGRAM
Movements from:
J. S. Bach, Sonata in G minor for solo violin
Eugene Ysaÿe, Sonata No. 1 for solo violin
Erwin Schulhoff, Sonata for solo violin
Field Day is CMC’s annual extravaganza of music and community with a school-wide Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
Virtual Field Day is a new frontier for us as a community. Instead of two days of non-stop performances live and in-person, Virtual Field Day will be a week long (June 1–7) festival of videos highlighting our many talented CMC students, friends, and faculty in a curated presentation on Facebook and YouTube. All Virtual Field Day performers are raising money for music scholarships at CMC.
Sponsor a performer or donate online here: https://www.classy.org/event/field-day-at-cmc/e266518
Tune into Virtual Field Day for a daily dose of music and community everyday at 12 noon, as our Field Day performers share their talent while fundraising to support access to music for everyone.
Tune into Community Music Center’s Facebook Page and YouTube channel to view the performances by our talented community. Be sure to “like” and “follow” to get updates.
Learn more about Virtual Field Day, and how you can get involved here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate.
Virtual Field Day presents Shenson Salons: free, online, evening concerts from the Shenson Faculty Concert Series. These short concerts will be broadcast on Zoom and streamed on Facebook Live on June 1, 2, 3, and 4 at 5:30pm. Donations support CMC music scholarships.
RSVP to receive a secure link to view the program here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate and donor steward of the Shenson Foundation.
Shenson Salons: Christopher Basso, Beethoven piano works
Christopher Basso’s (CMC piano faculty member) Shenson Faculty Concert series recital was going to be “Beethoven and His Influence” celebrating the composer’s 250th birthday featuring music of Beethoven and others who were directly inspired by him.
His Shenson Salon will keep to the theme of celebrating Beethoven. He’ll be presenting Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 and a set of short piano pieces which represent Beethoven’s last piano works.
Christopher Basso’s piano performances have been heralded as “riveting, with a multi-dimensional array of colors and shapes” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “undeniably extraordinary” (Wilmington News Journal). The Boston Globe writes of his Prokofiev 8th Piano Sonata … “Basso used his coruscating virtuosity, his flexible rhythmic spine, and his chameleon colors to communicate the sorrow, the irony, the rage and the compassion of this great score.” His playing has also been described as thoughtful, expressive and above all, deeply moving and engaging.
In 2000, Christopher Basso was named First Place Prizewinner in the Second International Van Cliburn Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in Ft. Worth, Texas. National performance venues include recitals at The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, , the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, Massachusetts, the Shandalee Music Festival in Livingston, New York, and The Nicolaï Hall Series in Mill Valley, California.
Basso has performed in the Bay Area with local artists, including violinists Ian Swensen and Krista Bennion Feeney, violist Jodi Levitz, cellists Jennifer Culp and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, pianists Robin Sutherland and Keisuke Nakagoshi and the Ives Quartet.
Visit www.bassopiano.com to learn more about Christopher Basso.
Field Day is CMC’s annual extravaganza of music and community with a school-wide Performathon, raising money for scholarships and tuition assistance, and celebrating our beloved institution and the visionary founder behind it, Gertrude Field.
Virtual Field Day is a new frontier for us as a community. Instead of two days of non-stop performances live and in-person, Virtual Field Day will be a week long (June 1–7) festival of videos highlighting our many talented CMC students, friends, and faculty in a curated presentation on Facebook and YouTube. All Virtual Field Day performers are raising money for music scholarships at CMC.
Sponsor a performer or donate online here: https://www.classy.org/event/field-day-at-cmc/e266518
Tune into Virtual Field Day for a daily dose of music and community everyday at 12 noon, as our Field Day performers share their talent while fundraising to support access to music for everyone.
Tune into Community Music Center’s Facebook Page and YouTube channel to view the performances by our talented community. Be sure to “like” and “follow” to get updates.
Learn more about Virtual Field Day, and how you can get involved here.
Field Day 2020 is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Livingston, tireless arts advocate.
