TALLIS SCHOLARS
Director: Peter Phillips Friday, March 26, 2010 7:30 pm (in the Church)
‘The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music’ -- New York Times
This famous English group of sacred choral singers singing in our beautiful sacred space is an evening not to be missed! Press Highlights here.
The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which the Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned. more biographical information here
This concert was made possible by a generous grant from The Reed Foundation.
LOOKING BACK @ Fall 2009
A Concert To Usher In The New Year
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009, 11 PM In the Church. FREE, all welcome.
St. Bart's Director of Music and Organist, Bill Trafka, plays works Bach, Böhm and Langlais as well as Copland's profound "Fanfare for the Common Man" at the stroke of midnight.
Carol Sing: A Gift to the Parish and the City
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 at 12:30 pm. Although our annual
Joyous Christmas Concert has been cancelled this season due to financial reasons, members of St. Bartholomew's Choir have offered to donate their time and expertise to lead a Carol Sing in the church on Tuesday, December 22 at 12:30 pm. The choir will sing carols settings of Rutter, Chilcott, Joubert and Mathias and will lead the audience in the hearty singing of the beloved carols of the season, all accompanied by Paolo Bordignon on our magnificent Aeolian/Skinner pipe organ. The Carol Sing will be free and all are welcome.
Join us and invite your friends in support and gratitude to our choir.
Also we invite you to partake of what is practically
a free concert of music each week - the incredible arrangements by our own Bill Trafka and three choirs who perform a wide variety of music from Mozart to Bernstein every Sunday here at our landmark church.
We are especially directing our energy into the beautiful ADVENT and CHRISTMAS SERVICES this year. Please join us at some point during the holiday season where you will hear the Christmas story, sing holiday favorites with others, enjoy outstanding music sung by St. Bartholomew's Choir and Boy and Girl Choristers, accompanied by St. Bartholomew's Festival Brass--all in the candle-lit splendor of St. Bartholomew's Church.
TO SING A FREE NOONDAY CONCERT Thursday, October 15 at 12:30 pm
The Herning Boys Choir from Denmark will sing an impromptu concert at St. Bartholomew's on Thursday, October 15 at 12:30 pm, as part of their US tour. Herning Boys Choir was founded in 1949 and is one of Denmark's oldest choirs of men and boys. The choir consists of about 45 boys and young men, almost all of whom began as probationers in the choir at the age of eight or nine. The members of the choir are also taught solo singing and ear training at The Jutland School of Singing.
The Herning Boys Choir sings at all the services in the Herning Church in Jutland. The choir also gives many concerts and in recent years has toured England, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Poland, the Baltic States, Scotland, the Faeroes and the US. The choir has worked under such conductors as Sir David Willcocks and John Hickox from England, and Miltiades Caridis from Greece.
At St. Bartholomew's, the choir will sing sacred works of Tallis, Nystedt, Noble, Britten and Parry. The choir will be conducted by Mads Bille.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Choir from King's College, London
On Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 pm, the internationally acclaimed choir from King’s College in London will sing a concert at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
One of the most renowned mixed choirs in England, the Choir of King’s College in London is much in demand for concerts in the UK and abroad. Their discography includes music of two sixteenth century composers, Alonso Lobo and Sebastian de Vivanco as well as a most recent CD of works by Philippe Rogier on the Hyperion label. The choir regularly appears on BBC Radio 3 in broadcasts of their weekly Evensong services.
At St. Bartholomew’s, the choir’s concert will include Alonso Lobo’s
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum, Bach’s motet
Singet dem Herren, as well as works of
Rogier, Byrd, Clemens non Papa and
Daniel-Lesur. The choir will be conducted by David Trendell.
The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which the Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned. 
The Herning Boys Choir from Denmark
One of the most renowned mixed choirs in England, the Choir of King’s College in London is much in demand for concerts in the UK and abroad. Their discography includes music of two sixteenth century composers, Alonso Lobo and Sebastian de Vivanco as well as a most recent CD of works by Philippe Rogier on the Hyperion label. The choir regularly appears on BBC Radio 3 in broadcasts of their weekly Evensong services.