Join us for Notes & Letters as Clerestory takes a look into the close and complicated relationships between Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms through their music and their correspondence. The music each wrote prismatically reflected these connections, revealing themes of longing, love, loss, and redemption, expressed through the natural world.

Pianist Kymry Esainko returns to collaborate with Clerestory for the first time since 2012.

Kymry Esainko is principal pianist for the Santa Rosa Symphony and also plays with many regional orchestras including Bay Philharmonic, Oakland, Marin, San Jose, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Kymry also enjoys chamber music collaborations and currently performs with the Reuleaux Trio, with Katrina Walter on flute and Alex Volonts on viola. He greatly enjoys performing at Flower Piano in Golden Gate Park every September, and recently he performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the Golden Gate Symphony at the Herbst Theatre and Flower Piano. Kymry has done a wide variety of choral accompanying, currently playing for Piedmont Children’s Choirs where his daughter sings and with the Pacific Boychoir, where his son sings. An accomplished jazz and improvisatory pianist, Kymry plays with Matt Small’s Crushing Spiral Ensemble and the silent film ensemble Club Foot Orchestra. Kymry graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music with degrees in piano performance and American history.  He lives in Oakland with his vocalist/trombonist wife Becca, his son Kai, daughter Stella, and a menagerie of cats and dogs.

Saturday, May 25 2024 8:00 pm

Piedmont Center for the Arts
Piedmont, CA

Sunday, May 26 2024 7:00 pm

Noe Valley Ministry
San Francisco, CA