Concert Archives

Accompanied by “The Armed Man film” (U.S. Premiere)

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Weill Recital Hall Debut
with Catherine Venable, Piano
 
Works by Bernstein, Blitzstein, Hahn, Herbert, Liszt, Romberg, Tucker, Williams, Youmans

György Ligeti: Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett 
Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, op. 34, No. 2 
Steve Cohen: Wind Quintet 
Luciano Berio: Opus no. Zoo 

Works by Burleigh, Dilworth, Galián, Hadar, Jenkins, Matsushita, McClure, Naplan, Núñez, Page, Papoulis, Ramirez, Sáez

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

A steel orchestra

A Celebration of Pacific Northwest composers Coolen, Dzubay, Maslanka, McKay, Youtz

Works by Bassi, Daugherty, Ives, Tchaikovsky, Tosti, Ticheli

A high energy musical celebration of spirituals, jazz, and gospel music

Lincoln Gospel Choir
Swingsations Jazz Choir
Darcy Reese, Director

Special guests

Robert Robinson & Twin Cities Gospel Choir
Ginger Commodore, Jazz Vocals

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Grammy Award-winning Ensembles

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

With Guest Artists in a Theatrical Music Journey Featuring the Northeastern University - Center for the Arts

Dedicated to Amnesty International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring soloists Marvin Matthews, Mark Condon, Andrea Clemens, and Amanda Gorman 

Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
David Bernard, Director

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring 70 invited young musicians from around the world

James Melton, Director

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp, KV 299
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade, K.525) 

Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Distinguished Concerts Artist Series

Noriko Suzuki, Piano
Ferdy Tumakaka, Piano

Lux Aurumque
With a Lily in Your Hand
Animal Crackers
A Boy and a Girl
Cloudburst
Sleep

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

She Weeps over Rahoon
The Reckoning
Seal Lullaby
Five Hebrew Songs

Featuring XinYa KongQi Orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Daniel Stevens, Viola 
Phillip Stevens, Viola 
Timothy Shook, Piano

Distinguished Concerts Artist Series

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

With a Lily
Lux Aurumque 
A Boy and a Girl 
Five Hebrew Love Songs 
Animal Crackers I 
Little Birds 
What If

Water Night
The City and the Sea (World Premiere)
Animal Crackers II
Seal Lullaby 
Cloudburst 
Sleep

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

Based on the words of Mattie J.T. Stepanek

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

10 percent of the ticket price will benefit the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $5,000

Creative Team: Eric Whitacre, David Norona, and Greg Chun  

Exstasis: Hila Plitmann, Grammy Award-winning Soprano 
Logos: Damon Kirsche 
Ignis: Doug Kreeger
Fervio: Daniel Tatar
Pieta: Sara Jean Ford 
Aia: Marie Wallace
Gravitas: Rodolfo Nieto

Greg Chun, DJ, Narrator, Assistant Music Director
On Ensemble, Taiko
Fang Fang Xu, Cello 
Casting: Mark Simon

Distinguished Concerts Artist Series

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) and the New York Opera Studio (NYOS) are proud to introduce The Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition 2011. A competition like no other in New York City, offered to aspiring singers who wish to advance their careers to the next level, this competition rewards and acknowledges excellent vocal technique and artistry in opera and oratorio. Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) and the New York Opera Studio (NYOS) are proud to introduce The Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition 2011. A competition like no other in New York City, offered to aspiring singers who wish to advance their careers to the next level, this competition rewards and acknowledges excellent vocal technique and artistry in opera and oratorio.

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Repertoire:

Animal Crackers, Vol. 1 and 2
Sleep 
Lux Aurumque
Seal Lullaby
Five Hebrew Songs
The City and the Sea
What If (from Paradise Lost)

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring NY Jazz Trio and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Joseph Berquist, Narrator

Featuring Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Song of Wisdom from Old Turtle
The Awakening

Douglas Wood, Narrator and Author

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Concerto of Psalms for Two Violins and Orchestra
China II - Beijing

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

 

Greg Chun, DJ
On Ensemble, Taiko
Fang Fang Xu, Cello
Jason Crystal, Sound Designer

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

with Jasmin Arakawa, pianist

Featuring works by Britten, Finzi, Granados, Penhorwood, Pfitzner

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Michael R. Gagliardo, Conductor
Linze Rickles McRae, Choreographer
Etowah Youth Orchestras
Downtown Dance Conservatory

About Le Casse-Noix Moderne - The Modern Nutcracker

In 2008, composer and arranger Mike Gagliardo and choreographer Linze Rickles McRae began talking about collaborating for a performance of "The Nutcracker" with their respective organizations, the Etowah Youth Orchestras and the Downtown Dance Conservatory. Gagliardo and McRae agreed on one thing - that this version of the famous holiday classic should be like no other.

