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The Calder Quartet Returns to the 2021 Carlsbad Music Festival

By Ken Herman | August 28, 2021 |

The return of the Calder Quartet crowned opening day, August 27, 2021, of this year’s Carlsbad Music Festival.

Soprano Susan Narucki and Friends Offer Probing New Music for the Voice at the La Jolla Athenaeum

By Ken Herman | May 3, 2019 |

Thursday, May 2, at the La Jolla Athenaeum, San Diego New Music presented a highly engaging program of contemporary chamber works that featured the voice, sagely curated and elegantly sung by soprano Susan Narucki.

Impressive New Choral Ensemble: San Diego Pro Arte Voices

By Ken Herman | April 14, 2014 |

Mid-spring is always a high season for choral performance, so I was programmed to venture out to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Pacific Beach Saturday (April 12) to hear San Diego Pro Arte Voices, the new kid on the block in San Diego’s bustling choral scene . . .