New Music
One of the pillars of SF Choral’s mission is to invest in new compositions by leading contemporary composers that will contribute to the choral music repertoire.
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San Francisco Choral Society has a long history of investment in new music:
Songs from the Earth by Emma Lou Diemer, 2005
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Felicia Sandler, 2006
pax penetralis by Mark Winges, 2007
Contraries: The Human Condition by Donald McCullough, 2009
Seven Songs for Planet Earth by Olli Kortegangas, West Coast premiers in 2011, co-commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, in partnership with the San Francisco Choral Society, the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and the Children’s Chorus of Washington.
Terra Nostra, a full-length oratorio by Stacy Garrop, 2015
teach your children by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang, 2019
To a Lost Year by Chiayu Hsu in 2022
Terra Nostra, an oratorio revised for chamber ensemble by Stacy Garrop in 2023
Brontë by Ola Gjeilo in 2023