The moment we've all been waiting for has arrived! 🎶
Pre-order E4TT's sixth album - El Tiempo Latine - TODAY on Bandcamp and get an instant download of the first track (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released! Link in bio.
✨️ Announcing E4TT's 2025/26 (18th) Home Season, "Women Crossing/ Liminality" ✨️
San Francisco/Bay area Award-winning contemporary music group Ensemble for These Times is excited to announce our 18th Home Season, “Women Crossing/Liminality,” the culmination of our two-year initiative exploring women’s immigration and identity, along with a new recording, plus our first East Coast tour! Learn more about this exciting upcoming season and secure your seats at the link in our bio. 🔗
🎶 November 7, 2025: "Lines, Circles + Spirals"
With works by Karim Al-Zand, Clarice Assad, Anna Clyne, inti figgis-vizueta, Hannah Ishizaki, and more.
🎶 January 25, 2026: "After Sleepwalking: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers"
With the 2025 E4TT/ Luna Composition Lab Call for Scores winner plus music by Jungyoon Wie, Andrew Yee, and more.
🎶 March 1, 2026: E4TT/RMF New Music Piano Summit
Pianist Dale Tsang Performs the Winning Scores from a New Call for Scores for Piano Four-Hands with RMF Laureates.
🎶 April 17, 2026: "Women Crossing/Liminality”
A Multimedia Concert with World Premieres by Juhi Bansal, Vivian Fung, and Pamela Z.
🎶 May 16, 2026: “El Tiempo Latine"
Celebrating E4TT’s Newest Recording Featuring Music by Contemporary Latine Composers.
Season designs by @meganchartier.cellist // @inkermezzo
El Tiempo Latine is TONIGHT! 🎉🎶
Join E4TT — “more than a group of musicians with a cool moniker” (Bay City News) — for a free concert featuring selections from our latest recording, and don’t miss the pre-concert talk with Brennan Stokes.
RSVPs for in-person attendance are full, but you’re welcome to join the waitlist or to come and see if seats have opened up.
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⏰ Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
📍Center for New Music (55 Taylor St., SF) and live-streamed
✨Pre concert talk at 7:00 pm
#newmusic #music #cello #piano #chambermusic
This Saturday's performance, "El Tiempo Latine," has received three highlights from Theatre Bay Area!
The Theatre Bay Area Highlights Program honors productions across the Bay that are driving the future of theatre forward - We are honored to have received:
🔸 Homegrown - This production is creating jobs and creative opportunities right here in the Bay Area!
🔹 Reflection - The Bay Area is beautifully diverse and so is this production!
🔺 Open Doors - This production has taken tangible, intentional steps to increase access for Bay Area audiences!
This production is nearly sold out, so don't miss out on your chance to see El Tiempo Latine - THIS SATURDAY May 16 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are more info can be found at the link in our bio. 🔗
"El Tiempo Latine" is almost sold out!
Only a few seats remain for El Tiempo Latine THIS SATURDAY, May 16! RSVP today so you don't miss this chance to celebrate E4TT's newest album! This free concert features selections from the recording by Gabriela Lena Frank, Carla Lucero, Tania León, Jose Bragato, Claudia Montero, Gabriela Ortiz, and Brennan Stokes.
Performed by E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Megan Chartier, cello, Margaret Halbig, piano) with guests violinist Lylia Guion and coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow
Learn more at the link in our bio. 🔗
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🎶 El Tiempo Latine
⏰️ Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
📍 Center for New Music (55 Taylor St., SF) and livestreamed
🎟️ RSVP for FREE in-person AND online (livestream) attendance
Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in to E4TT's weekly interview series, For Good Measure! ✨️
In this week's episode, we continue FGM Turns 200!, a mini-series where we talk to Ensemble for These Times' members and past guest artists. Today, we are joined by E4TT’s guest cellist Abigail Monroe, who we spoke to in May 2025. 🎻
Tune in to this week's episode to hear Abigail talk about her path to becoming a musician - Linked in our bio. 🔗
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Cellist Abigail Monroe has been praised for her “rich resonance” and “emotional depth” (For All Events) and has established herself as a sought-after solo performer, chamber musician, and large ensemble collaborator throughout the United States and internationally.
