QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO

QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO
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Non-traditional in their delivery, QSF redefines the sound of chamber
music. "When the music says swing, we swing. When the music says
groove, we groove."
Grammy nominees for their last three CD releases (2009, 2007, and 2006) and
International Tango competition winners (New York, 2004), Quartet San Francisco
expresses itself in its agility and standout virtuosic playing. Quartet San Francisco was
founded in 2001 by celebrated Bay Area violinist and composer-arranger Jeremy Cohen.
Along with violinist Matt Szemela, violist Chad Kaltinger, and cellist Kelly Maulbetsch,
these crossover specialists excel in multiple styles — from jazz to tango, pop to funk,
blues to bluegrass, gypsy swing to big band and beyond.
Since its concert debut in 2001, Quartet San Francisco has offered its exclusive and
ground-breaking literature to local, national and international audiences in a variety of
venues that include tango and concert halls, jazz festivals, museums, and classrooms. In
2002 the quartet began its on-stage collaborations with tango dancers. In the 2004-06
academic years the quartet was in residence at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Quartet San Francisco recently toured China, South Korea, Japan, and Turkey, performing
in Seoul, Tokyo, Hyogo, Sanda, and Istanbul. Recent U.S. appearances include New York's
Le Poisson Rouge, Yoshi's Jazz Clubs in San Francisco and Oakland, the Brubeck Room in
the Wilton (CT) Library, the Mendocino Music Festival, in concert with the Marin Symphony
and Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead in San Rafael, Calif., with the Tulsa Symphony, as well
as with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. They have appeared at the Corning Museum of
Glass (Corning, NY); Troy Music Hall (Troy, NY); Herbst Theatre (San Francisco); Café
Tortoni (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Portland Friends of Chamber Music (Portland, OR); La
Jolla Music Society (La Jolla, CA) ; Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society Summer
Music Festival; University of Vermont Lane Series; San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival (San
Luis Obispo, CA); St. Peter's Church (New York, NY); Dumbarton Concert Series
(Washington, DC); Manhattan School of Music; Berklee College of Music (Boston); The
Jazzschool (Berkeley, CA); Ford Amphitheatre (Los Angeles); Redlands Bowl Summer Music
Festival (Redlands, CA); and the University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Festival at Mills College
(Oakland, CA).
In 2009 Quartet San Francisco celebrated the music of the great Dave Brubeck with their
release QSF Plays Brubeck which was awarded two Grammy nominations and featured
on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday in a studio interview. Their Latin and tango CD, Látigo
(2006), was honored with Grammy nominations for Best Classical Crossover and Best
Engineered, Classical. The quartet members were again Classical Crossover Grammy
nominees for Whirled Chamber Music (2007), "…what could easily be the most cheerful
and brilliantly-executed release of 2007" (Judith Schlesinger, All About Jazz).
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JEREMY COHEN, violin
From Oakland, California, Jeremy Cohen is from a family of five musicians. Classicallytrained and a student of Itzhak Perlman and Anne Crowden, Cohen's eclectic style reflects
his respect for a wide range of violinists from Perlman and Fritz Kreisler to Joe Venuti
and Eddie South.
He has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including the
Virginia Symphony, the California Symphony and the Reno Philharmonic. His recording
credits include motion picture and television soundtracks including The Dukes of Hazzard
and Jane Fonda's Dollmaker, and as concertmaster on recordings with Linda Ronstadt,
Ray Charles, Aaron Neville, Howard Keel and Cleo Laine. He appeared on Carlos
Santana's Grammy-winning CD Supernatural and the original Star Wars compilation CD with
John Williams. On the stage he was the solo violinist in Forever Tango and The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas. He has toured and recorded with the Grammy Award-winning
Turtle Island Quartet.
Cohen's orchestral arrangements have been featured by numerous orchestras, including
the San Francisco Symphony, and the San Jose and San Francisco Chamber Orchestras.
