Trinity Church Wall Street 2019-20: Six Major Album Releases, a 10-Year Anniversary, Performances at Kennedy Center and Leipzig Bach Festival, New Baroque Series, and “12 Nights Festival”

Following a busy summer that sees the release of five major albums, with a sixth to follow in January, Trinity Church Wall Street’s “indispensable and unmissable” (New York Times) program of ambitious musical offerings in lower Manhattan begins 2019-20 with a “Season Opener” celebration of the power of music to further Trinity’s mission. A long weekend of events showcases some of the works Trinity has helped to incubate in the last decade – among them three Pulitzer Prize-winners – dealing with topics from climate change and water justice to human trafficking and gender inequality. The season also sees the debut of a new series: “Candlelight Baroque” in St. Paul’s Chapel features international Baroque artists in solo and small chamber settings. Trinity’s critically lauded rendition of Handel’s Messiah will be presented three times in St. Paul’s Chapel during the Christmas season. The Evening Concert Series introduced last season presents a concert pairing works by Arvo Pärt and Francis Poulenc. In June, Trinity presents the new “12 Nights Festival,” 16 concerts in 12 days with highlights including Handel’s Deborah, a complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets, Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos, and a performance of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s five-act opera Dardanus. Many of Trinity’s concert offerings are professionally filmed, streamed live and available on-demand.

Music Director Julian Wachner, Trinity contemporary orchestra NOVUS NY and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street also continue to champion Trinity’s core values and mission outside the walls of the church this season. After the August release of a recording of Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m (see below for more details), they reprise the complete work in two fully-staged spring performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. With the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the choir and Wachner give Bach performances in Montreal’s Salle Bourgie in September and at the Leipzig Bach Festival in June. Next summer they perform at the American Guild of Organists Biennial National Convention in John’s Creek, Georgia. Having long championed Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone, which addresses themes of modern-day slavery and human trafficking, Wachner conducts the work as the highlight of this year’s opera offerings at China’s internationally renowned Beijing Music Festival, before leading The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY in the West Coast premiere of the work at LA Opera next spring. The Prototype Festival, which co-produced the world premiere of Angel’s Bone along with Trinity, will produce Wachner’s own opera REV. 23 – an “endlessly creative score” (Classical Voice North America) – in its New York premiere this season.

Season-Opening Celebration

A long weekend with five free events, celebrating a decade of innovation under Wachner’s leadership, opens Trinity’s musical season (Sep 12-15). The celebration is bookended by two Trinity traditions in St. Paul’s Chapel: a Pipes at One concert midday Thursday featuring Associate Organist Janet Yieh, and a meditative Compline by Candlelight service on Sunday evening. A Thursday evening concert looks back over some of the works Trinity has recorded and/or helped to pioneer and develop over the years, including excerpts from three Pulitzer Prize winners: Ellen Reid’s opera p r i s m, Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Anthracite Fields, and Du Yun’s opera Angel’s Bone. Friday evening the new “Candlelight Baroque” series debuts in St. Paul’s Chapel, with countertenor Daniel Taylor, soprano Molly Netter, and “supremely refined, elegant and cerebral” (Ottawa Citizen) lutenist Sylvain Bergeron. On Saturday evening The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Trinity Youth Chorus, Trinity’s semi-professional choir Downtown Voices, and the newly launched all-volunteer St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, all come together with brass and percussion players from NOVUS NY for a concert called “Singing Our Song – Hymns and Anthems from Trinity Church.” The concert will be co-hosted by Downtown Voices conductor Stephen Sands, Associate Music Director Melissa Attebury, Yieh, and Wachner.

New “Candlelight Baroque” Series, Messiah, Pipes at One

The new “Candlelight Baroque” series comprises three concerts this season. The series debuts on opening weekend. In the second concert on October 31, Czech soprano Hana Blažíková will join international early-music star Bruce Dickey on the cornetto, an instrument dating from medieval times noted for its ability to imitate the human voice. The program includes improvisatory music of the early 17th century, opera and oratorio excerpts by Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Bassani, and a modern setting of the Nigra sum text by Greek composer Calliope Tsoupaki. A third Candlelight Baroque concert in the spring features Baroque violinist Alana Youssefian, an early music soloist who has made regular appearances with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, and Philharmonia Baroque, among many others (April 24).

