Ensemble Continuo featuring Annie Gao (carillon, bells) celebrates the season with festive works by Bach, Palestrina, Gjeilo and others.
Chamber Choir Ensemble Continuo with Christopher Pluntke (conductor, organ) performs a festive program to celebrate the season. The concert is featuring Annie Gao, one of the rising stars in the world of carillon.
Works include:
Palestrina Motet Viri Galilaei
Bach Sinfonia from BWV 29 arranged for carillon and organ
Gjeilo O Magnum Mysterium
Whitacre When David Heard
Rachmaninoff Bogoroditse Devo
Ensemble Continuo is a classical chamber choir based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2023. In 2025 Ensemble Continuo was called as Choir in Residence at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto.
Performances of the Requiems by Brahms and Duruflé as well as motet programs have brought the choir to the Summer Sacred Music Series at Stanford Memorial Church, the International Performing Arts of America Festival at California Theater in San Jose, and the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. In June 2025, the choir embarked on its first tour to perform works by Poulenc and Bernstein at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral.
The choir can be found at ensemble-continuo.com