Trinity Wall Street’s 2012-13 season ranges from Bach to jazz and beyond
Trinity Wall Street has become a destination point for music lovers in New York City, with the New York Times praising Trinity’s “transcendent” and “moving” performances of music both sacred and secular. Ranging from timeless Bach and Handel to the complete sacred works of Stravinsky, new music, jazz and more, Trinity’s 2012-13 season is bound to set an even higher standard with its array of local and international talent. Concerts at One, Trinity’s expanding series of free concerts, kicks off with a mini-festival, Twelve in 12, which runs from September 6 to 27. The festival will feature Trinity music director Julian Wachner leading Novus NY, the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Trinity Wall Street, in a dozen works by twelve recent Pulitzer Prize winners, including John Adams, Steve Reich and Jennifer Higdon. The ever popular Bach at One series continues its presentation of Bach’s cantatas performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Starting in October, Trinity’s new Pipes at One series will showcase the mechanical-action pipe organ of St. Paul’s Chapel, with performances by some of New York City’s leading keyboard artists. Trinity’s beloved annual performances of Handel’s Messiah continue this year with two December events: at Trinity Church and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The Twelfth Night Festival runs from December 26 to January 6 and includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and complete Brandenburg Concertos, Monteverdi’s Vespers, and jazz pianist Dan Tepfer’s Goldberg Variations / Variations. And heralding the new season are two new CD releases: On September 11 comes Averno, a disc devoted to the music of contemporary American composer Elena Ruehr, as performed in world premieres by the Trinity Choir and Novus NY under Julian Wachner; and available on September 15 is a three-CD set documenting the live, highly praised 2010 performance by the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra of Handel’s Israel in Egypt.
Spring 2013 brings several major musical projects at Trinity Wall Street – including a five-week, February-March collaboration with TENET that presents great settings of Tenebrae, with works by Buxtehude, Tallis, Gesualdo, Victoria and Charpentier. On Palm Sunday, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under Wachner will perform Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion. And from April 26 to 28, Novus NY joins the Trinity Choir to present Stravinsky’s complete sacred works. The Stravinsky Festival at Trinity Wall Street will feature the great works from the composer’s rarely heard, highly refined serial period, including Requiem Canticles, The Flood, Threni and Canticum Sacrum. The Stravinsky Festival culminates with his earlier sacred masterworks: the Mass and Symphony of Psalms.
One of the oldest, largest and most vibrant of all Episcopal parishes, Trinity Wall Street is located in the heart of Manhattan’s financial district, where it has created a dynamic home for great music. Serving as director of Trinity’s Music and the Arts 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 and arts programming at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. The music at Trinity ranges from large-scale oratorios to chamber music, from intimate a cappella singing to jazz improvisation. All concerts at Trinity Wall Street are professionally filmed and broadcast live at www.trinitywallstreet.org.
Two new CD releases
This month’s first Trinity CD release, Averno, is devoted to the music of composer Elena Ruehr (b. 1963). Issued by the Avie label, the album features performances from last May at Trinity Wall Street by the Trinity Choir and Novus NY under Julian Wachner. Ruehr – raised in rural Michigan, educated at the Juilliard School, and now a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – has been declared “a composer to watch” by Opera News, while Gramophone magazine described her music as “unspeakably gorgeous.” The album features three of her vocal works set to poetry by three distinctly American poets: Louise Glück, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes. The title cantata is Ruehr’s setting of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glück’s poems retelling the story of Demeter, goddess of the earth, and her daughter Persephone, with the composer’s music conjuring ancient themes in a modern idiom. Cricket, Spider, Bee vividly envisions Dickinson’s view of the natural world. And the large-scale Gospel Cha-Cha sets Hughes’s socially conscious late poetry, with the work evoking African dance as well as the Harlem Renaissance. The album’s vocal soloists are soprano Marguerite Krull and baritone Stephen Salters.
The second September CD release, on the Musica Omnia label, captures Trinity’s October 2010 performance of Israel in Egypt by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra under Julian Wachner. The album presents the final 1756 revised version of Handel’s most elaborate “chorus oratorio,” and it represents the debut performance of Wachner as Trinity’s principal conductor and music director. In addition to the 1756 score in its entirety, the set includes the oratorio’s original Part One from the first 1739 performance as an appendix – making this release the most complete recorded version of Israel in Egypt on the market. The New York Times review of the live event singled out the “marvelous series of choruses depicting the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea and their aftermath. These splendid studies in tone painting were all superbly performed by the Trinity Choir.”
