Josh Lisner

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
2019-05-05 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Immaculate Conception Church of Somerville, 35 Mountain Ave, Somerville, NJ, 08876, United States
Hear the groups at Immaculate Conception Church in Somerville perform their spring concert, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space.
Josh Lisner is one of the professional singers at Immaculate Conception Church in Somerville, New Jersey. With them Josh sings with the choir, the professional Men’s Ensemble and as a Cantor. Josh has been singing with theses groups since August of 2017 and hopes to continue with them for years to come.

Westminster Kantorei - Requiescam
2019-05-05 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Kantorei performs a selection of songs from the Renaissance and other selections inspired by 17th century English poetry. This concert is presented along with the graduate recital of conducting assistant Johanna Olson.
This concert will be live-streamed from this page beginning at 7:30 p.m.
TALLIS: In manus tuas
PARRY: There Is an Old Belief
SHEPPARD: Libera Nos, Salva Nos
SHEPPARD: In pace
BENNETT: A Good-Night
KIRCHNER: Unclouded Day

Performers

Westminster Kantorei
Ryan Brandau, guest conductor

Ticket Information

Tickets: $20 adults, $15 students/seniors, $5 westminster students and faculty
Box Office: 609-921-2663
Order Tickets Online Here

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Westminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early and contemporary music. Composed of graduate and undergraduate students, the ensemble performs regularly with some of America’s leading specialists in early music, including collaborations with the Dark Horse Consort, Juilliard 415 and others. It was selected as a finalist for the 2014 American Prize, whose judges stated that Kantorei is “truly outstanding,” and described the choir as having a “finely-measured and delicate balance of voices, and a mastery of stylistic performance practice.”
LISTEN (link is external)to Amanda Quist discuss Lumina, the ensemble’s new recording, with WWFM The Classical Network’s David Osenberg.
LISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Heinrich Schütz’s Selig Sind die Toten, which is included on the recording Lumina.
LISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Joseph Rheinberger’s Abendlied, which is included on the recording Lumina.
The ensemble’s 2018-2019 season includes performances on the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton and an appearance as a guest artist for Bach to the Future, a Baroque festival hosted by the Choir School of Delaware. In February 2019, Kantorei will perform for the Interkultur International Choral Festival. The choir’s 2017–2018 season included the release of its first solo recording, Lumina, hailed by infodad.com as a recording “sung with great beauty of sound and excellent articulation … a CD to cherish” and by National Medal of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen as “superb, a splendid recording, highly recommended.” In addition to concerts in Princeton, the ensemble performed at the American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Division Conference in Pittsburgh, where it was selected to premiere the Raymond Brock Memorial Commission by composer Tarik O’Regan.
Recent seasons have included performances at the 2017 Boston Early Music Festival and the American Handel Festival, as well as a series of performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Westminster Choir and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kurt Masur. Additionally, as part of a 2016 concert tour in France and England, Westminster Kantorei performed at the Festival en L’Île in Paris, and in Windsor Castle’s Saint George’s Chapel. The ensemble has also served as the demonstration choir for a master class with Eric Whitacre for at the Choir College, and it has collaborated with Princeton University Libraries in bringing to life newly acquired editions of works by Lassus and Wert.
Westminster Kantorei has premiered works by a number of contemporary composers, including Christian Carey, Daniel Elder, Doug Helvering, Blake Hensen, and the internationally acclaimed Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström.

