Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco – Angelic Voices – Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 pm
Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco – Angelic Voices – Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 pm
Start your holiday season with this candle-lit concert by the award-winning Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco, featuring the local premiere of Sarah Quartel’s Snow Angel, which celebrates the love, beauty, and strength that a child’s voice can bring to our troubled world, plus works by Joni Mitchell, J. S. Bach, traditional carols, and more!
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Angelic Voices: Carols by Candlelight
Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco
Dr. Matthew Otto, Artistic Director
Dara Phung, piano
The award-winning Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco returns to Old First Concerts for its beloved annual Carols by Candlelight performance. Start your holiday season with this candle-lit concert, which includes Joni Mitchell’s River, a selection of Bach’s Magnificat, and a traditional Puerto Rican carol, Abreme la Puerta. At the heart of the performance is the San Francisco premiere of Snow Angel, a multimovement work by Sarah Quartel featuring piano and cello. Through music and narration, Snow Angel celebrates the love, beauty, and strength that a child’s voice can bring to our troubled world.
The Young Women’s Chorus is the premier ensemble of the Young Women’s Choral Projects of San Francisco. The Chorus, conducted by Artistic Director Dr. Matthew Otto, is comprised of singers ages 12-18, and has been praised for its beauty of sound, stellar musicianship, and dynamic programming. Acclaimed in the American Record Guide for its “refined and beautifully controlled singing,” the Young Women’s Chorus has also won many competitive, national awards including the American Prize in Choral Performance; the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America and American Composers Forum; and the ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award. They have performed with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony and graced stages from Carnegie Hall to acclaimed venues in South Africa, France, Argentina, and Canada. Performing repertoire from early music to contemporary selections, the Chorus annually performs a professional series of concerts in the Bay Area, and commissions new works by leading composers.
Matthew Otto, PhD, is an award-winning, internationally recognized conductor. Matthew led the Toronto Children’s Chorus and the Toronto Youth Choir for more than a decade. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition, Master of Music in Conducting and PhD in Music Education from University of Toronto.
Dara Phung is a collaborative pianist and music director based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Kevin Fitz-Gerald.