The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco (IOCSF) is an auditioned all-volunteer chamber choir devoted to performing established repertoire of all periods, with particular attention to 20th-century music—including newly commissioned works of promising composers. Since its inception, the group has been committed to performing free concerts featuring challenging and imaginative choral a cappella programming. [1] The ensemble is based in San Francisco.
Origins and management
editThe group was founded in 2003 by Jeremy Faust, Elaine Robertson and Cole Thomason-Redus [2] and continued under the direction of Jeremy Faust. Several IOCSF members have conducted selected pieces. In 2007, after having conducted several pieces each season as a member of the group in 2006 and 2005, Paul Kim joined Jeremy Faust as co-director. [3] During the 2007-2008 season, choir member Zane Fiala also conducted several pieces; [4] Fiala became co-director as of the 2008/2009 season, [1] [5] joining Faust upon Kim's departure from the San Francisco Bay Area. [6] Fiala now directs and conducts the group, while Faust maintains a role as Director of Artistic Outreach.
The ensemble is named after International orange, the official color of the Golden Gate Bridge
Publishing, premieres and other programming
editIn 2011, IOCSF launched a new choral music publishing series partnership with Santa Barbara Music Publishing, with the release of "Peace," by Aaron Pike.[7] Additionally, several of the compositions listed below have been published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, G. Schirmer, and Hal Leonard after IOCSF premiered the works.
World premieres/commissions
edit| Title of Work | Composer | When Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Nigra Sum | Cole Thomason-Redus | Spring 2004 |
| Concord Hymn | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2004 |
| De Profundis | Georgia Stitt | Spring 2004 |
| Cors de Chasses | Sarah George | Spring 2005 |
| One, Two, Three | Elizabeth Baker | Spring 2006 |
| Alma Redemptoris Mater | Jason Bush | Spring 2007 |
| Croyez-vous | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2007 |
| A Beautiful Day | Jason Bush | Spring 2008 |
| Leaves are Falling | Jason Bush | Fall 2008 |
| Atah Echad | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2008 |
| Joyful Noise | Georgia Stitt | Spring 2009 |
| Es la mañana llena | Zane Fiala | Spring 2009 |
| Kyrie | Eric Tamm | Spring 2009 |
| "Why do I Love" You, Sir (from Faith Disquiet) | Jake Heggie | Spring 2009 |
| What if I say I shall not wait! (from Faith Disquiet) | Jake Heggie | Spring 2009 |
| Once More to Gloriana | Jake Heggie (arr. J.S. Faust) | Spring 2009 |
| What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said | Jake Heggie (arr. Z. Fiala) | Spring 2009 |
| Death of a Ball-Turret Gunner | Shaffer McGee | Fall 2009 |
| The Breath of Night | Shaffer McGee | Spring 2010 |
| Gentle lady do not sing | Nicholas Boland | Spring 2010 |
| The Bird of Night | Shaffer McGee | Spring 2010 |
| Peace | Aaron Pike | Spring 2010 |
| Ave Verum Corpus | Robert Chastain | Fall 2010 |
| Gentle Lady,Do Not Sing | Nicholas Boland | Fall 2010 |
| The Moment | Jed Bogan | Fall 2010 |
| A Vision | Noah Luna | Fall 2010 |
| In Memoriam | Harry Whitney | Fall 2010 |
| Presence | David Harris | Fall 2010 |
| i am a little church | Joshua Saulle | Fall 2010 |
| Music for the Mass (a cappella as written by composer) | Milton Babbitt | Fall 2010 |
| Månskenskväll | M.E. Valverde | Spring 2011 |
| Alleluia | Aaron Pike | Spring 2011 |
| Deeper Than All Roses | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2011 |
| Issa (Selected Movements) | Jeremy Faust | Spring 2011 |
| Snow having melted (from ISSA) | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2011 |
| First snowfall (from ISSA) | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2011 |
| it may not always be so; and i say | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2011 |
| Ave | Vasken Ohanian | Spring 2012 |
| Come, Heavy Sleep | David Gottlieb | Spring 2012 |
| Oracle of Spring | M.E. Valverde | Spring 2012 |
| We Sat Down and Wept | Elliott Encarnación | Spring 2012 |
| Fly away I | Caroline Shaw | Spring 2012 |
| Sonnet | Daniel Kohane | Spring 2012 |
| Cosmos | Zane Fiala | Spring 2012 |
| Chrysopylae | Dominick DiOrio | Spring 2012 |
| Facing West | David Conte | Spring 2012 |
| Ave Maria | Joshua Saulle | Fall 2012 |
| Rise up, my love, my fair one | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2012 |
| We Sat Down and Wept | Elliot James Encarnacion | Fall 2012 |
| The Unknown Region | Elizabeth Kimble | Spring 2013 |
