San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music Announces Schedule for SFMusic Day

Every fall the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents an eight-hour marathon of free chamber music. Now in its ninth year SFMusic Day - Live + Free, will spread out across four stages in the Veterans Building, located on the southwest corner of Van Ness Avenue and McAllister Street. The major venue will be Herbst Theatre, and The Green Room on the second floor will also host performances. In addition two sites will be provided by the newly-opened Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera on the fourth floor, the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater and the John M. Bryan Education Studio.

This year the event will take place on Sunday, September 25. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m., and concerts will begin promptly at noon. Admission is free, but Eventbrite has created a registration page. The schedule of performances, sorted by venue, has been planned as follows:

Herbst Theatre

12:45 Montclair Women’s Big Band

1:30 Kasey Knudsen Sextet

intermission

2:45 Friction Quartet

3:30 Redwood Tango Ensemble

4:15 Dialogue: Ben Goldberg & Myra Melford

intermission

5:30 Del Sol String Quartet

6:15 Quartet San Francisco

7:00 Kronos Quartet

The Green Room

12:00 Sunset Duo

12:45 martha & monica

1:30 Delphi Trio

intermission

2:45 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty Artists Quartet

3:15 Telegraph Quartet

3:55 Chamber Music Society of San Francisco

4:30 Thalea Quartet

intermission

5:30 New Esterhazy Quartet

6:15 Earplay

7:00 Vajra Voices

Atrium Theater

12:00 Kai Christiansen presents the 2016 Field Report, The String Quartet - The First 250 Years

12:30 St. Lawrence String Quartet

1:45 Sunrise Quartet

intermission

2:45 A|B Duo

3:30 Strobe

4:15 Black Cedar

intermission

5:30 Nathan Clevenger Group

6:15 Phillip Greenlief - BARBEDWIRE

7:00 VNote Ensemble

Education Studio

12:00 Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood Ensemble

12:45 Rova Saxophone Quartet

1:30 LIEDER ALIVE!

intermission

2:45 Lisa Mezzacappa’s avantNOIR

3:30 Ian Carey Quintet + 1

4:15 Akira Tana | Otonawa

intermission

5:30 tbd_a quartet

6:15 David James’s GPS

7:00 Terrence Brewer Quartet