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.

www.StBarts.org


Service of Advent Lessons & Carols

December 4, 2011 | 5pm

St. Bartholomew's Church, New York

Featuring St. Bartholomew's Choir and Boy & Girl Choristers.

William K. Trafka, Organist & Director of Music
Paolo Bordignon, Associate Director of Music

Music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Malcolm Archer, Grayston Ives, McNeil Robinson, Andrew Carter


Orpheus CHamber Orchestra

December 2, 2011 | 8pm
Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA

December 3, 2011 | 8pm
Carnegie Hall, New York

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Albrecht Mayer, oboe

HINDEMITH Kammermusik No. 1
BACH Concerto in A Major for Oboe d'amore
MOZART Andante for Oboe and Orchestra
ANDREW NORMAN Project 440 World Premiere
HAYDN Symphony No. 103, "Drumroll"


Organ Recital

November 2, 2011 | 3:30pm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Recital on the 1830 Thomas Appleton Organ

Voluntary in G - Henry Heron
Sonata in D, BWV 963 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 562 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Bridal Song (from the Rustic Wedding Symphony, Op. 26) - Karl Goldmark
Après un Rêve - Gabriel Fauré
Allegro Brilliante - Eugène Gigout


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

http://americansymphony.org/bauhaus-bach/


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

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Music of Fauré & Conte
for Choir & Orchestra

September 11, 2011 | 11am

St. Bartholomew's Church, New York

St. Bartholomew's Choir, St. Bart's Singers,
St. Bartholomew's Boy & Girl Choristers

William K. Trafka, conductor
Paolo Bordignon, organ

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
David Conte: September Sun


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

www.theSPCO.org


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-WélyBoléro 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