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Past Performances

April 2024, Los Angeles, CA
Phoebe directs an eclectic program of choral music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in partial fulfillment of her graduate studies in conducting.
music.usc.edu

February 2024, New York
TENET Ensemble presents Forces of Nature—music brought to life through poetry by Christine de Pisan, the original Carmina Burana, ancient Sibyls, and musical compositions by Binchois, Jacopo da Bologna & Hildegard von Bingen.
tenet.nyc

September 2023, Mexico
The Rosetta Duo (Phoebe Rosquist & pianist Aquiles Morales) present a recital of lieder and art song by Clara & Robert Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Dvořák, and Obradors.
Biblioteca Los Mangos in Puerto Vallarta
www.bibliotecalosmangos.org
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City
elclaustro.mx

July 2023, Bol, Croatia
Viatores Mundi Choral Workshop celebrates music from the home countries of its diverse participants—world-class choral artists on the stunning Mediterranean island of Brač.
Directed by alumni of Sarteano Choral Workshops Jurica Petar Petrač and Kirk Averitt.
facebook.com/ViatoresMundiChoralWorkshop​​

June 2023, New Haven CT, Washington D.C
Ensemble Cherubim presents a concert of Ukrainian music at the New Haven Music Festival and at a benefit for Ukraine in the Capitol. Directed by Marika Kuzma
ensemblecherubim.org

May 2023, San Diego, CA
Ensemble Aquila (Phoebe on voice and medieval bells with collaboratrix Shira Kammen on vielle & medieval harp) play Traveling Music: Songs for Wanderers in a private benefit concert for the San Diego Early Music Society.
sdems.org​​

December 2021 & 2022, Newport Beach, CA
Phoebe is the soloist in Handel's Messiah for the Laguna Beach Chorale and St. James Choir & Orchestra, under the direction of Daniel Resch.
stjamesnewport.org

December 2021, Berkeley, CA
Barefoot Chamber Concerts presents consort music of Josquin & friends. WIth Shira Kammen, Julie Jeffrey, Peter Hallifax, and Andrew Canepa. 
www.sfcv.org/events/barefoot

THE GREAT PAUSE...

November 2021 San Francisco, CA
The Benedict XVI Institute with Richard Sparks at the helm premiers Frank LaRocca's Requiem for the Homeless Dead.
franklarocca.com
benedictinstitute.org

February 2020, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival presents Vajra Voices and Mary Springfels (vielle) in a concert: In a Medieval Garden features the sacred chant of Hildegard von Bingen and devotional love songs from the French trouvére repertory. The program highlights Guillaume de Machaut's hypnotic Le Lai de la Fonteinne.
vajravoices.com/concerts

January  2020, Los Angeles, CA
South Bay Chamber Music Society presents the Thies Consort in a program honoring Clara Schumann's bicentenary. Robert Thies, piano; Jessica Guideri, violin; and John Walz on cello join Phoebe in a program of lieder and chamber music.
sbcms.net

December 2019 San Francisco, CA
American Bach Soloists: Messiah
Handel’s timeless masterpiece presented for the 22nd consecutive year in the awe-inspiring majesty of Grace Cathedral under the baton of Jeffrey Thomas.
americanbach.org

November 2019, San Francisco Bay Area
SFEMS presents the combined forces of Aquila and Tres Hermanicas in a concert combining Sephardic music and medieval Cantigas celebrating life, love, food, drink, nature, spirituality, adventure & humor, celebrating the sacred and secular delights of both cultures through storytelling, dance, and song.
sfems.org

September 2019, San Francisco, CA
Clara Schumann: Selected Songs from Opus 12 & 13, Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, Michael Conley: A Velvet Bridge: cycle of 9 songs to the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz (world premiere).
Phoebe is joined by Director of Music Ministries, Michael Conley, Organist/Pianist, John Walko, and guest violinist Corey Mike and cellist Lewis Patzner in a special concert of chamber music to honor the 200th birthday of composer-pianist Clara Schumann.
calvarypresbyterian.org

July-August, 2019, San Francisco, CA
American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy present Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Vivaldi's Four Seasons as well as Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate and Terpsicore, Lotti’s Mass for Three Choirs, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater .
americanbach.org

July 2019, Bol, Croatia
Viatores Mundi Choral Workshop's inaugural year, celebrating music from the home countries of its diverse participants—world-class choral artists on the stunning Mediterranean island of Brač.
Directed by fellow alumni of the Sarteano Choral Workshops
Jurica Petar Petrač and Kirk Averitt.
facebook.com/ViatoresMundiChoralWorkshop

