Upcoming Concert Schedule
Please check the featured group's website for ticket availability, updated times, and program information, as details can change.
These concerts are also detailed in our Calendar.
These concerts are also detailed in our Calendar.
If you love music, consider attending Compline, a sung service of chant and polyphony in candlelight, and Evensong, a contemplative service with psalms, canticles, hymns, and anthems.
Voci Women's Vocal Ensemble
Passion, Joy and Beauty: Brtitten, Poulenc, and Fauré
Saturday, November 23, 4:00pm
This fall, Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble presents its 17th Voices in Peace concert, an ambitious program of exquisite twentieth century music for women’s voices and organ, under the direction of Guest Conductor Robert Wells.
Voci will bring to life Benjamin Britten’s inventive Missa Brevis in D, Francis Poulenc’s stunning Litanies a la Vierge Noire, Gabriel Fauré’s sublime Messe Basse and other notable works by Maurice Duruflé and Emma Lou Diemer. All of these composers derived inspiration from Gregorian chant, cleverly reworking these medieval plainchants into innovative and beautiful new works.
Voci will be joined for these beautiful concerts by internationally acclaimed organist Jonathan Dimmock and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Concert Choir.
Get your tickets HERE.
Voci will bring to life Benjamin Britten’s inventive Missa Brevis in D, Francis Poulenc’s stunning Litanies a la Vierge Noire, Gabriel Fauré’s sublime Messe Basse and other notable works by Maurice Duruflé and Emma Lou Diemer. All of these composers derived inspiration from Gregorian chant, cleverly reworking these medieval plainchants into innovative and beautiful new works.
Voci will be joined for these beautiful concerts by internationally acclaimed organist Jonathan Dimmock and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Concert Choir.
Get your tickets HERE.
Bella Musica Chorus
Fall 2019 Concert
Sunday, December 8, 3:00pm
Bella Musica Chorus invites you to attend their Fall 2019 Concert
Dvorak Mass in D Major
Dvorak Ave Maria
Elgar As Torrents in Summer
Chastain Mi Ze Hidlik
...in addition to other selections
Music Director: Bobby Chastain
Accompanist: John Walko
Tickets may be purchased at the door
($20 adults, $15 students/seniors)
For more info, see www.bellamusica.org
Bella Musica is a community chamber chorus based in Berkeley, provides rewarding musical and educational experiences for chorus members and audiences alike within the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We embrace a wide range of vocal repertoire from traditions medieval to modern, including well-known to newly-composed works. Our singers come from diverse backgrounds and the East Bay communities at large, and are dedicated to offering the highest caliber of performances at reasonable prices. Our concerts often feature local soloists, instrumentalists and composers.
Dvorak Mass in D Major
Dvorak Ave Maria
Elgar As Torrents in Summer
Chastain Mi Ze Hidlik
...in addition to other selections
Music Director: Bobby Chastain
Accompanist: John Walko
Tickets may be purchased at the door
($20 adults, $15 students/seniors)
For more info, see www.bellamusica.org
Bella Musica is a community chamber chorus based in Berkeley, provides rewarding musical and educational experiences for chorus members and audiences alike within the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We embrace a wide range of vocal repertoire from traditions medieval to modern, including well-known to newly-composed works. Our singers come from diverse backgrounds and the East Bay communities at large, and are dedicated to offering the highest caliber of performances at reasonable prices. Our concerts often feature local soloists, instrumentalists and composers.
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble
Wintersongs: Weathering the Storm
Friday, December 13. 8:00pm, and
Saturday, December 14, 8:00pm
"A refreshing spin on traditional seasonal choral music... thoroughly marvelous!" - National Public Radio
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Wintersongs is Kitka's critically-acclaimed and wildly popular winter holiday program showcasing seasonal music from a wide variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions. For countless centuries, people around the world have utilized the power or community singing to infuse warmth, cheer, spirituality, wishes for peace, health, and good fortune into the long, dark, cold and difficult winter season. Eastern Europe's geographic position as a crossroads between Europe and the Orient has produced an astonishingly rich and varied array of seasonal musical rituals.
