A complete performance of J.S. Bach’s epic St. John Passion will be offered on Good Friday by the sounding light chamber choir and Plymouth Choir with guest soloists and chamber orchestra.

Nathaniel will perform the roles of Jesus and bass soloist.

Admission is free and open to the public. A freewill offering benefiting First-Plymouth's justNeighbors initiative will be collected.

Program

Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien
G. F. Handel: Dixit Dominus

Artists

Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra
Kent Tritle, music director/conductor
Elisse Albian and Emily Donato, sopranos
Kirsten Sollek, contralto
Richard Pittsinger, tenor
Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone
Joseph Beutel, bass-baritone

General Seating: $50
Preferred Seating: $75

Sarah Shafer and Quad City native Nathaniel Sullivan join the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in presenting beloved works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Gabriel Fauré.

Program

J. S. Bach: “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” from Cantata No. 51
J. S. Bach: Prelude from the First Cello Suite
J. S. Bach: Suite (Overture) No. 3, BWV 1068, II. Air
J. S. Bach: Selections from St. Matthew Passion, including:
No. 48: “Er hat uns allen wohlgetan”
No. 49: “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben”
No. 54: “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden”
No. 64: “Am Abend, da es kühle war”
No. 65: “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein”
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concert No. 2, BWV 1047
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48

Tickets start at $12 for adults and $7 for students/children.

Sarah Shafer and Quad City native Nathaniel Sullivan join the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in presenting beloved works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Gabriel Fauré.

Program

J. S. Bach: “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” from Cantata No. 51
J. S. Bach: Prelude from the First Cello Suite
J. S. Bach: Suite (Overture) No. 3, BWV 1068, II. Air
J. S. Bach: Selections from St. Matthew Passion, including:
No. 48: “Er hat uns allen wohlgetan”
No. 49: “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben”
No. 54: “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden”
No. 64: “Am Abend, da es kühle war”
No. 65: “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein”
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concert No. 2, BWV 1047
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48

Tickets start at $12 for adults and $7 for students/children.

Soprano Hannah Meloy and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan join pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun in a vocal recital exploring various aspects of flight. Repertoire will include solos and duets by Schumann, Rossini, Quilter, Hagen, Harbison, and more.

World premiere of a new transcription by David Briggs of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Hodie for soloists, chorus, and organ. Choir of First Presbyterian Church, directed by Michael Shake. Nathaniel will perform as the baritone soloist.

More details coming soon!

Soprano Hannah Meloy and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan join pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun in a vocal recital exploring various aspects of flight. Repertoire will include solos and duets by Schumann, Rossini, Quilter, Hagen, Harbison, and more.

Admission is free and open to the public. This concert is sponsored by the Friends of the West Tisbury Library and the West Tisbury Library Foundation.

Join us as Astral's newest Artists debut at the Fall Showcase in The Lounge at Philadelphia's premiere venue for emerging musicians, World Cafe Live. See them perform and hear them speak about their passions, aspirations, and careers as WRTI's morning classical host, John T.K. Scherch, emcees the evening.

This year's Fall Showcase will feature two concert events in one evening. Guests can purchase a ticket to either show, or both shows. Doors will open one hour prior to the Early Show at 5:00pm for dinner with full kitchen and bar available, and will reopen 30 minutes before the Late Show.

Early Show (6:00 p.m.)

Priscila Navarro, piano
Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone
Eunbi Kim, piano

Late Show (8:00 p.m.)

Sylvia Jiang, piano
Noël Wan, harp
Astral Mixtape, band

General Admission: $35

An afternoon of art song, opera, musical theatre, and pop hits at the Philadelphia Horticultural Society (PHS) Pop Up Garden on South Street. Featuring Astral Artists Kayla Harriott and Nathaniel Sullivan, with Ting Ting Wong on the piano.

This event is outdoors, free of charge, and open to the public. Family-friendly, dog-friendly, and the beer garden is open—expect new friends, excellent food and drink, and great music, all celebrating our friends and neighbors of the LGBTQIA+ community. Drink specials courtesy of St. Germain.

Free admission. Garden opens at 11:00 and seating is first come, first served. Space is limited with a capacity of 150 people; preregistration is strongly recommended.

This program of music theater and jazz songbook standards, curated by Kurt Elling to highlight the fellows of RSMI’s Program for Singers, features arrangements by Lee Musiker, who served as music director and pianist on Tony Bennett’s Grammy-winning albums of duets and has backed countless artists across jazz, classical, Broadway, and pop genres. In the vein of last summer’s sellout RSMI Singers concert with Musiker that celebrated the music of Stephen Sondheim, two-time Grammy winner and Chicagoan Elling is shaping an afternoon of songs that uniquely tap into each artist’s stage persona to tug at a vast range of emotions with this music of our time.

