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Performances

2009-2010

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The 2009-2010 season includes performances across the United States and abroad. From time to time more information will be added to this list, so check back for updates.

Songs of Snow and Soul

O salutaris hostia for unaccompanied women's chorus, performed by the Peninsula Women's Chorus, conducted by Martin Benvenuto.
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA, Sunday, December 6, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA, Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 2:30 p.m.
- St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, CA, Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 4:00 p.m.

Cathedral Music Series presents Christmas Lessons and Carols

Two Irish Christmas Carols for mixed chorus, flute violoncello and harp, performed by the Diocesan Choir of Greensburg and members of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Sittard.
- Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, North Huntington, Pennsylvania, Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 3:00 p.m.

A Festival of Carols, for mixed chorus and harp

Thomas Circle Singers, conducted by James Kreger.
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 4900 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC, Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 4:00 p.m.

The Drama of Christmas

Hodie aperuit from The Hildegard Motets for unaccompanied mixed chorus, performed by Meistersingers, conducted by Brian Dehn.
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Tustin, CA, Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
- St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, CA, Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Dana Point, CA, Saturday, December 19, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Adam Lay Ybounden for unaccompanied mixed choir, performed by the choir of Christ Church, Georgetown, conducted by Michael Lindstrom.
- Christ Church-Georgetown, Washington, D.C., December 20, 2009, at 11:00 a.m.
- Christ Church-Georgetown, Washington, D.C., December 20, 2009, at 5:00 p.m.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Adam Lay Ybounden for unaccompanied mixed choir, performed by the choir of The Church of St. Michael and St. George, conducted by Robert W. Lehman.
- Church of St. Michael & St. George, St. Louis, MO, December 20, 2009, at 5:00 p.m.

A New Year's Eve Concert with Commotio, Oxford's Contemporary Voices

This exciting program of recent choral works will include one of Frank Ferko's Marian Motets for unaccompanied mixed choir, performed by Commotio, conducted by Matthew Berry.
- Douai Abbey, Reading, U.K., December 31, 2009, at 15:30 (3:30 p.m.)

God of Many Names: an organ concert at Bethany College.

Toccata on Psalm 96, for organ, performed by Ann Marie Rigler.
- Presser Hall, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, Saturday, February 20, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

Merton Songs for baritone and piano

Ralph Klapis, baritone, and Joseph Bognar, piano present Merton Songs : Five Songs on Poems of Thomas Merton and For My Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943 in a faculty concert at Valparaiso University. For more information, contact the Valparaiso University Department of Music.
- Duesenberg Recital Hall VU Center for the Arts, Valparaiso University, Sunday, February 21, 2010

Three American Songs

The men of Iota Chapter, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, conducted by Adam Hightower, will present Three American Songs for TTBB chorus and two pianos in two concerts on the campus of Northwestern University. The work includes "Bacardi Spreads the Eagle's Wing" (poem by Hart Crane), "Passersby" (poem from Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg), and "When Sally Plays the Spoons" (poem by David Brendan Hopes).
- Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
- Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful, Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL, Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. in celebration of the Centenary of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Lenten Devotions

The Bay Choral Guild, under the direction of Sanford Dole, presents a program of Lenten choral music which will include Motet for Passion Sunday, a work for unaccompanied mixed choir which has been performed by choirs around the world.
- Campbell United Methodist Church, Campbell, CA, Friday, March 5, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
- St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco, Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, Sunday, March 6, 2010, at 4:30 p.m.

Stabat Mater for unaccompanied chorus and soprano solo

Choral Arts, conducted by Robert Bode with soprano Juliana Rambaldi.
- St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Saturday, March 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. The composer will be present at this performance.

Stabat Mater for unaccompanied chorus and soprano solo

Morning Choir of Fourth Presbyterian Church, conducted by John W. W. Sherer.
- Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Good Friday Service, April 2, , 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso University

Frank Ferko is very pleased to be performing in an Alumni Organ Recital at the annual Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University. The recital is part of the 2009-2010 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the chapel, which, at the time of its construction, was the largest collegiate chapel in the world.
- Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, Monday, April 12, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

Words from Paradise: A Collaborative Concert of the Peninsula Women's Chorus and the Golden Gate Men's Chorus

World premiere of a new work by Frank Ferko for women's chorus and piano, commissioned by the Peninsula Women's Chorus, Martin Benvenuto, conductor.
- Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco, Sunday, May 9, 2010, at 4:00 p.m.
- Mission Santa Clara, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, Sunday, May 16, 2010, at 2:30 p.m.
- Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at 4:00 p.m.

Variations on Veni Creator Spiritus for organ

Michael Dailey, organist
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, West Chester, Ohio, Pentecost Sunday Mass, May 23, 2010

Minnesota Beethoven Festival

The Beethoven Festival Chorale, conducted by Dale Warland, will present a concert of choral music which will include Frank Ferko's Lord, Let At Last Thine Angels Come for mixed chorus and solo violoncello
- Minnesota Beethoven Festival, Winona, Minnesota, Sunday, July 11, 2010, at 3:00 p.m.

Pre-Concert Talk by Frank Ferko on the piano work Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen

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