2020s
Earthsongs
May 16, 2025
First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, NJ
See program details here.
Mendelssohn Elijah
March 2, 2025
Parish of St. Mary, Colts Neck, NJ
See program details here.
Making Spirits Bright
December 22, 2024
Count Basie Center for the Arts
See program details here.
All that Sparkles: Your Favorites from Our First 75 Years
May 19, 2024
First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, NJ
See program details here.
Brahms to Brandau: Ein Deutsches Requiem and a World Premiere
March 24, 2024
Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
See program details here.
Rejoice Greatly: A Celebratory Messiah and More
December 17, 2023
Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
See program details here.
Message in a Bottle: Songs Sent Across the Seas
May 21, 2023
First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, NJ
See program details here.
Singing Up a Storm: A Trio of Tempestuous Classics
March 12, 2023
The Parish of St. Mary, Colts Neck, NJ
See program details here.
Joy to the World: Your favorites from Handel’s Messiah and the RJB Holiday Suite
December 18, 2022
Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
See program details here.
Israel in Egypt
May 22, 2022
The Parish of St. Mary, Colts Neck, NJ
See program details here.
Las Americas: Music from the Americas
March 20, 2022
First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, NJ
See program details here.
Hallelujah: Together Again for the Holidays
December 19, 2021
Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
See program details here.
American Voices: From Our Homes to Yours
Virtual performance, premiered June 6, 2021. Watch it here.
Joy to the World: From Our Homes to Yours
Virtual performance, premiered December 20, 2020. Watch it here.
2010s
Messiah & More
December 22, 2019
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
A Night at the Oper(ett)a
June 2, 2019
St. Mary’s Church, 1 Phalanx Rd. Colts Neck, NJ
Carmina Burana
April 6 and 7, 2019
Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Joy to the World, A Christmas Suite
December 16, 2018
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Dona Nobis Pacem: A Salute to Veterans
November 11, 2018
Triumphant Life Church, Oceanport
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
A Time for Us
The Leonard Bernstein Centennial
With Cabaret for Life, and featuring
Andrea Del Guidice and Claire Leydon, Sopranos
Jordon Weatherston Ptts, Tenor, and Logan Tanner, Countertenor
With Special Guests
Jenna Bitow, Heather Varley, Ken Wasser,
Jake Dylan, Zach Miller and Patrick Sharpe
Selections from Bernstein’s
West Side Story, Candide, On the Town,
Peter Pan, Mass, and On the Town, and more, plus
Chichester Psalms
April 21, 22, 2018
Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
The Poetry of Song
With Guest Artists Kate Maroney, Mezzo-Soprano
Holland Jancaitis, Piano
The House of Clouds by Colin Britt, Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by Benjamin Britten, Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O Süser Mai by Johannes Brahms, Poem by Achim von Armin
The Cloud-Capp’d Towers by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Poem by William Shakespeare
Haste on, My Joys by Gerald Finzi, Poem by Robert Bridges
The Evening Primrose by Benjamin Britten, Poem by John Clare
Shall Keep Singing by Philip Silvey, Poem by Emily Dickinson
My Spirit Sang All Day by Gerald Finzi, Poem by Robert Bridges
Se Per Havervi by Morten Lauridsen, anonymous poem
Rest by Ralph Vaughan Williams, poem by Christina Rossetti
A Boy and a Girl by Eric Whitacre, Poem by Octavio Paz
Fern Hill by John Corigliano, poem by Dylan Thomas
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 8:00 pm
Our Lady Star of the Sea, Long Branch, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Monmouth Civic Chorus was a third-place winner of the 2018-19 American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, Community Choral Division, for this performance of Fern Hill by John Corigliano, at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Long Branch, with guest soloist Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano.
