January 4
Pianists Jerry Kuderna and Suzanne Bradbury, and counter-tenor Don Krim, present Claude Debussy's Preludes, Maurice Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso, Carlos Guastavino's La Rosa y el Sauce, and Peter Lieberson's Five Pablo Neruda Songs. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 5
Squonk Duo and the Hurd Ensemble. Lost Church, San Francisco, CA.
January 6
Guy Barash (Laptop and electronics), Daniel Davidovsky (Electronics), Ilia Silzov (Guitars), Yakir Sasson (Saxophones, Percussion and Toys). Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
January 11
Joan Jeanrenaud's Your Body Is Not a Shark. ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA.
David T. Little's Soldier Songs. Michael Schimmer Center for the Arts, New York, NY.
January 12
Chris Forsythe, Blood Wedding, and the Heule/Shelton/Wick Trio. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 13
Fortnightly Music Club. George Gershwin's Three Preludes, and Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuitand Sonata for Violin and Cello. Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto, CA.
January 16
Josh Allen, solo tenor saxophone and Deconstruction Orchestra. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 19
Pianist Sarah Cahill. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 20
Pianist Greg Goodman and the Cremaschi/Goodheart/Ingalls Trio. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 23
Dirtier: Bloom Project, saxophonist Rent Romus and pianist Thollem McDonas. Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 26
Opus 1: A multi-media event including Claude Debussy's Symphonie (1880), Arnold Schoenberg's Two Songs, Op. 1 (1898), Bela Bartok's Rhapsody for Piano, Op. 1 (1904), Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Eb, Op. 1 (1907), Anton Webern's Passacaglia, Op. 1 (1908), Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1909), Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 1 (1909), Dmitri Shostakovich's Scherzo in F-Sharp Minor for Orchestra, Op. 1 (1919), Alan Hovhaness's Oror, Op. 1 (1926), and Mark Alburger's Psalm 6, Op. 1 (1975). Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.
January 31
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents Cool Music -- Clear Water: George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae, Toru Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea, and water-themed selections from Debussy’s Images, along with world premieres by Eun Young Lee, Jen Wang, and Ramteen Sazegari. Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA.
