https://www.bachfestival.org/stephen-sands Tenth season as a tenor in the professional chorale.

Artistic Director and Teacher: Sing like you’ve never sung before when you join the popular Summer Voices!  Now in its seventh year, Summer Voices provides a vocal music camp experience unlike any other, where participants will join in solo singing and voice training, ensemble-based music-making, music theory and aural skills, and special interest sessions which enhance every student’s musicality […]

Bel Canto featuring Fire and Grace, September 23, 2018 Virtuoso violin meets Celtic guitar—Edwin Huizinga and William Coulter present an astonishing exploration of the fire and grace which connect the elements of classical, folk and contemporary music.

Music Director of Downtown Voices http://milelongopera.com/ For five consecutive nights, October 3-7, 2018, 1,000 singers from across New York will come together on the High Line for the first-ever performances of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock – an ambitious, collective, free choral work that shares personal stories from hundreds of New Yorkers […]

Antioch is thrilled to be collaborating with legendary choral composer Robert Kyr for this concert that features his works along with complimentary English madrigals and motets. In November, Antioch will record a CD of the works of Robert Kyr at Washington and Lee University. The works of Dr. Kyr that are on this program will be […]

Artistic Director and Conductor An all-Bernstein program featuring the Somerset Hills Chorus, New Jersey Youth Chorus Young Men's Ensembles and The Bernards High School Madrigal Ensemble A joyful celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth.

Founding tenor and Executive Director November 10, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. Wilson Hall/Concert Hall Celebrating its 21st season, the Antioch Chamber Ensemble has become one of the most highly regarded professional choral ensembles in America. Antioch made its debut at Washington and Lee University in 2017, presenting a fabulous program of works by twentieth and twenty-first […]

For the second concert of the “Now comes the setting sun” series, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street presents Rachmaninoff’s Vespers or All-Night Vigil, a hauntingly beautiful cornerstone of choral repertoire. Sergei Rachmaninoff Vespers

Voices Over Tallinn: Honoring 100 Years of the Estonian Nation November 30, 2018 at 8pm St. Paul’s Chapel Free Downtown Voices; Stephen Sands, conductor Choral music is woven into the fabric of Estonia—in a nation of 1.3 million people, there are more than 700 official choirs, and during the country’s quest for independence, choral tradition […]

Tenor in the Trinity Choir The music compels without overstatement,” wrote the Los Angeles Times of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anthracite Fields. “This is a major, profound work.” Inspired by miners living in the Pennsylvania coal region, Wolfe uses oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, children’s rhymes, and other sources to create a powerful cantata […]