May 10, Saturday – 7:30 PM ANNUAL FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT Lullabies for Mother's Day Our annual free community concert this year again takes place on Mother's Day weekend and features vocal virtuosa Lily Storm with Celtic harper Diana Rowan (pictured) in a concert of rare lullabies from Malta, Lithuania, Ireland and around the world. A former soloist with Kitka's women's choir, Lily Storm has been featured in festivals around the globe as well as on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Performance Today. Celtic harper Diana Rowan, whose performances have been described as "having unusual power and beauty," has become a favorite of Seventh Avenue audiences. She has also performed around the world including winning first prize in the Israel International Harp Competition, and will appear later this year in the Australian Harp Festival; she can be heard on several recordings including her debut solo CD Panta Rhei.

May 24, Saturday – 7:30 PM VENI AMICA MEA - Baroque Love Duets Celebrate Spring with this concert of exquisite love duets and arias - both sacred and secular - from the Italian, German, and English Baroque, including works by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Heinrich Schutz and George Frederic Handel. American Bach Soloists' soprano Julia Earl and alto Katherine McKee are joined by period instrumental ensemble including Katherine Kyme and David Wilson, violins, David Morris, violoncello and lirone, Phebe Craig, harpsichord and Gary Hess, theorbo.

June 20, Friday (note day) – 7:30 PM St. John of San Francisco Russian Men’s Chorale (Nicholas Kotar, Director) The historic tradition of Russian Orthodox sacred music spans many centuries and many musical styles. The one unifying factor among the many periods of Russian church music is the preeminence of the human voice. According to Orthodox tradition, the human voice is the only instrument worthy of the church services, since it was created by God, not by man. Within this rich a cappella tradition, the Russian people have a special love for the male choir. The St. John of San Francisco Men’s Chorale is a resident choir of the Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco. The choir’s repertoire of sacred chant spans the musical tradition of the Orthodox Church from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Traditional melodies, such as Znamenny, Kievan, Greek, Bulgarian, and Georgian chants are represented, as well as monastery chants of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra (monastery), the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Valaam monastery, and the Optina Hermitage. Selections from famous Russian composers, including Kastalsky, Trubachev, Kedrov, and Gardner will also be performed as part of this unique concert.

August  2, Saturday – 7:30 PM Opera Early & Ancient San Francisco Hildegard von Bingen’s ORDO VIRTUTUM This 11th century visionary nun was nothing less than extraordinary; her many accomplishments include physician, artist, author, herbalist, and composer of this, what is considered by many to be the first opera, Ritual of the Virtues as well as many other ethereal musical compositions.   A production by San Francisco Renaissance Voices, this cross-cultural performance will be joined by Celtic harper Diana Rowan and bansuri master Deepak Ram.

August 16, Saturday – 7:30 PM The Galileo Project THE INTERACTIVE BAROQUE CONCERT - Sonatas, Grounds, Dances: Chamber Music of the 17th Century This talented group of young musicians is dedicated to making classical music more accessible, especially to young listeners, through their interactive-audience concerts with demonstrations of instruments, playing techniques and audience question and answer.  They debuted in the Bay Area as part of the 2004 Berkeley Festival and Exhibition of Early Music and also appeared on American Bach Soloists 2006 SummerFest series.  Take a tour of the music of the early Baroque era, elucidating 3 different types of instrumental music of the era (church sonata, dance, and pieces composed on a repeating, or ground, bass line) and the tools of the early music trade (period instruments). This concert features the music of Arcangelo Corelli and Salamone Rossi. Galileo Project is made up of David Sego and Amy Haltom, violins; Heather Vorwerck, cello/viola da gamba; Julia Ageyeva-Hess, harpsichord; and Gary Hess, theorbo.

September 12 & 13, Friday & Saturday (two performances) – 7:30 PM both nights Seventh Avenue Theater PATIENT A In 1987, Kimberly Bergalis was infected with HIV, claiming she could only have been infected by her dentist; thus becoming America's first "innocent" victim of AIDS.  This award-winning play by Lee Blessing delivers an examination of the issues surrounding her case that is theatrically innovative, alternately humorous and deeply moving in this HPA production by director Rick Homan and stars Beverly Viljoen as Kimberley, Scott Cox as Matthew with Colin Hussey as the Playwright.

November 2, Sunday - 8:00 PM (note day and time) San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Music Director) FEAST for ALL SOULS Our annual Halloween weekend concert this year features the hauntingly beautiful Requiem by Antoine Brumel, one of the earliest extant requiem masses along with Josquin’s Mille regretz & La deploration de la morte de Johannes Ockeghem.