Josh Lisner

Westminster Choir: Dayton, Ohio
2020-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Westminster Presbyterian Church, 125 N. Wilkinson Street, Dayton, 05402, United States
Returning to the site of its founding for a 100th Anniversary Concert

Westminster Choir returns to its roots, performing a 100th Anniversary concert at Westminster Presbyterian Church, where John Finley Williamson founded the choir, which has been setting the standard for choral excellence since 1920.
With repertoire rooted deep in Westminster Choir’s history as well as works by Westminster Choir alumni, the ensemble will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920. Between these features, the Choir will perform Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, reflecting Westminster Choir’s spirit and mission as it “appeared and inspired” thousands of choral musicians over the past century.

Performers

Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor

Ticket Information

Free-will offering

Westminster Choir: Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music Bach Festival 2020
2020-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Rd, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States
Westminster Choir joins the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music’s Motet Choir to perform J.S. Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion, conducted by Joe Miller.
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Performers

Westminster Choir
BW Motet Choir
Joe Miller, conductor

Ticket Information

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Setting the standard for choral excellence since 1920, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College. It has been the chorus-in-residence for the prestigious Spoleto Festival USA since 1977, performing both in concert and as the opera chorus.
Recent seasons have included concert tours in Beijing, China, and Spain, as well as participation in the World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona and groundbreaking performances of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields at the historic Roebling WireWorks as part of Westminster’s Transforming Space project.
The Westminster Choir has been hailed by audiences and critics for its creative programming and ability to deeply engage listeners. D.C. Theatre Scene praised its staged performance of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles at the 2019 Spoleto Festival USA, writing: “Joe Miller, and his famed Westminster Choir, has reimagined the art of a choir ‘concert,’ and, in the course of it, created before our eyes – for forty-one singers and an audience that filled the Galliard Auditorium – something of (their) own miracle.”

BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 1 & 9
2020-04-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
The year 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Beethoven. The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates this milestone by performing music by composers of today in dialogue with Beethoven’s symphonies. Composer-in- Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, and a diverse group of composers from her Creative Academy of Music offer newly written works that inspire and push boundaries—to elevate the context in which Beethoven’s legacy is understood today.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Conductor
Angel Blue – Soprano
Mihoko Fujimura – Mezzo-soprano
Rolando Villazón – Tenor
Quinn Kelsey – Baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir and Community Voices
Joe Miller – Director
PROGRAM
Frank – Work in Dialogue with Beethoven -WORLD PREMIERE- PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA COMMISSION
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
Intermission
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
7:30 PM
VERIZON HALL
Beethoven was just 25 when he wrote his First Symphony. Delightful and high-spirited, floating on strains of Mozart and Haydn, it’s a fascinating glimpse of the greatness and genius to come—all on full, glorious display in the climactic Ninth. Written just a few short years before his death, Beethoven’s profound ode to brotherhood, salvation, and pure joy reminds us why we are here as an orchestra, says Yannick, and why we constantly try to make our world better by playing music.

BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 1 & 9
2020-04-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
The year 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Beethoven. The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates this milestone by performing music by composers of today in dialogue with Beethoven’s symphonies. Composer-in- Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, and a diverse group of composers from her Creative Academy of Music offer newly written works that inspire and push boundaries—to elevate the context in which Beethoven’s legacy is understood today.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Conductor
Angel Blue – Soprano
Mihoko Fujimura – Mezzo-soprano
Rolando Villazón – Tenor
Quinn Kelsey – Baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director
PROGRAM
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)
Friday, April 3, 2020
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium
Enjoy a unique opportunity to hear Beethoven’s development as a symphonic composer in one evening with his first and last symphonies. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 respects the traditions of his teacher Haydn, but surges with propulsive energy and intrigues with novel harmonies. The choral finale of Beethoven’s Ninth is revolutionary—it’s the first symphony to use voices—but its preceding movements also break new ground with their vast breadth and tremendous emotional power.

BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 1 & 9
2020-04-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
The year 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Beethoven. The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates this milestone by performing music by composers of today in dialogue with Beethoven’s symphonies. Composer-in- Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, and a diverse group of composers from her Creative Academy of Music offer newly written works that inspire and push boundaries—to elevate the context in which Beethoven’s legacy is understood today.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Conductor
Angel Blue – Soprano
Mihoko Fujimura – Mezzo-soprano
Rolando Villazón – Tenor
Quinn Kelsey – Baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir and Community Voices
Joe Miller – Director
PROGRAM
Frank – Work in Dialogue with Beethoven -WORLD PREMIERE- PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA COMMISSION
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
Intermission
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
7:30 PM
VERIZON HALL
Beethoven was just 25 when he wrote his First Symphony. Delightful and high-spirited, floating on strains of Mozart and Haydn, it’s a fascinating glimpse of the greatness and genius to come—all on full, glorious display in the climactic Ninth. Written just a few short years before his death, Beethoven’s profound ode to brotherhood, salvation, and pure joy reminds us why we are here as an orchestra, says Yannick, and why we constantly try to make our world better by playing music.

Westminster Kantorei Winter Concert
2020-02-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Kantorei starts the semester with its Winter Concert and the Graduate Recital of Eunbae Jeon.
Under the new direction of Dr. Jay Carter, Westminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early 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.”
Ticket and program information TBA.

Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic
2020-02-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates Valentine’s weekend with spellbinding music, beginning with Mozart’s bewitching The Magic Flute. Magic takes a darker turn in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas’s symphonic poem immortalized by Mickey Mouse battling demonic brooms in Fantasia. Stéphane Denève is a passionate exponent of John Williams’s endlessly creative music for the cinema, represented here by his spookily charming Harry Potter scores. Youth and magic reappear in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells), a one-act fairy tale opera with libretto by renowned French author Colette, and featuring talent from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Enchanting!
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Stéphane Denève – Conductor
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director
Philadelphia Boys Choir
Jeffrey R. Smith -Artistic Director
PROGRAM
Mozart – Overture to The Magic Flute
Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Williams – Selections from Harry Potter
Intermission
Ravel – L’Enfant et les sortilèges

Saturday, February 15, 2020
8:00 PM
VERIZON HALL

Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic
2020-02-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates Valentine’s weekend with spellbinding music, beginning with Mozart’s bewitching The Magic Flute. Magic takes a darker turn in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas’s symphonic poem immortalized by Mickey Mouse battling demonic brooms in Fantasia. Stéphane Denève is a passionate exponent of John Williams’s endlessly creative music for the cinema, represented here by his spookily charming Harry Potter scores. Youth and magic reappear in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells), a one-act fairy tale opera with libretto by renowned French author Colette, and featuring talent from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Enchanting!
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Stéphane Denève – Conductor
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director
Philadelphia Boys Choir
Jeffrey R. Smith -Artistic Director
PROGRAM
Mozart – Overture to The Magic Flute
Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Williams – Selections from Harry Potter
Intermission
Ravel – L’Enfant et les sortilèges

Friday, February 14, 2020
2:00 PM
VERIZON HALL

Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates Valentine’s weekend with spellbinding music, beginning with Mozart’s bewitching The Magic Flute. Magic takes a darker turn in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas’s symphonic poem immortalized by Mickey Mouse battling demonic brooms in Fantasia. Stéphane Denève is a passionate exponent of John Williams’s endlessly creative music for the cinema, represented here by his spookily charming Harry Potter scores. Youth and magic reappear in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells), a one-act fairy tale opera with libretto by renowned French author Colette, and featuring talent from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Enchanting!
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Stéphane Denève – Conductor
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director
Philadelphia Boys Choir
Jeffrey R. Smith -Artistic Director
PROGRAM
Mozart – Overture to The Magic Flute
Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Williams – Selections from Harry Potter
Intermission
Ravel – L’Enfant et les sortilèges