Concerts at One
Concerts at One, Trinity Wall Street’s long-running series of free concerts on Thursday afternoons, expands again this year. It will kick off with a season-launching mini-festival from September 6 to 27: Twelve in 12, which will feature Trinity’s new contemporary-music ensemble Novus NY under Wachner performing a dozen different scores by twelve recent Pulitzer Prize winners in music composition. Including works for chamber orchestra, vocal and chamber music, and instrumental pieces, the concerts will showcase John Adams’s Son of Chamber Symphony, Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations, Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy, David Lang’s these broken wings, and John Corigliano’s Winging It, as well as works by Jennifer Higdon, Steven Stucky, Yehudi Wyner, Zhou Long, Kevin Puts, Henry Brant, and Ornette Coleman.
Also in Concerts at One, the boy choristers of St. Thomas Church will make their Trinity debut on October 18. The ensembles of West Point make their much-anticipated returns on October 11, November 29 and December 20. I.C.E. (the International Contemporary Ensemble) presents two concerts on February 7 and 14. And the Québec ensemble Flûte Alors! makes its U.S. debut on April 18. Other featured artists this season include the North Sky Cello Ensemble, Hugo Wolf Quartet, New York Master Chorale, and the Minetti Quartet with Andreas Klein. Solo artists making their Trinity debut include baritone Kelvin Chan, soprano Joélle Harvey, bassoonist Rebekah Heller, and guitarist Jaoa Kouyoumdjian.
Building on the success of last season’s mini-series, Concerts at One will present Jazz in November with the Aaron Diehl Trio, John Ambrosini Quintet and the Blue Vipers of Brooklyn. Contemporary American Art Song in collaboration with Joy in Singing runs from February 21 to March 21. And in May, The Academy – a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education – will close the season with three concerts by the young virtuosi of ACJW.
Bach at One
Trinity’s Bach at One series runs from October 1 to December 17 and from March 25 to May 27. The series sees the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra continue their presentation of Bach’s complete cantata output, as well as such rarely heard works as his Lutheran masses. The New York Times has praised the “dramatic vigor” of Bach performances by the Trinity forces, not to mention “the buoyant, elegantly shaped orchestral sound” and “the lithe, immaculate and colorful singing of the chorus.” As well as performing all the Bach cantatas featured in the Bach at One series, the forces of Trinity Wall Street will also come together to perform Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Wachner on March 24.
Pipes at One
In October, Trinity Wall Street will inaugurate a new series of free, 40-minute organ recitals by top performers on Wednesdays at 1 pm in St. Paul’s Chapel, the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan. The mechanical-action pipe organ of St. Paul’s Chapel was built in 1964 by the Schlicker Organ Co. of Buffalo, NY, and re-built by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, MA, in 1981. It boasts the oldest pipe organ case in New York City, made of mahogany and dating from 1802, and contains 1,632 pipes. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, which was directly across the street from St. Paul’s, silenced the organ, but it has since been partially cleaned and made playable by Mann & Trupiano organ-builders from Brooklyn. Renée Anne Louprette, organist and associate director of Trinity’s Music and the Arts program (and a faculty member at Montclair State University), will launch the series on October 3. Other performers to be featured in the series include Rick Erickson (cantor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and music director of the Boulder Bach Festival in Colorado), David Enlow (organist and choirmaster at Church of the Resurrection and a member of the Juilliard School faculty), Joseph Arndt (director of music at Grace Episcopal Church, Newark), Avi Stein (principal keyboardist of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and a faculty member of Yale University) and James Kennerley (organist and music director of Saint Mary the Virgin Church). On October 10, Julian Wachner will play an all-Bach recital, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Messiah
The New York Times has given Trinity Wall Street’s annual performances of Handel’s Messiah high acclaim. Trinity, “largely on the strength of its extraordinary choir, pierced the heart,” said last season’s review, which added that while other groups present Messiah as “a comfortable holiday tradition, Trinity put on something closer to a sacred rite.” This season’s Messiah performances will take place at Trinity Church on December 9 and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on December 12.