May 2019, San Francisco, CA
Rutter Requiem—Phoebe sings the soaring soprano solos in John Rutter’s setting of the Requiem Mass. 
calvarypresbyterian.org

April 2019
Phoebe joins The Rose Ensemble in their final season for their spring tour of Voices of Angels: Benedictine Gregorian Chant and Choral Music from Baroque Italy.
roseensemble.org

March 2019, San Francisco, CA
The Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival
As last year's winner, jazz sextet Ro Sham Bo hosts the Bay Area event this year, as well as performing. The annual national competition draws from hundreds of vocal groups from around the country with regional competitions in eight cities. 
www.harmony-sweepstakes.com/bayarea/

March, 2019
Belvedere, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Davis, CA
Jeffrey Thomas will direct Bach's St. Matthew Passion with his distinctive focus on musical detail, transparent textures, direct expression, and intense intimacy.
americanbach.org

March, 2019, San Francisco, CA
Calvary Chapel Choir is joined by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to perform Arvo Pärt's meditative masterpiece: Passio. Phoebe is featured in the Evangelist quartet. Music of Brahms and of Bay Area treasure (and fellow Lakewood Ohioan) David Conte open the program.
sfcm.edu/events/passio

January, 2019, San Francisco, CA
The Eve of the March: A Celebration of the Divine Feminine 
On the evening before the 2019 Women's March, Vajra Voices joined with women's vocal ensemble Kitka, multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen & cellist-composer-vocalist Theresa Wong to present a once-in-a-lifetime gathering featuring music ranging from Hildegard to the present day in Grace Cathedral.

vajravoices.com
kitka.org

December, 2018, San Francisco, CA
American Bach Soloists: Messiah
Handel’s timeless masterpiece presented in the awe-inspiring majesty of Grace Cathedral, under the baton of Jeffrey Thomas.
americanbach.org

December 2018, Berkeley, CA
WAVE: The Holly & the Oak: Sacred Solstice Trees
Phoebe and Shira Kammen direct Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble's offering of carols and polyphony rich with symbolism of the Holly, Oak, Ivy, and other flora of the season.
wavewomen.org

June 2018, Berkeley, CA
VAJRA VOICES
The Last Trouvère: The Berkeley Art Museum presents Vajra Voices in a program of  Guillame de Machaut, including the exquisite Lai de la Fonteinne
vajravoices.com
bampfa.org

June 2018, Berkeley, CA
Phoebe and Shira Kammen conduct Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble WAVE in a Spring offering of chants and polyphony inspired by the celestial lights in the sky.
wavewomen.org

May 2018, San Pablo, CA
Cantigas and other Iberian music with Aquila: Shira Kammen & Peter Maund at Los Cenzontles Mexican Cultural Center.
loscenzontles.com/

April 2018, San Francisco, CA
Calvary Chancel Choir & Orchestra presents Handel’s oratorio 
Israel In Egypt. This monumental work tells the story of the Israelites' journey from captivity to deliverance.
calvarypresbyterian.org

April 2018, Bay Area, CA
California Bach Society presents Handel in Rome:
Handel's exciting Laudate Pueri Dominum presented alongside the justly famous Dixit Dominus. Fellow soloists Paul Flight, countertenor; James Hogan, tenor; Jeffrey Fields, baritone; joined by a 30-voice choir and a Baroque ensemble of strings, oboes, and organ.
calbach.org

April 2018, San Francisco, CA
Cal Performances  presents choral ensemble Volti joining the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot for the California premiere of Become Desert by Pulitzer Prize-winner John Luther Adams. 
also this month, Volti is presented by
Bard Music West—Exploring “The World of Henry Cowell,” 
voltisf.org

January 2018, San Francisco Early Music Society presents
Vajra Voices with Shira Kammen 
The “elegant, full-blooded” singing of Vajra Voices and zesty vibrant harp & vielle playing of Shira Kammen join together to illuminate the mystery and wonder of the new year. 

sfems.org
www.vajravoices.com

December 2017, Berkeley
The Three Wise Ones—The Diverse Personages of the Magi
Phoebe directs the Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble—WAVE—in a concert of medieval and Renaissance music related to the three kings. Tunes familiar and evocative will transport you to the far-flung lands west and east of Bethlehem.  
www.wavewomen.org
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April-May, 2017 American tour
Invincible! Virgins and Martyrs as sung in the convents of
17th-century Italy with ensemble Cappella Artemisia from Bologna, directed by Candace Smith. Performances in RI, OR, CA, IN, PA
cappella-artemisia.com/invincible

