Past Repertoire

SEASON 44 – 2022-23

May, 2023
Trevor Weston Given Sound
Mark Winges Words Cast Shadows (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Caroline Shaw Hematite (from Ochre)
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė Aletheia (US Premiere)
Eric Tuan In the Rain Shadow (Volti Commission, World Premiere of the Complete Version)

February, 2023
Joby Talbot Path of Miracles (a collaboration with ODC/Dance, KT Nelson, choreographer), in Grace Cathedral

November, 2022
Pamela Z Ink (Volti Commission, premiere of live performance version)
Caroline Shaw Ochre (World Premiere, commissioned for Volti, The Crossing (Philadelphia),
Cantori New York and Notre Dame Vocale with funding from the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music)

SEASON 43 – 2021-22

June, 2022
Eric Tuan In the Rain Shadow (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Aftab Darvishi And the world stopped, lacking you
Jens Ibsen How god comes to the soul
Tania Léon Rezos (Prayers)
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate Visions of a Child

April, 2022
Michael Gilbertson Denial (World Premiere)
(a collaboration with San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Ben Simon, Conductor)
Frank Ticheli Earth Song
Diana Woolner The Fire Cycle

October, 2021
Huang Ruo Angel Island Oratorio (World Premiere)
(a collaboration with Del Sol Quartet)

SEASON 42 – 2020-21

“Virtual Volti” Season: All Online!
April, 2021
Pamela Z Ink (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

February, 2021
Joel Chapman Interdependence (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

December, 2020
Danny Clay Singing Puzzles (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

November, 2020
Anne Hege it sounds like all my dreams (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

SEASON 41 – 2019-20

February, 2020
Mark Winges Tomorrow’s Dream Not the Same (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Tonia Ko Starting Places (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė Chant des Voyelles (Incantation of Vowels) (Volti Commission)
Danny Clay Playbook Choruses (Volti Commission)

October / November, 2019
Joby Talbot Path of Miracles (a collaboration with ODC/Dance, KT Nelson, choreographer), at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco and on tour to the Del Webb Center for the Arts in Wickenburg, Arizona

SEASON 40 – 2018-19

July, 2019
Festival Napa Valley
Gordon Getty The Old Man in the Night
Gustav Holst Neptune (from The Planets)

May, 2019
Innova Inn-Fest – Center for New Music, San Francisco
Mark Winges So Let Us (Volti Commission)
Tonia Ko Tuesday (from From Ivory Depths) (Volti Commission)
Forrest Pierce Gratitude Sutra (Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition for the BBC Singers, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Volti)

May, 2019
40th Anniversary Gala
Mark Winges So Let Us (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Tonia Ko Tuesday (from From Ivory Depths) (Volti Commission)
Forrest Pierce Gratitude Sutra (Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
for the BBC Singers, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Volti)
Robin Estrada Paghahandog (Volti Commission)
Kirke Mechem The Caged Bird (co-commissioned by the San Francisco Chamber Singers)
Gordon Getty (arr) Shenandoah (trad)

March, 2019
Joby Talbot Path of Miracles (a collaboration with ODC/Dance, KT Nelson, choreographer), in Grace Cathedral

January, 2019
Joby Talbot Path of Miracles in concert, Gualala Arts Center

November, 2018
Laurie San Martin Witches Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Volti commission, World Premiere
Gregory Spears The Tower and the Garden, with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (West Coast Premiere, commissioned by Volti, Cantori New York, The Crossing, and Notre Dame Vocale, with funding provided by the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music)

SEASON 39 – 2017-18

May, 2018
Robin Estrada Caeli enarrant (Volti Commission)
Henry Cowell The Morning Cometh
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė Chant des Voyelles (Incantation of Vowels) (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Danny Clay Playbook Choruses (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Henry Cowell Psalm 121
Terry Riley Mexico City Blues

April, 2018
John Luther Adams Become Desert (with the Seattle Symphony, presented by CAL Performances)

