I'm talking to you!
The Oakland Chamber Ensemble
Saturday, November 19 at 8 p.m.
St. John's Presbyterian Church 2727 College Avenue
Berkeley CA 94705 click here for directions.
The Oakland Chamber Ensemble announces the emerging group’s second home season, entitled: I’m Talking to You! Keeping stride with the ensemble’s first outing (San Francisco Classical Voice called the OCE “a welcome and exciting new musical presence in the East Bay”), the new program offers challenging and rarely heard works for small mixed ensembles, again peopled by OCE’s roster of highly acclaimed Bay Area performers. I’m talking to you! includes the Sonata for cello and piano from 1978 by Russian/German avant-garde Alfred Schnittke ; Sextet for winds and piano by Francis Poulenc ; La Revue de Cuisine , which concerns a love story between kitchen utensils, by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu ; and a major new commission from Oakland-based composer/improviser Matt Ingalls , made possible through the generous support of national funder Meet The Composer. These highly skilled musicians from the Bay Area's finest orchestras and chamber ensembles join forces with acclaimed pianist, OCE’s artistic director Hadley McCarroll for an evening of passionate renderings that speak from the heart.
TICKETS: $17 general; $15 students & seniors
General seating. Cash only at the door.
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The Oakland Chamber Ensemble is a group comprised of nationally recognized musicians who make their homes in the Bay Area. Under the leadership of founding artistic director, pianist Hadley McCarroll, the OCE was formed to offer these fine musicians the chance to participate in dream-team relationships for performances of rarely heard chamber music master works, including pieces that require unusual configurations of instruments, and thus are out of the realm of possibility for most standing chamber ensembles. McCarroll curates each program and brings together the ensemble members who form the groups that will perform on the season. In this way the OCE serves a dual purpose: to enrich the lives of musicians in the region by offering precious and significant opportunities to make music that matters, and to enrich the cultural life of the region at large by presenting these programs annually in low cost concerts for the public. The mission of the OCE is to realize the full musical potential of the diverse community of accomplished professional musicians living and working in the Bay Area, and to address barriers of access and exposure among diverse audiences. The philosophy of OCE is based on the idea that when the artists are given an opportunity to make music with specially selected colleagues, each of whom is chosen for their capacity to thrive in a certain musical style or at a specialized musical task, the reward is in the playing, and it can be felt by all. The commitment and enthusiasm of the artists becomes an invitation for audiences to investigate unfamiliar musical terrain. The OCE’s debut concert at Mills College this past March saw tremendous audience response, and the media also responded with enthusiasm: the San Francisco Classical Voice called the OCE “a welcome and exciting new musical presence in the East Bay” and said of the final piece, Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds: “the performance was lively and exhilarating, like everything else on this fascinating, engrossing program.”
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The Oakland Chamber Ensemble is funded in part by Meet the Composer, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Clorox Company Foundation, The San Francisco Community Music Center Faculty Partnership Grant,and the generous support of our individual donors.
Accendi Performances was formed by three freelance musicians to enliven and diversify the cultural life of the Bay Area by supporting the work of the region's self producing, independent artists. Founding directors Robert Bailis, Hadley McCarroll and Karen Hall created Accendi to provide performance opportunities for self-producing artists, and services for the creative and performing arts community including production support, grant writing, and fiscal sponsorship. Accendi presents work of the highest artistic caliber performed by artists living and working in the Bay Area.