Announcing Our 29th Season!

Visions of da Vinci

Cerddorion presents music inspired by the life of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) alongside works by some of da Vinci’s contemporaries. The program features the New York premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s “Triptych of Knowledge,” from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci; Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine; the world premiere of David Stern’s Wisdoms of Leonardo, based on a sequence of notes from one of da Vinci’s riddles; and works by Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac, who were active in Florence during da Vinci’s lifetime.

Sunday, November 19 at 3pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, West End Avenue and 87th Street

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In Praise of Palestrina, Stanford, and Bruckner

The year 2024 marks significant birth or death anniversaries for musical luminaries Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Charles Villers Stanford, and Anton Bruckner. This program explores the connections among them.

Sunday, March 3 at 3pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, West End Avenue and 87th Street

Yearning to Breathe Free

The poetry of Emma Lazarus and the music of Dietrich Buxtehude are dual inspirations for Caroline Shaw’s deeply moving cantata, To the Hands, which explores the plight of refugees from around the world and contemplates our “role and responsibility in these global and local crises.” Shaw’s work is paired with Buxtehude’s “Ad Manus,” from his Membra Jesu Nostri (on which Shaw based her composition), as well as with other pieces related to this theme, including Saunder Choi’s The New Colossus and the final anthem from 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America by Frank London and Judith Sloan.

Sunday, May 5 at 3pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, West End Avenue and 87th Street

Cerddorion is funded in part by a generous grant from Creative Engagement. This public funding program is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond. Cerddorion is profoundly grateful to LMCC for their decades-long partnership.