With the 2011-12 season coming to a close, we’re already gearing up for next season’s excitement. We have so many things to share with our lovely audiences this year, and we can’t wait to let you in on the fun!

The summer has us teaching at the Crowden Music Center‘s adult chamber music workshop from July 21-25. Then we are hopping in the car and taking a road trip out to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for our second year as ensemble in residence at the Dakota Sky International Piano Festival. We will be teaching all week and then closing out the festival with our concert on August 4 — there’s no better way to end a summer than with some trios by Haydn and Dvorak, and then a collaboration with our friends in Sioux Falls on Schubert’s Trout Quintet.

In the fall, we are starting a residency on the Old First Concerts series. Our first concert will be September 23, and will be kicking off the premieres of the commissioning project we’ve been working so hard on through this past winter and spring. We will be sharing much more information about this as the time gets nearer!

Many more wonderful things are happening through the season, including performances on the Noe Valley Chamber Music series, an appearance on the Artist Series in Sarasota, Florida, and a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. We’ll be sure to keep you updated — the Concerts section of our website will have all of the info you need to come out and join us for some great music!

In honor of your time on this planet, we are at the wonderful Banff Centre for two weeks learning your trios. Thank you for writing such incredibly sublime music!

Thank you to all of you who submitted SFCMIM applications! We are currently processing and should have more information for you mid-February. Wonderful submissions!

Hello to all chamber artists!

Want to concertize in the local Bay Area? Look no further! The Delphi Trio, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Chamber Music in Marin are partnering up to present:

THE SFCM CHAMBER MUSIC IN MARIN EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM!

The program is for serious chamber music groups looking to present a concert in the Bay Area. The program focuses and guides a group through the concertizing process, including programming, publicizing/marketing, and concert/venue management. Culminating in a public concert in the beautiful Novato United Methodist Church, this is a wonderful way to present the chamber music masterworks we all know/want to know and love!

Applications are due January 15. Please see the menu above “SFCMIM” for more details.

The Delphi Trio is excited to announce our upcoming collaborations with three upcoming and fabulously talented composers!

The music of Sahba Aminikia has raw energy and drive, but also hits home with stunning emotional depth. Liana worked closely with Sahba on his second string quartet, and his third string quartet was recently premiered by the Kronos Quartet. Sahba draws influences from jazz and his native Iran, and his music has been described by John Adams as “fabulous, colorful and persuasive.”

Max Stoffregen is a man of fascinating sounds. We’ve known Max for a while, and ran into him most recently while working on a completely unrelated, non-classical project with John Vanderslice this past summer. If you listen to the awesomely weird piano grooves that Max contributed to JV’s White Wilderness, you’ll have an idea of what Max is about – we thought he would come up with something really cool for us, and based on what we’ve seen so far, we were right!

Minna Choi is our artistic and entrepreneurial hero. Her vision and creative powers continue to put us in a state of awe every time we come across her work. Minna is the founder and artistic director of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, where Michelle and Liana have worked with her on a huge variety of projects for the last three years or so. We are so excited to have her on board with this collaboration!

We are going to be presenting all three premieres in the 2012-13 season, so stay tuned for more! We will be posting updates and previews as we begin to explore these new works so you can share in the collaboration and commission experience.

We have a couple more concerts coming up this week, rounding off our fall trio-stravaganza! What a crazy couple of months it’s been…

First up we have:

Chamber Music in Marin
Friday, October 21 8:00 P.M., FREE! (Donations are always welcome, of course!)
Novato United Methodist Church
1473 South Novato Blvd., Novato CA

Then we move on to:

Redlands Chamber Music Society
Sunday, October 23 4:00 P.M. $20
University of Redlands
Frederick Loewe Performance Hall
1200 Colton Ave., Redlands CA
www.redlandschambermusicsociety.com

Both concerts include Mozart, Ravel, and Brahms.

We’re super excited to play these shows and we hope that we’ll see you there!

Delphi Trio is playing at the DeYoung Museum on Sunday, October 16 as part of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music yearly extravaganza.  Admission is free, and there are going to be tons of great groups playing… come check it out!

Delphi will be playing at 11am in the Koret Auditorium.

SFFCM presents Chamber Music Day Live + Free!
Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. FREE!
DeYoung Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA

For more information, visit www.sffcm.org .

Another review about Friday night’s concert at Old First, this time from San Francisco Classical Voice. Some nice tidbits in there, including:

“The Delphi players brought to [Ravel's] masterpiece an impressive dynamic variety, from cataclysmic keyboard fortissimos (accompanied by frenetic bursts of string arpeggios) to ethereal pastel mists singed by softly sustained harmonics.”

“Ravel’s epic, virtuosic trio… received a treatment Friday that was sensitive to both its cinematic scope and its arresting moments of quiet, intimate stasis.”

And:

“LaDeur’s assured virtuosity was complemented by first-rate string playing…”

(and, I’m sorry, I know I played the last chord of the Brahms Scherzo out of tune…! You win some, you lose some…)

Thanks everyone for coming out to our concert last night at Old First Concerts. We hope you enjoyed the evening, we certainly did!  Got a nice write-up from the Examiner, too — check it out. We’ll have more news soon about our October shows!

We’re super excited to be playing this coming Friday at Old First Concerts in San Francisco — that’s right, two concerts in a month that are actually IN the City! If you didn’t make it out to our Sept. 1 concert at the Conservatory (or even if you did, the program is different), come check us out! Program is going to be Mozart K. 548, Ravel, and Brahms B+, Op. 8.

Click here to buy tickets, we’re looking forward to seeing you there!