2015-2016 Season

8PM Saturday, May 28, 2016
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Carl Orff:
Carmina Burana
Soloists:
Maya Kherani, soprano
Paul Flight, countertenor
Zachary Gordin, baritone
Program Notes
4PM Saturday, March 19 & 20, 2016
Grace Presbyterian Church, Walnut Creek
And First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Mendelsohn:
Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Rheniberger:
Mass in E flat (Cantus Missae)
Soloists:
Collin Whitfield
Kyle Stegall
Lisa Van Der Plug
Philip Skinner
Richard Mix
Program Notes
7PM Sunday, November 21, 2015
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
Joseph Hayden
Lord Nelson Mass
Soloists:
Elliot Encarnacion
Gabriela Estephanie Solis
Jeffrey Fields
Jennifer Paulino


2014-2015 Season

8PM Saturday, May 23, 2015
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
George Frideric Handel:
Acis and Galatea
Henry Purcell:
Beati Omnes Qui Timent Dominum
Jehova Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei
Soloists:
Ann Moss, soprano
Mark Alexander Bonney, tenor
Ben Kazez, baritone
Program Notes
7PM Saturday, March 21, 2015
Grace Presbyterian Church, Walnut Creek
4PM Sunday, March 22, 2015
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Gustav Holst:
The Cloud Messenger
Soloists:
Elliott Encarnación
Gabriela Estaphanie Solis
Program Notes
4PM Sunday, November 23, 2014
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Richard Strauss
Praeludium from Suite in B Flat
Anton Bruckner:
Mass No. 2 in E Minor
Aequale No. 2 in C Minor
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Ave Maria
Os justi
Johannes Brahms:
Gesang der Parzen
Program Notes


2013-2014 Season

Saturday, May 24, 2014
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Jan Dismas Zelenka:
Litaniae de Venerabili Sacramento ZWV 147
Regina Coeli ZWV 134
De Profundis in D minor
Gloria from Missa Dei Filii ZWV 20
Soloists
Jennifer Paulino, soprano
Clifton Massey, countertenor
Mark Alexander Bonney, tenor
Sepp Hammer, baritone
Program Notes
Saturday, March 15, 2014
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Pre-concert talk 7:20 p.m: Nalini Ghuman, Associate Professor of Music, Mills College

Sunday, March 16, 2014
Grace Presbyterian Church, Walnut Creek
Of Home and Far Horizons: Music from the British Isles
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Edward Elgar: “Praise to the Holiest” from The Dream of Gerontius
Benjamin Britten: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
John Foulds: “Requiem” and “Elysium” from A World Requiem
Gustav Holst: “To Varuna”, “Battle Hymn”, and “Hymn to Soma” from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Sir Charles H. H. Parry: My Soul, there is a Country
Edward Bairstow: Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Samuel S. Wesley: Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace
Program Notes
Soloists
Sunday, November 24, 2013
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Antonín Dvořák:
Stabat Mater
Soloists
Angela Eden Moser, soprano
Lisa van der Ploeg, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Smucker, tenor
Jeffrey Fields, baritone
Nadia Blank, piano
Dale Tsang-Hall, piano
Program Notes
2012-2013 Season
Saturday, May 25, 2013
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Henry Du Mont (1610-1684):
Magnificat anima mea
Exultat Animus
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704):
Motet pour les trépassés
Agnus Dei from Messe pour les Trépassés
Te deum H146
Soloists:
Rita Lilly, soprano
Christina Schiffner Santschi, mezzo-soprano
Ben Jones, tenor
Mark Bonney, tenor
Sepp Hammer, bass
Program Notes
Sunday, March 24, 2013
St. John’s Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
Duruflé: Requiem
Lisa van der Ploeg, mezzo-soprano
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Andrés Beck-Ruiz, soprano
Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Third Group):
Hymn to the Waters
Hymn of the Travellers
Hymn to Agni
Hymn to Soma
Soloists
Saturday, November 17, 2012
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
Handel and Hummel
Handel:
Choruses from Solomon:
“Your harps and cymbals sound”
May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours”
“From the censer curling rise”
Te Deum for Queen Caroline
Zadok the Priest
Hummel:
Mass in D Minor
Soloists:
Jennifer Paulino, soprano
Christina Santschi, mezzo-soprano
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, alto
Mark Bonney, tenor
Paul Murray, bass
Program Notes