As an educator, he has served on the faculties of the Henry Mancini Institute (Los
Angeles), The Jazz School (Berkeley, CA) and the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
In 2004 Cohen released Jeremy Cohen and Friends Celebrate Joe Venuti—100 Years (VAI),
a DVD tribute to Joe Venuti. Cohen and Violinjazz pay homage to violinist Eddie South in
the 2010 release, The Music of Eddie South (Sono Luminous).
Jeremy Cohen has received multiple Grammy nominations for CDs he produced and with
Quartet San Francisco (Violinjazz Recordings). Most of their multi-genre material has been
composed or arranged by Cohen who aspires to widen the repertoire available to modern
string players.
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MATTHEW SZEMELA, violin
Praised by the New York Times for his “outrageous fiddling,” Mannes College graduate
Matthew Szemela crosses musical styles with ease. Originally from Maine, Matthew has
performed as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in New York’s Carnegie, Alice Tully,
and Merkin Recital Halls and abroad in Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and Australia. Matthew
has toured and recorded with singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia, recorded with Sufjan
Stevens, and in 2006 served as concertmaster of the Hustla Symphony Orchestra for JayZ’s “Reasonable Doubt 10th Anniversary Concert” at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Matthew has collaborated with tap dancer, actor, and choreographer Savion Glover on his
production “Classical Savion,” and he has appeared with artists Sting, Dave Stewart
(Eurythmics), Lana Del Rey, and Cassandra Wilson as well as the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company, guitarist Vernon Reid of “Living Colour,” Susan Sarandon, Beyoncé
Knowles, and Olivia Newton John.
Matthew’s credits in violin jazz include performances and recordings with Dan Levinson
and his Canary College Dance Orchestra, Barbara Rosene and her New Yorkers, and
performances with The Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra, Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks,
and Gregory Moore and the Cosmopolitan Orchestra. He was a long-time member of the
Mahavishnu Project, the repertory ensemble for the music of John McLaughlin and his
contemporaries. With pianist Eric Lewis, Matthew has performed at the American Jazz
Festival in Paris, the Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg, the Montreux Festival in Switzerland,
and the Ischia Global Film and Music Festival in Italy. And in 2007 Matthew portrayed an
Irish rock violinist in the Warner Brothers film “August Rush.”
Matthew left New York for Berkeley, California in the summer of 2011 where he performs
with the Berkeley Symphony. He began his collaboration with Quartet San Francisco in
the summer of 2012.
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CHAD KALTINGER viola
Chad Kaltinger is an active freelancer in the San Francisco area and maintains a busy
schedule as orchestral violist, chamber musician, soloist, and recording artist. Principal
violist for Opera San Jose and the Santa Cruz Symphony, he is a frequent guest principal
at the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. Chad has performed in many festivals around the
U.S. including Music in the Mountains, Arizona Musicfest, South by Southwest, the
Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Mendocino Music Festival. He is an active proponent of
new music and performs regularly with the Cabrillo Music Festival, the University of
California-Santa Cruz New Music Works Ensemble, and the Worn Chamber Ensemble. He
was the soloist in the 2012 U.S. premiere of Noam Sheriff’s Canarian Vespers, for solo
viola and strings, with the Cadenza Chamber Orchestra in Santa Cruz, California.
Chad hails from Chicago where he began his studies at age 9. He studied at the Music
Institute of Chicago in Wilmette, Ill. with Peter Slowik, and at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign with Emanuel Vardi. As a fellowship student at the Aspen Music
Festival he studied with Heidi Castleman and Victoria Chiang. Chad was the winner of the
1994 E. Nakamichi Viola Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival. He joined
QSF as its interim violist in December 2012.
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KELLEY MAULBETSCH, cello
Kelley Maulbetsch is an active freelance performer and teacher in the San Francisco Bay
Area. She is assistant principal cello of the Sarasota Opera Festival (Sarasota, Fla.) as well
as member of the Marin, Santa Rosa, Napa, Fresno, Monterey, and Modesto Symphonies.
