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Harker Concert Series

Join us for our in-person series in our beautiful Rothschild Performing Arts Center, which opened in 2018. For more information about Harker or the Harker Concert Series, contact communications@harker.org.

We’re proud to highlight current and rising musical talent, most of whom also conduct master classes with our students. The evenings begin at 6 p.m. with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages (outdoors), as well as a cash bar for beer and wine. The shows begin at 7 p.m. The Harker Concert Series launched in 2010-11 as part of the school's ongoing commitment to share thoughtful, entertaining and engaging events with the greater Bay Area community.

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2023-24 SEASON

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Chanticleer

Chanticleer, vocal ensemble

Fri., Sep. 22, 2023, 7 p.m.

Reception one hour prior to performance, with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks, and cash bar for wine and beer. Masks are optional.

The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.

Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the Renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements.

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Donny McCaslin

Cellist Jonah Kim & Dancer Julia Rowe

Jonah Kim, Cellist Julia Rowe, Dancer

Fri., Nov. 3, 2023, 7 p.m.

Reception one hour prior to performance, with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks, and cash bar for wine and beer. Masks are optional.

Julia Rowe trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet School. After school she joined Oregon Ballet Theatre and was promoted to the soloist rank shortly thereafter. In 2013, she joined San Francisco Ballet, and was promoted to soloist in 2016. Rowe has performed a wide variety of classical and contemporary repertory, include many principal roles, throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia and has originated featured roles in many works.

Born in South Korea, Jonah Kim was awarded full scholarship to The Juilliard School’s pre-college division at age 7 and enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music at 11. Kim defines a truly American school of cello by reconciling the Italian, German, Russian, Franco-Spanish and Hungarian lineages. He has soloed with the National Symphony, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Festival Mozaic Orchestra, Palm Beach Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, Spokane Symphony, Symphony of the Americas, and many more.

Rowe and Kim have created a series of dance music videos; their work is featured on many popular online forums including the string magazine Violinist. com and the UK-based arts station ClassicFM.

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Cantus

Aaron Lington Organ Quartet

Fri., Feb. 9, 2024, 7 p.m.

Aaron Lington, Baritone Saxophone Brian Ho, Hammond B3 Organ Jason Lewis, Drums Bruce Forman, Guitar

Reception one hour prior to performance, with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks, and cash bar for wine and beer. Masks are optional.

Grammy Award-winning baritone saxophonist and composer Aaron Joseph Lington received his B.M. from the University of Houston, Moores School of Music, and both his M.M. and DMA from the University of North Texas. He is currently the coordinator of jazz studies at San José State University. His credits include collaborations with the San Francisco Symphony, Maynard Ferguson, the Count Basie Orchestra, Bo Diddley, Randy Brecker, Tommy Igoe, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, and others. He has won awards from Downbeat Magazine and ASCAP, and was the 2003 recipient of the Sammy Nestico Award. He was named the 2011 “Jazz Educator of the Year” by the California Music Educators Association and has been recognized multiple times in both the Downbeat Magazine Critics and Readers Poll. In 2015 he was named as a Silicon Valley Artist Laureate. The San José Mercury News praises Lington’s playing as “revelatory… he obviously relishes the beautiful, blustery bark of his instrument ….”

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Another exciting new season will be announced in September! Those of you who are email subscribers will get an announcement notice. If you’re not on the mailing list, you can subscribe here. We look forward to enjoying another amazing season of music with you!

Harker Concert Series Committee

Previous Performances

Past artists have included jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, Kronos Quartet, the edgy PROJECT Trio, genre-bending The Respect Sextet, classical ensembles Miró Quartet and Afiara Quartet, and Frank Almond with the 1715 Lapinsky Stradivarius.

SJCO

Donny McCaslin

Cantus

Project Trio

Bohemian Trio

Laila Biali

Taylor Eigsti

The Miró Quartet

PROJECT Trio

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Aeolus Quartet

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