Joy to the World
With Guest Artists Meg Dudley, Soprano
The New Jersey Youth Chorus
Christmas favorites including selections from
Handel’s beloved Messiah and Bach’s Cantata 191 and A Christmas Oratorio
plus Artistic Director Dr. Ryan James Brandau’s heartwarming arrangements of
What Child is This?,
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,
Gesu Banbino,
Wassail, and more,
Sunday, December 17, 2017, 4:00 pm
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Northern Lights
Stunning music from the powerful singing traditions of
the Baltics and Scandinavia:
Cantate Domino (Sing to the Lord), Vytautas MiskinisTaaveti Laul Nr. 104 (Psalm 104), Cyrillus KreekSpaseniye Sodelal (Salvation Is Created), Pavel ChesnokovTe Deum (Thee, God), Arvo PärtDziedot Dzimu (I was Born to Sing), Alfred KalninsTrepute Martela (Stomping Bride), Vaclovas AugustinasStars, Eriks EsenvaldsUti Var Hage (In Our Pasture), Hugo AlfvenOnly in Sleep, Eriks EsenvaldsPseudo-Yoik, Jaako MäntyjärviLuminous Night of the Soul, Ola Gjielo
Friday, June 2, 2017, 8:00 pm
St. Mary’s Church, 1 Phalanx Rd. Colts Neck, NJ
Artistic Director and Conductor Ryan Brandau
Love Is In the Air
A program of love songs from the Middle Ages to the Internet Age,
with beautiful settings of ballads, madrigals, poems, including
Liebeslieder Walzer, Johannes Brahms (Op. 52 selections)
Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure
Abide in His Love, Ryan James Brandau
Ruth, Paul Ayres
Dirait-on, Morten Lauridsen
Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder, Claude Debussy
Flower of Beauty, John Clements
A Red, Red Rose, James Mulholland
The Dying Soldier, arr. Nigel Short & Mack Wilberg
Danny Boy, arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
Sunday, February 26, 2017, 4:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church (Tower Hill), Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Joy to the World
Christmas favorites including selections from
Handel’s beloved Messiah and Bach’s A Christmas Oratorio
plus Artistic Director Dr. Ryan James Brandau’s heartwarming arrangements of
Silent Night,
O Holy Night,
Deck the Hall,
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and more,
with guest artist Laura Kosar, Soprano
Sunday, December 18, 2016, 4:00 pm
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Heavenly Harmony
Visionary and triumphant English classics:
Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana
Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Pearsall: Lay A Garland
with guest artists Jennifer Gliere, Soprano
and Eric Plutz, Organist
Friday, May 23, 2016, 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church (Tower Hill), Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Passions
Meditations on Lent from the 17th to the 20th centuries:
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
Lotti: Crucifixus
Pablo Casals: O Vos Omnes
Purcell: Hear My Prayer
with guest artists Abigail Haynes Lennox, Soprano
Melanie Russell, Soprano
Luthien Brackett, Alto
Steven Caldicott Wilson, Tenor
Joseph Beutel, Bass-Baritone
Sunday, March 6, 2016, 4:00 pm
Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 101 Chelsea Avenue, Long Branch NJ 07740
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Joy to the World
Christmas favorites including selections from
Handel’s beloved Messiah and Bach’s A Christmas Oratorio
plus a new Christmas Suite by Dr. Brandau, with
his own arrangements of holiday favorites.
with orchestra and guest artists
Blythe Quelin, Soprano
Brian Dougherty, Tenor
Sunday, December 20, 2015, 4:00 pm
The Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth St. Red Bank, NJ
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Vespers Fusion
Intermingled vespers prayers by Claudio Monteverdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar
with guest artists Abigail Haynes Lennox, Soprano
Steven Caldicott Wilson, Tenor
Melanie Russell, Soprano
Luthien Brackett, Alto
Scott Purcell, Baritone
Sunday, May 17, 2015, 4:00 pm
Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 101 Chelsea Avenue, Long Branch NJ 07740
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
A Joyful Noise
Zoltan Kodaly, Missa Brevis
Eric Whitacre, Five Hebrew Love Songs
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
with Charlie Love, Boy Soprano
Sunday, March 8, 2015, 4:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Messiah and More
with guest artists Abigail Haynes Lennox, Soprano
Zerrin Agabigum Martin, Mezzo-Soprano
David Kellett Tenor
Brian Mextorf, Baritone
Sunday, December 7, 2014, 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Over There
Joint concert of English music written at the start of World War I
with guest artist Vladislav Kovalsky, Piano
Saturday, November 8, 2014, 4:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Eternal Light
Vespers – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lux Aeterna – Morten Lauridsen
Friday, May 16, 2014, 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701
with Adam Peithmann, Organ
Kate Maroney, Mezzo-soprano
Steven Caldicott Wilson, Tenor
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
American Songbook
A program of America’s home-grown music
March 9, 2014 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Holland Jancaitis, Accompanist
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Justine Aronson, Soprano
Dr. Amanda Quist, Mezzo-Soprano
Kyle Van Schoonhoven, Tenor
Jesse Blumberg, Baritone
Sunday, December 8, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Duruflé Requiem
O’Reagan Triptych
May 31, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
I Have a Dream
Honoring the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s iconic speech and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Saturday, March 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
with guest artist Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr.
