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2010-2011 Season
Obbligato I: Four Bassoons / Ironic
Saturday, November 6, 2010: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
Paschal de l’Estocart





Paul Hindemith


Bradley Balliett
La glace est luisante et belle
Toy qui plonges ton coeur
O qui pourra avoir ce bien
Quel monstre voy-ie là
Mondain, si tu le scais, di moy
L’eau va viste en s’escoulant
Frühling
An einem Schmetterling
An eine Töte
Beyond Good and Evil (World Premiere)

One Loves One’s Sesires / Dans le veritable amour
Love of One is a Barbarism
Four Miniature Epigrams
A People is a Detour of Nature
Shame is Inventive

Obbligato II: Guitar / nostalgic
Saturday, March 6, 2011: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City

John Dowland



Paul Hindemith



Frank Ezra Levy
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Disdain me still
Shall I sue
Fine knacks for ladies
Weep you no more sad fountains
Tauche deine Furcht
Eines Narren, eines Künstlers Leben
Trink aus!
Mitwelt
Night Keeps Its Promise (World Premiere)
Romancero Gitano
Music for a Stone Church
Sunday, April 10, 2011: Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, 552 West End Avenue, New York City

Arvo Pärt


John Dowland
Hildegard von Bingen
John Blow

Bogoroditse Devo
Missa Syllabica
Nunc dimitis
Thou, Mighty God
Sequentia de sancto Maximino
My days are gone like a shadow
Save me, O God
My God, my God, look upon me
Obbligato III: Marimba / exotic
Saturday, May 7, 2011: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
John Blow


David Bruce
Akemi Naito
Jacob Banks
My days are gone like a shadow
Save me, O God
My God, my God, look upon me
Songs in Wood (World Premiere)
Five Waka (World Premiere
O Magnet South (World Premiere)
MATA Festival
Wednesday, May 11, 2011: Le Poisson Rouge
Angelica Negron FONO (World Premiere)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011: Rose Theater
Umberto Giordano
Primo Riccitelli
Il Re (The King)
I Compagnacci (The Rowdy Companions)
2009-2010 Season
BLUE FIRE
Saturday, November 7, 2009: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)


Conrad Susa
Philippe Hersant


Vic Nees
Two Ensalatas
- El Fuego
- La Justa
Serenade (NYC Premiere)
from Allégories: (US Premiere)
- I. Enfance III
- II. Jeunesse (Vignt ans)
Concerto per la beata Vergine (US Premiere)

CALYPSO
Saturday, March 6, 2010: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City

Simon Sargon
Tom Nazziola
John Musto
Trevor Weston
Starsong
The People, Yes (NYC Premiere)
Another Spring (NYC Premiere)
Calypso (NYC Premiere)
Ma'at Musings (NYC Premiere)
John Musto (NYC Premiere)
Monday, April 16, 2010: Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue New York City
Alvin Singleton Brooklyn Bones
EIGHT CELLOS
Saturday, May 15, 2010: Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
Arvo Pärt
Piotr Moss
Nicolas Bacri
Ivan Moody
Erol Gurol
Alleluia-Tropus (US Premiere)
Stabat Mater (US Premiere)
Cantata No. 4 (US Premiere)
Ossetian Requiem (US Premiere)
Starry Messenger (Cantori Commission, World Premiere)

Monday, May 24, 2010: Rose Theater
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari I Gioielli Della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna)
2008-2009 Season
Saturday, November 1, 2008: St. Peter’s Church at Citicorp
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlande de Lassus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
Vince Peterson
Hans Leo Hassler
Johannes Brahms
Josef Rheinberger
Shawn Crouch
SICUT CERVUS
TIMOR ET TREMOR
EXULTATE DEO
LOCUS ISTE
OS JUSTI
CHRISTUS FACTUS EST
METROPOLIS (World Premiere)
DIXIT MARIA
ACH, ARME WELT
ABENDLIED
SLEEPLESS (World Premiere)
I. The Congress of the Insomniacs
II. Insomnia
III. Lullaby
Beata Moon
Anton Arensky
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Rachmaninov
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Michael Dellaira
INSOMNIA TIPS (World Premiere)
OTCHE NASH
AVE MARIA
BOGORODITSE DYEVO
AVE MARIA
O VOS OMNES
O QUAM GLORIOSUM
USA STORIES
I. Adagio Dancer
II. Art and Isadora
III. The Campers at Kitty Hawk
Saturday, March 7, 2009: Church of the Holy Trinity
Elisenda Fábregas
Tom Cipullo
The Flaming Rock
The Shadows Around the House
I. Swan’s Elegy
II. Mambo
III. The Sky Over My Mother’s House
IV. Train Ride at Dusk

