In the fall of 2009, Amor Artis recorded selected works by Tomas Luis de Victoria; this CD will be released  in June 2010. The 2009-2010 season saw performances of music by Czech 18th century composers and works by living American composers in a joint concert with Music Bridges International. In addition, Amor Artis and the Greenwich Village Singers teamed up to present "Antiphony," a selection of music for double chorus by Heinrich Schütz, Palestrina, Brahams and Vaughan Williams.  In March we collaborated with the Dicapo Opera Company in presenting the New York City premiere of Donzetti's Requiem. 

In November 2009, we helped commemorate the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth in a sold-out concert at the Jewish Museum and a repeat performance at the Center for Jewish History. This presentation received favorable comment in the New Yorker's critique of the city's Bernstein celebrations (The New Yorker, Dec. 15, 2008).  On December 3, 2009, Amor Artis performed the first part of the Messiah  in a "rush hour" concert at St. Agnes Church near Grand Central. This concert was described  by Francis X. Clines in the New York Times (Dec. 7, 2008) as the "well tempered, exalting seasonal boost that never fails."  On December 22, the chorus collaborated with the Dicapo Opera Company in celebrating Puccini's 150th birthday, presenting selections from the composer's best-loved operas. And on April 19, 2009,  Amor Artis sang in Washington, D.C., at the National Gallery in a concert featuring Johannes Somary's "The Prodigal Son."  The season culminated with performances of Handel's  St. John Passion and Esther. The exciting events of the 2008-2009 season are only a continuation of the chorus' rich history which began in the early 1960s.

When Margaret Hillis left New York and disbanded the American Concert Choir (ACC), Milton Goldin, the choir’s manager, and Johannes Somary, a young conductor from Yale who had just moved to New York City, decided to continue the tradition of professional choral concerts in the city with the people who had been singing with the ACC. Goldin and Somary tested the waters on April 12, 1961 with the first complete performance in the U.S. of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Esther. Critical acclaim for this concert, given at Town Hall, led to the birth of Amor Artis, a Latin name which means "Love of Art" and which was also the name of a musical ensemble in Renaissance Florence.

During the following decades, Amor Artis evolved both as an all-professional chorale and as an orchestra whose primary purpose was the accompaniment of the chorale. Concert performances included many New York premieres at Town Hall ranging from Handel’s Theodora to Willy Burkhard’s Das Jahr, from Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans to Ernst Toch’s Cantata of the Bitter Herbs. There were also special television appearances which included performances of 20th-century cantatas by Robert Starer, Carlos Surinach, and George Antheil.

During the 1970s, the Amor Artis Chorale recorded in London with the English Chamber Orchestra major works including the first recordings ever of Handel’s Theodora and Jephtha, and recordings of Bach’s B-Minor Mass, Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, Mozart’s C-Minor Mass, and Mozart’s Requiem, among many others. Four of these recordings received Stereo-Review Record-of-the-Year awards. 

In 1980 Amor Artis became the first New York organization to perform Bach’s B-Minor Mass with a period-instrument orchestra. The critical acclaim given to this performance led to new developments. The activities of Amor Artis expanded as the Amor Artis Chamber Choir was founded with a felicitous blend of professional singers and carefully selected volunteer singers. The Amor Artis Chamber Choir was chosen to be the principal chorus at the Madeira Bach Festival for the tercentennial year celebrating the births of Bach and Handel. Since 1985, the Amor Artis Chorus and Orchestra has performed its annual all-Bach gala New-Year’s-Eve concerts at St. Jean Baptiste Church. 

During the 1990s,  Amor Artis  toured Europe extensively from Ireland to Estonia. It sang in New York City for special memorial services after 9/11 including a major event at Yankee Stadium and a commemorative concert at St. Patrick’s Cathedral with the Vienna Philharmonic. It has recorded Christmas discs for Vox and for Polygram. The group has also recorded for Albany and for Leonarda compositions by James Adler, Jeanne Shaffer, and Johannes Somary. 

 In the summer of 2006, in response to an invitation from the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, the Amor Artis Chorus sang Mozart's Missa Brevis, K. 220 at the Vienna Cathedral, culminating its concert tour in Austria and the Czech Republic. Amor Artis' 2006-2007 season included a unique two-day performance in November of Jewish liturgical music sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music, Temple Emanu-El New York City, the Park Avenue Synagogue and other Jewish organizations. In March 2007, the chorus performed the world premiere of  “The Rose of Tralee,” a complex dramatic cantata based on the Irish tale by contemporary composer Mark N. Grant. In April at Yale's Battell Chapel, the group took part in a program “On Peace and War” that included Haydn's “Mass in Time of War” and David Kraehenbuehl's “Drumfire: A Cantata Against War.”  Amor Artis also participated in the Connecticut Early Music Festival's 25th anniversary concert performing Handel's “Alexander's Feast.”

 In a March 2008 concert, the group sang an early Renaissance masterpiece: Obrecht's “St. Matthew Passion” and presented the New York premiere of Bonia Shur's “Kohelet.” In May 2008, internationally renowned organist Gail Archer joined the choir in an all-English program commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The concert featured his “Mass in G Minor” and his “Visions of Aeroplanes.”