Fall Concert: Incantations with Special Guest Joy-Leilani Garbutt

Premier Ensemble

October 24, 2026 at 4pm

2345 Channing Way | Berkeley, CA 94704

The season opens on October 24 with INCANTATIONS, conducted by Artistic Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe and featuring organist Joy-Leilani Garbutt. Moving from invocation through darkness, ritual and light, the program spans music by Hildegard von Bingen, Tarik O’Regan, Philip Glass, Lili Boulanger and others. A highlight will be a rare U.S. performance of motets by pioneering French composer and organist Joséphine Boulay, presented in a new SFGC edition prepared by Victoria Fraser.