Upcoming events
Friction Presents: Music about Music
Who said classical music had to be boring?
Sampling? Inspiration? Copycat? Music with other music inside of it. Exciting pieces that think out of the box and break the fourth wall of the classical experience. Music by Dan Becker, Jörg Widmann, Caroline Shaw, Paweł Malinowski, and Toru Takemitsu. This concert is curated by Kevin Rogers.
405 Shrader
Chamber music in an intimate venue. Join Friction Quartet at 405 Shrader, where they will perform a concert featuring the wonderful String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters” by Leoš Janáček.
Crowden 40th Anniversary
An unforgettable showcase of Crowden alumni, mentors, and friends at Hertz Hall, including Bonnie Hampton, Audrey Vardanega, the Friction Quartet, the Catalyst Quartet, and more. This program features perennial Crowden favorites paired with special moments, including a work composed by our greatest benefactor, composer Gordon Getty, and the world premiere of a 40th anniversary commission by alum Samuel Carl Adams ('00), performed by our Crowden School musicians and two acclaimed Crowden violinists: world-renowned concert artist and violin pedagogue Nora Chastain, a student of our founder Anne Crowden, and Crowden alumnus David McCarroll (’99), Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, formerly a member of the famed Vienna Piano Trio.
Nancy Karp + Dancers
Nancy Karp + Dancers is delighted collaborate again with Friction Quartet featuring music by composers Samuel Adams and David A. Jaffe with guest musicians Haruka Fujii on percussion and David A. Jaffe on mandolin and mandocello.
Nancy Karp + Dancers
Nancy Karp + Dancers is delighted collaborate again with Friction Quartet featuring music by composers Samuel Adams and David A. Jaffe with guest musicians Haruka Fujii on percussion and David A. Jaffe on mandolin and mandocello.
Friction Presents: Sundial
New music by some of the most exciting living composers. Quartet by Michael Gilbertson, a work awarded as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Sundial by Samuel Adams, for String Quartet and Vibraphone, and a new work commissioned by Friction Quartet by Emma O'Halloran.
Holidays @ the Mission
Ring in the holiday season with singing, and lots of it! Join the iSing Silicon Valley Girls Chorus along with guests Friction Quartet, Jessie Nucho, Carlos Ortega, Emily Kupitz. Enjoy a festive and fun holiday concert with 300 singers, featuring music from Scandinavia.
Holidays @ the Mission
Ring in the holiday season with singing, and lots of it! Join the iSing Silicon Valley Girls Chorus along with guests Friction Quartet, Jessie Nucho, Carlos Ortega, Emily Kupitz. Enjoy a festive and fun holiday concert with 300 singers, featuring music from Scandinavia.
Friction Presents: Ancient Echos
Music of antiquity representing the 13th - 16th centuries. Ancient composing masters; Pérotin, Philippe de Vitry and Tielman Susato, contrasted with music inspired by the past. Modern composers; Trey Spruance and Arvo Pärt, and a rarely performed masterpiece by Ottorino Respighi.
Roundcollab Presents
This performance is held in conjunction with ROUNDCOLLAB's inaugural exhibition at Minnesota Street Project Embrace, featuring eleven artists from Asia whose artworks address and embrace the imperfect world we live in. Featuring music by Michi Wiancko, this concert is performed by the internationally-acclaimed Friction Quartet.
Guests are invited to attend a post-show exhibition tour of Embrace at the Minnesota Street Project Atrium and Gallery 211.
Other Minds
Composers from five countries will convene for the 27th Other Minds Festival, an international annual showcase for composers held this year at San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater November 15-18.
Other Minds
Composers from five countries will convene for the 27th Other Minds Festival, an international annual showcase for composers held this year at San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater November 15-18.
Melt: TAC for Climate Change
TAC Presents: Melt, featuring the Friction Quartet
Oceans and ice floes ebb, flood, warm and change; life recedes or presses forward. Join TAC and the Friction Quartet in contemplating our unknown future with music for string quartet with and without electronics, in this climate-inspired concert. The program will feature To Unpathed Waters Undreamed Shores by Michi Wiancko, Under the sea ice by Christopher Luna Mega, and premieres of three new pieces by TAC student composers.
‘Quartet +’ w/ Helen Sung
Friction Quartet and acclaimed pianist/composer and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung present Quartet +, her latest release on Sunnyside Records.
‘Quartet +’ w/ Helen Sung
Friction Quartet and acclaimed pianist/composer and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung present Quartet +, her latest release on Sunnyside Records.
Dominican Univserity of California
La Vida Dominican Hispanic heritage celebration and concert.
Music from composer and friend of Friction, Nicolás Lell Benavides and arrangements of mariachi music. This concert features mezzo-soprano, Melinda Martinez Becker, who also completed the arrangements for string quartet and vocalist.
Friction Presents: Lyric Suite
Friction Quartet presents two of the most celebrated and passionate quartets of the 20th century. Leoš Janáček’s magnum opus, String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”, and Alban Berg’s 12 tone masterpiece, Lyric Suite .
Groupmuse
This concert has been postponed due to unforseen circumstances. If you have registered please contact Groupmuse. Please stay tuned for a reschedule of this show. If you’d like still like to hear some of this music you can buy tickets to Friction Presents: Lyric Suite on Sep 24 at 4pm at the Berkeley Piano Club.
Garden Concert
Sit amongst friends as Friction Quartet performs the music of Joseph Haydn, Leoš Janáček and Caroline Shaw in an intimate backyard setting. Food and drink will be available.
Mercury Soul + SF Opera + Friction Quartet
Sets by DJ Masonic (Mason Bates) and DJ Justin Reed (illmeasures, Chicago) are interspersed by performances by Friction Quartet and others in this stunning Greek-revival structure. Enjoy cocktails in the Mint’s courtyard in this event featuring music from SF Opera’s upcoming season.
Jeff Anderle + Friction Quartet
Hear the power and flair of clarinet, bass clarinet and string quartet. Performing on a recital featuring bass clarinetist Jeff Anderle, Friction Quartet will resurrect two commissions written specifically for the pair. Titan by Mark Mellits and Shards and Shrapnel by Mary Kouyoumdjian.