Trinity’s “dazzlingly beautiful” (New York Times) rendition of Handel’s Messiah will be presented three times this season in St. Paul’s Chapel (Dec 20-22). Trinity was one of the first presenters of the work in North America in 1770, and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra are widely regarded as some of its greatest interpreters. In 2018, the New York Times described Trinity’s presentation as “perhaps the essential New York ‘Messiah.’ With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances.”

Trinity’s weekly Pipes at One concerts, now on a year-round schedule, feature undergraduate and graduate organ students from the Peabody Institute, Montreal’s McGill University, and many more in the “Conservatory Series,” on the first Thursday of each month. Filling out the rest of the schedule, in addition to Trinity’s own organists Wachner, Yieh and Associate Organist and Chorusmaster Avi Stein, is a roster of stellar organists from up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

Bach Performances at Home and Abroad

The lunchtime favorite Bach + One concerts on Mondays return beginning in March. A complete cycle of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos performed by the Trinity Baroque Orchestra under Stein’s direction is part of the “12 Nights Festival” (see below for more details). With Wachner conducting, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra also participate in two high-profile multi-choir complete cycles of Bach’s cantatas this season, performing four cantatas in September at Montreal’s Salle Bourgie, and three more in the spring at the storied Leipzig Bach Festival. In Leipzig they join the more than 30 Bach ensembles from six continents that have been invited to perform the entire cycle this season. After a performance in St. Thomas Church, where Bach served as Kapellmeister for the last 27 years of his life, they perform again in Wartburg Castle in Eisenach.

Evening Concert Series and Downtown Voices

After 50 years of offering midday concerts, last season Trinity introduced additional monthly evening performances to the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. On November 15, this series continues with a free concert pairing two influential twentieth-century compositional voices, Arvo Pärt and Francis Poulenc. Downtown Voices joins The Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street and NOVUS NY for the performance, led by Sands and Attebury. On the program are Pärt’s monumental Passio, a meditative setting of texts from the Passion according to St. John, and Poulenc’s masterpiece Figure Humaine, written in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943 to poems of Paul Éluard and dedicated to Pablo Picasso.

Two more Downtown Voices performances are also on the calendar in the spring. In February the group is joined by NOVUS NY for a performance of Beethoven’s Mass in C and Brahms’s Geistliches Lied under the direction of Stephen Sands, and in April they perform along with the Philadelphia Heritage Chorale.

12 Nights Festival

With a nod to the success of the former early-music Twelfth Night Festival, Trinity is embarking this season on the new 12 Nights Festival, 16 concerts in 12 days from June 17-28. Exemplifying Trinity’s reputation for cutting-edge performances of both new and old music, the 12 Nights Festival programming will alternate between the two each year. Beginning with early music in 2020, the inaugural festival features a cast of early music soloists, The Choir of Wall Street, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, led by Wachner, in a complete performance of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s five-act opera Dardanus. The production is directed by James Darrah, who also directed the world premiere of Ellen Reid’s p r i s m last season. Dardanus soloists include Zachary Wilder and Nola Richardson and it will be featured two days later at Caramoor. Also included is a complete performance over three concerts of Handel’s Deborah, part of the long-term “Handel Project” over the course of which The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra present Handel’s complete oratorios; a complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets over six concerts by the Attacca Quartet, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth; and Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos in two concerts with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra led by Avi Stein. A Compline by Candlelight service features two monumental Renaissance works: Ockeghem’s 36-part Deo Gratia a 36, and Tallis’s beloved 40-part Spem in alium. Complementing these concerts are a “Pipes at One” organ recital played by Stein and a recital called “From the Trecento to Josquin,” curated by Jonathan Woody from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

