SONGS OF THE HEART

“Music painted in bright bold colors.” — San Francisco Examiner

Maestro Lawrence Kohl and the Pacific Chamber Orchestra deliver have-to-be-experienced, exhilarating performances. Be swept away by the aching beauty of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, then jump for joy with the vibrant, playful energy of 2026 Pulitzer Prize composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s musical walk through the Andes.

Intimate. Stirring. Satisfying.

And there’s more: bask in the warmth of Elgar and Wirén, and in the lyrical voice of tenor Samuel Faustine and the golden tones of French hornist Craig Hansen in Britten’s gorgeous Serenade, set to some of England’s most evocative poetry.

SONGS OF THE HEART

“Music painted in bright bold colors.” — San Francisco Examiner

Maestro Lawrence Kohl and the Pacific Chamber Orchestra deliver have-to-be-experienced, exhilarating performances. Be swept away by the aching beauty of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, then jump for joy with the vibrant, playful energy of 2026 Pulitzer Prize composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s musical walk through the Andes.

Intimate. Stirring. Satisfying.

And there’s more: bask in the warmth of Elgar and Wirén, and in the lyrical voice of tenor Samuel Faustine and the golden tones of French hornist Craig Hansen in Britten’s gorgeous Serenade, set to some of England’s most evocative poetry.

Claude & Marcel: Orchestral Preview

World premiere August 2027

Music by Alyssa Weinberg Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann

The opera tells the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: two women – romantic and artistic partners - Jewish activists and surrealist photographers who used their art to magnify resistance against Nazi Germany.

Claude & Marcel is the third complete length opera to be commissioned and developed by West Edge Opera. Claude & Marcel was commissioned in 2023 and will premiere in August 2027.

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Sam reprises his famous Roasted Swan Aria as the tenor soloist with San Francisco Choral Society.

Davies Symphony Hall

SINFONIA SPIRITUOSA PRESENTS

Rameau:
Drama – Dreams – Dance

May 16 – 17, 2026

Saturday, May 16th, 2026, 4pm

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA (map)
Parking is available in the Sutter Community Garage at N. and 27th Street, with a weekend flat rate of $10.

Advance Tickets: $30 General/$10 Student (click to purchase)
(note: online sales end at noon on the day of the concert)
Tickets at the door: $35 General/$10 Student

Sunday, May 17th, 2026, 4pm

Episcopal Church of St. Martin
640 Hawthorn Lane, Davis CA 95616 (map)
Free parking is available in the large lot on the church property.

Advance Tickets: $30 General/$10 Student (click to purchase)
(note: online sales end at noon on the day of the concert)
Tickets at the door: $35 General/$10 Student

SINFONIA SPIRITUOSA PRESENTS

Rameau:
Drama – Dreams – Dance

May 16 – 17, 2026

Saturday, May 16th, 2026, 4pm

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA (map)
Parking is available in the Sutter Community Garage at N. and 27th Street, with a weekend flat rate of $10.

Advance Tickets: $30 General/$10 Student (click to purchase)
(note: online sales end at noon on the day of the concert)
Tickets at the door: $35 General/$10 Student

Sunday, May 17th, 2026, 4pm

Episcopal Church of St. Martin
640 Hawthorn Lane, Davis CA 95616 (map)
Free parking is available in the large lot on the church property.

Advance Tickets: $30 General/$10 Student (click to purchase)
(note: online sales end at noon on the day of the concert)
Tickets at the door: $35 General/$10 Student

In May, 2026, immerse yourself in a masterpiece! The San Francisco Bach Choir will proudly present J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

Crafted over decades, it’s a breathtaking journey through intricate polyphony and spiritual intensity, a true testament to Bach’s legacy. Experience one of music’s greatest achievements!

With professional soloists and the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra—a program of the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Sat May 9th, 2026, 4:00 pm
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley

Saturday, May 9th Tickets

Sun May 10, 2026, 4:00pm
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco

Sunday, May 10th Tickets

In May, 2026, immerse yourself in a masterpiece! The San Francisco Bach Choir will proudly present J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

Crafted over decades, it’s a breathtaking journey through intricate polyphony and spiritual intensity, a true testament to Bach’s legacy. Experience one of music’s greatest achievements!

