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Freshness window: September 10 – October 9, 2026 · confirmed violin, chamber, and orchestral picks

SEP 11
Chamber Strings

Barefoot — Stepping Across

Joe Edelberg and Kati Kyme, violins

  • 🕘Friday, September 11, 2026 · 6:30 PM
  • 📍St. Mary Magdalen Parish Hall
    2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
  • 🎶
    Blavet / Couperin — pieces for two players
    Telemann — Paris Quartet
    Rameau — operatic arias
    Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
  • 🎫$25 admission
Barefoot Details
SEP 13
Chamber Free

SF Symphony — Flower Piano

Free Botanical Garden chamber set

  • 🕘Sunday, September 13, 2026 · 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • 📍Zellerbach Garden, San Francisco Botanical Garden
    Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
  • 🎶Chamber Music · full program TBA
  • 🎫Free community performance
Free Concert Details
SEP 15
Violin Recital Free

Noontime Concerts — Iris Stone, violin

Free Tuesday lunchtime recital with Eric Zivian, piano, at Old St. Mary's Cathedral; the official program is now published

Free Concert Details
SEP 20
Chamber Strings

SF Symphony — Chamber Music at Davies Symphony Hall

SF Symphony musicians and Garrick Ohlsson open the chamber series with tango, Brahms, and Amy Beach

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SEP 23
Chamber Violin

UC Berkeley Noon Concert — Faculty Baroque Chamber Music

Cynthia Black, baroque violin, joins Berkeley faculty colleagues for a midday chamber set at Hertz Hall

  • 🕘Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 12:00 PM
  • 📍Hertz Concert Hall
    UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • 🎶
    Cynthia Black — baroque violin
    Vicki Melin — baroque flute
    David H. Miller & Elisabeth Reed — viola da gamba
    Katherine Heater — harpsichord
  • 🎫UC Berkeley Department of Music noon concert
UC Berkeley Details
SEP 24
Orchestra Violin

SF Symphony Opening Gala with Hilary Hahn

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the San Francisco Symphony's opening gala with Hilary Hahn as violin soloist

Opening Gala Tickets
SEP 26
Chamber Strings

Marin Symphony — Chamber Music 1: Brahms Piano Quartet

Marin Symphony opens its chamber season with Prokofiev for two violins, Schoenfeld, and Brahms

Marin Symphony Tickets
OCT 3
Orchestra Violin Free

SFCM — Concerto Competition Winners' Concert

Edwin Outwater conducts the SFCM Orchestra with student soloists including Mark Chen in Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto

Reserve Free Seat
OCT 5
Chamber Violin Free

SFCM Faculty Artist Series — Cordula Merks, violin

Tomodachi Quartet plays Shaw, Janáček, Gershwin, and Dvořák in a free faculty recital

Reserve Free Seat

Data note: Active 30-day freshness window: September 10 – October 9, 2026. This homepage fills the visible list with 9 confirmed in-window programs, so no beyond-window fallback extension was needed in this pass.

Window note: The current freshness-window run begins on September 10, with the first confirmed listing remaining Barefoot Chamber Concerts on September 11 and the visible list extending through SFCM's October 5 Faculty Artist Series recital.

Source note: This pass keeps 9 source-backed programs from 6 source families: Barefoot Chamber Concerts, SF Symphony, Noontime Concerts, UC Berkeley Music, Marin Symphony, and SFCM.

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