Coming Up

A selection of upcoming performances in the Bay Area:

• String quartets by Michael Kaulkin, Alexis Alrich, Claire Twohy, and Clark Suprynowicz; performed by the new Eidolon Quartet at Berkeley's Crowden School. May 9, 2009, 8 p.m., $15
  
• Pocket Opera peforms Handel's Alcina at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in SF on May 3, and  Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor, on April 26 (tomorrow!) at the Legion of Honor and on May 9 at the Julia Morgan in Berkeley.
  
• AVE (Artist's Vocal Ensemble) sings a program called California Fusion, which looks at music that has influenced California's musical palette. I do not recognize any of the composers listed in the press release as a Californian, but they're a varied bunch! Poulenc, Vaughn Williams, Sixten, Gesualdo, "and others." They're performing at St. Mark's, Berkeley, on Friday, May 29 at 8 p.m. and St. Ignatius, San Francisco, on Saturday, May 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20/$10.