Beyond the Church Walls

Following the season-opening gala, which includes an excerpt from Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone, Wachner conducts the entire work as the highlight of the opera offerings at China’s Beijing Music Festival, where Du Yun will be celebrated as the first female Chinese composer in history to receive the Pulitzer (Oct 18-19). The opera melds chamber music, theatre, punk rock, opera, cabaret, and electronics while exploring the dark effects of and motivations behind modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Angel’s Bone has long been championed by Trinity; it was workshopped at the church in 2014, and the staged world premiere in 2016 was co-produced by Trinity and the Prototype Festival and performed by The Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street and NOVUS NY under Wachner’s leadership. Wachner will again join Beth Morrison Projects in the spring to give the opera its West Coast premiere at LA Opera (May 1-3).

Trinity’s long-term relationship with the Prototype Festival and its co-producer, Beth Morrison Projects, also yields the New York premiere this season of Wachner’s latest opera REV. 23. The work, which premiered in Boston in 2017, is composed to a libretto by Cerise Jacobs which adds a satirical twist to an imagined final chapter of the biblical Book of Revelation. Conducted by Daniela Candillari, the new production is again directed by James Darrah, and takes place at John Jay College’s Gerald Lynch Theater in Manhattan (Jan 17-18). In advance of the New York premiere, Wachner, Candillari and Darrah will workshop the piece with conservatory students at the Manhattan School of Music, providing them valuable insight into the many facets of preparing an opera role, culminating in the opportunity to become understudies for the fully staged Prototype Festival production.

Ellen Reid’s p r i s m, the latest Pulitzer-winning Trinity collaboration, was co-commissioned by Trinity and Beth Morrison Projects. It premiered last season in an LA Opera production at REDCAT in Los Angeles, with the participation of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY under Wachner’s direction. The same forces then gave the piece its East Coast premiere at the 2019 Prototype Festival. The opera explores the theme of trauma and its aftermath, through librettist Roxie Perkins’s tale of an ill girl and her mother, who both cares for her and isolates her from the world. The production will be reprised in March in two performances at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center (March 13-14).

Wachner celebrates his own 50th birthday this year, in honor of which National Sawdust presents a concert of his works. He leads The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY in the performance, along with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, who will play the world premiere of a new work Wachner is writing for the occasion (Nov 10). The event will be emceed by Anthony Roth Costanzo.

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and organist Avi Stein, led by Wachner, perform a concert of favorite anthems at the American Guild of Organists Biennial National Convention in John’s Creek, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, in early July. Besides the world premiere of Wachner’s My Cathedral, the choir performs works by Sowerby, Finzi, Howells, Cecilia McDowall, Gerre Hancock, and Trevor Weston, whose choral music was the subject of Trinity’s debut release on Acis Records in 2016 and will also be heard in the season-opening gala concert.

Six Recordings Released 2019-2020

This season sees the release of six major Trinity-related recordings, five conducted by Wachner. Philip Glass’s Orange Mountain label releases the highly anticipated new recording of Glass’s Symphony No. 5, captured during the rapturously received performances of the work in Trinity Church in 2017. The one existing recording was made sectionally in studios around the world, thus Trinity’s rendition marks the first time it has been recorded with all the participants in one space. Led by Wachner, all Trinity’s choirs participated, as well as five soloists and NOVUS NY. As Glass says of this release:

“Symphony No. 5 was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival … as a celebration of the second millennium, in the year 2000. … It was my intention to provoke a flow of attention for the listener which would be based on the world’s Wisdom Traditions – their commonalities, differences, and eccentricities. Now two decades after its premiere, this new recording by Trinity Wall Street and all the collected forces of orchestra, choirs and singers under Julian Wachner, make these commonalities, differences, and eccentricities appear even more pronounced than was initially imagined.”

The new album includes a concert video and an interview between Glass and Wachner and will be released exactly 20 years to the day after the original premiere in Salzburg on August 28, 2019.

