Trinity Choir presents: New (York) Music May 17, 2010

Wrapping up its most contemporary season to date, the Trinity Choir’s final series concert, New (York) Music, on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM will focus on emerging and established local composers. The evening promises to be a new musical experience for the audience and a preview into the future of choral music.

The program will feature the works of current choir member James Blachly, a New York composer whose talent for writing for voice has enabled him to work with some of the city’s best vocalists and choral groups, as well as Caleb Burhans, a former Trinity Choir member and established composer, violinist/violist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist with a specialty in new music. Additional compositions by John Zorn, avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer and saxophonist, and Lisa Bielawa, New York composer and singer and this year’s winner of the Rome Prize, will be performed. Also on the program are compositions by Charles Wuorinen, George Perle, and Choir member Avery Griffin. Lastly, the Choir will perform Judd Greenstein’s Amergin, winner of the Trinity Composition Competition, selected by a distinguished panel including Zorn, Bielawa, George Steel, and Mr. Fox.

Steven Fox, acting music director of Trinity Wall Street and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Clarion Music Society will conduct this final performance. Mr. Fox was recently elected an Associate of the Academy (ARAM) by the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Intimately presented in the Gothic magnificence of Trinity Church, the concert will feature the 23-voice Trinity Choir together with an instrumental chamber ensemble.

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