The GRAMMY-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street is the premier ensemble of the music and arts program at Trinity Wall Street. Under the direction of Julian Wachner, the Choir leads the liturgical music at Trinity Church during Sunday services, performs in concerts throughout the year—highlighted by their renowned presentations of Handel’s Messiah which annually tops critics’ picks—and has made world-class recordings for NAXOS (Haydn: The Complete Masses, Handel’s Messiah, and Christmas from Trinity) and Musica Omnia (J.S. Bach: Complete Motets, released in September of 2011). It is both a beloved church choir, singing favorite Anglican hymns and historic sacred music, and one of New York City’s most acclaimed professional vocal ensembles. In March of 2011, Trinity began Bach at One, a weekly cantata series at Trinity’s own St. Paul’s Chapel. Bach at One has quickly become a favorite destination each Monday in the Financial District for New Yorkers and visitors alike. Particularly well-versed in major compositions of the Baroque and Classical periods, the Choir’s repertoire also includes Baltic choral music as well as works by Britten, Brahms, Howells, Pärt, and other contemporary composers, including several recent premieres of New Music in their weekly Compline services each Sunday evening. The New York Times has praised the Choir as possessing “voices so pure they suggest a seraphic chorus beyond the human sphere.” Previous Directors of Music at Trinity include Dr. J. Owen Burdick (1990-2008), Dr. Larry King (1968-1989), and George Mead (1941-1968). The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has collaborated with a number of guest conductors including Jane Glover, Harry Bicket, Stefan Parkman, Simon Carrington, Andrew Parrott, Andrew Megill, Steven Fox, and John Scott, and has invited guest artists such as Frederica Von Stade, Joyce DiDonato, Gil Shaham, Luca Pisaroni, Angela Meade, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Melanie DeMore. In addition to their liturgical and concert presentations at Trinity Church, the Choir has appeared at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, and The Tribeca Film Festival, which invited the Choir to perform Arvo Pärt’s Passio in a mixed-media collaboration with Paolo Cherchi Usai’s film of the same name. In March 2010, the Choir traveled to Moscow to perform Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Recent successes include Handel’s Israel in Egypt (Maestro Wachner’s Trinity concert debut, nominated for a 2013 GRAMMY), and several moving performances as part of Trinity’s shared observances of the 10th anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001; a week of events entitled “Remember to Love.”


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