Winter 2020

CANCELLED - Luminous Resonance: Music for Chorus and Strings

***IMPORTANT UPDATE: MARCH 9, 2020

Dear Friend of Sacred & Profane,

As you are aware, the situation regarding COVID-19 is evolving rapidly and raising precautionary action throughout our local communities. We have been closely monitoring the situation with Federal, State, and Local agencies to ensure the health and safety of S&P’s patrons, performers, employees, and volunteers. 

It is with a heavy heart that we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming performances of Luminous Resonance: Music for Chorus and Strings this March 13 and 14. While we are eager to share this incredible music with you, we realize that the health and safety of our musical and greater community should take precedence as we all navigate this uncertain time together in light of city mandates. We are working with our venues and orchestra musicians to reschedule the concerts for next season.

The following options are available to those who have already purchased tickets:

Exchange: 
You may transfer your ticket purchase to attend one of our future May concerts.

Donate:
If you would like to show your support and help us divert the great financial impact this has on our organization, we will gladly convert the value of your ticket to a tax-deductible donation and send you an acknowledgement letter.

Refund:
We will refund the value of your ticket upon request through the scheduled performances.
 

Please contact us if you would like to utilize any of these options. 

We are incredibly grateful for your support of Sacred and Profane. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we make these difficult decisions alongside other local organizations. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our Choral Administrator, Michelle Lee at sacredprofane@gmail.com.

On behalf of our Board, Artistic Director, staff, and singers, we're wishing you all good health. We hope to see you at a concert again soon.

Best Regards,

Sacred and Profane, A Chamber Chorus

Music has immense power to express the human experience, from elevating our brightest moments to soothing our souls in difficult times, and every emotion in between. Music tells our stories, reminds us of the wondrous cycles of nature, and brings us together in community and collaboration.

Luminous Resonance represent this potential, with a selection of moving pieces for choir and string orchestra, in collaboration with the Bay Area-based Circadian String Quartet and ten additional local string players. This ambitious program will include Beethoven’s Elegiac Hymn (in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth); local composer David Conte’s reverent September Sun, composed in memory of those who died in the September 11th attacks; and the popular American composer Eric Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs for choir and string quartet. We are also delighted to present the US premiere of Karin Rehnqvist’s exuberant Day is here! for choir, soloists, and strings. Recently premiered in Stockholm,  Day is here! is the companion piece to Songs from the North, the four-movement setting of poetry from the Arctic that we commissioned for our fortieth-anniversary concert in May 2018.

Join us on a journey through it all—from  reverence to exuberance, devotion to heartache, dark nights and glimmering days—with an inspiring performance of chorus and string orchestra! 

Tickets: $25 General Admission ONLINE / $28 General Admission AT THE DOOR / $10 Students

Friday, March 13th, 8PM

St. John’s Presbyterian Church

2727 College Avenue 

Berkeley

Saturday, March 14th, 8PM

St Mark’s Lutheran Church

1111 O’Farrell Street

San Francisco

About Circadian String Quartet

Monika Gruber, violin 
David Ryther, violin
Omid Assadi, viola
David Wishnia, cello

Bay Area based Circadian String Quartet was founded in 2013 to promote classical and contemporary string quartet repertoire, in particular music of cultural and folkloric significance. Since then, the group has been featured through SunsetArts Chamber Music Series in San Francisco. In 2014, the CSQ were invited to collaborate with the St. Petersburg-based Rimsky Korsakov String Quartet during their North American tour. They have also given U.S. premieres of pieces by world-renowned British composer Ian Venables in collaboration with mezzo-soprano Sally Munro of the San Francisco Opera and Natalie Parker, Principal Clarinetist of the San Francisco Ballet.

Members of CSQ serve as resident teaching artists for Villa Sinfonia Foundation's Zephyr Point Chamber Music Workshop in South Lake Tahoe, NV. Dedicated to music education, the quartet works intensely with musician of all ages in developing their musical abilities in chamber music and ensemble playing.