2023-2024 Season
This season will feature familiar masterworks paired with pieces by less-known composers from the same time period, offering audiences a chance to discover new favorites and to reflect on the nature of the classical canon in a new light.
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Candlelight Christmas
Concerts
Monday, December 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Church of the Ascension
Elena Williamson and Linda Jones, Sopranos
Kevin Cobb, Trumpet
Victoria Drake, Harp
Daniel Beckwith, Organ
Our most popular two concerts of the season are back! Lit by the glow of hundreds of candles, enjoy seasonal masterworks, Christmas choral anthems, and family holiday favorites performed by Voices of Ascension. 25 candelabras and close to 600 candles turn the majestic Church of the Ascension into an immaculate Christmastime experience. This is an unforgettable Christmas tradition for New York concertgoers of all ages!
Mozart Requiem
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 7:30 pm
Church of the Ascension
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
The Mozart Requiem is one of the iconic works of the Classical repertoire: a gripping, visceral exploration into human mortality. Mozart’s turbulent last work follows a first act of symphonic and operatic grace: from the depths of Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus and Antonio Salieri’s De Profundis to the lightness and humor of Mozart’s Regina Coeli and Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ The Anonymous Lover. A selection of beloved operatic arias and choruses will round out the program, for full chorus, orchestra, and brilliant soloists to be announced.
les Voix FrançaiseS
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:30pm
Church of the Ascension
Music by Francis Poulenc and Lili Boulanger
We begin this French banquet with the exceptional music of 20th-Century French composer Lili Boulanger. Works will include the triumphant Hymne au Soleil, the exotic and highly dramatic Vieille prière bouddhique, and the touching, poetic Sous Bois.
Then we turn to Francis Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, one of the great masterpieces of French choral music, in league with the Requiems of Duruflé and Fauré. The work is alternately sumptuous and boldly dramatic; listen for moments of sparkling clarity and others of great depth.
In a first for Voices shows at Ascension, this concert will be streamed live! Click the button on the right to learn more.
voices of the new: many worlds
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:30pm
Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
World premiere compositions by Danielle Jagelski and Evan Blaché
We return to Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium with another concert by the Voices of Ascension Singers, in collaboration with The Unsung Collective, one of New York City’s newest and most exciting vocal ensembles. The ensemble will collaboratively create a program of choral works around the theme of music as a bridge: between different communities, between self and community, between self and something greater, and between performer and audience. Join curator Hai-Ting Chinn and Unsung Director Tyrone Clinton in a program that covers the world and eras of vocal music, with a decidedly open mind!
Renaissance voices
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 7:30pm
Church of the Ascension
Music by Thomas Tallis, Orlande de Lassus, William Byrd, and Vicente Lusitano
We are delighted to return to the exceptional repertory of the Golden Age of Choral Music: the Renaissance. Rather than concentrate on a single nationality or period, we will offer a broad expanse of a cappella music, including iconic works of Tallis, Byrd, Lassus, and Josquin, as well as Renaissance rarities by Vicente Lusitano and Leonardo Leo.
