Performance

Our chamber group is now called Mandolini Graziosi. Read more below.

See San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra to read more about orchestra activities.

Achille Bocus and Nicola Swinburne are available for hire to play music for events including parties, weddings and festivals. Please contact us at music@mandolinserenade.com for more information.

Mandolini Graziosi

A few graceful mandolins with mandola and guitar

Sat. Apr. 2, 2011, 7.30 pm, Community Music Center, San Francisco

 

 

Carlo Aonzo and Elena Buttiero

Mandolin and Piano

As part of a long-awaited West Coast tour, the celebrated Italian mandolinist Carlo Aonzo will be performing at San Francisco’s Community Music Center in a program of Beethoven, Munier, and Calace, playing pieces from his new CD with pianist Elena Buttiero, Fantasia Poetica.  The Aonzo-Buttiero duo appears with Mandolini Graziosi

Tickets: Donations $15 (adults) / $10 (children, low-income, senior). Buy for $12/$8 online now!

More Info: www.sfcmc.org.

 

Sat. Feb. 26, 2011, 7.30 pm, Community Music Center, San Francisco

 

 

Italian Baroque and Romantic - solo, duo, and trio mandolin pieces played by Achille Bocus, Nicola Bocus, (Mandolins); Michael Goldberg (Guitar).

This is romance through the ages and it features the Bay Area’s own Italian maestro, Achille Bocus. Pieces by Lecce, Gervasio, Calace, Bellini, Donizetti, and more.

Tickets: Donations $15 (adults) / $10 (children, low-income, senior)

More Info: www.sfcmc.org.

 

Mon. Feb. 28, 8 pm

U.C. Berkeley for the Italian International Student Association, 101 Morgan Hall

 

Italian Baroque and Romantic Workshop and Concert- solo, duo, and trio mandolin pieces played by Achille Bocus, Nicola Bocus, (Mandolins); Michael Goldberg (Guitar).

Lecce, Gervasio, Calace and more.

With interspersed dialogue. Everything about the Italian mandolin!

 

 

 

 

 

We hope to add some recordings to the site soon!

 

 

Ongoing Renaissance Repertoire - our trio

Achille Bocus, Nicola Bocus, (Mandolins); Michael Goldberg (Guitar)

This group is actively developing a merry set of catchy Renaissance tunes arranged from the lute and viol literature.

     

Sat. Feb. 27, 2010, 7.30 pm. St. Mary Magdelen, Berkeley.

Sun. Feb 28, 2010, 4 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco.

 

Samples to Download

Feb. 2010 Concert video:

Bizet, Scenes Bohemienne

 

 

2010 French Romantic Repertoire - our 7 piece ensemble

Achille Bocus, Nicola Bocus, Sarah Bell, Tony Kaye (Mandolins); Jake Hodges (Mandola); Michael Goldberg (Guitar); Javier Trujillo Jurado (Guitar)

 

In Spring 2010 we played a varied selection of elegant and charming French Music, mostly from the Romatic period, arranged for our combination of instruments by Tony Kaye. We played pieces by Roeser, Couperin, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Faure, Debussy, and Ravel.

     

Sun. March 1, 2009, 4 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco.

Sat. Feb. 21, 2009, 8 pm. Trinity Chapel, Berkeley.

Sat. Sept. 13, 2008, 8 pm. St. Albans, Albany.

Sun. Aug. 24, 2008, 4 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco.

 

Download Samples:

Audio recording for CD:

Vivaldi, Conc. per 4 Violini

 

2009 Baroque Concerts - our 7 piece ensemble

Achille Bocus, Nicola Bocus, Sarah Bell, Tony Kaye (Mandolins); Laurien Jones (Mandola); Howard Kadis (Archlute and Guitar); Javier Trujillo Jurado (Guitar)

 

Our 2009 repertoire was a fascinating series of traditional Baroque pieces adapted from the bowed to plucked strings. It featured Vivaldi's famous concerto for four violins in Bm played on mandolins, with Bach's Am violin concerto, Bach's A Major Harpsichord concerto, and concerti by Baroque mandolin composers: Guiliani, and more. We have since started to record some of this for a new CD.