Pacific Chorale, conducted by Artistic Director Robert Istad, displays its considerable vocal dexterity when special guests Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD), one of the country’s premier early music ensembles, and its founder, organist Ruben Valenzuela, join the choir for a highly anticipated, historically-informed performance of Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610,” a pillar of the Baroque music […]
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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 […]
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 […]
1/20, Lecture by Karmina Silec: Choregie & BABA: The Life and Death of Stana
Slovenian composer, author, and director Karmina Silec is one of the most provocative and exciting figures on the international contemporary music and theater scene. Join her for an introduction to her “Choregie” process of multi-disciplinary meta-compostion, a survey of selected past works, and a preview of her work-in-development BABA: The Life and Death of Stana. […]
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 […]