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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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Summerlee with Christian Wiman

An afternoon with Christian Wiman

Wiman joins Summerlee Staten, Trinity’s executive director of Faith Formation and Education, to discuss how even in the most turbulent, challenging times, we can cultivate a capacity for wonder.
James McBride

Trinity Talks with James McBride

Author James McBride joins Trinity Talks to discuss themes explored in his “New York Times” bestselling novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. ”
Music Press Release 2025 Spring

Trinity Announces Spring Music Season

Trinity’s spring lineup—featuring world-renowned artists and emerging voices—embodies the church’s focus on peacemaking and celebrates the transformative power of art to inspire change and healing.
Edwidge Danticat

Trinity Talks with Edwidge Danticat

Watch the award-winning novelist discuss “Brother, I’m Dying,” a poignant memoir about her family’s decision to flee violence in Haiti and seek asylum in America.
Compline

Compline

Set in the tranquility of St. Paul’s Chapel, 30 minutes of chant-based improvised music by Trinity Choir.

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Pipes
MusicSeptember 24, 2024

Pipe Organs

In 2015, Glatter-Götz Orgelbau of Pfullendorf, Germany, with Manuel Rosales as tonal designer, were engaged to envision a new instrument for the nave of Trinity Church.

The new organ is conceived along the lines of its predecessors, a united instrument of 113 independent stops between chancel and gallery sections. The chancel has 28 stops across Great, Swell, Positiv, Solo, and Pedal. The gallery’s 85 stops are apportioned among Great, Swell, Choir, Rückpositiv, Solo, and Pedal. Watch the behind the scenes of building this great instrument.
Tiny Concerts: Three Parts Upon a Ground
MusiclivestreamSeptember 19, 2024

Tiny Concerts: Three Parts Upon a Ground

Hear Johann Pachelbel’s much-loved Canon in D major the way it was meant to be heard. Presented in its original instrumentation, with three violins, the piece is paired with a lively but oft-forgotten jig the composer wrote to complement it. The evening’s lineup spotlights the canon and includes pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli as well as Three Parts Upon a Ground by Henry Purcell.  

Robert Mealy, Jacob Ashworth, Ravenna Lipchik, violins; Ezra Seltzer, cello; led by Avi Stein, organ 

MusicSeptember 8, 2024

Community Hymn Sing

Join us for a community hymn sing featuring beloved favorites (including Psalm 100 and All Creatures of our God and King) and new arrangements (reworkings by Trinity organist Alcée Chriss III of Blessed Assurance and Great Is Thy Faithfulness). With music by Margaret Bonds, Janet Yieh, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sterling Procter, and others. This event will be livestreamed.

Trinity Choir; NOVUS brass and percussion; Alcée Chriss III, organ 

Melissa Music Press Release
MusicSeptember 3, 2024

Trinity Church Announces 2024–2025 Music Season

Trinity Church announces its 2024-2025 season, featuring programming encompassing social, political, personal, and spiritual themes, and music from the medieval era to the modern day.
Jazz Evensong with Theodicy Jazz Collective
MusicJuly 21, 2024

Jazz Evensong with Theodicy Jazz Collective

Join us for a special jazz evensong featuring Theodicy Jazz Collective and members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Bringing together sounds from jazz and gospel and rhythms from Latin America and Africa, the collective’s music is a shout for joy, a cry for hope, a call to action — and a constant prayer. 

Tiny Concerts
MusicJune 20, 2024

Tiny Concerts

Works by Neely Bruce, John Cage, Rashaan Allwood, Paula Matthusen, and Pamela Decker.

Alcée Chriss, organ.

Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"
Trinity TalksJune 14, 2024

Trinity Talks: Frank Bruni

Watch the highlight discussion between Bruni and the Rev. Phillip A. Jackson about how the U.S. got here and what it will take to break the hold of our grudges. 
NOVUS Renewal: Malhaar
MusicMay 29, 2024

NOVUS Renewal: Malhaar

NOVUS NY and Downtown Voices present the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water, paired with Garth Neustadter’s Memory of Water, which will be performed by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. A malhar is an Indian raga designed to beckon the rain; Esmail’s A Requiem for Water captures musically the beauty and awe of water while contemplating the fear and despair that surround its loss. As water exists beyond all beginnings and ends, Memory of Water considers the consciousness of water and how it carries in its memory both the splendor and devastation of our world.

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Downtown Voices; NOVUS NY; featuring Sandbox Percussion and Shabnam Abedi, soprano; Stephen Sands and Melissa Attebury, conductors
 

Simple Gifts
MusicMay 19, 2024

Simple Gifts

For its delightful end-of-season concert, the Trinity Youth Chorus performs a range of music, from folk songs and pop standards to show tunes and a reinterpretation of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” Conducted by Peyton Marion, Sheridan Stevens, and Shanna Whitney. 

 

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