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Throughout its fifty years, the New Amsterdam Singers has been acclaimed for its imaginative programming. Our repertoire spans seven centuries, and we have a continuing commitment to commissioning and performing new choral works.

New Amsterdam Singers Commissions — World Premieres
Matthew Harris Shakespeare Songs, Book Seven 2017
Paul Alan Levi Dateless Calendar 2011
Ronald Perera Why I Wake Early 2008
Paul Alan Levi Acts of Love 2002
Ronald Perera The Golden Door 1999
Behzad Ranjbaran Open Secret 1999
Paul Alan Levi Journeys & Secrets 1994
Thomas Beveridge General William Booth 1987
Francis Heilbut Caliban’s Song 1974
World Premieres
Ben Moore Two Yeats Songs (choral version) 2017
Donald Grantham A Valediction 2015
Elizabeth Lim Tempest 2013
Alexander Dmitriev Two Songs 2005
Alexander Dmitriev The Ancient Mariner 2004
Katherine Hoover Echo 2003
Alla Borzova The Ballad of Barnaby 2002
Jacob Avshalomov His Fluid Aria 2001
Charles Fussell Mists 1998
Dennis Riley Chansons Funèbres 1998
Paul Alan Levi In the Beginning 1998
Jack Gallagher To One Who Died 1986
Hale Smith Two Kids 1972
Vally Weigl A Shelter for All 1970
American Premieres
Tara Mack Harlem Night Song 2022
Einojuhani Rautavaara Unsere Liebe 2013
Matthew Harris Three Plums 2013
Richard Rodney Bennett I Saw Three Ships 2008
Richard Rodney Bennett Nonsense 2008
Eleanor Daley Missa Brevis 2002
Geoffrey Burgon Sleep 1996
Petr Eben Bitter Earth 1992
Daniel Catan Cantata 1987
New York and NYC Premieres
Robert Paterson Life is but a dream 2017
Ronald Perera When Music Sounds 2017
Abbie Betinis Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight 2016
Mark Kilstofte This Amazing Day 2016
Kirke Mechem Green Music 2016
Kirke Mechem Daybreak in Alabama 2016
Robert Paterson Choral Suite from A New Eaarth 2016
Ronald Perera Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup 2016
Michael Dellaira Nobody 2015
Donald Grantham Let Evening Come 2015
Matthew Harris If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree 2015
Ben Moore The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2015
Ben Moore Dear Theo (letters from Van Gogh) 2015
Abbie Betinis And the Song Am I 2014
Matthew Harris Fantasy on La Bamba 2013
Ronald Perera The Star in the Pail 2013
Alex Weiser Travellers 2013
Sheena Phillips Two Carols 2012
Judith Shatin The God of Glory 2012
Steven Stucky Skylarks 2012
Stephen Sametz Niño de Rosas 2011
Kitty Brazelton O Joy! 2011
Clare Maclean Leise rieselt der Schnee 2010
Kirke Mechem Suite for Chorus 2010
Ronald Perera earthsongs 2010
Kirke Mechem The World is Too Much With Us 2009
Rihards Dubra Rorando Coeli 2009
Abbie Betinis Cedit, Hyems 2009
Michael Dellaira The Masters at the Movies 2008
Matthew Harris Innocence and Experience 2008
Kirke Mechem Peace Motets 2007
Luna Pearl Woolf Après moi, le déluge 2007
David Brunner I Am in Need of Music 2007
Paul Crabtree Four Folk Songs 2007
Howard Skempton The Flight of Song 2007
Richard Wilson In Schrafft’s 2007
Ruth Watson Henderson Make Me a World 2007
Kirke Mechem American Trio 2005
Ronald Perera Three Love Lyrics 2005
Daniel Pinkham Christmas Jubilations 2004
Kirke Mechem Missa Brevis 2004
Adolphus Hailstork Seven Songs of the Rubaiyat 2003
Adolphus Hailstork The God of Glory Thunders 2002
Judith Shatin Songs of War and Peace 2002
Kirke Mechem Winging Wildly 2001
Paul Alan Levi Unpoem 2000
Matthew Harris Shakespeare Songs, Book IV 1998
Charles Fussell Specimen Days 1998
William Hawley Six Madrigals on Texts by Torquato Tasso 1997
Petr Eben Zauberspruch, den Liebsten zu beschwören 1996
Daniel Pinkham Advent Cantata 1995
Marga Richter Into My Heart 1995
Ronald Perera The Outermost House 1994
Matthew Harris Shakespeare Songs, Book III 1993
Ronald Perera Earth Songs 1993
Petr Eben Cantico delle Creature 1991
Petr Eben Salve Regina 1991
Daniel Pinkham The Saints Preserve Us! 1991
Paul Siskind On Aging 1989
Thomas Beveridge Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 1987
Tomas Svoboda Chorale Without Words 1986
Edwin Fissinger Lux Aeterna 1984

New Amsterdam Singers Repertoire: 1967 – Present

15th – 18th Centuries, European & American
Allegri • Araujo • J.C. Bach • J.C.F. Bach • J.S. Bach • Banchieri • Billings • Blow • Buxtehude • Byrd • Carissimi • Charpentier • Costeley • Couperin • de la Lande • de la Rue • Dering • Donato • Dufay • Farmer • Fernandes • Gabrieli • Gesualdo • Gibbons • Gluck • Gombert • Guerrero • Hammerschmidt • Handel • Handl • Hassler • Haydn • Heiler • Isaac • Janequin • Josquin • Lassus • Lienas • Monteverdi • Morago • Morales • Morley • Mozart • Ockeghem • C.T. Pachelbel • Palestrina • Passereau • Pilkington • Purcell • Pygott • Regnard • Schein • Schütz • Senfl • Stölzel • Sweelinck • Tallis • Tessier • Tomkins • Vecchi • Victoria • Vivaldi • Walther • Weelkes • White • Wilbye • Zielenski