portraying Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Artistic Director and Conductor Ryan Brandau
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Jo Ellen Miller, Soprano
Kate Maroney, Mezzo-Soprano
Steven Caldicott Wilson, Tenor
John Maynard, Baritone
Sunday, December 2, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Ryan Brandau
Brahms
A sampling of Brahms’ repertoire from love songs to gypsy songs, sacred meditations to clever canons, solo songs to piano variationsMay 20, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Guest Conductor Jason Wirth
Verdi Requiem
March 10, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
with Jennifer Rowley, Soprano
Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, Mezzo-Soprano
Noah Baetge, Tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass
Artistic Director Mark Shapiro
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Rebecca Nathanson, Soprano
Carla Jablonski, Mezzo-Soprano, William Ferguson, Tenor
and Aleksey Bogdanov, Baritone
Sunday, December 18, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Mark Shapiro
J. S. Bach Mass in B Minor
with guest artists Katharine Dain, Soprano
Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-Soprano
Matthew Pena, Tenor
Sidney Outlaw, Baritone
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Mark Shapiro
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Elisa Singer, Soprano
Silvie Jensen, Mezzo-Soprano
David Kellett, Tenor
Andrew Cummings, Baritone
Sunday, December 19, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Bach: The Man and His Music
A program of Bach’s instrumental and vocal works in a theatrical evening of music and spoken word, inspired by his life and timesSunday, November 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Artistic Director Mark Shapiro
American Folk
A semi-staged concert of choral arrangements of folk tunes blended with members’ memories of music from important moments in their live
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church St., Middletown, NJ 07748
Metropolitan Opera stage director Eric Einhorn
Artistic Director Mark Shapiro
Sing the Body Electric
with guest artists Sidney Outlaw, Baritone
Jo Ellen Miller, Soprano
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road (Tower Hill), Red Bank, NJ 07701
Paul Hindemith: Apparebit Repentina Dies
Frank Martin: Ode à la Musique (Ode to Music)
Trond Kverno: Missa in Sono Tubae
Vince Peterson: Sing the Body Electric
2000s
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Lauren Snouffer, Soprano
Eve Gigliotti, Mezzo-Soprano, Michael Kelly, Tenor,
and Nathan Wentworth, Baritone
Sunday, December 20, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank NJ 07701
Ragtime
Monmouth Civic Chorus and Cabaret for Life
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Jewish Community Center, 100 Grant Avenue, Deal, NJ 07723
Three Choral Diamonds
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank NJ 07701
Guillaume Connesson, Sphaera: U.S. premiere
Felix Mendelssohn, Tu Es Petrus,
choruses from Elijah, and
Felix Mendelssohn, from Sechs Spriche (Six Anthems)
Karol Szymanowski, Stabat Mater
Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
Selections from operas Lincoln loved, spirituals and ballads of the time, a choral setting of Walt Whitman poems, and, the stirring Battle Hymn of the Republic
with guest artist Lorraine Stone as Sojourner Truth, the enslaved-born abolitionist that Lincoln met and admired
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank NJ 07701
Handel’s Messiah
with guest artists Sofia Dimitrova, Soprano
Renée Lenore Tatum, Mezzo-soprano
Alex Guerrero, Tenor
Gideon Dabi, Baritone
Sunday, December 21, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank NJ 07701
Golden Gate
The world premiere of a new musical:
Golden Gate tells the story of a depression-era family traveling to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge on a journey of discovery and reawakened hope
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Middletown Arts Center, Middletown NJ
Composer: Richard Pearson Thomas
Book by Joe Calarco
Stage Director: Eric Einhorn
Mozart / Vaughan Williams
Mozart Mass in C Minor
Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region and
Serenade to Music
with guest artists Sungji Kim, Soprano
Christine Reber, Soprano
Daniel Molkentin, Tenor
Nathan Baer, Bass
LisztFest
A program featuring choral works by Franz Liszt
Psalm 13
Missa Choralis
Worker’s Chorus
Plus virtuoso solo works for piano and organ
with guest artists Karin Gargone, organ
Charles Harris, organ
Vladislav Kovalsky, piano
Saturday, November 17, 2007
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Sounds Like Shakespeare, Act II
Shakespeare Songs, Book II – Matthew Harris
Three Shakespeare Songs – Gyorgy Orban
Try a Little Shakespeare – Frumi Cohen
The Wind and the Rain – Leo Schwartz
When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue – William Cowdery
Fancies II – Sven-Eric Johanson
Shall I Compare Thee (Sonnet 18) – Nils Lindberg
Songs and Sonnets – George Shearing
West Side Story (selections) – Leonard Bernstein
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Two River Theatre, Red Bank
Let Freedom Sing
The Testament of Freedom – Randall Thompson
Stronger than Darkness – Jorge Martin (World Premiere) *
Symphony #9 Finale – “An Die Freiheit” – Ludwig von Beethoven
* For this performance, MCC was awarded the prestigious
Alice Parker ASCAP / Chorus America Award
“for programming significant recently composed music that expands
the mission of the chorus and challenges the chorus’s audience in a new way.”
