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Young virtuoso Clara Gerdes Bartz grew up in North Carolina and recently graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she studied with renowned professor Martin Jean. The organist has already established herself as a performer of prodigious technique and control. She received the Baker Prize in Organ Performance (2020) and the Julia Sherman Award for Excellence in Organ Playing (2021) and is an adjunct instructor of organ at Rider University’s Westminster Choir College. 

 

The not-to-be-missed Jazz at One finale features a vibrant blend of traditional African music, contemporary hits, infectious energy — and a very special surprise guest.  

This season’s Jazz at One, Long Walk to Freedom, is inspired by Nelson Mandela and the 30th anniversary of South African democracy. Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS. 

The beauty of our relationship with God is that it’s not about how dependable we are, preaches the Rev. Michael Bird, but how faithful God is to us.

Trinity’s new-music orchestra, NOVUS, continues its series of works that grapple with vital social issues. This season’s NOVUS Renewal: Shelter concerts highlight the experiences of the unhoused and the complex systemic failures that lead to homelessness. 

Opening the series is the New York premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s oratorio, emergency shelter intake form. With a libretto based on the questionnaire given to those seeking a bed, the work is a searing portrait of the fear, humiliation, and profound challenges associated with being unhoused in America.  

NOVUS; Alicia Hall Moran, soprano; Gabriel Kahane, Holland Andrews, and Holcombe Waller (the chorus of inconvenient statistics); choirs from the Borough of Manhattan Community College; Daniela Candillari, conductor 

All Saints’ Day is part of Allhallowtide, a three-day period set aside for remembering loved ones who have died.

The Trinity Choir performs one of Bach’s most complex choral pieces, Jesu, meine Freude (“Jesus, my Joy”) as well as two modern Gabriel Kahane pieces of the same title: We are the Saints. The first Kahane work (a New York premiere) grapples with our relationship with nature. The second, a world premiere arrangement of the composer's popular song, weaves personal narratives and social commentary into a compelling reflection on homelessness. 

This special Bach at One is part of the 2024–25 NOVUS Renewal: Shelter series, which highlights the experience of the unhoused and the complex systemic failures that lead to homelessness. 

Trinity Choir; Gabriel Kahane, soloist and composer; Melissa Attebury, director 

 

The Rev. Jorge Ortiz on welcoming the stranger in church, our spiritual home.

Organist Nicole Keller has performed in venues around the globe, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, and The Kazakh National University for the Arts. The assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan is also in demand as an instructor and guest lecturer, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Yale University. She is known for bringing a freshness to pieces old and new, especially Bach and such 20th-century American composers as Florence Price and Calvin Hampton. 

Join us to celebrate the birthday of late jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, with the Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience directed by John Lee. The concert promises to be a rousing tribute to one of jazz’s great ambassadors: trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and bebop king. 

This season’s Jazz at One, Long Walk to Freedom, is inspired by Nelson Mandela and the 30th anniversary of South African democracy. Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS. 

A thread running through Sunday’s scripture lessons, humility asks us to see ourselves not as the center of things, preaches the Rev. Phil Jackson.