This program is part of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2023 festival season.

Reserved Seats: $25

A concert featuring five of the 2023 RSMI vocal fellows and their collaborative pianists performing repertoire of their choice. Nathaniel and pianist Michael Sikich will perform the complete Flashes and Illuminations by John Harbison.

This program is part of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2023 festival season.

General Admission is free and open to the public. Advanced reservation for in-person tickets is recommended. Livestream will be available at the above link at 2:00pm CST on the day of the performance.

The most evocative and emotionally bracing songs share a common, extra-worldly dimension: when words and music were put together, something of the writer’s psyche was plucked out of time to be re-created in performance. But that moment of clairvoyance is not simply spirited away and waiting to be invoked by voice or instrument. This program, curated by Graham Johnson, pierces the veil with insightful commentary on the life events surrounding the moment of composition, the story the underlying poetry is telling, or the threads between other familiar work by the writers—all paired with the songs themselves in performances shaped to share the closer connection.

This program is part of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2023 festival season.

Reserved Seats: $15

The “other,” the stranger in a strange land, has always been with us. The hope of those seeking to better their lives, the fears of those forced to flee danger at home, and the despair of the enslaved migrant have inspired music that captures the full range of their experience. This program, curated by Cori Ellison, traces the migrant experience in music ranging across songs of the Sephardim expelled from Inquisition Spain; Schubert and Schumann’s German Romantic “Wanderer”; the Africans brought forcibly to our shores; the Jewish, Irish, Italian, and Asian refugees who built 20th-century America; and today’s songs of asylum seekers fleeing Ukraine and Latin America.

This program is part of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute 2023 festival season.

Reserved Seats: $15

Nathaniel has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2023 Washington International Competition for Voice.

The Washington International Competition (WIC), established in 1950, is held for singers, pianists, string players, and composers. WIC competitions for singers, pianists, and string players are held each spring in annual rotation. Through the authority of its judges, high musical standards, and the quality of young artists attracted, the WIC offers—both in the United States and abroad—a significant opportunity for young artists to step upward from the ranks of talented students to recognition as professionals. Prize-winners of these competitions have gone on to win other important contests and achieve distinction on concert and opera stages around the world. 

Attendance at the semifinal and final rounds of the competition is free and open to the public.

The American Opera Project - NYU/Tisch Opera Lab presents POETS OF NEW YORK: Operas inspired by Audre Lorde & Walt Whitman. Join us for the premiere of three 30-minute operas inspired by the lives, histories, and geographies of Audre Lorde and Walt Whitman—two queer poets with deep roots in New York City who lived a century apart.

The NYU/Tisch Opera Lab is a collaboration between Brooklyn contemporary opera producer The American Opera Project [AOP] and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Each year in the Lab, emerging opera composers and librettists create brand new short operas centered on an historic New York City location. Over several months, the operas are developed with professional opera singers and then given full productions in the very locations that they were written about.

Admission is free. Due to limited space, registration is required using the above link.

The American Opera Project - NYU/Tisch Opera Lab presents POETS OF NEW YORK: Operas inspired by Audre Lorde & Walt Whitman. Join us for the premiere of three 30-minute operas inspired by the lives, histories, and geographies of Audre Lorde and Walt Whitman—two queer poets with deep roots in New York City who lived a century apart.

The NYU/Tisch Opera Lab is a collaboration between Brooklyn contemporary opera producer The American Opera Project [AOP] and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Each year in the Lab, emerging opera composers and librettists create brand new short operas centered on an historic New York City location. Over several months, the operas are developed with professional opera singers and then given full productions in the very locations that they were written about.

Admission is free. Due to limited space, registration is required using the above link.

A concert commemorating the heroism of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Vice-Consul to Lithuania, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II. The performance will feature the American Premiere of Lera Auerbach's Symphony No. 6, Vessels of Light, dedicated to Sugihara and all those who risk everything to save others. This symphony was commissioned by Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, along with the American Society for Yad Vashem, and was catalyzed by cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper.

Nathaniel will perform as a chorister with the New York City Opera Orchestra & Chorus.

General Admission: $50

A Good Friday tradition at The Brick Presbyterian Church for almost a century, Sir John Stainer’s Lenten choral meditation, The Crucifixion, will be performed by the professional choir of the Brick Church, conducted by Dr. Raymond Nagem. Nathaniel will perform the role of Jesus.

Premiered in 1887, The Crucifixion is a fixture of the English choral tradition. Musicians today still enjoy performing choruses such as "Fling wide the gates," and careers have been founded on The Crucifixion's baritone and tenor solos. The chorus "God so loved the world" enjoys an independent existence as an anthem in parish choirs across the globe—a minor classic in its own right and a beautifully expressive piece of choral writing.

