Sweet Joy

Molly Holm
Featured in Voci's Valentine’s Concert

Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble, conducted by artistic director, Anne Hege,
presents “Sweet Joy,” an intimate house concert of amorous music on a
Valentine’s Day theme.  The annual Voci
fundraising event will feature guest artist Molly Holm, an unconventional
singer and composer who blends jazz, improvisation and North Indian raga and
who was a key member of Bobby McFerrin’s original Voicestra.  Wine and light appetizers will be served.
Seating is limited.

WHEN and WHERE:

Sunday, Feb. 9, 4:00 pm

A private home in
Piedmont (address available with paid reservations)

TICKETS

$50 donation to
Voci, benefiting our programs.

Available online
at www.vocisings.com

Seating is limited
and advance paid reservations are recommended

Information: (510)
531-8714

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The 2013-2014
season marks Voci Women’s Vocal
Ensemble’s 22st year— and the first under new artistic director, Anne Hege.
  Founded in 1991, Voci is recognized as one of
the finest choral groups in the Bay Area. 
Voci champions music by women and for women.  The group’s size of 20 voices conveys a
poignant intimacy and allows for a deep, personal connection among chorus
members and between chorus and audience. Voci’s commitment to musical
excellence, unique mastery of style and technique, and adventurous and
innovative programming have earned high praise from critics and choral musicians
alike.

Voci’s new
artistic director, Anne Hege,
returns to her native Bay Area from Princeton University,
where she will soon complete her PhD in Music Composition.  Hege currently works as a vocalist, composer,
improviser, and electronic musician, performing original works in her
performance duo New Prosthetics, the laptop ensemble Sideband,
and for the Carrie Ahern Dance Company. In 2000, she founded and directed the
Albany Community Chorus, and she has led various sacred and secular vocal and
performance ensembles in the SF Bay Area, Mexico City, New Jersey, and New
York. Born in Oakland, Anne began her musical career singing with the Piedmont
East Bay Children’s Choir and the Oakland Youth Chorus. Hege received a BA in
music with honors from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an MA in Music
Composition from Mills College. For her doctoral research at Princeton, she
developed a body-centered theory of musical and multimedia analysis.

Assistant
Conductor Edna Huelsenbeck is the
founder and former director of the Pacific Women’s Chorus in San Diego, and
Concentus Women’s Chorus in Rochester, NY. She previously served as Interim
Director for the University Section Club Chorus at U.C. Berkeley and the
Interim Assistant Director of the San Diego Master Chorale. She received her
Master of Music degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where she
studied conducting with Morris Beachy and Craig Hella Johnson.

Pianist Kate Campbell, performs frequently as a soloist and
chamber musician specializing in 20th and 21st century
music.   As the pianist in the new music
ensemble REDSHIFT, she is artist in residence at California State University
East Bay and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Alaska. Other recent
projects include performances with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
and solo performances for the Switchboard Music Festival in San Francisco. Kate
has been adjunct professor and staff accompanist at the University of San
Francisco.  She has taught piano and
music theory at Westminster Conservatory of Music in Princeton, NJ, Crowden
Center for Music in the Community in Berkeley, CA, and the San Francisco
Community Music Center.  She received her
Master of Music in Piano Performance at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
her Bachelor of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.