Past Events

War, Wounds, Sanctuary is a concert presentation featuring my story as a soldier during and after war, and performances of my music, including a combination of organ, piano, chamber, choral, and vocal works, along with the organ or piano music of other composers. 

Kathy Oh, guest oboist A concert featuring a wide variety of musical styles from woman composers spanning the 20th Century. Radie Britian (1899-1994) Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)

Calico Winds is delighted to present three charming and innovative works. The joyful, single movement Wind Quintet by Manny Mendelson will be followed by Robert Muczynski’s edgy and animated Quintet for Winds. The program will culminate with a world premiere performance of Jeremy Gilien’s Woodwind Quintet. The three movements are...

The music for this program is inspired by animals and nature. Works by: Adrienne Albert, Jenni Brandon, Gavin Brown, and Raymond David Burkhart.

The program will include the charming Quintet No. 3 (1802) by Giuseppe Cambini (1802) and the playful Clown Music (1968) by Teresa Procaccini.

Edendale Up Close Concert — July 18, 2022 With Zoom Q & A. Presenting music by:  Gwyneth Walker, David Baker, Ihor Shamo, William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman

Presenting music by:  Gwyneth Walker, David Baker, Ihor Shamo, William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman

With Zoom Q & A Performing Music by Charles Koechlin (horn & clarinet), Willson Osborne (solo clarinet), David Amram (solo horn), Francis Poulenc (clarinet duo) and George Frideric Handel (two clarinets & horn)

Performing J.S. Bach, George Bizet, William Grant Still, Bohuslav Martinů, and music of the season

Performing Music by Charles Koechlin (horn & clarinet), Willson Osborne (solo clarinet), David Amram (solo horn), Francis Poulenc (clarinet duo) and George Frideric Handel (two clarinets & horn)

Jocelyn Hagen, new commission

Works by Michael Kibbe, Raymond David Burkhart, Bill Douglas, John Steinmetz and Carolyn Bremer

Works by Carolyn Bremer, Bill Douglas and John Steinmetz

Bernstein, Copland, Irving Fine and Denes Agay

Ladder Variations by well-known Los Angeles composer and educator George Heussenstamm and a premier of a quintet written for them by noted film composer John Scott

J.S. Bach and Jan Bach’s Skizzen: Suite for Woodwind Quintet after the drawings of Heinrich Kley

Music by Lowell Mason, William Mason and Daniel Gregory Mason

Wind Quintets of William Mason, J.S. Bach, Gwyneth Walker

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Malcolm Arnold, Joseph Canteloube

Music of Darius Milhaud and Claude Arrieu

Featuring the music of local composer Ray Burkhart, Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen and a Tango transcription by local arranger Charles Warren.

Toot, Suite Arcata, Watercolor Menagerie: Music of Raymond David Burkhart

The whole quintet returns with music of Jurriaan Andriessen and Arie Malando (Maasland)

A wonderful work by Malcolm Arnold for flute, violin, viola, horn and bassoon. And a charming wind trio by classical composer Jacques Widerkehr

Malcolm Arnold-Fantasy for Horn, Willson Osborne-Rhapsody for Bassoon, Carl Nielson-Concerto for Flute

From the Baroque to the 'hear' and now. Works by Koechlin, Graun, Beethoven, Schocker and Einem

Featuring a premiere of a work by Daniel Baldwin, in addition to Mahler songs and excerpts from Luciano Berio's Opus Number Zoo

Quintets by Béla Bartók, Ferenc Farkas & György Ligeti. Solo clarinet works by Béla Kovács

The flea circus comes to town with music by Teresa Procaccini and Karl L. King

Playing music of W.A. Mozart, Los Angeles composer Lou Rovner and Finnish composer Jukka Viitasaari

Join us as we re-explore standards of the wind quintet repertoire with a performance of the majestic wind quintet by famed Danish composer, Carl Nielsen.