Tactus SF Summer Vocal Workshop: Skills for Singing Early Music
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On Thursday evenings, 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. The workshops will help individual singers develop skills to become better ensemble singers, by focusing on individual vocal technique, ear training and sight singing, and ensemble performance from Renaissance partbook notation.Register here!
No audition is required for this intermediate level workshop, but previous choral experience is helpful.
Fee: $100 to participate in the entire workshop (6 sessions) OR $75 for partial participation (up to 4 sessions). Click here for more information and registration instructions.
Save the Dates for our 2025-2026 Concerts:Our 10th anniversary season!
A Renaissance Christmas - December 5 and 12, 2025Including Prophetiae Sibyllarum (Lassus) and Vom Himmel hoch for 8 voices (M. Praetorius)
10th Anniversary Celebration - March 7 and 8, 2026Featuring favorite works by Victoria, Guerrero, Lassus, Issac, Tallis, Byrd, Lechner, Lotti, and Laskar
Orpheus with his Lute - TBD, June 2026 (Berkeley Festival)Songs and madrigals by Palestrina, Monteverdi, Ponce, Vasquez, Escobar, Encina, Hassler, Lassus, Josquin, and DowlandWatch this space and sign up for our mailing list for updates. |
Tactus SF performing in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Oakland. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Kimble)
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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