Twelfth Night Festival
The Twelfth Night Festival – New York’s winter early music festival, produced this season in collaboration with Gotham Early Music Society – runs from December 26 to January 6. The festival will present performances by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Ryland Angel, Parthenia, New York Sinfonia, Clarion, Tenet, Green Mountain Project, Juilliard 415, and organist Renée Anne Louprette. Highlights include a December 30 performance by the Clarion Music Society of Russian music for Christmas time, from Tchaikovsky to Arvo Pärt. On January 5, lauded jazz pianist Dan Tepfer will offer his Goldberg Variations / Variations, in which he plays not only Bach’s Goldberg Variations in full but his own improvised variations on the composer’s variations. Of Tepfer’s creation, the Wall Street Journal has said: “He builds a bridge across centuries and sparks a dialogue with Johann Sebastian Bach.” Major choral repertoire presented during the festival includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Monteverdi’s Vespers, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Julian Wachner will perform Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos. The festival concludes with a One Parish service of Epiphany Lessons and Carols featuring the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the choristers.
Compline by Candlelight
Compline at Candlelight begins on September 30 and will be offered continuously throughout the year on Sunday evenings in the candlelit beauty of St. Paul’s Chapel. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street improvises the liturgy and performs contemporary works by emerging and recognized composers. This season’s contemporary works include up-and-comer Tarik O’Regan’s Surrexit Christus and Jennifer Higdon’s Deep in the Night, as well as pieces by Ned Rorem, Howard Skempton, Michael Finnissy, Nico Muhly and Julian Wachner, among others. An improvisational vocal quartet also accompanies the liturgy at 9 am on Sunday mornings, singing in the tradition developed at Compline.
TENEbrae
From February 17 to March 17, Trinity collaborates with the enemble TENET to present TENEbrae: five performances of great music often associated with the ceremony of Tenebrae during Holy Week. Led by Julian Wachner, TENET will perform Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah, Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsoria and Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres pour Vendredi.
Stravinsky Festival – The Complete Sacred Works
Spring 2013 brings a major musical project at Trinity Wall Street with a Stravinsky Festival that will present performances of the great composer’s complete sacred works from April 26 to 28, including his Symphony of Psalms, Mass and Requiem Canticles, among much else.
Trinity Wall Street: 2012-13 season
Thurs, Sept 6, 1:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One: Twelve in 12 – Celebrating the Pulitzer Prize
NOVUS NY – The Contemporary Music Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor and solo piano
Steven Stucky, Sonate en forme de preludes
Zhou Long, Dhyana
Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy
Thurs, Sept 13, 1:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One: Twelve in 12 – Celebrating the Pulitzer Prize
NOVUS NY – The Contemporary Music Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor and solo piano
Jennifer Higdon: wissahickon poeTrees
John Corigliano: Winging it
David Lang: these broken wings
Thurs, Sept 20, 1:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One: Twelve in 12 – Celebrating the Pulitzer Prize
NOVUS NY – The Contemporary Music Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Kevin Puts: Einstein on Mercer Street
Yehudi Wyner: The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women
Thurs, Sept 27, 1:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One: Twelve in 12 – Celebrating the Pulitzer Prize
NOVUS NY – The Contemporary Music Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
Henry Brant: Four Skeleton Pieces
Sun, Sept 30, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Melinda Wagner: Ancient Music
Mon, Oct 1, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 190 – Singet dem Herr nein neues Lied!
