Award-winning SF contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) was founded in 2007 and consists of soprano/Artistic Executive Director/co-founder Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, pianist Margaret Halbig, and composer/Senior Artistic Advisor/co-founder David Garner, and regular guest artists.

E4TT performs 20th and 21st century music that is relevant, engaging, original, and compelling, music that resonates today and will speak to tomorrow. E4TT strongly believes in the power of artistic beauty, intelligence, wit, lyricism, and irony to create a deep understanding of our times and the human condition. Women creators are an ongoing primary focus.