Nomad Session is San Francisco’s premiere wind octet. Bringing wind instruments to the forefront, Nomad represents members of every woodwind and brass family and is the first to use this instrumentation as a platform for a major professional chamber ensemble.

Artistic Directors Meena Bhasin and Owen Dalby are joined by a starry roster of friends for a concert of music for viola quintet, one of the most rapturous combinations in the chamber repertoire. Featuring violinist and Noe Music favorite Livia Sohn, violist Ayane Kozasa (last seen on our stage with Aizuri Quartet in 2020), and the brilliant cellist Hannah Collins, making her Noe Music debut.

Hailed for their passionate and spellbinding performances, the Brentano String Quartet has enthralled audiences worldwide since 1992. "Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding," raves the London Independent.

This powerhouse trio of longtime collaborators and members of the Silkroad Ensemble will present a musical conversation through the exchange of melody, rhythm, and stories from their cultural backgrounds - Syria, Japan, Armenia and beyond - in a vast variety of musical genres ranging from folk song, improvisation and original composition to contemporary classical music.

Accomplished Jazz composers and leaders in their own right, vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner have created an intimate and breathtaking collaboration, bringing a range of musical influences and unique style to their first release as a duo, Tone.

The prizewinning young Dior Quartet is comprised of talented musicians from Israel, Korea-Canada, Saint Lucia, and the USA, and is the Quartet-in-Residence at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Presented in partnership with the St Lawrence String Quartet's Emerging String Quartet Program at Stanford.

A new driving force in Nordic world music is the young Danish trio, Dreamers’ Circus. Contemporary and endlessly innovative in their approach, they draw inspiration from the deep traditions of folk music in the region and reshape them into something bright, shiny and new.

Schubert's famous Trout quintet is followed by a screening of Buster Keaton's hilarious classic 1925 silent comedy "Seven Chances", with live virtuosic musical accompaniment composed by Stephen Prutsman for piano, flute, violin, viola, cello and double bass. Featuring Owen Dalby, Stephen Prutsman, Lesley Robertson, Paul Wiancko, Tony Manzo, and Tara Helen O'Connor.