Past Performances, University Chamber Chorus

Spring 2009

  • Wednesday, February 11, 8pm, Hertz Hall
    Choral Love Songs for Valentine's Day
    University Chorus & Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director,
    host other campus choirs: Perfect Fifth, Cal Jazz Choir, Noteworthy, UC Men's Octet, California Golden Overtones, UC Women's Chorale, UC Men's Chorale
  • Saturday, March 14, 8pm, Hertz Hall
    Berkeley Choral Creations: A Retrospective of 70 years
    A Tribute to Berkeley Composers Then and Now.
    University Chamber Chorus Marika Kuzma, director
    Music by Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Andrew Imbrie (A Wind Has Blown the Rain Away), Richard Felciano (The Seasons), Jorge Liderman (Sephardisms II), Brian Current (Inventions on Et in terra pax), Robin Estrada.
  • Short preview performance featuring the US premiere of Brian Current's "Inventions" on Sunday, March 8, 3pm, Berkeley Art Museum, Bancroft just below College.
  • Wednesday, April 22, 8pm, Zellerbach Hall
    Benjamin Britten, War Requiem
    University Chorus & Chamber Chorus Marika Kuzma, director;
    UC Alumni Chorus, Mark Sumner, director; Piedmont Children's Choir, with orchestra & soloists including acclaimed baritone Christòpheren Nomura. This is the first time Britten's epic work will be performed on the UC Berkeley campus.

Fall 2008

  • Wednesday, December 10, Noon, Hertz Hall
    Holiday Noon Concert:  Handel Messiah (Part One)
    With student soloists & orchestra of guest Baroque instrumentalists.
  • Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8pm, Hertz Hall
    Zigeunerlieder/Gypsy Songs
    University Chorus & Chamber Chorus Marika Kuzma, director, with guest artists Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Danubius Hungarian music ensemble; Édessa, Balkan music ensemble featuring Rumen Sali Shopov.
    Choral works inspired by gypsy music
    Music by Brahms, Dvorak, Liderman

Spring 2008

  • Wednesday, March 12, noon
    University Chamber Chorus, John Kendall Bailey, guest director.
    Choral music by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Canteloube, Lili & Nadia Boulanger, Messiaen, Duruflé.
    With Soloists Christa Pfeiffer, soprano & Edward Betts, tenor
  • Saturday, April 26, 8pm
    University Chamber Chorus, Richard Worn Ensemble, David Milnes, conductor
    Steve Reich, Desert Music

Fall 2007

  • Music for All Saint's Day
    University Chamber Chorus, Matthew Oltman, Guest director
    Tomas de Luis Victoria, Requiem Officium Defunctorum

    Holiday Noon Concert
    University Chamber Chorus, Ian Kirk, Guest director
    Including selections by Warlock, Souza

Spring 2007

  • The medieval Carmina Burana (a reconstruction based on a staging by Thomas Binkley in 1990)
    UC Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma, Director
    With guest musicians on medieval instruments and choreography by Charles Moulton

Fall 2006

  • Purcell, King Arthur, with the Mark Morris Dance Group (American Premiere)

    Music for All Souls Day
    Pierre de la Rue, Missa pro defunctis

Spring 2006

  • Bach, Matthäus-Passion
    East Coast Tour
    Music from Eastern Europe and Latin America
    by Hurko, Bortiansky, Glinka, Pärt, Dychko, Liderman, Orrego-Salas, Nin-Culmel

Fall 2005

  • Stravinsky, Requiem Canticles
    Holiday Noon Concert
    Selections by Charpentier, Poulenc, John Jacob Niles and traditional American and French carols.
    With guest baroque musicians and fiddler Sue Draheim
  • St. Mary's College Christmas Concert
    Holiday music with a French accent and Southern Twist

Spring 2005

  • Noon Concert
    Songs of a Purple Country: Music by Bolcom, Barber, Copland
    Music in the Time of Rubens
    works by Monteverdi and Wert

Fall 2004

  • Music from North and South of the Border, works by Franco, Villa-Lobos, Nin-Culmell, Liderman; Barber, Reincarnations and Agnus Dei
    Holiday Concert:
    Excerpts from the Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium