VOLTI SEASON 45

2023-2024

 PROGRAM 1 – BOOK OF COLORS

Great Poets, Contemporary Composers
November 2023

Music by Marcos Balter, Yu-Hui Chang, Emily Koh, LJ White, and Mark Winges

Poetry by Fernando Pessoa, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, and more.

Friday, November 3, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Oakland 
Saturday, November 4, Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco 
Sunday, November 5, The 222, Healdsburg 

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PROGRAM 2 – Premiere of a new work by Jens Ibsen
February 2024

Plus music by Aaron J. Kernis, Joanna Marsh, Emma O’Halloran, and Forrest Pierce

Friday, February 23, 2024, 8 PM, The Crowden School, Berkeley
Saturday, February 24, 8 PM, Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco

PROGRAM 3 – Worlds Apart
May 2024

In collaboration with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, we present the world premiere of San Francisco composer Richard Festinger’s Worlds Apart. Festinger brings together the verse of three different poets – Bertolt Brecht, Stephen Crane, and Wendell Berry – for a modern cantata that visits worlds within, without, and apart, uniting the forces of both ensembles as a collective voice.

Thursday, May 30, 2024, SF Conservatory of Music, Caroline Hume Concert Hall
7 PM Pre-show talk with composer
8 PM Concert