Kelley played in the San Francisco production of Wicked and has shared the stage with Josh
Groban, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Mathis, and Kristin Chenowith. She has participated in
music festivals including Tanglewood, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the American
Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. An experienced string ensemble coach, Kelley is
also a certified Suzuki instructor and has taught at the Nueva School (Hillsborough, Calif.)
and the Community School of Music and Arts (Mountain View, Calif.). Kelley grew up in the
Bay Area studying with Irene Sharp, and went on to receive her B.M. in Cello Performance
from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Richard Aaron.
Kelley joined
QSF as its interim cellist in March 2012.
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REPERTOIRE LIST
(* indicates arrangement by Jeremy Cohen)
Americana
Boy Scout in Switzerland
Celebration on the Planet Mars
Dawg’s Bull
Ives Been Thinkin’ About You
Penguin
Peter Tambourine
Powerhouse
Siberian Sleighride
Toy Trumpet
Under the Sea
Raymond Scott, arr. Bob Gilmore
Raymond Scott*
David Grisman*
Jeremy Cohen
Raymond Scott*
Raymond Scott*
Raymond Scott*
Raymond Scott*
Raymond Scott*
Alan Menken*
Jazz
Armando’s Rhumba
Autumn Leaves
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
Blue Rondo A La Turk
Bluette
Cachita
Cool
Count Bubba’s Revenge
Dark Eyes
Strange Meadowlark
Crowdambo
The Duke
Felipe
Forty Days
Gee, Officer Krupke
The Golden Horn
Harlem Nocturne
I Hear Music
It Had Better Be … Just Me
It’s a Raggy Waltz
Jubilee Stomp
Kathy’s Waltz
The Mooche
Pink Panther
Rachel’s Dream
Sing, Sing, Sing
St. Louis Blues
Spain
Take Five
Chick Corea*
Joseph Kosma*
Sholom Secunda*
Dave Brubeck*
Dave Brubeck, arr. Larry Dunlap
Trad./Juan Garcia Esquivel*
Leonard Bernstein, arr. David Balakrishnan
Gordon Goodwin*
Florian Hermann*
Dave Brubeck*
Jeremy Cohen
Dave Brubeck, arr. Matt Brubeck
Evan Price
Dave Brubeck, arr. Robert Gilmore
Leonard Bernstein*
Dave Brubeck*
Earle Hagen*
Frank Loesser, arr. Cory Combs
Mancini and Greenan, arr. Evan Price
Dave Brubeck*
Duke Ellington*
Dave Brubeck*
Duke Ellington*
Henry Mancini*
Benny Goodman*
Glenn Miller*
William Christopher Handy*
Chick Corea*
Paul Desmond*
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(Jazz cont.)
Tchavalo Swing
Three to Get Ready
Unsquare Dance
Pop
At Last
Got To Get You Into My Life
Dorado Schmitt*
Dave Brubeck*
Dave Brubeck*
I Wish
La Vie en Rose
My Girl
Pick Up the Pieces
Sir Duke
What is Hip?
