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Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances is a nationally acclaimed summer youth program located on the University of California Berkeley campus. The six week, tuition-free camp conceived by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and produced by Cal Performances teaches dance and life lessons to East Bay middle school students. Follow campers from beginning impressions through the grand finale performance.
http://calperformances.org/ The Vienna Philharmonic Residency in Berkeley included three concerts in addition to a number of open rehearsals, sectionals, master classes and a chamber music concert for students. Watch as musicians from this famed orchestra work with UC Berkeley music students. (Length 2:55; 2011)
Premiere performance of "A Sweeter Music" at Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA on January 25th, 2009, featuring drum no fife (Why we need war) composed by The Residents. Sarah Cahill plays the piano with a 3 channel video projection by John Sanborn.
Legendary conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will hit Zellerbach Hall in October 2016 as part of the 2016/17 Season. Here he speaks on his excitement and what makes Cal Performances and Berkeley so special.
Mark Morris's beloved holiday classic 'The Hard Nut' returns to Cal Performances! Voted "Best Nutcracker" three years in a row in Ovation TV's "Battle of the Nutcrackers", this retro-modern take on the 'Nutcracker' tale is a "sublime marriage of wit, music, and movement," says the 'San Francisco Chronicle'. Watch as audience members from 2009 react to the slightly skewed family party to the unforgettable Dance of the Snowflakes, in this hilarious-and enchanting-Bay Area holiday tradition that is not to be missed! http://www.calperformances.org/
http://calperformances.org Cal Performances kicked off its 2010/11 season on Sunday, September 26, with its first Fall Free for All, a full day of free performances on the University of California, Berkeley campus. More than a dozen performances were given by a diverse line-up of artists, including the Kronos Quartet, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows, the Cal Band and John Santos Sextet, among others.
Cal Performances presents the world premiere of Handel's 'Acis and Galatea' arranged by Mozart with choreography by Mark Morris. Morris talks about the production that will debut April 25-27, 2014, at Cal Performances' Zellerbach Hall on the campus of UC Berkeley.
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet coaches a string quartet made up of UC Berkeley students. He began the Kronos Quartet almost 40 years ago and offers advice to the young musicians as they rehearse a work by Philip Glass written for the Kronos Quartet.