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