Trinity Choir
NOVUS
Sandbox Percussion
Melissa Attebury, conductor

This stunning program shines a light on several contemporary composers who are expanding on the ancient musical tradition of lifting up the outsider — exploring the idea that to travel is to live in the tension between vulnerability and protection. Here Steve Reich’s Traveler’s Prayer, Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, Michi Wiancko’s Lullaby for the Transient, and David Lang’s the national anthems are performed by Trinity Choir, NOVUS, and Sandbox Percussion; Melissa Attebury, conductor.

Spire Chamber Ensemble
Ben A. Spalding, conductor

Ring in the Thousand Years of Peace invites you into a contemplative world where music becomes a vessel for hope, renewal, and the passage of time. At the heart of the program lies Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year. Dedicated to the composer's mother, the work uses texts by William Blake, George Peele, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson to trace the cycle of the seasons and human mortality. Together with works by Henk Badings, Dale Trumbore, Johannes Brahms, Lili Boulanger, and Eric Whitacre, the program weaves a tapestry of reflection and longing — inviting audiences to sit with the mysteries of endings and beginnings, and to find in music the quiet promise of peace across generations.

Spire Chamber Ensemble
Ben A. Spalding, conductor

Ring in the Thousand Years of Peace invites you into a contemplative world where music becomes a vessel for hope, renewal, and the passage of time. At the heart of the program lies Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year. Dedicated to the composer's mother, the work uses texts by William Blake, George Peele, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson to trace the cycle of the seasons and human mortality. Together with works by Henk Badings, Dale Trumbore, Johannes Brahms, Lili Boulanger, and Eric Whitacre, the program weaves a tapestry of reflection and longing — inviting audiences to sit with the mysteries of endings and beginnings, and to find in music the quiet promise of peace across generations.

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Classic works by Thompson, Barber, Whitacre, Paulus & Diemer, Corigliano Fern Hill, Takach We Are Phoenix & Winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Classic works by Thompson, Barber, Whitacre, Paulus & Diemer, Corigliano Fern Hill, Takach We Are Phoenix & Winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Classic works by Thompson, Barber, Whitacre, Paulus & Diemer, Corigliano Fern Hill, Takach We Are Phoenix & Winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Avi Stein, conductor

Bass Soloist

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, and Nun danket alle Gott are two cantatas that stand as an uplifting contrast to the composer’s usual themes of endurance amid tribulations and the hope of something better. These joyful compositions offer an appreciation for life’s treasures, with one giving thanks for the upstanding life of a queen and the other celebrating the divine gifts given to humanity. Performed by Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, led by Avi Stein on organ.

Viva Bach Peterborough
Colin Mann, conductor

Bass Soloist

The festival concludes with the towering drama of Bach’s St. John Passion, a work of blazing intensity and deep spiritual resonance that brings this celebratory weekend to an unforgettable close.

Trinity Choir
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Wolfe: Anthracite Fields

NYU Professor Julia Wolfe joins the Bang on a Can All-Stars for her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields. This evening brings together ambitious music and American history, with commentary from the composer herself.

Anthracite Fields gives voice to the lives, labor, and endurance of Pennsylvania coal miners and their families, drawing on oral histories, speeches, work songs, and local lore. Written for chorus and six instrumentalists, the piece moves between intimacy and monumentality with extraordinary force, transforming industrial history into a vivid musical portrait of community, hardship, and survival.

Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
NOVUS
Jane Glover, conductor

Trinity Church is thrilled to welcome back Jane Glover, a renowned Mozart expert, to conduct one of classical music’s greatest sacred works: Mass in C Minor. Glover will bring together Downtown Voices, Trinity Choir, and NOVUS to perform this challenging — and unfinished — piece of operatic brilliance. With a completion by Robert Levin and experts in the classical style, this evening is sure to be one of dramatic contrasts, virtuosic solo movements, and radiant choruses.

La Grande Bande
Michael Asmus, conductor

Programmed in honor of the 250th anniversary of America’s Founding, Music from New France explores the lost music found in New France (Louisiana Territory), once owned by America’s greatest ally during the Revolution, the Kingdom of France. This program will highlight sacred texts set to secular tunes by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Andre Campra, and more, that were compiled into a 1754 manuscript found in New Orleans and sung by Ursuline Nuns.

We hope you join us for a delightful trip through musical history as we present sacred motets, secular songs, dance music, and so much more as we celebrate the French Alliance.

Pre-concert talk begins at approximately 6:45 both nights. Translations of sung texts available.

La Grande Bande
Michael Asmus, conductor

Programmed in honor of the 250th anniversary of America’s Founding, Music from New France explores the lost music found in New France (Louisiana Territory), once owned by America’s greatest ally during the Revolution, the Kingdom of France. This program will highlight sacred texts set to secular tunes by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Andre Campra, and more, that were compiled into a 1754 manuscript found in New Orleans and sung by Ursuline Nuns.

