About the Saint Joseph's Singers

The St. Joseph's Singers was founded in the spring of 2004 by Stephen Black, director of music at St. Joseph's Church Yorkville, and a graduate of the Yale School of Music. This new choral chamber ensemble will sing both accompanied and a cappella repertoire of all periods, with an emphasis on the music of J. S. Bach and contemporary composers. The skilled chorus will also perform a mix of sacred and secular music.

Spring 2004: Our First Concert

The ensemble's first concert, on April 4, 2004, featured Bach's Cantata 182 Himmelskönig sei willkommen, with chamber orchestra, and Hieremiae prophetae lamentations by Alberto Ginastera. WNYE Channel 25 videotaped the program for broadcast in the fall of 2004.

Performance Venues

The chorus performs concerts at St. Joseph's Church, 404 East 87th Street, as well as other venues in the upper east side of Manhattan.