At first the talk was of a "rock and roll Nutcracker," in the style of the music of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. However, the project soon morphed into something bigger - a new take on the show that would encompass every form of popular music from the 1920's to the present time. Gagliardo and McRae selected a representative portion of the music from the original work, maintaining the integrity of the original show while creating a production that would be both audience- and performer-friendly.

From there, each selection became a different style. "Trepak" turned into a hard-swinging big band number, a la Buddy Rich. "Sugar Plum Fairy" became a soulful ballad straight out of Memphis and Stax Records. The Overture turned into straight-ahead rock and roll. "Mirlitons" tuned into western swing. And just like that, "Le Casse-noix Moderne" was born - a retrospective of modern music and dance, with all of the magic and familiarity of the timeless holiday classic!

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

DCINY will host the world premiere of the latest work by Karl Jenkins, the most performed living composer in the world. The Peacemakers, using text by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Albert Schweizter as well as Shelley, the Bible, Quran, Hinduism etc, is a work extolling peace. One line from Rumi (the 13th-century Persian mystic poet) sums up the ethos of the work: "All religions, all singing one song; Peace be with you."

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Carol’s Preludes
The Wooing of Etain
Sarikiz Violin Concerto (Carnegie Hall Premiere)

With Soloists from Louisiana State University:

Michael Gurt, piano
Yova Milanova, violin
Griffin Campbell, saxophone

Hamiruge - The LSU Percussion Group 
Brett William Dietz 
Chris Hoefer 
Daniel Heagney 
Samuel Trevathan

Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) and the New York Opera Studio (NYOS), the Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition rewards and acknowledges excellent vocal technique and artistry in opera and oratorio

Panel of judges includes Clay Aiken, Sharon Sweet (soprano from the New York Met), Nico Castel, Jonathan Griffith and Timothy Seelig. 

 

2012 Master Singer Results

Congratulations to Courtney Mills and LaMarcus Miller, winners of the 2012 Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition!
 
Female Finalists: Amaya Arberas Navarro, Courtney Mills, Sara Snider Schone, and Maryann Mootos

Male Finalists: Enrique Pina, LaMarcus Miller, Eric Jurenas, and Ivan Rivera De Beltran

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

A Child's Credo/In Virtute Tua (World Premiere)
The Wizard of Oz Choral Revue
There's Room for Many-a More!
Through the Eyes of A Child
Why We Sing

Randall Hooper, Director of Choral Activities 
Phillip Clements, Director of Bands

Featuring music by David Maslanka, James Syler, Randall Thompson, and more, including World Premieres by Bradley Bodine and David Sampson

Tammie Huntington, Soprano
Lisa Dawson, Soprano 
Phoenix Park-Kim, Piano

Emily Thompson, Violin
Jason Thompson, Violin

Catherine Verrilli, Soprano 
Melissa Krause, Flute
Terry Vermillion, Percussion

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring works by Beethoven, Boccherini, Glière, Stravinsky, and more

Film screening -- New York Premiere. The film will be introduced by composer Eric Whitacre and followed by a Q&A with Mr. Lauridsen and filmmaker Michael Stillwater.

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Karl Jenkins: Harp Concerto

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Rengim Gökmen, Conductor
Ferda Yetiser, Mezzo-soprano
Senor Talinli, Tenor
Tuncay Kurtoglu, Basso
TURKSOY Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Griffith Singers

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

David Narona, Director
Alicia Albright, Choreographer
Jim Stanak, Singer-Actor

Broadway Next is an exciting 3-day, music theater workshop in New York City, which brings together tomorrow's talent with today's master artists.  You will learn how to audition, rehearse and perform  with a faculty of top-level, working Broadway professionals, all while workshopping an award-winning new musical. That makes Broadway Next one of a kind. 

Lincoln Center Premiere of the Thomas Beecham/Eugene Goossens' 1959 Re-Orchestration for full Symphony Orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

With Soloists from Louisiana State University

Featuring Monroe Crossing

Derek Johnson: guitar, lead & harmony vocals; Lisa Fuglie: fiddle, mandolin, lead & harmony vocals; Matt Thompson: mandolin, fiddle, baritone vocals; Mark Anderson: bass & bass vocals; and David Robinson: banjo.