February  2017, Austin TX
A celebration of love in honor of St. Valentine's Day. Love songs from all over the world performed with verve by Texas' own Austin Troubadours.
austintroubadours.com

November  2016, Louisville, KY
University of Louisville, Comstock Hall
Music of Shakespeare's London, a concert in collaboration with the UofL Early Music Ensemble, as part of a city-wide celebration of the Bard, "Will in the Ville"
louisville.edu/music
events.louisville.edu/

October 2016, San Francisco, CA
Phoebe joins Voices of Music's inaugural concert of their new viol ensemble, The Voice of the Viol, with Joanna Blendulf, Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, Farley Pearce & Elisabeth Reed, viols; David Tayler archlute and Hanneke van Proosdij historical keyboards
www.voicesofmusic.org
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July 2016, San Francisco, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Speak, Angels, a new evening-length work by choreographers Garrett & Moulton with music arranged and directed by Jonathan Russell. Music of Mahler, Mellits, Kodaly...
garrettmoulton.org

May 2015, San Diego, CA
Bach Collegium San Diego presents Carrissimi's Jephte, with Phoebe singing Filia, the role she was born to play: Jevtović literally means "child of Jephte."
www.bachcollegiumsd.org/

April 2015, Los Angeles, CA, June 2016, Berkeley CA
Ensemble Vocatrix's fully-staged production of Hildegard von Bingen's ethereal yet seminal morality play, Ordo Virtutum. Roles: Obedience, Discretion, & Modesty.
vocatrix.com

February 2015, Los Angeles, CA
First Take "15, A West Coast Workshop of New Operas.
Role: Cumie (Clyde's mother) in Andrew McIntosh's opera about the infamous pair, Bonnie & Clyde 
theindustryla.org/projects/first-take-2015/

April 2014, Berkeley, CA
Guest soloist in UC Berkeley's production of Stravinsky's Les Noces (Svadebka), conducted by Marika Kuzma
music.berkeley.edu/performances

January 2014, San Francisco, CA
"Saturday Night at the Movies," Lute songs by Dowland and Caccini with David Tayler, archlute. Presented by Voices of Music
voicesofmusic.org

April 2013 Houston & Austin, TX
Houston Early Music presents Cançonier's ever popular, ever morbid "The Black Dragon," music from the time and place of the infamous Vlad the Impaler.
houstonearlymusic.org

March 2013, Berkeley, San Francisco, San Diego, CA
Cançonier takes their concert about Dancing Plagues in Medieval Europe for a spin up and down the California coast with beloved guest artist, multi-instrumentalist Tom Zajac.
Featured article names us "Rock stars of medieval music:"
sanfrancisco.informermg.com/

Oct-November 2012
Tour of Canada with Bolognese ensemble Cappella Artemisia. Sublime music written by and for 17th century Italian nuns. 
cappella-artemisia.com

May 2012, Rocky River, OH
Phoebe sings the solos in Bach’s incomparable B Minor Mass with West Shore Chorale, conducted by the wonderful John Drotleff.
westshorechorale.org

April 2012, Port Townsend, WA
Baroque Virtuosi: Fellow musicians Ingrid Matthews, violin, Tekla Cunningham, violin, Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba, & Lucinda Carver, harpsichord. Masterworks of the baroque era by Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Vivaldi, and Strozzi.

centrum.org/chambermusic

April 2012, Idaho Falls, Iaho
Moira Smiley & VOCO—Phoebe joins to sing folksong of Appalachia and Eastern Europe, the avant-garde fearlessness of Béla Bartók with the delicious, vaudevillian accompaniment of cello, banjo, accordion and body percussion.
www.idahofallsarts.org/moira-smiley-voco

March 2012, La Jolla, CA
The Formalist Quartet collaborates with Phoebe in music by Henry Purcell, J.S. Bach, and anonymous 15th century music from Cyprus. Presented by San Diego New Music.
sandiegonewmusic.com
www.ljathenaeum.org/new_music.html

March 2012, Los Gatos & Albany, CA
Music Sources presents The Blood Countess: Music from the Time of Elizabeth Bathory.  Cançonièr offers music of the Habsburg Court, songs of Sebestyan Tinodi, Balkan, Romany, and  Ottoman songs.
www.musicsources.org 


February 2012, Tucson, Arizona
Arizona Early Music Society presents: Cançonièr performs The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula. 
www.azearlymusic.org

November 2011, Berkeley and Palo Alto, CA
Choreomania: Music for the Dancing Plagues of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. With our special guest, Tom Zajac, a master multi-instrumentalist of wind ensemble Piffaro.
www.canconier.com

April 2011 Berkeley, CA
The Wonder of the World: Cançonièr offers music from the time of Emperor Frederick II. Music of the Minnesingers and the Sicilian poets, the Mizrahi Jews and North African Moors, and Italian laude.