| Unremembered (Choral Arrangement) | Sarah Kirkland Snider | Spring 2013 |
| Paanyaya 3 | Robin Estrada | Fall 2013 |
| into the wind | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2014 |
| The Lamp | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2014 |
| Lord Heare my Prayer Instantly | Nico Muhly | Fall 2014 |
| Parus | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2015 |
| The Threads Beneath | Marielle Jakobson | Spring 2015 |
| Adam Lay Ybowndyn | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2015 |
| De Profundis | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2015 |
| Missa Brevis | Fredrik Sixten | Fall 2015 |
| Amen | Matt Boehler | Spring 2016 |
| God gazed down on you from Heaven | Rhett Jaramillo | Spring 2016 |
| As kingfishers catch fire | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2016 |
| In the Distant Sky | Huang Ruo | Spring 2016 |
| Into the Golden Vessel of Great Song | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2016 |
| Strings in the earth and air | Bryan Lin | Spring 2017 |
| Elohim Hashiveinu | Salvatore LoCascio | Spring 2017 |
| The Peace of Wild Things | Elizabeth Kimble | Spring 2017 |
| The Mariner | Elliott Encarnación | Spring 2017 |
| Dream Triptych | Elliott Encarnación | Fall 2017 |
| Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2018 |
| Winter Ride | M.E. Valverde | Fall 2018 |
| Go Ahead | Nathan Hall | Fall 2018 |
| O Child | Michael T Roberts | Fall 2018 |
| love is a place | Jonathan Posthuma | Fall 2018 |
| Aire de Nocturno - Te Puse Collares | Robin Estrada | Spring 2019 |
| Usahay (new arrangement) | Gregorio Responso Labja (Arr. Estrada) | Fall 2019 |
| Zoom | Michael T Roberts | Summer 2020 |
| Come to Us in Water | Michael T Roberts | Fall 2021 |
| it's just weather | Bryan Lin | Fall 2021 |
| Final Notations | Sam Maurer | Fall 2021 |
| Variation on the Word Sleep | Sam Maurer | Fall 2022 |
American/regional premieres
edit| Title of Work | Composer | When Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| There is no Rose of such Vertu | Fredrik Sixten | Spring 2012 |
| Credo from Missa Regensis | Uģis Prauliņš | Spring 2012 |
| Fayrfax Carol | Thomas Ades | Spring 2012 |
| Alleluia | Algirdas Martinaitis | Spring 2012 |
| Faith Disquiet | Jake Heggie | Spring 2012 |
| Missa Rigensis | Ugis Praulinš | Fall 2012 - Spring 2014 |
| Unremembered | Sarah Kirkland Snyder | Fall 2013 |
| Kyrie (from Missa Pro Pace) | Kentaro Sato | Fall 2013 |
| Gloria (from Missa Pro Pace) | Kentaro Sato | Fall 2013 |
| Psalm 137 | Jack Body | Fall 2013 |
| Dogalen a Mabaso | Nilo Alcala | Fall 2013 |
| Summer Shower | Kenji Oh | Spring 2015 |
| Psalm 23 | Josh Stoddard | Fall 2015 |
| Veni (from Maranatha) | Georg Grün | Fall 2015 |
| Ne Irascaris Domine | Frank La Rocca | Spring 2017 |
| Pater Noster | Ivo Antognini | Spring 2017 |
| Arise, My Love, My Fair One | Joshua Saulle | Spring 2017 |
| Love, thricewise | Joseph Gregorio | Spring 2017 |
| O Euchari Columba | David Avshalomov | Spring 2017 |
| The Marriage of Heaven & Hell No.1 the Sick Rose | Bo Holten | Fall 2018 |
| Turing believes machines think | Gordon Hamilton | Fall 2018 |
| Tread Softly | Frank La Rocca | Fall 2018 |
| Music to Hear | Mike Sheppard | Fall 2018 |
| Birds of the Psalms 10. Psalm 91 Beauty Flows... | Patricia Van Ness | Fall 2018 |
| Cloths of Heaven | Stacy Garrop | Fall 2018 |
| Glong-ngo Ko | Excelsis Betil-Viña | Fall 2019 |
| Aba Po, Santa Mariang Reyna | Ryan Cayabyab | Fall 2019 |
| Ama namin | Fidel Calalang | Fall 2019 |
| Juan 14 | Mary Katherine Trangco | Fall 2019 |
| Tetabeuhan | Slamet Abdul Sjukur | Fall 2019 |
| I Flow...I Am | Mari Esabel Valverde | Fall 2021 |
| Sapphic Fragments: Meditations on Queer Histories and Imaginaries | Soren Austenfeld | Fall 2021 |
| Stop this day and night with me | Jake Heggie | Fall 2021 |
| Pieces of My Heart | Lauren Bydalek | Fall 2021 |
| Spiritus Mundi | Dale Trumbore | Fall 2021 |
| Can You See? | Zanaida Robles | Fall 2021 |
| Messiahs: False and True | Rex Isenberg | Spring 2022 |
Other repertory highlights
edit- Frank Martin: Mass for Two Choirs
- Herbert Howells: Requiem
- Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons D'Orleans
- Paul Hindemith: Six Chansons de Rilke
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
- Matthew Harris: Shakespeare Songs
- Gustav Holst: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
- Gustav Holst: O Spiritual Pilgrim
- Benjamin Britten: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
- Otto Olsson: Ave Maris Stella
- Alberto Grau: Kasar mie la gaji
