Welcome to the Chamber Music Partnership
Members of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble include (from left to right above): Anna Presler, Tom Nugent, Phyllis Kamrin, Michael Goldberg, Leighton Fong, Kurt Rohde, Stacey Pelinka, Eric Zivian, Michel Taddei, Jerome Simas, Tanya Tomkins.
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble is a versatile group of twelve musicians that performs in different combinations. In addition to its regular season at The Green Room in San Francisco and 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, the ensemble has performs special concerts for other presenters such as the Other Minds Festival, Berkeley Chamber Performances, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.Left Coast presents chamber music, new and old. Concerts feature new music by well known composers such as Andrew Imbrie, Gyorgy Ligeti, Mario Davidovsky, Jennifer Higdon, Gyorgy Kurtag, and John Adams, plus works by emerging composers like Philippe Bodin, Harold Meltzer, Mei Fang Lin, and Laurie San Martin. Left Coast also presents compositions by ensemble members Kurt Rohde (Artistic Director, violist) and Eric Zivian (pianist). Programs always include important chamber works from previous centuries by composers including John Dowland, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky.The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has received support from such organizations at the San Francisco Grants for the Arts Hotel Tax Fund, Meet the Composer, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Gambs Family Foundation. Concerts are made possible through the generosity of donors and audience members. Each season, Left Coast performs the winning work from their annual composition contest. Read reviews of recent concerts.