Trinity’s recording of Ellen Reid’s p r i s m is also scheduled for release this summer, on the Decca Gold label on August 23. After the Los Angeles premiere last season, Parterre Box called the opera “mesmerizingly beautiful,” and the glowing critical reception extended to Trinity’s performers as well. Praising the “lush, eerie harmonies of an invisible chorus,” the New Yorker declared the choir to be “one of the nation’s best.” The New York Times agreed:

“Ellen Reid’s score is accessible in the best way, disconcertingly sweet without being syrupy, with occasional whispers of choral voices so soft they’re almost more odor than sound. The truly prismatic Choir of Trinity Wall Street is astonishing here; Trinity’s new-music ensemble, NOVUS NY, plays beautifully under Julian Wachner.”

On the Acis label, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY release Epistle, a compilation featuring Wachner’s Epistle, Inverted Sky and Gaude, along with David Little’s Am I Born, premiered in a new version at Trinity last spring, and shape note selections. On August 16, Broadway Records releases Edward Thomas’s new opera, Anna Christie, with NOVUS NY under Wachner’s baton. The work was premiered in October of 2018 by Encompass New Opera Theatre in Manhattan. Members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street also make up the chorus on Canteloupe Records’ recording of Acquanetta by Michael Gordon, the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Bang on a Can music collective. An homage to the campy and spine-chilling horror films of the 1940s with a libretto by Deborah Artman, the work features the Bang on a Can Opera Ensemble conducted by Daniela Candillari.

Finally, Wachner conducts cellist Matt Haimovitz, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, NOVUS NY, and more on a new composer portrait of Luna Pearl Woolf, due out on the Pentatone label’s Oxingale Series in January 2020 and titled LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood.

Liturgical Music, Trinity Youth Chorus, Neighborhood and Outreach

Each Sunday, the choirs of Trinity Wall Street lead a wonderfully varied repertoire at services that speak to the diversity of New York City. On Sunday evenings at 8pm in St. Paul’s Chapel, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street offers an intimate Compline by Candlelight featuring chant, improvisation, and newly composed sacred works.

Trinity’s Music program is dedicated to promoting lifelong engagement with music through a comprehensive program of educational opportunities, cultural activities, and free access to Trinity’s acclaimed performances. The Trinity Youth Chorus brings together talented youth aged 5 to 18 from the five boroughs of New York City to receive both group and individual training in vocal technique, music theory, sight-reading, and performance skills from a group of dedicated professionals led by Melissa Attebury. The choristers provide musical leadership at Sunday services alongside The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and offer concerts throughout the season. This season they present two special Chorister Compline by Candlelight services, with a Lenten Concert preceding the second one, and perform two concert programs of their own: February 2 at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn and May 29 in St. Paul’s Chapel. Trinity also supports youth from underserved communities in their musical, academic, social, and emotional development, primarily through the study, performance, and appreciation of diverse genres of music. Among its various outreach partners is Hour Children (an organization assisting incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated women and their children), for which Trinity provides teaching artists and music education programs. Trinity also has partnered with community centers such as the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning to stream live webcasts for the community in Queens, New York.

About Trinity Church Wall Street

Trinity Church Wall Street is a growing Episcopal community that seeks to serve and heal the world by building neighborhoods that live Gospel truths, generations of faithful leaders, and sustainable communities. The mission is grounded in Trinity’s core values: faith, integrity, inclusiveness, compassion, social justice, and stewardship. Trinity is located in the heart of Manhattan’s Financial District, where it has created a dynamic home for music. Serving as director of Trinity’s music program – as well as principal conductor of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the period-instrument Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and contemporary-music ensemble-in-residence NOVUS NY – Julian Wachner also oversees all liturgical, professional and community music programming at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. Music at Trinity ranges from large-scale oratorios to chamber music, and from intimate a cappella singing to jazz improvisation. Many concerts at Trinity are professionally filmed and streamed live and available on-demand at http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/videos. Performances by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Julian Wachner can be heard each Monday at 1pm on WWFM The Classical Network, www.wwfm.org. The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer is Rector of Trinity Church Wall Street and the Rev. Phillip Jackson is Vicar of Trinity Church Wall Street.