April, 2018
Bard Music West: In Search of American Music
Henry Cowell The Morning Cometh
Ruth Crawford Seeger Three Chants
William Billings Modern Music
Henry Cowell Psalm 121
William Walker Sweet Prospect
William Billings David’s Lamentation

February, 2018
Joby Talbot Path of Miracles (a collaboration with OCD/dance, KT Nelson, choreographer), in Grace Cathedral

November, 2017
Kurt Rohde Death With Interruptions (a chamber opera adapted by Thomas Laqueur from the novel by José Saramago, presented in collaboration with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)

SEASON 38 – 2016-17

May, 2017
Tonia Ko From Ivory Depths (Volti Commission)
Per Nørgård Wie ein Kind
Ted Hearne Consent
Jack Hughes like a strange sigh (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Joby Talbot Santiago (from “Path of Miracles”)

March, 2017
Ingrid Stölzel into being
Robin Estrada Caeli enarrant (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė The Blue of Distance
György Ligeti Lux aeterna
Joby Talbot Roncesvalles (from “Path of Miracles”)

October, 2016 – with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Onur Türkman but you alone (Left Coast Ensemble and Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Leoš Janáček String Quartet #2 “Intimate Letters”
David Lang a father’s love (from “battle hymns”)
Mark Winges Letters (Volti and Left Coast Ensemble Commission, World Premiere)

SEASON 37 – 2015-16

May, 2016
John Muehleisen . . .is knowing. . . (Volti Commission)
Olli Kortekangas Ikikaiku (Eternal Echo) (sung by The Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Ensemble)
Paolo Longo Quare fremuerunt gentes
Eric Banks The Paths of Peace (from “Twelve Qur’anic Visions”)
Tonia Ko From Ivory Depths (Volti CAL Commission, World Premiere)
Kui Dong Painted Lights (with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Ensemble – Co-commissioned by Volti and Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)

March, 2016
Robert Paterson Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (from “Eternal Reflections” – Volti Commission)
Mark Winges Canticles of Rumi (Volti Commission)
Robert Paterson Infinite Oceans and Love and Kisses (from “The Essence of Gravity” – Volti Commission)
David Lang again (after Ecclesiastes)
Ingrid Stölzel  Into Being  (West Coast Premiere)
Robert Paterson Graffiti Canons (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

November, 2015
Amy Beth Kirsten In the Black (Volti Commission)
Amy Beth Kirsten It is possible these things do not exist: (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Žibuoklé Martinaityté The Blue of Distance
Stacy Garrop Songs of Lowly Life (Volti Commission)
Forrest Pierce Gratitude Sutra (Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition for the BBC Singers, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Volti)

SEASON 36 – 2014-15

July, 2015 (Golden Gate Children’s Choir Festival)
Mark Winges Pandora’s Gift (with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir; Volti Commission, World Premiere, Made possible by a grant from the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundations Music Commissioning Awards Initiative)

May, 2015
LJ White Digression on No. 1, 1948 (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ryan Brown Bone (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Pandora’s Gift (with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir; Volti Commission, World Premiere, Made possible by a grant from the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundations Music Commissioning Awards Initiative)

March, 2015
Kurt Rohde Death With Interruptions (a chamber opera adapted by Thomas Laqueur from the novel by José Saramago, presented in collaboration with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; World Premiere)

January, 2015 (New Music Gathering)
Huck Hodge in lumine
Aaron Jay Kernis Effortlessly, Love Flows from “Ecstatic Meditations”
Mark Winges Dawn from “Pandora’s Gift” (Volti Commission)
Gabriela Lena Frank ¡Chicanofóbia! from “Jalapeño Blues”

November, 2014
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy (Volti Commission)
Carl Schimmel Want Me (World Premiere)
Carl Schimmel Allergy (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank A Poem About Brandon Dever and ¡Chicanofóbia! from “Jalapeño Blues”
Huck Hodge in lumine
Mark Winges Dawn from “Pandora’s Gift” (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Aaron Jay Kernis Effortlessly, Love Flows and I Cannot Dance, O Lord from “Ecstatic Meditations”

