Past Performances, University 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
    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