The San Francisco Choral Society presents an evening of masterful choral works including the premiere of a new chamber orchestra version of Terra Nostra by Stacy Garrop. Co-commissioned in 2013 with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, the fully orchestrated version was originally premiered in San Francisco over the course of two years in 2014 […]
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4/29, Choral Masterworks by Morten Lauridsen and Stacy Garrop
The San Francisco Choral Society presents an evening of masterful choral works including the premiere of a new chamber orchestra version of Terra Nostra by Stacy Garrop. Co-commissioned in 2013 with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, the fully orchestrated version was originally premiered in San Francisco over the course of two years in 2014 […]
3/17, Neighbor Tones
The San Francisco Girls Chorus partners with Chanticleer to co-present an adventurous performance of new choral works and new sounds. Experience both groups as you’ve never heard them before on repertoire neither ensemble would be able to perform alone, including the eagerly-anticipated preview of a new co-commissioned work by Ayanna Woods, one of today’s most […]
Considering This Moment: Music With Strings
This thought-provoking program will feature music for choir and string orchestra, in collaboration with the Circadian String Quartet and additional local string players. We will bring you Zanaida Robles’ No Fairytale Here, a setting of writings by the African American suffragist Ida B. Wells that includes spoken voice; San Francisco Conservatory composer David Conte’s reverent […]
2/23, BABA: The Life and Death of Stana
February 23-25, 2023 at 8pm / February 26 at 2pm Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble is proud to announce the world premiere of BABA: The Life and Death of Stana, authored, composed and directed by Karmina Silec. BABA is a new opera inspired by the lives of sworn virgins of the Balkan Highlands, women who live […]
Karmina Silec: BABA The life and Death of Stana
Music theatre by Karmina Silec for vocalists of extended vocal techniques, instruments, electronics Performers: Kitka ensemble and guests BABA is inspired by the sworn virgins – the women who, after taking vows of chastity, adopt a man’s name and identity, wear men’s clothes, do men’s work, smoke, drink rakia, play the gusle … and join […]