• Eric Hamilton, guitar
• Todd Billeci, liuto cantabile

Her Majesty's Noyse is a unique plucked string ensemble combining classical guitar with the rarely heard liuto cantabile, a ten-string mandocello. Audiences will delight in the clarity and tonal palette brought to this program of early music including works attributed to King Alphonso X The Wise (1221-1284), John Dowland (1563-1626), J.S. Bach (1685-1750), and others.

• Alice Benjamin, bassoon
• David Granger, bassoon
• with
• Tod Brody, flute
• William Benjamin, oboe
• William Wohlmacher, clarinet
• Ward Spangler, percussion
• Ellen Wasserman, piano

Created by Alice Benjamin and David Granger in 1998, Tree Talk presents music for two bassoons, a combination often overlooked by today's composers and audiences, in a format the instruments so richly deserve–as soloists. They will perform Bohuslav Martinů's Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and two bassoons, Paul Chihara's Branches for two bassoons and percussion, and works by Georges Bizet, Alan Hovhaness and others.

• Amy Brodo, 'cello
• LaDene Otsuki, piano

Colorful, rhythmic, passionate! Cellist Amy Brodo and pianist LaDene Otsuki perform Benjamin Britten’s Sonata in C, Op.65, full of twists and turns and the beginnings of extended techniques; Alberto Ginastera’s evocative Pampeana No.2, Rhapsody and César Franck’s sweet and passionate Sonata in A major.

Aaron Blumenfeld's art songs have long been the favorite of concert goers throughout the Bay Area. His thirty-five songs on poems by Bay Area poets have made a profound impression. This concert, Songs of Remembrance and Farewell on poems by the composer, is sure to touch many hearts. Featuring soprano Pamela Hicks, tenor Ray Chavez and pianist Vicki Trimbach.

The Twelve Fantasias for flute by Georg Phillipp Telemann are miniature suites of highly charged and differentiated feelings. These pieces are so well known that most flutists could play them backwards while dancing the gigue. Flutist Elizabeth-Baptista Gaston brings a new and profoundly earthy humour to the whole… to entice the heart and mind, chocolate nibs will be served between ‘sweets’.

• Joseph Edelberg, violin
• Katherine Kyme, violin
• Anthony Martin, viola
• Thalia Moore, 'cello
• with
• Ian Swenson, violin

Join these celebrated Bay Area musicians for a special holiday concert of sonatas and pastorales by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Purcell.

• Jennifer Paulino, soprano
• Annette Bauer, recorders
• Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba
• Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord

This Baroque ensemble was formed in the spring of 2008 in order to explore 17th and 18th century music. The ensemble’s performances are equally inspired by the four young artists’ passionate musicianship and their collective study of historical performance practices at leading conservatories in Europe and the US.

Composer/tubist Tom Heasley’s solo compositions for electro-acoustic tuba, didjeridu and voice veer toward the meditative and transporting side of contemporary music, being simultaneously avant-garde/experimental and very listenable for audiences as diverse as The Oberlin Conservatory and San Quentin Penitentiary.

“Tom Heasley’s mesmerizing bit of loop-based, ambient tuba playing brought an ethereal beauty from the underrated instrument.”– Joseph Woodard, L.A. Times

Tanya Plescia is a concert pianist and composer who is described as sensitive and one who plays from her heart. Her interpretations of the classics are unique yet pure. Her original compositions are like nothing you’ve ever heard before – one reviewer described her piano solo Geary Street “like a musical trip through rush hour traffic, punctuated by moments of clarity and serenity.”

• Sarah Bell, mandolin
• Joshua Bell, mandolin, mandola
• Todd Billeci, mandocello
• Eric Hamilton, guitar
• Howard Kadis, mandolin, guitar, archlute
• Tony Kaye, mandolin, guitar
• Nicola Swinburne, mandolin
• with special guest
• Achille Bocus

This event brings together some of the Bay Area's best classical mandolinists with special guest Achille Bocus, Director of the Milan Plucked String Orchestra of Italy. Their exclusively baroque repertoire includes works of Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Giuliano and Giovanni Battista Gervasio and features mandolin, mandola, mandocello, guitar and archlute.

• David Hogan Smith, director
• Robert H. Cronin
• James Kafka
• Alan Paul

The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes is pleased to present a program of Renaissance music for wind instruments performed on complete consorts of shawms with sackbuts, crumhorns and recorders. The group is particularly proud of its crumhorns, acquired and maintained by David Hogan Smith, which replicate the complete set on display in the Musée Instrumental in Brussels.

• MaryClare Brzytwa, flute, prepared piano, electronics
• Annie Lewandowski, prepared piano, voice

Two Cherries presents an evening of original music created specifically for Trinity Chamber Concerts. Annie Lewandowski will perform the first set, presenting her works for voice and prepared piano. MaryClare Brzytwa will then perform the second set: compositions for flute, prepared piano and electronics.

With technical skill and musical grace, singer Yolanda Rhodes has a unique style that blends classical, improvisation, elements of jazz, and a touch of storytelling. Yolanda’s performance will include jazz standards, arias, Negro spirituals, art songs and original compositions.

• Barbara Riccardi, violin
• Katherine Button, violin
• Jonna Hervig, viola
• Victor Fierro, 'cello

The Temescal String Quartet offers, in its inaugural Trinity concert, a program of Haydn, Beethoven and Prokofiev. The compositions all derive from the question, "Muss es sein?" ("Must it be?") and its response "es muss sein" ("It must be").

• Gail Edwards, director

The San Francisco State University Flute Choir explores music drawn from Renaissance through modern works in settings specifically composed for flute choir as well as arrangements of many well-loved melodies. The group includes c flute, piccolo, alto, and bass flute in various combinations.

• Ruth Onstadt, soprano
• Maquette Kuper, flute
• Robert Bloch, violin
• Rejean Anderson, 'cello
• Susan Erickson, harpsichord

The California Baroque Ensemble is known for its extensive and varied baroque repertoire including newly found manuscripts as well as traditional editions by composers of the period.

Pianist Maho Nabeshima has given solo and chamber music recitals in Japan, Germany and the United States, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, and Hamarikyu Asahi Hall. She was a featured pianist on the Steinway Society Concert Series in Pittsburgh, PA, the Walden School Concert Series in Dublin, NH, as well as on the Liszt Gala Concert hosted by the American Liszt Society in San Francisco, CA. Her repertoire highlights colorful works from the past, from Bach to Messiaen, as well as the sounds and textures explored by composers of the present.

• David Granger, dulcian
• Andrew Fouts, violin
• Edwin Huizinga, violin
• Jonathan Davis, harpsichord and organ

Passamezzo Moderno is an early music ensemble committed to providing their audiences the highest caliber performances on period instruments in historically authentic style. They will be performing their program Ostinato! which features 17th century instrumental music based on popular tunes and bass lines of the time. Included are the tunes Ruggerio, La Monica, and La Bergamasca, as well as passamezzos, chaconnes, and passacaglias. Composers include Tarquinio Merula, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Salamone Rossi and others.