The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco (IOCSF) is an auditioned all-volunteer chamber choir devoted to performing established repertoire of all periods, with particular attention to 20th-century music—including newly commissioned works of promising composers. Since its inception, the group has been committed to performing free concerts featuring challenging and imaginative choral a cappella programming.[1] The ensemble is based in San Francisco.
The group was founded in 2003 by Jeremy Faust, Elaine Robertson and Cole Thomason-Redus[2] and continued under the direction of Jeremy Faust. Several IOCSF members have conducted selected pieces. In 2007, after having conducted several pieces each season as a member of the group in 2006 and 2005, Paul Kim joined Jeremy Faust as co-director.[3] During the 2007-2008 season, choir member Zane Fiala also conducted several pieces;[4] Fiala became co-director as of the 2008/2009 season,[1] [5] joining Faust upon Kim's departure from the San Francisco Bay Area.[6] Fiala now directs and conducts the group, while Faust maintains a role as Director of Artistic Outreach.
The ensemble is named after International orange, the official color of the Golden Gate Bridge
In 2011, IOCSF launched a new choral music publishing series partnership with Santa Barbara Music Publishing, with the release of "Peace," by Aaron Pike.[7] Additionally, several of the compositions listed below have been published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, G. Schirmer, and Hal Leonard after IOCSF premiered the works.
| Title of Work | Composer | When Premiered | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigra Sum | Cole Thomason-Redus | Spring 2004 | |
| Concord Hymn | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2004 | |
| De Profundis | Georgia Stitt | Spring 2004 | |
| Cors de Chasses | Sarah George | Spring 2005 | |
| One, Two, Three | Elizabeth Baker | Spring 2006 | |
| Alma Redemptoris Mater | Jason Bush | Spring 2007 | |
| Croyez-vous | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2007 | |
| A Beautiful Day | Jason Bush | Spring 2008 | |
| Leaves are Falling | Jason Bush | Fall 2008 | |
| Atah Echad | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Spring 2008 | |
| Joyful Noise | Georgia Stitt | Spring 2009 | |
| Es la mañana llena | Zane Fiala | Spring 2009 | |
| Kyrie | Eric Tamm | Spring 2009 | |
| "Why do I Love" You, Sir (from Faith Disquiet) | Jake Heggie | Spring 2009 | |
| What if I say I shall not wait! (from Faith Disquiet) | Jake Heggie | Spring 2009 | |
| Once More to Gloriana | Jake Heggie (arr. J.S. Faust) | Spring 2009 | |
| What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said | Jake Heggie (arr. Z. Fiala) | Spring 2009 | |
| Death of a Ball-Turret Gunner | Shaffer McGee | Fall 2009 | |
| The Breath of Night | Shaffer McGee | Spring 2010 | |
| Gentle lady do not sing | Nicholas Boland | Spring 2010 | |
| The Bird of Night | Shaffer McGee | Spring 2010 | |
| Peace | Aaron Pike | Spring 2010 | |
| Ave Verum Corpus | Robert Chastain | Fall 2010 | |
| Gentle Lady,Do Not Sing | Nicholas Boland | Fall 2010 | |
| The Moment | Jed Bogan | Fall 2010 | |
| A Vision | Noah Luna | Fall 2010 | |
| In Memoriam | Harry Whitney | Fall 2010 | |
| Presence | David Harris | Fall 2010 | |
| i am a little church | Joshua Saulle | Fall 2010 | |
| Music for the Mass (a cappella as written by composer) | Milton Babbitt | Fall 2010 | |
| Månskenskväll | M.E. Valverde | Spring 2011 | |
| Alleluia | Aaron Pike | Spring 2011 | |
| Deeper Than All Roses | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2011 | |
| Issa (Selected Movements) | Jeremy Faust | Spring 2011 | |
| Snow having melted (from ISSA) | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2011 | |
| First snowfall (from ISSA) | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2011 | |
| it may not always be so; and i say | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2011 | |
| Ave | Vasken Ohanian | Spring 2012 | |
| Come, Heavy Sleep | David Gottlieb | Spring 2012 | |
| Oracle of Spring | M.E. Valverde | Spring 2012 | |
| We Sat Down and Wept | Elliott Encarnación | Spring 2012 | |
| Fly away I | Caroline Shaw | Spring 2012 | |
| Sonnet | Daniel Kohane | Spring 2012 | |
| Cosmos | Zane Fiala | Spring 2012 | |
| Chrysopylae | Dominick DiOrio | Spring 2012 | |
| Facing West | David Conte | Spring 2012 | |