Admission is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be collected.

ARTISTS

Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor (Evangelist)
Davóne Tines, bass
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
Musica Sacra, chorus (directed by Kent Tritle)

Nathaniel will perform as a chorister with Musica Sacra.

Tickets range $60 - $200.

ARTISTS

Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor (Evangelist)
Davóne Tines, bass
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
Musica Sacra, chorus (directed by Kent Tritle)

Nathaniel will perform as a chorister with Musica Sacra.

Tickets range $60 - $200.

ARTISTS

Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor (Evangelist)
Davóne Tines, bass
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
Musica Sacra, chorus (directed by Kent Tritle)

Nathaniel will perform as a chorister with Musica Sacra.

Tickets range $60 - $200.

The Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola invites you to their first a cappella concert in three years as they present the sumptuously ravishing Masses for Double Choir by Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) and Frank Martin (1890-1974).

Nathaniel will perform as a chorister with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola.

Tickets range $25 - $88. Livestream option available for $20.

Nathaniel has been selected as one of ten finalists in the 2023 Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition.

Tickets are $175 per person ($100 per person is tax deductible.) Ticket includes concert, cocktails, and dinner. Advance registration required.

The Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition is conducted annually in two divisions: The Artist Division and the Scholarship Division. Preliminary screening and semi-final rounds are heard by audio recording. Nathaniel was one of ten singers selected to compete in the final round of the Artist Division, as part of the National Opera Association’s 68th Annual National Conference in Houston, Texas.

Conference registration is required to attend the final round and winners’ recital.

Brick Church’s Lessons & Carols is modeled on the famous service that has been sung at King’s College, Cambridge since 1918. By flickering candlelight, we tell the Christmas story through readings, carols, and anthems, and we proclaim the good news of light amid the winter’s darkness. This year’s service, on Sunday, December 18th at 4:00 PM, features the world premiere of The Angel Gabriel by New York composer Laura Jobin-Acosta.

Following the service, all are welcome to a festive holiday reception honoring the extraordinary musicians of Brick Church’s Chancel Choir in Watson Hall!

Admission is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be collected.

The Brearley Singers’ holiday concert program highlights matters of critical importance in our unsettled world, immigration and the immigrant experience among them. Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies, a collection of ten Spanish-themed songs, uses texts of Basque, Catalonian, Puerto Rican, Spanish, Andalucian, Castilian, and Mexican origin to spin a narrative of many moods and rhythms. The other featured work is a cantata of the Ellis Island experience, The Golden Door by Ronald Perera, which draws on oral histories of immigrants. As Perera himself put it, "In the simple, flat prose of these interviews I found poetry, and I found universal human themes of uprooting and transplanting, longing and hope, suffering and fear, courage and despair, and perhaps most characteristic among immigrants to America, gratitude."

Nathaniel will perform as the bass soloist in both Carols and Lullabies and The Golden Door.

General Admission: $20
Student Admission: $10

Concerts in the Village presents Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, performed by the Broad Street Chorale & Orchestra, conducted by David Smith and featuring guest soloists.

Soloists

Caroline Dunigan, soprano
Katherine Lerner Lee, soprano
Maximillian Jansen, tenor
Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone
Jonathan Lawlor, baritone

General Admission: $20
Free admission for students and children.

This concert was originally scheduled for May 1, 2022, and was postponed due to COVID complications.

This two-act chamber opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer is based on the true stories of two Holocaust survivors: In Act I, Krystyna Żywulska, assisted by ghosts of Auschwitz, shares her story of survival with a journalist. In Act II, Gad Beck is haunted by his first love, the poet Manfred Lewin, who perished in Auschwitz.

Presented as part of Out of Darkness: Holocaust Messages for Today.

Cast & Creative

Sarah Shafer, Krystyna
Nathaniel Sullivan, Manfred
Patrick McNally, Gad
Claire Kuttler, Krysia
Kelly Hill, Zosia
Lily Arbisser, Mariola
Stephanie Doche, Edka

Quad City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ernesto Estigarribia.
Directed by Shelley Cooper.

General Admission: $35
Student Tickets: $10

The exoticism of the East and the structure of the West. They met in Venice in 1610—and the splendor resounded. Jeannette Sorrell leads chorus, strings, brass, lutes, and soloists in Monteverdi’s sumptuous masterpiece.

Nathaniel will join the chorus of Apollo’s Singers.

Tickets range $10 - $75. Call the Apollo’s Fire box office at (216) 320-0012 ext. 1 to purchase tickets by phone. Online ticket purchases will be available beginning September 12.