New York City Master Chorale has announced its 15th Anniversary season-opening concert, “What Sweeter Music,” will be held on Dec. 19, 2021, at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church in Manhattan. The concert, which will be the first live performance by the Chorale since Feb. 2020, features music by Jacob Clemens non Papa, Poulenc, Rheinberger, and Richard Rodney Bennett. The concert {…}
The New York City Master Chorale has appointed Dr. David Recca as its new Artistic Director. He is scheduled to begin his duties with the opening of the delayed season of the group’s 15th anniversary. Recca is an award-winning conductor, educator, pianist, singer, with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music. He has {…}
The New York City Master Chorale is set to showcase “The Little Match Girl Passion” on Feb. 29, 2020 at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea, New York. The performance, the second of the company’s 14th season, will feature the composition by David Lang, alongside “Wanting Memories” by Ysaye M. Barnwell, “Horizons” by Peter Louis van Dijk, and {…}
The New York City Master Chorale is set to showcase its first concert of the 2019-20 season on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 at St. Peter’s Chelsea. The concert, entitled “A Procession Winding Around Me,” will feature works for chorale and guitar based on poetry by Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca. These works include “Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Romancero Gitano” and Jeffrey {…}
Dusty Francis has been selected as the Artistic Director of the New York City Master Chorale (NYCMC). Francis, who joined the organization in 2014 as Assistant Conductor, most recently took the podium as Principal Conductor in the organization’s December 2018 concert, “Messiah Reimagined.” He has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Cathedral of Saint {…}
The New York City Master Chorale will present “Celestial Journey” as the final program of its 2018-19 season. The concert, set for May 17, 2019 at Symphony Space will feature music of Abraham Kaplan, Tarik O’Regan, and Jonathan Leshnoff. The organization will work alongside YarnWire and 17th Street Dance of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D.C. “Collaborations like these {…}