We hope you join us for a delightful trip through musical history as we present sacred motets, secular songs, dance music, and so much more as we celebrate the French Alliance.

Pre-concert talk begins at approximately 6:45 both nights. Translations of sung texts available.

Trinity Choir
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Who is Marianna Martines? Let Trinity Choir and the NOVUS orchestra introduce you to the work of this brilliant yet previously overlooked contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Despite the limitations placed on women of her era, Martines forged a distinguished musical career, rising to become one of the most influential artistic figures in Vienna. Today’s program includes one of her finest compositions, the Dixit Dominus, a dramatic and intricate five-part choral masterpiece. It will be paired with Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, the beloved Ave verum corpus, and his third and perhaps best-known setting of Regina. Melissa Attebury, conductor.

Clarion Choir
Clarion Orchestra
Steven Fox, conductor

The Clarion Choir & The Clarion Orchestra premiere a new sacred work by young American composer Alistair Coleman alongside J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. Coleman is a doctoral fellow at Princeton University and serves on the composition faculty of the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia. Knowing that the second half of the concert would be Bach’s beloved Magnificat, Coleman cleverly devised a work that sets to music another significant part of the traditional Evensong service that is sung alongside the Magnificat. He honed in specifically on the Nunc Dimittis prayer, in which the elderly St. Simeon, who had been promised that he would see the Messiah before dying, holds the baby Jesus and declares that he may now “depart this world in peace.”

This concert continues The Clarion Choir & Orchestra’s mutli-year project to perform Bach’s complete large-scale oratorios, a series that will continue with the ensemble’s performance in the spring of 2027 with the Easter Oratorio.

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Bass Soloist

The classical music event of the season: New York’s most historic Messiah, performed in its entirety, in the soaring sacred space of Trinity Church. Trinity Church welcomes acclaimed guest conductor Nicholas McGegan, one of the world’s foremost Handel experts, to lead the highly anticipated annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. This cherished holiday tradition — hailed as “the gold standard” by The New York Times — has captivated audiences since 1770. Though distinctly modern, Trinity’s beloved version is authentically performed on period instruments in an acoustically rich space. Soloists from the church’s expansive community of artists complement each glorious aria and the declamatory recitatives that join them with their own interpretations of this human journey of faith. Don’t miss it. Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Bass Soloist

The classical music event of the season: New York’s most historic Messiah, performed in its entirety, in the soaring sacred space of Trinity Church. Trinity Church welcomes acclaimed guest conductor Nicholas McGegan, one of the world’s foremost Handel experts, to lead the highly anticipated annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. This cherished holiday tradition — hailed as “the gold standard” by The New York Times — has captivated audiences since 1770. Though distinctly modern, Trinity’s beloved version is authentically performed on period instruments in an acoustically rich space. Soloists from the church’s expansive community of artists complement each glorious aria and the declamatory recitatives that join them with their own interpretations of this human journey of faith. Don’t miss it. Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Bass Soloist

The classical music event of the season: New York’s most historic Messiah, performed in its entirety, in the soaring sacred space of Trinity Church. Trinity Church welcomes acclaimed guest conductor Nicholas McGegan, one of the world’s foremost Handel experts, to lead the highly anticipated annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. This cherished holiday tradition — hailed as “the gold standard” by The New York Times — has captivated audiences since 1770. Though distinctly modern, Trinity’s beloved version is authentically performed on period instruments in an acoustically rich space. Soloists from the church’s expansive community of artists complement each glorious aria and the declamatory recitatives that join them with their own interpretations of this human journey of faith. Don’t miss it. Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
Thomas McCargar, conductor
Stephen Sands, conductor

This contemplative concert marks the beauty and stillness of Advent with the East Coast premiere of Rose Ever Blooming, a meditation on hope unfolding in darkness. Through ancient texts juxtaposed with stunning new music, composed by Timothy Takach and Jocelyn Hagen, we experience something holy taking root. Downtown Voices; Trinity Choir; Thomas McCargar and Stephen Sands, conductors.

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

True Concord’s annual holiday gift to southern Arizona, in second year of focus on American composers

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

True Concord’s annual holiday gift to southern Arizona, in second year of focus on American composers

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

True Concord’s annual holiday gift to southern Arizona, in second year of focus on American composers

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

True Concord’s annual holiday gift to southern Arizona, in second year of focus on American composers

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

True Concord’s annual holiday gift to southern Arizona, in second year of focus on American composers

Clarion Music Society
Steven Fox, conductor

Bass Soloist

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56

Trinity Choir
St. Paul’s Chapel Choir
NOVUS Brass
Thomas McCargar, conductor

Join the combined might of St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, Trinity Choral Scholars, the Choirs of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, NOVUS brass and percussion, and of course, Trinity’s own resounding congregation for this annual carol sing-along. Belt out favorites like “Jingle Bells” and “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” or sit back and enjoy lesser-known festive offerings from each choral ensemble.