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Trinity Church Wall Street: Music Programming 2019-20
All events are free and take place in St. Paul’s Chapel unless otherwise indicated.  

Thursday, Sep 5 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series
Students of Christian Lane from the Boston Organ Studio 

Thursday, Sep 12 at 1pm
Season Opener: Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation
Pipes at One
Janet Yieh, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street) 

Thursday, Sep 12 at 7pm
Pre-Concert Reception at 6pm
Season Opener: Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation
NOVUS NY; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Paola Prestini: “Sanctus” from Imaginary World of Wild Order: A Mass (2017)
*Julia Wolfe: “Flowers” from Anthracite Fields (2015)
David Lang: these broken wings: Part 3 “learn to fly” (2008)
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code (2013)
Julian Wachner: “Blood Rubies” and “Beyond Paradise” from REV 23 (2017)
*Ellen Reid: “Lumee’s aria” from p r i s m (2018)
Ed Thomas: “Anna’s aria” from Anna Christie (2018)
Trevor Weston: Given Sound (2007)
*Du Yun: “Boy Angel’s aria” from Angel’s Bone (2016)
Philip Glass: XII. Dedication from Symphony No. 5
* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music

Friday, Sep 13 at 7pm
Season Opener: Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation
Candlelight Baroque
Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Molly Netter, soprano; Sylvain Bergeron, lute and theorbo 

Saturday, Sep 14 at 7pm
Season Opener: Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation
Singing Our Song – Hymns and Anthems from Trinity Church
Downtown Voices; St. Paul’s Chapel Choir; Trinity Youth Chorus; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; NOVUS NY Brass Quintet and Percussion

Sunday, Sep 15 at 8pm
Season Opener: Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Heinrich Schütz: Verleih uns Frieden

Sep 18-25
New York, NY
REV. 23 Opera Workshop
Manhattan School of Music

Thursday, Sep 19 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Balint Karosi, organ (St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, NYC)

Sunday, Sep 22 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Heinrich Schütz: So fahr ich hin

Thursday, Sep 26 at 1pm
Pipes at One
David Jernigan, organ (Christ Church Raleigh, NC) 

Sunday, Sep 29 at 2:30pm
Montreal, QC
Bach Cantatas – The Complete Cycle
Ticketed
Salle Bourgie, Montreal, Quebec
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
J. S. Bach: In allen meinen Taten, BWV 97
J. S. Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
J. S. Bach: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3
J. S. Bach: Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24

Sunday, Sep 29 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
All Saints Chapel, Trinity Church
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Thursday, Oct 3 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series
Students of Daniel Aune and John Walker from the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD

Sunday, Oct 6 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Maurice Duruflé: Ubi Caritas

Thursday, Oct 10 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Avi Stein, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)

Sunday, Oct 13 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati Quorum Via

Thursday, Oct 17 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Colin Lynch, organ (Trinity Copley Square Boston, MA) 

Friday and Saturday, Oct 18 & 19
Beijing, China
Beijing Music Festival
Angel’s Bone
Ticketed: http://www.bmf.org.cn
Poly Theatre
Beth Morrison Projects; Julian Wachner, conductor
Du Yun: Angel’s Bone

Sunday, Oct 20 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Julian Wachner: Seek the Lord

Thursday, Oct 24 at 1pm
Pipes at One
George Fergus, organ (National Cathedral, Washington DC)

Sunday, Oct 27 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus 

Thursday, Oct 31 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Julian Wachner, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)
Leon Boellmann: Suite Gothique
J. S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Copland/arr. Wachner: El Salón México

Thursday, Oct 31 at 7pm
Candlelight Baroque
Breathtaking
Bruce Dickey, cornetto; Hana Blažíková, soprano; Avi Stein, organ

Sunday, Nov 3 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
William Harris: Faire is the heaven

Thursday, Nov 7 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Marvin Mills, organ (St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Kensington, MD)

