OUR 2023-2024 SEASON

​​Thank you for your support of Amor Artis. As arts groups of all kinds, worldwide, continue to recover from setbacks in recent years, your enthusiastic, rapt attendance at our performances has invigorated and inspired us. You, our dear listeners, rekindle and share in the love of the art that gives our ensemble its name. With you in mind, we’ve created four concert experiences designed to transport you from our busy, beloved city into realms of beauty, peace, awe, and wonder. 

We kick things off in December with our signature holiday program, which will surround you with spirits of joy, contemplation, and hope. I’m thrilled to announce the return, later that month, of a deeply cherished tradition, the all-Bach New Year’s Eve, featuring the Amor Artis choir, an all-star orchestra of Bach specialists, and—new this year—a performance by the winner of the Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition and a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, bassist Nina Bernat. There’s no better way to ring in a new year than with the brilliance and grandeur of Bach in the hands of these artists. 

I’m also thrilled to announce the world premiere of a new work at our March concert, From the Earth. The one-of-a-kind sound of frequent Amor Artis collaborator, saxophonist Eddie Barbash, has ignited the imagination of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and long-time friend of Amor Artis, Paul Moravec, who has created a concerto for alto saxophone and chamber choir, which we’ll present with other works capturing the beauty of the earth in sound.

And to close our season, we turn To the Skies, in a program gathering works for choir and orchestra that look beyond our world to the beauty and possibility of the vastness beyond. Anchored by Caroline Shaw’s oratorio The Listeners and excerpts from Handel’s Alexander’s Feast: the Power of Musick, this awe-inspiring program brings together musical soundscapes that release us from our here and now. 

Join us! We can’t wait to take you away with us into other worlds, united in our shared love of the art—Amor Artis. 

Ryan James Brandau

Artistic Director

COVID-19 policy: Amor Artis reserves the right to require audience members to wear a mask and show proof of vaccination with current boosters. Ticket purchases indicate acceptance of these terms. If you feel unwell, please do not attend. If you send us an email letting us know you were unable to attend due to Covid, we will be happy to either give you credit for another concert in our concert series for the season at the same ticket price or, in the case of the Bach and Holiday concerts, to roll your ticket over to the same event in the following season, or to refund your money, unless you choose to make a donation in the amount of the ticket.