2014–2015 Season

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at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

This performance with the St. Barnabas Choir and Soloists will be conducted by J. Michael Roush. Tickets available online.

April 19, 2015 at 5pm
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Greenwich, CT
Concert Series at All Angels’ Church

Kicking off our third season as ensemble-in-residence at All Angels’ Church with oboist Priscilla Herreid (Piffaro) in a program featuring music by our namesake, Bach, and his contemporaries. The evening will include a trio of works by J.S. Bach—a trio sonata, a violin and continuo sonata, and the first cello suite—as well as works by Handel, Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, Rosenmüller, and Froberger.

September 27, 2014 at 7:30pm
All Angels’ Church, NYC (map)

Celebrating the approaching new year with Vivaldi’s famed Four Seasons, with violinists Daniel S. Lee, Nicholas DiEugenio, and Dongmyung Ahn.

December 13, 2014 at 7:30pm
All Angels’ Church, NYC (map)

Biber’s Rosary Sonatas and other evocative works for violin and continuo with the Sebastians core musicians, Daniel S. Lee, Ezra Seltzer, and Jeffrey Grossman.

February 28, 2015 at 7:30pm
All Angels’ Church, NYC (map)

Sacred and secular works by Handel and Vivaldi with soprano Awet Andemicael, featuring our signature rendition of Vivaldi’s La Folia. Full program and ticket info.

May 30, 2015 at 7:30pm
All Angels’ Church, NYC (map)
In collaboration with TENET

The Sebastians join forces with TENET and guest conductor Scott Metcalfe to offer a program of motets by J.S. Bach. Featured motets include “Komm, Jesu komm,” “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,” and “Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir.”

September 20, 2014 at 7pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (map)
in collaboration with Seraphic Fire

Antonio Vivaldi: composer, virtuoso, firebrand, genius. Known as the Red Priest by his contemporaries, Vivaldi’s music has triumphed throughout the centuries, captivating audiences for over 300 years. The brilliant singers of Seraphic Fire present Vivaldi’s choral masterpiece, the Gloria, in collaboration with the Sebastians, a New York-based period orchestra praised for their “energetic, youthful, vigorous performing style” by The New York Times, and proclaimed “immaculate in tuning and balance” by Early Music Today.

November 7, 2014 at 7:30pm
U-M Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, Miami (map)
November 8, 2014 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
November 9, 2014 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

featuring James K. Bass as Guest Conductor

December 19, 2014 at 8pm
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale (map)
December 20, 2014 at 8pm
Trinity Cathedral, Miami (map)
December 21, 2014 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

The Lord Nelson Mass has been lauded as “arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition,” by the master’s chief biographer. The profound majesty of this monumental work is a highlight of the Classical era and influenced, among others, the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. The Lord Nelson Mass will be sung by the expert voices of Seraphic Fire, and, for the first time in Florida, be performed on original Classical instruments by the Sebastians period orchestra.

February 13, 2015 at 7:30pm
Miami Shores Presbyterian, Miami Shores (map)
February 14, 2015 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
February 15, 2015 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

Seraphic Fire’s Founder and Artistic Director, Patrick Dupré Quigley, takes audiences on a signature journey into the mind of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to discover the composer’s musical motivation in creating one of his most recognizable pieces: the Ave Verum Corpus. Drawing upon the music of Bach, Palestrina, and other Mozart predecessors, this program of discovery will allow the listener to peek behind the curtain of Mozart’s genius.

March 11, 2015 at 7:30pm
St. Sophia Cathedral, Miami (map)
March 13, 2015 at 7:30pm
St. Philip’s Episcopal, Coral Gables (map)
March 14, 2015 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
March 15, 2015 at 4pm
All Souls Episcopal, Miami Beach (map)
at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
November 16, 2014 at 5pm
February 1, 2015 at 5pm
February 8, 2015 at 5pm
April 12, 2015 at 5pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (map)

Works by Bach, Telemann, Buxtehude, Rosenmüller, and Pfeiffer

Part of the Holy Trinity Mid-Winter Festival
Tickets: $25/$15 Click here to view full program of works.

