Are you an experienced vocalist looking for challenging repertoire and a wonderful choral community? We’d love for you to join us! Sacred and Profane, A Chamber Chorus has openings for voices in all sections (SATB), especially tenor and bass voices, for our 2021–22 season. Winter rehearsals begin January 3, 2022.
Auditions are scheduled by appointment. Visit www.sacredprofane.org/audition to learn more about our upcoming season and audition process. If you’ve got a healthy voice and a great attitude, contact us to schedule an audition. Send us an email with a brief description of your interest, experience, and your voice part to .
About Sacred and Profane, A Chamber Chorus:
Founded in 1977, Sacred & Profane is a chamber chorus that performs a wide variety of a cappella choral music. Concert repertoire includes sacred and secular works from the middle ages to the contemporary period, drawing from classical, ethnic & folk traditions. We aim to provide an inspiring & educational experience for audiences & chorus members through innovative programming, intensive preparation & high quality performances.
S&P is composed of 24 to 32 singers (SATB), each bringing superior musicianship, vocal skill, and dedication to the ensemble, achieving professional-level performances. As a result, the ensemble is capable of superior execution of challenging repertoire from across the musical canon, including contemporary and highly demanding works. Our talented singers represent many facets of our diverse Bay Area communities; from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and demographics. S&P embraces our vibrant membership and strives to explore and celebrate this through our repertoire. www.sacredprofane.org
**The health and safety of our members, staff, and community are our top priority. All rehearsals and concerts will follow safety protocol such as shortened exposure time, air filtration, and will require masks and social distancing for all parties. We continue to closely monitor local and state directives, public health guidelines, and work to keep the choral experience thriving safely.**
For more information about the choir and repertoire, participation requirements, health and safety measures, the audition process, or to schedule and audition, contact us by email. Details at www.sacredprofane.org/audition.
44th Season: Together in Time and Space
Fall 2021 | Musical Mystical: Angels Among Us
Featuring music about angels and celestial beings by Tina Andersson, Karin Rehnqvist, Trevor Weston, Raffaella Aleotti, Stern Källman, and more with guest instrumentalists (oboe, Haitian percusssion)
Winter 2022 | Rhythm of Time: Music For Choir and Piano
Exploring our relationship to the passage of time through music for choir and piano by Benjamin Britten, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Rosephanye Powell, Franz Schubert, Conrad Susa, Dale Trumbore, and more.
Spring 2022 | Local Vocal: Celebrating Our Musical Bay Area
Spotlighting music written by local composers and about our local history and geography. Works by Kirke Meecham, Gabriela Lena Frank, David Conte, Mark Winges, Edna Yeh, Byron Au Yong, and others.
Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana – Do you want to understand the in jokes but you don’t speak medieval German and Latin? I would hate for any singers or listeners to experience this great masterpiece as just a succession of nonsensical syllables set to music. There is so much more enjoyment to be had when you understand the words, and so I set out to write a set of commentaries to accomplish that goal. After an overall introduction there’s an individual essay for each section. My hope is that the voices and personalities of the lyrics will come alive for you so that you experience the huge range of emotions contained in these pieces. Even though the original authors lived many hundreds of years ago, we can identify with them if we understand what they’re actually saying. From the cries of a roast swan, to the weeping of someone broken by the turns of fate, to the joyful shouts of lovers, I hope you’ll gain a new understanding of them all. This material isn’t meant to be scholarly or definitive, but to be . . . fun.