Bach: Cantata BWV 191 – Gloria in excelsis Deo
Bach: Cantata BWV 192 – Nun danket alle Gott
Wed, Oct 3, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Renée Anne Louprette, solo organ
Organist and Associate Director of Music and the Arts, Trinity Wall Street
Faculty, Montclair State University
Thurs, Oct 4, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
North Sky Cello Ensemble
Brooklyn: New York
Songs for Cello
A song cycle by local composers (Coltrane, Cieri, Kodheli…)
Sun, Oct 7, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Robert Kyr: O Great Spirit
Monday, Oct 8, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 144 – Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin
Bach: Cantata BWV 92 – Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn
Wed, Oct 10, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Julian Wachner, solo organ
Bach: Fugue in G minor BWV578, “The Little”
Bach: Canzona in D minor BWV588
Bach: Three Chorale-Preludes: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme;
An Wasserflüssen Babylon; Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538
Thurs, Oct 11, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
West Point Woodwind Quintet
Works by Bermel, Previn, and Harbison
Sun, Oct 14, 2012, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Augusta Read Thomas: Alleluia
Mon, Oct 15, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 181 – Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister
Bach: Cantata BWV 126 – Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort
Wed, Oct 17, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Andrew Henderson, solo organ
Director of Music and Organist, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, NYC
Thurs, Oct 18, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
The Choristers of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; John Scott, director
Works by sacred choral masters
Sun, Oct 21, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Ned Rorem: Sing my soul
Wed, Oct 24, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Iris Lan, solo organ
Concert organist and composer
Thurs, Oct 25, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Hugo Wolf Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K 421
Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat major, op 74 (“Harp”)
Fri, Oct 26, 8:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Halloween Is Happening!
Julian Wachner, organ
Improvised score to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Improvised score to Frankenstein (1910 short)
Sun, Oct 28, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Jonathan Newman: Moon by night
Mon, Oct 29, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?
Bach: Cantata BWV 30 – Freue dich, erlöste Schar
Wed, Oct 31, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Rick Erickson, solo organ
Cantor, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, NYC
Music Director, Boulder Bach Festival, Colorado
Thurs, Nov 1, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Aaron Diehl Trio, with special guest Wycliffe Gordon
Jazz program to be announced
Sun, Nov 4, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Ivo Antognini: Pater Noster
Mon, Nov 5, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 32 – Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen
Bach: Cantata BWV 170 – Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust
Wed, Nov 7, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
David Enlow, solo organ
Organist and Choirmaster, Church of the Resurrection, NYC
Faculty, Juilliard School
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway, NYC)
Concerts at One
John Ambrosini Quintet
sketches of you, an original work by John Ambrosini
Sun, Nov 11, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Nico Muhly: Pater Noster
Mon, Nov 12, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 3 – Ach Gott, wie manches Herzelied I
Schütz – Motets from Geistliches ChorMusik, 1648
Wed, Nov 14, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Joseph Arndt, solo organ
Director of Music, Grace Episcopal Church, Newark, NJ
Thurs, Nov 15, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Blue Vipers of Brooklyn
Jazz program to be announced
Mon, Nov 19, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 72 – Alles nur nach Gottes Willen
Bach: Lutheran Missa in G minor BWV235
Sun, Nov 25, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Jennifer Higdon: Deep in the Night
Mon, Nov 26, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 14 – Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit
Bach: Cantata BWV 81 – Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?
Wed, Nov 28, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Janet Yieh, solo organ
Organ Scholar, Trinity Wall Street
Thurs, Nov 29, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
West Point Jazz Knights
Jazz program to be announced
Sun, Dec 2, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Coeli
Mon, Dec 3, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantatas BWV 61 & 62 – Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland I & II
Wed, Dec 5, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Claudia Dumschat, Solo organ
Music Director, The Church of the Transfiguration, NYC
Thurs, Dec 6, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Joélle Harvey and Kelvin Chan
In the Bleak Midwinter: Holiday works for piano and voice
Sun, Dec 9, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Howard Skempton: Ostende nobis Domine
Sun, Dec 9, 2012, 3:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 7:30 pm (Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center)
Messiah
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
G.F. Handel: Messiah (complete)
Wed, Dec 12, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Avi Stein, solo organ
Principal keyboardist, Trinity Baroque Orchestra
Faculty, Yale University, Longy School of Music
Thurs, Dec 13, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Sun, Dec 16, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Gabriel Jackson: Cecilia virgo
Mon, Dec 17, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 40 – Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes
Bach: BWV 233 – Lutheran Missa in F major
Wed, Dec 19, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
James Kennerley
Organist and Music Director, St. Mary the Virgin Church, NYC
Thurs, Dec 20, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
West Point Concert Band, Brass, and Percussion
Hymns, carols, and holiday favorites
Sun, Dec 23, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Roderick Williams: O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel
Mon, Dec 24, 9:30 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Christmas Eve service
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: BWV 243 – Magnificat
Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Howells: A spotless rose; Sing lullaby
Poulenc: O magnum mysterium
Wed, Dec 26, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Pipes at One
Julian Wachner, solo organ
Bach: BWV 572 – Pièce d’Orgue; BWV 729 – In dulci jubilo; BWV723, 724 – Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ; BWV 662, 663, 664 – Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr’ ; Bach: BWV 590 – Pastorale in F major
Wed, Dec 26, 7:30 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Festival Lecture
