French Oak Gypsy Band: French Manouche Meets New Orleans Swing

Join French Oak Gypsy Band for an evening of chanson from around the globe, including French classic and contemporary, American traditional jazz, Spanish, Romani, Catalan, and Russian traditional songs as well!   FEATURING: Stella Heath - vocals Gabriel Pirard - guitar, harmony vocals Jimmy Inciardi - saxophones Skyler Stover - bass Jamie Foster - drums   ABOUT THE ARTIST: French Oak Gypsy Band is a wild-around-the-edges band, melding French jazz manouche and chanson, New Orl...
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Georgy Gusev & Jacopo Giacopuzzi: Musical Review of Russia Through the Revolution

Cellist Georgy Gusev and pianist Jacopo Giacopuzzi present an unstoppable force in the world of classical music. True models of complete 21st century musicians, both Gusev and Giacopuzzi draw on an exceptional cultural heritage.   FEATURING: Georgy Gusev - cello Jacopo Giacopuzzi - piano   ABOUT THE ARTISTS: A graduate of the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Georgy Gusev moved to Italy to study with Giovanni Sollima and earn his Master of Cello at Accademia Nazionale...
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Joanna Rozewska & Yulia Fomicheva: Piano & Cello in Eastern Europe

Polish pianist Joanna Rozewska and Russian cellist Yulia Fomicheva, two highly respected international competition winners and alumna of San Francisco Conservatory, will present an evening of piano and cello music by Chopin, Myaskovsky, Rachmaninov, and other great Polish and Russian composers. Featuring: Joanna Rozewska - piano Yulia Fomicheva - cello Yulia Fomicheva is a cellist and cello teacher born in Moscow, Russia. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from renowned instituti...
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Minsky Duo: Exploring the Music of Kapustin and Prokofiev

Minsky Duo makes its Red Poppy debut with an all-Russian/Soviet program that includes the first San Francisco performance of living composer Nikolai Kapustin’s rollicking “Sonata for Violin and Piano,” Prokofiev’s “Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor” (described by the composer as "wind whistling through a graveyard"), Tchaikovsky's beautifully lyric “Meditation,” Scriabin's explosive “Piano Sonata No. 4,” and Schnittke’s recently-discovered “Fuga for Solo Violin.” Featuring: Nato - violin Monic...
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