Choral Evensong and Organ Recital

The 40th season of the Second Sunday Evensong/Organ Recital Series at St. Mark’s, Berkeley, concludes on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
Choral Evensong sung by the St. Mark’s Choir, George Emblom, Director of Music, will be offered by 4:00pm followed by an organ recital by Christa Rakich around 4:45pm.

The choir will offer the
Radcliffe:  Responses 
John Karl Hirten: All Saints’ Service
Jeremy Southwood:  Perfect Love casteth out fear.

The choir will make their seventh choral pilgrimage to England this Summer singing one-week residencies at both
Norwich Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral.  Jonathan Dimmock serves as organist.

Concert and recording artist Christa Rakich has performed widely throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.  She is Visiting Professor at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, where she teaches organ, clavichord, and improvisation.  Former positions include New England Conservatory (department co-chair), Westminster Choir College, Brandeis University, the University of Connecticut, and the Memorial Church at Harvard.  She studied at Oberlin College, NEC, and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and student of Anton Heiller.  Her compositions are published by Oxford University Press, with many available for free on IMSLP or www.christarakich.com.

Her program will include:

Byrd: Fantasia in C, FCB 103
Anon., from Camphuysen Ms.: Three Variations on Daphne
Purcell: Dido’s Lament
Purcell: Voluntary for Double organ, Z. 719
Rakich: Ten Variations on Toulon (2022)
Bach: Chaconne in g minor, BWV 1179
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 545

A reception will follow the program.
Parking is available in the parish lot at 2315 Ellsworth Street.

There is no recital in June due to the Berkeley Early Music Festival.
For further information, contact George.