Jorge Martín Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (World Premiere)
Sunday, April 5, 2009: St. Peter's Church
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlande de Lassus
Gioachino Rossini
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Hans Leo Hassler
Johannes Brahms
Josef Rheinberger
Igor Stravinsky
Anton Arensky
Sergei Rachmaninov
Felice Anerio
Claudio Monteverdi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lodovico Viadana
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
SICUT CERVUS
TIMOR ET TREMOR
O SALUTARIS HOSTIA
EXULTATE DEO
DIXIT MARIA
ACH, ARME WELT
ABENDLIED
AVE MARIA
OTCHE NASH
BOGORODITSE DYEVO
CHRISTUS FACTUS EST
CHRISTE, ADORAMUS TE
TU ES PETRUS
EXULTATE JUSTI
LOCUS ISTE
CHRISTUS FACTUS EST
OS JUSTI
AVE MARIA
O VOS OMNES
O QUAM GLORIOSUM
Monday, April 13, 2009: Avery Fisher Hall
Pietro Mascagni Il Piccolo Marat
Saturday, May 16, 2009: Church of the Holy Trinity
Sunday, May 17, 2009: Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA
Hugi Guðmundsson
Giya Kancheli
Stratis Minakakis
Bernd Franke
Kristin Kuster
ADORO TE DEVOTE
AMAO OMI
MONTEVERDI RESPONSORIES
ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN
ZEPHYRUS
2007-2008 Season
November 3, 2007: Church of the Holy Trinity
Judith Shatin
Judith Weir
Judith Bingham
Judith Lang Zaimont
Songs of War and Peace
Ascending Into Heaven
The Secret Garden
Sunny Airs and Sober
November 13, 2007: Avery Fisher Hall
Franco Leoni
Italo Montemezzi
L'oracolo
L'incantesimo
Sunday, March 16, 2008: Church of the Holy Trinity
Gabriel Fauré
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Gabriel Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine
Gottes ist der Orient
Requiem
Thursday, April 24, 2008: St. Peter's Church
Paul Crabtree Dive! A Water Music (World Premiere)
Saturday, April 26, 2008: St. Peter's Church
Samuel Barber
Gregg Smith
Gregg Smith
Reincarnations
Mass in Space
Now I Walk in Beauty
Saturday, May 17, 2008: Church of the Holy Trinity
Paul Crabtree
Paul Crabtree
Dive! A Water Music
An American Persephone

2006-2007 SEASON
November 4, 2006: New York Society for Ethical Culture
Virgil Thomson
David Lang
Leonard Bernstein
George Antheil
Robert Sirota
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides
Mary Stuart Choruses
Choruses from The Lark
Fighting the Waves
Songs and Spells
November 11, 2006: Alice Tully Hall
Riccardo Zandonai La farsa amorosa
Saturday, March 10, 2007: Church of the Holy Trinity
Sunday, March 11, 2007: Trinity Center for Urban Life (Philadelphia)
Erkki Sven Tüür
Hugi Guđmundsson
Giya Kancheli
Meditatio
Adoro Te Devote
Amao Omi
April 1, 2007: Church of the Holy Trinity
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Lodovico Viadana
Orlando di Lasso
Antonio Lotti
Francisco Guerrero
Felice Anerio
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Leonard Bernstein
Sicut Cervus
O Vos Omnes
Ave Maria
Exsultate Justi
Adoramus Te Christe
Crucifixus
Ave Virgo sanctissima
Christus factus est
Jesu, Dulcis Memoria
O Quam Gloriosum
Choruses from The Lark
May 20, 2007: St. Michael's Church
Luca Marenzio
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Francis Pilkington
John Dowland
William Byrd
Thomas Morley
Claudio Monteverdi
David Randolph
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlando di Lasso
Heinrich Isaac
Thomas Weelkes
Robert Ramsey
Pierre Passarau
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
Claudio Monteverdi
David Randolph
Johann Steffens
John Dowland
John Farmer
David Randolph
Orlando di Lasso
John Wilbye
Josquin des Prez
Dissi a l'amata e mia lucida stella
Pose un gran folco nel mio petto amore
Amyntas With His Phyllis Fair
Burst Forth my Tears
Though Amaryllis Dance
Fyer, Fyer!
Crudel! Perchè mi fuggi?
Grass (World Premiere)
I vaghi fiori
Matona mia cara
Innsbruck Ich muss Dich lassen
Hark All Ye Lovely Saints
Sleep, Fleshly Birth
Il est bel et bon
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Quel augellin
Once Certain Birds (World Premiere)
Der Kuckuck hat sich zu Tod gefalln
Unquiet Thoughts
Fair Phyllis I Saw
A Song for Humanity
Mon coeur se recommande à vous
Sweet Honey Sucking Bees
El Grillo