Gordon/Warren*
Lennon/McCartney as done by Earth,
Wind, & Fire*
Stevie Wonder*
Louis Guglielmi*
Lee “Scratch” Perry*
Roger and Hamish*
Stevie Wonder*
Kupka/Castillo/Garabaldi*
Rock
Because
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eleanor Rigby
Martha My Dear
Oh Darling
Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo
San Francisco
White Rabbit
Lennon/McCartney*
Freddie Mercury, arr. Robert Gilmore
Lennon/McCartney*
Lennon/McCartney*
Lennon/McCartney*
Rick Derringer*
Scott McKenzie*
Grace Slick*
Tango
A Los Amigos
Comme Il Faut
El Dia Que Me Quieras
Encuentro Pasional
Felicia
Francini
Gallo Ciego
La Cumparcita
Libertango
Melodía en la
Milongueando en el ’40
Muerte del Angel
Nuevo Tango
Tanguori
Taquito Militar
Verano y Primavera
Tango Toscana
Tanguori
Armando Pontier*
Eduardo Arolas*
Carlos Gardel*
Jeremy Cohen
Enrique Saborido*
Jeremy Cohen
Augustin Bardi*
Gerald H. Matos Rodriguez*
Astor Piazzolla*
Astor Piazzolla*
Armando Pontier*
Astor Piazzolla*
Astor Piazzolla*
Jeremy Cohen
Mariano Mores*
Astor Piazzolla*
Jeremy Cohen
Jeremy Cohen
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Classical/Contemporary
Three Themes for Guitar and String Quartet
String Quartet No. 1
Four Studies from American Dreams
Jeremy Cohen and Alex DeGrassi
Gordon Goodwin
Peter Schickele
Works Composed for Quartet San Francisco
String Quartet No. 2
The Bay Is Deep Blue
Gordon Goodwin
Patrick Williams
Works for String Quartet with Orchestra
Al Colón
Gallo Ciego
Guamba
La Cumparcita
Melodia in A Minor/Libertango
(suite with bandoneón)
Concerto Grosso for String Quartet and Orchestra
Tableau Cinematique (String Quartet and
Orchestra)
Jeremy Cohen
Augustin Bardi*
Jeremy Cohen
Gerald H. Matos Rodriguez*
Astor Piazzolla*
Jeremy Cohen
Danny Seidenberg
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ENGAGEMENTS
2012
December 7
November 17
October 28 & 30
October 9
October 8
September 14
September 14
September 13
September 9
May 30 – June 11
May 7
March 31
March 30
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
January
19
18
17
15
14
13
11
9
8
6
4
2
1
“L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA” series, Berkeley Art
Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, Minn.
Guests artists, Marin Symphony Concerts, San Rafael, Calif.
Su Seong Art Center, Dae Gu, South Korea
Kintex Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Arts Midwest Showcase, Barbarino’s, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Yoshi’s Jazz Club, San Francisco
Pacific Summer Music Festival, Hagatna, Guam
Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Crowden Music Center Benefit Concert,
Oakland, Calif.
San Mateo Public Library, San Mateo, Calif.
Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts, Dubois Theatre at
Blair Academy, Blairstown, N.J.
National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
Wenzhou Grand Theater, Wenzhou, China
Lishui Grand Theater, Lishui, China
Dongguang Yulan Theater, Dongguang, China
Shenzhen Poly Theater, Shenzhen, China
Huizhou Culture Center, Huizhou, China
Chongqing Grand Theater, Chongqing, China
Qintai Grand Theatre, Wuhan, China
Henan Art Center, Henan, China
Hefei Grand Theater, Hefei, China
Changzhou Grand Theater, Changzhou, China
Qingdao Grand Theater, Qingdao, China
Yantai Grand Theater
2011
December 30
November 13
November 3
October 20
October 19
October 17
October 16
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Dominican University, San Rafael, Calif.
Elon University, Elon, N.C.
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
United Church of Christ, Grand Rapids, Mich.
King Chapel, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
“Encounter the Unexpected Chamber Music Day,” San
Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (presenter), de Young
Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
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October 14
October 8
October 6
September 30
September 19
August 8
August 5
July 14
June 29
May 8
May 7
April 20
April 17
March 5 & 6
February 15
January 29
January 26
Banwol Art Hall, Pocheon, South Korea
Busan Outdoor Performance Hall, Busan, South Korea
Yongin Art Hall, Yonkin, South Korea
Concerts at the Collins, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory,
San Francisco
Featured guests with Gabriela Mendes (vocalist) and the
Larry Dunlap Trio, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Oakland, Calif.
Regent Theatre, Arlington, Mass.
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Wellfleet, Mass.
Mendocino Music Festival, Calif.
