With support from the California Arts Council, LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC will offer chamber music performances and community events in Northern California, with programming that creates conversations between contemporary and older music and shows thematic links between works,. This gives audiences many ways to understand and enjoy the music. Programs include two presented as part of the California Festival–‘Voices of Change’ and ‘Imaginary Pancake- Songs of California.” Others are ‘Clarinet Shadows,’ ‘Old and New Soldiers’ Tales’ and workshops and performances associated with ‘Music and the Art of Storytelling.’ Left Coast will commission and premiere new works from Sarah Gibson, David Dominique, and others; and will perform new and old works by composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Gabriella Smith, Elinor Remick Warren, Vivian Fung, Johannes Brahms, Jonathan Russell, Reena Esmail, and Jessie Montgomery.