Strobe Quartet Strobe, formed in 2016, is an award-winning oboe quartet (oboe, violin, viola, and cello), receiving grants from Chamber Music America, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, InterMusicSF, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Strobe’s mission to expand the repertoire for quartet has resulted in six new works and a CD, and performances in places as varied as Herbst Theater and San Quentin.

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Strobe Quartet

Berkeley City Club

Noon Concert: Chamber Music 2026

UC Berkeley Department of Music

Chamber music visionaries, ambassadors, impresarios, and virtuosos—as co-directors of both Music@Menlo and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han are a ubiquitous presence on both coasts. The energy they bring to their leadership in the arts is matched only by the powerful synergy of their duo performances.

David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Among the most nimble ensembles in contemporary music today, the adventurous JACK Quartet visits with a kaleidoscopic program of new and recent works by living composers. The group is known for the fierce commitment and virtuosity it brings to a range of innovative and idiosyncratic repertoire—in a landscape where each piece and each composer challenges the players with novel techniques, sounds, and approaches to their music making.

JACK Quartet

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Circadian Quartet Circadian Quartet Bay Area based Circadian String Quartet was founded in 2013 to perform classical and contemporary repertoire of folkloric or cultural significance. CSQ has become known for bold high-quality programming ideas that break boundaries or reach across cultures. Circadian will perform a program of modern and traditional quartets interspersed with delightful klezmer music selections.

Circadian Quartet

Lafayette Library - Contra Costa County Library

As it enters its 51st season, the renowned Takács Quartet continues to deepen its connections to timeless masterworks and enliven the string quartet repertoire through fresh artistic collaborations.

Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola

The Hiraga Wyrick Merks (HWM) String Quartet brings together recently retired SFS musicians Amy Hiraga and Peter Wyrick, SF Ballet violinist Mayumi Hiraga Wyrick, and SF Ballet concertmaster Cordula Merks.

HWM Quartet

An all Beethoven program featuring his Sonatas No. 5 and No. 9 for Violin and Piano and Romance in F major

Noon Concert: Chamber Music for Piano and Strings

Praised for its “total commitment” (The Strad) as an ensemble and for “exquisitely unified playing” (Washington Classical Review), the fabulous Isidore Quartet returns with a program that combines familiar repertoire with an exciting recent discovery. Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution mines contrasting musical influences to explore, in her words, “new ways of looking at old things.” Haydn’s burnished and brilliant Sunrise quartet represents the height of his mastery, and Dvořák’s joyful penultimate quartet in G major is bursting with color and lyricism.

Isidore Quartet

Since its founding 50 years ago, the peerless Kronos Quartet has revolutionized what a string quartet can be. Through collaborations with musicians and composers across the globe, robust commissioning initiatives, pace-setting educational programs, and just plain stellar musicianship, Kronos has made concert music relevant and responsive to the people and issues of our time.

Kronos Quartet

Cal Performances

Noon Concert: Faculty Baroque Chamber Music

Students from the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra perform small ensemble works under the direction of Leighton Fong, featuring works by Hindemith and Webern.

Friday Concert: Chamber Music of Brahms

René Mandel, Berkeley Symphony’s former Executive and Artistic Director, presents A Viennese Sojourn, highlighting the music that tremendously influenced the Western classical canon. As one of the orchestra’s acting concertmasters, René brings his confident virtuosity into the intimate chamber music setting to envelop the audience in the sounds of the first Viennese school. The Berkeley Symphony & Friends chamber series would not be where it is today without the visionary leadership from René’s tenure.

Berkeley Symphony Chamber Music: A Viennese Sojourn

The Freight

Experience the innovative sounds of the Owls string quartet at Cal Performances during the 2024-25 season. This unique ensemble, featuring the creative talents of Alexi Kenney (violin), Ayane Kozasa (viola), Gabriel Cabezas (cello), and Paul Wiancko (cello), is set to captivate audiences with their original arrangements and deep investment in each piece they perform. The concert will take place on April 13, 2025, at 3pm in the acoustically renowned Hertz Hall.

The Owls' repertoire for this performance includes a diverse mix of compositions, showcasing works by cellist Paul Wiancko, Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, minimalism pioneer Terry Riley, jazz legend Chick Corea, indie rock duo Trollstilt, and French Baroque composer François Couperin. Highlights of the program include Corea's "Children’s Song No. 12," Wiancko's "Vox Petra" and "When the Night," Ali-Zadeh's "Rəqs," Couperin's "Les Barricades Mystérieuses," Trollstilt's "Ricercar," and Riley's "Good Medicine from Salome Dances for Peace."

Tickets for this one-of-a-kind performance start at $74, with season subscriptions available now and single tickets going on sale on August 6 at noon. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the Owls quartet redefine chamber music with their innovative arrangements and captivating performances.

Owls

Five friends and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra All-Stars meet for fun and chamber music one Monday each month. Violinists Liana Berubé & Evan Price, violists Stephanie Ng & Ben Simon and cellist Michael Graham are the Monday Night Chamber Music Society, teaming up for their sixth annual Classical at the Freight program.  A program of terrific viola quintets -no, that’s not 5 violas (unfortunately) but rather 2 violins, 2 violas and cello - for your listening pleasure, including Beethoven’s delightful and surprising early String Quintet in C Major, op. 29 and an practically unknown quintet by the great early 20th century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů.  Unknown, but remarkable!!  Hauntingly beautiful, witty, colorful, and idiosyncratic… a rare musical treat to end our Classical at the Freight season.

Classical at the Freight: The Monday Night Chamber Music Society

Friday Concert: Chamber Music for Piano and Strings

Students from the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra perform small ensemble works under the direction of Leighton Fong

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