- Johannes Brahms: Op. 74, Nos. 1, 2 "Warum ist das Licht gegeben?"; "O Heiland reiß"
- Johannes Brahms: Op. 109, No. 2. "Wenn ein starker Gewappneter"
- Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
- Johann Sebastian Bach: "Ich lasse dicht nicht, du segnest mich denn"
- Hugo Distler: Singet dem Herrn ein neues lied
- William Henry Harris: Faire is the Heaven
- Samuel Barber: The Reincarnations
- Samuel Barber: Heaven Haven
- Samuel Barber: To be sung on the Water
- Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
- Francis Poulenc: Four Motes for Noel
- Maurice Durufle: Four Gregorian Motets
- Sven-David Sandström: A New Heaven ("En Ny Himmel")
- Jānis Peters: Kalējs kala debesīs
- David Conte: Ave Maria
- Steven Paulus: The Road Home
- Emma Lou Diemer: Verses from the Rubaiyat
- Robin Estrada: Awit sa Panginoon
- Halsey Stevens: Go Lovely Rose
- Joseph Gregorio: Dona Nobis Pacem
Other collaborations/assistance
edit- On June 2, 2023, IOCSF and Chanticleer performed at the Chorus America conference.
- On June 11, 2011, IOCSF and Volti performed the closing concert at the Chorus America conference.
- On June 10, 2011, IOCSF collaborated with Ragnar Bohlin on two sessions at the Chorus America conference. IOCSF served as the choir for the Conducting Masterclass taught by Bohlin. IOCSF also served as the choir for the session demonstrating new Scandinavian repertoire.
- On January 24, 2010, IOCSF joined the San Francisco Boys Chorus, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao,[8] the San Francisco Opera Chorus and other performers in a relief concert for victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.[9][10]
- In January 2009, IOCSF joined the Yale Glee Club in performing at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.[11]
- July 28, 2008, marked IOCSF's first instrumental collaboration (if you exclude the egg shaker during the South American program). The ensemble performed as part of the Noontime Concert Series at Old St. Mary's with San Francisco piano duo Patricia and Vera Purcell. Program selections included Brahms Liebeslider Waltzes, as well as New York: Night (by Jeremy Faust and opera librettist Philip Littell).
- IOC has received guest coaching from the following experts:
- Vance George: former choral director of the Grammy-winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus
- Magen Solomon: Artistic Director of San Francisco Choral Artists
- Joe Jennings: then Artistic Director of Chanticleer[12]
- Ian Robertson: Director of the San Francisco Opera Chorus and also of the San Francisco Boys Chorus[5]
- Patricia Kristof Moy: French coach for the San Francisco Opera[5]
- Jimmy Kansau: San Francisco Opera
- Ragnar Bohlin: Chorus Director, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
- Joshua Habermann: Director, Dallas Symphony Chorus; Music Director, Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Awards, reviews
edit- ASCAP "Adventurous Programming" Award 2011, received at Chorus America conference[13]
- San Francisco Classical Voice review of June 17, 2011 concert [14]
- San Francisco Classical Voice review of May 1, 2009 concert [1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "San Francisco Classical Voice". Retrieved 2009-05-06.
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- ^ "Sonoma County Choral Society". Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "International Orange Chorale, San Francisco : Zane Fiala". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ a b c "International Orange Chorale, San Francisco : News". Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "International Orange Chorale, San Francisco : News". Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "Santa Barbara Music Publishing". Retrieved 2011-03-18.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Guthrie, Julian (2009-07-31). "Friends, music help singer Zheng Cao recover - SFGate". The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
- ^ "San Francisco Boys Chorus and Oakland Diocese Respond to Haiti Earthquake Disaster with Benefit... – Forbes.com". Forbes. Retrieved 2010-01-24.[dead link]
- ^ "The Catholic Voice - an online publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland<". Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ^ "Yale Club of San Francisco". Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "International Orange Chorale, San Francisco : News". Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "ASCAP "Adventurous Programming" Awards Presented at Chorus America Conference in San Francisco". Retrieved 2011-06-20.
- ^ "Splendid Songs From Northern Lights : San Francisco Classical Voice<". Retrieved 2011-06-20.