Over the last year, Voci has invited guest conductors to program relevant as well as compelling concerts, and to conduct challenging repertoire for both our singers and audiences with great success. As we move into 2025, we look forward to working with Terry Alvord and preparing for an exciting spring concert season.
Voci’s Guest Conductor for Spring 2025: Terry Alvord
Terry Alvord, mezzo soprano and conductor, has led the San Francisco Symphony Chorus in rehearsals of Brahms’ Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and has conducted the San Francisco Conservatory’s chamber vocal ensemble, assisting Maestro Ragnar Bohlin. She has also been one of four assistant conductors for the San Francisco Symphony’s Community of Music Makers “Sing Out Davies” program since its inception in 2011 through 2016.
Ms. Alvord was a featured conductor of sacred music in Sarteano, Italy from 2015-2017. In addition, she was the interim artistic director for Resound Ensemble, a 50 member, mixed voice choir based in San Francisco for the 2015-2016 season and was music director at Trinity United Methodist Church in Berkeley for almost 20 years.
Ms. Alvord has prepared choristers for Bay Area opera companies including “The Shining”, produced by Opera Parallel and for a production of the opera, “Prospero’s Island” by Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens in collaboration with Ninth Planet. She will be working with choir members for the Opera Parallel production of “The Pigeon Keeper” being performed in March of 2025 as well as the San Francisco Opera’s production of “La Boheme” in June of 2025.
In addition to conducting, Ms. Alvord is an active soloist and choral singer. She has appeared as soloist in James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross with the Berkeley Symphony and with many other Bay Area music organizations in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Bach’s Magnificat. Ms. Alvord has sung with many Bay Area opera companies in roles such as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mercedes in Carmen, Siebel in Faust, and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. She has been a professional member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus since 2000, and has also sung with San Francisco Opera Chorus and Philharmonia Baroque Chorale.
Accompanist
Voci Accompanist Matt Bourne is a pianist who performs and accompanies for vocalists and choral groups all around the Bay Area. He is a musical director and conductor for musical theatre productions at many local companies. He is staff accompanist for Campolindo High School, pianist at First United Methodist Church of Hayward, a piano teacher, and a composer. He is a Bay Area native and a graduate of the music program at UCLA.