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Matt Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies, created in collaboration with acclaimed director Peter Sellars, is a bold operatic meditation on our shifting place in the natural world. Fusing poetic texts from Jorie Graham with visceral soundscapes, Aucoin crafts a work that is at once urgent and transcendent, while Sellars’ visionary staging brings the music into striking visual focus. Together, they invite us to imagine new forms of life, connection, and transformation.

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Music for New Bodies

Sarasota Opera House

Celebrate the season with Handel’s classic oratorio, Messiah, featuring the world-famous Hallelujah Chorus. Get your tickets early, these performances have sold out three years in a row!

Handel's Messiah

Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist Church

First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga

Join us for a special concert performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composed by Rhiannon Giddens ’00 and Michael Abels, based on the true story of a 19th-century Islamic scholar from West Africa who was enslaved in South Carolina. Conducted by John Kennedy ’82, the performance spotlights Giddens and a cast of acclaimed Oberlin alumni, joined by the Oberlin Orchestra and choral ensembles.

Concert Performance: Omar

Oberlin College

Classical composers and literary types have long been drawn to Hollywood's glamour, glitz, grime, and grit. With their newest program, Mirror Visions Ensemble celebrates the influence and inspiration of movies with songs that pay homage to “the silver screen” — a cultural beacon for generations. The program will premiere MVE's latest commission, Griffin Candey’s Silver Songs with poetry by Rae Armantrout, Richie Hofmann, Rebecca Hoogs, Jeanne Murray Walker, Kate Northrop, and Frank O’Hara. The program includes a “mirror vision” (the same text set to music by different composers) with Howard Moss’ hilarious poem “Horror Movie” in songs by Chris DeBlasio and William Flanagan. The program gives a glimpse of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s disdain for Hollywood, provides melodic morsels of Erich Korngold’s film scoring, and commemorates Humphrey Bogart, Lana Turner, and other Hollywood royalty.

Silver Songs (songs about movies)

Kaufman Music Center

Student and Senior Discount Tickets Available at the Box Office

2024 Young Concert Artists Season Finale

Carnegie Hall

Young composers have been hailed as "the next Mozart" for  generations, but how did composers interpret Mozart’s legacy? Join  Parlando as it explores Mozart’s impact on classical music, culminating  in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri, the precursor to the Oscar-winning film Amadeus. The program includes Reynaldo Hahn’s charming Mozart Overture and Alfred Schnittke’s witty tribute to the 18th century, Moz-Art à la Haydn, before concluding with Rimsky Korsakov’s one-act opera, Mozart and Salieri, featuring Joseph Parrish as Salieri and Daniel McGrew as Mozart.

The Other Mozart Effect

The program travels through six centuries of vocal ensembles, from the Renaissance to the present day with music by W.A. Mozart, Emmanuel Chabrier, Libby Larsen, the Bobs and many others. Featuring tenor Daniel McGrew, mezzo-sopranos Megan Moore and Erin Wagner, bass-baritone Joseph Parrish and soprano/pianist Chelsea Guo.

New York Festival of Song: All Together Now

A unique collaboration between outstanding young musicians and an expert on the music of J.S. Bach, the Gamut Bach Ensemble prides itself on stylistically sensitive, earnest, and insightful performances. Directed by Koji Otsuki, the Ensemble embarks on a program of cantatas in the luminous Church of the Holy Trinity.
Sarah Shafer, soprano; Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Daniel McGrew, tenor; Edward Vogel, baritone; Melissa Hooper & Kate Wegener, oboe; Jake Thonis, bassoon; Emilie-Anne Gendron & Miho Saegusa, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello; Nate West, double bass; Jonathan Oddie, organ; Koji Otsuki, director.

Gamut Bach Ensemble

Church of the Holy Trinity

Young Concert Artists: YCA on Tour

Praised for his “lovely, nuanced tenor” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Daniel McGrew is an active performer of a broad range of repertoires spanning opera, musical theatre, early and new musics. Deeply committed to the art of song, he has appeared in concert with Brooklyn Art Song Society, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Mirror Visions Ensemble, New York Festival of Song, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the University Musical Society.
As one of the most dynamic and versatile young musicians of her generation, New-York-based pianist and concert curator Sophia (Shuhui) Zhou has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician internationally in Carnegie Hall's Weil Concert Hall and National Sawdust in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, National Library of Catalonia, Juventudes Musicales in Sevilla and Shanghai Concert Hall.

Young Concert Artists: Daniel McGrew, tenor & Sophia Zhou, piano

Join us for our Young Concert Artists Series master class and performance with tenor Daniel McGrew prior to his Kennedy Center debut on December 6! This artistic collaboration with Young Concert Artists fosters creativity and inspires students and admirers of all ages.

Young Concert Artists Series: Daniel McGrew, tenor

DC Campus: NW

The recital will feature works by Primosch and performances of his close friends, colleagues and teachers: John Harbison, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Susan Narucki, George Crumb and Anna Weesner. The recital will also include the world premiere of Four Poems for Robin (text: Gary Snyder) featuring Daniel McGrew, tenor and Lydia Brown, piano.

Tenor

Daniel McGrew

Events

Past events

May 22, 2026

Music for New Bodies · Sarasota Opera

5 - 7 Dec, 2025

Handel's Messiah · Chattanooga Symphony & Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Moz-Art à la Haydn by Schnittke

Parlando

Singer in Messiah by Handel

Chattanooga Symphony & Opera

Singer in Mozart Overture by Hahn

Parlando

Singer in Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov

Parlando

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