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.
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.
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
PREVIOUSLY THIS SEASON
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).