Current Season

Spring 2024

Come, Lovers, Follow Me: Madrigals of Love and Life
End of the Season concert and celebratory gathering of refreshments and community

Sunday, May 5, 2024 – 4 PM

Voci is proud to present a concert of madrigals and related musical forms from the Renaissance, early Baroque, and 20th century. Small ensembles, soloists, and the full choir will perform a rich variety of settings of beautiful and thought-provoking poetry in English, French, Italian and even Macedonian. We’ll sing about love and lovers, loss, internal struggle, and celebration.

Please join Voci and Guest Director Susan Swerdlow for this end of the season concert and celebratory gathering of refreshments and community.

NEW LOCATION FOR OUR CONCERT

Sunday, May 15 2024 – 4:00 PM
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
66 St. Stephen’s Drive, Orinda

For information about Voci’s mask and vaccination policies, see Concerts & Events.


VOCI PAST EVENTS

Peace Be Within Thy Walls

March 17 and 24, 2024

In this concert, through sounds that are not only soothing, but at times provoking, Voci presented a REAL peace – one that may require effort and even sacrifice.

Transitions

December 2 and 3, 2023

For the 21st annual Voices in Peace concert, Voci embraced and explored some of the transitions that define our existence. Voci also premiered Edna Yeh’s setting of Sara Teasdale’s “Twilight.”

In the Time of Brahms: Music for Women’s Voices from the Master and his Friends

March 26 and April 1, 2023

Voci performed a special concert featuring favorites from Johannes Brahms and his dear friends, Robert and Clara Schumann. Voci was joined by 2 horn players, a harpist and second pianist.

We Rise! Songs of Overcoming

December 3rd and 4th, 2022

In the fall concert titled “We Rise! Songs of Overcoming”, Voci featured settings of poetry about encouragement, acceptance, self-confidence, and kindness.  Nine of the sixteen pieces on the program were composed by women. The music included settings of poetry by women poets including Maya Angelou and Susan B. Anthony. All the music was composed in the past 30 years. It encompasses an exceptionally broad range of styles from “She Rises,” an 8-part work for double a cappella chorus, to a simple choral setting of Lennon and McCartney’s “Blackbird,” to a powerful version of “Brave” by Sara Bareilles. This concert is part of Voci’s Voices in Peace Concert Series.

Voci was joined by Jon Weiner, drummer and Tom Elliott, bass player.