2005-2006 Season
November 5, 2005: New York Society for Ethical Culture
Paul Crabtree
Roger Calmel
Berthold Goldschmidt
An American Persephone (World Premiere)
Stabat Mater
Letzte Kapitel
April 9, 2006: Church of the Holy Trinity
Arnold Schoenburg
Osvaldo Golijov
Frank Martin
Hugo Wolf


J.S. Bach
Notturno
Lua Descolorida
Et la vie l'emporta
Aufblick
Resignation
Einklang
Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden"
May 20, 2006: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Rebekah Driscoll
Fernando Moruja
Claude Debussy
George Dyson
Franz Biebl
Beata Moon
Béla Bartók
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
Henry Leslie
Morten Lauridsen
Hammond/Hazelwood
    arr. Peter Knight
Denis Agay
Herman Bemberg
Hugo Wolf
Beata Moon
Traditional Philippine
Raphael Fusco
Leonard Bernstein
Michael Dellaira
To one who has been long in city pent (World Premiere)
A un hombre de una gran nariz
Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
To Music
Ave Maria
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
Párnás táncdal
Wir essen und leben wohl
Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg
Thine Eyes So Bright
O'vè, lass', il bel viso
I'm a Train

The Peacock
La Chanson des Baisers
Resignation
We Remember Them (World Premiere)
Baleleng
Musica Maquina
Lucky to Be Me
Campers at Kitty Hawk

2004-2005 Season

November 14, 2004: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Hugo Distler
Jorge Martín
Thomas Tallis
Orlando Gibbons
Kenneth Leighton
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
One Hour to Madness and Joy
If ye love me
Hosanna to the Son of David
Mass for Double Choir, Op. 44
February 5, 2005: Woolsey Hall, Yale University
Igor Stravinsky Persephone
March 20, 2005: Church of the Holy Trinity
Johannes Brahms
Manuel Cardoso
Keith Roberts
Schaffe in mir, Gott
Missa Pro Defunctis
Veni
May 21, 2005: New York Society for Ethical Culture
Pascal Dusapin
Raphael Fusco
Richard Danielpour
Dona Eis
Lamentations
Oratio Pauli

2003-2004 Season
November 9, 2003: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Zdneněk Lukáš
Alain Gagnon
Aaron Copland
Requiem
Chansons d'Orient
In the Beginning
November 25, 2003: Alice Tully Hall
Pietro Mascagni Guglielmo Ratcliff
April 4, 2004: Church of the Holy Trinity
Michael Tippett
Frank Ferko
Spirituals (from A Child of Our Time)
Stabat Mater
May 23, 2004: Miller Theater, Columbia University
Ton de Leeuw
Maurice Ohana
Cinq Hymnes
Avoaha

2002-2003 Season
November 17, 2002: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Karol Szymanowski
Bernard Rands
Byron Adams
Six Kurpian Folk Songs
…amongst the voices…
Les Illuminations
April 13, 2003: Church of the Holy Trinity
Maurice Duruflé
Maurice Duruflé
Friedrich Cerha
Quatre Motets
Requiem
An Die Herrscher der Welt
June 1, 2003: Merkin Hall
Keith Jarrett
Andrew Imbrie
Chris DeBlasio
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Elegy for Violin & String Orchestra
On the Beach at Night
The Best Beloved
Requiem

2001-2002 Season
Saturday, November 10, 2001: Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
Schütz
Heinrich Sutermeister
Musikalisches Exequient
Andreas Gryphius
Saturday, March 16, 2002: West Park Presbyterian Church
Michael Dellaira
Alain Gagnon
Bruno Bettinelli
Robert Convery
USA Stories
Paroles Dorées
Italian madrigals
Voyages
Saturday, May 18, 2002: The New York Society for Ethical Culture
Clément Robert
Bruce Adolphe
Robert Dennis
Claude Debussy
Ondine
Canticum Arcanum
Barcarola
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orleans

