2025-2026 Season
December Concert
Friday, December 12, 8:00pm
Church of Our Lady of Pompeii
25 Carmine Street
Voices of the Soul: A GVCS Celebration
Reginald Wright – We are the Music Makers
Joanna Forbes Estrange – Give us Grace
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St. Cecilia
Rosephanye Powell – Christus Natus Est
Claude Debussy – Trois Chansons de Charles D’Orleans
Chen Yi – Muo li hua
Gwyneth Walker – The Tree of Peace
Carlos Guastavino – Indianas (selections)
Other selections TBD
Our December concert will highlight the music of living NYC composers in relation to works from the past with poetic texts that celebrate the life’s journey of the soul. This dialogue of choral gems performed with GVCS’s trademark nuance will cross the boundaries of ages to highlight the resonance of works past and present. The Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia and Debussy Trois Chanson de Charles D’Orléans will be featured along with audience favorites by numerous living composers. An audience carol sing at program’s end will mark a capstone to an evening of music that will warm the heart.
March Concert
Sunday, March 29, 2026, 3:00pm
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Collaborative Concert with
- Hunter College Chamber Singers
- Hunter College Choir
- Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola
- Parish Community Choir of St.
- Ignatius Loyola
- Canticum Sacrum
- Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola
Brian Giebler Evangelist
Enrico Lagasca Jesus
Harrison Hintzsche Pilate
Featuring Vocal Soloists from GVCS and Hunter College Music Majors
Our March program will engage members of other arts organizations in a rare performance of the “Mount Everest” of Baroque repertoire, the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. This special event will be publicized city-wide by our partnering organizations Hunter College and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola and will feature avocational adult vocal soloists from GVCS and advanced student soloists from the music department of Hunter College, all accompanied by professional orchestra and some of the city’s most renowned professional vocal soloists in featured roles.
