The professional vocal ensemble Volti continues its 41st season of "singing without a net" in a concert program exploring the voice as an instrument, with little or no text. Robert Geary conducts.
MARK WINGES, Volti's resident composer since 1990, presents a new work, "Tomorrow's dream not the same." Rhythmic, lively and incredibly exciting, in 16 parts with one singer per part, it allows us to experience vocal music without the overlay of text. (Volti commission, world premiere)
TONIA KO's newest work, "Starting Places," will also receive its premiere. Ko uses fragments of text generated by members of Volti about places they have lived. The words appear only occasionally in a vocal texture of vowel and consonant sounds. (Volti commission, world premiere)
ZIBUOKLE MARTINAITYTE was born in Lithuania and lived in San Francisco for a time before moving to New York. Volti commissioned and premiered her "Chant des Voyelles" in 2018, a work composed only of vowel sounds, in which the composer experiments with subtly shifting, sometimes barely audible clouds of overtones resulting from the sustaining of certain vowels in multiple voices.
San Francisco composer DANNY CLAY's work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things. His "Playbook Choruses" (a 2018 Volti commission) are a series of playful and improvisatory bagatelles, rooted in games created in rehearsal with the singers.
$15 to $40.
Presented by Volti
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MARK WINGES, Volti's resident composer since 1990, presents a new work, "Tomorrow's dream not the same." Rhythmic, lively and incredibly exciting, in 16 parts with one singer per part, it allows us to experience vocal music without the overlay of text. (Volti commission, world premiere)
TONIA KO's newest work, "Starting Places," will also receive its premiere. Ko uses fragments of text generated by members of Volti about places they have lived. The words appear only occasionally in a vocal texture of vowel and consonant sounds. (Volti commission, world premiere)
ZIBUOKLE MARTINAITYTE was born in Lithuania and lived in San Francisco for a time before moving to New York. Volti commissioned and premiered her "Chant des Voyelles" in 2018, a work composed only of vowel sounds, in which the composer experiments with subtly shifting, sometimes barely audible clouds of overtones resulting from the sustaining of certain vowels in multiple voices.
San Francisco composer DANNY CLAY's work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things. His "Playbook Choruses" (a 2018 Volti commission) are a series of playful and improvisatory bagatelles, rooted in games created in rehearsal with the singers.
$15 to $40.
Presented by Volti
The professional vocal ensemble Volti continues its 41st season of "singing without a net" in a concert program exploring the voice as an instrument, with little or no text. Robert Geary conducts.
MARK WINGES, Volti's resident composer since 1990, presents a new work, "Tomorrow's dream not the same." Rhythmic, lively and incredibly exciting, in 16 parts with one singer per part, it allows us to experience vocal music without the overlay of text. (Volti commission, world premiere)
TONIA KO's newest work, "Starting Places," will also receive its premiere. Ko uses fragments of text generated by members of Volti about places they have lived. The words appear only occasionally in a vocal texture of vowel and consonant sounds. (Volti commission, world premiere)
ZIBUOKLE MARTINAITYTE was born in Lithuania and lived in San Francisco for a time before moving to New York. Volti commissioned and premiered her "Chant des Voyelles" in 2018, a work composed only of vowel sounds, in which the composer experiments with subtly shifting, sometimes barely audible clouds of overtones resulting from the sustaining of certain vowels in multiple voices.
San Francisco composer DANNY CLAY's work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things. His "Playbook Choruses" (a 2018 Volti commission) are a series of playful and improvisatory bagatelles, rooted in games created in rehearsal with the singers.
$15 to $40.
Presented by Volti
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MARK WINGES, Volti's resident composer since 1990, presents a new work, "Tomorrow's dream not the same." Rhythmic, lively and incredibly exciting, in 16 parts with one singer per part, it allows us to experience vocal music without the overlay of text. (Volti commission, world premiere)
TONIA KO's newest work, "Starting Places," will also receive its premiere. Ko uses fragments of text generated by members of Volti about places they have lived. The words appear only occasionally in a vocal texture of vowel and consonant sounds. (Volti commission, world premiere)
ZIBUOKLE MARTINAITYTE was born in Lithuania and lived in San Francisco for a time before moving to New York. Volti commissioned and premiered her "Chant des Voyelles" in 2018, a work composed only of vowel sounds, in which the composer experiments with subtly shifting, sometimes barely audible clouds of overtones resulting from the sustaining of certain vowels in multiple voices.
San Francisco composer DANNY CLAY's work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things. His "Playbook Choruses" (a 2018 Volti commission) are a series of playful and improvisatory bagatelles, rooted in games created in rehearsal with the singers.
$15 to $40.
Presented by Volti
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