2000-2001 Season
Saturday, November 11, 2000: West Park Presbyterian Church
Tom Cipullo
Jean Absil
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Bo Holten
Hugo Wolf
Henri Pousseur
Stephen Chatman
Meeting at Night
Le Bestiare, op. 58
Three Shakespeare Songs
Triumf att finnas till
Sechs Geistliche Liede
Missa Brevis
There is Sweet Music Here
Saturday, March 10, 2001: Church of Saint Paul and Saint Andrew
Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur
Claudio Monteverdi
Cantique des Cantiques
Missa "In illo tempore"
Sunday, May 20, 2001: West Park Presbyterian Church
Benjamin Britten
Alain Gagnon
Morten Lauridsen
Aaron Copland
Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Le Rameau de Soie (World Premiere)
Six "Fire Songs"
In the Beginning

1999-2000 Season
Saturday, December 5, 1999: Saint Peter's Church
Antonin Dvorak
Johann Sebastian Bach
Irving Fine
Herbert Howells
Claudio Monteverdi
V Prirode ("From Nature")
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
The Hour Glass
Requiem
Madrigals
Saturday, March 11, 2000: Saint Peter's Church
Johannes Brahms
Olivier Messiaen
Jean Langlais
Quartets, op. 64, 92, 112 (with piano)
O Sacrum Convivium
Messe Solennelle (with piano)
Saturday, May 20, 2000: Saint Peter's Church
Earl Kim
Frank Martin
Petr Eben
Alain Gagnon
Paul Ben-Haim
Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge
Mass
Zauberspruche den Liebsten zu beschwören
Quatre Eclogues (U.S. Premiere)
Six Sephardic Folksong

1998-1999 Fifteenth Anniversary Season
Saturday, December 5, 1998: Grace Church
Michael Karmon
James Yannatos
Marshall Ocker
Adolphus Hailstork
Gerald M. Shapiro
Russell Woollen
Stephen Paulus
Reflections
O nata lux de lumine
Memnon
Let the Heavens Be Glad
Four Love Songs from The Song of Songs
Dante's Praises to the Virgin Mother, op. 14
Visions from Hildegard, part one
Saturday, March 13, 1999: Saint Peter's Church
David Vayo
Jan Krzywick

Janice Hamer
Scott Robinson
Bruce Stark

Richard Busch
Mother Goose Rhymes
Come To Me
This is Thy Hour, O Soul
On Paper Bridges
The Stolen Child
Wind Song
Rain Song
Dangerous Trains, or Cantata Peligrosa
Saturday, May 22, 1999: New York Society for Ethical Culture
Frank Martin Le Vin Herbé

1997-1998 Season
Saturday, December 13, 1997: Calvary Episcopal Church
Mateo Flecha
Hildegard von Bingen
Ensaladas
Ursula Antiphon
Saturday, March 7, 1998: Calvary Episcopal Church
Francis Poulenc
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ernst Krenek
Alain Gagnon
Karol Szymanowski
Lenten Motets
Mass in G
Die Jahreszeiten
Chansons d'Orien
Szes'c' Pies'ni Ludowych
Saturday, May 17, 1998: Calvary Episcopal Church
Baldessare Galuppi
Dominick Argento
Stuart Greenbaum
Matthew Harris
Magnificat
A Toccata of Galuppi's
The Foundling
Oceanic Eyes

1996-1997 Season
Saturday, December 7, 1996: Calvary Episcopal Church
Francis Poulenc
Hugo Distler
Frank Martin
Quatre Motets pour Noël
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte
Mass for Double Chorus
Saturday, March 1, 1997: Calvary Episcopal Church
Chris DeBlasio
Tom Cipullo
James Wagoner
The Best-Beloved
The Shadows Around The House
The Song of Solomon
Saturday, May 17, 1997: Calvary Episcopal Church
Granville Bantock
Mateo Flecha
Francis Poulenc
Johannes Brahms
Carlo Gesualdo
Michael Dellaira
The Golden Journey to Samarkand
La Bomba
Un Soir de Neige
Songs
Madrigals
U.S.A. Stories

