Upcoming Events

Kronos Music: The Future is Now

Kronos and student musicians from the Oakland School for the Arts (OSA), Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of The Arts (SOTA), and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) perform works from 50 For the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Free and open to the public; first come, first served. Tickets available on the day of the event from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Box Office beginning at 6:30PM. Doors open at 7:00PM.

RUTH ASAWA SOTA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Stephan Thelen / Circular Lines

DRAGON STRING QUARTET (RUTH ASAWA SOTA)
Aftab Darvishi / Daughters of Sol

SFCM WOODWIND QUARTET
Fodé Lassana Diabaté / Sunjata’s Time
I. Sumaworo
IV. Bala Faseke

OSA QUARTET
Aleksandra Vrebalov / My Desert, My Rose

SFCM STRING QUARTET
Lu Yun / Temples in Taiwan
I. Meditation
II. Religious Parade

KRONOS QUARTET
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Rǝqs (Dance)

Nicole Lizée / Another Living Soul

FULL ORCHESTRA
Mario Galeano / Tolo Midi

Wu Man / Two Chinese Paintings: II. Silk and Bamboo (Traditional, inspired by Huanlege)

All works on tonight’s program were commissioned as part of the Kronos Performing Arts  Association’s 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.

ABOUT
This annual event brings together students from the San Francisco Unified School District, musicians from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Kronos. A student quartet from Oakland School for the Arts joins for the first time this year. They will all perform works selected from 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, an education and legacy project that is commissioning—and distributing online for free—50 new works for string quartet that are composed by 25 women and 25 men from around the world and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. This concert is the culmination of hours of coaching sessions between the middle and high school students, SFCM students, and Kronos.