International Orange Chorale of San Francisco


The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco 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.
The ensemble is based in San Francisco.

Origins and management

The group was founded in 2003 by Jeremy Faust, Elaine Robertson and Cole Thomason-Redus
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.
During the 2007-2008 season, choir member Zane Fiala also conducted several pieces;
Fiala became co-director as of the 2008/2009 season,
joining Faust upon Kim's departure from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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

Publishing, premieres and other programming

In 2011, IOCSF launched a new choral music publishing series partnership with Santa Barbara Music Publishing, with the release of "Peace," by Aaron Pike. 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.

World premieres/commissions

  1. : Nigra Sum
  2. Jeremy Faust: Concord Hymn
  3. : De Profundis
  4. Sarah George: Cors de Chasses
  5. Elizabeth Baker: One, Two, Three
  6. : Alma Redemptoris Mater
  7. Jeremy Faust: Croyez-vous
  8. : A Beautiful Day
  9. : Leaves are Falling
  10. Jeremy Faust: Atah Echad
  11. : Joyful Noise
  12. Eric Tamm: Kyrie
  13. Zane Fiala: Es la Mañana Llena
  14. Schaffer McGee, The Bird of Night; Death of a Ball Turret Gunner ; The Breath of Night
  15. : Ave Verum Corpus
  16. Nicholas Boland: Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
  17. Jed Bogan: The Moment
  18. Harry Whitney: In Memoriam
  19. :
  20. Joshua Saulle: i am a little church
  21. David Harris: Presence
  22. : Månskenskväll
  23. : Alleluia
  24. Nicholas Weininger: Deeper Than All Roses
  25. Jeremy Faust: Issa
  26. Zane Fiala: Cosmos
  27. Dominick DiOrio: Chrysopylae
  28. David Conte: Facing West
  29. :
  30. David Gottlieb: Come, Heavy Sleep
  31. :
  32. Elliott James Encarnacion: We Sat Down and Wept
  33. Caroline Shaw: Fly Away I
  34. Daniel Kohane: Sonnet

    American/regional premieres

  35. Thomas Ades : Fayrfax Carol
  36. Algirdas Martinaitis : Alleluia
  37. Jake Heggie : Faith Disquiet
  38. Milton Babbitt : Music for the Mass
  39. Fredrik Sixten: There is no Rose of such Vertu
  40. Uģis Prauliņš: Credo from Missa Rigensis
  41. Sarah Kirkland Snider: Unremembered : The Guest, The River, The Girl, The Song, The Orchard

    Other repertory highlights

  42. Frank Martin: Mass for Two Choirs
  43. Herbert Howells: Requiem
  44. Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons D'Orleans
  45. Paul Hindemith: Six Chansons de Rilke
  46. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
  47. Matthew Harris: Shakespeare Songs
  48. Gustav Holst: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
  49. Gustav Holst: O Spiritual Pilgrim
  50. Benjamin Britten: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
  51. Otto Olsson: Ave Maris Stella
  52. Alberto Grau: Kasar mie la gaji
  53. Johannes Brahms: Op. 74, Nos. 1, 2 "Warum ist das Licht gegeben?"; "O Heiland reiß"
  54. Johannes Brahms: Op. 109, No. 2. "Wenn ein starker Gewappneter"
  55. Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
  56. Johann Sebastian Bach: "Ich lasse dicht nicht, du segnest mich denn"
  57. Hugo Distler: Singet dem Herrn ein neues lied
  58. William Henry Harris: Faire is the Heaven
  59. Samuel Barber: The Reincarnations
  60. Samuel Barber: Heaven Haven
  61. Samuel Barber: To be sung on the Water
  62. Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
  63. Francis Poulenc: Four Motes for Noel
  64. Maurice Durufle: Four Gregorian Motets
  65. Sven-David Sandström: A New Heaven
  66. Jānis Peters: Kalējs kala debesīs
  67. David Conte: Ave Maria
  68. Steven Paulus: The Road Home
  69. Emma Lou Diemer: Verses from the Rubaiyat
  70. Robin Estrada: Awit sa Panginoon
  71. Halsey Stevens: Go Lovely Rose
  72. Joseph Gregorio: Dona Nobis Pacem

    Other collaborations/assistance