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Preview: Classical Music

A guide to the best classical concerts this weekend in Silicon Valley

by Michael S. Gant on Feb 05, 2010
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FOR ITS first offering of the new year, Sunset Concerts at St. Luke’s presents Quarteto Vivace Brasil, featuring guitarists Robert Colchiesqui and Edson Lopes, flutist Tadeu Coelho and percussionist Rodrigo Marinonio. For its first swing through the United States, the group will perform a far-reaching program of classical favorites, tangos, samba and rags, with works from de Falla, Bizet, Handel, Piazzolla and Villa-Lobos.

QUARTETO VIVACE BRASIL performs Saturday (Feb. 6) at 8pm at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 20 University Ave., Los Gatos. Tickets
are $10–$25. (408.354.4560)

Concerts

Flauti Dolci and Amici I
Bay Area recorder consorts and mixed ensembles perform. Sat, Feb 6, 3pm. $10.
Foothill Presbyterian Church, 5301 McKee Rd, San Jose, 408.258.8133.

Opera San Jose
For South First Friday, a preview of upcoming “Marriage of Figaro.” Fri, Feb 5. Free.
Caffe Trieste, 315 S. First St, San Jose.

Pan-Asian Music Festival: Composing Asia
Fri features Iranian music by Mohsen Namjoo. Sat: Asian Masters and the Stanford
New Ensemble. Fri, Feb 5, 8pm and Sat, Feb 6, 8pm. $5-$20. Dinkelspiel Auditorium,
471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford University, www.stanfordtickets.org.

SJSU Haiti Benefit
SJSU faculty members will perform classical favorites and pieces by resident composer Brian Belet, plus modern dance selections. The event benefits Haiti earthquake relief. Sun, Feb 7, 7:30pm. Free but please make a donation, www.sjsu.edu. SJSU School of Music and Dance Concert Hall, Near Seventh and San Carlos streets, San Jose.

Zalmen Mlotek
Pianist Mlotek joins Sephardic singer Daniella Rabbani for a concert of Yiddish-klezmer music. Sun, Feb 7, 7pm. $20-$35. Schultz Cultural Hall on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, 650.233.8700.



by Michael S. Gant on Feb 05, 2010
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