Sunday, Nov 10 at 7pm
National Sawdust Presents Julian Wachner @ 50
Ticketed
National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; NOVUS NY; Jeffrey Zeigler, cello; Julian Wachner, conductor and piano
Julian Wachner: October Garden, Epistle Mass, Cycles, Blood Rubies, and the world premiere of a new cello work 

Sunday, Nov 10 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Stephen Paulus: Pilgrim’s Hymn

Thursday, Nov 14 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Stephen Hamilton, organ

Friday, Nov 15 at 7:30pm
Pärt and Poulenc
Downtown Voices; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; NOVUS NY; Stephen Sands and Melissa Attebury, conductors
Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine
Arvo Pärt: Passio 

Sunday, Nov 17 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Josquin des Pres: Ave Maria

Thursday, Nov 21 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Erik Suter, organ

Sunday, Nov 24 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me

Sunday, Dec 1 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Palestrina: An Advent Responsory

Thursday, Dec 5 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series        
Students of Ken Cowan from Rice University, Houston, TX

Thursday, Dec 5 at 5pm
Holiday Warmup Concert
Trinity Youth Chorus Juniors and Peppercorns

Sunday, Dec 8 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to the Virgin

Thursday, Dec 12 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Janet Yieh, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)

Sunday, Dec 15 at 3pm
Lessons and Carols
Downtown Voices; St. Paul’s Chapel Choir; Trinity Youth Chorus; Stephen Sands and Melissa Attebury, conductors

Sunday, Dec 15 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditsye Dyevo

Thursday, Dec 19 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Karen Christianson, organ 

Friday and Saturday, Dec 20-21 at 7:30pm; Sunday, Dec 22 at 3pm
Messiah
Ticketed
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor George Frideric Handel: Messiah 

Sunday, Dec 22 at 8pm
Chorister Compline by Candlelight
Trinity Youth Chorus; Melissa Attebury, conductor
Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols 

Thursday, Dec 26 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Victoria Shields, organ (First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, CT)

Sunday, Dec 29 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Francis Poulenc: O magnum mysterium

Thursday, Jan 2 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series 

Sunday, Jan 5 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
J. S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm

Thursday, Jan 9 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Donald Meineke, organ

Sunday, Jan 12 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
William Harris: Faire is the heaven 

Thursday, Jan 16 at 1pm
Pipes at One
David Briggs, organ

Friday, Jan 17 at 7pm; Saturday, Jan 18 at 2pm and 8pm
New York, NY
Prototype Festival
REV. 23
Ticketed
Gerald Lynch Theater, John Jay College
NOVUS NY
Julian Wachner/Cerise Jacobs: REV 23
James Darrah, stage director
Daniela Candillari, conductor
Colleen Daly, Persephone
Carl Tanner, Hades
Alexander Elliot, Lucifer
Paul An, Sun Tze
Anna Schubert, Fury 1
Naomi Louise O’Connell, Fury 2
Melanie Long, Fury 3
Michael Maniaci, Michael the Archangel
Brian Giebler, Adam
Sophia Byrd, Eve

Sunday, Jan 19 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Julian Wachner: Regina Coeli 

Thursday, Jan 23 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Renée Anne Louprette, organ (Rutgers University, Bard College) 

Sunday, Jan 26 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Charles Wood: Hail gladdening light 

Thursday, Jan 30 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Janet Yieh, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)

Sunday, Feb 2 at 3pm
Trinity Youth Chorus Concert
Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY
Trinity Youth Chorus; Melissa Attebury, conductor

Sunday, Feb 2 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Edward Naylor: Vox dicentes: clama! 

