Our featured soloists for the Beethoven are Ann Moss, Soprano; Katherine Engel Meifert,Mezzo-Soprano, Philippe L'Esperance, Tenor; and Marc DeMille, Bass, and our Emerging Artist soloist, Jordan Bailey Jones, Soprano.

Stephanie Pfundt is a soprano, chamber musician, lyricist, and composer. She has garnered competition recognition with a 1st place win in the 2024 Seattle Opera Guild Competition, numerous prizes in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and as a quarterfinalist in the 2023 Elizabeth Connell Prize…

Combined Choirs, Salem High School and Peabody High School Vivaldi composed this Gloria in Venice, probably in 1715, for the choir of the Ospedale della Pieta, an orphanage for girls. Vivaldi, a priest, music teacher and virtuoso violinist, composed many sacred works for the Ospedale, where he spent most of his career, as well as hundreds of instrumental concertos to be played by the girls’ orchestra. This, his most famous choral piece, presents the traditional Gloria from the Latin Mass in twelve varied cantata-like sections.

 

Boston-based Emmanuel Music is an ensemble that was formed with the goal of weekly performances of J.S. Bach's cantatas, in residence at Boston's historic Emmanuel Church. "At Emmanuel Music, we find in the power, brilliance, and immediacy of Bach's music a poignant representation of the human condition and humanity's relationship with something beyond itself, which can be called 'the divine'" (Pamela Dellal) Emmanuel Music continues their cantata cycle, with in depth notes and translations of each cantata. O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort BWV 60 Der Friede sei mit dir BWV 158 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut BWV 199