Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus invites you to traverse the world of language and ideas in our 2024-2025 season. We will bask in the warmth of Scandinavian holiday traditions in December, serenade you with love songs from around the world in February, and sing words of wisdom in May. This ticket offers admission to any of our programming that will be presented in Berkeley and San Francisco (excludes special December performance in Healdsburg):

Norden: A Scandinavian Holiday Celebration

• Friday 12/6/2024, 8 PM; Noe Valley Ministry, ​​1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco

• Saturday 12/7/2023, 4 PM; St Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Languages of Love

• Saturday 2/15/2025, 8 PM; St Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

• Sunday 2/16/2025, 4 PM; Noe Valley Ministry, ​​1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco

Giving Voice: Settings of Speeches

• Saturday 5/10/2025, 7 PM; St Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

• Sunday 5/11/2024, 4 PM; Noe Valley Ministry, ​​1021 Sanchez St, San Francisco

Season ticket pricing:

General admission: $75 (a $90+ value!)
Senior: $55 (a $75+ value!)
Student: $22.50 (a $30+ value!)
Arts for all: $10 (a $15+ value!)

The winter holiday season is one of celebration and joy in Europe’s Nordic countries – the new white snow reflects the moonlight and everyone lights candles to brighten homes and create a feeling of warmth and relief from the long, dark nights. Scandinavian holidays always include choral music. Come celebrate with Sacred and Profane as we sing enticing arrangements of familiar traditional gems alongside exciting new music from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland by composers Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Otto Olsson, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jón Leifs, Frida Johansson, and others.

San Francisco
Friday, December 6, 2024 • 8:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry • 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

Berkeley
Saturday, December 7, 2024 • 4:00pm
St Mark’s Episcopal Church • 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Ticket pricing:

General admission: $35 at the door / $30 online
Senior: $25 at the door / online
Student: $10 at the door / online
Arts for all: $5 at the door / online for patrons with EBT, MediCal, or other similar programs

Delight in love during the Valentine’s Day weekend as Sacred and Profane serenades you with songs from around the world and across the ages. We’ll sing in your love language, whether it’s Italian, Ladino, Tagalog, French, Swedish, Portuguese, or Spanish. Experience universal love with a selection of endearing songs from composers and languages from around the world and across time, including music in Haitian Creole, Russian, and Arabic.

Berkeley
Saturday, February 15, 2025 • 8:00pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church • 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

San Francisco
Sunday, February 16, 2025 • 4:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry • 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

Ticket pricing:

General admission: $35 at the door / $30 online
Senior: $25 at the door / online
Student: $10 at the door / online
Arts for all: $5 at the door / online for patrons with EBT, MediCal, or other similar programs

Be inspired by musical settings of influential speeches delivered by important figures of the past and present. Sacred and Profane will present Swedish composer Anna-Karin Klockar’s Speeches – an avant-garde choral cycle that includes settings of a French suffragist, a Native American chief, and the “dog is a man’s best friend” speech. We will deliver powerful statements with Dale Trumbore’s setting of Frederick Douglass, Ēriks Ešenvalds’ setting of Nelson Mandela, Trevor Weston’s setting of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Joel Thompson’s setting of Langston Hughes’ poetic response to Dr. King. We are delighted to honor Kirke Mechem’s 100th birthday with his Island in Space, a setting of a speech by Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart. We crown our concert with two world premieres – our own Adam Lange’s setting of the words of Harvey Milk and Zanaida Robles’ setting of Angela Davis’ famous statement, “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” 

Berkeley
Saturday, May 10, 2025 • 7:00pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church • 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

San Francisco
Sunday, May 11, 2025 • 4:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry • 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco

Ticket pricing:

General admission: $35 at the door / $30 online
Senior: $25 at the door / online
Student: $10 at the door / online
Arts for all: $5 at the door / online for patrons with EBT, MediCal, or other similar programs