Trinity Choir
St. Paul’s Chapel Choir
NOVUS Brass
Thomas McCargar, conductor

Join the combined might of St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, Trinity Choral Scholars, the Choirs of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, NOVUS brass and percussion, and of course, Trinity’s own resounding congregation for this annual carol sing-along. Belt out favorites like “Jingle Bells” and “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” or sit back and enjoy lesser-known festive offerings from each choral ensemble.

Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, conductor

The Clarion Choir and conductor Steven Fox continue their tradition of performing choral music at New Year. This year, in celebration of America 250, they will present a concert of choral compositions by living American composers, and with a particular focus on the choral works of New York-based composers.

Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, conductor

The Clarion Choir and conductor Steven Fox continue their tradition of performing choral music at New Year. This year, in celebration of America 250, they will present a concert of choral compositions by living American composers, and with a particular focus on the choral works of New York-based composers.

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Beloved hymns Amazing Grace; When the Saints; Precious Lord, Take My Hand; Down By the Riverside; Adon Olam; Avinu Malkeinu; Lift Every Voice and Sing and other African American Spirituals; and David Lang’s Poor Hymnal

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Beloved hymns Amazing Grace; When the Saints; Precious Lord, Take My Hand; Down By the Riverside; Adon Olam; Avinu Malkeinu; Lift Every Voice and Sing and other African American Spirituals; and David Lang’s Poor Hymnal

True Concord Voices & Orchestra
Eric Holtan, conductor

Beloved hymns Amazing Grace; When the Saints; Precious Lord, Take My Hand; Down By the Riverside; Adon Olam; Avinu Malkeinu; Lift Every Voice and Sing and other African American Spirituals; and David Lang’s Poor Hymnal

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Avi Stein, conductor

Bass Soloist

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Trinity Choir
NOVUS
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Cerrone: The Branch will not break

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Zelenka: Miserere, ZWV 57
Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV 621
Purcell: Hear My Prayer, Z. 15
Bach: BWV Anh. 59

Trinity Choir

Glass: A Madrigal Opera

Trinity Choir

Glass: A Madrigal Opera

Trinity Choir

Glass: A Madrigal Opera

Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
Stephen Sands, conductor

Whitacre: The Sacred Veil

Yale Choral Artists
Jeffrey Douma, conductor

Yale Choral Artists
Jeffrey Douma, conductor

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Bass Soloist

Handel: Dixit Dominus
Porpora: Dixit Dominus

Clarion Music Society
Steven Fox, conductor

The Clarion Choir & Orchestra continue their multi-year exploration of Bach’s large-scale oratorios on period instruments and featuring America’s leading Baroque interpreters. Following their sold-out performances of the Mass in B Minor (2024), Passion According to St. John (2025), and Magnificat (2026), the Clarion troupe will present a spring performance of Bach’s masterful and joyful Easter Oratorio.

Spire Chamber Ensemble
Ben A. Spalding, conductor

Pipes and Voices bring together 3,000 pipes and 20 voices with the full splendor of choir and organ in a program that illustrates the organ's majestic sweep — capable of both soaring transcendence and quiet sweetness. At its heart is Zoltán Kodály's Missa Brevis, written in hiding during the final year of World War II—a powerful expression of humankind's plea for mercy and peace. Works by J.S. Bach, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Judith Bingham, and Joanna Marsh round out a program spanning four centuries of extraordinary choral music. At the organ is GRAMMY-nominated artist and Spire founding member Dr. Jan Kraybill, bringing to life what Mozart called "the king of instruments."

Spire Chamber Ensemble
Ben A. Spalding, conductor

Pipes and Voices bring together 3,000 pipes and 20 voices with the full splendor of choir and organ in a program that illustrates the organ's majestic sweep — capable of both soaring transcendence and quiet sweetness. At its heart is Zoltán Kodály's Missa Brevis, written in hiding during the final year of World War II—a powerful expression of humankind's plea for mercy and peace. Works by J.S. Bach, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Judith Bingham, and Joanna Marsh round out a program spanning four centuries of extraordinary choral music. At the organ is GRAMMY-nominated artist and Spire founding member Dr. Jan Kraybill, bringing to life what Mozart called "the king of instruments."

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Avi Stein, conductor

Trinity Choir
Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Bach: Mass in G Major, BWV 236
Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus

Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
NOVUS
Melissa Attebury, conductor

Wolfe: Anthracite Fields