SEASON 32 – 2010-11

November 2010

Frank Stemper A Brief Message from Makanda, Illinois
Tom Flaherty Delusional Paths (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
David Lipten Time's Dream
Kirke Mechem Five Centuries of Spring
Louis Andriessen Flora Tristan

March, 2011

Tamar Diesendruck Other Floods (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
David Lang after stephen foster
Kui Dong Painted Lights (Commissioned by Volti and Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir, World Premiere)
Mark Winges Magic Strings
Ted Hearne privilege (Volti Commission)

May, 2011

Ruby Fulton the ballad of james parry (Volti Commission)
Matthew Barnson Genesis (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Frank Ferko O ignis Spirtus Paracliti
Yu-Hui Chang Being: Two Collins Songs (Volti Commission)
Elliott Gyger voice (and nothing more) (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

SEASON 31 – 2009-10

POETRY, PROVERBS and MUSIC November 2009

Mark Winges Where Everything Is Music (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson Two Poems by Delmore Schwartz
Joshua Fishbein The Poetry of Earth (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Mark Zuckerman Proverbs for Four at Fifty
William Hawley Two Motets
Eric Moe The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away (Volti Commission)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Beauty and Music (Volti Commission)

ASIAN and LATIN INFLUENCES February 2010

Felipe Pérez Santiago Pronto Desaparaceremos
György Ligeti Két kánon
Yu-Hui Chang Being: Two Collins Songs (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Jean Ahn Zêteô (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia el sonido dulce de tu voz
Olli Kortekangas Ikikaiku (Eternal Echo)
Mark Winges Luna, Nova Luna (Co-Commissioned by Volti and the Piedmont Choirs, World Premiere)

NOCTURNES May 2010

Donald Crockett Daglarym / My Mountains (Volti Commission)
Robin Estrada Paghahandog (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ted Hearne privilege (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen Nocturnes

SEASON 30 – 2008-09

DANCING IN THE WIND February 2009

Frank Ferko Two Hildegard Motets
Mark Winges The Assembling Landscape (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Ruby Fulton The Ballad of James Parry (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Pekka Kostiainen Jaakobin pojat
Pekka Kostiainen Revontulet
Elliott Gyger Dancing in the Wind (III) (Co-Commissioned by Volti and the Piedmont Choirs, World Premiere)
Eric Moe The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

ECSTATICALLY IMPROMPTU May 2009

Donald Crockett Daglarym / My Mountains (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Sungji Hong Emendemus in melius
Kirke Mechem Three Madrigals
Robert Paterson On the Day the World Ends (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Aaron Jay Kernis Ecstatic Meditations

SEASON 29 – 2007-08

ADVENTURES IN LIFE, LOVE AND LONGING November 2007

Howard Hersh Let Evening Come (World Premiere)
Richard Festinger The Locust Tree (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson Two Poems of Delmore Schwartz (World Premiere)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Beauty and Music (Volti Commission, made possible by a generous gift from Chuck and Joan Grant; World Premiere)
Alan Fletcher Two Yeats Choruses (Volti Commission)
Morten Lauridsen Madrigali

ADVENTURES IN EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 2008 - with the Piedmont Choir

Mark Winges Give Us (Piedmont Choir)
Eric Tuan (arranger) He's Gone Away (Piedmont Choir)
Elliott Gyger Dancing in the Wind (Combined Volti & Piedmont Choir Commission, World Premiere)
Robert Paterson Infinite Ocean (Volti Commission)
Robert Paterson Love and Kisses (Volti Commission)
Elliott Gyger Fire in the Heavens (Piedmont Choir)
Eric Tuan (arranger) Shenandoah (Piedmont Choir)
Kurt Rohde Endless (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank Ccolllanan Maria (Volti Commission)

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE ADVENTURES May 2008

Steven Stucky Cradle Songs
George Lam Words Become Unlatched (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Eric Moe O the Flesh Is Hot (Volti Commission)
William Hawley Two Motets
Ronald Caltabiano Metaphor
Aaron Jay Kernis Effortlessly (from Ecstatic Meditations)
Aaron Jay Kernis I Cannot Dance (from Ecstatic Meditations)

SEASON 28 – 2006-07

BALTIC TRADITIONS NOW November 2006

Pekka Kostianen Harvoin yhtehen hymme
Pekka Kostianen Siitä Päivän Kiini Saapi
Olli Kortekangas Shadows
Arvo Pärt . . . which was the son of . . .
Veljo Tormis Helletused (Childhood Memory)
Einojuhani Rautavaara Suite de Lorca
Per Nørgård Wie ein Kind

NEXUS: VOLTI March 2007

Cindy Cox Only one great thing (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Martha Sullivan Shakespeare Songs
N. Lincoln Hanks Driftwood
Elliot Gyger Qumi 'ori
Toon Vandevorst Phoenix Songs, Op. 28 (Volti Commission, World Premiere)
Elliot Gyger Rezo di san Iñigo de Loyola
Kevin Raftery Ribblesdale
Amy Beth Kirsten In the Black (Volti Commission, World Premiere)

SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCE May 2007

with the Piedmont Choir

Mark Winges A Cricket Needs a Queen (World Premiere)
Kui Dong Frogs and Crickets Carry On
Kui Dong Shui Diao Ge Tou / Song
Mark Winges Open the Book of What Happened

SEASON 27 – 2005-06

COMMITMENT November 2005

Alan Fletcher No More to Hide (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Wayne Peterson an e e cummings tryptich
Donald Crockett Broken Charms
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of Desire, Longing & Whimsey (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Alvin Singleton Gospel (West Coast Premiere)

EXPERIMENTATION February 2006

COLLABORATION May 2006

SEASON 26 – 2004-05

NEW AMERICAN DIRECTIONS November 2004

Alan Fletcher The Fiddler of Dooney (Volti Commission)
Stacy Garrop Sonnets of War & Mankind (Volti Commission; World Premiere)
Phillip Schroeder Lux Aeterna (West Coast Premiere)
Lansing McCloskey Burning Chariots (West Coast Premiere)
Jason Bahr Psaume I (West Coast Premiere)
Lincoln Hanks Tota Pulchra (West Coast Premiere)
Felicia Sandler The Waking (West Coast Premiere)
David Heuser Clouds (West Coast Premiere)

LEFT TURN @ ALBUQUERQUE March 2005

COPLAND’S AMERICAN LANDSCAPE May 2005

SEASON 25 - 2003-04

Celebrating 10 Years of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - October 2003
Miya Masaoka While I was walking, I heard a sound… (World Premiere)

OUR AMERICA IS SINGING November 2003

MYSTERIES OF THE SPIRIT December 2003

CHORAL ARTS LABORATORY February 2004

A GREAT, WILD, GARDEN OF VOICES April 2004

SEASON 24 - 2002-03

A CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND November 2002

VOLTI with the SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC PLAYERS February 2003 (guest appearance)

LIGETI: UNDER THE INFLUENCE March 2003

BANG ON ANYTHING June 2003