2021 Highlights
New York Philharmonic:
Handel’s Messiah
December 14, 2021 | 7:00pm
December 15, 2021 | 7:00pm
December 17, 2021 | 7:00pm
December 18, 2021 | 7:00pm
The Riverside Church
New York, NY
George Frideric Handel
Messiah
New York Philharmonic
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
John Holiday, countertenor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Kevin Deas, bass-baritone
Apollo’s Singers
CAMERATA PACIFICA:
Music of the BAroque
November 14, 2021 | 3pm
Museum of Ventura County
Ventura, CA
November 16, 2021 | 7:30pm
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Museum
San Marino, CA
November 18, 2021 | 8pm
Zipper Hall, The Colburn School
Los Angeles, CA
November 19, 2021 | 7:30pm
Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA
Emi Ferguson, flute
William Short, bassoon
Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Leonarda: Sonata Duodecima, Op.16. No.12
Blavet: Sonata in G Major, Op. 2 Nº 1, “L’Henriette”
Tartini: Flute Sonata in A Major
Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concert, No.1 in C minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”
Musical masterworks
October 23, 2021 | 5:00pm
October 24, 2021 | 3:00pm
The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
Old Lyme, CT
Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Tessa Lark, violin
Jesse Mills, violin
Edward Arron, cello
Gallo: Selections from Trio Sonatas Nos. 1,2,3,7,8, and 12
Monza: Gavotte and Six Doubles from Suite in D Major for Solo Harpsichord
J.S. Bach: Adagio from Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 525 (arr. Bernard Labadie)
Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, “Gulliver’s Travels,” TWV 40:108
Pergolesi: Vivo from Sinfonia in F Major for Cello and Harpsichord
Schnittke: Minuet from Suite in the Old Style for Violin and Harpsichord (1972)
Parlance CHamber Concerts
Gala Opener
September 26, 2021 | 3:00pm
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, NJ
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata No. 6 in A
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Featuring: Arnaud Sussmann, Danbi Um, Nathan Melzer, Kevin Zhu, James Thompson, Janelle Brierley, Oliver Neubauer, Clara Neubauer, Paul Neubauer, Isabella Bignasca, Nicholas Cannelakis, Sihao He, Joel Noyes, David J. Grossman, Paolo Bordignon
Bard Music Festival:
Nadia Boulanger and Her WOrld: program 12
August 15, 2021 | 5:00pm
The Richard B. Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Andrea Carroll, soprano
Ben Bliss, tenor
Joshua Hopkins, baritone
Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director
American Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
Pour les funérailles d’un soldat (1912)
Psalm 24 (1916)
Vieille prière bouddhique (1917)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Requiem, Op. 48 (1887–1900)
Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)
A Solemn Music (1949; orch. 1962)
Bard Festival Vocal Ensemble and Players, conducted by James Bagwell; and others
Works by Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–85), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina(1525–94), Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Johann Sebastian Bach(1685–1750), Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), Marcelle de Manziarly (1899–1988) and others
Bard Music Festival:
Nadia Boulanger and Her WOrld: program 9
August 14, 2021 | 1:00pm
The Richard B. Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Organ Historical Society:
Kaledoscope of Colors
August 1, 2021 | 5:00pm
Online event filmed at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
The Organ Historical Society presents Kaleidoscope of Colors - A Festival of Pipes - featuring recitals on pipe organs spanning three centuries of builders, across 14 states in the USA.
Recital on the 1830 Thomas Appleton Organ
Fanny Mendelssohn: Praeludium für die Orgel (1829)
Herbert Howells: Two Pieces for Organ (1959)
Dalby’s Fancy
Dalby’s Toccata
Joseph Jongen: Chant de Mai, Op. 53, No. 1 (1917)
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata II in C Minor, Op. 65, No. 2 (1838/39/44)
Readings and Music
To Celebrate the Nation
July 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Fishers Island, NY
Organ Concert Series on the W. Richard Bingham Memorial Organ,
Bigelow & Co., Op. 42 (2018)
John Weaver: Toccata
Duke Ellington: “Heaven” from Sacred Concerts
Amy Beach: Prelude on an Old Folk Tune
Florence Price: Adoration
Dan Locklair: The people respond “Amen!”
AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS:
New York City CHAPTER
April 17, 2021
Online event
2021 AGO Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists
Chelsea Chen, Raymond Nagem, Paolo Bordignon, jurors.
http://www.nycago.org/index.html
American Guild of Organists:
Brooklyn Chapter
March 13, 2021
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Brooklyn, NY
2021 Scholarship Competition on the 1937 IV/58 Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Judith Hancock, Alcee Chris, and Paolo Bordignon, jurors.
New York Philharmonic:
Young People’s Concert
February 16, 2021
February 17, 2021
St. Bartholomew’s Church
New York, NY
New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert:
Hope and Healing
The orchestra offers us space to reflect, dream, listen to one another, and reconnect after one of the most turbulent years in recent history. Enjoy the New York Philharmonic, from your couch or classroom, in three newly recorded programs designed to fill our bodies and souls with wellbeing.
Including repertoire by Florence Price, William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto, and Vivaldi’s La Folia.