Yoshi’s Jazz Club, San Francisco
Crowden Music Center, Sundays @ Four Concert Series
Featured guests with the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Marin
Symphony, San Rafael, Calif.
Lindbergh District Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo.
Williams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Okla.
Guest artists with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Barbara
Day Turner, music director
Guest artists with the California State University–East Bay
Chamber Singers, Hayward
Guest artists with The Tulsa Symphony, Okla.
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods,
Ind.
2010
December 20
December 15
December 14
December 12
December 10
December 7
November 20
November 19
November 17
November 15
October 29
October 28
June 9
April 24
March 20
March 8
February 20
January 25
January 13
January 9
Lütfi Kırdar Kongre Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey
Hitoyoshi Culture Palace, Kumamoto, Japan
Tobata Shimin Kaikan, Fukuoka, Japan
Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Hyogo, Japan
Keiyo Ginko Bunka Plaza, Chiba, Japan
Nikkei Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Eisemann Center, Plano, Tex.
First United Methodist Church, Gulfport, Miss.
Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
Rossmoor Chamber Music Society, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, N.Y.
Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, N.Y.
Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco
Quad City Arts, Davenport, Iowa
San Francisco Performances, San Francisco
Ukiah Community Concerts, Ukiah, Calif.
2010 National Conference, Gala Event, American String
Teachers Association, Santa Clara, Calif.
Yoshi’s Jazz Club, San Francisco
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, N.Y.
Brubeck Room, Wilton Library, Wilton, Conn.
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2009
November 28
August 31
May 8
April 25
April 23
April 20
April 19
April 2
March 31
March 28
March 27
March 25
March 24
March 21
March 18
March 4
February 22
February 20
February 19
February 16
February 15
January 29
Four Seasons Concerts, Berkeley, Calif.
Yoshi’s Jazz Club, San Francisco
Concert at Crab Cove, Alameda, Calif.
Colonial Theater, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Elko Civic Auditorium, Elko, Nev.
Grants Pass Performing Arts Center, Grants Pass, Ore.
Crescent Elk School, Crescent City, Calif.
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisc.
Hope College, Holland, Mich.
Schauer Arts Center, Hartford, Wisc.
Janesville Performing Arts Center, Janesville, Wisc.
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Ill.
McKendree University, Lebanon, Ill.
North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City, Iowa
Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa
San Francisco Performances, Salon at the Rex, San Francisco
Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, Md.
Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Md.
Trinity Church, New York, N.Y.
Messiah College, Grantham, Pa.
Kean University, Wilkins Theatre, Union, N.J.
Camden Fairview Middle School, Camden, Ark.
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Educational concerts are fun, interactive and informative with Quartet San
Francisco, which to date has performed hundreds of family and children’s
concerts as well as college-level demonstrations, workshops and seminars
(often in conjunction with concert performances). Their presentations vary in
length and content, and are tailored to the audience age group. Each
program delivers a wide range of musical information in a participatory,
spontaneous format, including classical string quartet fare, original
arrangements of jazz, tango, Disney, and cartoon music. Programs are
designed to fit the needs of each audience, whether they be introducing
stringed instruments to children or improvisation to college students. The
members of Quartet San Francisco illustrate how instruments are made and
produce sound and demonstrate techniques for creating a colorful and
fanciful variety of sounds and effects. Quartet members reveal how a string
quartet puts together a piece of music; demonstrate the diverse techniques
for performing tango, Latin, jazz and classical music; and discuss the history
of the music they perform. Audience participation at a QSF educational
concert is always encouraged!
Quartet San Francisco also offers workshops in performance techniques for
contemporary music composers and performers. Students of composition
learn how to create traditional and cutting-edge techniques for stringed
instruments, while focusing on works for string quartet in particular. Members
of the quartet work with music performance students on chamber music
pieces from all genres, collectively culminating their efforts in a semester-end
performance.
QSF is actively involved with the San Francisco Symphony’s “Adventures in
Music” program, and with the “Music in Schools” program sponsored by
Music at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, Calif.
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