RECENT PERFORMANCES & EVENTS
'25
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Beethoven's Unheard Triumph
Featuring works by composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Jake Runestad. Greenwich Choral Society, Westchester Choral Society, Manhattanville University
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Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:30 PM | Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor
The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir,
West Point Glee Club. Russell Ger, conductor, Constance Chase & Christine Howlett, chorus masters. Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College
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Saturday, May 3, 2025, 4:00 PM | The Great American Songbook
Familiar and classic jazz songs with new arrangements specifically for GCS!
Greenwich Choral Society, Bryan Reeder Orchestra, Manhattanville University​​
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Saturday, May 17, 2025, 4:00 PM | Divine Artistry
Featuring works by composers Bruckner, Forrest.
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College​
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Saturday, May 31, 2025, 7:30 PM | Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Featuring String Quartet No. 3, Jonathan Leshnoff, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Stuart Malina, Conductor, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra. Christine Howlett, Chorus Master, Greenwich Choral Society
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 3:00 PM | Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Featuring String Quartet No. 3, Jonathan Leshnoff, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Stuart Malina, Conductor, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra. Christine Howlett, Chorus Master, Greenwich Choral Society
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 7:30 PM | Awakened Spirits
Bach’s Actus Tragicus paired with contemporary music by Jennifer Lucy Cook, Ola Gjeilo, Adolphus Hailstork, Shavon Lloyd, and Tarik O’Regan. Ruth Cunningham, Wendy Powers, recorder, Patricia Ann Neely, Adam Young, viola da gamba, Christine Gummere, cello, James Fitzwilliam, organ and piano. Vassar College Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
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Saturday, November 15, 2025, 7:30 P.M. | Where the Wind Leads
Featuring works by Elaine Hagenberg, Reena Esmail, Sean Ivory, Shawn Kirchner, Annea Lockwood, Mia Makaroff, Imant Raminsh, Andrea Ramsey, R. Murray Schafer, and a regional premiere of “The Winds” by Laura Jekabsone. Susan Brown, piano. Vassar College Treble Chorus, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
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Saturday, November 22, 2025, 4:00 P.M. | REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING: A Journey of Remembrance and Hope
Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living with chamber orchestra, and works by Jonathan Dove, Elaine Hagenberg, and Zanaida Robles. Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, December 6, 2025, 2:30 P.M. | GCS Holiday Family Concert
Travel through the music of Bach, Britten, and Margaret Bonds—and laugh along with the hilarious Musicological Journey through Christmas! With guest ensemble, the Greenwich Academy Madrigal Singers, Erica McCants, conductor, Regina Krawiec, soprano, Naomi Steele, mezzo-soprano, Shavon Lloyd, baritone, and Edward Pleasant, narrator. (60 min.) Greenwich Choral Society, Christ Church Greenwich, Greenwich, CT
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:00 P.M. | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Featuring a newly commissioned work by poet Paul Kane and composer Colin Britt, this annual Advent service at the Vassar College Chapel features readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols, culminating in a candle lighting ceremony. Vassar College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Treble Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir will perform. Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sunday, December 7, 2025, 2:30 P.M. & 5:30 P.M. | A Christmas Tapestry: Bach, Britten, Bonds
Featuring Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Bach’s exuberant Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, Margaret Bonds’ Ballad of the Brown King, and Craig Courtney’s hilarious Musicological Journey through Christmas—performed with orchestra and soloists. Regina Krawiec, soprano, Naomi Steel, mezzo-soprano, Chad Kranak, tenor, Shavon Lloyd, baritone. (90 min.) Greenwich Choral Society, Christ Church Greenwich, Greenwich, CT
'24
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MODfest 2024 January 25-February 3, 2024
A festival of contemporary music, film, dance, and drama.
Christine Howlett & Tom Pacio, co-directors
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 4:00 PM | Illuminare: Darkness to Light
Featuring works by American composers Elizabeth Alexander, Elaine Hagenberg, and Jake Runestad.
Greenwich Choral Society, Greenwich High School, Performing Arts Center
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Saturday, April 20, 2024, 4:00 PM | Transcendence and Triumph
Featuring Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, Gjeilo's Luminous Night of the Soul, and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass.