Each year, Kitka's WINTERSONGS concert is programmed around a different theme. WEATHERING THE STORM, Kitka's theme for 2019, will be the first in a series of "Vocal Ecology" concerts planned for the 2019-20 season. (Upcoming 2020 program themes include Forests, Fires, Waters, and Winged Creatures). These programs are designed to be an artistic response to urgent environmental topics impacting us all. Kitka's goal is to utilize the profound emotional impact of music to inspire concert attendees and workshop and community sing participants to become more actively engaged in the global struggle to reverse climate change. WINTERSONGS: WEATHERING THE STORM program will feature songs with texts that speak to the powers of the elements in wintertime: blustering winds, storms, avalanches, rain, snow, ice, and floods. These musical selections will be balanced with winter ritual songs in traditional settings and original new arrangements designed to bring light and hope to communities who must bond together to survive the ravages of wintertime. As Kitka's 2019 Wintersongs tour will take place entirely in California, our own homeland that is currently experiencing the terrible impacts of raging wildfires, we are also including a number of traditional rain calling songs in our program, one of which, Geshem, Geshem, is an original composition by Kitka's composer-in-residence, Janet Kutulas. Get your tickets HERE. For more information about Kitka and all its programs visit Kitka.org. Photo by Vincent Louis Carrella |
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San Francisco Choral Artists
From Pole to Pole: Christmas in the Three Americas
Friday, December 20, 8:00pm
From Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego, holiday traditions are expressed through singing. Our celebration will stretch across 9,149 miles and 500 years – sampling the rich musical offerings of ancient Peru, modern-day Canada, Baroque Mexico, early New England, and contemporary California. With spirituals, carols, hymns, lullabies and stories – the music of islands and mountains, of dazzling snow and sizzling sun.
SFCA’s artistic vision is to explore the implications of its mission with programs that offer stimulating and moving choral music—new and old works that entice, reward, inspire, and intellectually challenge listeners and performers.
The fostering of composers--living American and local composers--and new choral music is a key element of SFCA’s DNA. The ensemble commissions new works by composers it admires, provides a high quality performance forum to help advance the professional careers of composers, and encourages young composers.
SFCA has premiered over 300 works and won the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2012 and again in 2015, affirming its reputation for eclectic programming and stunning performances.
Get your tickets HERE.
SFCA’s artistic vision is to explore the implications of its mission with programs that offer stimulating and moving choral music—new and old works that entice, reward, inspire, and intellectually challenge listeners and performers.
The fostering of composers--living American and local composers--and new choral music is a key element of SFCA’s DNA. The ensemble commissions new works by composers it admires, provides a high quality performance forum to help advance the professional careers of composers, and encourages young composers.
SFCA has premiered over 300 works and won the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2012 and again in 2015, affirming its reputation for eclectic programming and stunning performances.
Get your tickets HERE.
St. Paul's Chancel Choir
Concert for Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 24, 10:30pm
Our annual Christmas Eve Concert celebrates the birth of Jesus, sung by St. Paul's reknown Chancel Choir, under the direction of Christopher Kula.
Program details to come, as available.
Program details to come, as available.
Prometheus Symphony Orchestra
Third Concert
Sunday, January 26, 3:00pm
Eric Hansen, Music Director and Conductor.
Pre-concert Talk begins at 2:40 PM
Jean Sibelius • Symphony No. 5 in Eb Major, Op. 82
Felix Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition Winner
55 Years of Community Music Making. Director Eric Hansen and The Prometheus Symphony Orchestra welcome you to our concert series for the 2019–2020 season, featuring well-established favorites as well as innovative, modern works.
There is no admission fee and families with children are welcome. More info HERE
Pre-concert Talk begins at 2:40 PM
Jean Sibelius • Symphony No. 5 in Eb Major, Op. 82
Felix Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition Winner
55 Years of Community Music Making. Director Eric Hansen and The Prometheus Symphony Orchestra welcome you to our concert series for the 2019–2020 season, featuring well-established favorites as well as innovative, modern works.
There is no admission fee and families with children are welcome. More info HERE