past events

Robyn Lana and the National Youth Festival Chorus perform my work We Will Do Miracles as part of their festival concert at Carnegie Hall. More information here.

Cordus Mundi's traditional season-closing concert with our soprano & alto Friends takes on a different look & feel this season with the introduction of four ‘home-grown” guest conductors. Featuring my The Red-Gold Darkness of Rain. More information.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy..."

A new major world premiere composed by Andrea Clearfield with libretto by Ellen Frankel and new percussion instruments designed by David Kontak. 

In a world where technology encroaches more and more on our lived experiences, Beyond the Binary explores the question of what it means to be fully human. Featuring percussion-driven instrumental rock group Square Peg Round Hole and Philadelphia-based drag performer Cookie DiOrio as “The Oracle,” and additional music of Carlos Cordero, Moira Smiley, Moses Hogan, and my original work Alleluia.

Not a typical choral concert, this multimedia experience is part film showing, part theater presentation, and part musical showcase, with a happy hour for good measure! Learn more and purchase tickets.

Under the direction of Maria Belva, Sweetest in the Gale will pay homage to the simple joys that helped us through the pandemic. Repertoire includes Listen, by Dale Trumbore; Tis the Gift to Be Simple, arranged by Alice Parker; As You Sing, by Sarah Quartel; and a captivating setting of the Sara Teasdale poem, Life Has Loveliness to Sell, by Dominick DiOrio. Learn more and purchase tickets.

Under the direction of Maria Belva, Sweetest in the Gale will pay homage to the simple joys that helped us through the pandemic. Repertoire includes Listen, by Dale Trumbore; Tis the Gift to Be Simple, arranged by Alice Parker; As You Sing, by Sarah Quartel; and a captivating setting of the Sara Teasdale poem, Life Has Loveliness to Sell, by Dominick DiOrio. Learn more and purchase tickets.

Originally commissioned by Susan Swaney and Voces Novae, The Vonnegut Requiem is an incredible collaboration between eight living composers (Cary Boyce, Stacy Garrop, Dale Trumbore, Gabriel Lubell, Malcolm Dalglish, Lauren Bernofsky, Don Freund and Moira Smiley) and created in the most Vonnegut-ty way in the spirit of his granfalloons. Come and hear the texts that KV wrote when he first experienced the Latin Requiem, and hear tradition kaleidoscopically distilled. Also featuring the annual student winners of the NOTUS Student Composition Contest.

Cordus Mundi's spring concert draws on two main inspirations - spirit and love; we are joined by guest instrumentalists on several pieces, including for the long-awaited live premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s “The Lamb”, commissioned by Cordus Mundi in 2019. Also featuring my If There Is and You Do Not Walk Alone. Purchase tickets here.

Waelrant Camerata performs my work, Day of Fire and Sun as part of their March 2022 spring concert.

We grieve, we process, we begin to rebuild

Loss moves from pain into healing. Oppression moves from pain into resilience and power. Anguish moves from pain into hope. In March, we bring together music and poetry for a program of resilience, hope, and affirmation to take us beyond our current state to a new vision of being and belonging.

Featuring GRAMMY Award Winning baritone soloist Dashon Burton in both art song and choral music interwoven with poetry by Elizabeth Scanlon. Also featuring music of Reena Esmail, Dale Trumbore, Joel Thompson, and a world premiere by Philadelphia composer Melissa Dunphy. Plus… excerpts of major works by Paul Moravec (Sanctuary Road) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (Five Mystical Songs), and also featuring my original works Walking to the Sun and Let Us Plant Our Gardens Now. Learn more and purchase tickets.

We grieve, we process, we begin to rebuild

Loss moves from pain into healing. Oppression moves from pain into resilience and power. Anguish moves from pain into hope. In March, we bring together music and poetry for a program of resilience, hope, and affirmation to take us beyond our current state to a new vision of being and belonging.

Featuring GRAMMY Award Winning baritone soloist Dashon Burton in both art song and choral music interwoven with poetry by Elizabeth Scanlon. Also featuring music of Reena Esmail, Dale Trumbore, Joel Thompson, and a world premiere by Philadelphia composer Melissa Dunphy. Plus… excerpts of major works by Paul Moravec (Sanctuary Road) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (Five Mystical Songs), and also featuring my original works Walking to the Sun and Let Us Plant Our Gardens Now. Learn more and purchase tickets.