2025 - 2026 Season
"Love, Longing and Light"
"In Bloom"
The Collage Vocal Ensemble is a select mixed chamber choir dedicated to performing compelling and challenging repertoire from a wide range of time periods and musical traditions. Founded in May, 2011, the Portola Valley-based group presents a mix of full-ensemble and small-ensemble works in its concerts, and donates all net proceeds to local charitable organizations.
Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 4 pm
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
Our new Director, Yuxin Dai, has created a beautiful program celebrating our love for music, our longing for connection and the ways in which we can create light in the world. We will share favorites from the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes and a set of Samuel Barber pieces. Poulenc and Rachmaninoff will also add light to the program. And we are very excited to present two pieces in Chinese, one of which is a traditional Sichuan Chinese love song. We will also share a tribute to the late great Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. We look forward to sharing these songs and many more with you.
We ask for $20. All proceeds will go to LifeMoves, a local charity addressing the problem of homelessness.
Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 4 pm
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
Join us for our concert In Bloom, featuring music inspired by nature, flowers, and the renewal of spring. The program includes choral works celebrating the beauty of the natural world, such as Morten Lauridsen’s Dirait-on, Amy Beach’s Over Hill, Over Dale, Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn’s Lockung, and Benjamin Britten’s The Evening Primrose, among others. We will also present lively choral arrangements inspired by the music of iconic jazz artists such as Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald.
We ask for $20. All proceeds will go to LifeMoves, a local charity addressing the problem of homelessness.
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