Williamson Voices - Annelies
2019-04-28 | Washington National Cathedral, 3101 WISCONSIN AVE. NW, Washington DC, DC, 20016, United States
The Grammy® nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, named for the founder of Westminster Choir College, John Finley Williamson, is praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Williamson Voices is the resident choir of the Choral Institute at Oxford (CIO), now in its sixth year. (www.rider.edu/oxford). The CIO has become of the leading institutes in the world for the training of conductors that emphasizes artistry in performance.
SAMPLE and ORDER(link is external) Silence Into Light, Westminster Williamson Voices’ newest recording.
The Williamson Voices, founded by James Jordan, has distinguished itself in the choral world for its distinctive artistry, recordings, educational outreach and its mission to perform new music. The choir is also recognized as a living choral laboratory. It is one of the few ensembles in the world that use chant as the center of their musicianship study and performance. This emphasis has grown out of its performance and study at the Choral Institute at Oxford. The choir has completed a three-year project studying the performance practice and spirituality surround the works of Arvo Pärt, which culminated in the performance of his monumental Kanon Pokajanen in the fall of 2017. Williamson Voices was the first college choir to be a part of The Metropolitan Museum’s LiveArts series, and it performed in museum’s Temple of Dendur in partnership with the Arvo Pärt Project.
Reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic are of one voice in praising the ensemble for its world premiere recordings on the Naxos label. Gramophone magazine has described the Westminster Williamson Voices as an ensemble of “intimate and forceful choral artistry,” with a tone that is “controlled and silken in sustained phrases as they are vibrantly sonorous in extroverted material.” American Record Guide praised the ensemble as “without peer.” Choral Journal has described the Westminster Williamson Voices an ensemble of “supreme artistry” and a choir that performs with “truth and precision.” The Arvo Pärt Project’s publication has written: “The Westminster Williamson Voices under his (Jordan’s) direction are coming into their own in the American choral scene both here and abroad.”
In July, 2013, The Williamson Voices performed as part of the world-wide Britten 100 celebration, participating in the 50th anniversary re-enactment performance of the premiere of St. Nicolas in the Lancing College Chapel in Sussex where the work was premiered with the composer conducting. In 2013, the choir also gave its UK debut performance at Oxford as part of the Westminster Choral Institute at Oxford and the SJE Artist series. In 2015 the choir performed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms under the baton of the newly appointed music director of New York’s St. Thomas Church, Daniel Hyde, on the day of the 50th Anniversary of the work’s premiere. This past summer, Williamson Voices presented the finale concert at the Oxford International Choral Festival, following Cinqucento, The Magdalen College Choir of Oxford and Tenebrae.
The ensemble has established itself as a voice of composers of our time, and it has been acclaimed for its creative programming and collaborations with other art forms. Most notable were the ensemble’s performance at The Philadelphia Cathedral of Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine with the renowned Spiral Q Puppet Theater and the premiere of James Whitbourn’s Luminosity with The ArcheDream Blacklight Dance Theater Company of Philadelphia.
The choir has premiered more than 40 choral works and presented several early performances and premieres by noted composers Jackson Hill, William Duckworth, Paul Mealor, Tarik O’Regan, Roger Ames,, Blake Henson, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Ugis Praulins, Gerald Custer, James Whitbourn, Thomas LaVoy, Cortlandt Matthews and Kile Smith, Damijan Mocnik, and Dan Forrest. The choir has premiered three major works by British composer James Whitbourn that have attracted international attention. In 2007, it performed the world premiere of the chamber version of Annelies, the first major choral setting of the diary of Anne Frank. In 2008, it shared in a commission of Luminosity, a work for triple choir, dancers, viola solo, organ and tanpura. In 2010, the choir premiered Whitbourn’s Requiem Canticorum. Past seasons have also included performances of Debussy’s Nocturnes with The Princeton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov. In 2013, the choir performed the US premiere in New York of Paul Mealor’s Crucifixus for choir, orchestra and baritone soloist. In April 2014, the choir made its Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall performing James Whitbourn’s Annelies.
The choir has assembled an impressive recorded discography. It has recorded more than 30 choral masterworks on the Teaching Music through Performance CD box sets that are used by conductors around the world. The ensemble can also be seen and heard in the DVD The Empowered Choral Rehearsal: Choral Masterclasses with Simon Carrington. It has six world premiere recordings to its credit, including its 2011 recording on the Naxos label, Living Voices: The Music of James Whitbourn. James Whitbourn’s Annelies, performed with The Lincoln Trio; Arianna Zukerman, soprano, and Bharat Chandra, clarinet, was released by Naxos in 2013. London’s Guardian newspaper wrote about the recording “The performance as a whole…is well prepared and palpably committed as befits a premiere recording.” Gramophone lauded Williamson Voices on the Anneliesrecording as “exhilarating” and described the ensemble as singing “with a precision and finesse normally found in the best of the UK’s large chamber choirs.”
In 2016, the choir released its third recording on the Naxos label, a recording of Christmas music featuring the Missa Carolae of James Whitbourn, which is performed each year at the Westminster Choir College’s An Evening of Readings and Carols concert, as well as the CD Hole in the Sky on the GIAChoralworks label distributed by Naxos. Both CDs were No. 1 on the Amazon Classical Charts, and both appeared at the top of the BILLBOARD Classical Charts. In February 2018 Silence into Light was released on the GIAChoralworks label. A disc featuring the music of Ola Gjeilo will be released in the fall. Its 2017-2018 season also includes the world premiere of Peter Relph’s Requiem.

