Music & Events

Jazz icon Bobby Watson, in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, presented a special concert in Trinity Church.
 
Prolific saxophonist, composer, and educator Bobby Watson sits among the pantheon of jazz greats. As a bandleader, Watson has released numerous highly acclaimed albums, including Love Remains, Post-Motown Bop, and Tailor Made. He has played alongside Max Roach, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, John Hicks, and many other jazz pioneers. During his years as musical director for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Watson contributed to fourteen recordings — more than anyone else in the group’s storied thirty-five-year history.

To this dynamic and supercharged concert, Watson brings an all-star band including Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet, Orrin Evans, piano, Essiet Okon Essiet, bass, and Victor Jones, drums.

For information about JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, visit jazzhousekids.org.

A beloved holiday tradition, Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols will be performed by the Trinity Youth Chorus with Melissa Attebury, director, in St. Paul's Chapel on December 22 at 6pm. 

Admission is free, and registration is recommended for in-person attendees. Seating will be first come, first served.

This performance will be livestreamed on Trinity's website.

In-person tickets are sold out.

Trinity Church Wall Street on Sunday, December 17, hosted a holiday extravaganza full of Christmas carols and other festive songs. The program, titled "Sing, Choirs of Angels: Holiday Concert and Sing-Along," included Christmas carols and other festive works featuring the combined vocal power of all of Trinity’s vocal ensembles: The Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, the Trinity Youth Chorus, St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, and Downtown Voices, joined by NOVUS NY Brass, The Choirs from the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), and, of course, Trinity’s own congregation. 

Join The Choir of Trinity Wall Street on December 17, at 8pm, in St. Paul's Chapel for Compline by Candlelight, an ancient rite of prayers to end the day. Featuring works by Piers Connor Kennedy, Judith Weir, Jonathan Woody, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Benedict Sheehan; curated and led by Timothy Parsons.