Jouyssance presents: Love and Marriage: Renaissance Style
Join us for a concert extolling the virtues, glories and agonies of love and marriage — both sacred and (very) secular. Enjoy poignant madrigals, exquisite motets and saucy chansons by Francisco Guerrero, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. One of Salamone Rossi’s Songs of Solomon will be featured.
Jouyssance presents: Love and Marriage: Renaissance Style
Join us for a concert extolling the virtues, glories and agonies of love and marriage — both sacred and (very) secular. Enjoy poignant madrigals, exquisite motets and saucy chansons by Francisco Guerrero, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. One of Salamone Rossi’s Songs of Solomon will be featured.
Choral Arts Initiative presents: Season 14: Intimate Voices
Sometimes the most profound thresholds are crossed in close company. Intimate Voices brings you into the heart of the music with a program of solo and chamber repertoire, performed by a smaller roster of just a dozen Choral Artists. This season’s collection of contemporary works invites you to experience the nuance, vulnerability, and immediacy of the human voice—bridging the space between singer and listener in ways only possible up close. With repertoire selected by the Choral Artists, full program details will be announced later in the season.
Choral Arts Initiative presents: Season 14: Memory/Renewal
Cycles shape us—what is planted endures and returns richer. In Memory & Renewal, pieces by Dale Trumbore, Tracy Wong, Ayanna Woods, Michael Gilbertson, Sarah Quartel, Jordan Smith Reynolds, and Andrew Bonacci reveal how memory, community, and the turning seasons offer the deepest thresholds of endurance and hope.
Choral Arts Initiative presents: Season 14: PREMIERE|Project Festival
PREMIERE|Project Festival is the world-class destination for living composers. Spending a weeklong residency with Choral Arts Initiative, twelve select composers will complete a workshop-commission experience culminating in this final performance. After the performance featuring 12 world premieres, join us for a complimentary reception in the courtyard to connect with the composers and Choral Artists.
Wed@Noon Recital
Join us on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon for Art Songs about Loss, Love, and Summer Nostalgia, hosted by the Wed@Noon Concert Series located in Encinitas, San Diego!
Choral Arts Initiative presents: Season 13: Premiere Project Festival
PREMIERE|Project Festival is a world-class destination for living composers. Spending a weeklong residency with Choral Arts Initiative, twelve select composers will complete a workshop-commission experience culminating in this final performance! After the performance featuring 12 world premieres, join us for a complimentary reception in the courtyard to connect with the composers and Choral Artists.
Vox Obscura presents: An evening of Rachmaninoff's Night Vespers and Byzantine Sacred Music
A rare concert of Orthodox music with excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s legendary night vespers along with sacred music from Byzantine and Slavic traditions. Vox Obscura will be joined by professional oktavist Alexander Mayang. Located in the gorgeous St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Basilica in Irvine, CA.
Tickets will be on sale in early 2025.
Liminal Voices & Orchestra presents: Outsing the Silence: Anthems of Unbroken Soil
Conducted by Dr. Fabián Rodríguez Castro, Liminal Voices & Orchestra presents Outsing the Silence: Anthems of Unbroken Soil. This concert’s diverse repertoire about resilience will surely move and excite you! Support the concert at this link ——> (click me)
It is a free concert you won’t want to miss!
Choral Arts Initiative presents: Season 13: Transformation
Join us for an evening of transformative music as part of our season's exploration of metamorphosis. Gabriel Jackson's “Exile Meditations” makes its United States premiere, presenting a seven-movement journey of exile, longing, and the quest for identity. Through powerful texts and evocative music, Jackson delves into the deep emotional landscape of displacement and the search for belonging.
Anne Dudley's “One Touch of Nature” for chorus and piano will receive its world premiere. Inspired by Shakespeare's "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," this six-movement work draws from texts by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Rabindranath Tagore, and John Burroughs. Dudley explores our fractured relationship with the natural world and nature's capacity for renewal, concluding with a reflective soprano solo that invites listeners to ponder their own connection to nature.
Together, these works create a profound narrative of transformation and resilience. “Exile Meditations” captures the painful journey of exile and the enduring hope for a homeland, while “One Touch of Nature” reflects on the healing and unifying power of the natural world.
Program Repertoire
One Touch of Nature by Anne Dudley (United States Premiere)
Exile Meditations by Gabriel Jackson (United States Premiere)