Fri August 18, 2023
Summer Festival Chorus: Mozart Requiem and Shchetynsky Requiem
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The San Francisco Choral Society returns to Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, August 18, at 8pm, for its 2nd annual Summer Festival Chorus, bringing singers from around the country and world to join our resident, San Francisco and Bay-Area based singers to perform Mozart's Requiem, alongside a U.S. premiere of the full performance of another Requiem, by Ukrainian composer, Alexander Shchetynsky (b. 1960).
Shchetynsky's Requiem premiered in Lviv, Ukraine in 2004. He uses a musical "meta-language incorporating the stylistic elements from various periods: Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, operatic melodies of the 19th century, and modernistic innovations of the 20th century...into one discourse, making the transitions from one style to another imperceptible."
Alexander Shchetynsky currently lives in Kyiv and was recently featured in Babylon13's documentary series, "Art in the Land of War."
The August 18 performance is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian conductor Yuri Kerpatenko, who was fatally shot after refusing to cooperate with Russian occupiers in September 2022.
The SF Choral Society and California Chamber Symphony will be led by SF Choral's Artistic Director, Robert Geary, winner of the 2023 Chorus America Michael Korn Award, and will feature a selection of guest artists, to be announced soon.
Robert Geary, Artistic Director
California Chamber Symphony
Soloists:
Emily Sinclair, Soprano
Shauna Fallihee, Mezzo Soprano
Michael Jankosky, Tenor
Eugene Brancoveanu, Bass
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Shchetynsky's Requiem premiered in Lviv, Ukraine in 2004. He uses a musical "meta-language incorporating the stylistic elements from various periods: Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, operatic melodies of the 19th century, and modernistic innovations of the 20th century...into one discourse, making the transitions from one style to another imperceptible."
Alexander Shchetynsky currently lives in Kyiv and was recently featured in Babylon13's documentary series, "Art in the Land of War."
The August 18 performance is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian conductor Yuri Kerpatenko, who was fatally shot after refusing to cooperate with Russian occupiers in September 2022.
The SF Choral Society and California Chamber Symphony will be led by SF Choral's Artistic Director, Robert Geary, winner of the 2023 Chorus America Michael Korn Award, and will feature a selection of guest artists, to be announced soon.
Robert Geary, Artistic Director
California Chamber Symphony
Soloists:
Emily Sinclair, Soprano
Shauna Fallihee, Mezzo Soprano
Michael Jankosky, Tenor
Eugene Brancoveanu, Bass
The San Francisco Choral Society returns to Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, August 18, at 8pm, for its 2nd annual Summer Festival Chorus, bringing singers from around the country and world to join our resident, San Francisco and Bay-Area based singers to perform Mozart's Requiem, alongside a U.S. premiere of the full performance of another Requiem, by Ukrainian composer, Alexander Shchetynsky (b. 1960).
Shchetynsky's Requiem premiered in Lviv, Ukraine in 2004. He uses a musical "meta-language incorporating the stylistic elements from various periods: Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, operatic melodies of the 19th century, and modernistic innovations of the 20th century...into one discourse, making the transitions from one style to another imperceptible."
Alexander Shchetynsky currently lives in Kyiv and was recently featured in Babylon13's documentary series, "Art in the Land of War."
The August 18 performance is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian conductor Yuri Kerpatenko, who was fatally shot after refusing to cooperate with Russian occupiers in September 2022.
The SF Choral Society and California Chamber Symphony will be led by SF Choral's Artistic Director, Robert Geary, winner of the 2023 Chorus America Michael Korn Award, and will feature a selection of guest artists, to be announced soon.
Robert Geary, Artistic Director
California Chamber Symphony
Soloists:
Emily Sinclair, Soprano
Shauna Fallihee, Mezzo Soprano
Michael Jankosky, Tenor
Eugene Brancoveanu, Bass
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Shchetynsky's Requiem premiered in Lviv, Ukraine in 2004. He uses a musical "meta-language incorporating the stylistic elements from various periods: Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, operatic melodies of the 19th century, and modernistic innovations of the 20th century...into one discourse, making the transitions from one style to another imperceptible."
Alexander Shchetynsky currently lives in Kyiv and was recently featured in Babylon13's documentary series, "Art in the Land of War."
The August 18 performance is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian conductor Yuri Kerpatenko, who was fatally shot after refusing to cooperate with Russian occupiers in September 2022.
The SF Choral Society and California Chamber Symphony will be led by SF Choral's Artistic Director, Robert Geary, winner of the 2023 Chorus America Michael Korn Award, and will feature a selection of guest artists, to be announced soon.
Robert Geary, Artistic Director
California Chamber Symphony
Soloists:
Emily Sinclair, Soprano
Shauna Fallihee, Mezzo Soprano
Michael Jankosky, Tenor
Eugene Brancoveanu, Bass
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