Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
Janet Yieh, organ
Stephen Sands, conductor

Janet Yieh, music director at New York’s Church of the Heavenly Rest and former Trinity assistant organist, joins Downtown Voices to present a program of iconic Anglican and American hymns that illustrates the new organ’s majestic sweep — capable of both soaring transcendence and quiet sweetness. Opening with I Was Glad, by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, the evening includes such favorites as William Henry Harris’s Faire is the heaven, Cecilia McDowall’s O sing unto the Lord, and Alice Parker’s Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal.

Bringing the best Estonian talent together with leading musicians from around the world, the Estonian Festival Orchestra assembles for its highly anticipated North American debut during the global celebration of Arvo Pärt at 90. Led by Artistic Director Paavo Järvi, they’re joined by the Grammy Award–winning Pärt specialists of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and soloists who include Midori, Hans Christian Aavik, and composer-pianist Nico Muhly. The wide-ranging program features significant early works, including a piece with a historic connection to Carnegie Hall; major works from Pärt’s game-changing tintinnabuli style; powerful 21st-century selections; and more. Together, it’s a stunning survey of Pärt’s singular musical world, performed by many of the artists who know it best.