Praised by The New York Times for its “incisive, agile strength,” Downtown Voices is a semiprofessional choir conducted by Stephen Sands. Downtown Voices has performed works by Reena Esmail, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo... morePraised by The New York Times for its “incisive, agile strength,” Downtown Voices is a semiprofessional choir conducted by Stephen Sands. Downtown Voices has performed works by Reena Esmail, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Pärt, Anton Webern, Alberto Ginastera, Leoš Janáček, James MacMillan, and Philip Glass. The choir was recently featured in two world premieres: Luna Pearl Woolf’s Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center and Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio Akathist, which was recorded alongside Trinity Choir, Artefact Ensemble, Trinity Youth Chorus, and NOVUS. Downtown Voices made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2022 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta for the Lukas Foss Centennial Celebration.
Other recent performances include the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Ross Farm, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew. At Trinity Church, the... less
Sing Ye to the Lord - Bairstow
Downtown Voices
Janet Yieh, organ
Stephen Sands, conductor
Trinity Church, NYC
Sing ye to the Lord
For He hath triumphed gloriously
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host
Hath He cast into the sea
Mighty Victim from...
Downtown Voices at 10 Years: Britten's St. Nicolas
DOWNTOWN VOICES (https://downtownvoices.net)
TRINITY YOUTH CHORUS
NOVUS
David Vanderwal, tenor \ Sergio Rego, treble
Stephen Sands, conductor (https://stephensands.net)
Program with texts and no...
Evening Prayer - Ola Gjeilo
Downtown Voices
Live performance at the end of Evensong on Jan 28, 2026
Mitchell Vines, piano
Izzy Williams, saxophone
Stephen Sands, conductor
Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give y...
Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Chamber Orchestra Version by Ingo Schulz
Trinity Church, NYC
Downtown Voices (https://DowntownVoices.net)
NOVUS
Sonya Headlam, soprano
Brian Mextorf, bass
Stephen Sands, conductor (https...
Five Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams
Downtown Voices
Edmund Milly, baritone
Janet Yieh, organ
Stephen Sands, conductor
Trinity Church, NYC
Five Mystical Songs
Song Cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Text Authorship:
by Georg...
Herbert Howells - Take him, earth, for cherishing
Downtown Voices
Stephen Sands, conductor
Trinity Church, NYC
Text translated by Helen Waddell, from a 4th-century poem by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius:
Take him, earth, for cherishing,
to thy ...
O Radiant Dawn
James MacMillan (1959-)
Trinity Church, NYC
Downtown Voices (http://downtown voices.net)
Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net)
James MacMillan (1959-) — O Radiant Dawn
Antiphon for December 21st ‘O Oriens’
O Radian...
Alma redemptoris mater
Cecilia McDowall (1951-)
Trinity Church, NYC
Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net)
Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net)
Latin Lyrics
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli
Porta manes, et stella maris...
Strengthen for Service
Jessica French (https://www.jessicafrench.org/shop/p/service0
Downtown Voices (http://DowntonwVoices.net)
NOVUS NY
Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net)
Trinity Church, NYC
Concert program with texts, notes an...
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