Julian Wachner, lecturer
A discussion on the liturgical life of J.S. Bach
Thurs, Dec 27, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Complete Brandenburg Concerti
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor and harpsichord
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 5
Thurs, Dec 27, 7:30 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – As it Fell on a Holie Eve
Parthenia, with soprano Julianne Baird
Works by Morley, Holborne, Ravenscroft, Bull, Hume, Byrd
Fri, Dec 28, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
12th Night Festival – Complete Brandenburg Concerti
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor and harpsichord
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 4, 6
Fri, Dec 28, 7:30 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Our Lady II
Ryland Angel, countertenor
Works of Sances, Leopold I, O’Regan, Wachner
Sat, Dec 29, 3:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – A Christmas Concert for all Ages
Sinfonia Players
Festival selections for young audiences
Sat, Dec 29, 7:30 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Madrigals of Love and War
TENET
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book VIII
Sun, Dec 30, 3:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – A Russian Christmas
Clarion Music Society; Steven Fox, conductor
Works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt
Sun, Dec 30, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Anthony Powers: O Magnum Mysterium
Mon, Dec 31, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Pipes at One
Renee Anne Louprette, organ; John Thiessen, trumpet
Repertoire TBD
Wed, Jan 2, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Bach Christmas Oratorio (complete)
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor and harpsichord
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas Nos. 1 & 2
Thurs, Jan 3, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (complete)
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor and harpsichord
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas Nos. 3 & 4
Fri, Jan 4, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (complete)
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor and harpsichord
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas Nos. 5 & 6
Sat, Jan 5, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – “Goldberg Variations / Variations”
Dan Tepfer, piano
Alternating Bach’s Goldberg Variations with jazz improvisation
Sun, Jan 6, 4:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Twelfth Night Festival – Epiphany Lessons and Carols
The Choirs of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus; Julian Wachner, conductor
Works by Willcocks, Rutter, Howells, Tchailkovsky, Pott, Jackson
Sun, Jan 6, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Andrew Simpson: Surge Illuminare
Sun, Jan 13, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Jonathan Pitkin: Cantate Domino
Sun, Jan 20, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Francis Pott: Jesus dulcis memoris
Sun, Jan 27, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Alan Bullard: Ave maris stella
Sun, Feb 3, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Michael Finnissy: Ave regina coelorum
Wed, Feb 6, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, Feb 7, 1:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E.)
Works by Fujikura, Asphergis, Vivier, Zorn
Sun, Feb 10, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Howard Helvey: O Gracious Light
Wed, Feb 13, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, Feb 14, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E.)
Sun, Feb 17, 5:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
TENEbrae
TENET in collaboration with Trinity Wall Street; Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director; Julian Wachner, conductor
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
Sun, Feb 17, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
John Joubert: In medio Ecclesiae
Wed, Feb 20, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, Feb 21, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Joy in Singing
Paul Sperry, series curator
Contemporary American Art Song
(Hagen, Paulus, Bolcom, Larsen)
Sun, Feb 24, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Andrew Gant: Ave verum corpus
Wed, Feb 27, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, Feb 28, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Joy in Singing
Paul Sperry, Series Curator
Contemporary American Art Song
(Hagen, Paulus, Bolcom, Larsen)
Sun, March 3, 5:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
TENEbrae
TENET in collaboration with Trinity Wall Street; Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director; Julian Wachner, conductor
Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
Sun, March 3, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Gabriel Jackson: A Prayer of King Henry VI
Wed, March 6, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ, Artist TBD
Thurs, March 7, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
NYC Master Chorale; Thea Kano, director
Water and Light: Hogan, Lauridsen, Copland, Whitacre
Fri, March 8, 7:00 pm (St. Ignatius of Antioch)
Sun, March 10, 5:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
TENEbrae
TENET in collaboration with Trinity Wall Street; Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director; Julian Wachner, conductor
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
Sun, March 10, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Julian Wachner: Hear My Cry
Wed, March 13, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, March 14, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Joy in Singing
Paul Sperry, series curator
Contemporary American Art Song
(Hagen, Paulus, Bolcom, Larsen)
Sun, March 17, 5:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
TENEbrae
TENET in collaboration with Trinity Wall Street; Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director
Charpentier: Lecons de Tenebres pour Vendredi
Sun, March 17, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Michael Berkeley: Pasce agnos meos
Wed, March 20, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, March 21, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Joy in Singing
Paul Sperry, series curator
Contemporary American Art Song
(Hagen, Paulus, Bolcom, Larsen)
Sun, March 24, 5:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Sun, March 24, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bob Chilcott: Pange Lingua
Mon, March 25, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 41 – Jesu, nun sei gepreiset
Bach: BWV 14 – Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit
Wed, April 3, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, April 4, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
João Kouyoumdjian
Works for solo guitar
Sun, April 7, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Stravinsky: The Dove descending
Mon, April 8, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; guest conductor TBD
Bach: BWV 226 – Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf; BWV 227 – Jesu, meine Freude; BWV 228 – Fürchte dic nicht
Wed, April 10, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, April 11, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Minetti Quartett with Andreas Klein
Mozart: Concerto KV 414 for string quartet.