| Ave Maria | Joshua Saulle | Fall 2012 | |
| Rise up, my love, my fair one | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2012 | |
| We Sat Down and Wept | Elliot James Encarnacion | Fall 2012 | |
| The Unknown Region | Elizabeth Kimble | Spring 2013 | |
| Unremembered (Choral Arrangement) | Sarah Kirkland Snider | Spring 2013 | |
| Paanyaya 3 | Robin Estrada | Fall 2013 | |
| into the wind | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2014 | |
| The Lamp | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2014 | |
| Lord Heare my Prayer Instantly | Nico Muhly | Fall 2014 | |
| Parus | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2015 | |
| The Threads Beneath | Marielle Jakobson | Spring 2015 | |
| Adam Lay Ybowndyn | Jeremy Samuel Faust | Fall 2015 | |
| De Profundis | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2015 | |
| Missa Brevis | Fredrik Sixten | Fall 2015 | |
| Amen | Matt Boehler | Spring 2016 | |
| God gazed down on you from Heaven | Rhett Jaramillo | Spring 2016 | |
| As kingfishers catch fire | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2016 | |
| In the Distant Sky | Huang Ruo | Spring 2016 | |
| Into the Golden Vessel of Great Song | Nicholas Weininger | Fall 2016 | |
| Strings in the earth and air | Bryan Lin | Spring 2017 | |
| Elohim Hashiveinu | Salvatore LoCascio | Spring 2017 | |
| The Peace of Wild Things | Elizabeth Kimble | Spring 2017 | |
| The Mariner | Elliott Encarnación | Spring 2017 | |
| Dream Triptych | Elliott Encarnación | Fall 2017 | |
| Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor | Nicholas Weininger | Spring 2018 | |
| Winter Ride | M.E. Valverde | Fall 2018 | |
| Go Ahead | Nathan Hall | Fall 2018 | |
| O Child | Michael T Roberts | Fall 2018 | |
| love is a place | Jonathan Posthuma | Fall 2018 | |
| Aire de Nocturno - Te Puse Collares | Robin Estrada | Spring 2019 | |
| Usahay (new arrangement) | Gregorio Responso Labja (Arr. Estrada) | Fall 2019 | |
| Zoom | Michael T Roberts | Summer 2020 | |
| Come to Us in Water | Michael T Roberts | Fall 2021 | |
| it's just weather | Bryan Lin | Fall 2021 | |
| Final Notations | Sam Maurer | Fall 2021 | |
| Variation on the Word Sleep | Sam Maurer | Fall 2022 |
| Title of Work | Composer | When Premiered | |
|---|---|---|---|
| There is no Rose of such Vertu | Fredrik Sixten | Spring 2012 | |
| Credo from Missa Regensis | Uģis Prauliņš | Spring 2012 | |
| Fayrfax Carol | Thomas Ades | Spring 2012 | |
| Alleluia | Algirdas Martinaitis | Spring 2012 | |
| Faith Disquiet | Jake Heggie | Spring 2012 | |
| Missa Rigensis | Ugis Praulinš | Fall 2012 - Spring 2014 | |
| Unremembered | Sarah Kirkland Snyder | Fall 2013 | |
| Kyrie (from Missa Pro Pace) | Kentaro Sato | Fall 2013 | |
| Gloria (from Missa Pro Pace) | Kentaro Sato | Fall 2013 | |
| Psalm 137 | Jack Body | Fall 2013 | |
| Dogalen a Mabaso | Nilo Alcala | Fall 2013 | |
| Summer Shower | Kenji Oh | Spring 2015 | |
| Psalm 23 | Josh Stoddard | Fall 2015 | |
| Veni (from Maranatha) | Georg Grün | Fall 2015 | |
| Ne Irascaris Domine | Frank La Rocca | Spring 2017 | |
| Pater Noster | Ivo Antognini | Spring 2017 | |
| Arise, My Love, My Fair One | Joshua Saulle | Spring 2017 | |
| Love, thricewise | Joseph Gregorio | Spring 2017 | |
| O Euchari Columba | David Avshalomov | Spring 2017 | |
| The Marriage of Heaven & Hell No.1 the Sick Rose | Bo Holten | Fall 2018 | |
| Turing believes machines think | Gordon Hamilton | Fall 2018 | |
| Tread Softly | Frank La Rocca | Fall 2018 | |
| Music to Hear | Mike Sheppard | Fall 2018 | |
| Birds of the Psalms 10. Psalm 91 Beauty Flows... | Patricia Van Ness | Fall 2018 | |
| Cloths of Heaven | Stacy Garrop | Fall 2018 | |
| Glong-ngo Ko | Excelsis Betil-Viña | Fall 2019 | |
| Aba Po, Santa Mariang Reyna | Ryan Cayabyab | Fall 2019 | |
| Ama namin | Fidel Calalang | Fall 2019 | |
| Juan 14 | Mary Katherine Trangco | Fall 2019 | |
| Tetabeuhan | Slamet Abdul Sjukur | Fall 2019 | |
| I Flow...I Am | Mari Esabel Valverde | Fall 2021 | |
| Sapphic Fragments: Meditations on Queer Histories and Imaginaries | Soren Austenfeld | Fall 2021 | |
| Stop this day and night with me | Jake Heggie | Fall 2021 | |
| Pieces of My Heart | Lauren Bydalek | Fall 2021 | |
| Spiritus Mundi | Dale Trumbore | Fall 2021 | |
| Can You See? | Zanaida Robles | Fall 2021 | |
| Messiahs: False and True | Rex Isenberg | Spring 2022 |