Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/05/2025
3:00 pm
Location
Chapel in the Pines
Categories
49th Sonora Bach Festival Events held thorough out October in various venues.
20 Auditioned Young People perform in Concert
The Sonora Bach Festival will present its Youth Concert on Sunday, October 5 at 3:00. The Concert will be held at Chapel in the Pines, 18580 Cherokee Drive, Twain Harte, California and will feature 20, auditioned, young people under 18. Violist, Samantha Tse, is the guest artist. Tickets are $10 (children under 18 are free) and are available at The Mountain Bookshop, Sonora; the festival website Sonorabach.org; or by calling the festival at (209) 536-6300.
The Students were selected by audition on September 28. They were required to present their solo piece memorized and polished before the judges. Those that were selected each received written adjudications from the judges; a $100 award; as well as the honor of performing.
Samantha began the violin at the age of 6, adding viola at the age of 12. She majored in music therapy, and later added viola performance, at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, studying with Igor Veligan. As a student, she co-founded the A String Quartet, was a fellow with Orchestra Next, and played with the 28/78 New Music Ensemble. Sam accompanied Sarah Brightman, the original female lead in Phantom of the Opera, on her 2024 Winter Symphony tour in Northern California and continues to freelance around the area. In addition to her performing, Sam has a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Certificate and works in the Sacramento area as a music therapist with children and adults. She will be playing selected movements fro Bach’s Cello Suite, no. 2 transcribed for viola.
Local’s Concert — October 13 at 3:00 p.m.
Chapel in the Pines, 18580 Cherokee Drive, Twain Harte, California | Tickets $20
Support your friends, family and community as our own highly talented, local instrumentalists and vocalists present an exciting afternoon of chamber music of the Baroque and classical periods. Lovely music will be performed by people you know. An afternoon of classical music by Bach, Schumann, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Telemann and more featuring fine local talent including Sheila Low, Bethany Winters, Linelle Marshall, Enoch Samraj, Esau Munoz, Tristan Perotti, Janet Telford, Sandra Betti, Mark Seiver and the Brook Moes Quartet featuring Brook Moes, Victoria Hare, Acadia Loverin and Jasmine Hwang.
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Salon Concert, featuring Jason Jeffrey — October 20 at 3:00 p.m.
Gail Johnson home on Fraguero Road in Sonora, California
Delectable delicacies provided by Cali Catering Co. | Tickets: $50 presale, $60 at the door
A native of Los Angeles, Jason Jeffrey began piano lessons at an early age with Phyllis Duronslet after school. Jason graduated in the class of 2014 from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance. His teachers included Professor Frank Wiens, Dr. Sonia Leong, and Dr. Rex Cooper. Some of his other teachers have included Dr. Sarah Chan of Cal State Stanislaus and Dr. Nina Scolnik of UC Irvine and Mark Steiner. He accompanies church and community choirs, including the Pinecone Performers in Groveland, CA. In 2017 he revived the Cathedral Concert Series at the Cathedral of the Annunciation, a series dedicated to showcasing local professional musicians and the beauty of music. He currently resides in Stockton with his wife Mari and enjoys traveling, watching Netflix, eating great food with friends and family, and spending time by the ocean in San Diego and Lake Tahoe.
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Bach’s Brunch — October 26 at 12:30 p.m.
Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, Sonora, California | Tickets $40 presale, $50 at the door
The Mother Lode String Quartet is made up of musicians residing between Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. Esther Bulger is a violinist in Tuolumne County. She began playing violin around the age of 12 and never looked back. Gary Osias began playing violin at the age of nine studying with William Pinchon (San Francisco Ballet). Kayla Ireland, viola, grew up in St. Louis, Missouri but now resides in Dorrington, California. She grew up playing in the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Cellist Alice Williams is a transplant from Atlanta, GA; she retired to Murphys, California, 20 years ago to enjoy the beauty and peace of this region after playing cello in the Bear Valley Music Festival each summer for many years.
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