The MANA Quartet
Events Schedule

MANA Quartet recital at San Jose State University Program TBA

November 2nd, 2019 - 7:30 PM - Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY, NY - Joined by mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter, Megalopolis presents the world premiere of music by Jay Schwartz alongside the world premiere of a new work by Molly Herron, and the US premiere of Maurice Karkoff’s Sechs Albumblätter.

November 3rd, 2019 - 3:00 PM - All Saints’ Church, Princeton, NJ - New Jersey debut of the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, featuring the NJ premiere of works by Herron, Karkoff, and Schwartz.

The MANA Quartet joins friends for a fun evening of chamber music on the Peet's Candy Store stage

Works by Glass and Villalta, with new works by Josiah Catalan and two world premieres as part of our season-long collaboration with the Common Sense Composers Collective by Belinda Reynolds and Randy Woolf. Join us!

Guest artist recital - Program TBA Redfern Arts Center, Alumni Recital Hall - 7:30 PM

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 — 8:00 PM Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members & Students Buy Tickets Online Tickets also available at the door MANA Quartet returns to the Bay Area premiering several new works from their recent collaboration with the Common Sense Composer Collective! Featuring west coast premieres of works by Belinda Reynolds, John Halle […]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 — 8:00 PM Tickets: $15 Suggested Donation Tickets available at the door only Composer/pianist/scholar/activist John Halle, the Mana Sax Quartet and Friction String Quartet perform two decades of Halle’s obliterations and reconfigurations of jazz standards by Monk, Rodgers and others. Activist/pianist/scholar/composer John Halle began his musical career as a jazz musician […]

Czech composers have had a major influence on Western music, and you’ll hear why as SJWS performs spellbinding works by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Jaromír Weinberger and Václav Nelhýbel. Plus, the virtuosic Mana Saxophone Quartet performs David DeBoor Canfield’s Concerto After Dvorak. (from http://www.sjws.org/)

Conference Performances Saturday 3/7 2:00 PM in Katzin Hall | MANA Quartet  - *World Premieres* of music by Dan Becker and Gabriel Bolaños 3:40 PM  in Katzin Hall | Diane Hunger - Concert Piece, by Stephen Dankner 4:00 PM in Recital Hall | Michael Mortarotti - Allegro, Cadenza, e Adagio, by Werner Wolf Glaser Sunday 3/8 […]