Join us in late 18th-century Vienna to hear 5 works written within a few miles and 31 years of each other!

We will present Mozart‘s beloved Requiem alongside Mass #2 by Marianna Martines (the 2nd performance — ever! — in the US), and 3 short works by Michael Haydn, the immensely talented (but sadly eclipsed) younger brother of Joseph Haydn. With professional soloists and the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra—a program of the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Sat May 10, 4:00 pm
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley

Sun May 11, 4:00pm
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco

Video-only Option
Concert video available 2-3 weeks after the performances. Available through 7/1/25.

Lauded by the Los Angeles Times for her “luxuriant large soprano” and by the Washington Post for her “arresting, magisterial voice and presence,” Clarissa Lyons has appeared with The Metropolitan Opera, The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Wolf Trap Opera. Ms. Lyons is also a passionate recitalist, and has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, the Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, the Frick Collection, and Carmel’s Sunset Center.

Ms. Lyons holds Masters degrees from Bard College Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music. A native California, Ms. Lyons graduated with Honors from the University of California Berkeley where she was the recipient of the 2006 Eisner Prize for Excellence in the Arts and the 2014 Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship. She teaches voice and lives in the East Bay with her two children, husband, and basset-hound mix.

Meghan Spyker has sung with the San Francisco Choral Artists, SF Lyric Opera, and Chalice Consort. She is currently an AGMA member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and also sings with Cappella SF and the American Bach Soloists. Meghan is a clinical psychologist specializing in infant and early childhood mental health at the UCSF Infant-Parent Program and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She is also a foster parent and particularly enjoys time with her spousbund and foster/god-children in the backyard of their new home in the East Bay.”

The Bach Choir thanks Meghan for swooping in on short notice to join us for this performance.

For 11 years, Ben Pattison served as a musical diplomat with the U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” singing for numerous heads of state and seven U.S. Presidents. He is the founder and host of Folks’ Music (folksmusic.org), an online video series that celebrates communities and their cultures through music.

Some of his favorite performances include making music for the International Space Station, multiple PBS specials with the American Pops Orchestra (Wicked in Concert, United in Song), performing at Super Bowl 50 and the 2019 World Series, the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Seoul, South Korea, and appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.

In 2018, he was a finalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s international Lotte Lenya Competition. He spent four summers performing at the Brevard Music Center and the Janiec Opera Company in North Carolina. Outside of performing, Mr. Pattison served as a site director at three elementary schools with the nonprofit noteBUSTERS for six years and recently directed the Waldorf School of the Peninsula’s Middle School Band.

Currently, he and his wife, Dr. Lauren Linsmayer, reside in San Francisco Bay Area, where they enjoy taking their dog, Stevie, on whale-watching beach walks.

Curtis Streetman, bass, is an artist that strives to perform a rich and excitingly varied repertoire. Mr. Streetman’s artistry has been presented in some of world’s major concert halls and opera houses and has appeared in Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro), La Bohème (Colline), Don Giovanni (Leporello), Rigoletto (Sparafucile) as well as leads in Verdi, Handel and Rossini operas. Operatic performances include appearances at The Salzburg Festival, as well as opera houses in Vienna, Bilbao, Dortmund, Halle, and Victoria.

International performances include appearances in Geneva, Basel, and The Theatre Champs-Élysées, The Concertgebouw, and Musikverein. Festival appearances include Ravinia, The Savannah Music Festival, The Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tanglewood, Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, The Halle Handel Festival, and The San Juan Arts Festival.

He has appeared with The National Symphony in performances of Handel’s Messiah. Other American appearances include performances with The Cleveland Orchestra in performances of Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethe’s Faust, as well as Mozart’s Requiem with The San Diego Symphony. He has been presented in concert with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in programs featuring recently discovered cantatas of CPE Bach.

Recording credits include Monteverdi’s Vespers for Musical Heritage Society, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romanciero Gitano for New World Classics, Charpentier Christmas Cantatas for Naxos, Clarembault Cantatas for Dorian, and Sony’s release of Handel’s Riccardo Primo, on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

Mr. Streetman performed the role of Christus in Jonathan Miller’s staged production of The Saint Matthew Passion, produced by The Brooklyn Academy of Music; he performed the title role in Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys with The American Symphony Orchestra a Lincoln Center.

Mr. Streetman was recently appointed Director of Voice and Opera at the University of the Bahamas in Nassau, where he makes his home. Live recordings of Mr. Streetman’s artistry are available at: https://soundcloud.com/user-26394210.