Boston’s award-winning LGBTQ+ and allied classical choir, Coro Allegro, will celebrate the 100th birthday of queer composer Daniel Pinkham with works for double choir, brass quartet, and organ on Mar. 12, 2023, at Church of the Covenant in Boston, MA.

Pinkham was prolific as a composer. In addition, was a harpsichordist, organist, faculty member of the New England Conservatory, and Music Director of Kings Chapel for more than four decades. “He exemplified the spirit of the Allegro Choir,” said Core Allegro’s Artistic Director, David Hodgkins.

The program for the honorary features Pinkham’s Fanfares, along with his Christmas Cantata (Sacred Symphony), and Ralph Vaughan Williams’, Mass in G minor. Shawn Crouch’s motet for 12 voices, “Paradise” will have its Boston debut.

Featured soloists are tenor Matthew DiBatistta, organist Heinrich Christensen; trumpeters Richard Keelkey and Cheryl Przytula; trombonists Hans Bohn and Robert Couture; and on percussion Thomas Schmidt and Desiree Glazier-Nazro; and, Timpanist Michael Weinfield-Zell. David Hodgkins leads the choir.

There will be an additional Pinkham celebration on May 7, 2023.