The San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards for 2021-22 were just announced and Pacific Chorale has received 2 of the coveted honors for:
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Pacific Chorale was on comfortably contemporary ground for this March 2022 program, which combined a modernist masterpiece, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus, with a selection of shorter works by living composers. The Orange County ensemble under Artistic Director Robert Istad has a penchant for new music, and you took note, voting the choir to the top spot for “Best New Music Performance” as well.
Learn more about the program “Songs of the Soul.”
Tarik O’Regan © Frances Marshall Photography
Long relationships with composers pay off. Tarik O’Regan, Pacific Chorale’s former composer-in-residence, wrote The Stillness Chained for the ensemble back in 2020, and the chorus finally gave the premiere as part of its first program post-pandemic in October 2021.
Thank you to all who voted for us! See the full list of winners on SF Classical Voice here.
After a three-day intensive rehearsal schedule with Artistic Director Robert Istad, Pacific Chorale’s Festival Chorus performed in a free concert at Renee & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Sunday, August 14, 2022.
Dedicated to our beloved friend, Southern California composer Morten Lauridsen, the program featured a world premiere of Hommage à Lauridsen, an organ solo composed and performed by Dr. Jung-A Lee, a stunning duet of Prayer (On a Poem by Dana Gioia) performed by soprano Rebecca Hasquet and baritone Jared Daniel Jones, with Dr. David Clemensen on piano, and closed with the Festival Chorus singing Sure on This Shining Night and Lux Aeterna.
Enjoy a few highlights! Photos © Natalie Hunter/Pacific Chorale
Yesterday evening, members of Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale came together for a concert of healing at Geneva Presbyterian Church – Laguna Woods. The Rev. Dr. Steven Marsh from Geneva Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Dr. Albany Lee from Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church offered words of comfort and hope.
“There are so many ripples that pass through the fabric of Orange County when something like this happens,” Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St.Clair said. “We need to do all we can with the strengthening and healing powers of music.”
The program included a world premiere (“Hymn of Healing”) and works by Haydn, Mozart and former Pacific Symphony composer-in-residence Frank Ticheli.
Read more about the Concert of Healing on Voice of OC: “A Concert Helps Heal the Wounds of a Senseless Tragedy at Laguna Woods Church”.
Photos © Doug Gifford Photography
The San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards for 2021-22 were just announced and Pacific Chorale has received 2 of the coveted honors for: Best Choral Performance: Pacific Chorale, “Songs of the Soul” Pacific Chorale was on comfortably contemporary ground for this March 2022 program, which combined a modernist masterpiece, Frank Martin’s Mass for
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After a three-day intensive rehearsal schedule with Artistic Director Robert Istad, Pacific Chorale’s Festival Chorus performed in a free concert at Renee & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Sunday, August 14, 2022. Dedicated to our beloved friend, Southern California composer Morten Lauridsen, the program featured a
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Yesterday evening, members of Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale came together for a concert of healing at Geneva Presbyterian Church – Laguna Woods. The Rev. Dr. Steven Marsh from Geneva Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Dr. Albany Lee from Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church offered words of comfort and hope. “There are so many ripples that
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