Music & Events

“Burning and gladdening, vivid in both darkness and light,” Trinity’s Messiah is “the gold standard” (The New York Times).

Watch this “transcendent and awe-inspiring” performance featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra led by award-winning guest conductor Ryan James Brandau, recorded live in Trinity Church on December 15, 2023.

In a season full of Messiah concerts, Trinity’s is unique — distinctly modern yet authentically performed on period instruments in a sacred and acoustically rich space. A cherished holiday tradition that has captivated audiences since it was first presented by the church in 1770, this is the most historic Messiah in New York City.

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Ron Carter Trio, featuring Russell Malone and Donald Vega for a Jazz Icons concert performed on December 10, at 3pm in Trinity Church. Ron Carter is one of the most prolific and influential bassists in jazz with more than 2,500 albums to his name. Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS. 
 

Sandbox Percussion and NOVUS NY presented a third Renewal concert on December 3, at 4pm, in Trinity Church, featuring Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al and pieces inspired by Richard Powers’s powerful novel on activism, resistance, and the natural world— The Overstory: Jessica Meyer’s A Passage Between Earth and Sky and the collaborative eco-cantata by four composers and five authors, A Forest Unfolding.

On November 16, at 6:30pm, in Trinity Church, Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, presents groundbreaking French composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Inspired by the biblical Book of Revelation, Messiaen wrote this piece while he was interned as a German prisoner of war during the Second World War. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers will narrate the concert with excerpts from his book Orfeo. Free.