With professional soloists and the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra—a program of the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Sat May 9th, 2026, 4:00 pm
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley

Saturday, May 9th Tickets

Sun May 10, 2026, 4:00pm
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco

Sunday, May 10th Tickets

Program Info

Featuring music by three seminal Renaissance composers from the 15th and 16th-century Flemish School: Josquin des Prez, Nicolas Gombert, and Thomas Crecquillon. Accompanying these works are two contemporary pieces by British composers Kerensa Briggs and Gabriel Jackson, whose music draws inspiration from Renaissance masterpieces.

Running Time

1 hour, 30 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open

30 minutes prior to performance

​

For questions regarding concert tickets, please email info@byrdensemble.com

Program Info

Featuring music by three seminal Renaissance composers from the 15th and 16th-century Flemish School: Josquin des Prez, Nicolas Gombert, and Thomas Crecquillon. Accompanying these works are two contemporary pieces by British composers Kerensa Briggs and Gabriel Jackson, whose music draws inspiration from Renaissance masterpieces.

Running Time

1 hour, 30 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open

30 minutes prior to performance

​

For questions regarding concert tickets, please email info@byrdensemble.com

Program Info

Featuring music by three seminal Renaissance composers from the 15th and 16th-century Flemish School: Josquin des Prez, Nicolas Gombert, and Thomas Crecquillon. Accompanying these works are two contemporary pieces by British composers Kerensa Briggs and Gabriel Jackson, whose music draws inspiration from Renaissance masterpieces.

Running Time

1 hour, 30 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open

30 minutes prior to performance

​

For questions regarding concert tickets, please email info@byrdensemble.com

Home for the Holidays 2025

Saturday, December 13
3:00 PM matinée
(Finishes around 5:30 PM)

Purchase Tickets online

Save online fees by calling the Box Office
916-808-5181 (Tues-Fri: 10 AM – 4 PM)

Memorial Auditorium 
1515 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Recommended Parking

Guest Artist
Sam Faustine – Tenor

Artists’ Vocal Ensemble presents

sacred minimalism with world instruments

Thursday, May 15 at 7:30pm
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704

Allow yourself to be immersed in a journey of sound featuring one of San Francisco’s premiere vocal ensembles. You are encouraged to to lie down, close your eyes, and sink into the calming music. The sound bath is an unforgettable experience that lets you step out of the hustle and into yourself. Surrender yourself into the sounds and, even after departing, the calming effects will echo on through your heart, mind, and soul. Come as you are and leave transformed.

TIX

Program Info

This program explores the spiritual journey from penitence to joy, often symbolized by the transition from Lent to Easter. The music of John Tavener and Arvo Pärt serves as the musical framework, guiding us from darkness to light. The first half evokes the somber mood of Lent, culminating in an English setting of the Lamentations by Thomas Tallis. In the second half, we are uplifted by Tavener’s Easter anthem As one who has slept and ultimately ascend to the heavens with Tavener’s Song for Athene.

​The program also features the world-premiere performance of Tenebrae factae sunt by Jeff Junkinsmith, commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble.

Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

PROGRAM
PÄRT Magnificat 
PÄRT Nunc dimittis 
PÄRT The Deer's Cry 
TALLIS Lamentations II 

CARVER O bone Jesu 
TAVENER As one who slept 
​JUNKINSMITH Tenebrae factae sunt
JACKSON Ave Maria
TAVENER Song for Athene 

Program Info

This program explores the spiritual journey from penitence to joy, often symbolized by the transition from Lent to Easter. The music of John Tavener and Arvo Pärt serves as the musical framework, guiding us from darkness to light. The first half evokes the somber mood of Lent, culminating in an English setting of the Lamentations by Thomas Tallis. In the second half, we are uplifted by Tavener’s Easter anthem As one who has slept and ultimately ascend to the heavens with Tavener’s Song for Athene.

