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Volti regularly performs two to three concert series each season in venues throughout the Bay Area. Volti has appeared at the Switchboard and SoundWave festivals of new music, and has collaborated with many Bay Area new music groups. In addition, Volti sponsors the Choral Arts Laboratory, a commissioning and residency program for American composers under age 35, and the Choral Institute for high school students. In 2018 Volti became the first vocal group ever to have been awarded the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming^[4] seven times. 2019 will mark the ensemble's 40th anniversary.^[5] Volti has released three CDs on the innova label: "Turn the Page," "House of Voices," and "This is what happened." A fourth will be released in mid-2019.

Outreach

Choral Institute

Volti's Choral Institute^[6] program brings together high school choir singers from around the Bay Area for weekend-long workshops at the CYO-McGucken Center in Occidental. The high school singers work with Volti singers, Volti conductor Robert Geary, and their own conductors to improve upon their choral technique and to prepare pieces for performance as a massed choir. The Choral Institute is offered twice during the school year; once for mixed choirs in October, and once for treble choirs in January. In 2009-10, Volti added a resident composer to the Choral Institute program. Morten Lauridsen worked with the students for the weekend intensive, and returned in May 2010 to play the piano accompaniment to his "Nocturnes" song cycle, sung by the massed choir of 120 voices. Other composers in residence have included Kirke Mechem, Stacy Garrop, Eric Tuan, Melissa Dunphy and LJ White.

Choral Arts Laboratory

Started in 2003, Volti's Choral Arts Laboratory^[7] is a commissioning and residency program aimed at composers under 35. Each year, the composer selected for the program takes part in workshops to develop a piece, then works directly with the Volti singers in rehearsal, hearing how the piece sounds and getting feedback the singers. The composer may then consult with Robert Geary (Volti's artistic director)^[8] and Mark Winges (Volti's resident composer)^[9] throughout the year as they finish perfecting the piece, which is then premiered at a Volti concert during the regular season.

World Premieres

2016

It is possible these things do not exist - Amy Beth Kirsten (Volti Commission)

2015

Death With Interruptions - Kurt Rohde (a chamber opera adapted by Thomas Laqueur from the novel by José Saramago, presented in collaboration with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)

Pandora's Gift - Mark Winges (Volti Commission) Made possible by a grant from the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundations Music Commissioning Awards Initiative

2014

Scenes from “Unremembered” - Sarah Kirkland Snider (World Premiere of Chamber Chorus version)

Gratitude Sutra - Forrest Pierce (Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition for the BBC Singers, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Volti)

2013

(with The San Francisco Choral Society, The Leah Stein Dance Company, The Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir)

2012

The day on which the World didn’t end - Francisco Cortés-Álvarez (Volti Commission)

A lettrist, bottle, a fountain of everything I’ve ever intended to say, may it reach you on your desert island, that we might start anew - Ken Ueno (Volti Commission)

2011

2010

2009

2008

Dancing in the Wind - Elliott Gyger (Combined Volti & Piedmont Choirs Commission)

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

References

1. ^www.voltisf.org/history.html, Volti website, History page.
2. ^http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/music_news_8_19_03.php, San Francisco Classical Voice, 19 August 2003 "SF Chamber Singers Turn to Volti, `Facing Forward'"
3. ^http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2004-04-23/article/18722, Berkeley Daily Planet, 23 April 2004 "Notes From The Underground: Twenty-Five Years Singing the Same New Song"
4. ^http://www.chorusamerica.org/awards.cfm#ascap2 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609092237/http://www.chorusamerica.org/awards.cfm#ascap2 |date=2011-06-09 }}, Chorus America website, list of Past Adventurous Programming Award Recipients
5. ^http://www.sfcv.org/content/singing-without-net, San Francisco Classical Voice, 05/15-17/2009, Singing Without a Net
6. ^http://voltisf.org/institute.html, Volti website, Choral Institute page.
7. ^http://www.voltisf.org/lab.html, Volti website, Choral Arts Laboratory page
8. ^http://www.voltisf.org/staff_geary.html, Volti website, Robert Geary.
9. ^http://www.voltisf.org/staff_winges.html, Volti website, Mark Winges.