Events

Stay tuned as live and virtual events continue to be added.

2025:

May 2 and 3: Farmington Valley Chorale presents Music for Choir and Piano Four-hands, featuring the piano duo Anna and Dmitri Shelest. Berlin and Simsbury, CT.

April 27: UConn Collegium performs for the UConn Choirs spring concert. 3:00 pm. Von der Mehden Recital Hall.

April 12: UConn Festival Chorus presents “Voices of New England”. 7:00 pm. Von der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT.

April 11: UConn Collegium presents its Spring Concert. 8:00 pm. Von der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT.

March 23: Farmington Valley Chorale performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra. 3:00 pm. Welte Hall at Central CT State University, New Britain, CT.

March 22: ACDA National Conference — “In Her Voice: Spotlighting Female Choral Composers.” Dallas, Texas.

March 16: CONCORA performs Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles. Ellen Gilson Voth, Guest Conductor. 4;oo pm. Trinity College Chapel, Hartford, CT. (Snow date–March 17).

March 2: UConn Collegium performs for the UConn Choirs winter concert. 3:00 pm. Von der Mehden Recital Hall.

2024:

Dec. 4: UConn Festival Chorus joins with the UConn Concert Choir, Symphony Orchestra, and singers from E.O.Smith High School in Storrs to perform Orff’s Carmina Burana. Jorgensen Hall, Storrs, CT.

Nov. 24: Farmington Valley Chorale performs “Pedal Points” – featuring Mass settings from Haydn to McClure. Nathaniel Gumbs, organist. 4:00 pm. St. James’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT.

Nov. 17: UConn Collegium performs for the UConn Choirs fall concert. 3:00 pm. Von der Medhen Recital Hall, Storrs, CT.

Nov. 12 :UConn Collegium presents its fall concert —  “Where shadows meet light”. Music of Monteverdi, Purcell, J.S. Bach, and more. 8:00 pm. Von der Medhen Recital Hall, Storrs, CT.

Oct. 20 and 26: CONCORA performs the Town Council Election Cantatas of J.S. Bach. West Hartford, CT and Worcester, MA.

Sept. 19: Presentation at Young Conductors’ Symposium. Von der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT.

August 28: Choral Composition Workshop with The Master Singers of Worcester. Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, MA.

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April 21: CONCORA Past, Present and Future: Golden 50th Anniversary Concert. New Britain, CT.

April 16: Clinic with Baylor University Bella Voce – Will McLean, Director – “The harbor and the sea”.

May 17: Invited Presentation at PODIUM (Canadian National Choral Conference). Montreal, Canada.

April 21: CONCORA Past, Present and Future: Golden 50th Anniversary Concert. New Britain, CT.

April 16: Clinic with Baylor University Bella Voce – Will McLean, Director – “The harbor and the sea”.

April 6: Rising Up: Handel’s story of Joseph and his Brethren. Farmington Valley Chorale with UConn Collegium. Soloists: Timothy Parsons, Madeline Healey, Thomas Cooley, Lucas Coura, Thomas Cannon, Gabriel Lofvall and Grace Murphy. St. Patrick/St. Anthony Church, Hartford, CT.

March 1: Performance of “Lands that draw me home” at ACDA Eastern Regional Conference. Commissioned by the West Point Glee Club, Constance Chase, Director. Providence, Rhode Island.

February 27: Performance of “Lands that draw me home” (Mvmts 2 and 3) at St. Patrick Cathedral in New York City.  Commissioned by the West Point Glee Club, Constance Chase, Director. New York, New York.

2023:

December 17: Farmington Valley Chorale hosts a Holiday Sing for the Community. Covenant Presbyterian Church, Simsbury, CT.

November 25: Messiah Sing – Simsbury United Methodist Church, Simsbury, CT.

November 18: The MasterSingers of Worcester, MA present “A woman’s voice”. Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn, Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, Amy Bernon, Gwyneth Walker, Ellen Gilson Voth.  Salem Covenant Church, Worcester, MA. 

November 10/12: CONCORA performs music of J.S. Bach and Reena Esmail. Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA and St. James’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT.

November 5: Farmington Valley Chorale performs music of Brahms with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra. Central CT State University, New Britain, CT.

October 22: Annual awards ceremony for Choral Arts New England. Manchester, NH.

October 1: Premiere of commission for the 150th anniversary of St. James Episcopal Church, Farmington, CT. 

May 7, : Premiere of “But, we press on…”, commissioned by The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Concert link here . 

May 4: Wesleyan University Concert Choir presents their spring concert, “Visions of my own”,  with music by Tomas Pascual (ed. Noblett), Vittoria Aleotti, Samuel Barber, Ola Gjeilo, Markus Detterbeck, Ellen Gilson Voth, Dominic DiOrio and Ysaye Barnwell . Ellen Gilson Voth, Visiting Conductor. Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

April 22/23: Farmington Valley Chorale presents “Singing the darkness to light”, with music of James MacMillan, Kyle Pederson, Ralph Johnson, Ellen Gilson Voth and the CT premiere of Cecelia McDowall’s “Everyday wonders: The girl from Aleppo.” Andy Peng, violinist; Kirsten Hadden Lipkens, oboist; Michelle Murray Fiertek, soprano; Miles Wilson-Toliver, Baritone; Stephen Scarlato, pianist. First Church of Christ, Simsbury and St. James’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT.

April 22: CONCORA presents Passion for the Planet, by Geoff Hudson. Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, CT.

March 3: Presentation on “Standing Tall” with Dr. Jennifer Kane, for MMEA All-state conference, Westford, MA.

March 3: Wesleyan University Concert Choir performs in “Ad Hoc Bach”, performed by the J.S. Bach collaborative at Memorial Chapel, Wesleyan University.

2022:

November 20: Farmington Valley Chorale presents Masterworks for this Moment, with guest artists Lisa Williamson, Meredith Ziegler, Travis Benoit, Greg Rizzo-Flower, Sean McCarthy and Stephen Scarlato. St. James Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT.

November 16: Guest Conductor – North Central CT Conference Music Festival – Stafford Springs, CT.

October 29: Guest panelist for CT-ACDA state conference – New Haven, CT.

October 23-30: CONCORA performs the Six Motets of J.S. Bach, BWV 225-230: Stonington, Hartford and Stamford, CT.

September 6: Presentation on “Standing Tall” with Dr. Jennifer Kane, for Forward Thinking seminar hosted by Morna Edmundson, Vancouver, British Columbia.

July 3: Performance of “As night and morning meet” at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

June 5: Premiere of chamber orchestration of Owl Moon – Hartford Opera Theater at the Hillstead, Farmington, CT.

June 4:  A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration: Music of Britt (“We sing because”), Voth  (premiere of “The sounds I hear”), Runestad ( “A silence haunts me”) and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, performed by the Farmington Valley Chorale and professional orchestra, featuring pianists Stephen Scarlato and Anchie Donn. The Belding Theater at The Bushnell, Hartford, CT.

May 15: Premiere of “Above gravity”, winner of the 2020 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Prize. Cincinnati, Ohio.

May 12: Premiere of “As the river runs still”, commissioned by the University of CT Singers, celebrating partnership with University of Stuttgart, Germany.

April 1: Guest conductor for CMEA Music Festival, Hartford, CT.

March 27: CONCORA performance of J. S. Bach’s B Minor Mass – Hartford, CT

March 19-20: Guest conductor for performances of Cappella Clausura – Boston, MA and Newton, MA.

March 13: Premiere of Commission, “Born to Sing”, for VOCE, Inc. 

February 24-25: Guest Artist Residency with University of Arkansas-Little Rock Choirs