Saint Joseph's Singers
A Chamber Chorus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan
Our 2010 season will include music by Heinrich Schütz
2010 Concert Season
Organist/Director of Music
Position Available August 1, 2010
St. Joseph's Church Yorkville, a Roman Catholic Church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is seeking an Organist/Director of Music, effective August 1, 2010. Current responsibilities include playing five weekend masses, plus masses on Holy Days, as well as weddings and funerals. The Director of Music also rehearses and conducts the Parish Choir and the Family Mass children’s choir. The position could also include conducting the St. Joseph's Singers, a concert chamber choir in residence at the church.
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Application Deadline: May 15, 2010
The St. Joseph's Singers is a select chamber choir consisting of active singers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and is beginning its fifth season as the resident artist ensemble at St. Joseph's Church Yorkville, on the upper east side of Manhattan.
Please listen to sound clips of the ensemble and learn more about our director Stephen Black, a graduate of the Yale School of Music.
Auditions may be scheduled by calling (917) 239-0919.
Previous Concerts
- March 7, 2010
Johannes-Passion by Heinrich Schütz
[Press Release] [Program] - March 29, 2009
Seven Last Words of Christ by New York City composer Nancy Wertsch [Press Release] [Program] - June 8, 2008
A public concert of the music performed for Pope Benedict XVI. [Press Release] - April 18, 2008
A private concert for Pope Benedict XVI and invited guests. Featuring music of Arvo Paert, Franz Schubert, W. A. Mozart, and Aaron Jay Kernis. - November 11, 2007
Music by Victoria, Schubert, and Palestrina. - November 12, 2006
Sequestered Places - A concert of new music [Program] - March 5, 2006
Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. [Program] - October 22, 2005
Mass in G Minor by Vaughan Williams. Joint concert with the Male Voice Ensemble Limburg, Holland. [Program] - May 8, 2005
To be sung on a summer night on the water: works by Delius, Whitacre, Mozart, Hovhaness, Ives and Wolf. [Program] - Feb. 20, 2005
Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore KV 339. - Oct. 29, 2004
Joint concert with the acclaimed Dutch women's chamber choir Cantate from the city of Venlo, conducted by Dion Ritten. - April 4, 2004
Cantata 182 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta by Alberto Ginastera.