kallisti vocal ensemble presents a concert of rarely heard vocal chamber music from across the span of several generations, in celebration of Women's History Month.  The concert takes place on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 7 p.m. at the UC San Diego Department of Music's Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.   

Among those represented on the program are Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, whose music earned international recognition as well as an intricate, delicate acapella duet by Swiss composer Katharina Rosenberg.   

A new generation of American composers is also featured on the program, including Kate Soper's iconic "Only the words themselves mean what they say" for voice and flute,  along with duets for voice and doublebass by Lila Meretzky and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Katherine Balch. 

The concert also features Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist's Puksånger/Lockrup for  two voices and percussion . A tour de force for both singers, Rehnqvist's  twenty minute work incorporates traditional Swedish folk singing and herding-calls, and is set to texts that speak to the experiences of women of all times.    

The kallisti concert features UC San Diego graduate students in Contemporary Music Performance:  vocalists Emily Barger, Julia Anne Cordani, flutist Leanna Keith, double bassist Andrew Crapitto along with pianist Kyle Adam Blair and guest artist Christopher Clarino, percussion.  

kallisti was founded in 2009 by Distinguished Professor of Music Susan Narucki and has presented innovative chamber operas, and vocal chamber music over the past seventeen years.   We acknowledge - and celebrate - International Women's History Month with our concert.