Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  4/17/2026

End Date:

  4/17/2026

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Ensemble for These Times explores women's immigration and identity in a multimedia concert of contemporary chamber music, featuring:

*"Field of Sorrow," a new work for soprano, cello, and piano by Indian-Honkongese composer Juhi Bansal, setting translations of landays (women's poetry from Afghanistan)
*a new commission for found-object percussion and flute by Chinese-Canadian composer Vivian Fung
*a new commission for violin, cello, found-object percussion, and tape by SF composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z
*the winner of the E4TT/TAC multimedia student composition competition
"Say It In Your Heart, Say It In Your Sleep" (2023) for solo piano by Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti and
*"Liminality" (2021) for solo cello by Chinese-American Sofia Jen Ouyang.

The culmination of E4TT's latest commissioning project, "Women Crossing/Liminality," is the group's sixth collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department.

Pre-concert talk with Pamela Z and Vivian Fung at 7 p.m.

Performed by E4TT (pianist Margaret Halbig, cellist Margaret Chartier, with percussionist Haruka Fujii, violinist Lylia Guion, soprano Bryana Marrero, flutist Stacey Pelinka, and composer-performer and media artist Pamela Z)


Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times focuses on 20th and 21st century music that is relevant, engaging, original, and compelling, music that resonates today and will speak to tomorrow. E4TT strongly believes in the power of artistic beauty, intelligence, wit, lyricism, and irony to create a deep understanding of our times and the human condition. Women creators are an ongoing primary focus.

https://e4tt.org/crossing.html

Location:

  San Francisco Conservatory of Music Bowes Center

Room:

Address:

  200 Van Ness Ave

Phone:

  510-684-0505

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA