past events

This annual holiday concert always draws a very large crowd of Northwest Indiana residents.  For this year’s concert, we have commissioned a new work, Sleep, Sleep, Happy Child, from Indiana-based American composer Dominick DiOrio, Associate Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. The balance of the program will include other 21st Christmas works and familiar carols in new arrangements. The concert will close, as usual, with our traditional, candlelit “Silent Night.”

Trevor Kroeger and the Choir of St. Rose give the world premiere of my work Ring Out, Ye Bells! as part of their annual Christmas Concerts. Three performances on 12/16, 12/17, and 12/19.

Trevor Kroeger and the Choir of St. Rose give the world premiere of my work Ring Out, Ye Bells! as part of their annual Christmas Concerts. Three performances on 12/16, 12/17, and 12/19.

Trevor Kroeger and the Choir of St. Rose give the world premiere of my work Ring Out, Ye Bells! as part of their annual Christmas Concerts. Three performances on 12/16, 12/17, and 12/19.

Seek the healing light, share your songs of hope

In the darkest time of the year, cultures and traditions all over the world sing to celebrate and remember. To end an absence as long as a winter’s night, Mendelssohn Chorus is happy to announce that our first concert back in person will be our treasured program: A Feast of Carols. A longtime tradition for Philadelphia families and an exciting celebration for newcomers too, young and old alike gather as we sing music of winter’s dawn and rebirth.

Featuring Timberdale Brass, Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, the world premiere of Texu Kim’s The New Year’s Magpie Song, and a new carol by MCP Artistic Director Dominick DiOrio. Music of Joan Szymko, Rex Isenberg, Joshua Fishbein, André J. Thomas, Moses Hogan, and Diane L. White-Clayton, plus carols warmly familiar and some newly discovered gems. Learn more and buy tickets.

Seek the healing light, share your songs of hope

In the darkest time of the year, cultures and traditions all over the world sing to celebrate and remember. To end an absence as long as a winter’s night, Mendelssohn Chorus is happy to announce that our first concert back in person will be our treasured program: A Feast of Carols. A longtime tradition for Philadelphia families and an exciting celebration for newcomers too, young and old alike gather as we sing music of winter’s dawn and rebirth.

Featuring Timberdale Brass, Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, the world premiere of Texu Kim’s The New Year’s Magpie Song, and a new carol by MCP Artistic Director Dominick DiOrio. Music of Joan Szymko, Rex Isenberg, Joshua Fishbein, André J. Thomas, Moses Hogan, and Diane L. White-Clayton, plus carols warmly familiar and some newly discovered gems. Learn more and buy tickets.

NOTUS' first standalone concert since the pandemic features music to process the trials we've been through over the past many months. Featuring Jake Runestad's A Silence Haunts Me, Saunder Choi's A New Colossus, Zanaida Robles' Can you see?, Adrian Wong's Home, and Moira Smiley's Time in Our Voices for chorus and electronics. Also featuring conductors Samuel Grace and Caio Guimarães.

Dr. Mark Jennings and the Truman State University ensemble Cantoria perform the commissioned world premiere of my new work Splitting the Sunlight for mixed chorus, C trumpet and piano. Featuring Eric Dickson trumpet.

"Sound and Spirit: The Arts at Northminster" features the inaugural concert of their new C.B. Fisk organ, Opus 154, which includes the world premiere of my commissioned anthem, Come, Great Love. John Wright, director of music, and featuring organist Marko Petricic. Free admission, all are welcome, masks required.

NOTUS and the New Music Ensemble join forces for their first concert back after the pandemic. Featuring Fahad Siadat's Hymn to Aethon, world premiere works by Tyler Taylor and Jorge Villavicencio Grossman, and Corey Rubin's world premiere dissertation work Concerto for Chorus and Chamber Orchestra. Free and open to all.