Thursday, February 13, 2020
7:30 PM
VERIZON HALL

Westminster Choir Tour Homecoming Concert
2020-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Richardson Auditorium, 68 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Welcome the Westminster Choir back to Princeton as it presents a program with repertoire rooted deep in Westminster Choir’s history as well as works by Westminster Choir alumni, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920. Between these features, the choir will perform Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, reflecting Westminster Choir’s spirit and mission as it “appeared and inspired” thousands of choral musicians over the past century.

Performers

Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor

Ticket Information

Free admission, but tickets are required.
Box Office: 609-258-9220
Online

Setting the standard for choral excellence since 1920, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College. It has been the chorus-in-residence for the prestigious Spoleto Festival USA since 1977, performing both in concert and as the opera chorus.
Recent seasons have included concert tours in Beijing, China, and Spain, as well as participation in the World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona and groundbreaking performances of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields at the historic Roebling WireWorks as part of Westminster’s Transforming Space project.
The Westminster Choir has been hailed by audiences and critics for its creative programming and ability to deeply engage listeners. D.C. Theatre Scene praised its staged performance of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles at the 2019 Spoleto Festival USA, writing: “Joe Miller, and his famed Westminster Choir, has reimagined the art of a choir ‘concert,’ and, in the course of it, created before our eyes – for forty-one singers and an audience that filled the Galliard Auditorium – something of (their) own miracle.”

2020 Westminster Choir Tour: San Diego Area
2020-01-19 16:00 - 17:30 | St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church, 743 Prospect Street, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. “Appear and Inspire” includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, works by Runestad and more.
This concert is presented by St. James Music Series.
Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Admission: $30
Phone: 858-459-3421

2020 Westminster Choir Tour: Greater Los Angeles
2020-01-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Christ Cathedral of Garden Grove California, 12141 Lewis Street, Garden Grove, CA, 92840, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. “Appear and Inspire” includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, works by Runestad and more.
This concert is presented by Christ Cathedral Concerts.
Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Admission: $5 – $25
Phone: 714-971-2141

2020 Westminster Choir Tour: Salt Lake City
2020-01-16 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-11-27 00:00 | The Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331E South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, 84111-1226, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. “Appear and Inspire” includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, works by Runestad and more.
Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Free Admission
Phone: 801-328-8941

2020 Westminster Choir Tour: Boise
2020-01-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Cathedral of the Rockies, 717 North 11th Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. “Appear and Inspire” includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, works by Runestad and more.

Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Admission: $10
Phone: 208-343-7511

2020 Westminster Choir Tour: Seattle
2020-01-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Plymouth Church, 1217 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. “Appear and Inspire” includes Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, works by Runestad and more.
Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Admission: Free-will donation
Phone: 202-622-4865

Readings and Carols
2019-12-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2019-12-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
A spectacular evening of holiday music for choir, organ and brass performed in the grandeur of the Princeton University Chapel, featuring Westminster’s choirs and the renowned Solid Brass.
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.

Readings and Carols
2019-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
This performance is general admission and a reduced version of the concert. For the full performance please see the night performances.
A spectacular evening of holiday music for choir, organ and brass performed in the grandeur of the Princeton University Chapel, featuring Westminster’s choirs and the renowned Solid Brass.
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.