February, 2011 Seattle, WA & Vancouver, BC
Moira Smiley’s VOCO: New music, Bartok’s Mikrokosmos arranged for voices, Balkan and Appalachian folk songs...It’s all fair game for this vocal trio + cello.
www.moirasmiley.com

November 2010 Pasadena and Santa Monica, CA
Musica Angelica’s chamber music series presents the Concord ensemble. Le Tre Stelle: baroque trios for virtuoso voices. Monteverdi, Carissimi, Luzzaschi. Fireworks and tears.
www.musicaangelica.org 
www.concordensemble.com

November 2010 Berkeley, CA
Cançonièr is joined by guest artist Margriet Tindemans in a concert of music of subtle longing...settings of texts by Petrarch and his contemporaries.

September 2010 Los Angeles, CA
Sublime Schumann lieder with the incomparable pianist Robert Thies.
www.robertthies.org

August 2010 Wroclaw, Poland
As part of the Forum Musicum, Bologna-based Cappella Artemisia presents music composed both by and for nuns of the 17th century. 
forummusicum.pl/
www.cappella-artemisia.com

July  2010 Indianapolis, IN
The Black Dragon; Cançonièr unearths music of the 15th century, from the reign of the infamous Vlad the Impaler. Presented by Indianapolis Early Music Festival.
www.emindy.org

June-July, 2010 Italy
Early music concerts with the innovative Art Monastery Project, in its 3rd season.
Featured soprano and chorus director.
www.artmonastery.org

April 2010, Berkeley, CA
Cançonièr: The Bright Maiden, the Linden Tree, and the Vagabond: Music of Medieval Germany... minnesang, the raucous, original Carmina Burana, chant of Hildegard of Bingen, songs/dances by Wolkenstein... 

February 2010, LA, Tucson, San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto
Bologna-based Cappella Artemisia presents the beautifully sensual, florid texts of the Canticum Canticorum, composed both by and for nuns of the 17th century. 
www.sfems.org
www.cappella-artemisia.com

December 2009 San Francisco
SanFrancisco Symphony’s Choral Christmas Spectacular. Soloist for Rutter’s Gloriaand the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria.
www.sfsymphony.org

November 2009, Albany, CA
Cançonièr: The Black Dragon, Music of the 15th century, during the reign of the infamous Vlad the Impaler. (This became our most requested program)
www.canconier.com

October 2009, San Francisco, CA
La Monica ensemble’s Out of the Depths, a poignant, lush program of early German baroque music. Presented by San Francisco Early Music Society.
www.sfems.org
www.lamonicaensemble.com

May 2009, Berkeley, CA
An Evening at the Dorset Garden Theatre
Phoebe & Gilbert Martinez share solo songs from 17th century English theatre:works by Locke, Grabu, Blow, & Purcell. Presented by Music Sources.
www.musicsources.org

April 2009 Narni, Italy
Clausura Sconfinata, a fully-staged productio of baroque music and Isadora Duncan-style dance, illuminating the rich inner lives of cloistered nuns.
www.artmonastery.org

March 2009 Berkeley, CA
Honey from the Thorn: medieval English music with Tim Rayborn, Shira Kammen, & Annette Bauer.
www.musicsources.org

February 2009 San Francisco & Berkeley, CA
Soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, presented by Sacred & Profane.
www.sacredprofane.org 

February 2009 Oswego, NY
World premiere of Richard Einhorn’s  The Origin of the Origin, a radiant new oratorio inspired by the life and ideas of Charles Darwin.
www.kitka.org

January 2009
Featured artist in How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera...based on the now-mythic origins of the Burning Man Festival. Libretto by acclaimed author Erik Davis (Techgnosis), and music by wunderkind Mark Nichols.
www.burningopera.com

December 2008, Italy
Soprano solos in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Magnificat in Rome at Santa Maria degli Angeli and in Guidonia and Calvi Dell’Umbria.
www.aramus.it

