Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) is set to present its 19th season. This article only features vocal events. “Exile | Banishment | Home” features sopranos Nanette McGuinness and Carina Kahane and mezzo-soprano Melinda Martinez, with instrumentalists Megan Chartier, Margaret Halbig, Aria Shum, Taylor Robinson, Zoe King, and Eddie Virtgaym, along with narrator Alex Malinas. This concert includes works by Shostakovich, {…}
(Photo credit: Martyn Selman) Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) announces its 2025-26 and 18th home season. This article only features vocal concerts. “Lines, Circles + Spirals” features works by Karim Al-Zand, Clarice Assad, Anna Clyne, inti figgis-vizueta, Hannah Ishizaki, and more. Soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Megan Chartier, pianist Margaret Halbig, and violinist Maya Victoria perform. Performance Date: November 7, 2025 {…}
Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) is set to perform “Women in Transit,” its newest commissioning initiative and the centerpiece of the group’s 2024- 25 season. The multimedia musical evening explores women’s migration and identity in a program featuring three instrumental commissioned world premieres by Opera America Discovery Grant recipient Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Han Lash, and Tamara McLeod. Also on the program {…}
(Photo credit: Michael Halberstadt) Chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) was awarded a Silver Medal in the Global Music Awards for the group’s recording of “Émigrés & Exiles in Hollywood.” E4TT’s fifth recording is the result of a multi-year exploration via the group’s “Jewish Music & Poetry Project.” “Émigrés & Exiles in Hollywood” features music by many of {…}
For its 2024-25 home season, Ensemble for These Times presents “Women in Transit.” This article only includes vocal performances. Opening the 17th anniversary season is “In Motion.” The concert features world premieres by Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Mary Bianco, as well as works by Benjamin Britten, York Bowen, Lisa Bielawa, Vivian Fung, Sage Shurman, and Zhou Tian, with {…}
(Photo credit: Michael Halberstadt) E4TT’s annual commissions concert,”Expression: Ism” is set to take place at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on April 5. Soprano and E4TT co-founder Nanette McGuinness and emerita pianist Dale Tsang give the world premiere of a new chamber arrangement by Alban Berg’s “Sieben Frühe Lieder,” by TJ Martin. They are joined by guest artists vibraphonist {…}
San Francisco-based Ensemble for These Times, comprised of soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, pianist Margaret Halbig, and composer David Garner, has unveiled its 2023-24 season. Kicking off the season is “Transformations.” The showcase features works by Schoenberg, Lisa Bielawa, inti figgis-vizueta, ad Franz Schreker. Performance Date: Sept. 22, 2023 “Quiet: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers” will feature works {…}
San Francisco-based Ensemble for these Times has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of these articles, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. First up will be “Celestrios” which includes music by Elena Ruehr, Arthur Gottschalk, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Bohuslav Martinu, Yaz Lancaster, Tina Davidson, and David Garner. Among the pieces in the program will be Gottschalk’s “Beat” {…}