“Call For Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 2" Now on Both Sides of the Bay! at Community Music Center San Francisco

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times is excited to announce that thanks to a generous grant from the Ross McKee Foundation, the group’s upcoming piano recital, “Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 2” will now receive TWO performances—one on each side of the Bay. This fantastic program, to be performed by E4TT emerita pianist extraordinaire, Dale Tsang, in one not to be missed. The works by the eleven chosen composers—Alexa Canales, Michael Coleman, Albert de la Fuente, Lilyanne Dorilas, George N. Gianopoulos, Dorothy Hindman, Ye-Chong Jeon, Evans Kocja, Jon Grier Kian Ravaei, Judith Shatin—form what Tsang describes as “a varied program that is full of originality, intelligence, enthusiasm and beauty.” The program will take place first in Berkeley on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. PT at the Berkeley Piano Club, followed by a second performance in San Francisco on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. PT at the Community Music Center. The concerts can be attended online (free, donations welcome) and in-person ($5-30, no one turned away for lack of ability to pay), with tickets/RSVPS and information available on E4TT’s website.

Following her wildly successful first solo piano Call for Scores for Ensemble for These Times in 2022, E4TT emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang will return in 2025 to perform eleven works chosen from the group’s second Call for Scores for solo piano. This time, the group received double the number of scores from its prior Call for Scores for solo piano, with roughly 110 scores from 50 composers arriving in the official two-week submission window. Scores came from composers in 12 countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Iceland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and the US) and 18 states in the U.S., and the composers ranged from students to established composers to professionals in non-musical fields.