Here are events sponsored by the Renaissance Chorus Association, known also as RenChorNY. Click on an event for pictures, details, and more.
Our 70th Anniversary, October, 2024 Motets from earlier concerts, directed by Richard Porterfield.
Austro-Hungarian Court Composers, May 2024 Motets under the direction of Richard Porterfield.
Heinrich Isaac: Music for Church and State, Dec. 2023 His Missa Carminum, the "Mass of Songs," Virgo prudentissima, à6 (one of his "Kaiser Motets") and other motets, directed by Dr. Richard Porterfield.
Heinrich Finck's Christmas, Jan. 2023 His three-part mass, "De Beata Virgine" and other motets under the direction of Dr. Richard Porterfield.
A Tudor Christmas 2019 Robert Fayrfax's florid Christmas mass "Tecum principium" was performed, along with works by William Byrd and Richard Pygott, in three concerts in November and December, 2019.
Orfeo 2018
Part of Higher Ground Festival, June 16, 2018, Orfeo 2018 enacts a portion of Monteverdi's opera in music and dance. Conceived by Sig Rosen and Suzanne Lorge, directed by Chris Whittaker.
Music ABOUT Music and Musicians, 2017
Renaissance choral music from the Low Countries honoring music and musicians, directed by Claude Lévy.
“Il pastor fido” and Music of Mantua, 2016
November 5 & 12, 2016. The Nov 5 event featured settings of text from Giovanni Battista Guarini’s Il pastor fido by Wert, Gastoldi, Monteverdi, Rossi and Pallavicino, motets by Rossi and Wert, and a cheerful finale by Gastoldi. The Nov 12 event was only the Rossi and Wert, along with organ ricercari by Costanzo Antegnati.
Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” 2015
An all-day musicale July 19, 2015 included rehearsals, performances by small groups, a Renaissance open sing and a complete performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera with soloists, instrumentalists and chorus.
CD Release Party 2012
A party was held September 23, 2012 to celebrate the release of the first CD of Harold Brown's compositions for strings, played by the Tessera Quartet.
Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” 2010
Performances by small groups and a complete performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera with soloists, instrumentalists and chorus.
Harold Brown Centennial 2009
The Centennial of Harold's birth was held from October 30 to November 1, 2009.
Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” 2005
Performances by small groups and a complete performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera with soloists, instrumentalists and chorus, directed by Lucy Cross.
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