Schola Cantorum Spring Concert
2019-04-14 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Schola Cantorum is one of three curricular choirs at Westminster Choir College. Composed of all students in their second year of study at the college, this ensemble forms a vital link between the technique and artistry gained by students in their first-year experience at the college in the Westminster Chapel Choir and Westminster Symphonic Choir, which performs with many of the world’s finest orchestras and is a cornerstone of the Westminster experience. The second year of ensemble performance study focuses on refinement of ensemble skills combined with choral literature appropriate to both the musical growth and artistic understanding of the singers in the ensemble.
Westminster Choir College is the only college in the world that focuses its program around a student’s choral experiences. Unique to this experience is that students sing with their class for two years to not only build their artistry but to strengthen their sense of community and what it is to sing together. This vision was the core value of the institution’s founder, John Finley Williamson. Westminster Schola Cantorum is also the only curricular choir that annually tours in the spring. All students in this ensemble study with Westminster’s acclaimed voice faculty, the largest voice faculty in the world. In their second year of study, students may audition for Westminster’s small ensembles: Westminster Choir, Westminster Williamson Voices, Westminster Kantorei, Westminster Jubilee Singers and Westminster Concert Handbell Choir. Many of the singers in Schola Cantorum are also members of those ensembles.
The ensemble’s 2017-2018 season includes a collaboration with Westminster Chapel Choir, performing Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes at the War Memorial in Trenton as part of Westminster’s Transforming Space project, as well as a joint concert at Lincoln Center. Additionally, Westminster Schola Cantorum performed in Westminster’s annual An Evening of Readings and Carols in the Princeton University Chapel. The spring includes a concert tour of the Southeast and a Homecoming concert in Princeton.
In past seasons, the choir has performed major works in the choral repertoire: Britten’s St. Nicolas, Duruflé’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Rachmanioff’s The Bells. In addition to its fall concert and spring tour, the choir is one of the Westminster ensembles featured in the college’s popular Evening of Readings and Carols, which is presented in Princeton in December.

Ticket information will be posted here once available.

Williamson Concert - The Soul of the Righteous
2019-04-07 19:30 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States

Williamson Concert
2019-02-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States

Westminster Kantorei: Lily Among Thorns
2019-02-15 19:30 (America/New_York) | Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Kantorei reprises works from its fall concert performing movements of Palestrina’s Missa Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas, works by J. S. Bach and Allegri along with modern selections. Please join Josh in his first concert with this renowned ensemble.
Presented as part of Interkultur’s “Sing ‘N’ Joy” Princeton International Choral Festival.

For ticket information click here.
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Westminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early and contemporary music. Composed of graduate and undergraduate students, the ensemble performs regularly with some of America’s leading specialists in early music, including collaborations with the Dark Horse Consort, Juilliard 415 and others. It was selected as a finalist for the 2014 American Prize, whose judges stated that Kantorei is “truly outstanding,” and described the choir as having a “finely-measured and delicate balance of voices, and a mastery of stylistic performance practice.”
LISTEN (link is external)to Amanda Quist discuss Lumina, the ensemble’s new recording, with WWFM The Classical Network’s David Osenberg.
LISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Heinrich Schütz’s Selig Sind die Toten, which is included on the recording Lumina.
LISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Joseph Rheinberger’s Abendlied, which is included on the recording Lumina.
The ensemble’s 2018-2019 season includes performances on the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton and an appearance as a guest artist for Bach to the Future, a Baroque festival hosted by the Choir School of Delaware. In February 2019, Kantorei will perform for the Interkultur International Choral Festival. The choir’s 2017–2018 season included the release of its first solo recording, Lumina, hailed by infodad.com as a recording “sung with great beauty of sound and excellent articulation … a CD to cherish” and by National Medal of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen as “superb, a splendid recording, highly recommended.” In addition to concerts in Princeton, the ensemble performed at the American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Division Conference in Pittsburgh, where it was selected to premiere the Raymond Brock Memorial Commission by composer Tarik O’Regan.
Recent seasons have included performances at the 2017 Boston Early Music Festival and the American Handel Festival, as well as a series of performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Westminster Choir and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kurt Masur. Additionally, as part of a 2016 concert tour in France and England, Westminster Kantorei performed at the Festival en L’Île in Paris, and in Windsor Castle’s Saint George’s Chapel. The ensemble has also served as the demonstration choir for a master class with Eric Whitacre for at the Choir College, and it has collaborated with Princeton University Libraries in bringing to life newly acquired editions of works by Lassus and Wert.
Westminster Kantorei has premiered works by a number of contemporary composers, including Christian Carey, Daniel Elder, Doug Helvering, Blake Hensen, and the internationally acclaimed Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström.

Chinese New Year Celebration Concert
2019-02-02 19:30 (America/New_York) | New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St, Newark, NJ, 07102, United States
Concert Information

XIAN ZHANG conductor
ERIC WYRICK violin | JONATHAN SPITZ cello | MIN KWON piano
PEKING UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CHORUS
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL SINGERS
STARRY ARTS GROUP CHILDREN’S CHORUS Rebecca Shen, director
NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY Nai-Ni Chen, choreographer
EDISON CHINESE SCHOOL LION DANCE TEAM
ELENA KAMPOURIS host
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Start a new tradition at the NJSO’s first-ever Chinese New Year celebration, conducted by Xian Zhang. Musical riches abound in this program that blends Eastern and Western musical traditions. Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture is beloved in China yet almost reminiscent of Copland’s America. Songs and arias from opera and traditional Chinese culture show that music bridges all cultures. Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Min Kwon brings all elements of this sumptuously crafted program together in a joyful performance.
TRADITIONAL Dragon Dance
LI HUANZHI Spring Festival Overture
TAN DUN The Triple Resurrection
VERDI “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy
PUCCINI “Humming Chorus” from Madama Butterfly
PUCCINI “Jasmine Chorus” from Turandot
TRADITIONAL CHINESE SONG/arr. Nicholas Hersh: 送别 “Farewell”
Please note: This performance is 80 minutes with no intermission.
Lobby Festival begins at 6 pm
Delight in a happy celebration of the Year of the Pig with special pre-concert festivities for the whole family, including traditional Chinese music performers, calligraphy demonstrations, crafts and more.

An Evening of Readings and Carols
2018-12-08 20:00, 2018-12-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Every year Westminster Choir College performs “An Evening of Readings and Carols” This holiday concert includes all of the curricular choirs at Westminster. The concert is held in the historical Princeton University Chapel. The students at Westminster look forward to this wonderful time where the community of Westminster comes together for the holiday time.
Ticket Information
Please call or visit the Westminster Box Office for Tickets. Information is below.
Marion Buckelew Cullen Center
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, N.J.
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Monday – Friday and at the door 1 hour before performances.
609-921-2663
Monday – Friday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Advent Readings and Carols
2018-12-02 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Immaculate Conception Church of Somerville, 35 Mountain Ave, Somerville, NJ, 08876, United States
Hear the groups at Immaculate Conception Church in Somerville perform their Christmas Concert, Advent Readings and Carols.
Josh Lisner is one of the professional singers at Immaculate Conception Church in Somerville, New Jersey. With them Josh sings with the choir, the professional Men’s Ensemble and as a Cantor. Josh has been singing with theses groups since August of 2017 and hopes to continue with them for years to come.

