Trois Bois

Trois Bois’ mission is to share a love of music for winds with others. Our programs span several centuries’ of music and feature many celebrated composers. www.troisbois.com Donate to Trois Bois

AGAVE

AGAVE is “an energized, free-spirited group” (Early Music America Magazine, Fall 2014), based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and specializing in string chamber music of the seventeenth century. Agave has received numerous awards and accolades and gained local and national attention for its “rapturous music,” “brilliant… profound playing” (EMA Magazine), and growing discography. Now […]

Amy X Neuburg

AMY X NEUBURG (Oakland, California) has been developing her own brand of irreverently genre-crossing works for voice, live electronics and chamber ensembles for over 25 years, known for her innovative use of live looping technology with electronic percussion, her 4-octave vocal range and her colorful — often humorous — lyrics. www.amyxneuburg.com

Chordless

Sara LeMesh and Allegra Chapman seek to illuminate contemporary works by underrepresented and marginalized composers, most notably women and composers of color. The duo is passionate about creating welcoming spaces to explore and appreciate this music that has historically been ignored. It is their belief that these works deserve not only to be heard, but […]

Curium

Curium: the 96th element in the periodic table. Discovered in the Bay Area in 1944 and named after the pioneering female scientist, Marie Curie, the element is a symbol of the innovations of female minds, past and present. Founded in the summer of 2017, the women of Curium piano trio have gained reputations as performers […]

Farallon Quintet

Farallon Quintet, founded in the summer of 2012, is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the repertoire for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet. In addition to playing the classics, the quintet seeks to perform rarely heard works, innovative arrangements, and new music by living composers. With […]

Vitamin Em

Vitamin Em puts a new spin on funk, jazz, R&B, Soul and fiddle music. This group of strings, accordion, bassoon and percussion gets DOWN! If you like to have fun, be exhilarated, enjoy life and love to groove, this band is for you. www.vitaminemmusic.com

ZOFO

Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists EVA-MARIA ZIMMERMANN and KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI – ZOFO – have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo Japan with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands. www.zofoduet.com Donate to ZOFO

MUSA

MUSA is a chamber ensemble dedicated to historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire, as well as new music for period instruments. www.musasfbaroque.com

Trio 180

Trio 180, the faculty piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, is dedicated to its roles as performer, proponent of new music, and educator. In addition to giving concerts and master classes throughout the United States, the trio has been featured on concert series in Mexico and Canada. www.trio180.com