​The program also features the world-premiere performance of Tenebrae factae sunt by Jeff Junkinsmith, commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble.

Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

PROGRAM
PÄRT Magnificat 
PÄRT Nunc dimittis 
PÄRT The Deer's Cry 
TALLIS Lamentations II 

CARVER O bone Jesu 
TAVENER As one who slept 
​JUNKINSMITH Tenebrae factae sunt
JACKSON Ave Maria
TAVENER Song for Athene 

Tuesday, February 18th, 7pm
(doors open at 6pm)

Club Fugazi, 678 Green Street
Tickets are $50 general and $25 student/senior/artist
415-273-0600

The San Francisco Arts Education Project proudly presents its annual Producers Circle benefit concert, this year headlined by Artist Mentor Ruby Day fresh from her acclaimed starring role in Sara Bareilles’ Waitress at San Francisco Playhouse. Ruby’s friends and fellow performers include Sharon Shao, Ryan Patrick Welsh, Tanika Baptiste, Sam Faustine, Raquel Chavez, and Kathryn Aarons. Plus, you can expect some not-to-be-missed surprises.

All of these wonderful performers are joining their prodigious talents to benefit SFArtsED’s performing arts programs, including the SFArtsED Players, who will be performing Shrek the Musical for four performances only April 25-27 at the Presidio Theatre.

Ruby Day
is a singer, stage and voiceover actor, and teaching artist based in the Bay Area, with a degree in Musical Theatre from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Most recently, you may have seen her perform as Jenna in Waitress at SF Playhouse. Some of her other favorite roles: Star to Be in Annie (The National and International Tour) Snow White in SF’s longest running musical revue, Beach Blanket Babylon, Carrie in Carousel, Ilse in Spring Awakening. Ruby recently performed with her dearest friends in the dazzling queer cabaret fantasy Sex, Camp, Rock & Roll, at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, to several 4-star reviews. Ruby has done commercial and voice over work for Apple, Logitech, Zoom, and Hers.com, among many other companies. Aside from theater, she has also performed as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, back-up danced for Belle and Sebastian at Radio City Music Hall, and is a graduate of the clown conservatory of SF. Ruby also has a deep passion for making music with her dear friends and has many creative projects a-brewin’. Ruby has been an SFArtsED Artist Mentor since 2022. @_therubyday_

TICKETS

Please Note: For half-price student/senior/artist pricing, choose your desired number of tickets then hit “buy tickets.” On the next screen, toggle from adult to student, and that will get you the discount pricing.

FEB 1: SCOTLAND & ENGLAND

Program Info

The program showcases English and Scottish Renaissance music from the Carver Choirbook, a unique 16th-century collection that is one of Scotland's only surviving sources of Renaissance polyphony. In addition to the Renaissance works are two contemporary pieces by Scottish composer James MacMillan and English composer Alexander Campkin.

Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

PROGRAM

NESBETT Magnificat 
MACMILLAN O Radiant Dawn 
TAVERNER O splendor gloriae 
CARVER Gaude Gaude flore virginali 
CAMPKIN Miserere 
MACMILLAN A Child’s Prayer
CARVER “Gloria” from Missa Dum sacrum mysterium

FEB 1: SCOTLAND & ENGLAND

Program Info

The program showcases English and Scottish Renaissance music from the Carver Choirbook, a unique 16th-century collection that is one of Scotland's only surviving sources of Renaissance polyphony. In addition to the Renaissance works are two contemporary pieces by Scottish composer James MacMillan and English composer Alexander Campkin.

Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes, includes intermission

​

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

PROGRAM

NESBETT Magnificat 
MACMILLAN O Radiant Dawn 
TAVERNER O splendor gloriae 
CARVER Gaude Gaude flore virginali 
CAMPKIN Miserere 
MACMILLAN A Child’s Prayer
CARVER “Gloria” from Missa Dum sacrum mysterium