2011-2012 Season

Saturday, May 26, 2012
With Guest Conductor Robert Ashens
A Night at the Opera
Scenes for chorus and soloists:
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles: “Brahma, divin Brahma!” and “L’Ombre descend des cieux”
Gluck: Orphée et Euridice: Opening scene, Act 2 “Quel est l’audacieux”
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: “Regina cœli”
Puccini: La Rondine: “Inneggiamo alla vita”
Choruses:
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: “Heil sei euch Geweihten!”
Puccini: Madama Butterfly: “Humming chorus”
Verdi: Macbeth: “Patria oppressa”
Nabucco: “Va, pensiero”
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: “Dazu dir der Heiland kam”
Arias:
Puccini: Turandot: “Nessun dorma”
Dvorak: Rusalka: “Song to the moon”
Press Release
Program Notes
Soloists
Sunday, March 25, 2012
With guest conductor Bruce Koliha
Schubert and Schumann
Franz Schubert
Mass in G, D. 167
Psalm 23 (Gott ist mein Hirt) D. 706
Ständchen, D. 920
Robert Schumann
Requiem für Mignon, Op.98b
Drei Gedichte, Op. 29
Beim Abschied zu Singen, Op. 84
Bei Schenkung eines Flügels, WoO 26,4
Program Notes
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Masses By Mozart
Requiem
Mass in C (Coronation Mass)
Press Release
Program Notes
Soloists
2010-2011 Season
May 28, 2011, 8PM
Vivaldi Discovered!
Dixit Dominus, RV 807 – Antonio Vivaldi
Nisi Dominus – Baldassare Galuppi
Confitebor tibi Domine – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Program Notes
March 19, 2011, 8PM
Of Loss and Longing
Stabat Mater in C minor – Josef Rheinberger
Psalm 42 Wie der Hirsch schreit nach frischem Wasser – Felix Mendelssohn
Program Notes Read the review at SF Classical Voice
November 20, 2010, 8PM
Let the Winds Blow – Works of F.J. Haydn
Harmoniemesse
Der Sturm
Te Deum for Empress Marie Therese
Program Notes
2009-2010 Season
May 29, 2010
Petite Messe Solennelle – Rossini
Program Notes
SF Classical Voice preview of the Rossini concert
March 20, 2010
An Evening with Fauré and Friends
Requiem – Fauré
Works by Saint-Saëns, Sévérác
Program Notes
November 21, 2009
An Evening of Beethoven
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mass in C
Elegiac Song
Program Notes
2008-2009 Season
May 24, 2009
The Triumph of Love
Catulli Carmina – Carl Orff
LiebesLieder Walzes op. 52 – Johannes Brahms
Program Notes
March 22, 2009
The Music of Zoltán Kodály
Missa Brevis
Kálló Folk Dances
Esti Dal
Kösöntö
Program Notes
November 22, 2008
Choral Masterworks of the Baroque Era
Requiem – Jan Dismas Zelenka
Magnificat – Johann Kuhnau
Program Notes
2007-2008 Season
May 24, 2008
Ein Deutsches Requiem – Johannes Brahms
Program Notes
March 8, 2008
Aphrodite’s Muse
Works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and others
Program Notes
November 17, 2007
Homage to Saint Nicholas
Missa Sancti Nicolai – Franz Josef Haydn
Saint Nicolas Cantata – Benjamin Britten
Program Notes
2006-2007 Season
May 19, 2007
Celebrating Peace
Utrecht Te Deum and Utrecht Jubilate – George Frideric Handel
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Program Notes
March 25, 2007
Romance & the Part Song
Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 65 – Brahms
Serenade to Music – Vaughan Williams
Works by Elgar, Rheinberger, Badings, Jenner, Schubert
Program Notes
November 18, 2006
Treasures of Michael Haydn
Missa Sancti Hieronymi
Timete Dominum
Ave Regina Caelorum
Program Notes