Lindberg, piano; Koh, violin; Karttunen, cello May 15, 2011

San Francisco Performances presents a special trio: composer and pianist Magnus Lindberg, violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist Anssi Karttunen at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m. This concert was a late addition to the SF Performances season.

The performance is one of the few of this artist-led project, with the program featuring the West Coast premiere Lindberg's new trio, a solo cello work and his violin/piano sonatas as well as violin/cello duos by Schulhoff and Villa-Lobos and the US premieres of solo cello works by Edmund Campion, Martin Matalon, Roger Reynolds and Pablo Ortiz.

Lindberg, whose work with fellow composers Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen and others makes him one of the foremost names in mainstream modernism. His experimentations and interest in diverse musical languages have evolved his career in a probing, vibrant way. Currently, he is composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic. He performed here with Karttunen in 2008.

Koh stands as one of the most adventurous young violin virtuosi in her generation, creating a career trajectory that explores all the dimensions of the music world. Described by The Strad as "a risk-taking, high-octane player of the kind who grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go," Koh opened Berkeley Symphony's season earlier this year and returns to SF Performances for the fifth time since 2003.

Karttunen, a renowned cellist who has worked extensively with Lindberg, Saariaho and other composers, presenting more than 125 world premieres as a critical voice in the contemporary music scene, completes this trio.

Tickets to this special matinee performance are $50 and $30. For more information visit sfperformances.org or call 415.392.2545.

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