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Music & Events

Through revelatory music and groundbreaking conversations with authors and thinkers, Trinity’s free programming brings our audiences new ways of seeing, and being, in the world. From classical and modern masterpieces to innovative jazz, Trinity’s musical programs are “the top of musical life in New York” (The New York Times). And our Trinity Talks, at the intersection of sacred and civic life, deepen our understanding on issues of religion, social justice, and community.

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New York’s most historic Messiah

In a city full of Messiah concerts, Trinity’s version is unique.

Sonya Headlam performs Messiah with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Watch the concert live!

Led by celebrated guest conductor Jane Glover, this year’s performance will stream live on YouTube on Friday, December 13, at 7pm.

The First Messiah in NYC

Did Trinity Church present the first performance of Handel’s Messiah in the New World?

From the Archives

Watch the “transcendent and awe-inspiring” 2023 concert, recorded live in Trinity Church.

Concerts

Trinity Youth Chorus members singing in Trinity Church in March 2022

Ensembles

Pattern of the word TALKS, repeated in multiple rows, using a variety of fonts in red and white.

Trinity Talks

Divine Muse: St. Cecilia Mass

Fauré Requiem

Bach at One: Divine Muse

Auditions

Come sing with us at Trinity!

Learn Music

High-quality music training for young people

Youth choristers sing during a holiday concert.

Music Outreach Program

Bringing music education to students across New York City

MusicNovember 3, 2021

Comfort at One: Choral Meditation

Today, Comfort at One continues our Wednesday Choral Meditations series, newly recorded by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. This performance includes works by William Dawson, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sarah McDonald.

MusicNovember 2, 2021

Comfort at One: Compline by Candlelight

For today's Comfort at One, we bring you our Compline By Candlelight service from September 12, 2021, which was given in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. Set in the tranquility of Trinity Church, this reflective evening service featured The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus, members of NOVUS NY, and soloist Tahira Clayton.

MusicNovember 1, 2021

Comfort at One: Bach and Fasch

Today's Bach performance for Comfort at One is from May 2019 and features members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra performing Bach’s Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, and Johann Freidrich Fasch's Concerto in D for Trumpet, Two Oboes and Strings, FaWV L:D1.

MusicOctober 27, 2021

Comfort at One: Amplify Female Composers

Comfort at One presents our second installment with Amplify Female Composers, a new platform Carolyn Craig and Janet Yieh. In today’s video, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street performs selections from “A Great Host of Composers” database: Stephanie Martin’s Ave Verum Corpus, Melissa Dunphy’s If thou wilt be perfect, Eleanor Daley’s Come, Renew us, Undine Smith Moore’s I Will Trust in the Lord, and Elaine Hagenberg’s When We Love.

MusicOctober 26, 2021

Comfort at One: Halloween Pipes at One with Julian Wachner

Today’s Comfort at One features a special Halloween Pipes at One recital from October 31, 2019, performed by Trinity’s Director of Music, Julian Wachner.

MusicOctober 25, 2021

Comfort at One: Bach's Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1

Comfort at One continues presenting Bach at One on Mondays, this week with a cantata that focuses on Mary, mother of Jesus: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, paired with Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16. This concert features soloists Sarah Brailey, Melissa Attebury, Owen McIntosh, and Jonathan Woody from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, accompanied by the expert musicians of Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

WorshipOctober 24, 2021

Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. Set in the tranquility of St. Paul’s Chapel, one of the...

MusicOctober 20, 2021

Comfort at One: Haec dies by William Byrd

Comfort at One continues our Wednesday series of Choral Meditations, recorded this past summer by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Today's performance features Haec dies by William Byrd; A Hymn to the Virgin by Benjamin Britten; and Herbert Howells’ Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks and A Hymn for St. Cecilia.

MusicOctober 19, 2021

Comfort at One: Flutist Allison Loggins

Today’s Comfort at One features brilliant composer and flutist Allison Loggins in a stunning performance from Trinity this summer that featured The Scolds by Amanda Feery, Freihme by inti figgis-vizueta, and Loggins’ profound composition Homeland.

MusicOctober 18, 2021

Comfort at One: Handel's Apollo and Daphne

Today’s Comfort at One features a mini-opera, Apollo and Daphne, by Bach’s great contemporary—Handel. This performance is from Trinity’s 2016 4x4 Baroque Music Festival, which brought together some of New York’s best baroque music specialists under the artistic direction of Trinity's Avi Stein.