San Francisco Chronicle

Top female composers kick off chorus’ season

- — Joshua Kosman

The Bay Area chorus Volti is always a go-to source for exciting and innovative new music. And for its seasonopen­ing program, the group has tapped two of the music world’s most inventive composers for a double bill of world premieres.

“Ochre,” a multi-movement score by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, promises an exploratio­n of earth, geology, color and more, all channeled through her distinctiv­ely expressive sensibilit­ies. And from San Francisco composer Pamela Z comes a newly reimagined live version of her “Ink,” which was originally performed digitally during the pandemic shutdown.

Valérie Saint-Agathe, the ever-busy artistic director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus and chorus master for the Philharmon­ia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, makes her debut with the group as guest conductor.

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Ars Electronic­a S.F. composer Pamela Z will present a reimagined live version of “Ink,” originally performed digitally during the pandemic.

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