Bay Area Music Groups
The Bay Area is home to literally hundreds of classical music organizations, from community choruses to world-renowned orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles. This listing provides all the vital statistics for Bay Area music groups, as well as a summary of what they do best. Search by type of organization or alphabetically. Note to classical music groups: If your organization is not listed here or there is an error in your listing, please email [email protected].
Vocal Art Ensemble
Voci Women's Vocal Ensemble
Voci is an East Bay choral ensemble for experienced choral singers performing early to contemporary music and championing works by and for women.
Voice Art Group
Ballet performances, live music concerts
Voices of Music
Voices of Music, directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, is hailed for their passion, artistry and technical brilliance.
With over twenty three million viewers worldwide, San Francisco's Voices of Music is the most popular Early Music ensemble in the United States and one of the most popular Classical Music ensembles in the world today. For the past nine years, Voices of Music has been building a digital library of music from their concerts. They currently have released 265 videos, as part of their digital library, which is free for anyone to view and is used in classes at high schools, colleges and universities across the world.
Featuring some of the best performers in Early Music, the ensemble is dedicated to the idea of the voices of the individual musicians in performance. Performances are one on a part, with an emphasis on combining both instrumental and vocal styles of interpretation and ornamentation.
In addition to the concert series in the San Francisco Bay Area, Voices of Music sponsors the Young Artist Program, which is specifically designed to work with the next generation of singers and instrumentalists; the Junior Recorder Society, for children from third through tenth grade, and the Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra.
Voices of Silicon Valley
About Voices of Silicon Valley: Founded in 2014 to lead the innovation in choral field, Voices of Silicon Valley is a vocal ensemble of highly skilled singers many of whom perform leading roles in various Bay Area opera companies. Our mission is to provide a new outlet for musical collaborations in the Silicon Valley Area, especially multi-media collaborations that make music more exciting and relevant to our audiences through the use of technology. Thus presenting traditional choral works in a new light, and we encourage local composers & artists to create new works for this special combination.
Voices of Silicon Valley
Voices of the Valley
Voices of the Valley (VoV) was founded in November 1997, and made its debut performance at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum three months later. Under the music direction of Stephanie Chan, the regularly performing group delivers to the audience well-known choral favorites, and challenges them with rare and delightful works from baroque to contemporary with an international flair.
Volti
This 20-voice ensemble of professional singers specializes in new works and commissions by composers from around the world. With a resident composer and an annual Choral Institute for high school singers, Volti has been recognized by ASCAP and other organizations for its commitment to the future of the choral art form.
Vox Dilecti
VOX Femina Los Angeles
Dr. Levine is the founding artistic director of VOX Femina Los Angeles. She is also the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She earned her Doctorate in Choral Music from the University of Southern California!
