Tactus SF Summer Vocal Workshop: Skills for Singing Early Music
On Thursdays, July 10–August 14, join members of Tactus SF for a six-week participatory workshop series on singing Renaissance music led by music director and vocologist Sven Edward Olbash. This year's workshops will focus on the skills necessary for performing lute songs of Caccini and Dowland: individual singing technique, ear training and sight singing, and ensemble performance from traditional 16th century partbook notation. No audition required, previous choral experience helpful.
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Tactus SF performing in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Oakland. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Kimble)
Tactus SF completes its 2024-2025 seasonThank you for coming to our concerts:
Spanish Music for the Day of the Dead - Nov 2 & 3, 2024Reflect on the Day of the Dead with meditative Spanish polyphony for four, five, and six voices by Victoria, Morales, Franco, and Vasquez and Gregorian chant from the Officium Defunctorum
Palestrina 500 - Feb 27 & 28, 2025Celebrate the 500th birthday of legendary Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina with a concert devoted to his sacred and secular choral works including selected madrigals and the Missa Tu es Petrus
Arise, my Love II - May 17 & 18, 2025We return to a theme from our 2017 program of motets from the biblical Song of Songs, this time in new-to-us settings in German and Latin by H. Praetorius, M. Franck, and J. Handl5/17/25, 4 p.m.: St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, San Francisco 5/18/25, 4 p.m.: St. Columba Catholic Church, Oakland Watch this space and sign up for our mailing list for updates. |
Welcome our new Music Director
Tactus SF is thrilled to welcome Sven Edward Olbash as our Music Director beginning with the 2024–2025 season. Sven is a specialist in music before 1600 and has an interest in the therapeutic potential of music, particularly for those dealing with grief. His album you who sow in tears will reap in joy with medieval vocal ensemble Euouae is available for streaming at euouae.bandcamp.com. He teaches Vocal Physiology and Voice Pedagogy at San Francisco Conservatory and individual singing lessons through Voice Science Studio.Sven has been a guest conductor for San Francisco Renaissance Voices and the Gregorian Institute of Canada and has completed two Music Performance Residencies with SF Opera. As a singer, Sven has performed in recital at Old First Concerts & Center for New Music, at Other Minds Festival, and with new music ensemble Volti. He holds degrees in singing and voice pedagogy from Boston University and New England Conservatory and lives in Lower Haight with his chihuahua Tupperware.
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