Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 3

Back on both sides of the Bay by popular demand, E4TT emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang performs 13 works chosen in E4TT's 2026 Call for Scores in SF (October 18) and Berkeley (October 25).

Exile | Banishment | Home

Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry (selections, sung in the poetry's original Yiddish) and twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted by emerging composer Alex Malinas speak to the duality of being home and yet not home, plus new music by Andrea Casarrubios, Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby, Mary Bianco and David Garner.

With Carina Kahane, soprano, Melinda Martinez Becker, mezzo-soprano, Alex Malinas, narrator, Aria Shum, violin, Taylor Robinson, flute/piccolo; Zoe King, clarinet, and Eddie Virtgaym, percussion

Hollywood Exiles & Modern Noir

New tributes to film noir by movie mavens Germaine Franco (Encanto) and Lars Deutsch (The Passenger) meet E4TT's much-loved "Émigrés & Exiles in Hollywood" series, featuring Schoenberg's atmospheric masterpiece Verklaerte Nacht (arr., piano trio).

With Jessica Folson, violin

HOME

E4TT's seventh collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music explores the meaning of home with four World Premieres—commissions by emerging composers Max Marcus, Max Tafoya, and Zoe Yost and the winner in the E4TT/SFCM multimedia student composition—and variations on America the Beautiful by Tyson Gholston Davis, Reena Esmail, Jake Heggie, and Juri Seo, plus music by Clarice Assad.

With Jessica Folson, violin

Inspiración: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers

E4TT's annual favorite returns, featuring three commissions as part of Luna Lab@10, plus works by Chen Yi, Gabriela Lena Frank, Edna Alejandra Longoria, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Mari Esabel Valverde.

With Ani Bukujian, violin