Concerts: 2009-10 Season

"Songs of Snow and Soul" - Winter concert series

Progam Highlights: Nicola Porpora: "Magnificat"; Frank Ferko: "O Salutaris Hostia"; R. Murray Schafer: "Snowforms"; Eric Whitacre: "Five Hebrew Love Songs"

The PWC bids you welcome and wishes you joy this holiday season with a program that contrasts the stark winter landscape with soulful inner thoughts of peace, love and harmony. From brilliant baroque counterpoint to the hearth-fire warmth of traditional yuletide songs, this concert will touch your heart and usher in the season.




New Music for Treble Voices - Choral Festival

This third annual event celebrates the incomparable thrill, soaring beauty and unrivaled power of treble voices united in song. We partner with Volti and the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir Ensemble and Ancora in an afternoon of new music especially created for the unique sound of upper voices.

"Words from Paradise" - Spring concert series

Collaboration with Golden Gate Men's Chorus
Premieres by Eric Whitacre and Frank Ferko

Program highlights: Alberto Grau: "Como tu"; Ferko: new commission; Whitacre: new commission (with GGMC); Dan Forrest: "Words from Paradise" (with GGMC)

World premieres by two of the most often performed American composers of their generation and a renewed collaboration with the Golden Gate Men's Chorus add sparkling facets to this gem of a program that evokes the celestial realm.