MATILDA HOFMAN
C o n c e r t s
2023
June 4-5
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Bolanos- Night of the South Wind (world premiere)
Schoenberg- Veklaerte Nacht
May 21
Empyrean Ensemble
May 2-7
San Francisco Symphony- Cover Conductor
Thomas Wilkins
April 29-30
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at Bayview Opera House
Anthony R. Green- Tenderhooks (world premiere)
April 1-2
Festival Opera and Diablo Symphony
Nkeiru Okoye- Tales from the Briar Patch (orchestral premiere)
February 26
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Florence Price- Dance in the Canebrakes
Mendelssohn Violin concerto with Julian Athayde
Tchaikovsky Symphony no.4
February 12
Empyrean Ensemble
Rzewski- Coming Together
2022
December 10
Diablo Symphony Orchestra with Blackhawk Chorus
Includes new double concerto by Alexander Saratsky
Soloists: Anna Presler and Leighton Fong
November 28-Dec 3
San Francisco Symphony: cover conductor
Beethoven 9, Coleridge Taylor- Ballade
November 16
Earplay: Stanford University
Works by Mark Applebaum and Francois Rose
November 12
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Opera Workshop at Center for Contemporary Music (San Francisco)
Anthony R. Green: Tenderhooks (workshop for world premiere)
October 20 and 23
Diablo Symphony
Mahler Symphony no.1
Copland- Canticle of Freedom
October 9
Empyrean Ensemble
Works by Yu-Hui Chang and Lee Hyla
September
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Outreach concert
June
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Berio- Folk Songs
New song-cycle:
works by Linda Catlin Smith, Chris Castro, Hiroya Miura, Ingrid Stolzel, Seong Ae Kim
May
Diablo Symphony: May 8 (Mother's Day program)
Sounds of the Americas: USA 1930s-40s
Florence Price symphony no.3
Barber- Knoxville 1915
Duke Ellington- Medley
Diablo Ballet- May 20-21
Coppelia
April
Empyrean Ensemble: April 29
Works by Boursiquot, Makler, Minnigan, Moody
San Francisco Symphony- cover conductor, April 5-9
Hailstork, Corigliano, Estevez, Piazzolla
March
Earplay- March 21
Simon Cardini: Deriva, in margine a una lontanzanza, dimentica
Diablo Symphony March 13: Sounds of the Americas- A journey through North America
John Luther Adams- The Light that fills the World
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Grant Still- Old California
Grofe- Grand Canyon Suite
February
Empyrean Ensemble: Feb 22
Rzewski- Coming Together
Diablo Symphony Orchestra: Feb 5-6
Family concert
January
UC Davis: faculty concert, Jan 6th
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
2021
December
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Holiday concert
November
Oberlin Conservatory of Music- Fall Opera
Handel: Acis and Galatea (orch. Mozart)
October
Empyrean Ensemble:
Mika Pelo: Sunken Cathedrals
Works by Aida Shirazi, Trey Makler, Ryan Sulieman, Emily Sullivan, Addie Camsuzou
June
Wiener Festwochen: Luigi Nono, Prometeo- cancelled due to COVID
June 2021
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (viola)
Derek Bermel- Soul Garden
April 2021
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (viola)
Kodaly and Lutoslawski
Empyrean Ensemble (conductor)
Pitzer Center UC Davis
January 28 2021
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (viola)
Ross Bauer- Pas de Deux
Pitzer Center UC Davis
2020
January 28-Feb 2
Taproot Music festival: Empyrean Ensemble
February 8-9
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony no.9, Opferlied op.121b, Prometheus Overture
February 25-29
San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen: assistant conductor
Beethoven- King Stephen Overture
Esa-Pekka Salonen- Violin Concerto
Nielsen-Symphony no.5
March 8-9
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble- postponed
March 20-21- postponed
Diablo Ballet and Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Coppelia
March 27-8- postponed
Diablo Symphony
Family Concerts: Carnival of the Animals
April 14-18- postponed
San Francisco Symphony and Teddy Abrams: assistant conductor
Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra op.17
Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5
April 19- postponed
Empyrean Ensemble
May 15 and 17-postponed
Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Voices of the Americas
Florence Price, William Grant Still
2019
October 4-6 (Sand Francisco and Berkeley)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Hiroya Miura – Sharaku Unframed, a micro opera WORLD PREMIERE
October 10, 13
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Schumann Symphony no.3, Brahms Schicksalslied, Clara Schumann piano concerto
October 22-26
San Francisco Symphony and Karina Canellakis: assistant conductor
Shostakovich Symphony no.7, Prokofiev piano concerto
October 28-November 15
Residency at Oberlin Conservatory of Music
performances with Contemporary Music Ensemble and Sinfonietta
December 7-8
Diablo Symphony
Singing the Holidays
June 1-2
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at Z-Space, San Francisco
New Opera- Artemesia by Laura Schwendinger
May 17th and 19th
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
April 13th and 14th
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Family Concert: Dance!
February 22nd and 24th
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
The Planets
February 3rd
Empyrean Ensemble
New Opera by Derek Keller
January 14th
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
New Works
2018
December 15th and 16th 2pm
Diablo Symphony
The Snowman
November 3rd
Empyrean Ensemble at FeNAM (Festival of North American Music)
The works of Ross Bauer
October 12th and 14th
Diablo Symphony
The world of Lili Boulanger
September 8th, 9th
MusikFest Berlin
Choral Director for Chorwerk Ruhr
with Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by George Benjamin
Ligeti- Clocks and Clouds
Boulez- cummings ist der dichter
July 8-21st
Conductor and Faculty
soundSCAPE Festival, Cesena, Italy
June 3rd:
EME, Pitzer Recital Hall, Davis
St. John's Passion
May 19, 21:
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Schoenberg Serenade
May 18, 20:
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
The World of Rachmaninov
April 6, 8, 14:
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Master of the Movies
March
Sacramento Ballet
Carmina Burana
February 9th, 11th
Diablo Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven Mass in C
January 19th
Empyrean Ensemble: new works
2017
December 10, 16, 17, 22, 23
Sacramento Ballet:
Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker
November 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble:
Kurt Rhode- Death with Interruptions and Don Quixote
Z-Space, San Francisco and Pitzer Center, Davis
October 9th
Chasmata Guggenheim: 20th Anniversary Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
In collaboration with the International Space Station
PAST EVENTS include:
2017:
Fremont Symphony- Children's concerts
2016:
San Francisco Ballet- Nutcracker
Sacramento Ballet- Nutcracker
Fremont Symphony Orchestra
Ruhrtriennale: Stockhausen Carre
Luzern Festival: Luigi Nono- Prometeo
2015:
Ruhrtriennale: Luigi Nono- Prometeo
Paris Autumn Festival: Luigi Nono- Prometeo
2014:
Holland Festival: Luigi Nono- Prometeo
Festival Opera, California: Victor Ullmann- Der Kaiser von Atlantis