Event

Volti Concert: Nocturnes

This event takes place at 2 different locations:

May 14, 8 p.m.
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA

May 15, 8 p.m.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
1111 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA

Volti concludes its 31st season with the Bay Area premiere of the full version (including the epilogue written just last year) of Morten Lauridsen's choral cycle, Nocturnes.

Special guest artist: Morten Lauridsen, composer, will play the piano accompaniment to his work.

In 2006, Morten Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide."

Also featured are premieres of Volti commissions by Robin Estrada and this year's Choral Arts Laboratory competition winner, Ted Hearne, as well as a repeat performance of Donald Crockett's "Daglarym/My Mountains," commissioned and premiered by Volti last year.

**Friday only**: Volti is joined by special guest choirs from Acalanes High School, Head-Royce School, San Francisco School of the Arts and the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir; participants in Volti's Choral Institute for High School Singers.