Finale concert with SongFest singers and pianists.

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THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Bowes Center

Grant Knox and Jennifer Tung, co-directors

STUDIO ARTIST SHOWCASE CONCERT+

AN EVENING WITH JAKE HEGGIE

A JOURNEY ACROSS TIME WITH SONG AT ITS CENTRE

MUSICAL THEATRE FAVORITES+

THE SCHUBERT STUDIO ARTISTS

BROWN LORANGER FELLOWSHIP SINGERS+

THE COLBURN FOUNDATION YOUNG ARTISTS SINGERS+

A tale of three iconic cities in Song, this concert will present music from the 1920s-1940s in operetta, théâtre musicale, cabaret, and Tin Pan Alley. These songs, like the composers who wrote them, are citizens of the world. Featuring music by Reynaldo Hahn, Kurt Weill, André Messager, Cole Porter, Alexander Zemlinsky, Hans Eisler, Duke Ellington, and Sidney Bechet.

PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK

A Songbook based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

BEAUTY INTOLERABLE

SONGFEST ALUMNI RECITAL

SongFest singers and pianists.
With narration by Graham Johnson.

A JOURNEY OF SCHUBERT LIEDER

The rich world of Slavic composers is explored in this program and includes both beloved favorites and lesser known but gorgeous works rarely heard.
SongFest singers and pianists.

EAST OF THE ELBE, DOWN THE DANUBE

Featuring the SongFest singers and pianists.

AMERICAN VOICES+

World premiere performance of the Sorel organization 2020 commission: If Trees Could Talk by Sheila Silver with four solo singers, piano, Tibetan singing bowls and video projections by filmmaker John Feldman. Also included is the 2022 Sorel commission by Juhi Bansal. The texts to this work are landays, a traditional 2-line Afghani form of oral poetry created, sung and shared by women. The texts are on the themes of love, grief, war, exile, and how women see themselves and are seen in society. Works of the 6 distinguished composers-in-residence will also be highlighted.

CELEBRATING AMERICAN COMPOSERS

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Featuring SongFest alumni, faculty and surprise “Special Guest Artists.”

SONGFEST GALA CONCERT

The recital will feature works by Primosch and performances of his close friends, colleagues and teachers: John Harbison, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Susan Narucki, George Crumb and Anna Weesner. The recital will also include the world premiere of Four Poems for Robin (text: Gary Snyder) featuring Daniel McGrew, tenor and Lydia Brown, piano.

REMEMBERING JIM PRIMOSCH

This recital celebrates SongFest's new home at San Francisco Conservatory and the long return of the festival to in-person music-making after the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

SongFest

Jun 26, 2022

THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Jun 26, 2022

STUDIO ARTIST SHOWCASE CONCERT+

Jun 25, 2022

AN EVENING WITH JAKE HEGGIE

Jun 24, 2022

A JOURNEY ACROSS TIME WITH SONG AT ITS CENTRE

Jun 24, 2022

MUSICAL THEATRE FAVORITES+

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