2024 Music Season

Sunday Afternoon Music: Trio Portinari

Violinist Nicholas Pappone, cellist Joseph Staten, and pianist Candace Chien perform as the Trio Portinari in the next installment of Trinity’s popular Sunday Afternoon Music series. Using music to showcase how love, loss, and hope are integral to the human experience, the concert opens with German composer Max Bruch’s haunting Kol Nidrei, inspired by an ancient prayer for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. Maurice Ravel’s poignant Le Tombeau de Couperin, a tribute to six friends lost during World War I; Franz Schubert’s evocative Ave Maria, and Felix Mendelssohn’s riveting Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor round out the program. Presented by Trinity Congregational Arts Allegro.  

Jazz at One: Lance Bryant & Shout!

Long Walk to Freedom

Don’t miss Lance Bryant, a legendary vocalist, saxophonist, and composer, and his 16-piece band, Shout! A long-time collaborator with South African great Abdullah Ibrahim (the pianist known for his anti-apartheid anthem Mannenberg), Bryant presents his own healing, empowering brand of jazz. 

This season’s Jazz at One, Long Walk to Freedom, is inspired by Nelson Mandela and the 30th anniversary of South African democracy. Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS. 

Pipes at One: Jennifer McPherson Mulhern

Organist Jennifer McPherson Mulhern has earned acclaim for her interpretations of early music, including as a prize winner in the Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Organ Competition held in Amsterdam. The music director at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, she holds degrees from the College of the Holy Cross and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 

Tiny Concerts: Organ Concertos

J.S. Bach’s beloved concerto

Trinity’s lead organist and prominent early music expert Avi Stein performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in D Minor, accompanied by members of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. George Frideric Handel’s Concerto in F Major and Thomas Augustine Arne’s Concerto in G Minor are also on the program. 

Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, organ

Tiny Concerts: Organ Concertos

J.S. Bach’s beloved concerto

Trinity’s lead organist and prominent early music expert Avi Stein performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in D Minor, accompanied by members of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. George Frideric Handel’s Concerto in F Major and Thomas Augustine Arne’s Concerto in G Minor are also on the program. 

Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, organ

Bach at One

Selections inspired by Bach’s coffeehouse concert series

In his last post as a music director in Leipzig, Bach led a concert series — in a coffeehouse in winter and a beer garden in summer — that featured works like George Frideric Handel’s fiery Concerto in D Minor, as well as such visiting virtuosi as violinist Georg Pisendel, whose arrangement of Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les Caractères de la danse is a medley of popular French dances of the time. Today’s program also includes a suite of opera hits by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Bach’s own Prelude and Fugue in E Minor. 

Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein, harpsichord 

Death of Classical: The Light After

A magical night of music in the Crypt of Saint John the Divine

NOVUS collaborates with acclaimed underground concert producers Death of Classical and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to present a series of thematic concerts in the crypt beneath the cathedral.  

The first night features a world premiere by cellist and composer Andrew Yee in addition to their work The Light After. These works complement a selection of music by living composers that centers on themes of light, life, death, and darkness: Caroline Shaw’s in manus tuas, Juhi Bansal’s Cathedral of Light, David Lang’s after joy, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae for String Quartet.  

Andrew Yee, cello; Katie Hyun and Alex Fortes, violin; Mario Gotoh, viola 

Death of Classical: The Light After

A magical night of music in the Crypt of Saint John the Divine

NOVUS collaborates with acclaimed underground concert producers Death of Classical and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to present a series of thematic concerts in the crypt beneath the cathedral.  

The first night features a world premiere by cellist and composer Andrew Yee in addition to their work The Light After. These works complement a selection of music by living composers that centers on themes of light, life, death, and darkness: Caroline Shaw’s in manus tuas, Juhi Bansal’s Cathedral of Light, David Lang’s after joy, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae for String Quartet.  

Andrew Yee, cello; Katie Hyun and Alex Fortes, violin; Mario Gotoh, viola 

Death of Classical: American

A magical night of music in the Crypt of Saint John the Divine

NOVUS collaborates with acclaimed underground concert producers Death of Classical and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to present a series of thematic concerts in the crypt beneath the cathedral.  

This second installment explores the story of our country — past and present, real and idealized — featuring Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12, “American,” and works by contemporary composers, including Michi Wiancko’s Lullaby for the Transient, Carlos Simon’s A Cry from the Grave, and Jessie Montgomery’s Source Code.  

Katie Hyun and Alex Fortes, violin; Mario Gotoh, viola; Ari Evan, cello; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet

Death of Classical: American

A magical night of music in the Crypt of Saint John the Divine

NOVUS collaborates with acclaimed underground concert producers Death of Classical and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to present a series of thematic concerts in the crypt beneath the cathedral.  

This second installment explores the story of our country — past and present, real and idealized — featuring Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12, “American,” and works by contemporary composers, including Michi Wiancko’s Lullaby for the Transient, Carlos Simon’s A Cry from the Grave, and Jessie Montgomery’s Source Code.  

Katie Hyun and Alex Fortes, violin; Mario Gotoh, viola; Ari Evan, cello; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet