Artistic Director and conductor. Featuring The Sebastians

Bob Chilcott Requiem - Tenor Soloist

Conductor of Downtown Voices and Trinity Baroque Orchestra

Tenor soloist and octet member with Trinity Baroque Orchestra

On Claudio Monteverdi’s 450th birthday, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra will give a special performance on May 9, of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a monumental 90-minute masterpiece involving an up to 10-part chorus, seven soloists, and orchestra. The performance will be repeated the following day in Philadelphia. Tenor and soloist in Trinity Choir

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra will give a special performance on May 10, of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a monumental 90-minute masterpiece involving an up to 10-part chorus, seven soloists, and orchestra. Tenor and soloist in Trinity Choir

Written to mark the turn of the millennium, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 manifests Gustav Mahler’s opinion that “The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” Glass draws from diverse spiritual wellsprings, including the Bible, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Koran, Hindu scriptures, and West African traditions, to create an epic narrative. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices, and NOVUS NY will combine their full forces to perform this all-embracing masterpiece, conducted by Julian Wachner. Preparing Downtown Voices and Singing Tenor

Written to mark the turn of the millennium, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 manifests Gustav Mahler’s opinion that “The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” Glass draws from diverse spiritual wellsprings, including the Bible, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Koran, Hindu scriptures, and West African traditions, to create an epic narrative. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices, and NOVUS NY will combine their full forces to perform this all-embracing masterpiece, conducted by Julian Wachner. Preparing Downtown Voices and Singing Tenor

Artistic Director and conductor Three hundred years ago this summer, King George I of England (and, you may recall, the American Colonies) commissioned Handel to write and perform “music suitable for a concert on the River Thames”. This was the genesis of the three suites we know as “Handel’s Water Music”. The Daily Courant reported that the King and his party (mostly aristocratic ladies of impeccable breeding and doubtful morals) boarded the royal barge at Whitehall Palace about 8 PM on July 17 and were taken upriver to Chelsea. The tide was rising, so the current was strong enough to enable the barge to dispense with its oarsmen. A rather less splendid barge containing Handel and his 50 musicians kept pace alongside, enabling the King to enjoy the world première performance of Handel’s work – in fact, he insisted on hearing the suites three times that evening on the journey to and from Chelsea. As a tercentenary tribute to Mr. Handel and his Water Music, Music in the Somerset Hills is proud to present an outdoor, on the water performance of this work at the Lake Club in Far Hills on Saturday, June 24 at 8:30 PM. On a platform […]