Greenwich Choral Society, Greenwich High School, Performing Arts Center
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Saturday, May 4, 2024, 7:00 PM | Handel's Dixit Dominus HWV 232
Music of Handel, Elizabeth Alexander, and B.E. Boykin
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Vassar College Chapel
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Sunday, June 23, 2024, 4:00 PM | Bachfest 2024
Music of Buxtehude and Schütz, and Bach's O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe BWV 34, Triple Concerto in A minor BWV 1044, and Gloria in excelsis Deo BWV 191
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Sunday, November 17, 2024, 4:00 PM | Music of the Earth and Stars
Featuring a new composition by Celia McDowell, and other works by Buxtehude, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn, Susan LaBarr, Jennifer Lucy Cook, Marques L.A. Garrett, Shawn Kirchner, Karen Marrolli, and Saro Lynch-Thomason.
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie
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Sunday, December 3, 2024, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choirs & Cappella Festiva, Vassar College Chapel ​
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 3:00 PM | Ring Out, Wild Bells! (New Family Concert)
Rutter’s Gloria, Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, Dan Forrest | For one special concert, join the fun in this family-friendly performance packed with familiar carols, activities, and laughter!
Greenwich Choral Society, Christ Church Greenwich
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:00 PM | Ring Out, Wild Bells!
Featuring Rutter’s Gloria, Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, Dan Forrest, classic carols and more!
Greenwich Choral Society, Christ Church Greenwich
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 3:00 PM | Ring Out, Wild Bells!
Featuring Rutter’s Gloria, Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, Dan Forrest, classic carols and more!
Greenwich Choral Society, Christ Church Greenwich
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Saturday, December 14, 2024, 3:00 PM | Handel’s Messiah
The Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir join forces to present Handel’s Messiah. Katherine Whyte, soprano, Allison Gish, contralto Alexander Longnecker, tenor, Colin Levin, baritone. Studley Theatre - SUNY New Paltz.
Saturday, December 15, 2024, 3:00 PM | Handel’s Messiah
The Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir join forces to present Handel’s Messiah. Katherine Whyte, soprano, Allison Gish, contralto Alexander Longnecker, tenor, Colin Levin, baritone. Seeger Theatre - Beacon High School.
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'23
Saturday, January 7, 2023, 2:00 PM | CMEA Eastern Region High School Festival
Treble Choir, Christine Howlett, conductor, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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Saturday, March 4, 2023, 4:00 PM | Ulster Country Music Educators Association | All-County Chorus, conductor
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 3:00 PM | Sounds of Earth: Resilient Voices
Premiere of EARTHSONGS by Shavon Lloyd, featuring Cappella Festiva Choirs. Projections by Rick Jones.
Vassar Chapel. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 8:00 PM | Gloria RV 589: Antonio Vivaldi
Vassar College Women's Chorus with orchestra. Skinner Hall of Music. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 7:00 PM |"Mozart's Last Word": Pre-concert talk by Kathryn Libin, Associate Professor.
8:00 PM - REQUIEM. Vassar College Choir with orchestra. Skinner Hall of Music. Free & open to the public.
Saturday, May 13, 2023, 3:00 PM | Resonant Reflections
Featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Margaret Bonds, Eliza Gilkyson, Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, and more.
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir. Christ Episcopal Church. Tickets at cappellafestiva.org.
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Saturday, November 4, 2023, 8:00 PM | Pergolesi's Stabat Mater & Side Road (premiere) by Caroline Shaw.
Vassar College Treble Chorus & Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
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Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8:00 PM | Brahms' Neue Liebeslieder & Schubert's Mass in G
Vassar College Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
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Sunday, December 3, 2023, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choirs & Cappella Festiva, Vassar College Chapel ​
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Saturday, December 9, 2023, 2:30 PM and 5:00 PM | Truth, Light, and Serenity
Featuring Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Vesperae de Solennes Confessore
Greenwich Choral Society & Orchestra, Christ Church Greenwich, Greenwich, CT
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Sunday, December 10, 2023, 4:00 PM | Truth , Light, and Serenity
Featuring Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Vesperae de Solennes Confessore
Greenwich Choral Society & Orchestra, First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Old Greenwich, CT​
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'22​
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Thursday, October 13, 2022, 5:00 PM | Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award: Meryl Streep '71
Performance by the Vassar College Choir & Women's Chorus, Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 8:00 PM | EINHORN: VOICES OF LIGHT
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Vassar College Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM | LOVE ARRIVES
Vassar College Women's Chorus, Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 2:00 PM | Love is love is love is love
Cappella Festiva Chamber, Treble, and Cor Capriccio Choirs,
Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, December 3, 2022, 3:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Danbury Concert Chorus & Orchestra, First Congregation Church, Danbury, CT
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Sunday, December 4, 2022, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choir, Women's Chorus, Chamber Choir,
Cappella Festiva Chamber, Treble, & Cor Capriccio Choirs.
Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY