Kent starts off his 2018 spring season by flexing his organ chops! He takes to the manuals of the magnificent Great Organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for his annual recital, this year an all-French program ( Tuesday, February 6), and then is featured as the soloist in the Saint-Saëns "Organ Symphony" with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Antonio Pappano, in three performances ( February 7, 9, 10).

Then, as the year marches toward spring, two programs at St. John the Divine present jewels of the choral repertoire. Kent leads the virtuosic Manhattan School of Music Chamber Choir in the Baroque oratorio Jephte by Giacomo Carissimi on a program also featuring his MSM students Jie Yi and Bryan Zaros conducting music of Victoria and Charpentier ( Tuesday, February 20). And Kent calls the spring program of Musica Sacra "a sonic tour de force of music spanning a thousand years" - Light of Light: Music of Lassus, Lauridsen, with Gregorian Chant ( Tuesday, March 6).

Learn more and buy tickets via the links below! And teachers take note: Kent is leading a master class on oratorio repertoire for the National Association of Teachers of Singing in New Haven, CT, on Sunday, February 11.

Stay tuned for more about Kent's spring season, which includes the world premieres of Sanctuary Road, an oratorio about the Underground Railroad based on the accounts of William Still, with music by Paul Moravec and text by Mark Campbell, and We Are One by Behzad Ranjbaran, both with the Oratorio Society of New York; and a new work with music by Robert Sirota and text by Reverend Victoria Sirota for a program celebrating the history of New York's immigrants with the Cathedral Choir and Rose of the Compass. For more, read the press release on Kent's spring season.