Trinity Choir

With its peerless interpretation of both early and new music, Trinity Choir has redefined the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with artistry hailed as “blazing with vigour . . . a choir from heaven” (The Times, London). This premier professional ensemble — heard live, online, and in services, recordings, and performances — has also been described as “thrilling” (The New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (The Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (The New York Times).  

Trinity Choir leads liturgical music at Trinity Church on Sundays and at additional services throughout the year, all of which are livestreamed for a global audience. A typical season includes performing in the Bach at One series, Compline by Candlelight, and a variety of concerts and festivals, often in collaboration with NOVUS, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Trinity Youth Chorus. The choir anchors Trinity’s critically acclaimed performances of Handel’s Messiah, which The New York Times referred to as “the best Messiah in New York” and “the gold standard.”  

The choir was recently featured in several world-premiere oratorios and operas: Paola Prestini’s Silent Light at National Sawdust; Luna Pearl Woolf’s Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center; and Benedict Sheehan’s Akathist, which was recorded alongside NOVUS, Downtown Voices, Artefact Ensemble, and Trinity Youth Chorus, and nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Other recent highlights include Trinity’s production of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard; Shall We Gather at the River, directed by Peter Sellars, and Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), both at the Park Avenue Armory; PROTOTYPE Festival’s production of Huang Ruo’s Angel Island; Broken Chord at BAM (created by Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi); a concert in the inaugural Refuge series at the Perelman Performing Arts Center; George Frideric Handel’s Theodora at Caramoor; Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields; the “Notes from Ukraine” concert at Carnegie Hall; a concert of Bach cantatas at Salle Bourgie in Montreal; and collaborations with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the American Modern Opera Company.  

Performance venues in New York City have included Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Shed at Hudson Yards. The choir has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Barbican Theatre in London, and Norway’s Stavanger Cathedral. Past collaborators include the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the New York Philharmonic, the English Concert, and the Rolling Stones. 

In addition to Grammy Award–nominated recordings Akathist, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood, and Israel in Egypt, Trinity Choir has released albums with Bright Shiny Things, Naxos, Musica Omnia, Pentatone, VIA Recordings, ARSIS, Avie Records, Acis, Cantaloupe Music, Decca Gold, and Philip Glass’s Orange Mountain Music. Trinity’s longstanding commitment to new music has fostered collaborations with composers including Julia Wolfe, Ellen Reid, Du Yun, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Trevor Weston, Paola Prestini, Luna Pearl Woolf, Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, and Elena Ruehr. Trinity Choir is featured on recordings of three Pulitzer Prize–winning works: Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, and Ellen Reid’s p r i s m.