Events & Opportunities

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What's happening this Fall? Where can I hear some violas??
Cal Performances features plenty of chamber music this season: CalPerformances Chamber,  San Francisco Performances also has a chamber series: SF Performances
 
 

See our page for details on the NCVS PANDEMONIUM Sessions - you can find them on youTube.  Please remember to "smash that subscribe button" on our channel:  @NorCalViolaSociety/videos




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Amateur Music Network presents:
March 2, 2020 VIOLA WORKSHOP with Matthew Young of SF Symphony viola section
7-9pm at Drew School
Bring your viola, workshop and ensemble playing intended for intermediate to advanced players.
For more information and to register, use the link below:
 Click here for link to Matt's viola workshop


The Second NCVS Viola Salon has been scheduled!

June 1st, 2014 / 4-6pm (time TBC)
Location: Home of Jean Radford, violist and teacher in Berkeley 
Registered guests will receive complete location address information.

Featured guest artist: Cookie Segelstein
Cookie will share "all things Klezmer for viola" -- Listen, Learn, Play it yourself!
Bring a viola and folding music stand, and a treat to share
Space is limited to 30 people, so sign up early: FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO RSVP, CONTACT:
Katie Wreede, vlazville@earthlink.net or 510-534-9695

The first Viola Salon at UC Davis (info below) was a great success and we're looking forward to this second event in Berkeley. Don't miss it / hope to see you there!

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The First NCVS Viola Salon is coming up on Feb. 23, 2014 and YOU are invited!

February 23, 2014 2:30-5pm
UC Davis, Music Building

Ellen Ruth Rose, Viola
Featured guest artist: Ellen Ruth Rose
If you are attending, please bring a student, friend, teacher, or other viola-centric-minded person so we have a nice collection of ears, ideas, and opinions to share.

We have 4-6 performers volunteering to play for a master class segment.  We have a professional accompanist "on staff" for the day.  Please let me (Katie) know if you'd like to volunteer to perform for the master class segment so we can plan the time.  If we have more volunteers than time, we'll just have to plan the next salon sooner!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Katie Wreede: vlazville@earthlink.net


If you are scheduled to perform, please get me PDFs of your accompaniment parts ASAP so our guest pianist can take a look beforehand.  Also plan on coming a bit early to acquaint yourselves with each other.


Things to bring: anything you think would be interesting to violists, chamber viola music to read, violistic ideas, poems, photos, pillows, food to share, your viola, curiosity and enthusiasm

Please keep in touch about attending so we can plan the day, but if you don't know in advance, show up anyway.  There's always room for more violas!

This would also be a lovely time to renew your membership in NCVS, which helps us fund our wonderful ViolaMANIA events and other NCVS activities!



The Mendocino Music Festival is offering eleven string players full scholarships for the 2014 Season. This program is limited to serious musicians between the ages of 18 and 26. The Emerging Artists Program includes coaching in an intensive 2½ weeks of chamber music as well as participation in the MMF Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from the Bay Area, local artists, and soloists of national and international renown. The Festival, now in its 28th season, takes place in one of the most spectacular spots on the northern California coast.

For more information visit their website at http://www.mendocinomusic.org/about/emerging-artists/



VIOLA RECITAL 
Shinkoskey Noon Concert featuring Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
Thursday, January 23, 2014 • 12:05 pm

Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, and Karen Rosenak, piano

PROGRAM:
Rebecca Clarke  Morpheus
Dmitri Shostakovitch   Sonata for viola and piano op. 147
Free, non-ticketed



COMPOSING TOGETHER "FUN AND FESTIVE FAMILY-FRIENDLY CONCERT" - August 4, 2013 - Katrina Wreede

The "Composing Together" program is having a family-friendly concert to celebrate 6 years of bringing professional composers and musicians directly into classrooms to collaborate in the creative process, empowering young people with the knowledge that their ideas have meaning and value.  Over 1000 students have participated so far.  Come support future programs.

Our first Annual Fun and Festive Family-Friendly concert features musical Aesop's Fables with narration, works from the Composing Together library, the Living Wind Chimes, and arts and crafts for both big and little kids.  Grand finale includes audience playing bubble wrap!  Performers include: Katrina Wreede, Moses Sedler (Davka), Sarah Zaharako (Gojogo), Jennifer Peringer and Martha Rodriguez-Salazar (Bernal Hill Players), Jonathan and Felisa Simon, and Ingeborg Weinmann-White.  Silent auction includes Disneyland, Great America, Gilroy Gardens, Oakland Zoo, San Francisco Opera, Berkeley Rep tickets, mini golf, restaurant coupons, sports memorabilia, and a private plane ride.


La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
tickets at www.lapena.org or 510-849-2568
advance tix $12, $20 at door, ALL UNDER 15 ARE FREE