Thursday, Feb 6 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series

Sunday, Feb 9 at 3pm
Beethoven Mass in C
Downtown Voices; NOVUS NY; Stephen Sands, conductor
Brahms: Geistliches Lied
Beethoven: Mass in C 

Sunday, Feb 9 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Julian Wachner: Hospital Anthem 

Thursday, Feb 13 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Avi Stein, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street) 

Sunday, Feb 16 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Arnold Bax: Lord, thou hast told us 

Thursday, Feb 20 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Jeremy Filsell, organ (St. Thomas Church, NYC)

Sunday, Feb 23 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Trevor Weston: Given Sound 

Thursday, Feb 27 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Julian Wachner, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)
Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata No. 1, Op. 42 – Finale
J. S. Bach: Doric Toccata and Fugue, BWV 538
J. S. Bach: Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543

Sunday, March 1 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
John Shepherd: Gaude, Gaude, Gaude Maria 

Thursday, March 5 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series

Sunday, March 8 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
William Byrd: Domine, Exaudi Orationem Meam, Inclina 

Monday, March 9 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Herbert Howells: Take him, Earth for Cherishing 

Thursday, March 12 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Geoffrey Ward, organ (The University of the South, Sewanee, TN)

Friday, March 13 at 7:30pm; Saturday, March 14 at 2pm
Washington, D.C.
Kennedy Center Presents p r i s m
The Kennedy Center
Ticketed
NOVUS NY; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
James Darrah, director; Julian Wachner, conductor
Ellen Reid: p r i s m (fully staged opera) 

Sunday, March 15 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Bo Holten: In nomine 

Monday, March 16 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13
Johann Adolph Hasse: Sinfonia in G minor, Op. 5 No. 6

Thursday, March 19 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Eric Plutz, organ (Princeton University)

Sunday, March 22 at 7pm & 8pm
Chorister Lenten Concert and Compline by Candlelight
Trinity Youth Chorus; Melissa Attebury, conductor
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater 

Monday, March 23 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14
Johann Bernhard Bach: Suite in D

Thursday, March 26 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Janet Yieh, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)

Sunday, March 29 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Josquin Des Pres: Qui habitat

Monday, March 30 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16
Francesco Geminiani: Concerto Grosso in C, Op.  5 No. 3 (after Arcangelo Corelli)

Thursday, April 2 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series

Sunday, April 5 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Gabriel Jackson: Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland

Monday, April 6 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17
J.S. Bach: Missa in G, BWV 236 

Thursday, April 16 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Peter Sykes, organ (Boston University, Juilliard School)

Sunday, April 19 at 3pm
Philadelphia Heritage Chorale Exchange
Downtown Voices and Philadelphia Heritage Chorale; Stephen Sands, conductor; Dr. Donald Dumpson, curator 

Sunday, April 19 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Antoine Busnois: Gaude caelestis Domina

Monday, April 20 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18 

Thursday, April 23 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Bradley Burgess, organ (Edenton Street United Methodist Church, Raleigh, NC)

Friday, April 24 at 7pm
Candlelight Baroque
Alana Youssefian, violin and baroque violin

Sunday, April 26 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
William Byrd: Tribulatio Proxima Est 

Monday, April 27 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
Johann Christian Schiefferdecker: Concert No. 1 in A minor 

Thursday, April 30 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Gail Archer, organ (Columbia University, Vassar College)

May 1 (8pm) & 3 (2pm)
Los Angeles, CA
LA Opera
Angel’s Bone
Ticketed: laopera.org/performances/201920-season/angels-bone
The Broad Stage
Beth Morrison Projects; Julian Wachner, conductor
Du Yun: Angel’s Bone 

Sunday, May 3 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Bent Sorensen: In Paradisum 

Monday, May 4 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J.S. Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
Antonio Vivaldi: Overture to “L’Olimpiade” 

Thursday, May 7 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series

Sunday, May 10 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
John Dunstable: Veni Sancte Spiritus

Monday, May 11 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
Richard Strauss: Der Abend
J.S. Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
Richard Strauss: Der Abend

Thursday, May 14 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Nicole Keller, organ (Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, OH)

Sunday, May 17 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
John Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum 

Thursday, May 21 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Julian Wachner, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)
Maurice Duruflé: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain
Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonie No. 6 in G minor 

Sunday, May 24 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9: Prelude and Fugue 

Thursday, May 28 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Michael Messina, organ (Trinity Church, Indianapolis, IN)

Friday, May 29 at 5pm
Trinity Youth Chorus and Outreach Choirs Concert
Trinity Youth Chorus Juniors and Peppercorns; CPC Outreach Choruses; Melissa Attebury and Anne Damssa Graff, conductors 