Abigail is currently the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Missouri Symphony, and is a member of the Cello Sections of the West Michigan Symphony and Orchestra Iowa. She performs regularly with many orchestras nationwide, including the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, The Orchestra San Antonio, Mobile Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. She has appeared as Principal Cellist with the Rapides Symphony, Peoria Symphony, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, where she was a Regular Member for three seasons.
"El Tiempo Latine" is available TODAY! 🎶✨️
E4TT's newest album, El Tiempo Latine, is available for purchase today - Be among the first to hear the brilliance of today's Latine composers!
"El Tiempo Latine" (Aerocade Music) features music by composers from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S. in a double album that explores the wide range of classical music being written by contemporary Latine voices, ranging from the jazz-infused strains of Gabriela Lena Frank's “Midnight Serenades" and inti figgis-vizueta's modernist "the motion between three world," to salsa-inspired selections by Gabriela Ortiz ("Su-muy-key") and Tania León ("Tumbao") and José Bragato's Piazzolan flair in "Milontan."
You can purchase/download the new release at the link in our bio! 🔗
@e4tt ’s “El Tiempo Latine” is out now. It features nine contemporary composers: Gabriela Ortiz, Claudia Montero, José Bragato, Tania León, Gabriela Lena Frank, Carla Lucero, Angélica Negrón, inti figgis-vizueta, and Brennan Stokes.
E4TT’s core members @nanettemcguinness , @meganchartier.cellist , and Margaret Halbig are joined by guest artists @chelseahollowsoprano and violinist Lylia Guion.
🌟 Link in bio! 🌟
#chambermusic #violin #cello #piano #soprano
Huge congratulations are in order for composer Gabriela Lena Frank who just won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera, “Picaflor: A Future Myth!” 🎶
Enjoy a short clip of E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano, and Griffin Seuter, cello) performing her “Manhattan Serenades.” We can’t wait to perform more of her incredible music soon!
#chambermusic #piano #newmusic #cello #music
@e4tt ’s next album features the core ensemble members @nanettemcguinness , @meganchartier.cellist , and Margaret Halbig, plus guest artists Lylia Guion and @chelseahollowsoprano .
For El Tiempo Latine, they have chosen favorites by nine composers, ranging from major prize winners — Mexican Gabriela Ortiz and Argentinians Claudia Montero and José Bragato (GRAMMY®), Cuban-American Tania León (Pulitzer), and Californians Gabriela Lena Frank (Heinz) and Carla Lucero (Opera America) — to rising stars — Puerto-Rican Angélica Negrón and Andean-American inti figgis-vizueta — and emerging San Francisco talent, half-Peruvian Brennan Stokes.
Pre-order the double CD length album at E4TT.bandcamp.com.
🌟Link in bio!
Cover design by @taylorchanpiano
E4TT's sixth recording, "El Tiempo Latine," is now available for pre-order! 📀🎶
From the ensemble's start in 2007, E4TT has championed marginalized, exiled, and forgotten voices. "El Tiempo Latine" continues this, celebrating the brilliance of today's Latine creatives with music by nine composers from Argentia, Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S. including Argentinian composer Claudia Montero!
Pre-Ordering "El Tiempo Latine" on Bandcamp includes an instant download of the first track on the album - The first movement of Claudia Montero's "Buenos Aires en tres," plus the full album once it is released on May 8!
Pre-order at the link in our bio! 🔗
Help E4TT celebrate the release of our newest album, "El Tiempo Latine!" 🎶
Join us for our season closer - a free concert featuring selections from the recording, by Gabriela Lena Frank, Carla Lucero, Tania León, Jose Bragato, Claudia Montero, Gabriela Ortiz, and Brennan Stokes.
⏰️ Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
📍 Center for New Music (55 Taylor St, San Francisco) and live-streamed
💬 Pre concert talk at 7:00 pm
Reserve your FREE TICKETS at the link in our bio. 🔗