Beethoven: String Quartet, Opus 59, no. 3
Sun, April 14, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Tarik O’Regan: Surrexit Christus
Mon, April 15, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 249 – Easter Oratorio
Wed, April 17, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, April 18, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Flûte Alors!
Back to the Future
Works by Caldini, Maute, and Reich
Sun, April 21, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Stravinsky: Ave Maria
Mon, April 22, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 46 – Schauet doch und sheet; Cantata BWV 47 – Wer sich selbst erhöret
Wed, April 24, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, April 25, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
Pianists Sean Chen, Sara Daneshpour, Claire Huangci, Andrew Staupe, Eric Zuber
Finalists and winner (announced April 20, 2013) of American Pianists Association Classical
Fellowship Award
Newly commissioned works (New York premieres)
Fri, April 26, 7:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Stravinsky Festival – The Complete Sacred Works
NOVUS NY & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Stravinsky: The Flood; Abraham and Isaac; Threni; Introitus
Sat, April 27, 7:00 pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Stravinsky Festival – The Complete Sacred Works
NOVUS NY & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Stravinsky: A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer; Elegy for J.F.K.; In Memoriam Dylan Thomas; Requiem Canticles
Bach-Stravinsky: Canonic Variations “Vom himmel hoch”
Sun, April 28, 3:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Stravinsky Festival – The Complete Sacred Works
NOVUS NY & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; The Trinity Youth Chorus; Julian Wachner, conductor
Stravinsky: Anthem; Cantata; Mass; Symphony of Psalms
Sun, April 28, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Trinity Youth Chorus; Melissa Attebury, conductor
Improvised chant
Mon, April 29, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 33 – Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ; Cantata BWV 39 – Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot
Wed, May 1, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, May 2, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
ACJW- The Academy:A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
Messiaen: Quatour pour la fin du temps
Sun, May 5, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Will Todd: Christus est stella
Mon, May 6, 2013, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 186 – Ärge dich, o Seele, nicht; BWV 45 – Es ist dir gesagt Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen
Sun, May 12, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Julian Wachner: Nunc Dimmitis St. Thomas Fifth Avenue
Mon, May 13, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 11 – Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen; Cantata BWV 31 – Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubiliert
Wed, May 15, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, May 16, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
ACJW – The Academy: A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute
in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
Samuel Carl Adams: new work for string sextet
Bch: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1050
Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K. 388
Sun, May 19, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
John Rutter: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Mon, May 20, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 64 – Sehet, Welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget
Wed, May 22, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Pipes at One
Solo organ; artist TBD
Thurs, May 23, 1:00pm (Trinity Church, Wall & Broadway)
Concerts at One
ACJW- The Academy: A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with New York City Department of Education
Missy Mazzoli: new work for flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, and violin
Brahms: Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40
Sun, May 26, 8:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Compline by Candlelight
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Improvised chant
Kerry Andrew: O lux beata Trinitas
Mon, May 27, 1:00 pm (St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton & Broadway)
Bach at One
Trinity Baroque Orchestra & The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor
Bach: Cantata BWV 75 – Die Elenden sollen essen
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