Boston Tour

Philadelphia Tour

New York City Tour

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring David Sanborn, Wayne Bergeron, the Voodoo Orchestra, and La Onda Caribeña

One of the hottest big bands in the world just happens to be made up of teens from Utah. Under the direction of Caleb Chapman, the talented teenagers of the Crescent Super Band play smoking jazz and Swing Era standards, as well as new compositions. For their Carnegie Hall debut, the ensemble will be joined by trumpet player Wayne Bergeron and saxophonist David Sanborn. The program features premieres of new music from John Clayton, Greg Yasinitsky, Russel Schmidt, Sam Cardon and Greg Hansen. Two of Chapman's other groups, Voodoo Orchestra and La Onda Caribeña, will open the concert.

Adrienne Neal, Bharati Soman, Cynthia Cole (Founder/Artistic Director), Eriko Murray, Jennifer Wintle, Laura Bass, Nicole Lamm

Ruth Locker (Accompanist)

Divas Just Wanna Have Fun! ®

Youthfulness, beauty, charm, ego, love, deceit, and despair - these are all themes that run through the soprano repertoire. The 7 Sopranos take the audience on a roller-coaster journey through familiar music to bring insight into the life of a diva, with all its dramatic twists and turns.

Sung-Hyun Yoon: Arirang (II)
Jung-Sun Park: Kyrie (from Arirang Mass)
Jeeyoung Kim : Miserere
(World Premiere)
Ki-young Kim: Dona nobis pacem
(World Premiere)
Gyun-Yong Lee: Sae Taryung
(The Bird Song)
Jung-Sun Park: Mokdosori
(A Song of Pole-carrying)


And other works by Korean and American Composers including Barber and Whitacre

Charles Akert, cello
Ginny Armstrong, percussion
Martha Councell-Vargas, flute
Michelle Crouch, soprano
Joseph Dangerfield, conductor
Ann DuHamel, piano
Stephen Fine, viola
Yasmin Flores, clarinet
Tricia Park, violin

with Soloists from Louisiana State University

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra
and Distinguished Concert Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra
and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Tone Braaten, Soprano
Ingrid Hanken, Soprano
Ebba Rydh, Mezzo-Soprano
Per Kristian Amundrød, Tenor
Frank Havrøy, Baritone
Trond Olav Reinholdtsen, Bass

Timothy Powell: St. George and the Dragon (World Premiere)
Libretto by poet Charles Anthony Silvestri

F.M. Christiansen: Praise to the Lord
J. Ames: In Remembrance
Brent Pierce: Hosanna in Excelsis
J. Shank: Autumn
D. Davison: Ritmo
Kirke Mechem: Blow Ye the Trumpet (from "John Brown")
K. Mechem; arr. D. Dandridge: Rockin' Jerusalem

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Lehigh University Choral Arts brings its tradition of excellence into the spotlight on the renowned main stage of Carnegie Hall. The performance features Sametz's own compositions, I Have Had Singing and the choral symphony Carmina amoris, which sets medieval texts to music – by turn explosive, argumentative, provocative, and serene. With the Lehigh Choral Union, University Choir, Dolce, and the historic Glee Club, now in its 145th year.

Music for Violin, Clarinet, Voice and Piano

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra
and Distinguished Concerts Singers International


Repertoire:

How Can I Keep From Singing
I Thank You God
Songs for Women's Voices
This Train
Crossing the Bar

New York City's Own Women's Choir

Thomas Beecham/Eugene Goossens’ 1959 Re-Orchestration for Full Symphony Orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra
and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Music of Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, Kodaly and Galante

Performing dances in the Flamenco and Tango styles

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra

 

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International.

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International.

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

DCINY presents Total Vocal, a celebration of contemporary a cappella music featuring arrangements from Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off, and the American pop lexicon. The performance includes Special Guest Artists “Barden Bellas” Kelley Jackle and Shelley Regner from the movie Pitch Perfect, and is conducted and hosted by Deke Sharon, a pioneer of the contemporary a cappella genre. Music highlights from the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel and more!

