Ensemble for These Times

Name: Ensemble for These Times
Address: 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Telephone: +15106840505

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55 Taylor St, San Francisco, California 94102, United States

e4tt.org

+15106840505

Events

5 events

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Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 3

Sun, 18 Oct

Dale Tsang performs 13 works chosen in E4TT's 2026 Call for Scores. The concert takes place in San Francisco on October 18 and Berkeley on October 25.

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Exile | Banishment | Home

Sun, 15 Nov

Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry, sung in the poetry's original Yiddish, and twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted by emerging composer Alex Malinas explore the duality of being home and yet not home. The program also includes new music by Andrea Casarrubios, Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby, Mary Bianco and David Garner. Performers include Carina Kahane, soprano, Melinda Martinez Becker, mezzo-soprano, Alex Malinas, narrator, Aria Shum, violin, Taylor Robinson, flute and piccolo, Zoe King, clarinet, and Eddie Virtgaym, percussion.

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Hollywood Exiles & Modern Noir

Sun, 24 Jan

New tributes to film noir by Germaine Franco and Lars Deutsch meet E4TT's "Émigrés & Exiles in Hollywood" series, featuring Schoenberg's atmospheric masterpiece Verklaerte Nacht in a piano trio arrangement. With Jessica Folson, violin.

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HOME

Fri, 9 Apr

E4TT's seventh collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music explores the meaning of home with four World Premieres, commissions by emerging composers Max Marcus, Max Tafoya and Zoe Yost, the winner in the E4TT/SFCM multimedia student composition, and variations on America the Beautiful by Tyson Gholston Davis, Reena Esmail, Jake Heggie and Juri Seo, plus music by Clarice Assad. With Jessica Folson, violin.

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Inspiración: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers

Sat, 15 May

E4TT's annual favorite returns, featuring three commissions as part of Luna Lab@10, plus works by Chen Yi, Gabriela Lena Frank, Edna Alejandra Longoria, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Mari Esabel Valverde. With Ani Bukujian, violin.

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Ensemble for These Times is a contemporary music ensemble presenting adventurous concerts that connect new commissions, emerging composers, and overlooked works with themes of identity, home, exile, and social history. Its programs blend voice, chamber instruments, multimedia collaborations, and reimagined classics.

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