Williamson Concert - The Dream that Remains
2018-11-11 20:00 (America/New_York) | Basilica of Saint Peter and Paul, 18th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
About the Program
Performing music drawn from spiritual imagery inspired by life and meditation. The program includes works by Vasks, Ešenvalds, Relph, Smith, Whitbourn, Rhineberger and Runestad, as well as chant improvisation. The concert will feature two new works by Westminster Williamson Voices alumnus Thomas LaVoy: The Dreams That Remain and a work for baritone and choir commemorating World War I.
About the Choir
The Grammy® nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, named for the founder of Westminster Choir College, John Finley Williamson, is praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Williamson Voices is the resident choir of the Choral Institute at Oxford (CIO), now in its sixth year. (www.rider.edu/oxford). The CIO has become of the leading institutes in the world for the training of conductors that emphasizes artistry in performance. Read more about the Westminster Williamson Voices.
Ticket Information
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Williamson Concert - The Dream that Remains
2018-11-09 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
About the Program
Performing music drawn from spiritual imagery inspired by life and meditation. The program includes works by Vasks, Ešenvalds, Relph, Smith, Whitbourn, Rhineberger and Runestad, as well as chant improvisation. The concert will feature two new works by Westminster Williamson Voices alumnus Thomas LaVoy: The Dreams That Remain and a work for baritone and choir commemorating World War I.
About the Choir
The Grammy® nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, named for the founder of Westminster Choir College, John Finley Williamson, is praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Williamson Voices is the resident choir of the Choral Institute at Oxford (CIO), now in its sixth year. (www.rider.edu/oxford). The CIO has become of the leading institutes in the world for the training of conductors that emphasizes artistry in performance. Read more about the Westminster Williamson Voices.
Ticket Information
Click here for ticket information.

Schola Cantorum Fall Concert
2018-10-28 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Schola Cantorum is one of three curricular choirs at Westminster Choir College. Composed of all students in their second year of study at the college, this ensemble forms a vital link between the technique and artistry gained by students in their first-year experience at the college in the Westminster Chapel Choir and Westminster Symphonic Choir, which performs with many of the world’s finest orchestras and is a cornerstone of the Westminster experience. The second year of ensemble performance study focuses on refinement of ensemble skills combined with choral literature appropriate to both the musical growth and artistic understanding of the singers in the ensemble.
Westminster Choir College is the only college in the world that focuses its program around a student’s choral experiences. Unique to this experience is that students sing with their class for two years to not only build their artistry but to strengthen their sense of community and what it is to sing together. This vision was the core value of the institution’s founder, John Finley Williamson. Westminster Schola Cantorum is also the only curricular choir that annually tours in the spring. All students in this ensemble study with Westminster’s acclaimed voice faculty, the largest voice faculty in the world. In their second year of study, students may audition for Westminster’s small ensembles: Westminster Choir, Westminster Williamson Voices, Westminster Kantorei, Westminster Jubilee Singers and Westminster Concert Handbell Choir. Many of the singers in Schola Cantorum are also members of those ensembles.
The ensemble’s 2017-2018 season includes a collaboration with Westminster Chapel Choir, performing Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes at the War Memorial in Trenton as part of Westminster’s Transforming Space project, as well as a joint concert at Lincoln Center. Additionally, Westminster Schola Cantorum performed in Westminster’s annual An Evening of Readings and Carols in the Princeton University Chapel. The spring includes a concert tour of the Southeast and a Homecoming concert in Princeton.
In past seasons, the choir has performed major works in the choral repertoire: Britten’s St. Nicolas, Duruflé’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Rachmanioff’s The Bells. In addition to its fall concert and spring tour, the choir is one of the Westminster ensembles featured in the college’s popular Evening of Readings and Carols, which is presented in Princeton in December.

Ticket information will be available soon.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony
2018-10-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2018-10-05 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St, Newark, NJ, 07102, United States
Come hear Josh sing as a member of the Newark Voices, directed by Dr. Heather J. Buchanan.
When purchasing your tickets for the performances, remember to use promo code NEWARKVOICES to receive 30% your ticket order.
Tickets can be purchased here. Josh will now be performing in all of the shows.
Concert Information

XIAN ZHANG conductor
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS soprano
ELIZABETH BISHOP mezzo-soprano
LORENZO DECARO tenor
REGINALD D. SMITH JR. baritone
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY SINGERS
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY CHORALE
NEWARK VOICES Heather J. Buchanan, conductor
NEW JERSEY YOUTH CHORUSES Trish Joyce, artistic director
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven’s glorious Ninth, led by Xian Zhang, is a fitting start to a spectacular season. The NJSO is joined by singers from Montclair State University and a community choir based in Newark. Newark Voices performs Oct 5 & 7 only.

KATE WHITLEY Speak Out (US Premiere)

Stirring and poignant; rising British composer Kate Whitley’s work is based on Malala Yousafzai’s legendary speech to the United Nations advocating the right of every girl to have an education.

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

An unmistakable masterpiece; the hymn’s text extolling the human bond is sung by a joyful assembly, a massed choir including singers from MSU and our surrounding communities.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony
2018-10-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | State Theater New Jersey, 15 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
