Join us for this special Berkeley concert featuring the works of Earplay clarinetist Peter Josheff, along with several of your favorite Earplayers and many special guests.

This from Peter about the concert:

The focus will be on two expansive dramatic works – INFERNO Instrumental Suite for "Pierrot" + viola, and The Dream Mechanic, a large-ensemble setting of poems by Carol V. Hamilton; along with a concise miniature, Groundhog Day for clarinet quintet.

As always these concerts feature performances by my close friends and colleagues – the very best of our wonderful Bay Area classical performance scene:

Chad Somers, tenor

Jessie Nucho, flute

Sarah Rathke, oboe

Peter Josheff, clarinet

Jarratt Rossini, bassoon

Dan Flanagan, violin

Jooyeon Kong, violin

Ellen Ruth Rose, viola

Michael Graham, cello

Richard Worn, double bass

Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Jonathan Khuner, conductor

About Peter Josheff

Peter Josheff, composer and clarinetist, has been a mainstay of the northern California new music community for forty years. He is a founding member of Earplay (1985) and of Sonic Harvest (2000). He is a core member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble (at UC Davis), the Eco Ensemble (at UC Berkeley), and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. He performs frequently with Opera Parallèle and West Edge Opera.

Peter's music has been performed by many ensembles and individual performers: the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra (The Dream Mechanic); the Farallon Quintet (Groundhog Day); Earplay (House & Garden Tales, Sextet, Waiting, Big Brother); the Empyrean Ensemble (Prosperous Soul - Gregarious Heart, Viola & Mallets); Dan Flanagan, violin (September, Same Old Sadness); Rufus Olivier, bassoon (Elegy, Dewy not - dewy got); Haruka Fujii, percussion (Home Brew); Brenda Tom Vahur, piano (Sutro Tower in the Fog, Warped Oracle, Rag Wrung Dry, Exquisite Corpus); Brian Thorsett, tenor (The Cauldron, The Dream Mechanic, Europa & The Bull); and many others, including numerous premieres with Sonic Harvest. He recently completed Root Cellar (2024), a work for solo piano.

In his spare time Peter is an amateur guitarist/singer/songwriter.