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Our Fall concert was

C.P.E. in Concert

with the Composers Performance Ensemble

Monika Gruber
Violin
Kris Yenney
Cello
Miles Graber
Piano
Brian Bensing
Flute
Kathleen Nitz Kasdorf
Soprano

Saturday Nov. 4, 2006
at 8 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center

Embarcadero and Newell, Palo Alto

The Composers Performance Ensemble
Anne Baldwin      Salmon Run, for flute and cello
Nurit Barlev      A Dream Within a Dream, for voice and piano
Nurit Barlev      To One in Paradise, for voice and piano
Sondra Clark      Three Sierra Pieces, for violin, cello and piano
Jeff Dunn      Barcarolle, for cello and piano
Lorie Griswold      Time, for soprano voice and piano
Brian Holmes      Higgens is Gone, for soprano voice, violin, cello and piano
Elizabeth Lim      Amaranth, for flute, cello and piano
Dale Victorine      Violin Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
James Lee      The Music of the Spheres, for soprano, flute, violin, cello and piano
** winner of the 2006 NACUSAsf Student Composition Contest **

Admission was: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door


Our Late Spring concert was

The Ives String Quartet

Saturday June 3, 2006
at 8 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center

Embarcadero and Newell, Palo Alto

Ives String Quartet
Anne Baldwin      String Quartet #3, third movement, Fugato
Nurit Barlev      Spring Quartet
Mike Barnett      Music for the Ancient Spirits, third movement, Burned at the Stake
John Beeman      Ives Variations
Sondra Clark      South American Scenes
  1. The Swallows of Santiago
  2. Angel Falls
I’lana Cotton      Dó-Bá Quartet
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      San Andreas Suite
  1. Saratoga
  2. Belmont Hills
  3. Palo Alto

Admission was: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door


Our Mid-Spring concert was

Composers and Friends II

Featuring S.F. Bay NACUSA composers and friends

Sunday, April 30, 2006
at 3 p.m.
Foothill Presbyterian Church

5301 McKee Rd, San Jose 95127

Composers and Friends II
Nancy Bloomer-Deussen      The World is a Butterfly's Wing, for tenor, viola and piano
Semyon Bokman      The Secular Mass, movements III-VII, for soprano and piano
Janice Rathmann      Blue Plate Special, for violin and piano
Bradford Tilden      In the Meadow, for solo piano
Dale Victorine      Sonata for Piano, op. 83

Admission was free, though a donation was requested at the door
For more information call (408) 269-2301


Our Winter concert was

Composers and Friends

Featuring S.F. Bay NACUSA composers and friends

Saturday February 4, 2006
at 8 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center

Embarcadero and Newell, Palo Alto

Composers and Friends
Mike Barnett      Lunar Rhapsody, for piano, first movement
Simon Bokman      The Secular Mass, movements 1 & 2 for soprano and piano
Sondra Clark      South American Dances, for piano fourhands
Nancy Bloomer Deussen      Capriccio, for flute and piano
Max Simoncic      Sonata for Violin & Piano
Bradford Tilden      In the Meadow, for piano

Admission was: $15 general
  $10 students and seniors
For more information call (408) 269-2301
Tickets were available at the door