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International 

Navo Middle School Varsity Treble Choir

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Attention US Military Veterans and Active Servicemen and Women:

DCINY would like to offer you and your family COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS for our upcoming Memorial Day concert on Monday, May 25, 2015 at 7:00pm at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

**Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1HgWr04 **

 

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished ConcertsSingers International

Featuring Mozart’s Requiem and the New York premiere of Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances, originally commissioned for the 10th anniversary of 9/11

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International and Fullerton Chamber Orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International and Fullerton Chamber Orchestra

Haydn: Armida Overture
Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures
Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances

Landscape V for Violin and Piano, LRC 204
Recollections for Solo Saxophone, LRC 205a
Fantasia for Stelios and Yiannis, LRC244b
Celestial Musings for Alto Saxophone Alone, LRC 231b
China IV - Shenzhen, Concerto for Cello and Piano, LRC 139c
Sonata for Violin and Piano, LRC 021c
Ballade for the Hellenic Land for solo cello, LRC 159
Dialogue for Violin and Cello, LRC 232b
Impressions II for Alto Saxophone and Piano, LRC 171
Trio No 1, LRC 009
 

Thomas Beecham's/Eugene Goossens' 1959 re-orchestration for full symphony orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Thomas Beecham's/Eugene Goossens' 1959 re-orchestration for full symphony orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Cultural Exhibit opens at 6:15pm. 

Performance at 7:00pm. 

Tickets are FREE. Available for pickup at box office, starting at 6:00pm on the day of performance. Lincoln Center Box office is located on 1941 Broadway, at 65th Street. 

For the occasion of the Independance Day of Kazakhstan and the candidature of Kazakhstan to the Security Council for 2017-2018.​

Deborah Popham, Soprano
Ben Harris, Piano 

Music by Reynaldo Hahn:
À Chloris
Quand je fus pris au pavilion
L’Énamourée
Dans la nuit

Music by Ottorino Respighi; Text by Antonio Rubino:
Deità silvane, P. 107
I. I fauni
II. Musica in horto
III. Egle
IV. Acqua

Music by Sergei Rachmaninov:
Ne poj krasavica, pri mne, Op. 4, No. 4 (Text by Alexander Pushkin)
Na smert’ chizhika, Op. 21, No. 8 (Text by Vasily Zhukovsky)
Vesenniye vodi, Op. 14, No. 11 (Text by Fyodor Tioutchev)

Music by Ben Moore:
So Free am I
I. Mutta (Text by Indian Buddhist nuns, trans. by Uma Chakravarti and Kumkum Roy)
II. Interlude (Text by Amy Lowell)
III. Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips (Text by Katherine Philips)
IV. Nervous Prostration (Text by Anna Wickham)
VI. The Poem as Mask: Orpheus (Text by Muriel Rukeyser)
VII. Mettika (Text by Indian Buddhist nuns, trans. by Uma Chakravarti and Kumkum Roy)

Music by Richard Hundley:
Sweet Suffolk Owl (Text is Anon. 1619)

Music by Samuel Barber:
The Monk and His Cat, Op. 29, No. 8 (Text is Anon. 8th or 9th Century, translated by W.H. Auden)

Music by Irving Fine:
The Frog and the Snake (Text by Gertrude Norman)

Music by Lee Hoiby:
The Serpent (Text by Theodore Roethke)

 

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra, Pennsbury High School Concert Choir and Pennsbury Community Choir

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Commissioned by the DCINY Premiere Project

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Singers International 

Bluegrass represents one of the most American, down home, traditions of American musical culture. From Bill Monroe to the Steep Canyon Rangers, bluegrass has been a staple of our culture.Through this project, we aim to preserve these grand traditions and bring about a new work focused on introducing new audiences to the bluegrass choral world and beyond. Following the acclaimed success of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, dynamic duo Chamberlain and Barnett are teaming up again to bring you a follow up masterwork- Mortals & Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum.

Partially commissioned by DCINY, this work will receive its World Premiere at Carnegie Hall on January 25, 2016. Featuring a classical chorus of 300 voices including a treble choir, this new work aims to employ the traditional bluegrass style within the context of classical structure. The text will include direct passages from ancient scripture and contemporary prayer. 

The DCINY Premiere Project would like to thank the following Official Kickstarter supporters for their help in making this project become a reality.

Lee Thomas
Marvin Balamut
Detroit Lakes Shakespeare
Max Shinn
Sage Lewis
Christian
Kevin Taylor
Charles Schwartz
Saeteesh'
Amy Zellmer
David T Schaller
Yvonne Cheek
Zack Baltich
Julie Webb
Pat O'Keefe
Jocelyn Hagen
Benji Flaming
Claudia Graebel Beermann
Hannah Texler
Joy Benn
Linda Shapiro
Derek Johnson
Steve Bye
Warren Park
Alice Sather
Kasey Payette
Jo Seton
Clara and Darryl Muggli-Toyloy
Kathleen Palmer
Jamie Kirsch
Amy Anderson
Mary Jane Jatko
Dr. Deborah Fletcher
Janis Weller
Kim Ryan
Michael Chamberlain
Rachel Trelstad-Porter
Lisa Q Steinberg
Michael Reid Winikoff
Jesus Maria Alvarez
The Music Angels
Claire Givens & Andrew Dipper
David Myers
Roxane Harvey Gudeman
Lesley Atwood
Janice Robbins
Louise Mundinger
Alyssa Anderson
Karen Koepp
Kay and Mike McCarthy
A. Eric Heukeshoven
Kathi Wilson-Massey
Nancy Menk
Mary E. Youngquist
Rebekah Vieira
Camille Lee
Lesley Atwood and Rick Smith
Ian Good
Diamond Carolyn
John McWilliams
John T. Fernandez
Jane Hovland
Bill Spinelli & Karen Moore
Todd Boss
Robert Pontious
Janice & Donald Shoultz
Jack and Linda Hoeschler
Warren Zaffke
Katharine Allen
Mina Fisher and Fritz Nelson
Debbie Bloom

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Contemporary A Cappella featuring music from The SingOff! and Pitch Perfect

Contemporary A Cappella featuring music from The SingOff! and Pitch Perfect

Martin High School Chorale, directed by Kay Owens
Martin Wind Symphony, directed by Brad McCann
Martin High School Symphony Orchestra, directed by Michael Stringer

O Magnum Mysterium
Beati Omnes
O Filii Et Filiae
Ubi Caritas
I Am The Rose Of Sharon
Invictus
Canticum Novum

Khorikos performs, directed by Alec Galambos.

Directed by Susan Boettger

New York Concert Review Inc.
Highlights from the Review by Frank Daykin

If Thursday’s concert of high-school age chamber musicians is any indication, the state of classical chamber music is very healthy in Southern California (and, I hope, elsewhere!). A large array of dedicated students, all excellently coached, performed a wide variety of repertoire with skill ranging from good to very good to “wow.”

For me, the two “wow” moments occurred in the last two works on the program. First, an astonishingly mature string quartet who performed the first movement of Grieg’s rarely heard String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27. The players (Jason Corbin, Alisa Luera, David Noble, and Jonathan Kim) created a fierce, plush, ensemble sound that would be the envy of many a mature professional group; they breathed and phrased perfectly together; and they managed to make Grieg’s somewhat rambling structure sound inevitable and musically coherent and compelling.

The other “wow” moment was provided by a piano four-hand team playing the duet transcription of Ravel’s La Valse made by Ravel’s friend Lucien Garban. This team (Nicholas Mendez and Yoko Rosenbaum) played with all the flair and assurance of a professional piano duo, fabulously unified. Their comprehension of this difficult score was superb; the only quality lacking was a bit more freedom and Viennese upbeat. Nevertheless, a definite “wow.”

Other highlights included: a fleet, precise rendition of the final movement of Beethoven’s First Piano Trio; cellist William Ellzey’s excellent communication skill in the first movement of Brahms’ Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano; Martinů’s Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano; the first movement of Schoenfield’s Café Music; Raymond Newell’s cello in the Brahms Second Cello Sonata.

Sometimes the age of the participants showed an inability to inhabit fully the emotional message of the selected repertoire. However, the fact that they are playing such difficult material with technical fluency is in itself a thing to behold (and support).

I wish I had had these opportunities when I was a young student. I salute you all, and your fine teachers, coaches, and schools.

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Military Wives Choir Sing in New York (UK)
In support of MWCF

Mira Costa High School Philharmonic & Symphony Orchestras, Directed by Peter Park 

The Mira Costa Bands​, Directed by Joel Carlson
 

Courtesy of the DCINY Premiere Project

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Music for Treble Voices

Jake Heggie: SELECTIONS FROM EVE-SONG (Philip Littell)
  My Name
  Even
  Listen
  Snake
  Woe to Man
  The Farm

Andre Previn: THREE DICKINSON SONGS (Emily Dickinson)
As imperceptibly as grief
Will there really be a morning?
Good morning, Midnight

Jessica Meyer: SPACE, IN CHAINS for voice and viola (Laura Kasischke)(World Premiere)
  Space, in chains
  Rain
  O elegant giant

Tom Cipullo: SONGS OF TOM CIPULLO
  Magnolia (Lisel Mueller)
  There are mornings (Lisel Mueller)
  Why I Wear My Hair Long (Marilyn Kallet) 
  Saying Goodbye (Marilyn Kallet)
  Fugitive (Lisel Mueller)
  Something About Autumn (Robert Cole)

Jake Heggie: AT THE STATUE OF VENUS (Terrence McNally)

BACH-BUSONI: Chorale Prelude, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

BACH-BUSONI: Chaconne from Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004

TAN DUN: Eight Memories in Watercolour

WARREN LEE: Three Novelettes

BEETHOVEN: Sonata in E major, Op.109

CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60 

 

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and
Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and
Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Thomas Beecham's/Eugene Goosens' 1959 Re-Orchestration for full symphony orchestra

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

CLICK HERE TO WATCH MESSIAH LIVE!