December 2008, San Francisco, CA
Soloist in Reger’s “Mariä Wiegenlied.” for San Francisco Symphony Symphony and Chorus, led by the fabulous Ragnar Bohlin.
www.sfsymphony.org

December 2008 Los Angeles, CA
Collaboration with vielle players Shira Kammen and Susan Feldman for 
The Avant-Garde Through the Ages at Zipper Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
www.mondayeveningconcerts.org

November 2008, Berkeley, CA
Cançonièr, in their debut performance: Brumas est Mort, medieval music from times of War and Plague. With Annette Bauer, Tim Rayborn, Shira Kammen.
www.canconier.com

August/September 2005-10
Gamelan X delivers highly popular ‘monkey chant’ workshops and ceremonial gamelan music at Burning Man art festival in the Nevada desert.
www.burningman.com
www.gamelanx.com

July 2008, Italy
Giornate Medioevale, Poggio, & Scena Renascimento, Calvi dell’Umbria:
Early music in the marvelous sites surrounding the Art Monastery Project in Italy.
www.artmonastery.org

August 2007-09, Whidbey Island, WA
La Monica performs on the idyllic Whidbey Island near Seattle. Guest artists have included Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba, Ian Howell, countertenor, and Debra Nagy, baroque oboist.
http://www.whidbeyislandmusicfestival.org/
www.lamonicaensemble.com

March 2007, April 2008
Waverly Consort tours the U.S. with music related to the epic year 1492.
www.waverlyconsort.org

March 2008
Kitka celebrates the release of their luminous new CD, Sanctuary in a series of San Francisco area concerts.
www.kitka.org

February 2008
Ashkenaz hosts Gamelan X’s CD release party for SATU, their daring debut album. Joined by the indefatigable and awesome Brass Menažeri.
www.gamelanx.com

February 2008
Richard Savino’s ensemble, El Mundo, brings Spanish Baroque music of the missions & cathedrals to Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Los Angeles and Mission San Diego de Alcala in San Diego.
http://www.dacamera.org/
http://www.sdems.org

January 2008
Kitka reprises their highly-acclaimed vocal/theatrical project, The Rusalka Cycle, appearing in San Francisco, and as part of Tricklock’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival in Alburquerque.
http://www.tricklock.com/Revolutions/2008/2008revolutions.htm

November 2007
The Amorous Lyre; scorching 17th century music performed by La Monica, presented by the San Francisco Early Music Society.
www.sfems.org

June 2007
The Pacelli Project: Sacred 17th century chamber music in historic locations in Torri, Rome, and Calvi, Italy.
pacelli.cantans.com
www.artmonastery.org

April 2007
Kitka performs with Tzvetanka Varimezova at Chicago Cultural Center (with Chicago Children’s Choir) and in St. Louis at Focal Point.

December 2006
Kitka performs with TRIP Dance Theater in PBS’s Annual Holiday Special broadcast from Dorothy Chandler Pavillion  in Los Angeles.

December 2006
Solo Recital with Jonathan Davis, piano and William Skeen, cello. Art songs and chamber music at the stunning Mission San Jose.

November 2006, Palo Alto, CA
Soprano soloist in Mozart’s great Mass in C Minor, with Schola Cantorum, conducted by Gregory Wait.

December 2002-2006
Waverly Consort tours with The Christmas Story, a dramatic, mystical pastiche of medieval and Renaissance Christmas music. Venues include the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Cloisters Museum in New York City.

May 2005
Lieder recital with pianist Robert Thies, Los Angeles, CA.

May 2005
Houston Early Music presents La Monica’s Out of the Depths; exquisite German early baroque repertoire.

November 2003
Under the auspices of New York’s premier early music presenter, Music Before 1800, La Monica performs The Amorous Lyre; sizzling 17th century Italian music.

August 2003
Ford Amphitheater, Hollywood, CA
Musica Angelica recalls the Shakespearean era in English consort music, solo lute songs, and scenes and sonnets mastrerfully rendered by esteemed actor James Cromwell.
 
March 2003
Ensemble La Monica presented by Pittsburgh Renaissance & Baroque Society. Handel’s Roman Holiday; sonatas and cantatas from the composer’s youth.

February 2003
American Bach Soloists dives into the repertoire of Claudio Monteverdi. 
Fellow soloists, Jennifer Ellis, Carlos Mena, and Hugh Davies.


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