Bach B Minor Mass
2019-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Only a portion of the choir will be performing in this performance. Although all singers are guaranteed to sing at least one performance of this work, there is no guarantee that Josh will be singing this night. Once more information about the individual concert rosters are available updates will be posted here. Performances that Josh is not singing, will be removed.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Conductor
Carolyn Sampson – Soprano
Karen Cargill – Mezzo-soprano
Jonas Hacker – Tenor
Benjamin Appl – Baritone—PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA DEBUT
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director

PROGRAM
Bach – Mass in B minor

Friday, December 6, 2019
2:00 PM VERIZON HALL

This work of towering musicality and deep spirituality is a fitting summation of J.S. Bach’s epochal career; he finished it the year before he died. It’s “above and beyond every piece of music that’s been created for liturgical purposes,” says conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. A setting of the complete Latin Mass, it demands superlatives, at the same time rendering them inadequate. Yannick’s mastery of vocal music, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, distinguished vocal soloists, and the inimitable Philadelphia Orchestra will bring the Mass to life as a peak musical and spiritual experience for every listener.

Westminster Choir: Appear and Inspire
2019-11-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Choir prepares to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920 with a program that reflects the ensemble’s spirit and mission. Works include Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecelia, Daniel Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden and works by Runestad and more.
Performers
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Ticket Information
Admission: $20 adults and $15 students/seniors
Box Office: 609-921-2663
Purchase Tickets Online Here

Westminster Choir: Appear and Inspire at St. Rose of Lima R.C. Church
2019-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | St. Rose of Lima R.C. Church, 2 Bayview Ave, Massapequa, NY, 11758, United States
With repertoire rooted deep in Westminster Choir’s history as well as works by Westminster Choir alumni, the ensemble will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920. Between these features, the choir will perform Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, reflecting Westminster Choir’s spirit and mission as it “appeared and inspired” thousands of choral musicians over the past century.

Performers

Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor

Ticket Information

Admission: Free-will donation
Box Office: 516-798-4992
Click here for more details

Choral Evensong for the Feast of All Saints - Westminster Kantorei
2019-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Westminster Kantorei starts its concert season with a traditional service of choral evensong for the Feast of All Saints.
Under the new direction of Dr. Jay Carter, Westminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early 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.”

Please see Ticket and Program here

Westminster Summer Choral Festival
2019-07-26 | Richardson Auditorium, 68 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
The Westminster Summer Choral Festival provides an opportunity to live, study, and perform in a professional-level choral ensemble composed of singers and conductors from around the globe. Under the direction of Dr. Joe Miller, as well as several other renowned conductors from universities around the United States, each year the Summer Choral Festival centers around rehearsals and performances of a different masterwork from the western choral repertory. Other features of a typical daily schedule include conducting master classes, scholarly lectures and classes, round-table discussions, and one-on-one time with the conducting faculty.
The festival chorus will comprise 40 – 50 voices, with soloists chosen from among them.
As some visitors to this site might know, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt was scheduled to serve as Guest Conductor for Westminster’s 2019 Summer Choral Festival. The entire Westminster Choir College community mourns the passing of this great conductor, and we are dedicating the 2019 Festival to his memory. We are grateful to Z. Randall Stroope for agreeing to step in a Guest Conductor. He will announce the repertoire that this year’s Festival will explore by June 1.
Performance
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Princeton University
Repertoire
William Averitt
Fire (No. 6, Afro-American Fragments)
J. S. Bach
“Jauchzet dem Herrn, Alle Welt” (BWV Anh. 160)
Johannes Brahms – Sehnsucht, Op. 112
Ēriks Ešenvalds – Swans
John Hopkins – Descendit Sicut Pluvia
Anders Öhrwall – Fäbodpsalm Från Dalarna
Arvo Pärt – Sieben Antiphonen
1. O Weisheit
4. O Schlüssel Davids
Jake Runestad – Alleluia
William Schuman – “To All, to Each” (No. 3, Carols of Death)
Charles Villiers Stanford – “Coelos Ascendit Hodie” (Three Motets)
Z. Randall Stroope – Odysseus and the Sirens
Z. Randall Stroope – Four Spanish Sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega
1. En tanto que de rosa azucenda
3. Hermosas ninfas que
4. Amor de mi alma
Faculty
Z. Randall Stroope, Guest Conductor

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
2019-05-05 18:30 - 19:30 | 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 | 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 | 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.

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

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