Our 2025-26 Season
MYSTERY, MAGI, and MITTENS
Join us outside, 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 Poulenc, Distler, Dawson, Bach, Stravinsky, Kverno, and Puerling, and Max Marcus (Composer-in-Residence) and Peter Hilliard (Composer-Not-in-Residence).
SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, December 14 • 4:00pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street
PALO ALTO
Saturday, December 20 • 7:30pm
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street
OAKLAND
Sunday, December 21 • 4:00pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue
L’CHAIM! A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
Let us embrace life’s wonders with music from the Jewish tradition and around the world. We will celebrate life and love, new beginnings and transformations, with psalms and songs from across the ages. Featuring works by Karmon, Jagoda, Mendelssohn, Miller, Near, Parker, Rossi, Sametz, Singer, Harlap, Zimpel, and Kramer, and world premieres from our resident composers.
SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, March 15 • 4:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez Street
PALO ALTO
Saturday, March 21 • 7:30pm
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street
BERKELEY
Sunday, March 22 • 4:00pm
Netivot Shalom
1316 University Avenue
LOVE, LOST AND FOUND
In June we will fall in and out of love, we will sigh and laugh, and experience rapture, despair, and transformation. Our companions and guides come from many cultures and centuries from the Spanish Renaissance to yesterday. Including Vivanco, Kelley, Franck, Burnham, Elgar, Baksa, Barber, de la Cruz, Imogen Holst, Hensel, Shearer, Guerrero, Harrington, Weelkes, Monteverdi, Nelhybel, Surinach. In addition to our Composers-in- and Not-in-Residence, the winning work of our New Voices Competition.
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