Josheff Fest vol. 4
Sat, Dec 05
|St. John’s Presbyterian Church
A special Berkeley show! Featuring 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.
Time & Location
Dec 05, 2026, 7:00 PM
St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
PURCHASE TICKETS ($32 general admission; $10 students)
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.
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano Sarah Rathke, oboe