Arts & Events

—Berkeley Chamber Performances will present the San Francisco Chamber Players—violinists Dan Carlson & Nancy Severance, cellist Peter Wyrick (all three of the San Francisco Symphony) & pianist June Choi Oh (of the SF Conservatory)—at 8 p. m. this Tuesday, January 13, in the ballroom at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, in a program of Telemann's Quartet in D minor, Beethoven's Piano Quartet in E flat major Opus 16, two movements from contemporary Northern California composer David Smith's 1913 Street Scene (At the Fountain in the Plaza & At a Busy Intersection)—& Piano Quartet in D major Opus 23 by Dvorak. The audience is invited to a complimentary wine & cheese reception following the concert, with opportunity to meet the musicians. Tickets: $25; high school students free; post-high school students, $12.50. 525-5211; berkeleychamberperform.org 

—Berkeley Symphony—which premiered the concert version of Thomas Adès' opera Powder Her Face in 1997 before it was staged (in New York, Chicago, London)—will give a rare performance of Adès' Asyla, Opus 17, a four-movement piece for large orchestra—sometimes described as a symphony, with the third movement, influenced by techno music and compared rhythmically to The Rite of Spring, as its scherzo—and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, the "Pathétique," conducted by music director Joana Carneiro as the second program of the season, "Sanctuary" (one of the translations of Asyla—the other being "madhouse") at 8 p. m., Thursday, January 15 in Zellerbach Hall, UC campus. Tickets: $15-$74. 841-2800 x 1; berkeleysymphony.org