19th – 20th Centuries, European & World
Aston • Avni • Bárdos • Bartók • Beethoven • Ben-Haim • R.R. Bennett • Berlioz • Biebl • Bizet • Boito • Boulanger • Brahms • Britten • Bruch • Bruckner • Burgon • Casals • Chesnokov • Chilcott • Cornelius • Dallapiccola • Debussy • Distler • Dubra Dvořák • Eben • Elgar • Esenwalds • Farkas • Fauré • Finzi • Gjeilo • Gounod • Górecki • Grechaninov • Hensel • Hindemith • Holst • Howells • Hrusovsky • Jánacek • Jeppeson • Kodály • Kverno • La Cour • Laburda • Liszt • Maclean • MacMillan • Mahler • Mäntyjärvi • Martin • Martinu • Mayr • Mendelssohn • Messiaen • Miskinis • Musgrave • Mussorgsky • Nielsen • Nunes Garcia • Orbán • Parry • Pärt • Penderecki • Pizzetti • Poulenc • Rautavaara • Ravel • Rawthorne • Reger • Rheinberger • Rossini • Rubbra • Rütti • Schoenberg • Schubert • Schumann • Shostakovich • Sibelius • Skempton • Stanford • Sullivan • Svoboda • Taneyev • Tavener • Tchaikovsky • Tormis • Vaughan Williams • Verdi • Walton • Warlock • Washburn • Weber • Wolf • Yaichkov • Zimmerman

20th Century – Present, The Americas
Aguiar • Argento • Avshalomov • P.D.Q. Bach • Baksa • Barnett • Bassi • Benjamin • Bernstein • Betinis • Beveridge • Bielawa • Biggs • Brant • Brazelton • Brunner • Borzova • Carter • Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Catan • Chávez • Chen Yi • Chihara • Copland • Corigliano • Crawford • Crabtree • Daley • Dellaira • Dennis • Dmitriev • Felciano • Fennimore • Fine • Fissinger • Foss • Fussell • Gallagher • Gershwin • Ginastera • Gordon • Gould • Hailstork • Harbison • Harris • Hawley • Healey • Heath • Heilbut • Henderson • Hogan • Hoover • Hovhaness • Ives • Jans • Joplin • Kernis • Kilstofte • Lang • Lauridsen • Levi • Levine • Lewin • Lim • Loesser • Loos • Luening • MacIntyre • McCullough • Marshall • Mauldin • Mechem • Menotti • Milhaud • Moore • Niles • Nin • O’Regan • Parker • Perera • Persichetti • Phillips • Piazolla • Pinkham • Piston • Raminsh • Ranjbaran • Richter • Riley • Rhodes • Rorem • Santoro • Sametz • Schuman • Shatin • Siskin • Smith • Somary • Spencer • Stevens • Stravinsky • Stucky • Swingle • Susa • Talma • Thompson • Thomson • Toch • Wallach • Washburn • Weigl • Weiser • Whitacre • White • Wilberg • Wilson • Woolf • Work


March 11, 2023The World of Dreams
December 7, 2022Psalms and Carols
The Sounds of Joy
May 20, 2022The Dream Keeper
March 16, 2022American Voices, Classic and New
December 11, 2021The Return of Song
December 12, 2019A Century of A Cappella Gems
May 16, 2019Tango Mass
March 8, 2019The Romantic Spirit: Wild and Tender
December 7, 2018Psalms and Celebrations
May 31, 2018Rejoice in the Lamb
A Century of Choral Favorites and a Premiere
March 8, 2018Hymn to the Dawn
Songs of Serenity and Joy
December 8, 2017Sing, Sing Ye Muses
Choral Classics and a Premiere
June 1, 2017Life Is But a Dream
Poetry and folk song inspire modern American works
March 17, 2017Northern Lights
Four Centuries of Spirited Music from Northern Europe
December 16, 2016O Magnum Mysterium
Renaissance and Contemporary Meditations on the Season
May 22, 2016The Good Earth
New music for the land and its fragile glory
March 13, 2016Frank Martin – Golgotha
December 13, 2015The Mass, The Dance, The Feast
May 28, 2015Poems, Letters, and Premieres
Major Works by Dellaira, Effiger, and Whitacre for chorus and winds on poetry of Joyce, Dickinson, Rilke, and stirring letters of van Gogh
March 8, 2015New American Romantics
Composers of Our Time on Poems of Frost, Yeats, Agee, Graves, and Hardy
December 14, 2014Sing with the Spirit
Bach, Gabrieli, Harp, and Brass
May 22, 2014Full Fathom Five
Shakespeare in Song
March 9, 2014Calamity and Consolation: From Darkness to Light
December 15, 2013A Ceremony of Britten
Carols, Hymns, and Lullabies
May 23, 2013Premiere!
American Poetry Settings
March 3, 2013Passion and Protest
Music of Eastern Europe
December 9, 2012Comfort and Joy
Six Centuries of Sacred Song
May 31, 2012Songs of Birds and Angels
March 2, 2012Juxtapositions
December 11, 2011A Child in Winter
May 26, 2011With a Lily in Your Hand
March 13, 2011Songs for the Changing Seasons
December 12, 2010Bach to Betinis
Major Works for Double Chorus and A Cappella Miniatures

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