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Program #3:   Environmentalism in Music

Noe Valley Ministry

Volti presents a program of groundbreaking new works for unaccompanied voices: Brazilian composer Marcos Balter’s spectacular setting of color-themed poems by 20th-Century literary giant Fernando Pessoa; San Francisco composer Mark Winges sets three poems by California poet Jane Hirshfield; Yu-Hui Chang, a native of Taiwan, sets two poems by Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the US; Singaporean composer Emily Koh, sets a patchwork of Teochew (a Chinese dialect) phrases from childhood; British-American composer Freya Waley-Cohen sets texts from Milton and Pushkin; and LJ White, a graduate of Volti’s young-composer residency program, explores concepts of love.

Volti

Paul Mahder Gallery

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Oakland

Volti and Left Coast meet in a new work by Chris Castro for storyteller and musicians, which explores the connection between sound and the spoken word in tales from the west coast. The human relationship to our environment forms a through-line from romantic to experimental musical sensibilities.

Mark Winges

Events

Upcoming events

20 - 21 Mar, 2026

Sound Stories · Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Past events

6 - 8 Jun, 2025

Program #3: Environmentalism in Music · Volti

3 - 5 Nov, 2023

Volti · California Festival

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