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah and Christmas Pops Concert
Sunday, December 17, 2006, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Four Trumpets and a Chorus
Quartet for Trumpets – Aras Voskanyan
with trumpets Jason Covey, Micah Killion, Kyle Lane and Brad Siroky
Requiem – Gabriel Fauré
Soprano Jo Ellen Miller and Baritone Christopher Temporelli
Cantata #51 “Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen”
Soprano Jo Ellen Miller, Trumpet Jason Covey
Messe de Domrémy – Henri Busser
Saturday, November 18, 2006, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Sounds Like Shakespeare
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Two River Theatre, Red Bank
Scene from Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas
La Mort d’Ophélie – Hector Berlioz
Three Shakespeare Songs – György Orbán
Harpsonnets – James Bassi; Anna Reinersman, Harp
selections from Kiss Me Kate (The Taming of the Shrew)
Two Choruses from Macbeth – Verdi
Shakespeare Songs, Book 1 – Matthew Harris
And Now a Word from Our Shakespeare – Joseph Pisano
4 Pianos and a Wedding
Belshazzar’s Feast – William Walton
Les Noces – Igor Stravinsky
Accompanied by four Steinway Pianos, featuring pianists
Raphael Fusco, Chiu-tze Lin, Vladislav Kovalsky and Richard pearson Thomas
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah and Christmas Pops Concert
Sunday, December 18, 2005, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Continental Spirit
Sacred classics by Brahms, Bruckner,
Monteverdi, Palestrina, Rachmaninoff, and more
Featuring Organist Karin Gargone
Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Rule Britannia! Glorious English music
Sir Arthur Bliss: The Shield of Faith
Henry Purcell: O Sing Unto the Lord
Handel’s Concerto for Organ No. 13
celebrating organist Karin Gargone’s 20 years with MCC
Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Anton Bruckner, Mass in F Minor / Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody
Featuring Barbara Dever, Mezzo-Soprano
Special Guest Star from the Metropolitan Opera
Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 3 p.m.
Count Basie Theater
Handel: Messiah and Christmas Pops Concert
Sunday, December 19, 2004, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Sparkling sonorities from Czech musical traditions
Antonin Dvorak: Te Deum
Leos Janacek: Otcenas (Our Father)
Zdenek Lukas: Requiem
Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater
with organist Karin Gargone
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria / W.A. Mozart: Choruses from Thamos, King of Egypt / Samuel Barber: A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map / Gustav Holst: Rig Veda
with Anna Reinersman, Harp
Saturday, June 12, 2004 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Verdi, Requiem
Daena Mireau, Soprano
Marion Capriotti, Mezzo-soprano
Dinyar Vania, Tenor
Ding Gao, Bass-baritone
Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Count Basie Theater
Handel: Messiah and Christmas Pops Concert
Sunday, December 21, 2003, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Grace Notes
Selections from our newest recording
Filius Prodigus (The Prodigal Son)
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
featuring Jeffrey Mandelbaum, countertenor
Saturday, November 22, 2003, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Francis Poulenc, Sècheresses (“Droughts”)
Mark Adamo, No. 10, Supreme Virtue
mystical verses from the Tao Te Ching
Tea for Two
Refreshing treats from big-band hits, including
Ain’t Misbehavin, I Got Rhythm, Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
and Begin the Beguine
Saturday, June 14, 2003, 8 p.m.
