2008 Highlights
A Joyous Christmas Concert
December 16, 2008 | 7:30PM
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
St. Bartholomew’s Choir, Boy and Girl Choristers with Festival Brass and New York City’s largest pipe organ join forces for this concert of Christmas favorites. Experience the spirit of the holidays with great choral works, sacred and secular, and a carol sing-along, in the candlelit splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church.
Service of Advent Lessons & Carols
December 7, 2008 | 5PM
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Organ Recital
November 5, 2008 | 7:30PM
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
October 16, 2008 | 8PM
Carnegie Hall, New York
October 15, 2008 | 8PM
Troy Savings Hall
October 18, 2008 | 8PM
SUNY Purchase
2008 Summer Festival of Great Music
Sundays at 11am, June through September
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Mozart: Missa Brevis in B-flat, K.275, with orchestra
A William Walton celebration:
Missa Brevis, Jubilate Deo, Crown Imperial, Music from Richard III and more
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Music of Searle Wright and Randall Thompson
Taverner: "Western Wynde" Mass
Fauré: Messe Basse
Brahms: Psalm 13
Howells: "Collegium Regale" Service
Rheinberger: Missa Brevis in F
Haydn: Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo
Duruflé: Requiem, with orchestra
St. Bartholomew's Choir and orchestra
St. Bartholomew's Boy & Girl Choristers
William Trafka, Director of Music & Organist
Paolo Bordignon, Associate Director of Music
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
August 8, 2008 | 6:30pm
Channing Sculpture Garden, Bridgehampton, NY
Bach: Brandenburg Concerti 2, 4, and 5
Marya Martin - Flute
Erin Lesser - Flute
Nathan Hughes - Oboe
David Krauss - Trumpet
Lily Francis - Violin
Colin Jacobsen - Violin
Ayano Ninomiya - Violin
Nicholas Cords - Viola
Edward Arron - Cello
Donald Palma - Bass
Paolo Bordignon - Harpsichord
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
July 23, 2008 | 6:30pm
Bridgehampton Historical Society
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Piazzola: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Marya Martin — Flute
Jessica Lee — Violin
Kyu-Young Kim — Violin
Jesse Mills — Violin
Jessica Thompson — Viola
Raman Ramakrishnan — Cello
Jeffrey Beecher — Bass
Paolo Bordignon — Harpsichord
Kindred Spirits Arts Programs
July 19, 2008 | 7:30PM
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Milford, PA
Westminster Choir College Organ Week
July 7 to 18, 2008
Princeton, NJ
Orpheus: Concert Tour to Japan
June 4 to 12, 2008
Matsumoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Ryu Goto, violin soloist
Orpheus & Sarah Chang
May 08, 2008 | 8PM
State Theater of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
May 09, 2008 | 8PM
Bergen Performing Arts Center, Englewood, NJ
May 10, 2008 | 8PM
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Respighi: Gli Uccelli
Wuorinen: Synaxis (Orpheus Commission)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Lincoln Center Great Performers
Midori and the Music of Schnittke and Takemitsu
May 4, 2008 | 5pm
Rose Theater, Time-Warner Center, New York
Midori violin
Michael Stern conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
Aaron Boyd violin
Nicholas Cords viola
David Kim viola
Edward Arron cello
Kurt Muroki bass
Demarre McGill flute and alto flute
Brad Gemeinhardt horn
Kevin Cobb trumpet
Ayano Kataoka percussion
Paolo Bordignon harpsichord
Daedalus Quartet
Daniel Spiegel piano
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea II
Ravel: Introduction et allegro
Takemitsu: Rain Coming
Schnittke: Concerto grosso No.1
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major
Orpheus Bach Cantata Series at the Metropolitan Museum
April 24, 2008 | 6PM & 8PM
Grace Rainey Rodgers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs Bach Cantatas
Wachet auf! ruft die Stimme, BWV 140
Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67
World Premiere of newly discovered works of Felix Mendelssohn
April 7, 2008 | 8PM
New York, NY
Clarion Music Society Golden Anniversary Benefit Concert
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Lieder, including Mendelssohn's only surviving song cycle
Jamet Pittman, soprano
Steven Fox, tenor
Claire Jolivet, violin
Paolo Bordignon, piano
New York Philharmonic:
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
March 19 to 22, 2008
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Kurt Masur, conductor
Organ Recital
March 5, 2008 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recital on the 1830 Thomas Appleton Organ
Olivier Messiaen:
Apparition de l’Église éternelle
February 27, 2008 | 7:30PM
St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York
Screening of Paul Festa's film, "Apparition of the Eternal Church" with live performance of Messiaen's organ work by William K. Trafka. Complete performance of Messiaen's 'Ascension' suite for organ by Paolo Bordignon.
Recital with Doug Quint, bassoon
February 25, 2008 | 7:30PM
CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Lincoln Center Great Performers
Midori and the Music of Schnittke and Takemitsu
February 24, 2008 | 5pm
Rose Theater, Time-Warner Center, New York
Midori violin
David Kim viola
Johannes Moser cello
Demarre McGill flute
Anthony McGill clarinet
Paolo Bordignon harpsichord and organ
Marc-André Hamelin piano
Daedalus Quartet
Bach: Trio Sonata in G major
Schnittke: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
Schnittke: Septet for flute, two clarinets, violin, viola, cello and organ
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor
Lenten Organ Recital
February 17, 2008 | 4:30PM
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Herbert Howells: Psalm Prelude, Set 2, No. 1
Jean Guillou: Les Feux du silence (from Hyperion, la Rhétorique du feu)
César Franck: Deuxième Chorale en si mineur