Greenwich Choral Society
2025 -2026 Season
CENTENNIAL VOICES: A HISTORICAL EXHIBITION & RECEPTION
SEPTEMBER 14, 2025, 1:00 PM - 4:00 P.M. Opening Reception
299 Greenwich Avenue, 2nd Floor, Greenwich, CT
A celebration of Greenwich Choral Society’s rich legacy, showcasing archival treasures with an opening reception. The interactive audio/visual exhibition will feature the Choral Society’s music from the various decades, and displays of the composers, conductors, singers and musicians who have been a part of the Choral Society’s stellar history. Visitors can hear the history and samples from performances of the Choral Society’s concerts with smartphones and headphones. A limited supply of headphones will be on-site.The exhibition runs September 14 - October 19 at the Greenwich Arts Council.
GCS FAMILY HOLIDAY CONCERT
DECEMBER 6, 2025, 2:30 P.M.
Christ Church Greenwich
254 E Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830
Bring the whole family for a holiday concert full of fun and discovery! Sing along with the choir, hear the sparkle of the orchestra, and meet our amazing soloists. Travel through the music of Bach, Britten, and Margaret Bonds—and laugh along with the hilarious Musicological Journey through Christmas! With guest ensemble, the Greenwich Academy Madrigal Singers, Erica McCants, conductor, Naomi Steel, mezzo-soprano, Shavon Lloyd, baritone, and Edward Pleasant, narrator. (60 min.)
Kids get in for free! To order free children & student tickets,
call the Box Office at (203) 622-5136
A CHRISTMAS TAPESTRY: BACH, BRITTEN, BONDS
DECEMBER 7, 2025, 2:30 P.M. & 5:30 P.M.
Christ Church Greenwich
254 E Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830
Celebrate the season with our traditional holiday concert, featuring Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Bach’s exuberant Christen ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, Margaret Bonds’ Ballad of the Brown King, and Craig Courtney’s hilarious Musicological Journey through Christmas—performed with orchestra and soloists. Naomi Steel, mezzo-soprano, Shavon Lloyd, baritone (90 min.)
Screening: ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN (1974)
Saturday, January 31, 2026, 3:00 PM
First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Old Greenwich
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974) tells the inspiring story of trailblazing conductor Antonia Brico, GCS’s conductor, 1934-35, and the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. Co-directed by Judy Collins, this landmark feminist documentary was Oscar-nominated and restored in 2022. Join us for a screening of the film, followed by a panel discussion on women in music and leadership featuring Beth Willer, Associate Professor and Director of Choral Studies at the Peabody Conservatory, Susanne Bona, host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, and Christine Howlett, Music Director of the Greenwich Choral Society, and Professor of Music on the George Sherman Dickinson Chair and Director of Choral Activities, Vassar College. Free and open to the public. (Snow date, February 1.)
THE MARVELOUS AND MYSTICAL
Saturday, March 28, 2026, 4:00 P.M.
Christ Church Greenwich
Two masterpieces of 20th-century music, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, were both commissioned by the visionary English arts patron, Walter Hussey. The Vassar College Choir joins GCS to perform these works alongside a newly commissioned work by the internationally renowned composer, producer, and Greenwich native, Rob Mathes, written in honor of GCS’s 100th anniversary.
ENCORE! 100 YEARS OF SONG
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 4:00 P.M.
Christ Church Greenwich
Join us for the final concert of our centennial season with choral and operatic favorites, soloists, and orchestra. Following the concert, toast to the next 100 years with a celebratory reception. Katherine Whyte, soprano, Holly Sorenson, mezzo-soprano, and Edward Pleasant, bass-baritone.