Earplay Trio: Chamber Music of Peter Josheff
Sun, Feb 16
|Berkeley Piano Club
A special program of trio, duo, and solo compositions by clarinetist Peter Josheff, one of Earplay's founding members. Also featuring Earplayers Tod Brody, flutes, and Brenda Tom, piano, with special guests Wilford Kelly, baritone, and Thalia Moore, spoken voice (no cello this time!).
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2025, 8:00 PM
Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
About the event
PURCHASE TICKETS ($32 general admission; $10 students)
Sorry, this concert will not be live streamed
Join us for this special concert featuring the chamber music works of Earplay clarinetist Peter Josheff! He will be joined by fellow Earplayers Tod Brody, flutes/piccolo, Brenda Tom, piano, and Thalia Moore, spoken voice (taking a break from cello this show!), along with special guest Wilfred Kelly, baritone.
Peter Josheff, composer and clarinetist, has been a mainstay of the northern California new music community for forty years. He is a founding member of Earplay (1985) and of Sonic Harvest (2000). He is a core member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble (at UC Davis), the Eco Ensemble (at UC Berkeley), and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. He performs frequently with Opera Parallele, and is an Instructor of Clarinet at the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter's music has been performed by many ensembles and individual performers: the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra (The Dream Mechanic); the Farallon Quintet (Groundhog Day); Earplay (House & Garden Tales, Sextet, Waiting, Big Brother); the Empyrean Ensemble (Prosperous Soul - Gregarious Heart, Viola & Mallets); Dan Flanagan, violin (September, Same Old Sadness); Rufus Olivier, bassoon (Elegy, Dewy not - dewy got); Haruka Fujii, percussion (Home Brew); Brenda Tom Vahur, piano (Sutro Tower in the Fog, Warped Oracle, Rag Wrung Dry, Exquisite Corpus); Brian Thorsett, tenor (The Cauldron, The Dream Mechanic, Europa & The Bull); and many others, including numerous premieres with Sonic Harvest. He recently completed Root Cellar (2024), a work for solo piano.
A little bit about the music from Peter...
Sutro Tower in the Fog (2011)
A meditation on the grotesque majesty of that ubiquitous Bay Area landmark. One my most performed works. Brenda, Tod and I have played it a lot.
Root Cellar (2024)
A brand new solo piano piece, dedicated to Brenda.
Air (formerly Big Brother) (2014)
An easygoing exploration of the wonderful low register of the piccolo, written for Tod.
Caught Between Two Worlds (2003, 2009)
For spoken voice (Thalia), baritone (Wilford) and the trio. Three interrelated poems by my mother, Dorothy Cary. A story of deep family history and memory.
Images from the Past, Warped Oracle, Rag Wrung Dry and Exquisite Corpus
Selections from four books of songs for spoken voice and piano (2018-2023). Settings of my own poems, dreams, nature writing, stories, journal entries.
Overture from 3 Hands (2003)
“Ice Cream” Aria from 3 Hands (2003) libretto by Jaime Robles
Six cheerful good-natured guys play three hands of poker. During the game Alex (Wilford) tells of his feelings for a girl working in an ice cream shop he visits while rebuilding an old cottage.
PERFORMERS
Tod Brody, flutes
Peter Josheff, clarinets and spoken voice
Brenda Tom, piano
and special guests:
Thalia Moore, spoken voice
Wilford Kelly, baritone
