Grantee Database
INTERNATIONAL ORANGE CHORALE OF SAN FRANCISCO
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$6,450.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, INTERNATIONAL ORANGE CHORALE OF SAN FRANCISCO will sustain and expand its commitment to performing and commissioning new choral music by living composers. Funding will support general operations, including the production of our 2025 world premiere of A Dominion of Light: Requiem for the Estranged by Tarik O’Regan and our signature Freshly Squeezed program, which exclusively features new works by underrepresented composers. Our performances are free to the public and presented in accessible venues, removing financial barriers to attendance. CAC support will help us reach broader Bay Area audiences by adding concerts in the SF South Bay, expanding beyond our current footprint in San Francisco and the East Bay. This support will help ensure that cutting-edge choral music continues to flourish and resonate with California communities.
Organization Summary
The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco has performed world premieres of dozens of choral works and has also presented regional premieres of multiple works, including Milton Babbitt’s Music for the Mass, Jake Heggie’s Faith Disquiet, Fredrik Sixten’s Missa Brevis, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered, Nico Muhly’s Lorde Heare My Prayer Instantly, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw’s Fly Away I.
To date, IOCSF has:
– Premiered over 150 world and regional premieres
– Worked with over 120 new composers
– Commissioned dozens of new works
– Premiered and performed works in 7 counties in California for thousands of audience members over 20 years
– Headlined the 2023 Chorus America Conference in San Francisco with Chanticleer
– Awarded Chorus America’s ASCAP “Adventurous Programming” award
Organization
International Orange Chorale of San Francisco
Address
77 VAN NESS AVE STE 101 PMB 2222
SAN FRANCISCO
94102-6042
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 378-9365
