The Polyphonists are a ready-made quartet with extensive professional experience as concert soloists with organizations including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Washington National Cathedral, Trinity Wall Street, the Washington Bach Consort, and many more. Some of the pieces in our repertoire as soloists together include: Handel’s Messiah, cantatas by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, and Fanny Hensel’s Oratorium Nach Bildern der Bibel.

This performance features the Polyphonists along with pianists Edward Rothmel and Jonathan King in a performance of Brahms’ complete Liebeslieder-Walzer (Op. 52) and Neue Liebeslieder (Op. 65). The Brahms will be paired with contemporary composer John Greer’s Liebesleid-Lieder (“Love-Sorrow Songs”), a complementary song cycle for quartet, brilliantly setting Dorothy Parker’s charming, irreverant, and hilarious English-language poetry.

The Polyphonists present a program of music for Advent and Christmas, constructed around the astonishing Prophetiae Sibyllarum of Orlande de Lassus. Its twelve inventive movements are interspersed with beloved seasonal works by Howells, Poulenc, and Warlock, Alice Parker, and others.

This concert of a cappella vocal music is centered on the title piece, Evening Music, which was commissioned by and for the Polyphonists by composer Jonathan Woody. The program also features a cappella works for quartet by Britten, Barber, Poulenc, Saint-Säens, and others.

The Polyphonists present a program of music that grapples with life and death, transience and permanence, mortality and immortality. The programs spans seven centuries of choral music, from Josquin to Trevor Weston, and concludes with Conrad Winslow’s new work, “No Longer Mortal,” composed in 2021 for the Polyphonists.

Presented in collaboration with the Georgetown Chorale, The Polyphonists sing as soloists in a program featuring Fanny Hensel’s rarely-performed choral-orchestral masterpiece - Oratorium nach Bildern der Bibel, performed alongside a perennial favorite by J.S. Bach - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (BWV 147).

"From the Roses" - Music from German Romantics for vocal quartet and piano. This program features works by the dynamic Romantic trio of the Schumanns and Johannes Brahms. Works include: Drei Lieder (Op. 64) of Johannes Brahms, Drei gemischte Chöre of Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann’s Spanishes Liederspiel (Op. 74).

“To Stay and Sing” is kaleidoscope of madrigal-inspired pieces about nature’s gifts, celebration in song, and the loss of love. This program centers around Fanny Hensel’s lovely choral bouquet, Gartenlieder.

Also featured on this program was the premiere of Amy’s Flower Fugue - composed in the style of Benjamin Britten’s iconic Five Flower Songs.

This program features some of our favorite music, both sacred and secular, from the robust choral traditions of Germany and England. Featured composers include Bruckner, Parry, Elgar, Rheinberger, Finzi, Hensel, and Britten.

This program is a lighthearted, joyful celebration comprised of holiday-themed works for voices and piano. Of particular note are our mixed-up Messiah solos… presenting several of Handel’s well-known arias as you have never heard them before!