WINTER WANDERING FESTIVAL
On the Threshold of Dreamland
A lost highway, witches, folk songs… Volti joins Left Coast for an eclectic, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling sonic journey. New works from LJ White and Todd Kitchen, exploring instability and dreams, contrast with the humor of Laurie San Martin’s Witches and Benjamin Britten’s tender folk song arrangements.
Program includes:
Huang Ruo - Without Words
Todd Kitchen - Soprasymmetry IV, “as west and east in all flat maps are one” (World Premiere)*
Benjamin Britten - Folk Songs
Laurie San Martin - Witches
LJ White - This Place (World Premiere)**
Artists
Andrea Plesnarski, oboe
Nikki Einfeld, soprano
Michael Goldberg, guitar
Anna Presler, violin
Liana Bérubé, violin
Phyllis Kamrin, viola
Leighton Fong, cello
Michel Taddei, double bass
And featuring Volti vocal ensemble
*Todd Kitchen’s new work is commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.
**LJ White’s new work is co-commissioned by Volti and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
Meet the composers
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Saturday, January 25, 2025, 7:30 PM
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley
2619 Dwight Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 7:30 PM
Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
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