KATE STENBERG, Violin
SILVIE JENSEN, Mezzo-soprano
Plus special guest:
D’ARCY REYNOLDS, Pianist & Composer
PROGRAM
Gustav Holst – Four Songs for Voice and Violin, opus 35 (1920)
Vaughan Williams – Along the Field (1954)
I. We’ll to the Woods no More
II. Along the Field
III. In the Half-moon Westers Low
IV. In the Morning
V. The Sigh That Heaves the Grasses
VI. Good-bye
VII. When Lads Come Home from Labour
VIII. With Rue my Heart is Laden
Vaughan Williams – Two English Folk Songs (1935)
No. I Searching for Lambs
No. II The Lawyer
Howard Boatwright (1968)
Black is the Color
One Morning in May
Marga Richter – Two Chinese Songs (1952)
The Hermit
Fishing Picture
Mazdak Khamda (2016)
Live Naked
Down a Narrow Street
D’Arcy Reynolds – Prayer for Joe’s Taco Lounge (2019)
PERFORMER BIOS
“Marvelous,” “elegant,” “beautiful”—so has the New York Times described mezzo-soprano SILVIE JENSEN. Ms. Jensen has appeared recently with the SF Symphony, as alto soloist in St John Passion, as the Nurse in Boris Godunov, and as alto soloist in the Bach Magnificat. Ms. Jensen has recently been engaged with Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with Island City Opera and the Mendocino Music Festival; with American Chamber Opera in Chicago as Carmen; with One World Symphony as Olga in Eugene Onegin, and has premiered new operas with Riverside Opera, Stonington Opera House, at the Ostrava Days Festival the in Czech Republic, and at the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. She has created and performed new works at London’s Barbican Centre with Ornette Coleman, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara with Meredith Monk, and Carnegie Hall with Philip Glass. Ms. Jensen made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall singing St. Matthew Passion with Ivan Fischer and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She also appeared at Carnegie Hall as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Musica Sacra. She has appeared in recital in New York at Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Space, Americas Society, Liederkranz Club, The Stone, Bonhams, Nicholas Roerich Museum, The Cell Theatre, and at the Ethical Humanist Society in Philadelphia. Her solo album Who Is Silvie? is available on iTunes.
KATE STENBERG’S violin playing has been described as “highly virtuosic and deeply communicative…full of character and presence” (NewMusicBox), as heard in performances in a dozen countries and on numerous CDs from New World Records, Sono Luminous, Newport Classics, Other Minds and New Albion labels. She is a leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music having premiered over a hundred works, including pieces incorporating multi-media and improvisation. As a “Bay Area new-music luminary” (San Francisco Chronicle) Stenberg has commissioned, recorded and premiered new works by Peter Sculthorpe, Chinary Ung, Ronald Bruce Smith, Tania Leon, Charles Amirkhanian, Per Nørgård, Kui Dong and many others. Kate Stenberg developed and produced new chamber music as co-founder of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Real Vocal String Quartet and from 1995-2015 she served as the first violinist of the award winning Del Sol String Quartet where she fostered the string quartet repertoire through collaboration and the commissioning of established and emerging composers. Del Sol Quartet was two time top winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Currently, Stenberg performs regularly with “sterling pianist” Sarah Cahill. Newly formed in 2016, the Stenberg|Cahill Duo is dedicated to promoting the American experimental tradition and expanding it through the commissioning of new work. Recent appearances include performances at the San Francisco Performances PIVOT Series and the Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive.
D’ARCY REYNOLDS is an award-winning composer and pianist based in Marin County. Ensembles including the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Sontonga, Ariel String Quartet, the Picasso Ensemble, and New Music Works have performed her chamber music. Her work has been represented at several new music festivals, including the Festival of New American Music at CSUS, Derriere Guard Festival, and Music in the Mountains in Nevada City. Her interest in world music goes back to her college years when she studied North Indian raga with Pandit Pran Nath at Mills College. Since that time she has composed music based on Indian Ragas, South African field recordings, Cuban and Puerto Rican harmonies and rhythms, and the tango. She toured South Africa with the Sontonga Quartet on a Meet The Composer global Connections grant and was featured in the DVD ‘Inner Landscape’ filmed in Nieu Bethesda at Helene Martin’s Owl House.
NOON CONCERT SERIES INFORMATION
For the past 5 years we have offered complimentary classical concerts every Wednesday featuring renowned musicians from around the world. Thank you so much to all who joined us and performed for us over these past seasons. You have helped make this concert series a special place where community and friends can gather for the love of live music and discover something new and beautiful each and every week.
Throckmorton Theatre is determined to offer the inspiration of live music to every community member, regardless of financial ability. Thus we offer these concerts free of charge to the public, however we pay all performers and incur costs to produce these events. We are incredibly grateful for any and all donations and we also welcome sponsorships of any level.
Concerts are approximately an hour long and most performances take place in the Tivoli room, where both the audience and musicians can sit in close proximity, creating an intimate concert setting. Please take a look at our calendar of these special events and join us!
