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.

Date: December 13, 2009 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The world-renowned Alexander String Quartet, celebrating 20 years as quartet-in-residence at SF State, plays its annual Morrison Artists Series concert, featuring a special program including works by SF State faculty and alumni.

Date: November 8, 2009 3:00pm
Location: McKenna Theatre, Creative Arts Building

After 25 years of friendship and music making, violinist Ani Kavafian, pianist Andre-Michel Schub and clarinetist David Shifrin come together as a trio with undeniable chemistry. They are all members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The members of the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio have performed with nearly every major orchestra around the world and in recital at the major concert halls. Now the trio visits the Morrison Artists Series at SF State.

Date: October 9, 2009 8:00pm
Location: McKenna Theatre, Creative Arts Building

The Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio kicks off the Morrison Artists Series 54th season, returning to the site of its West Coast debut in 1990. The trio is on the vanguard of a new generation of artists changing the face of classical music, as one of the first all-female chamber ensembles to reach the top echelon.

Date: May 12, 2009 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: San Francisco State University, Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

The Afro-Cuban Ensemble of SF State, founded in 1999, performs a wide variety of Cuban genres, from traditional and folkloric styles to the most contemporary sounds. The 20-piece instrumental and vocal ensemble is unique in its approach in that it organically creates its own new and exciting arrangements each semester.