April 29-30, 8pm to 10pm both days
The San Francisco Choral Society opens its 2022 season with the world premiere of To a Lost Year by Taiwanese composer Chiayu Hsu, a new choral work commissioned by the organization, and Handel's Dixit Dominus. Led by Artistic Director Robert Geary, the program will feature a variety of guest artists and ensembles including sopranos Shawnette Sulker and Shauna Fallihee, counter-tenor Clifton Massey, tenor Mark Bonney, baritone Sepp Hammer and the California Chamber Orchestra.
Selected from nearly one hundred applicants as part of the San Francisco Choral Society's commissioning project, Chiayu Hsu becomes the seventh composer over the last fifteen years to write a new choral work for the organization. The work, entitled To a Lost Year, is written for SATB choir and string orchestra and is inspired by the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first movement explores the chaos and unsettled emotions experienced at the beginning of the outbreak while the second movement serves as a dedication to the lives lost due to the pandemic in particular those who immigrated to the United States. The work concludes looking toward a brighter and more hopeful future.
Described as "the one to watch" (Telegraph, U.K.), Chiayu Hsu is known for her combination of Chinese elements and Western techniques that often derive inspiration from poems, myths and images. Her works have been performed by such orchestras as the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony, as well as ensembles such as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and Prism Quartet. Chiayu Hsu is a recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award (2005) and currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition at UW-Eau Claire.
$35 to $50.
Presented by San Francisco Choral Society.
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The San Francisco Choral Society opens its 2022 season with the world premiere of To a Lost Year by Taiwanese composer Chiayu Hsu, a new choral work commissioned by the organization, and Handel's Dixit Dominus. Led by Artistic Director Robert Geary, the program will feature a variety of guest artists and ensembles including sopranos Shawnette Sulker and Shauna Fallihee, counter-tenor Clifton Massey, tenor Mark Bonney, baritone Sepp Hammer and the California Chamber Orchestra.
Selected from nearly one hundred applicants as part of the San Francisco Choral Society's commissioning project, Chiayu Hsu becomes the seventh composer over the last fifteen years to write a new choral work for the organization. The work, entitled To a Lost Year, is written for SATB choir and string orchestra and is inspired by the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first movement explores the chaos and unsettled emotions experienced at the beginning of the outbreak while the second movement serves as a dedication to the lives lost due to the pandemic in particular those who immigrated to the United States. The work concludes looking toward a brighter and more hopeful future.
Described as "the one to watch" (Telegraph, U.K.), Chiayu Hsu is known for her combination of Chinese elements and Western techniques that often derive inspiration from poems, myths and images. Her works have been performed by such orchestras as the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony, as well as ensembles such as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and Prism Quartet. Chiayu Hsu is a recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award (2005) and currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition at UW-Eau Claire.
$35 to $50.
Presented by San Francisco Choral Society.
April 29-30, 8pm to 10pm both days
The San Francisco Choral Society opens its 2022 season with the world premiere of To a Lost Year by Taiwanese composer Chiayu Hsu, a new choral work commissioned by the organization, and Handel's Dixit Dominus. Led by Artistic Director Robert Geary, the program will feature a variety of guest artists and ensembles including sopranos Shawnette Sulker and Shauna Fallihee, counter-tenor Clifton Massey, tenor Mark Bonney, baritone Sepp Hammer and the California Chamber Orchestra.
Selected from nearly one hundred applicants as part of the San Francisco Choral Society's commissioning project, Chiayu Hsu becomes the seventh composer over the last fifteen years to write a new choral work for the organization. The work, entitled To a Lost Year, is written for SATB choir and string orchestra and is inspired by the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first movement explores the chaos and unsettled emotions experienced at the beginning of the outbreak while the second movement serves as a dedication to the lives lost due to the pandemic in particular those who immigrated to the United States. The work concludes looking toward a brighter and more hopeful future.
Described as "the one to watch" (Telegraph, U.K.), Chiayu Hsu is known for her combination of Chinese elements and Western techniques that often derive inspiration from poems, myths and images. Her works have been performed by such orchestras as the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony, as well as ensembles such as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and Prism Quartet. Chiayu Hsu is a recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award (2005) and currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition at UW-Eau Claire.
$35 to $50.
Presented by San Francisco Choral Society.
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The San Francisco Choral Society opens its 2022 season with the world premiere of To a Lost Year by Taiwanese composer Chiayu Hsu, a new choral work commissioned by the organization, and Handel's Dixit Dominus. Led by Artistic Director Robert Geary, the program will feature a variety of guest artists and ensembles including sopranos Shawnette Sulker and Shauna Fallihee, counter-tenor Clifton Massey, tenor Mark Bonney, baritone Sepp Hammer and the California Chamber Orchestra.
Selected from nearly one hundred applicants as part of the San Francisco Choral Society's commissioning project, Chiayu Hsu becomes the seventh composer over the last fifteen years to write a new choral work for the organization. The work, entitled To a Lost Year, is written for SATB choir and string orchestra and is inspired by the events of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first movement explores the chaos and unsettled emotions experienced at the beginning of the outbreak while the second movement serves as a dedication to the lives lost due to the pandemic in particular those who immigrated to the United States. The work concludes looking toward a brighter and more hopeful future.
Described as "the one to watch" (Telegraph, U.K.), Chiayu Hsu is known for her combination of Chinese elements and Western techniques that often derive inspiration from poems, myths and images. Her works have been performed by such orchestras as the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony, as well as ensembles such as the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and Prism Quartet. Chiayu Hsu is a recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award (2005) and currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition at UW-Eau Claire.
$35 to $50.
Presented by San Francisco Choral Society.
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