Our 2025-26 Season
Advance Tickets: Pay what you will*
Door prices: General $35・Senior $30・Under 30 $15
* We are committed to making our concerts accessible to everyone! $30 suggested.
LOVE, LOST AND FOUND
Join us as we fall in and out of love, sigh and laugh, and experience rapture and despair. We will trace journeys of the heart through many cultures and centuries, from late Medieval England to the present day.
Alongside music by Gesualdo, Clara Schumann, Hensel, di Lasso, and Monteverdi, we’ll hear Bay Area voices Roger Nixon, Kirke Mechem, Daniel Afonso, Russell Burnham, and Allen Shearer, and share new works by this year’s Composer-in-Residence, Max Marcus, and Composer-Not-in-Residence, Peter Hilliard, along with the winning New Voices Project work by Yuri Lee.
SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, May 31 • 4:00pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street
PALO ALTO
Saturday, June 6 • 7:30pm
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street
OAKLAND
Sunday, June 7 • 4:00pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue
PREVIOUSLY THIS SEASON
L’CHAIM! A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
L’Chaim! To Life! With music from the Jewish tradition and around the world, SFCA celebrates life and love, gratitude and consolation, in a program of psalms and lamentation, wisdom and joy. Spanning from Salomone Rossi and Felix Mendelssohn to contemporary voices including Tzvi Avni, Matt Van Brink, Sylke Zimpel, L Peter Deutsch, and Alice Parker, we explore a wide emotional landscape through music shaped by Jewish text and tradition. Join us for songs of praise and devotion, intimacy, and hard-won hope—featuring world premieres by Composer-in-Residence Max Marcus and Composer-Not-in-Residence Peter Hilliard.
MYSTERY, MAGI, and MITTENS
Join us under the heavens' dome of stars, as we explore the wonder and mystery of the Christmas story with the music of chilly nights & warm fires, of beasts in the fields and in the manger, and angels singing the mystery of Christ's birth. Works from the 15th to 21st centuries, including Tye, Poulenc, Brahms, Byrd, Conte, Scarlatti, Parker, and Puerling, and Max Marcus (Composer-in-Residence) and Peter Hilliard (Composer-Not-in-Residence).