1995-1996 Season
Saturday, December 2, 1995: Calvary Episcopal Church
Orlando di Lasso
Phillip Rhodes
Benjamin Britten
J.S. Bach
Prophetiae Sibyllarum
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
A Ceremony of Carols
Singet dem Herrn
Saturday, March 2, 1996: Calvary Episcopal Church
Arnold Schoenberg
Gregg Smith
Francis Poulenc
Tom Cipullo
Ward Swingle
3 Volksliedsätze
Landscapes
7 Chansons
The Shadows Around The House (World Premiere)
Saints Fugue
Saturday, May 11, 1996: Calvary Episcopal Church
Irving Fine
Carlo Gesualdo
Gottfried Von Einem
Morton Lauridsen
Frederick Delius
Heitor Villa-Lobos
The Hour Glass
Madrigals
Die Träumenden Knaben
Fire Songs
Part Songs
Bachianas Brasileiras No.9

1994-1995 Season
Saturday, November 19, 1994: Calvary Episcopal Church
David Diamond
E. Rautavaara
Ross Lee Finney
J.S. Bach
Chorale
Suite de Lorca
Spherical Madrigals
Warum ist das Licht
Saturday, February 25, 1995: Church of St. Luke in the Flelds
Benjamin Britten
Sergei Slonimsky
Jean Francaix
Béla Bartók
Luigi Dallapiccola
Gloriana Dances
Song of Songs
Trois Poèmes de Paul Valéry
Hungarian Folk Songs
Michelangelo Choruses
Saturday, May 20, 1995: Church of St. Luke in the Flelds
Andrew Rindfleisch
Paul Schleuse
E.J. Moeran
Stuart Greenbaum
Jack Perla
Sweet Rose, Fair Flower (NY Premiere)
on forevers' very now (World Premiere)
Songs of Springtime
Upon the Dark Water (US Premiere)
To All Who Sleep Tonight (World Premiere)

1993-1994 Season (partial listing)
Saturday, March 5, 1994: St. Ignatius of Antioch
Sidney Hodkinson
Claudio Monteverdi
Claude Debussy
Benjamin Britten
Alte Liebeslieder, Book1
A cappella madrigals
Trios chansons de charles d'Orleans
Five Flower Songs
Sunday, May 22, 1994: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Elliot Carter
Stefan Wolpe
Aaron Copland
Bernard Lewkovitch
Samuel Barber
Carol Barnett
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
Zwei Chinesische Lieder
In The Beginning
Tre Madrigali di Torquato Tasso
Reincarnations
Cinco Poemas de Bécquer

1992-1993 Season
Saturday, November 21, 1992: Rutgers Presbyterian Church
Samuel Adler
Johannes Brahms
Claudio Monteverdi
Luigi Dallapiccola
Five Choral Pictures
Songs, Opus 93
Lamento D'Arianna
Michelangelo Choruses 1 & 2
Sunday, February 28, 1993: Merkin Concert Hall at the Abraham Goodman House
Benjamin Britten
John Harbison
Franz Schubert
Hymn to St. Cecilia
Five Songs of Experience
Mass in G
Saturday, May 22, 1993: Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Mateo Flecha
Alberto Ginastera
Ronald Roseman
J.S. Bach
El Fuego
Lamentaciones
Psalm 42
Cantata No. 131, "Aus der Tiefe"

1991-1992 Season
Saturday, November 21, 1992: Rutgers Presbyterian Church
Ned Rorem
Béla Bartók
Johannes Brahms
Claudio Monteverdi
Sir Edward Elgar
From an Unknown Past
Selected Folk Songs for women's chorus
Part Songs, Opus 104
Sestina
Opus 53, Nos. 1 and 3
Saturday, February 29, 1992: Grace Church in New York
Richard Farrant
Daniel Pinkham
William Byrd
Frantisek Tuma
Call to Remembrance
Saint Mark Passion
Ave Verum Corpus
Stabat Mater
Saturday, May 30, 1992: St. Peter's Church at Citicorp
Frank Martin Le Vin Herbé

1990-1991 Season
Saturday, December 9, 1990
Anton Bruckner
Francis Poulenc
Arnold Schoenberg
Four Motets
Advent Motets
Friede auf Erden
Saturday, March 19, 1991: St. Ignatius Episcopal Church
Duruflé
Benjamin Britten
Leonard Bernstein
Requiem
Rejoice in the Lamb
Missa Brevis
Sunday, June 2, 1991: Merkin Concert Hall at the Abraham Goodman House
J.S. Bach Jesu Meine Freude
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf and other works with organ and strings
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