Sunday, May 31 at 4pm
Trinity Youth Chorus Concert
Trinity Youth Chorus; NOVUS NY; Melissa Attebury, conductor
Schubert: Mass in G and works by Mendelssohn and Mozart

Sunday, May 31 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Tarik O’Regan: I Sleep, But My Heart Waketh 

Thursday, June 4 at 1pm
Pipes at One
First Thursdays Conservatory Series

Sunday, June 7 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Richard Strauss: Der Abend 

Monday, June 8 at 1pm
Bach + One
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J. S. Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
J. S. Bach: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2
J. S. Bach: Christ unser herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7

Thursday, June 11 at 1pm
Pipes at One
Ed Moore, organ (East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA)

Friday, June 12 at 12pm and Saturday, June 13 at 7:30pm
Leipzig Bach Festival Performances
Ticketed
June 12: St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany
June 13: Wartburg Castle, Eisenach, Germany
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
J. S. Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
J. S. Bach: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2
J. S. Bach: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7

Sunday, June 14 at 8pm
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street 

12 NIGHTS FESTIVAL 

Wednesday, June 17 at 1pm
12 Nights Festival
The Handel Project
Trinity Church
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
George Frideric Handel: Deborah, Part the First 

Wednesday, June 17 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 1 

Thursday, June 18 at 1pm
12 Nights Festival
The Handel Project
Trinity Church
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
George Frideric Handel: Deborah, Part the Second 

Thursday, June 18 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Brandenburg Concertos
Trinity Church
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, conductor
J. S. Bach: Complete Brandenburg Concertos, Part 1

Friday, June 19 at 1pm
12 Nights Festival
The Handel Project
Trinity Church
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor
George Frideric Handel: Deborah, Part the Third 

Friday, June 19 at 7pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 2 

Saturday, June 20 at 7pm
12 Nights Festival
Brandenburg Concertos
Trinity Church
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, conductor
J. S. Bach: Complete Brandenburg Concertos, Part 2 

Sunday, June 21 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Johannes Ockeghem: Deo Gratia a 36
Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium

Monday, June 22 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 3

Tuesday, June 23 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
From the Trecento to Josquin
Trinity Church
Jonathan Woody, curator 

Wednesday, June 24 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 4 

Thursday, June 25 at 1pm
12 Nights Festival
Pipes at One
Avi Stein, organ (Trinity Church Wall Street)

Thursday, June 25 at 8pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 5 

Friday, June 26 at 7pm
12 Nights Festival
Rameau: Dardanus
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor; James Darrah, stage director
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus
Zachary Wilder, Dardanus
Mirelle Asselin, Venus
Nola Richardson, Cupid
Melissa Attebury, Iphise
Matt Boehler, Teucer
Tyler Duncan, Anténor
John Taylor Ward, Isménor 

Saturday, June 27 at 7pm
12 Nights Festival
Beethoven 250
Trinity Church
Attacca Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Part 6

Sunday, June 28 at 2pm
Katonah, NY
Rameau: Dardanus
Caramoor Music Festival, Katonah, NY
Ticketed
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor; James Darrah, stage director
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus
Zachary Wilder, Dardanus
Mirelle Asselin, Venus
Nola Richardson, Cupid
Melissa Attebury, Iphise
Matt Boehler, Teucer
Tyler Duncan, Anténor
John Taylor Ward, Isménor 

Wednesday, July 8 at 3pm
John’s Creek, GA
American Guild of Organists Biennial National Convention
John’s Creek United Methodist Church
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Avi Stein and Janet Yieh, organ; Julian Wachner, conductor
Gerald Finzi: God is gone up, Op. 27, No. 2
Trevor Weston: Ashes
Cecilia McDowall: Adoro te devote
Leo Sowerby: Psalm 122 “I Was Glad”
Gerre Hancock: Deep River
Herbert Howells: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (St Paul’s Service)
Julian Wachner: My Cathedral (world premiere)

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