performance videos
Please visit Pacific Edge Voices’ Youtube channel to watch the full selection of our video recordings.
Woods
Justin Vernon, arr. Kerry Marsh
This video had its premiere at PEV's Annual Jazz & Pop Concert and End-of-Season Celebration virtual event on June 13, 2021. This luminous Kerry Marsh arrangement of Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)'s haunting tune captured for us the longing and inner peace that came from our own connections to music, nature and time through a year like no other. Video by Bob Whitehill; audio mix by Bryan Matheson/Skyline Studios, Oakland. Performance by PEV, with solos by Renee Oakes, Katie Craddock, Polly Ikonen and Kim Keeton.
The Hymn of Acxiom
Vienna Teng, arr. Henrik Dahlgren
This video had its premiere at PEV’s The Great Event concert on March 21, 2021. The concert was inspired by Leonard Cohen’s remarkable work. Vienna Teng’s song “Hymn of Acxiom” illuminates our complex relationship to technology, which has been heightened during the COVID pandemic. Video by Bob Whitehill; audio mix by Bryan Matheson of Skyline Studios.
If Music Be the Food of Love
Dylan Tran
In 2017, PEV launched an open Call for Scores, which resulted in our discovering a wonderful young composer in Louisiana. In spring 2018, PEV presented the West Coast premiere of this gorgeous piece. Subsequently, PEV premiered Tran’s Mass in E in December 2018.
The Battle of Jericho
Traditional, arrangement Moses Hogan
Since 2007, PEV has specialized in singing African-American spirituals for audiences in the Bay Area and in Cuba, where we traveled on a musical exchange in 2013.
Jazz & pop samples
Our annual set of jazz and pop tunes in original a cappella arrangements is one of PEV’s signature musical offerings.
Does Your Mother Know
by Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus, arrangement Rachel Beck
From our virtual 2021 Jazz & Pop concert performed by members of Pacific Edge Voices, featuring Jeff Howe along with Don Kelley, Emily Brockman, Ian Brekke, Katie Craddock, Kim Keeton, Rose Rubel & Tom Carpenter.
Crabbuckit
by kOS as performed by The Good Lovelies
From our virtual 2021 Jazz & Pop concert as performed by members of Pacific Edge Voices: Caitlin Zittkowski, Collette Roberto, Katie Craddock & Rose Rubel
Audio Recordings
Dorian/Sono Luminus released Dave Brubeck’s Sacred Choral Works: Songs of Praise in 2010. It presents sacred music performed by Pacific Edge Voices — then Pacific Mozart Ensemble (PME) — and Quartet San Francisco. It includes the large work Canticles, Credo composed by Dave for PME’s 25th anniversary, and Brubeck’s setting of a Benediction, which he wrote in 2009 for the Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
In 2005, conductor Kent Nagano invited PEV to travel to Berlin to perform and record Leonard Bernstein’s legendary MASS with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and renowned tenor Jerry Hadley. The resulting recording from Harmonia Mundi received a 2006 Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance.
Sample recordings:
Both CDs can be ordered by calling us at (510) 848-8022.