Grammy Award-winning ensemble The Crossing Choir will make the world premiere of Caroline Shaw’s “Ochre” at its annual Crossing @ Christmas concert. Donald Nally will conduct Shaw’s new work and Mason Bates’s “Mass Transmission” for organ and electronics. Scott Dettra joins on the organ. In The Crossing tradition, these holiday concerts explore relationships, humanity, sorrow, treatment of the earth, and {…}
Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing is set to give the world premiere of Michael Gordon’s “Travel Guide to Nicaragua.” The choir will first perform the work at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, PA on Nov. 16, 2022 and then the NYC premiere at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Nov. 17, 2022. Avante-garde cellist Maya Beiser will join The Crossing for the {…}
This week audiences get to listen to rarely performed operas, world premiere pieces, and two solo albums by important sopranos in the world. Maidan The new album by Valentin Silvestrov continues his longstanding association with ECM and presents a program of choir music that is as timely as it is dear to the Ukrainian composer’s heart. The new album embraces {…}
On September 17, 2022, The Crossing choir will open their 2022-23 season with “Walking the Farm: A Progressive Concert.” Hosted by Art at Kings Oaks in Bucks County, PA, the interactive experience will the world premieres of a new work by George Lewis, along with previous commissions such as Kirsten Broberg’s “Breathturn,” David Shapiro’s “It is time,” Jonathan Dove’s “In {…}
This week audiences can listen to world premieres, rising stars, and watch two rarely performed operas. Songs of Earth and Air Lorelt CD Label is set to release an album of vocal works composed by Rhian Samuel, inspired by poetry celebrating nature and her love of the Welsh countryside. Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams presents a collage of songs and {…}
The Crossing has unveiled its 2022-23 season, entitled “Cultivate / Curate.” The season will include a number of high-profile collaborations and premieres. “The Crossing has commissioned a number of works addressing our relationship to the earth, our care and absence of care in curating and managing responsibilities that have fallen to us as the planet’s most innovative and deadly species,” {…}
The Crossing is set to present its annual Summer New Music Festival, “The Month of Moderns 2022,” this summer. The Festival will feature three concerts conducted by Donald Nally on June 11, 25 and July 8, 2022, at the Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Included in the programs will be the world premieres Marco Balter’s “Books of Color” and {…}
The Crossing is set to present “In a House Besieged,” under the direction of Donald Nally, starting on March 25, 2022 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, in Cleveland, OH. The ensemble will then take the program to the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA and St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, PA, on March 26 and 27, respectively. The concerts {…}
The Crossing is set to embark on an East Coast tour with the Dublin Guitar Quartet from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6, 2022. Conductor Donald Nally will lead the tour, which will stop in seven cities in the U.S. including the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA; Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA; Hamilton College in Clinton, NY; Dartmouth College {…}
The Grammy Award-winning choir, The Crossing will present “The Crossing @ Christmas: Carols After a Plague” in December 2021 with concerts in Maryland and Pennsylvania. This concert is part of a year-long project including a program of world primers by Leila Adu, Alex Berko, Edith Canat de Chizy, Viet Cuong, Samantha Fernando, Vanessa Lann, Mary Jane Leach, Shara Nova, Joseph {…}
On November 21, 2021, Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing will continue its 2021-22 season with “Motion Studies.” This concert will feature the world premiere of Justine F. Chen’s “Shallow Breath and Stealth,” as well as well as Gabriel Kahane’s “Choral Music.” The program will also include the premiere of the revised version of Nicholas Cline’s “Watersheds” featuring saxophonist Matthew Levy. {…}