Requiem (J. Rutter) / Stabat Mater (R. Burchard)
Saturday 30 March 2019 at 6pm
Description
(*group rate is available for purchase of 10 tickets or more for a single concert. Please contact us on info@parischoralsociety.org for more information.)
For our second concert of the 2018-2019 Season, we invite you to share two choral works with us; one well-known, John Rutter’s Requiem and the world premiere of Richard Burchard’s Stabat Mater, which was written for the Paris Choral Society and the American Cathedral choir.
On March 29 and 30, come discover with us the musical intensity of faith and the heart, under the high stone arches of the American Cathedral in Paris
More about Richard Burchard: Richard Burchard has composed over 100 commissioned works, most of them written for choir. His choral works have been performed and premiered throughout the United States and European premieres of his choral music to date have been in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Other works have been premiered in China and Australia. Burchard was named the Kentucky Music Teachers Association 2008 Commissioned Composer and has served as composer-in-residence for a number of organizations, most recently at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. If you would like to learn more about Richard and his music beforehand, please visit his biography page here, which includes links to sound samples of his previous works.
