RECENT PERFORMANCES & EVENTS
MODfest 2024 January 25-February 3, 2024
A festival of contemporary music, film, dance, and drama.
Christine Howlett & Tom Pacio, co-directors
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
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
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
Sunday, June 23, 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
2023
Saturday, January 7, 2023, 2:00 PM | CMEA Eastern Region High School Festival
Treble Choir, Christine Howlett, conductor, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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.
Saturday, November 4, 8:00 PM | Pergolesi's Stabat Mater & Side Road (premiere) by Caroline Shaw.
Vassar College Treble Chorus & Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
Saturday, November 11, 8:00 PM | Brahms' Neue Liebeslieder & Schubert's Mass in G
Vassar College Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
Sunday, December 3, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choirs & Cappella Festiva, Vassar College Chapel
Saturday, December 9, 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
Sunday, December 10, 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
2022
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
Saturday, November 5, 2022, 8:00 PM | EINHORN: VOICES OF LIGHT
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Vassar College Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY
Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM | LOVE ARRIVES
Vassar College Women's Chorus, Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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
Saturday, December 3, 2022, 3:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Danbury Concert Chorus & Orchestra, First Congregation Church, Danbury, CT
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.
Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY