Left Coast at the California Festival:
California Voices
(features the two concerts below)

this is what it means: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Girls Chorus | Nov 4 and 5, 2023

Nov 4, 7:30 pm at First Presbyterian church of berkeley

Nov 5, 4:00 PM at san francisco conservatory of music

Left Coast and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival. We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolás Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.

This concert is generously sponsored by Susan Shalit and Mary Logger.

Program includes:

Sarah Gibson - “This is What It Means,” World Premiere, co-commission by SFGC and LCCE

Ursula Kwong-Brown - “I see you, I hear you”

Gabriela Lena Frank - “Picaflor” from Two Mountain Songs

Gabriela Lena Frank - Canto para California

Lisa Bielawa - “Forest” from Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser

Nicolás Lell Benavides - "A bird came down the walk" (Pathways mentor)

Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution

Pauline Oliveros - Tree/Peace

Caroline Shaw - “Dolce cantavi”

Hildegard of Bingen - “O Virtus Sapientiae”

Gabriela Lena Frank - Zapatos de chincha

Reena Esmail - “The love of thousands”