San Francisco Renaissance Voices made our debut in 2004 with a "standing room only" performance of Victoria's Requiem and quickly became a favorite of San Francisco Bay Area Early Music audiences.
We have consistently earned praise for our "gossamer sound ... a sound something akin to spiritual levitation" as well as recognition for our imaginative programming and christened the Bay Area's"hipper than thou" Early Music ensemble by San Francisco Classical Voice and in 2010 SFWeekly chose us as "Best Classical Music" for their Best of San Francisco edition. We are the San Francisco Bay Area's professional mixed-voice ensemble dedicated to performing and exploring the a cappella choral music of the Renaissance particularly lesser-known and rarely-performed works, as well as exploring music from this period outside of the traditional European canon.
Our Opera Early & Ancient San Francisco mini-series seeks to present to our audiences operatic and related works from the Medieval through Baroque periods and has included such works as our "technicolor" production of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum ("Hildegard's little-performed musical mantra rang out anew" - Los Angeles Times) and the west coast premiere of William Boyce's Solomon ("The performance was often exciting and even eye-opening ... a performance other groups struggle to achieve on record" - San Francisco Classical Voice). Join us soon for one of our exciting concerts!
We have consistently earned praise for our "gossamer sound ... a sound something akin to spiritual levitation" as well as recognition for our imaginative programming and christened the Bay Area's"hipper than thou" Early Music ensemble by San Francisco Classical Voice and in 2010 SFWeekly chose us as "Best Classical Music" for their Best of San Francisco edition. We are the San Francisco Bay Area's professional mixed-voice ensemble dedicated to performing and exploring the a cappella choral music of the Renaissance particularly lesser-known and rarely-performed works, as well as exploring music from this period outside of the traditional European canon.
Our Opera Early & Ancient San Francisco mini-series seeks to present to our audiences operatic and related works from the Medieval through Baroque periods and has included such works as our "technicolor" production of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum ("Hildegard's little-performed musical mantra rang out anew" - Los Angeles Times) and the west coast premiere of William Boyce's Solomon ("The performance was often exciting and even eye-opening ... a performance other groups struggle to achieve on record" - San Francisco Classical Voice). Join us soon for one of our exciting concerts!
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of:
The Bernard Osher Foundation
The Koret Foundation/Taube Philanthropies
The Paul & Susan Sugarman Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay
and the Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts
and generous matching funding from:
The Bernard Osher Foundation
The Koret Foundation/Taube Philanthropies
The Paul & Susan Sugarman Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay
and the Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts
and generous matching funding from:
with special thanks to: The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, our host as Artists-in-Residence
Artistic Advisory Board
CHAIR: Don Scott Carpenter - Music Director, San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Marsha Genensky - Singer, Anonymous4
Susan Gundunas - Opera Singer & Voice Faculty, University California Berkeley
Ian Robertson - Director, San Francisco Opera Chorus & Artistic Director, San Francisco Boys Chorus
Executive Board
CHAIR: J. Jeff Badger - Executive Director, San Francisco Renaissance Voices
SECRETARY: OPEN
TREASURER: Sara Burke (Acting) - University of California San Francisco (ret.)
GENERAL DIRECTORS:
Sara Burke - University of California San Francisco
Kyle Hovatter - Compose & Director of Music at Zion Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Winona Hendrick - SFUSD & independent musician
Liesl McPherrin - Independent musician & Director of Music, Coastside Lutheran Church, Half Moon Bay
Lisa Zadek - San Francisco Symphony
Contact Us:
By US Mail: The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation - 1750 - 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122
By E-Mail: Click the icon at the top of this page or: SFRVoices@gmail.com
By Phone: 415.650.6258