PRESS RELEASES: 2004/05 Season

• Visionary Robert Lepage Returns to Cal Performances With The Busker's Opera
• The Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan visits Cal Performances
• Cal Performances 05/06 Centennial Season Calendar
• Cal Performances Announces 05/06 Centennial Season
• Cal Performances presents Eifman Ballet
• Jazz Poet, Kurt Elling, comes to Cal Performances
• A Legend in the Making, Audra McDonald returns to Cal Performances
• Cal Performances Presents the West Coast Debut of Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
• Gypsy Crossings, Featuring Guitar Virtuoso Bireli Lagrene and the Incomparable Roma Band Taraf De Haidouks
• Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Leaps into Zellerbach Hall
• The Dazzling Kronos Quartet returns to Cal Performances
• Music and Dance from Cambodia Come Alive in Seasons of Migration: An odyssey of transformation
• Cal Performances Presents the Second Biennial Berkeley Edge Fest: A Festival of Contemporary Performance
• Peter Cincotti Brings the Golden Age of Jazz Vocals to a New Generation
• Ford Five Hundred Tuscan Sun Festival Tour Brings the Beauty and Spirit of Tuscany to Zellerbach Hall
• The Overwhelming Stylishness...Supreme Virtuosity of Il Giardino Armonico
• Jazz Great Wayne Shorter And His Acoustic Quartet at Cal Performances
• The Silken and Sultry Susan Graham
• Famed Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Performs an All-Russian Program
• Grammy Award-Winning Ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock
• Balinese National Treasure Cudamani, An Offering of Music and Dance
• Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman in Rare Duo Piano Recital
• Christian McBride Band Raises the Roof at Cal Performances March 25
• Miro Quartet with Special Guest Pianist Pei-Yao Wang
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Returns to Cal Performances
• May & June 2005 Calendar of Events
• Jazz Legends Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette Together
• The Rising Stars of Musicians from Marlboro
• Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott in Recital
• Masters of Persian Classical Music
• The Iconoclastic String Quartet Ethel
• The 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Legendary Trisha Brown Dance Company
• The Contemporary Artistry of Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo
• NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!
• Rising Star Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott
• Spain's Celebrated Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras
• Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove
• Takács Quartet Inaugurates Beethoven String Quartet Cycle
• Undisputed Japanese Drumming Masters Kodo
• Beloved South African Singers Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Vusi Mahlasela
• Jazz Great Paquito d'Rivera and Guitar Virtuosos The Assads January 27
• March & April 2005 Calendar of Events
• Barbarito Torres CANCELLED
• Cirque Éloize's Splashy New Production Rain
• The Peking Acrobats at Zellerbach Hall January 21 & 22
• Soprano Renée Fleming, One of the Great Voices of Our Time
• Renowned Pianist Richard Goode
• Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax in an all Beethoven Program - SOLD OUT
• Dan Zanes & Friends Return to Cal Performances
• Arlo Guthrie & The Klezmatics Perform the Spiritual Music of Woody Guthrie
• January & February 2005 Calendar of Events
• Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk in her Bay Area Debut
• Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, Al-Kindî Ensemble and Sheikh Hamza Shakkûr Perform Sacred Music
• Tallis Scholars at Cal Performances December 3
• Cal Performances Names New General Manager and Director of Development
• American Premiere of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at Cal Performances November 26
• World-Class Tenor Michael Schade With Pianist Malcolm Martineau November 14
• Piano Prodigy Lang Lang November 13
• The Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra November 3-7; Season Benefit Gala November 3
• The Royal Court Theatre's Production of Sarah Kane's Final Play 4.48 Psychosis
• Laurie Anderson in New Solo Work November 11 & 12
• David Sedaris Sold-out Engagement November 9
• Mark Morris Dance Group Returns to Cal Performances with a World Premiere
• November & December 2004 Calendar of Events
• The Brentano String Quartet in a Program of Mozart, Schubert and Davidovsky
• Award-winning Economist and Author Paul Krugman Opens 2004/05 Strictly Speaking Series
• Branford Marsalis Quartet, Pianist Joey Calderazzo and the Miguel Zenón Quartet One Night Only
• Virtuoso Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in Recital
• October World Stage Events include Brazil's Balé Folclórico da Bahia; Israeli Songstress Chava Alberstein; and Music, Dance and Rituals of Kerala, India
• James Kudelka's National Ballet of Canada at Cal Performances
• Le Concert Spirituel Cancelled
• Salzburg Chamber Soloists Open Cal Performances' 2004/05 Chamber Music Series
• Shen Wei Dance Arts Makes Its Bay Area Debut
• Cal Performances Adds 7 Events Including Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words and Grand Kabuki Theatre of Japan; Single Ticket Sales Begin Saturday, August 22
• Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig Cancelled
• The Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company at Zellerbach Hall for One Performance Only
• Reigakusha, Japan's Leading Gagaku Orchestra, Performing "Reigaku and Gagaku: A Living Tradition" with a Sightlines Lecture/Demonstration Preceding the Concert
• Bobby McFerrin Opens Cal Performances 2004/05 Season
• September & October 2004 Calendar of Events
• AileyCamp's Grand Finale Performance "What a Day!"
• Russian National Orchestra Featuring Music of John Adams and Gordon Getty