Josh Lisner

BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 1 & 9
2020-04-02 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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
2020-04-04 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.
Buy Tickets
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 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.”

Westminster Choir: Dayton, Ohio
2020-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | 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

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Yannick and Bruckner - Bruckner Te Deum
2023-05-05 14:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-06 20:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Performance Details

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor
Elza van den Heever Soprano
Michelle DeYoung Mezzo-soprano
Sean Panikkar Tenor
Ryan Speedo Green Bass-baritone
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller Director
Bruckner “Christus factus est”
Bruckner Symphony No. 9
Bruckner Te Deum
Bookended by two of Bruckner’s sacred choral works, the transcendent and unfinished Ninth Symphony, Bruckner’s last , will be performed by Yannick and the Orchestra as the composer wished it: with his soaring Te Deum as its finale. Bruckner considered the Te Deum his masterpiece, calling it “the pride of his life,” and Gustav Mahler, who treasured Bruckner’s score, said it was written “for the tongues of angels.” Savor the infinite beauty of the human voice in this joyful, majestic music, performed by the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a cast of acclaimed operatic soloists.

Brahms Requiem
2024-01-26 - 2024-01-28 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Performance Details

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor
Gil Shaham Violin
Jeanine De Bique Soprano
Christopher Maltman Baritone
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller Director
Bates Nomad Concerto, for violin and orchestra
Peña Laguna Oraison, for chorus and orchestra
Brahms A German Requiem

Friday
Jan 26, 2024, 2:00 PM
Saturday
Jan 27, 2024, 8:00 PM
Sunday
Jan 28, 2024, 2:00 PM

From Mozart to Berlioz to Britten, great composers have poured their souls into settings of the requiem mass. Unique among them is Brahms’s utterly beautiful A German Requiem, written after the death of his mother, with its emphasis not on the dead, but on those left behind; not on loss, but on the joy of remembrance. From its opening phrase, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted,” to its transporting finale of triumph and tranquility, it touches the hearts of all who hear it.
Written with the intention of being paired with Brahms’s Requiem, Cuban-Canadian composer Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna’s choral work Oraison was created in reaction to the COVID pandemic. Sung in four languages—French, Spanish, Latin, and English—it ends on a note of joyful hope as the chorus sings in French, “We emerge/Barefoot on the rosy meadows/At the first morning sun.”
Another cause for joy: There’s an extraordinary, palpable energy in the hall when musicians who have special regard for each other come together in performance. And that’s what you can expect when Yannick welcomes the preeminent violinist Gil Shaham back for the world premiere of Mason Bates’s Nomad Concerto, a piece co-commissioned by the Orchestra. Bates’s “stunning, staggering, stupendous” (Classical Voice North America) Piano Concerto thrilled Philadelphia Orchestra audiences in 2022; now you can hear this heralded composer’s newest work with a violinist beloved by audiences around the world.

Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation
2024-02-14 20:00 | Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza,, New York, 10023, United States
Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation

Bradley Cooper
Speaker
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Conductor / Speaker
Nick Blaemire
Cast
Mallory Portnoy
Cast
Kate Eastman
Cast
Carey Mulligan
Cast
Zachary Booth
Cast
Malakai Bayoh
Vocalist
Ann De Renais
Soprano
Samuel Oladeinde
Tenor
Philip John Sheffield
Tenor
Maestro Chorus
Malcolm J. Merriweather, chorus director
Get inside the music and behind the scenes of one of today’s most compelling movies. Orchestrating Maestro: Music & Conversation is a celebration of the 2023 Academy Award–nominated movie about the beloved composer and NY Phil Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Netflix and the NY Phil present selections from the soundtrack of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro performed by Members of the New York Philharmonic, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Following the performance Cooper and Nézet-Séguin have a side-by-side conversation about Bernstein’s life and legacy.
A first-come, first-served standby line will be available at the Welcome Center at David Geffen Hall starting one hour prior to the performance. We cannot guarantee entry for standby guests.