February 7, 2015 at 7:30pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (map)
Houston Early Music

Works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Rosenmuller, Erlebach, and Telemann

March 27, 2015 at 7:30pm
Midtown Concerts
May 14, 2015 at 1:15pm
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church (map)
Music in the Somerset Hills

Vivaldi’s famed Four Seasons—with violinists Daniel S. Lee, Nicholas DiEugenio, and Dongmyung Ahn—paired with the sonnets that inspired them, performed by actor Cassandra Stokes-Wylie. Tickets available online only (no door sales).

April 26, 2015
Private Home in Far Hills, NJ (map)
In collaboration with
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble

Teaming up once again with the emerging artists of dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, the Sebastians are performing Purcell’s magnificent score in six performances featuring a new libretto by Christopher Caines based on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Christopher Caines, stage director and choreographer
Jeffrey Grossman, music director

August 8, 9, 16, and 23 at 8pm
August 10 at 2pm
August 18 at 7:30pm
The East Thirteenth Street Theatre, NYC (map)
In collaboration with TENET

The Sebastians join forces with TENET and guest conductor Scott Metcalfe to offer a program of motets by J.S. Bach. Featured motets include “Komm, Jesu komm,” “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,” and “Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir.”

September 20, 2014 at 7pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (map)
in collaboration with Seraphic Fire

Antonio Vivaldi: composer, virtuoso, firebrand, genius. Known as the Red Priest by his contemporaries, Vivaldi’s music has triumphed throughout the centuries, captivating audiences for over 300 years. The brilliant singers of Seraphic Fire present Vivaldi’s choral masterpiece, the Gloria, in collaboration with the Sebastians, a New York-based period orchestra praised for their “energetic, youthful, vigorous performing style” by The New York Times, and proclaimed “immaculate in tuning and balance” by Early Music Today.

November 7, 2014 at 7:30pm
U-M Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, Miami (map)
November 8, 2014 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
November 9, 2014 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

featuring James K. Bass as Guest Conductor

December 19, 2014 at 8pm
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale (map)
December 20, 2014 at 8pm
Trinity Cathedral, Miami (map)
December 21, 2014 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

The Lord Nelson Mass has been lauded as “arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition,” by the master’s chief biographer. The profound majesty of this monumental work is a highlight of the Classical era and influenced, among others, the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. The Lord Nelson Mass will be sung by the expert voices of Seraphic Fire, and, for the first time in Florida, be performed on original Classical instruments by the Sebastians period orchestra.

February 13, 2015 at 7:30pm
Miami Shores Presbyterian, Miami Shores (map)
February 14, 2015 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
February 15, 2015 at 4pm
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay (map)

Seraphic Fire’s Founder and Artistic Director, Patrick Dupré Quigley, takes audiences on a signature journey into the mind of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to discover the composer’s musical motivation in creating one of his most recognizable pieces: the Ave Verum Corpus. Drawing upon the music of Bach, Palestrina, and other Mozart predecessors, this program of discovery will allow the listener to peek behind the curtain of Mozart’s genius.

March 11, 2015 at 7:30pm
St. Sophia Cathedral, Miami (map)
March 13, 2015 at 7:30pm
St. Philip’s Episcopal, Coral Gables (map)
March 14, 2015 at 8pm
All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale (map)
March 15, 2015 at 4pm
All Souls Episcopal, Miami Beach (map)
In collaboration with
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble

Teaming up once again with the emerging artists of dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, the Sebastians are performing Purcell’s magnificent score in six performances featuring a new libretto by Christopher Caines based on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Christopher Caines, stage director and choreographer
Jeffrey Grossman, music director

August 8, 9, 16, and 23 at 8pm
August 10 at 2pm
August 18 at 7:30pm
The East Thirteenth Street Theatre, NYC (map)
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