SEASON 35 – 2013-14

May, 2014
Ted Hearne Sound From the Bench (Volti Co-Commission with The Crossing, World Premiere)
Melissa Dunphy The Oath of Allegiance (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Kirke Mechem We can sing that!
Kirke Mechem Winging Wildly (Co-commissioned by Volti, The Music Group of Philadelphia, and The Lancaster (Ohio) Chorale)

March, 2014
Melissa Dunphy What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?
David Smooke *A*R**T ACT (World Premiere)
Shawn Crouch Paradise (World Premiere of the Revised Version)
Ted Hearne Ripple
Forrest Pierce Gratitude Sutra (US Premiere – Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition for the BBC Singers, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Volti)

November, 2013
Mark Winges All Night (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Benjamin Britten Sacred and Profane
Forrest Pierce Monument
Sarah Kirkland Snider Scenes from “Unremembered” (World Premiere of Chamber Chorus version)

SEASON 34 – 2012-13

April, 2013
David Lang battle hymns (West Coast Premiere)
(with The San Francisco Choral Society, The Leah Stein Dance Company, The Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)

March, 2013
Huang Ruo Without Words
Kirsten Broberg Breathturn
Harold Meltzer Pacific Beach (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Dan Visconti Wear Flowers in Your Hair (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Canticles of Rumi (Volti Commission)

December, 2012
Stacy Garrop Songs of Lowly Life (Volti Commission)
Armando Bayolo Cancionero Amoroso (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Charles Halka Dipukų Rauda (West Coast Premiere)
David Shapiro It is Time
Shawn Crouch The Garden of Paradise

SEASON 33 – 2011-12

May, 2012
Ken Ueno A lettrist, bottle, a fountain of everything I’ve ever intended to say, may it reach you on your desert island, that we might start anew (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Eric Tuan Song-Gatherings (sung by Ancora)
Tom Flaherty Delusional Paths (Volti Commission)
Tamar Diesendruck Other Floods (Volti Commission)
Francisco Cortés-Álvarez Galope (sung by Ancora)
Francisco Cortés-Álvarez The day on which the World didn’t end (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

March, 2012
John Muehleisen . . . is knowing . . . (Volti Commission, World Premiere), made possible by a generous gift from Pamela Langston-Cox and Thomas Cox
Reena Esmail White Key
Huang Ruo Without Words
David Conte The Homecoming
Robin Estrada Paghahandog (Volti Commission)

December, 2011
Stacy Garrop Songs of Lowly Life (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Canticles of Rumi (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ian Freebairn-Smith Season (World Premiere)
Shawn Crouch The Garden of Paradise

SEASON 32 – 2010-11

May, 2011
Ruby Fulton the ballad of james parry (Volti Commission)
Matthew Barnson Genesis (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Frank Ferko O ignis Spirtus Paracliti
Yu-Hui Chang Being: Two Collins Songs (Volti Commission)
Elliott Gyger voice (and nothing more) (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

March, 2011
Tamar Diesendruck Other Floods (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
David Lang after stephen foster (West Coast Premiere)
Kui Dong Painted Lights (Commissioned by Volti and Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Magic Strings (sung by Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)
Ted Hearne privilege (Volti Commission)

November 2010
Frank Stemper A Brief Message from Makanda, Illinois
Tom Flaherty Delusional Paths (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
David Lipten Time’s Dream
Kirke Mechem Five Centuries of Spring
Louis Andriessen Flora Tristan

SEASON 31 – 2009-10

Nocturnes: May 2010
Donald Crockett Daglarym / My Mountains (Volti Commission)
Robin Estrada Paghahandog (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ted Hearne privilege (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen Nocturnes

Asian and Latin Influences: February 2010
Felipe Pérez Santiago Pronto Desaparaceremos
György Ligeti Két kánon (sung by Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)
Yu-Hui Chang Being: Two Collins Songs (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Jean Ahn Zêteô (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia el sonido dulce de tu voz
Olli Kortekangas Ikikaiku (Eternal Echo) (sung by Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)
Mark Winges Luna, Nova Luna (Co-Commissioned by Volti and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, World Premiere)