Carmina Burana - Orchestra of St. Luke’s & Westminster Choir College
2024-02-27 20:00 | Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Tito Muñoz, Conductor
Ying Fang, Soprano
Nicholas Phan, Tenor
Norman Garrett, Baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir
James Jordan, Director
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director

Carmina Burana - New Jersey Symphony Orchestra & Montclair State University
2024-03-01 - 2024-03-03 | New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St, Newark, NJ, 07102, United States
Xian Zhang conductor
Andrew Adelson oboe d’amore
Jana McIntyre soprano
Barry Banks tenor
Hugh Russell baritone
Montclair State University Chorale | Heather J. Buchanan, director
New Jersey Symphony

Kodály Dances of Galánta

Kodály’s love for his native Hungary is evident in this sparkling and tuneful dance suite, inspired by the folk songs he heard in the small market town where he spent part of his childhood.

J.S. Bach Oboe d’Amore Concerto

Your first time to hear the oboe d’amore? This duskier cousin of the modern oboe has a soulful, sweet sound that Bach adored and placed at the center of this piece of reverence and reflection.

Orff Carmina Burana

Medieval monks had more on their minds than scripture–women, beer and the ever-turning wheel of fate most prominent. Orff set their words to dramatically colorful music in his iconic Carmina Burana.

Mozart Requiem - Philadelphia Orchestra and Symphonic Choir
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-28 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Performance Details

Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor
Erin Morley Soprano
Sara Mingardo Contralto
Kenneth Tarver Tenor
Harold Wilson Bass
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller Director
Schumann Symphony No. 4
Mozart Requiem
Mozart’s Requiem is shrouded in mystery; left uncompleted at the end of his life amid the torments of illness and financial woes, it is imbued with Mozart’s own dark thoughts that the commissioning of a requiem, while a boon to his spare funds, was somehow a sign that his own life was in danger. Myths swirl around the “mysterious stranger” who ordered the piece, including one theory that the commissioner was Mozart’s jealous contemporary and competitor Antonio Salieri, as depicted in the play and film Amadeus. History shows that it was more likely that the dubious figure was a nobleman in the habit of acquiring works by gifted composers and passing them off as his own. In a creative frenzy, pouring out his genius in an attempt to improve his fortunes, Mozart was more productive in his final year than in any other period in his life. His Requiem’s “Dies irae” (Day of Wrath) blazes with theatricality, and his ineffably sorrowful “Lacrimosa” remains one of the most beautiful passages in all of classical music. It’s conducted here by Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, whose beginnings as a contralto renowned for early music grounds her deep affinity with the work; her reading of this timeless score has been called “a wonder to hear” (ArtsATL). The soloists include the “diamond-bright (Presto) soprano Erin Morley; the “spellbinding” (Gramophone) contralto Sara Mingardo; Kenneth Tarver, whose distinctive tenor boasts “an ideal blend of velvet and steel” (Gramophone); and the “profound bass” (Bachtrack) Harold Wilson.
The concert begins with Schumann’s brooding, passionate Fourth Symphony. Written during a crucial time in his life, shortly after he married the virtuoso pianist and composer Clara Wieck, Schumann’s Fourth was considered innovative, even revolutionary in its time. He would return to it 10 years after its first writing, reshaping and restructuring it to be the version you will hear in these concerts.

Mozart Requiem - Philadelphia Orchestra and Symphonic Choir (Carnegie Hall)
2024-04-30 20:00 | Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States

Edison High School Spring Concert
2024-05-02 18:30 | Edison High School Auditorium, 50 Boulevard of the Eagles, Edison, 08817, United States
Josh Lisner – Conductor
Pam Momyer – Collaborative Pianist
Rep Selections TBA

Edison District Choral Festival
2024-05-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, 716 Watchung Ave,, Plainfield,, 07060, United States
Rep: TBA

Riccardo Muti Leads Verdi’s Requiem
2024-10-24 - 2024-10-26 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
The sublime and terrifying beauty of Verdi’s Requiem surrounds you in performances led by legendary former Music Director Riccardo Muti, whose masterful interpretation brings to life the transcendent “Lacrymosa,” the heavens-shaking “Dies irae,” and the grace-filled finale.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti – Conductor
Juliana Grigoryan
Soprano
Isabel De Paoli
Mezzo-Soprano
Giovanni Sala
Tenor
Maharram Huseynov
Bass-Baritone
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director

