A Photo of the Founder of Sequoia Concerts

Leonore Hall, the founder of Sequoia Concerts is a pianist and a perfomer, herself. She has currently celebrated her 54th broadcast of her solo playing on WNYC ( in New York City for "Toccata" by composer Laurel Firant) this season as well as having other broadcasts of her work in on Venice Classic Radio in Italy ("Beautiful Dreamer" by Firant) and Montana public radio this summer 2009. ("Danse" with William Bouton, violinist also on an album by composer Laurel Firant). She has also had broadcasts of KUSC and Classical Public Radio Network.

She has collaborated in many classical music productions which have been broadcast all over the world. She now has a private piano studio in Claremont and currently is the motivating force behind Sequoia Concerts.

 

Our Beginnings

Founded in San Francisco, in 2003 and active there until 2006 Sequoia Concerts is a recognized 501c charitable and educational non-profit organization. During that time, we have produced 14 concerts within 3 separate concert series venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Venues have included the Berkeley City Club, First Universalist Unitarian Society and the Piedmont Piano Company.

The very first concert of Sequoia Concerts was given at the First Universalist Unitarian Society in San Francisco on August 1st, 2003 by internationally renowned pianist, Eduardo Delgado.

Since that time many performers have enjoyed performing for Sequoia Concerts, including solo concerts by pianists Kumaran Arul, Esther Chan, Alan Dunn, Svetozar Ivanov, Machiko Kobialka, Michael Sellers, Scott Pratt and William Wellborn in the "Piedmont Piano Concert Series" in South Beach San Francisco, "Piano Evenings in San Francisco" in the city and the "Music That Fascinates" series in Berkeley, in an elegant club designed by world famous architect Julia Morgan.

concert at the berkeley city club

A Concert at the Berkeley City Club "A Pianistic Fusion of Latitudes" given by Eduardo Delgado in 2005

Who Can Perform in our Concerts

We welcome pianists who have a sincere interest in performing. We are interested in performers of any age, country of origin or musical background. A performer's sincere love of music along with a serious commitment to performing the classical piano literature will make him or her a perfect choice for our organization. For more information, pls. write Sequoia Concerts, P. O. Box 302, La Verne, CA 91750-0302.