2018-19 Highlights
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June 15, 2019 / Brian Baumbusch’s The Pressure
Other Minds Festival 24 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (SF)
The premiere of a tale of gothic horror told in music by composer and instrument builder Brian Baumbusch, featuring more than 24 performers including The Lightbulb Ensemble and Friction String Quartet, 3 keyboardists, vocal quartet (Shauna Fallihee, Melinda Becker, Ryan Matos, Sidney Chen), and the composer as narrator.
June 8 / Anne Hege’s The Furies (Act III)
Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) @ Bing Concert Hall (Stanford)
The premiere of Act III of Anne Hege’s Laptopera, an opera for laptop orchestra. Voice, movement, ritual, and laptop ensemble are merged in Hege’s version of the Electra story — Electra electrified. Presented as part of SLOrk Trek 2019. Roles sung by Shauna Fallihee, Alice Del Simone, Sidney Chen.
June 6 / Chan Family Picnic developing session
Development for a new vaudeville by Eugenie Chan, drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco. Music by Byron Au Yong,
May 19 / Compline with Endersnight
March 17 / Compline with Endersnight
The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (SF)
May 11 & 12 / Clerestory sings Songbook II
Holy Innocents Episcopal Church (SF), David Brower Center (Berkeley)
A new chapter in Clerestory’s popular series of Americana concerts, exploring the rich body of popular American musical styles, from barbershop to folk songs, African American spirituals to vocal jazz. Clerestory is a singer-led, all-male vocal chamber ensemble.
May 7 & 9 / Byron Au Yong’s 9 Lifeboats
Studio Theater, University of San Francisco (SF)
Guest lecturer, USF MUS 180: Music and Social History, taught by Byron Au Yong.
May 5 / Innova Recordings’ Inn-fest 2019
Center for New Music (SF)
Inn-fest, the annual Innova label showcase, features a smorgasbord from its roster of visionary artists. Performance by Volti to celebrate the release of its new album, the color of there seen from here. Additional sets by Friction Quartet, Pamela Z, Areon Flutes.
May 4 / Volti’s 40th Anniversary Gala
Noe Valley Ministry (SF)
Volti — San Francisco's new-music vocal ensemble, founded and led by Robert Geary — celebrates 40 years of "singing without a net" and releases their newest CD, the color of there seen from here.
March 28 / dangerous dreamscapes with foreignfire
Dresher Ensemble Studio (West Oakland)
Live wrestling, poetry chanted from inscrutable scrolls, and spontaneous works of voice and body featuring some of the bay area's most adventurous vocal artists, led by David Israel Katz.
March 17 & 18 / Jimmy López’s Dreamers
Cal Performances @ Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley);
Stanford Live @ Bing Concert Hall (Stanford)
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Ana Maria Martinez, Volti and the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus in the premiere of an oratorio about undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
March 9 & 10 / Alexander Nevsky with Marin Symphony
Marin Center Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (San Rafael)
Alasdair Neale conducts Prokofiev’s cantata. Guest singer with Marin Symphony Chorus.
February 28–March 2 / ODC’s Path of Miracles with Volti
Grace Cathedral (SF)
February 1 / ODC Unplugged: Path of Miracles with Volti
ODC Theater (SF)
January 25 / ODC’s Path of Miracles (touring version)
Page Theatre @ Wesley United Methodist Church (Winona, MN)
January 13 / Volti sings Path of Miracles (concert version)
Gualala Arts @ Gualala Arts Center (Gualala, CA)
Path of Miracles, a site-specific performance experience choreographed by KT Nelson, returns to Grace Cathedral for a second sold-out run. Created by ODC/Dance in collaboration with Volti. Score by Joby Talbot.
February 17 & 23 / Clerestory sings Movement of Colors
St. Gregory of Nyssa (SF), David Brower Center (Berkeley)
February 22 / Clerestory: Creating Leonardo
Humanities West, Marines’ Memorial Theater (SF)
February 16 / Clerestory: The Bright Field
Sonoma Bach, Schroeder Hall (Rohnert Park)
A kaleidoscopic program connecting music to visual art. Works by Victoria, Palestrina, Tallis, Gesualdo, Pärt, Howells and Whitacre.
November 16, 17, 2018 / Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite
Grace Cathedral (SF), presented by YBCA
Soloist for Holcombe Waller’s Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite. Building on millennia of queer leadership in religious ceremony, the work intersects music, theater and ceremony to center an equitable queer magic within our sacred cultural spaces. The work invokes peace for the dead who suffered persecution for their sexual orientation or gender expression, focusing on the history of LGBTQi people from the 1980s through present day.