Red Bank Regional High School
Beethoven Choral Fantasy
with Pianist Brian Zeger
Beethoven: Mass in C
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
Janara Kellerman, mezzo-soprano
Garrett Sorenson, tenor
Richard Hobson, baritone
Glorious Scenes from Russian Opera
Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov
Tchaikovsky: Waltz Scene from Eugene Onegin
Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 8 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah and Christmas Pops Concert
Sunday, December 22, 2002, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Celebrate Thanksgiving with MCC
Samuel Felsted, Jonah
Ross Lee Finney, Pilgrim Psalms
Saturday, November 23, 2002, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
A Little Night Music W. A. Mozart, Serenade for Strings
Paul Moravec Songs of Love and War
Kenneth Wasser, baritone
Kirke Mechem Las Americas Unidas
G.F. Handel Dixit Dominus
Saturday, June 1, 2002, 8 p.m.
Holmdel High School, Holmdel, NJ
W. A. Mozart, Requiem
Victoria Atwater, soprano
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-sopranoBrian Register, tenor
Richard Hobson, baritone
Gerald Finzi, Intimations of Immortality
Brian Register, tenor
Sunday, March 17, 2002, 3 p.m.The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
A MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole family
Saturday, December 15, 2001
First Baptist Church, Freehold, NJ
Sunday, December 16, 2001
Jersey Shore Arts Center, Ocean Grove, NJ
Christmas Pops
A festive concert of holiday favorites
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with Monmouth Civic Chorus
Mark Laycock, NJSO Associate Conductor
Thursday, November 29, Saturday, December 1, Sunday December 2, 2001
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Prudential Hall, Newark, NJ
Roger Sessions, MassErnst Bloch, Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh)
Joseph Kaiser, baritone
Barbara Thomson, organ
Friday, November 16, 2001First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, NJ
Saturday, November 17, 2001
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Benefit for World Trade Center Relief Efforts
Kenneth Wasser, speaker
Open Sing of
Brahms, A German Requiem
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
David Arnold, baritoneKarin Gargone, organSunday, September 23, 2001
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Choral Eucharist Service
Selections from
Charles Gounod, Saint Cecilia MassSunday, July 1, 2001
St. Thomas Church (5th Ave & 53rd St, NY)
Light of Morning
Great Choral Works at the Great Auditorium
Thursday, June 28, 2001
Ocean Grove Great Auditorium
Paul Siskind, Fill My Dreams, Stir My Soul
World Premiere
Text by Alicia de los Reyes, Maisa Chiang, Lindsay DiStasio,
Julie Nociolo, Elizabeth Marx, and Nicole Tommarazzo
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
Irene Choras Tsakiris, soprano
Marshall Coid, countertenor
Matthew Walley, baritone
With the New Jersey Chamber Singers Childrens’ Chorus,
Michael Hudson Director
Karin Gargone and Jeanne Golan, piano
Adrienne Ostrander, percussion
Saturday, June 2, 2001
Holmdel High School, Holmdel, NJ
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Red Bank Regional High School, Red Bank, NJ
Felix Mendelssohn, Overture to The Hebrides, Opus 26
Sea Chanteys, Arranged by William C. Cutter
Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony
Michael Chioldi, baritone
Melanie Galloway, soprano
Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
An MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole family
Saturday, December 9, 2000
First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, NJ
Sunday, December 10, 2000
St. Margaret’s Church, Spring Lake, NJ
Mystere
Franz Liszt, Inno a Maria Vergine
Albert Roussel, Psalm 80
Gabriel Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Charles Gounod, Saint Cecilia Mass
Mukund Marathe, tenorAnna Reinersman, harp
Karin Gargone, organist, Principal AccompanistSaturday, November 18, 2000
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ)
Sunday, November 19, 2000
First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, NJ)
Favorite Choral Works
Thursday, June 29, 2000
Ocean Grove Great Auditorium
Creator Spirit
George Frederic Handel, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei
Gustav Mahler, Veni, Creator Spiritus from Symphony of a Thousand
With the Monmouth Conservatory of Music Childrens’ Opera Chorus
and
Karin Gargone, organist
Saturday, June 3, 2000
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Saturday, March 25, 2000
The Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah
Charles Robert Stephens, baritone, as Elijah
Katherine Harris, soprano
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano
James Archie Worley, tenor
Kristen Billyer, soprano, as the Youth
1990s
A MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole family
Sunday, December 5, 1999
First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, NJ
Sunday, December 5, 1999
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Keyport, NJ
All Night Vigil
Rachmaninoff, Vespers
Saturday, November 20, 1999
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Sunday, November 21, 1999
First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, NJ
Elliot Levine, Three Motets, The Little Red Hen
Brahms, Gesang der Parzen
Gilbert and Sullivan, Selections from Pirates of PenzanceTrent Johnson, organistSaturday, June 5, 1999
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Tom Cipullo, Voices of the Young (World Premiere)
Rossini, Stabat Mater
Holst, Bacchanale
Catherine Croall, soprano
Brian Anderson, tenor
Jody Kidwell, mezzo-soprano
Ding Gao, bass-baritone
Saturday, April 17, 1999
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Handel, Messiah
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
Charles Reid, tenor
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Budka, bass
Saturday, December 12, 1998
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Monday, December 14, 1998
The Strand Historic Theater, Lakewood, NJ
Enrique Granados, Goyescas / Georges Bizet, Selections from “Carmen”
April-Joy Gutierrez, soprano
Timothy Sarris, baritone
Saturday, June 06, 1998
Pollak Auditorium, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Ulysses Kay, Song of Jeremiah
Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
Lester Lynch, baritone
Saturday, March 28, 1998
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
John La Montaine, The Nine Lessons of Christmas
Stephen Paulus, Jesu Carols
Conrad Susa, Carols and Lullabies
Ulysses Kay, A Wreath for Waits
Saturday, December 06, 1997
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank, NJ
Sunday, December 07, 1997
St. Joseph Catholic Church, Keyport, NJ
Billings, I Am the Rose of Sharon
Albright, David’s Songs
Milhaud, Les Deux Cités
Oldham, The Boulding Chorales
Harris, Shakespeare Songs
Adames, Pasaje (Venezuelan Rhythm)
David, arr. Knight, You Are the New Day
Hammond & Hazelwood, arr. Knight, I’m a Train
arr. Smith, Ride the Chariot
arr. Dawson, Every Time I Feel the Spirit
arr. Dawson, Ain’-a That Good News
Gershwin/Heyward, arr. Lojeski, Porgy and Bess (medley)
Saturday, June 8, 1996Tower Hill Church, Red Bank, NJ
Verdi, Requiem
Saturday, March 16, 1996
Count Basie Theatre
Poulenc, Gloria
Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast
Saturday, December 9, 1996
Tower Hill Church, Red Bank, NJ
Gabrieli, Mass
Thompson, Peaceable Kingdom selections
Peeters, Jubilate Deo
Sunday, June 18, 1995
Father’s Day Service
St. Thomas Church, New York, NY
Thompson, Peaceable Kingdom
Brahms, Nänie
Rossini, La Passegiata
Bartok, Four Slovak Folk Songs
Barnett, Cindy
Saturday, June 3, 1995
Tower Hill Church, Red Bank, NJ
Mozart, The Magic Flute
May 6 & 7, 1995
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Schubert, Mass in A-flat
Barber, Prayers of Kierkegaard
Saturday, March 11, 1995
Tower Hill Church, Red Bank, NJ
Handel, Judas Maccabeus
Saturday, December 3, 1994
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Orff, Carmina Burana
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
Saturday, June 4, 1994
Holmdel High School, Holmdel, NJ
Frank Loesser, The Most Happy Fella
April 22-24, 1994
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Vaughan-Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem
with Monmouth Symphony
Sunday, March 20, 1994
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Saturday, January 22, 1994
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Haydn, Lord Nelson Mass
with Bach Festival Orchestra
Friday, December 31, 1993
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Newark, NJ
Persichetti, Mass
Corigliano, Fern Hill
Various American Folk Songs and Spirituals
Saturday, June 5, 1993
Tower Hill Church, Red Bank, NJ
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof
April 23-25, 1993
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Smyth, Mass in D
Brahms, Fest und Gedenksprüche
Saturday, January 23, 1993
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank NJ
Handel, Messiah
Saturday, December 5, 1992
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