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Pennsbury High School Concert Choir

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
Sir Karl Jenkins, DCINY Composer-in-Residence

Finale from Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (Tchaikovsky)

L'isle joyeuse (Debussy) 

Armenian Dances, Part 1 (Reed) 

Lux Aurumque  (Whitacre)

Mercer Singers

Featuring Mercer Singers, Alumni & Friends
McDuffie Center String Ensemble & Friends

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Directed by James Mick

Christina Kobb, Piano

Franz Liszt (1811-86)/Robert Schumann: Liebeslied, S566/R53, “Widmung”(1848)
Liszt’s arrangement of the first lied of Schumann’s op. 25, Myrthen 

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Sonata, a minor, D. 537 (1817)
                            Allegro ma non troppo
                            Allegretto quasi andantino   
                            Allegro vivace

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Drei Phantasiestücke (1861, later published as op. 1)
                             Allegro con leggerezza   
                             Non allegro e molto espressivo   
                             Allegretto con moto


Clara Schumann:  op. 5, Quatre Pièces caractéristiques  (1833-36)
                            III Romance
                            IV Scene Fantastique: Le Ballet des Revenants
         
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Robert Schumann (1810-56): Sonata nr. 1, op. 11, f-sharp minor   (1833-35)
                              Introduzione: Un poco Adagio   
                              Aria
                              Scherzo e Intermezzo: Allegrissimo   
                              Finale: Allegro un poco maestoso Thank you to the following backers, from Kickstarter and across the world, who made this dream a reality:

Bethaney Cotten
Maria Sønderland
Tore Simonsen
Deborah Simunovich
Richard Yarnell
Hilde Grytten
Indie Film
Sean Lewis
Steve & Cathy Hluchan
Michael Uhlenkott
Bash the Trash Environmental Arts
Marius Tobias Hoven
Michael Miller
Hannah Staub
Jim Clark
Hans Christian Bratterud
Petra Bratterud
Matthew Bittner
Anthony Ho
Juliette Gilman
Nik Devrsac
Jay Rector
Jack Allen
Geir Anders Thuve
Lloyd & Bonnie Johnson
Irvin & Susan Johnson
Lyle & Denise Johnson
Mark Albert
 
Lennart Wolfgramm
Liv Glaser
Yngve Søberg
Liv Hukkelberg
Berit Ommedal
Gudrun og Per Fossum
Ruth og Knut Ullestad
Astrid og Bjørnar Tinnesand
Bente Tinnesand
Synve Tinnesand
Kathe Anita Bratterud
Peter Bratterud Kobbeltvedt
Harald og Solbjørg Ulland
Gurly og Kjell Jarness
Turid Røsbekk
Ruth Moskvil
Kirsten Landsværk Haugen
Eva Saxegaard
Laila Rasmussen
Rolf Daniel Henriksen
Ingebjørg Staver
Liv Jonassen
Marit Borge
Ann Gulden
Agnes Vinorum
Gunvor Suthern
Solveig Bilstad
Nina Filby
Per Anders Løhne
Inger Østmo
 

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The Troy Jazz Ensemble
The Troy Concert Band
The Troy Symphonic Band 

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Cuerda y Voz; George Hemcher, Piano
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Hudson Festival Chorus and Orchestra (OH)

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Johann Sebastian Bach​: Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825                                   

Frédéric Chopin: Four compositions  
        Nocturne op. 9 no. 2 in E-flat major
        Impromptu no. 1 op. 29 in A-flat major
        Etude op. 10 no. 3 in E major
        Etude op. 10 no. 4 in C-sharp minor

Franz Liszt: Three compositions
        Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
        Au bord d’une source
        Etude no. 3 in G-sharp minor, “La Campanella”

Aaron Copland: Our Town 

Earl Wild: Seven virtuoso etudes (Gershwin transcriptions), nos. 4 and 7

Aaron Copland: Rodeo

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