Date: November 7, 2009 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Professor William Corbett-Jones leads a concert of contemporary music in memory of alumna Margery C. Tede, a mezzo-soprano well known in the Bay Area for her luminous voice and support of the arts.

Date: October 22, 2009 8:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Assistant Professor Cyrus Ginwala conducts the University’s 48-member student orchestra, in its first evening concert in several years.

Date: November 10, 2009 - November 14, 2009
Location: Creative Arts Building, Studio Theatre

The beloved William Shakespeare comedy. Fall in love again, just like Olivia.

Date: October 17, 2009 2:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

This rare and special event introduces audiences to the history of kabuki, featuring an informative lecture and exquisite performance of the classical, stylized Japanese theatre form. Celebrated kabuki actors Kyozo Nakamura and Matanosuke Nakamura lead a 14-member troupe from the world-renowned Shochiku Co.

Date: October 15, 2009 8:00pm - October 17, 2009 8:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Little Theatre

Calculate the unknowns of life in this Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama by David Auburn. Paradigms shift when a groundbreaking mathematical proof is found. Did the late professor write it, or his daughter? A gripping struggle of genius, insanity and love follows.

Date: July 11, 2009 3:00pm
Location: 1750 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA, Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

InterHarmony Festival Orchestra

• Sidney Harth, Conductor
• Misha Quint, Violoncello
• Jassen Todorov, Violin
• Carmen Balthrop, Soprano

Program

• Concerto Grosso No.1: Handel (1710)
• Three Pieces:
  • Sibelius (1905)

  • Romance in C
  • Canzonetta
  • Andante
• Concerto for Two Violins in a-minor: Vivaldi (1729)
• Variations on a Rococo Theme: Tchaikovsky (1877)
• Vocalise: Rachmaninov(1912)
• Galop: Bizet (1865)

Date: July 9, 2009 8:00pm
Location: 1750 Holloway Ave, San Francisco CA, Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

Students, Prizewinners
Soloists, Chamber Groups

Date: July 1, 2009 8:00pm - July 11, 2009 5:00pm
Location: Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building

Well-known soloists and chamber players from around the globe perform and teach talented young musicians.

The free concert series includes performances by cellist Misha Quint, founder and director of InterHarmony, and other renowned musicians, culminating in an orchestral concert conducted by Sidney Harth, former Chicago Symphony concertmaster and former Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor.

Date: April 11, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The Brasil Guitar Duo and soprano Sarah Wolfson close the Morrison Artists Series season with an engaging performance. Wolfson and the duo has each won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Date: February 7, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The Afiara String Quartet, an energetic and burgeoning ensemble, returns to the campus where it was 2007-08 Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence and mentored by the Alexander String Quartet. Described as “quicksilver and delicate…electric and filled with sentiment” by the San Jose Mercury News, the quartet is now graduate resident string quartet at The Julliard School.