Poetry, Proverbs and Music: November 2009
Mark Winges Where Everything Is Music (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson Two Poems by Delmore Schwartz
Joshua Fishbein The Poetry of Earth (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Zuckerman Proverbs for Four at Fifty
William Hawley Two Motets
Eric Moe The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away (Volti Commission)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Beauty and Music (Volti Commission)

SEASON 30 – 2008-09

Ecstatically Impromptu: May 2009
Donald Crockett Daglarym / My Mountains (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Sungji Hong Emendemus in melius 
Kirke Mechem Three Madrigals 
Robert Paterson On the Day the World Ends (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Aaron Jay Kernis Ecstatic Meditations

Dancing in the Wind: February 2009
Frank Ferko Two Hildegard Motets
Mark Winges The Assembling Landscape (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ruby Fulton The Ballad of James Parry (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Pekka Kostiainen Jaakobin pojat (sung by Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)
Pekka Kostiainen Revontulet (sung by Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)
Elliott Gyger Dancing in the Wind (III) (Co-Commissioned by Volti and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, World Premiere)
Eric Moe The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

SEASON 29 – 2007-08

Past, Present and Future Adventures: May 2008
Steven Stucky Cradle Songs
George Lam Words Become Unlatched (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Eric Moe O the Flesh Is Hot but the Heart is Cold (Volti Commission)
William Hawley Two Motets
Ronald Caltabiano Metaphor
Aaron Jay Kernis Effortlessly (from Ecstatic Meditations)
Aaron Jay Kernis I Cannot Dance (from Ecstatic Meditations)

Adventures in Earth, Wind & Fire: March 2008 – with the Piedmont Choir
Mark Winges Give Us (Piedmont Choir)
Eric Tuan (arranger) He’s Gone Away (Piedmont Choir)
Elliott Gyger Dancing in the Wind (Combined Volti & Piedmont Choir Commission, World Premiere)
Robert Paterson Infinite Ocean (Volti Commission)
Robert Paterson Love and Kisses (Volti Commission)
Elliott Gyger Fire in the Heavens (Piedmont Choir)
Eric Tuan (arranger) Shenandoah (Piedmont Choir)
Kurt Rohde Endless (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank Ccolllanan Maria (Volti Commission)

Adventures in Life, Love and Longing: November 2007
Howard Hersh Let Evening Come (World Premiere)
Richard Festinger The Locust Tree (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson Two Poems of Delmore Schwartz (World Premiere)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Beauty and Music (Volti Commission, made possible by a generous gift from Chuck and Joan Grant; World Premiere)
Alan Fletcher Two Yeats Choruses (Volti Commission)
Morten Lauridsen Madrigali

SEASON 28 – 2006-07

San Francisco Experience: May 2007 (with the Piedmont Choir)
Mark Winges A Cricket Needs a Queen (World Premiere)
Kui Dong Frogs and Crickets Carry On
Kui Dong Shui Diao Ge Tou / Song

Nexus: VOLTI March 2007
Cindy Cox Only one great thing (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Martha Sullivan Shakespeare Songs
N. Lincoln Hanks Driftwood
Elliot Gyger Qumi ‘ori
Toon Vandevorst Phoenix Songs, Op. 28 (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Elliot Gyger Rezo di san Iñigo de Loyola
Kevin Raftery Ribblesdale
Amy Beth Kirsten In the Black (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Open the Book of What Happened (Volti Commission)

Baltic Traditions Now: November 2006
Pekka Kostianen Harvoin yhtehen hymme
Pekka Kostianen Siitä Päivän Kiini Saapi
Olli Kortekangas Shadows
Arvo Pärt . . . which was the son of . . . 
Veljo Tormis Helletused (Childhood Memory)
Einojuhani Rautavaara Suite de Lorca
Per Nørgård Wie ein Kind

SEASON 27 – 2005-06

Collaboration: May 2006
Andrew Imbrie On the Beach at Night
Mark Winges Open the Book of What Happened (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Benjamin Britten Lachrymae
Andrew Imbrie To a Traveler
Benjamin Britten Cantata Misericordium

