2011 Highlights
A Joyous CHristmas Concert
December 13, 2011 | 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 singalong, in the candlelit splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church.
Service of Advent Lessons & Carols
December 4, 2011 | 5pm
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Orpheus CHamber Orchestra
December 2, 2011 | 8pm
Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
December 3, 2011 | 8pm
Carnegie Hall, New York
Organ Recital
November 2, 2011 | 3:30pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
American SYmphony Orchestra: Bauhaus Bach
October 21, 2011 | 8pm
Carnegie Hall, New York
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Bauhaus Bach
J.S. Bach (orchestration by Max Reger) ”O Mensch, Bewein' dein' Sünde gross
J.S. Bach (orchestration by Arnold Schoenberg) “Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist
Lyonel Feininger (orchestration by Richard Wilson) ”Three Fugues
Arnold Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra
J.S. Bach (orchestration by Schoenberg) Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major, "St. Anne"
J.S. Bach (orchestration by Wolfgang Graeser) The Art of Fugue
New York Philharmonic:
Young People's COncert
October 15, 2011 | 8pm
Avery Fisher Hall, New York
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Mvt. I
C. P. E. Bach: Symphony in G Major, Allegro assai
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins, Vivace
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture
Paul Moravec: Brandenburg Gate, Mvt III
J.S. Bach: Dona nobis pacem from Mass in B minor
New York Philharmonic:
Christopher Plummer
and henry V
September 17, 2011 | 8pm
Avery Fisher Hall, New York
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, Music Director
Christopher Plummer, Narrator
William Walton: Henry V
A musical scenario after William Shakespeare
Music of Fauré & Conte
for Choir & Orchestra
September 11, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Jonathan Dove: Missa Brevis
August 21, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, NY
St. Bartholomew's Choir
William K. Trafka, conductor
Paolo Bordignon, organ
Jonathan Dove: Missa Brevis (complete) and "Seek him that maketh the seven stars"
Tomas Luis da Victoria 400th Anniversary
August 14, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Summer Festival of Sacred Music
St. Bartholomew's Choir
Paolo Bordignon, conductor
In observance of the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomas Luis da Victoria: Missa & Motet "O Quam Gloriosum" and "Vidi Speciosam"
Music of Hermann Schroeder, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky
August 07, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Summer Festival of Sacred Music
St. Bartholomew's Choir
Paolo Bordignon, conductor
Hermann Schroeder: Missa Psalmodica
Rachmaninoff: Ave Maria
Tchaikovsky: How Blessed
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
August 5, 2011 | 8pm
August 6, 2011 | 8pm
Avery FIsher Hall, New York
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado, guest conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
BACH: Overture No.4
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
MOZART: Symphony No.40 in G minor
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
July 30, 2011 | 6:30pm
The Atlantic Golf Club, Bridgehampton NY
Music of Antonio Vivaldi & Astor Piazzola
Bach: Missa Brevis iN F Major
July 10, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Summer Festival of Great Music
St. Bartholomew's Choir & period-instrument orchestra
William K. Trafka, conductor
Paolo Bordignon, continuo
WesTminster Choir College Organ Institute
July 4 to 15, 2011
Princeton, NJ
A Celebration of American Music
July 3, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Summer Festival of Sacred Music
St. Bartholomew's Choir
William K. Trafka, conductor
Paolo Bordignon, organ
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
and music by Anthony Piccolo & Ned Rorem
Summer Festival of Sacred Music
June 26, 2011 | 11am
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
St. Bartholomew's Choir
William K. Trafka, conductor
Paolo Bordignon, organ
Music of Aaron Copland, David Conte, John Ireland
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
June 9, 2011 | 7:30pm
June 10, 2011 | 8:00pm
June 11, 2011 | 8:00pm
Ordway Center for the Arts, St. Paul, MN
Franz Schubert: Offertory in B-flat, Intende voci
Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra
Franz Joseph Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Organ Recital
June 01, 2011 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Recital on the 1830 Appleton Organ
Reed: Grand Choeur
S. Wesley: Air & Gavotte
Pachelbel: Ciacona in D Minor
Handel: Organ Concerto in F Major, “The Cuckoo & the Nightingale”
Jongen: Chant de Mai
Lefebure-Wély: Boléro de Concert
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra:
"The new Brandenburgs"
May 06, 2011 | 8PM
Carnegie Hall, New York
Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Aaron Jay Kernis: Concerto with Echoes
Melinda Wagner: Little Moohnead: Three Tributaries
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea Orpheus
Chris Theofanides: Muse
Stephen Hartke: A Brandenburg Autumn
Paul Moravec: Brandenburg Gate
Organ Recital
April 6, 2011 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Recital on the 1830 Appleton Organ
Handel: Organ Concerto in F (Op. 4, No. 5)
Parry: Elegy
Vierne: Scherzetto, Légende
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2
New York Philharmonic
March 31, 2011 | 7:30pm
April 1, 2011 |8:00pm
April 2, 2011 | 8:00pm
Avery Fisher Hall, New York
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Anne Sophie Mutter, violin
Gubaidulina: In tempus praesens
Prokofiev: American Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
New York Philharmonic Ensembles
March 27, 2011 | 3pm
Merkin Hall, New York
March 28, 2011 | 6:00pm
Hoff-Barthelson Music Schoo, Scarsdale, NY
Chamber Music including Bach's Cantata No. 51 "Jauchzet Gott in alle Landen"
Organ Recital
March 2, 2011 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Recital on the 1830 Thomas Appleton Organ
Clérambault: Suite du Deuxième Ton
Mendelssohn: Prelude & Fugue in G Major, Op. 37, No. 2
Vivaldi (arr. Bach): Concerto in D (Op. 3, No. 9)
AGO President's Day Conference
February 21, 2011 | 10AM-5PM
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
American Guild of Organists conference on the music of Seth Bingham, Clarence Dickinson, Harold Friedell, T. Tertius Noble.
4.00 pm Evensong
St. Bartholomew's Choir
William K. Trafka, Director of Music & Organist
Paolo Bordignon, Associate Director of Music & Director of the Choristers
Works of Friedell, Bingham, Dickinson, Noble, and Beach
Organ Recital
February 2, 2011 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Recital on the 1830 Appleton organ
Frescobaldi: Toccata Ottava (Primo Libro)
Muffat: Ciacona
Vierne: Stèle pour un enfant défunt
Selby: Voluntary in A Major
Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 546
Organ Recital
January 5, 2011 | 3:30PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Recital on the 1830 Appleton organ
A concerto comprising movements by Alcock, Heron, C. Wesley, Arne
Bach: Two Chorale-Preludes for the new year
Tournemire: l’Orgue Mystique: l’Épiphanie - 2d Movt.
Thalben-Ball: Edwardia
Bach: Pièce d'Orgue (Fantasia in G Major), BWV 572