The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Presents Trout Quintet and New Friends

The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents its final concerts of the season, Trout Quintet & New Friends, featuring Franz Schubert’s celebrated piano quintet and the world premieres of two new works by award-winning composers Eric Wubbels and Yu-Hui Chang. The first concert will be held  at 142Throckmorton Theatre, located in downtown Mill Valley. The program is repeated in the San Francisco Veterans War Memorial, Green Room, 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. Tickets are sold at the door for $15, seniors/students, and $20, general admission. For more information, call (415) 642-8054 or visit www.leftcoastensemble.org. Tickets are available in advance for the Throckmorton Theatre concerts in Mill Valley at www.142ThrockmortonTheatre.com or at 415.383.9600; and advance tickets for the Green Room concerts in San Francisco may be purchased online through Brown Paper Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com. The concerts are supported in part by a special grant from the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

The centerpiece of the concert is Schubert’s justly celebrated Trout Quintet composed for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.  The quintet’s nickname derives from the fourth movement of the work, which borrows its theme from “Die Forelle,” (“The Trout”) a dramatic Schubert song. Italian music critic and historian Massimo Mila referred to “The Trout” as a "holiday poem" that reflects Schubert's fondness for pastoral life, "in it is enshrined the memory of a delightful summer, of carefree leisure days; the music is bathed in sunshine and the spirit of youth, ... friendship and humanity woven into the very texture of the music." Contemporary composers Eric Wubbels and Yu-Hui Chang have written new works as companion pieces to the Schubert. The two works, commissioned by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, receive their world premieres at these performances.

About The Contemporary Composers

Yu-Hui Chang, a native of Taiwan, has been recognized through awards and grants from the Aaron Copland Award, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composers, ASCAP, and most recently, the Koussevitsky Commissioning Grant.  A gifted pianist and teacher, she is currently on the faculty at Brandeis University. Using a decidedly contemporary language of diverse harmonic color, inventive timbre and ingenious effects, Chang creates music that resonates with musicians and audiences alike.

Eric Wubbels is a New York-based composer and performer. He is Executive Director, pianist, and a composer member of the Wet Ink Ensemble, an ensemble devoted to experimental and contemporary music in New York. Wubbels’ music has been presented at concerts and festivals in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He has received performances and commissions from ensembles in Europe and the United States as well as Asia and grants from the Argosy Foundation Fund for Contemporary Music, among others. A pianist and accordionist, Wubbels is currently completing his D.M.A. in composition at Columbia University.

About Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble is a versatile group of twelve musicians that performs in different combinations. In addition to its regular season, the ensemble performs special concerts for other presenters such as the Other Minds Festival, Berkeley Chamber Performances, and Stanford University.
Left Coast concerts feature new music by well-known composers such as Andrew Imbrie, Gyorgy Ligeti, Mario Davidovsky, Jennifer Higdon, and John Adams, plus works by emerging composers including Philippe Bodin, Harold Meltzer, Mei Fang Lin, and Laurie San Martin. Left Coast also presents compositions by ensemble members Kurt Rohde (Founding Artistic Director, violist) and Eric Zivian (pianist). To demonstrate the connection between newer music and music of past centuries, Left Coast programs include important chamber works from previous centuries by composers including John Dowland, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky.

When:
1) Thursday, May 7 at 8 pm - Mill Valley

2) Monday, May 11 at 8 pm - San Francisco

Where:
1) 142Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley
415/383-9600   www.142throckmortontheatre.com

2) The Green Room, San Francisco Veterans War Memorial
401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco (Second Floor, above Herbst Theater)
415/642-8054  www.leftcoastensemble.org

Tickets: $20 General Admission and $15 Seniors/Students. 
Tickets are available at the door at both venues.

For information and advance tickets to Mill Valley concerts, call 415/383-9600 or visit www.142ThrockmortonTheatre.com

For information about the San Francisco concerts, call 415/642-8054, or visit www.leftcoastensemble.org

Advance tickets to the San Francisco concerts may be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com