Chamber Music San Francisco Presents Anderson & Roe

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (6 April 2018) — Chamber Music San Francisco launches its new summer series with performances by the dynamic piano duo Anderson & Roe. Known for their adrenalized performances, original compositions, and sensational music videos, Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe will bring Bay Area audiences a program of dramatic piano duets, with performances 3:00pm, Sunday, June 3 in Walnut Creek; 7:30pm, Monday, June 4 in Palo Alto; and 8:00pm, Tuesday, June 5 in San Francisco (venues/addresses listed below). For tickets, visit www.chambermusicSF.org. Walnut Creek tickets are available by calling (925) 943-7469, while Palo Alto and San Francisco tickets are available by calling (415) 392-4400.

Described as “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “rock stars of the classical music world” (Miami Herald), and “the very model of complete 21st-century musicians” (The Washington Post), Anderson & Roe aspires to make classical music a relevant and powerful force in society. Released to critical acclaim, their albums on the Steinway Label (When Words Fade, An Amadeus Affair, and The Art of Bach) have spent dozens of weeks at the top of the Billboard Classical Charts, while their Emmy-nominated, self-produced music videos have been viewed by millions on YouTube and at international film festivals.

Since forming their dynamic musical partnership in 2002 at the Juilliard School, Anderson & Roe have toured extensively worldwide as recitalists and orchestral soloists, presented international symposiums, and appeared on MTV, PBS, NPR, and the BBC. Highlights of the 2017/18 season include concerts throughout North America (including their Kennedy Center debut), Europe, Asia, and New Zealand; concerto appearances with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic; the release of their latest album, Mother Muse; and webcast hosting for the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

The program will feature works including Mozart’s Grand Scherzo, Rachmaninov’s Suite No. 1, Op. 5, Ravel’s La valse, Piazzolla’s Suite Punta Del Este, Gluck’s Melodie, and Bizet’s Carmen Fantasy.

Chamber Music San Francisco, which debuted in Spring 2004, was founded by Daniel Levenstein and has since established itself as one of the premier purveyors of classical music in Northern California, every year earning critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience response. “We have been enormously gratified by the warm welcome given to us by the public during our first fifteen seasons in San Francisco, our twelve seasons in Walnut Creek, and our ten seasons on the Peninsula,” Levenstein states. “The economies of scale generated by integrating three concert series mean that everybody wins: the artists, our organization, and (especially) the audiences. We are looking forward to expanding our operations into the month of June, which is traditionally a lull period between the end of the regular season the start of festival season. We see an opportunity to fill a need, and we are excited in 2018 to fill the gap with musical offerings at our usual level of quality.”