December 22, 2018 at 7:30pm December 23, 2018 at 3pm St. Paul’s Chapel Ticketed (Tickets go on sale soon) Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY, and Trinity Youth Chorus; Stephen Sands, conductor   Come sing along with Trinity ensembles in this concert that has quickly become a holiday tradition and highlight of the season. Hear Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY, and the Trinity Youth Chorus perform holiday favorites, and sing along to carols arranged by Julian Wachner, Trinity’s director of music and arts, from his album The Snow Lay on the Ground.   Please note that due to the rejuvenation of Trinity Church, this year’s performances will take place at St. Paul’s Chapel at Broadway and Fulton Street with floor and balcony seating. Some seats are limited view or monitor-only view; ticket prices reflect this. Click here to view the seating chart for St. Paul's Chapel.

Michael Fabiano’s breakthrough year was 2014 when he won both the Beverly Sills Artist Award and the Richard Tucker Award – no other singer has ever won both those awards in the same season.  Four years later, he is one of the world’s leading tenors, in demand at opera houses all over the world – from Sydney, Australia to Zurich, Switzerland, from Houston and San Francisco to Chicago and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, which is his “home house”.  A Jersey boy, born in Morris County, Michael prizes the ability to stay close to his roots, which is one of the considerations that made him found ArtSmart, a non-profit organization that provides free voice lessons to students in public schools in under-served neighborhoods throughout the country.  Started in Newark, N.J. in 2016, it is now also operating  in San Francisco and Philadelphia.  ArtSmart will be a beneficiary of Michael’s recital for Music in the Somerset Hillson Friday, January 4 in Pottersville.

King Singers with the Somerset Hills Chorus, February 23, 2019 Fifty years after its foundation in Cambridge, England, the King’s Singers is still one of the best known all-male a cappella groups in the world.

Tenor soloist for the Swan movement. 4 p.m. Sunday, March 17, 2019  Orff’s Carmina Burana  Guest artists professional dancers of Roxey Ballet Company and singers of Princeton GirlChoir Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University Choreographer Mark Roxey will complete choreography for all movements of this magnificent work that was sold-out two years ago!  It’s a celebration of poetry, song, and dance!  We are thrilled to bring it back for you and to have singers of the Princeton GirlChoir as guest artists.  Learn more about Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.  

Diderot String Quartet, March 24, 2019 - Artistic Director and Host Four young American musicians from Oberlin and the Julliard School who teamed up five years ago and have quickly made themselves an international reputation.

Tenor Aria Soloist One special performance only! With double baroque orchestra The Sebastians, professional soloists, supertitles, and Dann Coakwell, Evangelist.

Tenor soloist Bach’s final work, composed at different times in his life, transcends the inconsistency of its origins, leaving a statement on the nature of sacred music as a bequest to the future. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 w/ Vassar College Choir & Cappella Festiva, Christine Howlett, Artistic Director Ticket holders are invited to a pre-concert talk by Maestro Fleischer with soloists and/or members of the orchestra one hour prior to the concert.

Saturday, April 27 - 7:30pm- Morristown Presbyterian Church Sunday, April 28 - 3pm - St. Paul's Chapel, NYC   Stephen Sands, founder and Artistic Director of Music in the Somerset Hills, is proud to present this New York choir, which he also directs, in its first visit to the Somerset Hills.  Downtown Voices is a semi-professional choir made up of volunteer singers from the New York metro area and members of the Grammy®-nominated choir of Trinity Wall Street.  Founded in 2016, the group has specialized in ambitious programming of works by composers as diverse as Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass, Benjamin Britten – and a major commission to Zachary Wadsworth.  Their concert on Saturday, April 27 is called Songs for the Singer – Dvorak, Britten and Janacek, and is based on the idea that “it is a treasure to hear what is a pleasure to sing”.

Downtown Voices; NOVUS NY; Stephen Sands, conductor Free At their final concert of the season, Downtown Voices and NOVUS NY perform two folklore-inspired works written in 1937: Orff’s epic Carmina Burana and Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Carmina Burana is based on 24 poems from the medieval collection of the same title, with themes that follow the fickleness of fortune and joy as spring returns. Inspired by Hungarian folksong rhythms, Bartok’s sonata has become a mainstay of piano and percussion repertoire.

Conductor and Artistic Director - The Lake Club in Far Hills, NJ Appalachian Spring may be the most instantly recognizable work in all American music.  Aaron Copland composed it in 1943-44 in response to a commission from Martha Graham and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for “a ballet on an American theme”.  It was an instant success when Martha Graham and her troupe first danced it at the Library of Congress in October 1944.  The following year, the conductor Artur Rodzinski asked Copland to rearrange the score as an orchestral suite, and Copland did this in the spring of 1945 while staying at a cottage on the Claremont estate on Bernardsville Mountain.  The original 13-instrument ballet score now became a full orchestral score, somewhat shorter than the ballet, and that is how it will be heard when Music in the Somerset Hills brings it home to the Somerset Hills on Saturday, June 22.  This concert, which will also feature works by Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber (Copland’s longtime friends and companions at Claremont), is dedicated to a singular moment when the originality and creativity of American music reached what many might say was its zenith …... on Bernardsville Mountain in the spring of 1945.