Tag: Music at Kohl Mansion

  • Looking ahead to March 2017

    Looking ahead to March 2017

    The Alexander String Quartet is looking ahead to a busy March schedule filled with exciting performances from coast-to-coast! Saturday March 4, 2017 10:00 am Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle San Francisco Performances Inc. Herbst Theatre San Francisco, CaliforniaTel: (415) 398-6449 Web: performances.org Program: ASQ with lecturer, Robert Greenberg Shostakovich Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op.…

  • Meet Laura Krumm!

    Sunday the Alexander String Quartet performs Jake Heggie’s Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with mezzo-soprano Laura Krumm at Kohl Mansion, but you can meet her today: “Praised for her “exceptionally beautiful mezzo” Iowa native Laura Krumm is a 2013 graduate of the prestigious Adler Fellowship of the San Francisco Opera. Ms. Krumm has been heard…

  • Music At Kohl Mansion This Sunday

    ASQ returns to Music at Kohl Mansion this Sunday with an exciting program of Mozart, Brahms and Jake Heggie with soprano Laura Krumm: Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, KV 589, “Prussian” Heggie: Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with mezzo soprano, Laura Krumm Brahms: Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1 Explore Camille Claudel: Into…

  • SFCV Reviews Music At Kohl Mansion Concert with Joyce Yang

    The San Francisco Classical Voice has a wonderful new review of Sunday’s Music at Kohl Mansion performance with pianist Joyce Yang: “Take a well-established, internationally acclaimed string quartet and add a brilliant young pianist who was not even a glimmer in the eyes when the quartet was founded. Throw them in a 100-year-old ballroom of…

  • Notable Excitement — 30 Years of Music at Kohl Mansion

    Just released, Notable Excitement: 30 years of Music at Kohl Mansion by Liz Dossa recounts the captivating history of the longest-running chamber music series on the San Francisco Peninsula. The setting of Kohl Mansion is unmatched for music—both glorious and warm. Notable Excitement captures the charm of the historic mansion and the challenges of creating…

  • Preview This Weekend’s Concerts with Joyce Yang

    Get a preview of this weekend’s performances of the Brahms Piano Quintet F Minor, Op. 34 in the following video from our recording sessions with Joyce Yang! Friday November 8, 2013 1:00 pm School of Music & Dance San Francisco State University Knuth Hall San Francisco, California Tel: (415) 338-1111 Web: creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/ Program: Brahms Piano Quintet…

  • Highlights from the 2012-2013 Season

    It is a rare pleasure to be at home for a couple of weeks with no teaching or administrative obligations at San Francisco State University. I am relishing some slightly less structured family time as well as the opportunity to catch up on a variety of chores and deferred obligations that escape the ASQ members…

  • Meet Anne-Marie McDermott

    Sunday, the Alexander String Quartet closes out the 30th Anniversary Season of Music at Kohl Mansion with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott! Find out a little about Anne-Marie below in a wonderful profile by the Cincinnati Enquirer‘s Janelle Gelfand: She’s won major awards. She made her Carnegie Hall debut at age 12. She’s recorded complete works of…

  • SFCV Highlights Music At Kohl Mansion

    The San Francisco Classical Voice highlights this weekend’s ASQ and Anne-Marie McDermott performance to close out the 30th Anniversary Music at Kohl Mansion season: “Music at Kohl Mansion closes its 30th anniversary season at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, with the Kohl debut of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. They will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto K.449…

  • ASQ Weekend of Britten and Brahms

    ASQ has a busy weekend this weekend with two performances featuring the music of Britten and Brahms, and featuring guest violist Toby Appel! Friday, February 8 – 7:30pm Santa Rosa Junior College Chamber Concert Series – Emeritus Hall – Newman Auditorium Tickets: www.santarosa.edu Sunday, February 10 – 7:00pm Music at Kohl Mansion The Great Hall…

  • ASQ Works with the Verbena Quintet and the Young Chamber Musicians Program

    The Alexander String Quartet has had the privilege of working with many outstanding young chamber music ensembles this past week during the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar and Festival – and the joy continues with Sunday’s Music at Kohl Mansion performance. One of these ensembles is the Verbena Quintet, which performed at Yehudi Menuhin Seminar…

  • Music at Kohl Mansion interviews ASQ

    In a turn of the tables, Music at Kohl Mansion musicologist Kai Christiansen has an interview of ASQ’s Fred Lifsitz in anticipation of the upcoming MAKM Alexander String Quartet performance on Sunday, February 10. Kai Christiansen: Congratulations on having just celebrated your 30th anniversary. That is an amazing achievement for any long term relationship. What…

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