UPCOMING MUSIC EVENTS
Fieldston Choral Society
Spring Concert
Thursday, May 7 — 7:30pm
The Fieldston Choral Society (FCS), now in its second decade, returns to Christ & Saint Stephen's Church for another Spring Concert celebrating the joy and uplifting power of singing. The multi-generational chorus, led by Artistic Director/Conductor Sophia Miller, will be performing a varied and lively program featuring classic choral works by Randall Thompson and Morten Lauridsen, together with madrigals, contemporary settings of folk music, hymns, and spirituals, and popular songs from the 1930s to Bob Dylan and Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Admission Free • Donations Appreciated
Doors open at 7:00pm
For more information about FCS, please be in touch at fieldstonchoralsociety@gmail.com
If Music be the Food NYC
Brown Bag Fundraiser Concert
Sunday, May 10 — 6:00pm
The DragonBoot Quartet, grand prizewinners of the 2025 Coltman Competition, will present a beautiful program of works by Beethoven, Janacek, Montgomery, and a new work by Juilliard student composer Liam Cummins.
Suggested Admission: a monetary donation of any amount for either CSS Brown Bag Program (cash or checks accepted at the door) or City Harvest, online at any time via our direct donation link.
Doors open at 5:40pm
Learn more at ifmusicbethefood.com.
PRISM Quartet
Premieres
Sunday, June 7 — 4:00pm
PRISM Quartet presents a program of new music from an exceptional collection of composers, featuring the world premiere of a new work by clarinetist/saxophonist, composer, conceptualist, and Blue Note recording artist Don Byron, winner of the Rome Prize and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The program includes additional premieres by DownBeat Critics Poll winner (rising star on the tenor) Grant Stewart, a saxophonist/composer whose collaborators have included Jimmy Cobb, Renee Fleming, Clark Terry, Etta Jones, Brad Mehldau, and Harry Connick, Jr.; composer/conductor and winner of PRISM Quartet’s Robert Capanna Commissioning Award Teddy Poll, who served as resident conductor with the Houston Grand Opera and assistant conductor at the Glimmerglass Festival and San Francisco Opera; and 18-year-old Henry Vidaver, winner of the PRISM Quartet/Walden School Student Commissioning Award. Rounding out the program is Emily Cooley’s Dissolve from the Quartet’s recent single on XAS Records. Cooley, whose music has been described as “a beautiful delicacy” by Vermont Today, was the inaugural winner of PRISM’s Robert Capanna Commissioning Award (2018).
Admission: Pay-what-you-wish, with tickets available for $10, $22.50, and $35
Tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com
Doors open at 3:45pm
Learn more at prismquartet.com
Check back soon for more upcoming concerts at CSS!