Experimentation: February 2006
Jacob Avshalomov Blessings (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Eric Lindsay Sound Explanations (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Irving Fine The Hour-Glass
Eric Moe O the Flesh Is Hot But the Heart Is Colde(Volti Commission; World Premiere)

Commitment: November 2005
Alan Fletcher No More to Hide (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson an e e cummings tryptich 
Donald Crockett Broken Charms
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Desire, Longing & Whimsey (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Alvin Singleton Gospel (West Coast Premiere)

SEASON 26 – 2004-05

Copland’s American Landscape: May 2005
Aaron Copland In the Beginning
Aaron Copland Lark
Irving Fine The Hour-Glass
Ronald Caltabiano Metaphor
Virgil Thomson (arr. Daniel Pinkham) Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides
Robert Paterson The Essence of Gravity (Volti Commission; World Premiere)

Left Turn @ Albuquerque: March 2005
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Subandi (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank Ccolllanan Maria (Volti Commission)
Miguel Matamoros Son de la Loma
Carlos Chavez Arbolucu, Te Sequeste
Jose Rincon Bullerengue
Beatriz Corona Corazon, Coraza
Alberto Ginastera Lamentations of Jeremiah
Roberto Camaaño Salmo VI
Roberto Sierra Lux Aeterna

New American Directions: November 2004
Alan Fletcher The Fiddler of Dooney (Volti Commission)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of War & Mankind (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Phillip Schroeder Lux Aeterna (West Coast Premiere)
Lansing McCloskey Burning Chariots (West Coast Premiere)
Jason Bahr Psaume I (West Coast Premiere)
Lincoln Hanks Tota Pulchra (West Coast Premiere)
Felicia Sandler The Waking (West Coast Premiere)
David Heuser Clouds (West Coast Premiere)

SEASON 25 – 2003-04

A Great, Wild, Garden of Voices: April 2004
Mark Winges Image & Motion: A Choral Symphony (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Kirke Mechem Winging Wildly
Alexander Post This is the Garden

Choral Arts Laboratory: February 2004
Peter Knell Tautology (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Paul Chihara Songs of Love and Loss (World Premiere, revised version)
Paul Chihara Magnificat
Bobby McFerrin Psalm 23
Carol Barnett The Last Invocation
Tamar Diesendruck The Mystery (Volti Commission)
John Cage Ear for EAR

Mysteries of the Spirit: December 2003
Jacob Avshalomov When Summer Shines (Volti Commission)
Alan Fletcher Two Yeats Choruses (Volti Commission)
Charles Loeffler Angelus
William Albright Chichester Mass
Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Wayne Peterson Carol
Mark Winges Yoolis Night (Volti Commission)

Our America is Singing: November 2003
Kirke Mechem American Trio (World Premiere)
Mark Winges (arr.) American Shape-Note Tunes (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Alan Fletcher Two Yeats Choruses (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Jacob Avshalomov When Summer Shines (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Charles Loeffler Angelus
William Albright Chichester Mass

Celebrating 10 Years of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – October 2003
Miya Masaoka While I was walking, I heard a sound… (World Premiere)

SEASON 24 – 2002-03

Bang on Anything: June 2003
Kui Dong Shui diao ge tou (song) (World Premiere)
Mark Winges Songs for Dancing (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Lojze Lebic Iz Kamna v vodi

Ligeti: Under the Influence: March 2003
Görgy Ligeti Éjszaka
Görgy Ligeti Reggel
Görgy Ligeti Lux Aeterna
Zoltan Kodály Öregek, the Aged/
Arne Mellnäs Sweet Spring
Roberto Sierra Lux Aeterna
Carlo Gesualdo Beltá, poi che t’assenti
Béla Bartók Bánat
György Kurtág Klarisók
György Kurtág Már csak azt a jövő időt kivánom

VOLTI with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: February 2003
(guest appearance)
Melissa Hui San Rocco

A California State of Mind: November 2002
Tamar Diesendruck The Mystery (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson A Robert Herrick Motley (first complete performance)
Allen Shearer Fables
Trevor Weston The Gentlest Thing 

 

 

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