Slavyanka Chorus

01/25/2026

We'll be performing at SF's Slavic Festival! Come see us sing us on SUNDAY, 01 FEBRUARY at 5pm. Better yet, come to Slavic Festival early to enjoy food and drink, and then settle in for our 30-minute performance!

11/22/2025

Over 200 attendees at our final performance of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us!

11/12/2025

Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” — This Week!

Enter a world of radiant stillness and depth: Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” is a choral masterwork that unfolds like a prayer in sound — tender, luminous, and profoundly human.
Each movement carries the listener from the quiet of night toward a dawn of spiritual light, where voices seem to hover between earth and heaven.
This is music that invites silence, wonder, and reflection — a rare chance to experience the sacred through pure harmony.

✨ Concerts this week:
* Thursday, November 13 — Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Los Altos]
* Friday, November 14 — Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Berkeley] — BUY TICKETS NOW, NEARLY SOLD OUT!)
* Sunday, November 16 — Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [SF]
🎟️ Tickets: $25 in advance / $30 at the door (Kids under 18: free)
Reserve early and join us for an evening of transcendent choral sound.

11/01/2025

Movement XII: “Slavoslovie velikoye” — The Great Doxology

Light ascends, vast and resplendent.
Here the All-Night Vigil reaches its blazing heart — voices rising in unison, praising glory itself.

Rachmaninoff’s music fills the darkness with radiance, as if the night sky were singing.

This is not only sound, but light — awe, reverence, and joy made visible.

✨ Experience the sacred night.
🎶 Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
13 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Los Altos]
14 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Berkeley]
16 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [SF]

10/31/2025

✨ Rachmaninoff: “Bogoroditse Devo” (Rejoice, O Virgin Mary)

A radiant moment of stillness within the All-Night Vigil, this movement glows with serene devotion.

Rachmaninoff transforms the ancient words of the Archangel’s greeting into a gentle surge of light — the voices rising and falling like breath itself, warm and pure.

In this brief prayer, everything sacred and human meets: awe before the divine, tenderness before the Mother of God, and the quiet joy of faith itself.

A single choral whisper becomes an offering — “Rejoice, O Virgin, full of grace…”

Come and hear “Bogoroditse Devo” and the rest of Rachmaninoff’s ‘All-Night Vigil’ (‘Vespers’) at our upcoming concerts in just TWO weeks:

Thursday, 13 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Los Altos]

Friday, 14 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Berkeley]

Sunday, 16 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [SF]

10/29/2025

Rehearsal time: Our Vespers concerts are just a little more than TWO weeks away!

10/24/2025

The music softens to a glow. A gentle, gladsome light shines in the gathering dusk — neither of day nor night, but something eternal.
Here, Rachmaninoff gives voice to stillness itself. The harmonies unfold like the slow lighting of candles, one by one, until the glory of the Immortal One is fully revealed.
It’s a prayer without urgency — only peace, praise, and light.
Come and hear “Svete Tikhij” (O Gladsome Light) and the rest of Rachmaninoff’s ‘All-Night Vigil’ (‘Vespers’) at our upcoming concerts:

13 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Los Altos]
14 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Berkeley]
16 November - Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [SF]

10/19/2025

Few works touch the soul like Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil.

Step into a sound world where time seems to stop — where voices shimmer with prayer, beauty, and light. 🕯️

From the first whisper to the final radiant “Amen,” this music speaks a universal language of awe and peace. ✨

Join us: 13 November in Los Altos, 14 November in Berkeley, and 16 November in San Francisco. More details and 🎫 info on our website.

Slavyanka Chorus, an a ca****la choir in San Francisco, CA, with a men's choir, women's choir & mixed choir performing music from Russia & Eastern Europe.

10/18/2025

* Experience the Sacred Night *

Join us for Rachmaninoff’s 'All-Night Vigil' — one of the most profound and transcendent works ever written for the human voice.

Few works touch the soul like this one. Its ancient melodies and radiant harmonies awaken something deep within — a longing for peace, for beauty, for the divine.

Step into a sound world where time seems to stop, as waves of choral light and shadow surround you — music that breathes, prays, and glows with quiet devotion. From the first whispered prayer to the final radiant “Amen,” this masterpiece invites you to listen not only with your ears, but with your heart.

Whether or not you know the Russian Orthodox choral tradition, this music speaks a universal language of awe.

✨ Tickets available now at the links below:

Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Los Altos] - 13 November

Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [Berkeley] - 14 November

Slavyanka Chorus Sings Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil' ('Vespers') [SF] - 16 November

06/14/2025

🎶 Tonight’s the night! 🎶
Join us tonight as Slavyanka Chorus presents “Songs of the Soul”—a powerful concert of Russian spiritual choral music, from ancient chant to brand-new works composed just for this performance.
Step into a world where sacred music once echoed through candlelit monasteries, village gatherings, and quiet pilgrim paths. In the first half, we’ll take you back to centuries-old traditions of prayer and poetry. In the second, you’ll hear how that same spiritual fire still burns in contemporary works, including several stunning premieres written exclusively for Slavyanka.
✨ This is music that lives beyond time—music sung “in the presence of God.” ✨

📍 TONIGHT at 7:00 PM - Songs of the Soul (Los Altos)
📍 TOMORROW at 3:30 PM - Songs of the Soul (San Francisco)

06/08/2025

✨ Sacred Love / Любовь Святая ✨
-In Georgy Sviridov’s choral masterpiece Sacred Love (Любовь Святая), we hear love as devotion. Love as a divine force. Love as something pursued, persecuted, and yet eternal.
-Set to ancient Russian words, the music carries the weight of centuries: “O sacred love, from the beginning art thou persecuted, watered with blood.”
-Sung in austere harmonies and quiet intensity, Sviridov gives voice to a longing that transcends the personal. It’s the soul calling out — not for comfort, but for meaning. 🕯

We’ll be singing this beautiful song at our upcoming concerts. Come and listen!

Saturday, 14 June at 7:00pm: Songs of the Soul (Los Altos)
Sunday, 15 June at 3:30pm: Songs of the Soul (San Francisco)

#ЛюбовьСвятая

06/07/2025

🌍 “While the Earth is still spinning…
A quiet voice. A trembling guitar. And a prayer that speaks for all of us.

Bulat Okudzhava’s “Molitva” (“The Prayer of François Villon”) is not just a song — it’s a whispered plea, offered on behalf of the whole, fragile world.

It asks not for triumph, but for mercy:
🧠 wisdom for the thoughtful,
🐎 courage for the fearful,..and a moment of grace for the rest of us.

Okudzhava gives voice to the deep human longing for justice, gentleness, and something sacred — even if we’re not quite sure what that is.
📿 “Give everyone just a little… and don’t forget about me.”

May we all carry this prayer in our hearts — especially now.

We’ll be PREMIERING a choral arrangement of this beautiful song at our upcoming concerts. Come and listen!

Saturday, 14 June at 7:00pm: Songs of the Soul (Los Altos)
Sunday, 15 June at 3:30pm: Songs of the Soul (San Francisco)

#АвсторскаяПесня