Date: March 14, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The only ensemble of its kind ever to win first prize of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the New Century Saxophone Quartet brings its pioneering and versatile sound to the Morrison Artists Series at SF State. The quartet is winning new-found enthusiasm for its repertory, ranging from Bach’s complete The Art of the Fugue to innovative contemporary works.

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.