2025 Music Season

Pipes at One: Sarah Simko

The award-winning concert organist visits St. Paul’s Chapel

Hear the talents of Sarah Simko, associate organist at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit and winner of first prize in the Schoenstein Competition in the Art of Organ Accompaniment. She received a Graduate Award from the Presser Foundation to create a comprehensive set of recordings of organ music by living American female composers. During her time as a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, Simko worked with the Department of Mathematics to explore how the brain processes music, through detailed study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas.  

Bach at One

Hear Cantata 92 and Bach’s first major work for solo harpsichord 

Join us as Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, led by organist Avi Stein, perform Bach’s beautiful Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn (Cantata 92), a sacred work that references the soul’s surrender as the way to heaven. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major — Bach’s first major work for solo harpsichord and orchestra — is also on the program.  

Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein, organ

Pipes at One: Alex Leonardi

Trinity’s organ scholar showcases their improvisatory style

Currently the organ scholar at Trinity Church, Alex Leonardi is a master’s student at The Juilliard School. They received a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from the Curtis Institute of Music, where they held the Dr. Mi-Wha Lee Fellowship. As a young musician, they studied under Dr. Matthew Lewis in the pre-college division of Juilliard. A semifinalist in the American Guild of Organists National Improvisation Competition, Leonardi is an avid improviser, which they will demonstrate in today’s program.  

Bach at One

Ushering in Ascension Day with “Ascension Oratorio”

To usher in Ascension Day, celebrating the anniversary of Trinity Church’s consecration, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Trinity Choir perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Ascension Oratorio,” or Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen. The magnificent work is set to passages from Luke, Mark, and Acts of the Apostles. Also on this Tuesday’s program: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, which was set for four voices to Psalm 117. 

Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Melissa Attebury, director  

Jazz at One: Andromeda Turre

The award-winning jazz vocalist visits Trinity

Hear award-winning vocalist and composer Andromeda Turre, whose work seamlessly blends the rich traditions of jazz with bold contemporary narratives. The daughter of trombonist Steve Turre and cellist Akua Dixon, Turre was raised in the heart of New York City and immersed in the artistry of legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, and Wynton Marsalis. Trained at the Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music, Turre draws on classical, contemporary, and theatrical influences to create a singular voice in jazz. Her latest project, From the Earth, is a groundbreaking jazz suite addressing environmental justice and the impact of climate change on marginalized communities.  

Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS

Pipes at One: Emily Dawn Amos

French music and orchestral transcriptions

Emily Dawn Amos is a prize-winning organist and recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She began studying organ at age eight. By age nine, she became the youngest musician ever admitted into a “Pipe Organ Encounter” — an outreach program run by the American Guild of Organists that provides instruction and exposure to notable organists and instruments. Amos currently studies with Ken Cowan at Rice University and will play a program of French music and orchestral transcriptions.  

Bach at One

A sacred work of mourning and comfort  

This afternoon, hear Musikalische Exequien, op. 7, by the great German composer Heinrich Schütz, a funeral piece that parallels the traditional Latin Requiem in expressing mortality, comfort, and hope. This collection of motets, one of the finest choral cycles of the 17th century, had a far-reaching impact. You’ll note a similar style while listening to Bach’s Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf.  

Trinity Choir; led by Avi Stein, organ

The Image

Downtown Voices and NOVUS present two works exploring the tension between chaos and hope

Downtown Voices and NOVUS present an evening of powerful, thought-provoking music with the world premiere of Stephen Main’s The Image and Jessie Montgomery’s Divided. Composed for solo cello and orchestra, Divided captures the emotional turmoil of a world grappling with racial injustice, poverty, and climate change. Expanding on the theme of individual dignity, The Image reflects on humanity’s struggle for liberty and justice across history, warning of the fragility of these ideals in the face of rising authoritarianism. 

Stephen Sands, conductor

Tiny Concerts: Heinrich Schütz

A sacred work of mourning and comfort

Hear a 45-minute program of early music in the small, English Gothic–style sanctuary tucked off Trinity’s nave. Trinity Choir and organist Avi Stein perform Musikalische Exequien, op. 7, by the great German composer Heinrich Schütz — a funeral piece that parallels the traditional Latin requiem in expressing mortality, comfort, and hope. The collection of motets, one of the finest choral cycles of the 17th century, had a far-reaching impact. Bach’s Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, an homage to this style, is also on the program.  

Trinity Choir; led by Avi Stein, organ  

Tiny Concerts: Heinrich Schütz

A sacred work of mourning and comfort

Hear a 45-minute program of early music in the small, English Gothic–style sanctuary tucked off Trinity’s nave. Trinity Choir and organist Avi Stein perform Musikalische Exequien, op. 7, by the great German composer Heinrich Schütz — a funeral piece that parallels the traditional Latin requiem in expressing mortality, comfort, and hope. The collection of motets, one of the finest choral cycles of the 17th century, had a far-reaching impact. Bach’s Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, an homage to this style, is also on the program.  

Trinity Choir; led by Avi Stein, organ