Welcome to Barefoot Chamber Concerts. We present short programs of really good chamber music in an informal setting. All programs (60-75 minutes with no intermission) (except the September 30 special event at Hillside) are in the wonderful wooden acoustic of the Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, and start at 6 p.m. on Fridays. Light refreshments are available.
We open our season with a special event at a different location: Shira Kammen and “In Bocca al Lupo” will present a concert entitled “Sun, Moon and Stars.” This eclectic concert, including magic, will take place in the Hillside Swedenborgian Church in El Cerrito, against the backdrop of the Sunset. We hope you can make it, and we’re sure you’ll have a great time if you do.
Our regular 2011-2012 Season brings you seven concerts from very different spheres of chamber music. The Marteau String Quartet opens our season with an all-Schubert program including the D minor quartet “Death and the Maiden.” In November, local stars Lynn Tetenbaum and Katherine Heater inaugurate our annual viol recital concert with (what else) the 3 Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. In December, recorder virtuosa Judith Linsenberg presents a recital entitled “The Most Excellent Recorder” with Katherine Heater, harpsichord.
In January, Hallifax & Jeffrey will return with “Tous les Mai –Tais du Monde,” a cocktail of French music before Forqueray. In February, Carla Moore will play a Bach solo sonata, and works that influenced it. In March, Faire Violls and Corey Carlton will present a concert of consort music and song by William Byrd, and finally, in April, Ensemble Ursae Majoris will play a concert of virtuosic Italian and Spanish 17th-century music.
Tickets have not gone up (unlike almost every other concert series we know): they will be $15 at the door (Seniors and SFEMS members $13), ages 18 and under admitted free. We encourage you to buy tickets online; all online tickets are less than the door price. If you click the link next to the description of the concert for which you’d like to buy tickets, you will arrive at the BrownPaperTickets (fabulous efficient easy online “fair trade ticket service”) site for that particular concert. You can pay by credit card on their secure site and then BPT can snail-mail you the tickets or we’ll hold them for you at will-call at the door.