2010-11 season

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 5:00pm: Music in Poetry by Emily Dickinson featuring music by Elliot Carter, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland. Poetry readings by Jonathan Epstein, Shakepeare & Company. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St, Lenox. All seats: $15

Sunday, December 5th, 2010: 3:00pm: Christmas at Court feauring music by German, Italian, English and French composers for Europe's royalty. Trinity Church, Lenox. All seats: $15.

Sunday, March 6, 2011, 3:00pm: Berkshire County High School Choral Festival with participating choirs from Pittsfield, Great Barrington, South County and more in a concert culminating a two day workshop with the Cantilena Chamber Choir. Trinity Church, Lenox. All seats, $15

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:00pm: Cantilena Chamber Choir and Trinity Church children's choir present John Rutter's Mass for the Children for chorus and orchestra. Trinity Church, Lenox. All seats $20.

 

Past seasons:

2009-2010 season

May 15: Russian Sacred Choral Music featurning Liturgia Domestica for chorusand orchestra by Alexandre Gretchaninov. Special guests: The Northern Berkshire Chorale and Konstantin Stepanov, tenor.Trinity Church, Lenox.

March 13: Edith Wharton's Parisian salon at The Mount, Edith Wharton Restoration,, Lenox, MA.

December 6th: Christmas Countdown. Your Favorite Carols with the Trinity Church children's and adult choirs. Trinity Church, Lenox.

Shakespeare in Song

October 11th: Choral Music with texts by Williams Shakespeare with a special guests Jonathan Epstein and actors from Shakespeare & Company.,Trinity Church,Lenox

2008-09 season

October 12th: America's Harvest Festival: Elliot Carter's Heart Not So Heavy, Music by Barnwell, Hanson, Ticheli, and Randall Thompson featuring Frostiana. Trinity Church, Lenox.

Christmas: Christmas in the Harvard Tradition. Two concerts:Trinity Church in Lenox and at the Old Parish Church in Sheffield.The program included: Sweelinck's Hodie Christus natus est; Motets by Distler, Billings, Gregg Smith and Britten's Ceremony of Carols

February 14: Concert for Children. The featured work on the program was music from The Magic Treehouse: The Musical by Randy Courts. Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington.

Saturday, May 16: Revolutionary Music. The Cantilena Chamber Choir presents music by Tallis, Pizzetti, Schedrin, Sviridov, and featured the Ten Poems by Revolutionary Poets by Dmitri Shostakovich. Trinity Church, Lenox.

 

 

2007-08 season

October 14th:: Special collaboration with the New England Baroque Soloists, Douglas Meyer, director. Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Motets by Gesualdo, Parsons, and Tallis, Music for Baroque instrumental ensemble by Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Trinity Church, Lenox.

Christmas:: Two concerts at Trinity Church in Lenox and at the Old Parish Church in Sheffield. The program included: Josquin's Missa Ave Maria Stella; Motets by Gesualdo, Parsons, Tallis, Victoria, Oquin, Kverno and Poulenc; and Rorem's While all Things were in Quiet Silence.

March 8:: Special appearance in a benefit for the Berkshire Immigrant Center, co-sponsored by the City of Pittsfield Office of Cultural Development in cooperation with the Mayor’s Office. The featured work on the program was Ron Perrera’s The Golden Door based on poetry by Ellis Island immigrants. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Pittsfield.

Saturday, May 17: The New England Baroque soloists and the Cantilena Chamber Choir joined forces to present a concert of both Baroque Chamber Music and new choral music. Bach, Telemann, Handel and Vivaldi, Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning, Scherzi Musicali by Claudio Monteverdi, and excerpts from Bach Cantatas 12 and 147. Trinity Church, Lenox.

2006-07 season

September 30: Brass Spectacular at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield by special invitation of the Empire Brass.

Christmas:. Two concerts were presented, one at Trinity Church, Lenox, and the other at the Old Parish Church on Main Street in Sheffield.

March 4: Berkshire Composers-in-residence concert at St. John’s Church in Williamstown featuring new works by local composers with on sight critiques.

May 19th: Music to Frances Benn Hall’s play Pasternak’s Boots starring Annette Miller and Arthur Collins at Trinity Church in Lenox. The evening featured Russian a cappella music throughout the play, and was a special Benefit for the Lenox Library.

June 26th: Special performance of Boston University’s Tanglewood Two Institute at St. John’s Church in Williamstown. Composers in residence included Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey and the Rock and Anthony Palmer of Boston University.

August 3rd and 4th 2007. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneus at the Aston Magna Festival with an early music ensemble directed by Daniel Stepner at Bard and Simon's Rock Colleges.