Past Performances, University Chorus
Fall 2012
- Saturday, September 30, 3pm, Hertz Hall
Mini-concert as part of Cal Performances "Free For All."
Music by Randall Thompson, David Conte, Franz Joseph Haydn with guest string ensemble - Sunday, October 28, 4pm, Hertz Hall
A Harvest of Song
Selections by Randall Thompson, Jackson,
September Sun, David Conte
“Autumn” from Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), Franz Josef Haydn with soloists and orchestra - Friday, November 30, 8pm, Zellerbach Hall
Villa-Lobos, Choros 10, Estevez, Cantata Criolla
with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel conducting
Spring 2012
- Saturday, April 21, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Invasions!
Janequin: La guerre
Jerusalem: Polychoral Mass in F
Handel: Utrecht Jubilate and Zadok the Priest
Fall 2011
- Saturday, November 5, 2011, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Hail, Brittania!
Choral masterworks from the British Isles: Music of Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Vaughan Williams, Wesley and Parry
- Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 12:15PM, Hertz Hall
Music for the Holiday Season
Program:
Hugo Distler, Variations on "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10
Francis Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
Michael Praetorious, Variations on Martin Luther's Vom Himmel Hoch
Spring 2011
- Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 12:15pm, Hertz Hall
Fauré Requiem
With chamber orchestra and soloists - Friday/Saturday, May 6 & 7, 2011, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Collaboration with the University Symphony Orchestra and renowned mezzo soprano Zheng Cao
Fall 2010
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Friday, November 20, Hertz Hall
Reverberations from Chapels and Cathedral: Magnificent sacred music from Italy and Austria
selections by Palestrina, Allegri, Gabrielli, and others
and featuring the Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore and Bruckner Locus iste
University Chamber Chorus and University Chorus, Marika Kuzma director with orchestra and soloists -
Wednesday, December 8, 12:15pm, Hertz Hall
Holiday Noon Concert: "Christmas Carols and Winter Songs from Around the World"
England, France, Germany, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United States
with arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Adolph Adam, Mykola Leontovich, Alice Parker, and others
Spring 2010
- Saturday, April 10, 8pm, Hertz Hall
University Chorus and University Symphony, Marika Kuzma and David Milnes conducting
Beethoven, Mass in C
Gershwin, excerpts from Porgy & Bess - Saturday May 1, 8pm, Hertz Hall
A Symphony of Psalms
University Chorus and Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma director
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms with orchestra selections from Slavic sacred repertoire:
orthodox chant, Bortniansky, Gretchaninoff, Rachmaninoff, etc.
Fall 2009
- Friday, November 6, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Hearty Songs for the Fall Season
University Chorus and women of the University Chamber Chorus, Marika Kuzma director
with Leon Chisholm, organ, Jeffrey Sykes, piano, Natalie Cox, harp, and Alicia Telford and Kathy Canfield Shepard, horn
Brahms, Opus 17 for women’s chorus, 2 horns, and harp
Selections by Charles Villiers Stanford and Lennox Berkeley
Mendelssohn, Lobgesang (Song of Praise) arranged for chorus, piano, organ, and horn - Wednesday, December 9, 12:15pm, Hertz Hall
Holiday Noon Concert
University Chorus, Marika Kuzma director
Spiritual, Mary had a Baby (conducted by Gabriel Wong)
Praetorius, Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
J.S. Bach, Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 with orchestra and student soloists
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
Tickets $15/10/5, 510.642.9988, www.tickets.berkeley.edu - 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, Robert Geary, director.
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.
Tickets $25/15/8, 510.642.9988, www.tickets.berkeley.edu
Fall 2008
- Saturday, November 8, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Zigeunerlieder/Gypsy Songs
University Chamber Chorus, University Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director. With guest musicians Jeffrey Sykes, piano, members of Danubius Hungarian Music ensemble, and Édessa Balkan Music ensemble featuring Rumen Sali Shopov.
Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
Dvorak, Cigánské melodie
Liderman, Sephardisms, excerpts
and arrangements of authentic gypsy melodies - Wednesday, December 10, Noon, Hertz Hall
Holiday Noon Concert: Handel, Messiah (Part One)
University Chamber Chorus, University Chorus, Marika Kuzma, director.
With student soloists & orchestra of guest Baroque instrumentalists.
Spring 2008
- Saturday, April 26, 8pm, Hertz Hall
University Chorus, Aya Ueda, guest director
MacMillan, Cantos Sagrados;
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Fall 2007
- Saturday, November 17, 8pm, Hertz Hall
Mozart, Requiem
Barber, Agnus Dei
Robin Estrada, Awit Sa Panginoon - Wednesday Noon Concert, December 5, Hertz Hall
Holiday Choral Music
University Chorus, Aya Ueda, guest director; Chamber Chorus, Ian Kirk, guest director
Selections by Britten, Souza, Warlock and Praetorius/Sandström
Spring 2007
- Orff, Carmina Burana, Marika Kuzma, director
Vaughan Williams, Dona nobis pacem, with the University Symphony, David Milnes conducting
Fall 2006
- Mendelssohn, Elijah, Marika Kuzma, director
Holiday Noon concert
Spring 2006
- Bach, Matthäus-Passion, Marika Kuzma, director
Fall 2005
- Fauré, Requiem
Randall Thompson, Requiem "The Garment of Praise" (excerpts)
Spring 2005
- Stravinsky, Svadebka [Les noces]
Haydn, Missa in tempore belli [Mass in the Time of War] with the University Symphony
Fall 2004
- Rachmaninoff, Vsenoshchnoe bdenie [Vespers] with the Oakland
Symphony Chorus
Holiday Noon Concert