Handel's Messiah
2024-12-21 - 2024-12-22 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Handel’s transcendent choral masterwork is a highlight of the holiday season, gathering friends and family in what, for many, is an unmissable annual tradition. Renowned for his interpretations of this classic, Yannick unites Orchestra, soloists, and chorus in a sound that is at once as “intimate as it is grand … notably warm and … remarkably tender,” leaving “listeners ready to sing a glorious ‘Hallelujah!’” (Philadelphia).

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Conductor
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller – Director

Martines Dixit Dominus & Mozart Missa Brevis in B flat
2025-01-26 15:00 - 17:00 | NY
Lisner currently serves as Conducting Intern for Choral Art Society of New Jersey. He will be performing as a member of the choir and assisting with ensemble preparations for this performance.

Bachtoberfest! - Princeton Pro Musica
2025-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Richardson Auditorium, 68 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Bachtoberfest! – Princeton Pro Musica
Sunday, October 19, 2025, 4 p.m.
A festive season opener featuring favorites of Bach including Magnificat, Concerto for Two Violins, and more.

A Feast of Carols
2025-12-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Richardson Auditorium, 68 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
We love being a part of your annual holiday traditions! Join us for this celebration of seasonal music, sumptuously arranged for chorus and orchestra.

Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”)
2026-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Yannick continues the Orchestra’s exploration of Mahler with one of the composer’s most enduring classics. Shaking the heavens, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony is a vast, spectacular work requiring a large orchestra as well as organ, chorus, two soloists, and multiple offstage musicians. In its sublime ending, majestic and awe-inspiring, a heavenly choir sings and in that moment, Mahler wrote, “a feeling of overwhelming love fills us.”

Mahlers Symphony No. 2 in C Minor("Resurrection")(with soloist)
2026-03-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Yannick continues the Orchestra’s exploration of Mahler with one of the composer’s most enduring classics. Shaking the heavens, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony is a vast, spectacular work requiring a large orchestra as well as organ, chorus, two soloists, and multiple offstage musicians. In its sublime ending, majestic and awe-inspiring, a heavenly choir sings and in that moment, Mahler wrote, “a feeling of overwhelming love fills us.”

A sublime cast of soloists summons the heavens in these performances of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony! Soprano Ying Fang has “a voice that can stop time, pure and rich and open and consummately expressive” (Financial Times). And Joyce DiDonato—who won rave reviews for her appearances in the Orchestra’s 2024 performances of Mahler’s Third Symphony—has a voice that NPR calls “truly one of nature’s great wonders: luminous, silken, flexible, full of colors and expressive shadings, always supported by the breath so that even the finest threads of tone shine.”

Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”)
2026-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Marion Anderson Hall – Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States

Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”)
2026-03-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
The ecstatic praise given to Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony might seem hyperbolic to those unfamiliar, but the impact this colossal symphony has on listeners is real. “I think there is no one who can resist it,” Mahler once said. “One is battered to the ground and then raised on angel’s wings to the highest heights.” Tonight, experience the life-changing symphony in the same concert hall where Mahler conducted its US premiere. Led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomes world-renowned singers Ying Fang and Joyce DiDonato alongside the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir.

Freedom Writers
2026-03-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Richardson Auditorium, 68 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
As our country prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, we bring you powerful texts focused on freedom and democracy brought to life through powerful music. Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Julia Wolfe’s Letter from Abigail, Howard Hanson’s Song of Democracy, and more

American Resonance
2026-05-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
We’ll close our season in the glorious acoustic of the Princeton University Chapel as we continue to celebrate American composers with a trio of works written in the 1960s: Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Princeton composer Frank Lewin’s Requiem for Robert F. Kennedy, which received its premiere in the Chapel itself in 1969, and Margaret Bonds’ St. Francis Prayer. As a special treat, Princeton University Organist Eric Plutz will present works for organ by American composers
